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Young Justice – Nightmare Monkeys

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“Nightmare Monkeys” offers several revelations to the Young Justice team. The first comes at the end of the episode’s main story where Beast Boy (Greg Cipes) becomes lost in a pair of Goode VR Goggles designed to take over the minds of those it identifies as possessing a meta-human gene. Taking place within Garfield’s mind, the show’s writers have fun by inserting him into both the Hello, Megan! television show and version of Doom Patrol that was obviously styled after Teen Titans Go! (and even uses the show’s cast to voice the Doom Patrol characters rendered in Go‘s style). In another sequence, the episode also brings back Garfield’s pet monkey as either a Monkey God who prevented his mind from completely shutting down or some part of the character’s subconscious that recognized the danger and created false realities giving his friends time to save him.

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Rick and Morty – The Vat of Acid Episode

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Not that fans of the show need any further confirmation, but “The Vat of Acid Episode” certainly highlights was a ginormous prick Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland) is. The entire episode centers around Rick inventing a device Morty (Roiland) has been constantly bugging him about, not as a favor to his grandson but as revenge for Morty slamming Rick’s (rather lame) plan in the episode’s opening that involves the pair hiding in a vat of fake acid from intergalactic gangsters to make it appear they have died. Along with Rick’s legendary dickishness, the other theme the episode plays on is introducing an in-depth, soul-crushing, plot thread for Morty that the show may or may not ever return to. For an episode based on a simple bit, this one really does have it all as events come full circle to reinforce Morty’s understanding of just what a bastard his grandfather truly is.

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Stargirl – Wildcat

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Courtney Whitmore‘s (Brec Bassinger) search for allies begins in “Wildcat” which is also the first episode of the series to devote a large section of the story to someone other than Courtney or Pat‘s (Luke Wilson) point of view by filling in the recent past of Yolanda Montez (Yvette Monreal) teased earlier in the series. A flashback offers us a look at more confident and happy Yolanda whose decision to send a sexy selfie to her boyfriend (Jake Austin Walker) has disastrous consequences both at school and home. Exposed and slut-shamed by both family and friends, it becomes obvious fairly quickly why the Yolanda walking the halls today bares little resemblance to the one Courtney finds in the school yearbook. The episode handles the subject matter well, especially in showing the stark difference to Yolanda’s family life as well as her reputation and standing at school.

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Harley Quinn – A Seat At The Table

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“So we’re blowing up Todd after dinner.”

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When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. In “A Seat At The Table” Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco) has achieved everything she thinks she’s ever wanted. She’s a card-carrying member of the Legion of Doom who listen to her opinions. And even the Joker (Alan Tudyk) is treating her like an equal for the first time in their life. However, things are not all that the seem. First, her crew is given a less cordial reception. While Harley earns a big office, they are sent down with the goons and henchmen to be rented out to any member of the league. Second, her attempts to learn more about how to get things done within the group by spending time with the Joker neglects both the crew and Ivy (Lake Bell) who Harley had agreed to help with an environmental attack (only to show up kissing Joker on the news instead).

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Young Justice – Evolution

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While the episode provides a couple of backstories keeping the season-long arcs moving forward, “Evolution” is mostly a love letter to the character of Vandal Savage (David Kaye) and is dedicated the the show’s original voice actor for the character Miguel Ferrer. Interlaced with the story of Vandal Savage told through the journals to his youngest daughter Cassandra (Zehra Fazal), the conflict of the episode features Vandal taking control of Warworld to thwart an attack by an alien armada. Without the Justice League (which the Light has crippled all too well), the Earth is left largely defenseless against such a large-scale attack. Even with the Warworld, Vandal must call on the help of Darkseid (Michael-Leon Wooley) to repel the invaders controlled by an old enemy – Starro.

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