Another episode of “Teen Titans Go!” is here…and another bunch of SPOILERS ahead.

“Dude Relax”

Plot: The team gets annoyed at Robin’s antsy behavior due to a lack of crime and his constant vigilance, and force Robin to learn to relax.

The funniest part was Beast Boy revealing he sometimes paints animals green to avoid going on missions. Guess it keeps with last week’s episode in showing Beast Boy’s not above using doppelgangers to get out of work.

Affirmation that this version of Robin’s Dick Grayson comes with a flashback to Dick’s days in the circus as a young child. The pre-Crisis Jason Todd was also a circus performer who was orphaned, but A) not a version anyone seems to use in favor of his more annoying post-Crisis characterization (that led to him being killed off), and B) he’s not well known as a Robin to the general public.

That monster the Titans are fighting looks a lot like the kind that usually appeared on “The PowerPuff Girls” or “Dexter’s Laboratory”…

“Laundry Day”

Plot: The team fights over who should do laundry, despite being Robin’s turn; meanwhile, Robin deals with being caught outdoors uniformless and nude.

This one was pretty amusing (a “grossout” gag with Beast Boy and nose mucus aside), particularly the parts with Robin dealing with being outdoors nude.

Gizmo from the previous Titans series puts in an appearance here.

Not surprised to see Beast Boy not mind being nude as much as the others…something he’d probably be used to from the constant animal shape-shifting. Also seen here is Beast Boy’s interest in tofu, as he’s chowing down on the stuff en masse.

This week’s “Teen Titans Go!” episode was pretty funny, though I liked the second one more than the first. SPOILERS ahead…

“Double Trouble”

Plot: Cyborg and Beast Boy trick Raven into making magically-created clones of themselves. Hijinks (and a twist ending) ensue.

Raven’s powers in this series seem to be much more powerful than in the original “Titans” show. All the better for comedic moments, I guess.

Still wondering if Beast Boy’s vegetarian or not in this show. Beast Boy seems to not mind eating what looks like pepperoni pizza, though tofu chips are also seen. Unless it’s some sort of meatless pizza topping, though I’d figure Cyborg would throw a fit about that. (Or not, since he ate that block of tofu with barbecue sauce in the original series…)

“The Date”

Plot: Starfire decides to go on a date with Speedy, which Robin resents, to the point of kidnapping Speedy/disguising himself as Speedy to sabotage Starfire’s interests in the archer hero.

Despite Robin’s less-than-heroic nature in this episode, I thought this one was funny. Making it even funnier is the episode quietly pointing out that Speedy originally was just a knockoff of Robin, as Green Arrow’s longtime kid sidekick. Similarly, Green Arrow himself was a knockoff of Batman for much of the Golden and early Silver Age. Since the 70s, Roy Harper (Speedy’s real name) has largely struck out on his own as a hero, taking up several different names (“Arsenal” seems to be the longest-lasting one), plus kicking an addiction to heroin (from the early 70s Green Lantern/Green Arrow storyline). Roy even had his own daughter at one point, per DC aging the sidekicks while not aging their mentors as much.

The restaurant Starfire, Robin and Speedy go to looks like Seattle’s Space Needle, which does have a restaurant inside. I’m not sure if Jump City is based on any particular US city, beyond being on the west coast.

I noticed both episodes had a theme of fake doubles replacing the real versions of individuals.

I didn’t get around to watching this episode until just now, thus the lateness of the review of last week’s episode. Yes, SPOILERS ahead…

“Driver’s Ed”

Plot: Robin’s driver’s license is suspended (due to an accident with the Batmobile), so he takes a shady-sounding driver’s ed course to try to get it back.

Pretty funny episode; parts I enjoyed:

• Seeing Robin drag the Titans on all manner of trivial tasks, and what specifically Robin was interrupting with his, as Cyborg put it, “stupid stuff.”
• Further mentions of Batman and Superman: the Batmobile is shown, plus Superman’s face is seen on the sign of the coffee shop where the Titans hang out.
• Cyborg losing his memory of Starfire due to Robin interrupting his data backup. And getting said memory back: “Hey, when did Starfire get here?”

“Dog Hand”

Plot: Raven’s father, the evil and powerful demon conqueror Trigon, pays his daughter a visit…and (at first) turns out to be a pretty friendly guy.

This one was also amusing… parts I liked:

• Raven (temporarily) frying Beast Boy.
• Trigon’s initial niceness, complete with a sitcom laugh track.
• The dumb stuff the Titans wished for from Trigon. Starfire speaking like a stereotypical teenage girl… yikes.
• The “he’ll be back” remark by Raven. Apparently, even demon conquerors from another dimension celebrate, uh, a North American holiday centered around stuffing one’s face with turkey!

Of particular note is that this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Trigon depicted as a less-evil type of guy. The “Tiny Titans” comic shows Trigon as even more charismatic/less focused on villainy, willing to make pancakes for his daughter and her friends. (He also took a liking to Kid Devil, here a toddler.)

Think I liked this week’s even more than last week’s; a promising start so far for the series.

Tuesday night marked the premiere of “Teen Titans Go!,” a spinoff of the 2000s “Teen Titans” series. Unlike the original show, which had humorous moments occasionally, “Go!” is fully comedic. Each half-hour of “Go!” consists of two 11-minute-long episodes. Despite the show’s title, there’s no relation to the “Teen Titans Go!” comic book based on the original series.

The animation and writing style resembles the “New Teen Titans” animated shorts produced for “DC Nation.” Like those shorts, the Titans are drawn in a cuter, more cartoonish style (most noticeable with Raven), plus an emphasis on comedy, though the Titans see some action in tonight’s first short.

The one flaw I see so far is the mediocre Flash animation. I admit I’m not wild about Flash animation to begin with, preferring a more traditional animation style. I presume saving money is the only reason TV’s jumped heavily into Flash animation over the past decade, with most of said shows not bothering to make it look like the better-animated Flash series (“6Teen,” “Total Drama Island,” etc.).

The above criticisms aside, I did find tonight’s episodes amusing, leaving a much more favorable impression so far than my first exposure to “The Looney Tunes Show” (another Cartoon Network retooling of an earlier successful series). Thus, I’ll be back next week…

On to tonight’s episodes. Yes, SPOILERS ahead.

“Legendary Sandwich”

Plot: To get the other Titans out of her hair, Raven sends them on a quest across the globe (and galaxy) to collect ingredients for a legendary, powerful…sandwich.

Parts I liked:

• Robin’s “quest”… at the supermarket. Right down to a hard-to-turn front wheel on his shopping cart.
• The “My Little Pony” bits. Raven’s a fan (complete with DVRed episodes)…who knew?
• Raven’s mystic (and anti-climatic) assembly of said sandwich.

One question: is Beast Boy still a vegetarian in this series? He seemed awfully eager to chow down on a bacon-filled sandwich, unless he planned to pick the bacon off…

“Pie Bros”

Plot: Beast Boy gets a job at Mother Mae-Eye’s pie shop to raise money to buy a video game for Cyborg’s birthday.

Parts I liked:

• Cyborg in general.
• The darker side of Mother’s pie shop.
• The birthday party scene. (Liked the Superman and Batman birthday cards in the background…)
• The closing moment with a uniform-torn-to-bits Robin.

I liked the first episode more than the second, but this one had its enjoyable moments.