More of the Same

**"More of the Same"** is the fifty-first episode of the second season of *Teen Titans Go!*, and the one-hundred-third overall episode of the series.

## Synopsis

Can the Titans master the four New Year's traditions in order to break the cycle of bad years?

## Plot

The episode starts off with the Titans excited for New Year's Eve as they can now do what they always wanted: Beast Boy wants to get his midnight kiss with Raven, Starfire wants to release their old Christmas tree “back into the wild”, Raven wants to see the ball drop, and Cyborg wants to party. Robin is also excited but quickly gets angry, thinking that the Titans will simply ruin the party again like they did last year (As it turns out, Beast Boy invited a pack of wild dogs that attacked most of the team). He eventually points out that as a result of them messing up their party, their year was "garbage", and that no one stuck up to their resolutions. Cyborg however, claims that he stuck up to his resolution, which is going on a diet, but when he hits his belly, he reveals that he grew fat over the year; but he angrily orders the other Titans not to judge him that he likes sandwiches and ice cream. Robin decides they need to break the cycle, so Raven informs the Titans about the 4 New Year's traditions that they must master: the toast, the countdown, the midnight kiss, and Auld Lang Syne (which is referred to as the weird song no one knows the words to). They start with the toast which is saying profound things about a person. The Titans start practicing toasting Robin, but fail to please him. After Beast Boy makes an offensive and meaningless speech (“May your horse not pee-pee on your shoe, and the devil not look at you in the coming year”), Robin angrily yells at him and moves along.

Next is the countdown which is showing how much time the year has left by counting backward from 10 to 1, which shocks Beast Boy as he doesn't know how to do it. He eventually starts counting backward with his fingers, but Robin scolds him again because it took him 10 seconds to get through 4, so they move along to the midnight kiss, which they must practice by drawing a face in their left hand and kissing it. Unfortunately, when it's Robin's turn, he ends up sabotaging himself from kissing his hand and angrily hits himself in the face with a tree. Next is Auld Lang Syne, which the Titans try but fail to sing correctly. Annoyed, Robin perfectly sings the song for them, much to their surprise. Believing they're ready, the Titans practice what they've learned and are successful, so they take the elevator to the roof and set up the party. Beast Boy then comments at how he can't wait for their terrible year to be over so he can “get a good one going”, with the others agreeing.

However, once the count reaches 10, the Titans all start panicking. Beast Boy forgets how to count backward, and ends up turning into an elephant and crashes into a table and a speaker set, setting both on fire, Cyborg doesn't know what to say and accidentally flings his head from his body into the count, Starfire gets stressed and starts kissing everything with Robin trying to stop her, and Raven sings Danny Boy rather than Auld Lang Syne, thus ruining the party.

As a result, the Titans once again have a horrible year with their T-Car getting towed, Robin and Starfire being chased by a grizzly bear of a picnic, having chickenpox, and crashing their T-Plane in a desert. They eventually start messing up more parties and end up having more awful years, with Pain Bot beating them up from the episode Little Buddies, getting stranded in an icy land, Cyborg accidentally destroying Santa Claus' sleigh with a bazooka, their toilet overflowing, and getting stranded in the sea while the T-Plane was sinking, which continues to the point where they become Senior Citizens.

Afterward, another New Year's Eve starts and Robin has a good feeling, but Beast Boy yells at him, saying they tried all they could, yet still couldn't get a good year, which the others agree. As they're about to give in to their misery, Raven refuses to give up and transports them to an alternate dimension. There, they meet the Masters of Time which consists of New Year Baby and Father Time who are responsible for their cycle of bad years. Father Time orders the Baby to attack and the Titans try to fight him, but due to their age, the Baby overpowers them by crushing Starfire, kicking Robin in the face, flattening Cyborg's head, and using Beast Boy as a chew toy, before Raven defeats him by slapping him in the butt and telling him to "respect his elders", causing him to cry. Father Time then attempts to fight them, but Robin easily defeats him by grabbing his scythe with his grapple gun, thus rendering him crippled. Angered, Father Time gives up and allows the Titans to have a good year, teleporting them back to their dimension, where they sing Auld Lang Syne one last time (right before the scene changes, however, the pointy tip of scythe blade is shown to fall towards Father Time's head who is still lying on the ground, as Robin is no longer there to hold the scythe). The episode ends with the camera zooming out to reveal that Jump City has now become a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with millions of skulls hanging around and several helicopters being seen in the distance.