Mother Mae-Eye is the 49th episode of the Teen Titans series and the 10th episode of the fourth season.
Mother Mae-Eye
Synopsis
The Titans wake up from sprawling around in the Tower's Ops room and are hungry for pie. Luckily an overweight but merry and kind old woman is there to serve them pie, cuddle them and spoil them like six-year-old children. That woman, whom the Titans call Mother Mae-Eye, even turns the Tower and its environs into a veritable candy-land with magic.
The Titans "going out to play."
However, Mother can also be quite stern to her young charges, as the Titans find out when the H.I.V.E. Five raid the local mall. She smooths Robin's ("Robby-Wobby") wild hair and replaces his "dangerous toys" with baby stuff, dresses Beast Boy ("Beastie-Boo") into a rabbit suit, Raven ("Ray-Ray") into a dress and pigtails, Cyborg ("Borgy-Bear") into a raincoat, and Starfire ("Little Twinkle-Star") into an oversized green and red sweater before she lets them out to "play." These implements, however, hamper the Titans' fighting skills, and they all end thrashed by the H.I.V.E. before Mae-Eye steps in and gives those "nasty children" a "good sound spanking".
During the fight, Starfire is trapped in one of See-More's eye bubbles, and as Mammoth is slammed into her, she hits a lamp which breaks and gives her a solid knock on the head. But as she recovers, she sees Mae-Eye no longer as a kind old woman, but as a monstrous, green-skinned three-eyed hag. Back in the Tower, she discovers even worse things: Her friends are under a spell which prevents them from realizing the danger they're in, and Mae-Eye is actually feeding on the "love" they profess to her - and in order to get all of that "sweet nourishing affection", she intends to bake the Titans up in a giant pie! To cover this up, she puts them in the tin under the guise of bedtime.
Mother's true face
Starfire of course protests vehemently, but is unable to fight Mae-Eye alone and quickly overpowered. Although Mae-Eye tries her best to get her under her control again, Starfire deceives her and comes to her friends' rescue. When the mind control proves too persistent and an army of gingerbread men created by the hag moves in on them, Starfire has no choice but to give the others a knock on the head as well, freeing them from the magic.
In a moment of quiet after a lengthy battle with the gingerbread army, the Titans muse over how Mae-Eye could have come into the Tower, and finally it turns out that she had smuggled herself in with a pie Cyborg had unwisely bought from an old gypsy. Then Mae-Eye attacks them, pursuing them all over Tower Island. With no way to defeat her directly, Robin resorts to tricking her, and finally they manage to banish the hag back into her pie. And in order to pay them back for their latest defeat, Robin decides to grant the H.I.V.E. a gift of free pie ... with known results.
In a side note, Raven is actuallly seen happy and smiles often. The team has pink eyes while under Mother Mae-Eye's control. "Just because you're evil on the inside doesn't mean you can't look pretty on the outside", is what Mother Mae-Eye says to Raven while giving her the dress and pinching her cheeks. Raven merely laughs. This shows that her disguise as a gypsy may actually be true as she can somehow see who Raven truely is. Check back to The Prophecy if you don't know what I'm saying.
Quotes
- Robin: Ow! Why did you ... Um, why am I in a giant pie?
Beast Boy: Why am I in a bunny suit?
Raven: Why am I in a dress?
Cyborg: Who's been redecorating my tower?!
- Starfire: What are we to do with this evil confection?
Cyborg: We could eat it. [grins] I'm just kidding! [sniffs] Mostly.