dragonx99
Actually Satan
Stuffing the episode with more straw than a haystack, 'clowns' are used as a thinly-veiled metaphor for the original Teen Titans show. Cyborg and Beast Boy get a clown for some like, birthday party or something idfk, and are despondent that clowns aren't cool any more. Despite repeated warnings that clowns are just for little babies and they shouldn't want clowns to be 'for them' any more, Cyborg and Beast Boy are adamant that clowns are still cool and they just have to make this particular clown as cool as they remember. Thus, with mad science, they turn him into this jacked 90s monstrosity you see before you, which runs rampant and forces them to learn a lesson about how that thing they loved as children really was just shallow baby-noise for babies with no greater depth or dimension or artistic merit to their more developed minds.
Don't forget how this episode was billed and advertised as being the episode where things finally started happening and one of the most iconic villains from the previous series was going to start making his appearance. Like, they even titled it "Return of Slade," and then didn't even give him a single moment of screen time so the clown they made could be the episode's villain.