User blog comment:Crossoverfan4ever/Top Ten Worst Teen Titans Go Episodes/@comment-5038193-20151114061323/@comment-4918670-20151115012718

I bet I suprised you, with the fact that The Return of Slade is not my most hated episode of the series and was only my 3rd most hated.

When I do lists I always do quite a few things

1. I try not to be predictable always, usually when I talk an bad episode more than any other bad episodes. It ususally isn't the worst episode, but comes close like The Return of Slade. It could have been number 1, But the other two episodes came off worse

2. There is usually a recurring pattern, which determines my top choices. Like with Teen Titans and Powerpuff Girls and their disturbing episodes, I put a lot of HIM and Slade episodes on each list. Here, two recurring patterns was how awful Robin was in these episodes, and bad treatment given to another main character.

3. Most plots in bad episodes are not always bad, it's how they're handled that makes it bad. Like being meta. Let's Get Serious and The Return of Slade are episodes that are very meta on fans of the orginial and they purposefully troll their hatedom and sometimes their fan. A Good Episode about being Meta came from the Spongebob Episode, The Krusty Sponge, that episode was a shout out to   The fame and popularity that Spongebob actually has in the real world.

There was this amazing line on top of that, Which is funny and so true.

"Only a complete moron would worry about what some critic has to say." this is really accurate to those with thin skin.

4.  The Implications I get from episodes tend to determine some top choices. If they are awful, they will be at the top which one reason why Knowledge was here. If they are heartwarming it will make a great episode.

5.  Characterization is actually the most important thing to what makes a episode break or be made.

Also I may make a Top 10 Best Episodes of Teen Titans Go. Since there are some good episodes though not much.