Robin tries to force the other Titans to improve their education, but ends up with demerits on his Permanent Record after they take over as the teachers.
- Apathetic Teacher: Raven the last-second substitute. It manifests in both loud partying immediately breaking loose and Robin's by-now-expected check mark coming on the grounds that "I don't care".
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Robin likes to see how the Titans do their job in teaching since they don't believe him saying that it is hard. It ended up biting him in the ass when they give out bizarre lessons.
- Big "NO!": Robin, when he got all four checkmarks in a row for his permanent record.
- Brick Joke: When everyone's Permanent Record is first brought up, Beast Boy mentions he has a cousin living in a dumpster because of their own record. At the end of the episode, after getting four marks on his own record, it cuts to Robin thirty years later living in that dumpster with the cousin.
- Edutainment Show: A brief segment of the Magical Learnin' Van is an obvious parody. Robin dismisses Beast Boy's jive as "nonsense", despite the Titans re-wording it in straightforward words that were not quite used. (In point of fact, when it came to the moment, The Magic School Bus would be more likely to just say it like Cyborg and Raven did.)
- Good Is Not Soft: Starfire solemnly tells Robin that she does not wish to give him a checkmark for objecting into her class before she turns threatening on him that if she must, she will.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Robin threatens the Titans of giving them checkmarks if they should ever misbehave, in which he ended up getting those from disrupting their bizarre lessons.
- Jive Turkey: Beast Boy, maintained where Robin feels the need to register a complaint about him, as a teacher, addressing him with "ya" second-person possessive.
- Only Sane Man: Robin is as such that it eventually causes his downfall.
- Shout-Out: Beast Boy's "Magical Learnin' Van" segment is clearly inspired by The Magic School Bus.
- Verbal Tic: Starfire builds her grammar class around her own use of the word "the".
