Hot Salad Water (Malichkan edit)

"Hot Salad Water" is twenty-sixth episode of the fourth season of the American animated TV series Teen Titans Go!, and the one-hundred-eighty-third overall episode of the series. It premiered on June 30th 2020 in Malichka. Notorious for being offensive, offended viewers lobbied for the episode to be pulled, but Malichka's Cartoon Network shows broadcast rights holder RTVM stated that rather than pull the episode, RTVM would ask the creators of the show, Cartoon Network, to change the ending. That was the finale of the series in Malichka, and after this episode, the series never aired again.

Summary
In the epic finale, when drinking tea turns the other Titans in anglophiles, Robin fails to save America from another British invasion brought by the Queen of England herself and save his teammates, is defeated, and the Queen returns the US to the British Empire.

Plot
The story opens up with Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy having their own bowls of cereal in the dining room. While the other Titans are eating cereal, except for Robin, Cyborg offers them drinks such as water, orange juice and milk, but the three others aren’t satisfied until he finds a tea bag and decides to make tea with his own mechanical body. But before they can drink their tea, Robin suddenly comes running and attacks the teacup of Cyborg’s with a birdarang, causing the teacup to explode right in Cyborg’s face. Robin then scolds his friends for drinking tea, which Beast Boy calls “hot salad water” before Raven corrects him.

After Starfire and Raven throw away their teacups, Robin yells at Cyborg and Cyborg tells him to chillax, but Robin warns them that tea is from Great Britain and in order to tell them how drinking tea is dangerous, he gives an inaccurate history on tea linked to British Invasion and involved the Bald Eagle, the Statue of Liberty and George Washington to save the day (which Beast Boy questions it being part of American history at first yet Robin forces him to keep quiet). He doesn’t forget to remind them that England has never forgotten about the humiliating defeat and throwing away the history book, he claims that the British always has plans to take revenge on America. Raven thinks Robin is overreacting but Robin believes his beliefs are true and soon dumps Beast Boy’s teacup into the ocean, saying it's ¨where it belongs¨, and putting caps with the word USA as well as spraying the others with soda.

After Robin leaves with the help of his grapple gun, Starfire is upset that they are not going to enjoy “hot salad water” anymore. However, a wooden crate containing tea bags is then imported into the tower. Starfire thinks that it’s a sign that they’re meant to drink tea, while Raven is suspicious in the beginning though Beast Boy manages to convince her by making her along with Starfire and Cyborg agree with him that Robin is not always right and only drags them into troubles. They immediately disobey Robin’s order by drinking tea behind his back, and as they start to stick out their little finger, Starfire can’t help but to chew the tea bag while she and the three other Titans start drinking tea in a British manner.

The very next morning, Robin (who is wearing an obvious USA cap with two mini-flags on both sides) hums a tune and enters the living room enthusiastically, greeting Raven, Beast Boy and Starfire who are sitting on the couch with "Good morning, Titans". Raven then responses him with "Good morning, Robin" and Robin displays his doubts, asking her whether she has forgotten the ancient "hello". Starfire excitedly tells him to join the three of them and watch the "telly", and he asks her back in a snotty and disrespectful way, "Who calls the TV a 'telly'?". Starfire shows him the TV, which displays Doctor Who (a popular British TV program).

Nevertheless, he soon sniffs an ominous breakfast smell, and he immediately questions Cyborg who walks in with the plate of food. Cyborg replies that there are bacon strips, eggs, toast, and hash browns, which makes Robin feel relieved at first and claims it's a way to be American - until Cyborg continues with black pudding, baked beans, mushrooms and tomatoes, and Robin furiously calls the breakfast "full English" after recovering from shock and figures out that the four have drunk the tea, which Raven admits. Robin recalls how he has thrown the previous tea into the ocean like any "good American would" and Cyborg tells him that they've got some more, causing Robin to kneel and believing his worst nightmare is coming true--his friends are becoming Anglophiles, which Beast Boy is dumb enough to mishear as "hang low style" (even showing his own panties...).

Robin emphasizes his point again, saying Anglophiles are ones who love Great Britain and he tells Cyborg and the others that's nothing GREAT about Great Britain and the tea has worked their minds. In order to make them remember being Americans, he sang a song that praises how awesome the USA is, and all his friends shout "USA!" three times. The following day, Robin brings a box of fireworks into the dining room and asks who's ready to shoot them off. After he exclaims "USA" three times again, a red telephone box abruptly appears.

After Robin scans it and suspects tyranny, he enters and gets sent to Big Ben through an underground tunnel. Upon arriving in Big Ben's English-style room, he is astonished to discover that all four of his friends dressed in British attire and drinking tea like old British nobles. Robin inquires what happened to them being American, but is only met with Cyborg's offer on giving him a biscuit (which he rudely rejects), Beast Boy complains about his temper and Raven elegantly asks him to join their tea party (pouring a cup of tea in front of him via telekinesis).

Deeply enraged, Robin not only breaks the teacup, but also aggressively knocks down the table. Such action angers the others, and as Robin asks where the tea is coming from, Starfire replies that they are invited to join a spot of tea with a particular she. Then Starfire, Raven, Cyborg and Beast Boy approach Robin and corner him to a door. Although he manages to escape thanks to his intelligence by using soda from two cans to spray them off, a greater horror hides behind the door awaits for him. He is met with crates of tea.

And all of a sudden, there comes the Queen of England, who says "Lovely, isn't it?" Robin quickly realizes she is the culprit who brought tea to America and she responds, "Bob is your uncle"; Robin adds, "I have no uncle". The Queen answers rather angrily to explain the phrase simply means "You're right, young man" and then admits the truth--she is INDEED the one who planted the tea and his brainwashed friends are now under her control, and those four will distribute the tea to different parts of the USA to help her manipulate all American citizens in order to return the country to the British Empire.

Robin is clever enough to know she is still bitter about American independence, and though she denies it, he questions her reason for invading the USA, and she finally discloses the actual intention of her evil scheme-- his ancestors threw good tea into the ocean, which upsets her because she regards it as wasting good tea and doing a frightful and unforgivable thing.

Robin tells her that she won't get away with her wicked actions, but she says it is too late and summons the four possessed Titans, who have become her FAITHFUL servants and call her Ma'am in unison, to "kindly dispose" of him. But when the four get closer, he abruptly mimics a chicken-like bird noise, which puzzles them and Raven wonders what's he doing. Robin retorts that he's calling upon American's oldest ally and runs away without hesitation...And right after he jumps out of Big Ben (unharmed for unknown reasons), he lands on the Bald Eagle!

As Bald Eagle soars in the sky with him, the Queen mocks that Robin's "little bird is no match for the biggest clock in the world", and decides to activate Big Ben's true form, turning it into a monumental robot. Robin promptly accepts her challenge and after claiming that "these truths are self-evident", takes out a gun and shoots fireworks that display the words "LIFE", "LIBERTY", and "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS". The Queen orders a Biscuit Barrage, though Robin and Bald Eagle still manages to dodge the attacks. Unfortunately, she then uses Double-Decker Destruction and the Knight Bus knocks both onto the ground. She even chooses to be salty by saying she has had enough with Americans and it's time to finish them.

She manages to strike Robin with one final blow, brutally wounding him. The Queen walks up to Robin and says "You're mine now." The Queen brainwashes Robin too, and finally joins the other Titans. The episode ends with a montage set to stereotypical British music: the now-triumphant Queen on her throne with her servants by her side, Big Ben replacing the Statue of Liberty, the villains themselves even wearing Victorian-styled clothing (assuming they too had been brainwashed as per the Queen's plan,) and a map of the "new" British Empire, constituting the US and UK. The Queen chuckles diabolically as she helps herself to a cup of tea, and tells the viewers that her dream of a reunited British Empire is finally complete. The episode ends here.

Critical reception
Unlike the original episode, the edit received more positive reaction, and was even praised for "being the end to a lacklusterly-written, cringe-riddled and pointless-plot series".