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Four Bots and a Baby

2012-06-27T08:04:11Z

125.239.242.110: /* Animation and technical errors */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 8
|prev=Cody on Patrol
|next=Christmas in July
|image=FourBotsBaby Kade holding Robo-Baby.jpg
|caption=Coming soon from Hasbro!
|title="Four Bots and a Baby"
|airdate=[[April 14]], [[2012]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[Atomic Cartoons]]
|writer=[[Dean Stefan]]
|director=[[Nathan Chew]]
}}

'''The Bots are enlisted to watch after Doc Greene's Robo-Baby.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:FourBotsBaby Robo-Baby introduction.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
The [[Rescue Bot]]s are in the middle of repairing a bridge outside town, when an impatient motorist attempts to jump his motorcycle across the gap. [[Kade Burns|Kade]] and [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] attempt to rescue him, but Kade falls loose from Heatwave's ladder. The two [[human]]s head for a nearby waterfall, and all seems lost until Heatwave throws his fire hose, and Kade grabs it, saving them both.

Sometime later, [[Doc Greene]] shows video of the incident to [[Cody Burns]] in way of explanation for the [[Turbo Cycle (RB)|Turbo Cycle]] he's built. Cody offers to be a test driver, but the doc already has someone for that. Cody believes himself to be more responsible than Kade, but Greene reminds him of the incident with the fusion-powered water gun. [[Frankie Greene|Frankie]] has an idea, and believes Cody can prove he's mature by taking care of one of the doctor's other inventions—the [[Robo-Baby]], designed to record how babies see the world. Cody is unsure, and even less so when it turns out the Robo-Baby is even capable of soiling itself.

[[Image:FourBotsBaby Boulder heats milk.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
Cody takes the Robo-Baby back to the fire station, where he ropes the Rescue Bots into helping him look after the tyke. Heatwave regards it as a [[spark]]less machine, while the other Bots are enamored by it. [[Boulder]] attempts to warm some milk for the baby with a blowtorch, which results in a mess. While they clean the mess up, [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] finds a baby bottle which quiets the Robo-Baby down, though it spews on [[Blades (RB)|Blades]]. After it starts crying, Chase finds a [[Rubber Ducky]]. The baby doesn't like the toy, and throws it into the air. The Rubber Ducky lands in a nearby sink and is sucked down a drain, eventually entering the sewer system where it clogs a pipe. The sewer soon bursts.

[[Image:FourBotsBaby soiled duck.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Still trying to calm the Robo-Baby, Chase attempts to sing a lullaby, but his loud, flat singing doesn't help. Cody refuses to consult his siblings, but then they discover that Blades's rotors work like a mobile and the baby is soon snoozing. Unfortunately there's an emergency alarm-the broken sewer has caused a sinkhole to appear in front of the bank. While the Rescue Bots roll out, Cody takes the baby to the control room so he can monitor the rescue and the baby at the same time. Once at the bank, [[Dani Burns|Dani]] and Blades rescue a stranded bank customer, Heatwave and Chase set about propping the building up, and Boulder and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] venture into the hole to check out the burst pipe. As they need to shut down the water, Cody switches the power from the hydro-electric plant to the wind farm. The sight of the wind farm turbines wakes the Robo-Baby, but the bank is saved, and Graham fishes the Rubber Ducky from the pipe. Cody looks around, and discovers that the Robo-Baby is gone.

[[Image:FourBotsBaby Blades tries to rescue Robo-Baby.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
The Rescue Bots return to the fire station to find Cody searching for the baby. Frankie gives Cody a call from the ferry to check how he's doing, and tells him that the Rob-Baby's worth three million dollars. The now-desperate search comes up blank, but Cody spots the wind farm rotors on the monitor, and they head there under the assumption that's where the Robo-Baby is. Heatwave uses his olfactory [[sensors]] to detect the baby, and they find it heading up one of the windmills on a platform. With Blades unable to move close enough to pick the baby up, Chase uses his singing to keep it away from the edge while Boulder scales the windmill. Unfortunately the baby falls before Boulder reaches it, and Heatwave has to grab it out of mid-air.

Doc Greene is fascinated by the readings the Robo-Baby has recorded. Impressed, Greene announces Cody can test the Turbo Cycle. Kade gets to look after the Robo-Baby for the next week.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (2)
* [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (3)
* [[Boulder]] (5)
* [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (7)

|c3=
* [[Charlie Burns]] (1)
* [[Graham Burns]] (4)
* [[Kade Burns]] (6)
* [[Doc Greene]] (8)
* [[Cody Burns]] (9)
* [[Frankie Greene]] (10)
* [[Dani Burns]] (12)
* [[Harrison (RB)|Mr. Harrison]] (13)

|c4=
* [[Robo-Baby]] (11)
}}

==Quotes==
"Blades, watch the baby!"<br>
"Watch it do what?!"
:—'''Cody''' and '''Blades'''

"Ah, leakage that's not baby related."
:—'''Heatwave'''

"ROCK A BYE BABY ON TOP OF THE ALTERNATIVE POWER SOURCE. WHEN BOULDER CLIMBS UP, THE ROBO-BABY MAY LOSE ELEVATION PRECIPITOUSLY AND I CAN'T WATCH."
:—'''Chase''' singing.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*840 wind turbines would not only far surpass the highest number of turbines for any single real-world wind farm, it would also require an area far larger than Griffin Rock itself!

===Continuity errors===

===Real-world references===
*The episode's title refers to the 1987 comedy film, [[Wikipedia:3 Men and a Baby|''3 Men and a Baby'']] (which just happened to be directed by [[Leonard Nimoy]]).

===Foreign localization===
===Trivia===

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Christmas in July

2012-06-27T08:02:23Z

125.239.242.110: /* Animation and technical errors */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 9
|prev=Four Bots and a Baby
|next=Deep Trouble
|image=ChristmasInJuly fun in the snow.jpg
|title="Christmas in July"
|airdate=[[April 28]], [[2012]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[Atomic Cartoons]]
|writer=[[Brian Hohlfeld]]
|director=[[Patrick Archibald]]
}}

'''Cody, his family and the Rescue Bots have to stop a snow storm in July when a weather machine goes haywire.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:ChristmasInJuly the Mayor is on fire.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
[[Huxley Prescott]] reports on the heatwave currently gripping [[Griffin Rock]], which [[Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] demonstrates by breaking an egg on the sidewalk so it can fry. Nearby [[Cody Burns|Cody]] and [[Frankie Greene|Frankie]] sell lemonade. [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] disapproves of their illegal commercial venture, but [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] is more concerned at Chase's lack of air conditioning. [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] and [[Kade Burns|Kade]] provide water for the kids to cool off. Surprisingly, it turns out to be not only hot enough to fry eggs, but to set them on fire, and soon the Mayor's chef hat has caught alight too. Luckily Heatwave and Kade put him out.

Cody arrives back at the fire station in search of more ice and finds [[Boulder]] looking up information on seasons. Boulder's confused by the concept and wants Winter now so he can see some snow. Cody has trouble explaining the concept to him, but it gives him an idea. He visits [[Doc Greene]], who knows of an old [[weather machine]], predating Greene's arrival on Griffin Rock. They venture into the "Best Left Forgotten" room and find the weather machine in perfect condition, though Frankie doesn't think much of Cody's idea of using it to create a snowfall.

[[Image:ChristmasInJuly Blade snowbot.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
They start setting the weather machine up in the town square, while Frankie, preferring the summer, heads down to the river. Cody is annoyed when the Mayor takes the credit for his idea, but Doc Greene lets him start up the machine. The square is soon blanketed in snow and the [[human]]s start playing. Boulder is disappointed that the [[Rescue Bot]]s don't get to enjoy the snow as well, since they have to keep up the pretense of being ordinary robots, but their human partners lead them to a back alley where Cody had Doc Greene test the machine earlier. While [[Graham Burns|Graham]] keeps watch, the Rescue Bots get to have their play in the snow, though Boulder turns out to be a terrible aim with a snowball which amuses Heatwave greatly. One of Boulder's snowballs strikes a tree in the square, knocking down a branch that breaks the weather machine, sending it out of control.

[[Image:ChristmasInJuly Heatwave helps a driver.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
With Winter temperatures all over Griffin Rock, Doc Greene quickly discovers that the machine's control panel is broken and has to take it back to his lab. With the roads snowed in, the residents take shelter in city hall and Cody joins them to coordinate the rescue effort. The team splits up and starts lending help where necessary. Cody checks with Frankie, who's enjoying the frozen-over river. As Blades and [[Dani Burns|Dani]] help free cars from a frozen bridge, Heatwave prevents an out-of-control car from ploughing into them. Meanwhile Boulder and Graham help Doc Greene reach his lab and clear the snowdrift in front of it so he can get in.

[[Image:ChristmasInJuly Frankie in danger.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
Back at city hall, a new problem rears its head—the roof is in danger of caving in under the weight of all the snow. The Mayor attempts to get out, only to find that the door is blocked with a snowdrift, and Cody calls an emergency. Boulder arrives first and clears the door, letting everyone out. They next use Cody's idea to save the building—Boulder props up the roof while Dani flies Blades upside-down to clear the snow. With the building safe for now, Cody checks with Doc Greene, who completes repairs on the weather machine and uses it to reverse the weather. Summer returns to Griffin Rock.

Cody contacts Frankie, only to find that the ice on the lake has broken up, and Frankie is now trapped on a piece which is heading downriver towards a waterfall. Blades is still too frozen to fly, but the rest of the team head to the river. Boulder uses a snowball to knock a tree branch down, which Frankie grabs onto. With everything safe again, Cody looks around for Chase, but the Rescue Bot is some distance away, laughing and making snow angels.

Back in the fire station, Boulder finally understands seasons, and Cody reveals some snowballs he kept in the freezer, which he and Boulder use to pelt Heatwave.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (5)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (8)
*[[Boulder]] (9)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (10)
|c3=
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (1)
*[[Cody Burns]] (2)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (3)
*[[Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] (4)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (6)
*[[Kade Burns]] (7)
*[[Doc Greene]] (11)
*[[Graham Burns]] (12)
*[[Dani Burns]] (13)
}}

==Quotes==
"Don't look at me; nothing on this planet makes sense. Hot dog, but it's not a pet!"
:—'''Blades'''

"And somewhere over here is the [[invisible telephone]]. *gasp!* It's missing! Hahaha, just kidding! I think."
:—'''Doc Greene'''

"Nice try, green bean! You couldn't hit the back side of [[Unicron]] with a [[lobbing]] ball!"
:—'''Heatwave''' on Boulder's snowball skills.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===

Although some specially modified real-life helicopters can perform barrel rolls and loops, sustained inverted flight of the type Blades performs in this episode is aerodynamically impossible.

===Continuity errors===
===Transformers references===
*Heatwave refers to both Unicron and lobbing, the latter sport first appearing in the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[Con Job]]".
===Real-world references===
*[[Wikipedia:Christmas in July|Christmas in July]] is a real thing, plus the name of a [[Wikipedia:Christmas in July (film)|1940 movie]].
===Foreign localization===
===Trivia===

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