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Maccadam

2008-04-28T20:39:39Z

190.58.228.24:

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Maccadam is the patron barkeeper of [[Maccadam's Oil House]]. Rumoured to be one of the original thirteen Transformers, Maccadam is largely unseen by the populace of Cybertron. His bar is said to serve 'exceptionally pure oil', and has in-house rules against fighting within its confines.<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Carnage in C-Minor

2008-04-28T16:13:52Z

190.58.228.24: /* Other notes */

{{episodenav|g1|season=3|17|prev=Webworld|next=The Quintesson Journal}}

[[Image:Carnage C-Minor Autobots harmonic attack.JPG|thumb|350px|[[A Dream Is Born, Double Prime|Hey what is that awful noise? Okay let me straighten him out!]]]]

'''Several Autobots and Decepticons find themselves battling over a planet whose civilization completely revolves around music, and whose inhabitants are capable of using sound as a powerful weapon.'''

'''Japanese title:''' "The Challenge to the Planet of Music"

==Detailed synopsis==

[[Image:zeebop.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Don we now our gay apparel...]]

[[Eurhythma]], a planet whose culture is based entirely on music, is threatened by a comet. [[Zebop Skandana]] joins fellow Eurythmans [[Allegra]] and [[Basso Profundo]] to use their combined harmonic weapon to destroy the comet, inadvertently shooting down a number of [[Autobot|Autobots]] and [[Decepticon]]s.

After [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] collapse a bridge on [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], Zebop joins a number of other citizens to revive the Autobots. He then leads them to Allegra's retreat, where they find that Galvatron has beaten them there and swayed Allegra to their side. When Soundwave uses Allegra's third of the harmony against them, Zebop counters with his own third, which Soundwave then records and combines with Allegra's, plunging Zebop and the Autobots into a chasm. As the Autobots pull themselves up, Galvatron turns on Allegra, prompting Zebop to run onto the battlefield to save her. While he is successful, he is accidentally crushed by Blaster and Soundwave in the process, but is harmonically revived by a tearful Allegra soon after.

Returning to the capital city, the Autobots discover the fallen forms of [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], who Zebop, Allegra, and Basso heal. The three returned to [[Earth]] with the Autobots, where Galvatron and Soundwave were overwhelming [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] with the stolen harmony. The trio of aliens countered it with [[anti-sound]], giving Blaster enough time to erase the harmony from Soundwave's tapes (by manually pushing his crotch buttons). With the battle concluded, Zebop returns to his world with the others, vowing to live in harmony.

==Stats==

'''Written by:''' [[Buzz Dixon]]

==Quotes==

You! Because of you, I got blasted out of space. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THAT DID TO MY PAINT JOB?!<br>
:--'''Broadside''', right before he sucker punches Galvatron

"I don't wanna see your ugly face, just the button that says ERASE!"<br>
"My tapes! You've erased my tapes!"
:-- '''Blaster''' destroys '''Soundwave's''' tapes

"From now on, you'll have to learn to live in "harmony".<br>
:-- ''''Ultra Magnus''' to the Eurythmians. Hypocritical, as his race has been fighting for the last nine million years.

==Other notes==

* Amusingly, Broadside transforms into his boat form to smash several of the Decepticons at the beginning of the episode. Makes you wonder if Hasbro was [[To sell toys|getting really desperate here.]]

===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* Throughout the entire episode, Broadside is drawn with a previously [[:Image:BroadsideCarnage.jpg|discarded]] [[character model]].
* Devastator is the exact same size as Soundwave during the start of the first battle.
* While the Autobots are shooting at the meteor, they are so badly drawn that they appear to have only one leg, a left arm starting from the elbow and enormous heads...and Superion is tiny.
* Blaster, Ultra Magnus and Zebop are shown to hang onto Broadside wile he flies around. Sometimes, the shots makes them sometimes tiny or not hanging onto Brodside at all.(even more odd is why Zebop simply can't sit in his cockpit.)
* Soundwave points out that Zebop is standing in the distance, while Galvatron says that "he ''probably'' is with the Autobots". yet, Ultra Magnus is standing right next to him. Lesson: Ultra Magrnus can't take cover and Galvatron's [[Optics]] are terrible.
* When Blaster is explaining that they use the harmony even for healing, Ultra Magnus is the one mouthing those words.
* When the Protectobots are combined as Defensor, Hotspot (the main body) is fighting alongside his combined self! This could be one of those infamous "[[decoy]]" Transformers...but probably not.
* In one scene, a cel-layering error causes Blaster to appear very tiny compared to Soundwave.
* On the music-based world of Eurhythma, Ultra Magnus dispatches Hook and Scrapper{{m-}}by ''picking them each up in one hand'' and bashing them together. Magnus is supposed to be big, but not ''that'' big.
* And there are more than meets the eyes. This is what you get when you combine a season's worth of bloopers into 1 episode. Seriously, how much time do you have?

<center>
<gallery>
Image:Carnage C-minor Magnus Broadside.JPG|[[wikipedia:Monty Python's Life of Brian|"Hail Ceasar!"<br>"Hail Thethar."]]
Image:Bigmagnus tinyconst.jpg|We'll take revenge by merging into Devastator.
Image:Hotspot_defensor.jpg|Hey! Part of me, get back in me!
Image:soundwaveautobotgalvy.jpg|For some reason, I feel less evil then two seconds ago.
Image:CarnageMiniBlaster.jpg|It's his little shoulder-angel.
</gallery>
</center>

===Continuity errors===

[[Image:DeceptiBrawn1.jpg|right|125px|thumb|Maybe it's not Bonecrusher, but a rare cameo by [[Load Hauler]]?]]
* In one infamous scene, [[Brawn]] and [[Huffer]] (who should also be dead) show up alive and well. And it seems Bonecrusher has switched sides, as he's helping them shoot at the giant Decepticon rocket engine he'd just helped build!

* To add insult to injury, Devastator is shooting at the Autobots, ''before'' the Constructicons form Devastator.

* Soundwave travels with Galvatron to find the source of the harmony. However, when the scene returns to the battle outside the city, Soundwave is with the other Decepticons at the same time.

===Transformers references===
* References

===Real-world references===
* The Eurythman characters' names are all music-related puns.
* Eurythma was possibly named after the popular 80s band The Eurythmics.

===Miscellaneous trivia===

* "Carnage in C-Minor" is widely regarded by fans as the worst episode of all ''Transformers'' series, but this is seemingly due to the sheer volume of animation errors, and the glaringly obvious nature of many of the individual errors. However, the actual ''plot'' is certainly not the weakest to grace the cartoon series, and its "continuity errors" have little to nothing to do with the script itself... certainly not to the level of, say, "[[B.O.T.]]".

* That said, there is plenty of inanity to be found in the story too. For instance: Despite the aliens' dialog being in perfectly understandable English (or Galactic Standard or whatever), because they say everything a sing-song rhythm, apparently none of the Transformers except Blaster and Soundwave can understand them, and the two tape decks spend a large (and annoying) amount of time translating Eurythman to "non-sing-song" for everyone else.

* Apparently, a single blast from [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]'s [[lightning cannon]] can cause [[Devastator]] to disassemble. And [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] believes that intellectuals are weak.

* This was one of several episodes subjected to the [[MSTF]] treatment at [[BotCon 1999]].

{{-}}

===Keywords===
(''separate by commas and link each one so a page can be created for it if it does not already exist'')

[[Music]]

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808817/ IMDb's page for this episode]

{{epstub}}

[[Category:Generation 1 episodes]]
[[Category: MSTF]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Carnage in C-Minor

2008-04-28T16:10:01Z

190.58.228.24: /* Continuity errors */

{{episodenav|g1|season=3|17|prev=Webworld|next=The Quintesson Journal}}

[[Image:Carnage C-Minor Autobots harmonic attack.JPG|thumb|350px|[[A Dream Is Born, Double Prime|Hey what is that awful noise? Okay let me straighten him out!]]]]

'''Several Autobots and Decepticons find themselves battling over a planet whose civilization completely revolves around music, and whose inhabitants are capable of using sound as a powerful weapon.'''

'''Japanese title:''' "The Challenge to the Planet of Music"

==Detailed synopsis==

[[Image:zeebop.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Don we now our gay apparel...]]

[[Eurhythma]], a planet whose culture is based entirely on music, is threatened by a comet. [[Zebop Skandana]] joins fellow Eurythmans [[Allegra]] and [[Basso Profundo]] to use their combined harmonic weapon to destroy the comet, inadvertently shooting down a number of [[Autobot|Autobots]] and [[Decepticon]]s.

After [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] collapse a bridge on [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], Zebop joins a number of other citizens to revive the Autobots. He then leads them to Allegra's retreat, where they find that Galvatron has beaten them there and swayed Allegra to their side. When Soundwave uses Allegra's third of the harmony against them, Zebop counters with his own third, which Soundwave then records and combines with Allegra's, plunging Zebop and the Autobots into a chasm. As the Autobots pull themselves up, Galvatron turns on Allegra, prompting Zebop to run onto the battlefield to save her. While he is successful, he is accidentally crushed by Blaster and Soundwave in the process, but is harmonically revived by a tearful Allegra soon after.

Returning to the capital city, the Autobots discover the fallen forms of [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], who Zebop, Allegra, and Basso heal. The three returned to [[Earth]] with the Autobots, where Galvatron and Soundwave were overwhelming [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] with the stolen harmony. The trio of aliens countered it with [[anti-sound]], giving Blaster enough time to erase the harmony from Soundwave's tapes (by manually pushing his crotch buttons). With the battle concluded, Zebop returns to his world with the others, vowing to live in harmony.

==Stats==

'''Written by:''' [[Buzz Dixon]]

==Quotes==

You! Because of you, I got blasted out of space. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THAT DID TO MY PAINT JOB?!<br>
:--'''Broadside''', right before he sucker punches Galvatron

"I don't wanna see your ugly face, just the button that says ERASE!"<br>
"My tapes! You've erased my tapes!"
:-- '''Blaster''' destroys '''Soundwave's''' tapes

"From now on, you'll have to learn to live in "harmony".<br>
:-- ''''Ultra Magnus''' to the Eurythmians. Hypocritical, as his race has been fighting for the last nine million years.

==Other notes==
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* Throughout the entire episode, Broadside is drawn with a previously [[:Image:BroadsideCarnage.jpg|discarded]] [[character model]].
* Devastator is the exact same size as Soundwave during the start of the first battle.
* While the Autobots are shooting at the meteor, they are so badly drawn that they appear to have only one leg, a left arm starting from the elbow and enormous heads...and Superion is tiny.
* Blaster, Ultra Magnus and Zebop are shown to hang onto Broadside wile he flies around. Sometimes, the shots makes them sometimes tiny or not hanging onto Brodside at all.(even more odd is why Zebop simply can't sit in his cockpit.)
* Soundwave points out that Zebop is standing in the distance, while Galvatron says that "he ''probably'' is with the Autobots". yet, Ultra Magnus is standing right next to him. Lesson: Ultra Magrnus can't take cover and Galvatron's [[Optics]] are terrible.
* When Blaster is explaining that they use the harmony even for healing, Ultra Magnus is the one mouthing those words.
* When the Protectobots are combined as Defensor, Hotspot (the main body) is fighting alongside his combined self! This could be one of those infamous "[[decoy]]" Transformers...but probably not.
* In one scene, a cel-layering error causes Blaster to appear very tiny compared to Soundwave.
* On the music-based world of Eurhythma, Ultra Magnus dispatches Hook and Scrapper{{m-}}by ''picking them each up in one hand'' and bashing them together. Magnus is supposed to be big, but not ''that'' big.
* And there are more than meets the eyes. This is what you get when you combine a season's worth of bloopers into 1 episode. Seriously, how much time do you have?

<center>
<gallery>
Image:Carnage C-minor Magnus Broadside.JPG|[[wikipedia:Monty Python's Life of Brian|"Hail Ceasar!"<br>"Hail Thethar."]]
Image:Bigmagnus tinyconst.jpg|We'll take revenge by merging into Devastator.
Image:Hotspot_defensor.jpg|Hey! Part of me, get back in me!
Image:soundwaveautobotgalvy.jpg|For some reason, I feel less evil then two seconds ago.
Image:CarnageMiniBlaster.jpg|It's his little shoulder-angel.
</gallery>
</center>

===Continuity errors===

[[Image:DeceptiBrawn1.jpg|right|125px|thumb|Maybe it's not Bonecrusher, but a rare cameo by [[Load Hauler]]?]]
* In one infamous scene, [[Brawn]] and [[Huffer]] (who should also be dead) show up alive and well. And it seems Bonecrusher has switched sides, as he's helping them shoot at the giant Decepticon rocket engine he'd just helped build!

* To add insult to injury, Devastator is shooting at the Autobots, ''before'' the Constructicons form Devastator.

* Soundwave travels with Galvatron to find the source of the harmony. However, when the scene returns to the battle outside the city, Soundwave is with the other Decepticons at the same time.

===Transformers references===
* References

===Real-world references===
* The Eurythman characters' names are all music-related puns.
* Eurythma was possibly named after the popular 80s band The Eurythmics.

===Miscellaneous trivia===

* "Carnage in C-Minor" is widely regarded by fans as the worst episode of all ''Transformers'' series, but this is seemingly due to the sheer volume of animation errors, and the glaringly obvious nature of many of the individual errors. However, the actual ''plot'' is certainly not the weakest to grace the cartoon series, and its "continuity errors" have little to nothing to do with the script itself... certainly not to the level of, say, "[[B.O.T.]]".

* That said, there is plenty of inanity to be found in the story too. For instance: Despite the aliens' dialog being in perfectly understandable English (or Galactic Standard or whatever), because they say everything a sing-song rhythm, apparently none of the Transformers except Blaster and Soundwave can understand them, and the two tape decks spend a large (and annoying) amount of time translating Eurythman to "non-sing-song" for everyone else.

* Apparently, a single blast from [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]'s [[lightning cannon]] can cause [[Devastator]] to disassemble. And [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] believes that intellectuals are weak.

* This was one of several episodes subjected to the [[MSTF]] treatment at [[BotCon 1999]].

{{-}}

===Keywords===
(''separate by commas and link each one so a page can be created for it if it does not already exist'')

[[Music]]

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808817/ IMDb's page for this episode]

{{epstub}}

[[Category:Generation 1 episodes]]
[[Category: MSTF]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Carnage in C-Minor

2008-04-28T16:08:57Z

190.58.228.24: /* Animation and/or technical glitches */

{{episodenav|g1|season=3|17|prev=Webworld|next=The Quintesson Journal}}

[[Image:Carnage C-Minor Autobots harmonic attack.JPG|thumb|350px|[[A Dream Is Born, Double Prime|Hey what is that awful noise? Okay let me straighten him out!]]]]

'''Several Autobots and Decepticons find themselves battling over a planet whose civilization completely revolves around music, and whose inhabitants are capable of using sound as a powerful weapon.'''

'''Japanese title:''' "The Challenge to the Planet of Music"

==Detailed synopsis==

[[Image:zeebop.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Don we now our gay apparel...]]

[[Eurhythma]], a planet whose culture is based entirely on music, is threatened by a comet. [[Zebop Skandana]] joins fellow Eurythmans [[Allegra]] and [[Basso Profundo]] to use their combined harmonic weapon to destroy the comet, inadvertently shooting down a number of [[Autobot|Autobots]] and [[Decepticon]]s.

After [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] collapse a bridge on [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], Zebop joins a number of other citizens to revive the Autobots. He then leads them to Allegra's retreat, where they find that Galvatron has beaten them there and swayed Allegra to their side. When Soundwave uses Allegra's third of the harmony against them, Zebop counters with his own third, which Soundwave then records and combines with Allegra's, plunging Zebop and the Autobots into a chasm. As the Autobots pull themselves up, Galvatron turns on Allegra, prompting Zebop to run onto the battlefield to save her. While he is successful, he is accidentally crushed by Blaster and Soundwave in the process, but is harmonically revived by a tearful Allegra soon after.

Returning to the capital city, the Autobots discover the fallen forms of [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], who Zebop, Allegra, and Basso heal. The three returned to [[Earth]] with the Autobots, where Galvatron and Soundwave were overwhelming [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] with the stolen harmony. The trio of aliens countered it with [[anti-sound]], giving Blaster enough time to erase the harmony from Soundwave's tapes (by manually pushing his crotch buttons). With the battle concluded, Zebop returns to his world with the others, vowing to live in harmony.

==Stats==

'''Written by:''' [[Buzz Dixon]]

==Quotes==

You! Because of you, I got blasted out of space. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THAT DID TO MY PAINT JOB?!<br>
:--'''Broadside''', right before he sucker punches Galvatron

"I don't wanna see your ugly face, just the button that says ERASE!"<br>
"My tapes! You've erased my tapes!"
:-- '''Blaster''' destroys '''Soundwave's''' tapes

"From now on, you'll have to learn to live in "harmony".<br>
:-- ''''Ultra Magnus''' to the Eurythmians. Hypocritical, as his race has been fighting for the last nine million years.

==Other notes==
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* Throughout the entire episode, Broadside is drawn with a previously [[:Image:BroadsideCarnage.jpg|discarded]] [[character model]].
* Devastator is the exact same size as Soundwave during the start of the first battle.
* While the Autobots are shooting at the meteor, they are so badly drawn that they appear to have only one leg, a left arm starting from the elbow and enormous heads...and Superion is tiny.
* Blaster, Ultra Magnus and Zebop are shown to hang onto Broadside wile he flies around. Sometimes, the shots makes them sometimes tiny or not hanging onto Brodside at all.(even more odd is why Zebop simply can't sit in his cockpit.)
* Soundwave points out that Zebop is standing in the distance, while Galvatron says that "he ''probably'' is with the Autobots". yet, Ultra Magnus is standing right next to him. Lesson: Ultra Magrnus can't take cover and Galvatron's [[Optics]] are terrible.
* When Blaster is explaining that they use the harmony even for healing, Ultra Magnus is the one mouthing those words.
* When the Protectobots are combined as Defensor, Hotspot (the main body) is fighting alongside his combined self! This could be one of those infamous "[[decoy]]" Transformers...but probably not.
* In one scene, a cel-layering error causes Blaster to appear very tiny compared to Soundwave.
* On the music-based world of Eurhythma, Ultra Magnus dispatches Hook and Scrapper{{m-}}by ''picking them each up in one hand'' and bashing them together. Magnus is supposed to be big, but not ''that'' big.
* And there are more than meets the eyes. This is what you get when you combine a season's worth of bloopers into 1 episode. Seriously, how much time do you have?

<center>
<gallery>
Image:Carnage C-minor Magnus Broadside.JPG|[[wikipedia:Monty Python's Life of Brian|"Hail Ceasar!"<br>"Hail Thethar."]]
Image:Bigmagnus tinyconst.jpg|We'll take revenge by merging into Devastator.
Image:Hotspot_defensor.jpg|Hey! Part of me, get back in me!
Image:soundwaveautobotgalvy.jpg|For some reason, I feel less evil then two seconds ago.
Image:CarnageMiniBlaster.jpg|It's his little shoulder-angel.
</gallery>
</center>

===Continuity errors===

[[Image:DeceptiBrawn1.jpg|right|125px|thumb|Maybe it's not Bonecrusher, but a rare cameo by [[Load Hauler]]?]]
* In one infamous scene, [[Brawn]] and [[Huffer]] (who should also be dead) show up alive and well. And it seems Bonecrusher has switched sides, as he's helping them shoot at the giant Decepticon rocket engine he'd just helped build!

* To add insult to injury, Devestator is shooting at the Autobots, ''before'' the constructicons form Devestator.

* Soundwave travels with Galvatron to find the source of the harmony. However, when the scene returns to the battle outside the city, Soundwave is with the other Decepticons at the same time.

===Transformers references===
* References

===Real-world references===
* The Eurythman characters' names are all music-related puns.
* Eurythma was possibly named after the popular 80s band The Eurythmics.

===Miscellaneous trivia===

* "Carnage in C-Minor" is widely regarded by fans as the worst episode of all ''Transformers'' series, but this is seemingly due to the sheer volume of animation errors, and the glaringly obvious nature of many of the individual errors. However, the actual ''plot'' is certainly not the weakest to grace the cartoon series, and its "continuity errors" have little to nothing to do with the script itself... certainly not to the level of, say, "[[B.O.T.]]".

* That said, there is plenty of inanity to be found in the story too. For instance: Despite the aliens' dialog being in perfectly understandable English (or Galactic Standard or whatever), because they say everything a sing-song rhythm, apparently none of the Transformers except Blaster and Soundwave can understand them, and the two tape decks spend a large (and annoying) amount of time translating Eurythman to "non-sing-song" for everyone else.

* Apparently, a single blast from [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]'s [[lightning cannon]] can cause [[Devastator]] to disassemble. And [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] believes that intellectuals are weak.

* This was one of several episodes subjected to the [[MSTF]] treatment at [[BotCon 1999]].

{{-}}

===Keywords===
(''separate by commas and link each one so a page can be created for it if it does not already exist'')

[[Music]]

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808817/ IMDb's page for this episode]

{{epstub}}

[[Category:Generation 1 episodes]]
[[Category: MSTF]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Carnage in C-Minor

2008-04-28T16:08:29Z

190.58.228.24: /* Animation and/or technical glitches */ Corrected serious spelling errors.

{{episodenav|g1|season=3|17|prev=Webworld|next=The Quintesson Journal}}

[[Image:Carnage C-Minor Autobots harmonic attack.JPG|thumb|350px|[[A Dream Is Born, Double Prime|Hey what is that awful noise? Okay let me straighten him out!]]]]

'''Several Autobots and Decepticons find themselves battling over a planet whose civilization completely revolves around music, and whose inhabitants are capable of using sound as a powerful weapon.'''

'''Japanese title:''' "The Challenge to the Planet of Music"

==Detailed synopsis==

[[Image:zeebop.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Don we now our gay apparel...]]

[[Eurhythma]], a planet whose culture is based entirely on music, is threatened by a comet. [[Zebop Skandana]] joins fellow Eurythmans [[Allegra]] and [[Basso Profundo]] to use their combined harmonic weapon to destroy the comet, inadvertently shooting down a number of [[Autobot|Autobots]] and [[Decepticon]]s.

After [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] collapse a bridge on [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], Zebop joins a number of other citizens to revive the Autobots. He then leads them to Allegra's retreat, where they find that Galvatron has beaten them there and swayed Allegra to their side. When Soundwave uses Allegra's third of the harmony against them, Zebop counters with his own third, which Soundwave then records and combines with Allegra's, plunging Zebop and the Autobots into a chasm. As the Autobots pull themselves up, Galvatron turns on Allegra, prompting Zebop to run onto the battlefield to save her. While he is successful, he is accidentally crushed by Blaster and Soundwave in the process, but is harmonically revived by a tearful Allegra soon after.

Returning to the capital city, the Autobots discover the fallen forms of [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], who Zebop, Allegra, and Basso heal. The three returned to [[Earth]] with the Autobots, where Galvatron and Soundwave were overwhelming [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] with the stolen harmony. The trio of aliens countered it with [[anti-sound]], giving Blaster enough time to erase the harmony from Soundwave's tapes (by manually pushing his crotch buttons). With the battle concluded, Zebop returns to his world with the others, vowing to live in harmony.

==Stats==

'''Written by:''' [[Buzz Dixon]]

==Quotes==

You! Because of you, I got blasted out of space. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THAT DID TO MY PAINT JOB?!<br>
:--'''Broadside''', right before he sucker punches Galvatron

"I don't wanna see your ugly face, just the button that says ERASE!"<br>
"My tapes! You've erased my tapes!"
:-- '''Blaster''' destroys '''Soundwave's''' tapes

"From now on, you'll have to learn to live in "harmony".<br>
:-- ''''Ultra Magnus''' to the Eurythmians. Hypocritical, as his race has been fighting for the last nine million years.

==Other notes==
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
* Throughout the entire episode, Broadside is drawn with a previously [[:Image:BroadsideCarnage.jpg|discarded]] [[character model]].
* Devastator is the exact same size as Soundwave during the start of the first battle.
* While the Autobots are shooting at the meteor, they are so horribly badly drawn that they appear to have only one leg, a left arm starting from the elbow and enormous heads...and Superion is tiny.
* Blaster, Ultra Magnus and Zebop are shown to hang onto Broadside wile he flies around. Sometimes, the shots makes them sometimes tiny or not hanging onto Brodside at all.(even more odd is why Zebop simply can't sit in his cockpit.)
* Soundwave points out that Zebop is standing in the distance, while Galvatron says that "he ''probably'' is with the Autobots". yet, Ultra Magnus is standing right next to him. Lesson: Ultra Magrnus can't take cover and Galvatron's [[Optics]] are terrible.
* When Blaster is explaining that they use the harmony even for healing, Ultra Magnus is the one mouthing those words.
* When the Protectobots are combined as Defensor, Hotspot (the main body) is fighting alongside his combined self! This could be one of those infamous "[[decoy]]" Transformers...but probably not.
* In one scene, a cel-layering error causes Blaster to appear very tiny compared to Soundwave.
* On the music-based world of Eurhythma, Ultra Magnus dispatches Hook and Scrapper{{m-}}by ''picking them each up in one hand'' and bashing them together. Magnus is supposed to be big, but not ''that'' big.
* And there are more than meets the eyes. This is what you get when you combine a season's worth of bloopers into 1 episode. Seriously, how much time do you have?

<center>
<gallery>
Image:Carnage C-minor Magnus Broadside.JPG|[[wikipedia:Monty Python's Life of Brian|"Hail Ceasar!"<br>"Hail Thethar."]]
Image:Bigmagnus tinyconst.jpg|We'll take revenge by merging into Devastator.
Image:Hotspot_defensor.jpg|Hey! Part of me, get back in me!
Image:soundwaveautobotgalvy.jpg|For some reason, I feel less evil then two seconds ago.
Image:CarnageMiniBlaster.jpg|It's his little shoulder-angel.
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===Continuity errors===

[[Image:DeceptiBrawn1.jpg|right|125px|thumb|Maybe it's not Bonecrusher, but a rare cameo by [[Load Hauler]]?]]
* In one infamous scene, [[Brawn]] and [[Huffer]] (who should also be dead) show up alive and well. And it seems Bonecrusher has switched sides, as he's helping them shoot at the giant Decepticon rocket engine he'd just helped build!

* To add insult to injury, Devestator is shooting at the Autobots, ''before'' the constructicons form Devestator.

* Soundwave travels with Galvatron to find the source of the harmony. However, when the scene returns to the battle outside the city, Soundwave is with the other Decepticons at the same time.

===Transformers references===
* References

===Real-world references===
* The Eurythman characters' names are all music-related puns.
* Eurythma was possibly named after the popular 80s band The Eurythmics.

===Miscellaneous trivia===

* "Carnage in C-Minor" is widely regarded by fans as the worst episode of all ''Transformers'' series, but this is seemingly due to the sheer volume of animation errors, and the glaringly obvious nature of many of the individual errors. However, the actual ''plot'' is certainly not the weakest to grace the cartoon series, and its "continuity errors" have little to nothing to do with the script itself... certainly not to the level of, say, "[[B.O.T.]]".

* That said, there is plenty of inanity to be found in the story too. For instance: Despite the aliens' dialog being in perfectly understandable English (or Galactic Standard or whatever), because they say everything a sing-song rhythm, apparently none of the Transformers except Blaster and Soundwave can understand them, and the two tape decks spend a large (and annoying) amount of time translating Eurythman to "non-sing-song" for everyone else.

* Apparently, a single blast from [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]'s [[lightning cannon]] can cause [[Devastator]] to disassemble. And [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] believes that intellectuals are weak.

* This was one of several episodes subjected to the [[MSTF]] treatment at [[BotCon 1999]].

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[[Music]]

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808817/ IMDb's page for this episode]

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The Low Road

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{{episodenav |BW |season=1 |22 |prev=Possession |next=Law of the Jungle}}

'''[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] is infected with a strange energon discharge virus, and if a cure isn't found, he'll destroy the [[Maximal|Maximal]] [[Axalon|base]] as he literally sneezes himself to death.'''

==Summary==

The Maximals use their tools to garden, trimming the wild bean vines that have grown around the Maximal base and, as [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] explains, could be exploited by the Predacons. [[Rattrap]] and Dinobot get into a fight. Inside, Rhinox detects [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] coming to attack, but can't activate the [[Sentinel]] shields because of the two arguing Maximals outside. Rhinox comes down the elevator with his guns ablaze and commands the two to get inside, but they are too busy arguing to obey. Trying to cover his teammates' withdrawal, Rhinox is hit by a strange weapon from [[Tarantulas]]. Dinobot blasts Tarantulas several times, and with the crucial shot fired, the Predacons retreat.

Inside, the ''Axalon''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s computer reports on the strange effect the device had on Rhinox, giving him a disease that causes the larger Maximal to "spontaneously discharge energy." Rhinox demonstrates this by hiccuping energy beams around the base, causing much collateral damage. It's decided a counter-virus must be found.

Rattrap and Dinobot attempt to trail the injured Tarantulas. The two get into an argument about who is to blame for Rhinox becoming sick, which quickly degenerates into name-calling. Eventually forgetting why they started the arguement, the two follow Tarantulas's scent. Running after a glimpse of the Predacon, they fall though a hole and onto a long slide—with a heavy boulder close behind them. But after they landing at the bottom of the slide, the boulder actually hits Tarantulas. Rattrap and Dinobot continue to bickering as they search through the underground caverns for Tarantulas's lab.

Aboard the ''Axalon'', [[Optimus Primal|Optimus]] reveals to [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] that he paired Dinobot and Rattrap together so they could either learn to work together or kill each other. Rhinox is meanwhile kept on a life support system which drains energy from the rest of the (now heavily damaged) Maximal base.

Back at the [[Darkside|Predacon base]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] sends his own forces to reclaim Tarantulas so more of the virus can be developed to use on the rest of the Maximals. They head to his [[Tarantulas' lair|laboratory]] to see if they can locate the missing arachnid there. On Tarantulas's security sensors, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] notices the two wandering Maximals making their way through the caverns towards the hideout.

Primal rallies his available soldiers for action against the Predacons to seize the antidote to Rhinox's ailment forcibly. Rhinox attempts to come along with the others, but Primal orders his friend to stay behind and consume some food to help stabilize his systems. Naturally, the first option on Rhinox's menu happens to be the wild beans conveniently surrounding the ''Axalon''.

Back in Tarantulas's lair, Blackarachnia discovers where Tarantulas stored the counter-virus. When [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] detects the two Maximals getting closer, the Predacon goons open fire, wildly hoping to hit something, but instead just ruin any chance they have of ambushing their targets. Dinobot tries to use Tarantulas as a hostage, but this tactic doesn't work on Megatron, who has no reservations about abusing his own soldiers. However, the distraction has bought Rattrap (who was supposed to be covering Dinobot) the time to sneak through some tubes to arrive behind the Predacons, leaving him close enough to disarm them quickly.

A nasal energon-expulsion from Rhinox provides a hole for the other Maximals to enter the chamber once they finish posing heroically. Megatron mentions that he alone has the counter-virus that could save Rhinox.

But then Rhinox shoots an incredible energon fart (visible from space) that blows the Predacons far away, giving the Maximals the chance to grab the counter-virus and live happily ever after. Rattrap and Dinobot still bicker like kids, though.

==Stats==
'''Original Air Date:''' February 10, 1997

'''Written by:''' [[Bob Forward]]

===Featured Characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"
! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Maximals]]
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Predacons]]
! style="background:#FFEEB8" | Others
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Rattrap]] (1)
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (2)
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (3)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (4)
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (5)
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (13)
*[[Tigatron (BW)|Tigatron]] (14)

| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (6)
*[[Waspinator]] (7)
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (8)
*[[Tarantulas]] (9)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (10)
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (11)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (12)

| style="background:#FFEEB8" valign="top" |

|}

==Quotes==

'''Dinobot:''' Excuse me. Are ''you'' implying that the current situation is somehow....''my'' responsibility?!<br>
'''Rattrap:''' Well, you did start it....''gearhead''!<br>
'''Dinobot:''' I BEG to differ....cheese lips!<br>
'''Rattrap:''' Pre-evolved birdbrain!<br>
'''Dinobot:''' Eater of garbage!!
:{{m-}}'''Rattrap''' and '''Dinobot''' trade insults, part 1

'''Dinobot:''' Unlike you, I do not spend my time scurrying through ''sewers!''<br>
'''Rattrap:''' Yeah? Well, a sewer smells better than your breath, bronto-brain!<br>
'''Dinobot:''' Nnngrrh! You will get used to it WHEN I BITE YOUR USELESS HEAD OFF!<br>
(Tarantulas suddenly wakes up)<br>
'''Tarantulas:''' DIIIIE, MAXIMALS!<br>
'''Dinobot and Rattrap:''' SHUT UP!<br>
(They both punch Tarantulas)
:{{m-}}'''Rattrap''' and '''Dinobot''' trade insults, part 2

'''Rattrap:''' So, uh, you got a better plan?<br>
'''Dinobot:''' No, but I ''still'' despise the idea of expiring underground. It lacks a...a warrior's nobility.<br>
'''Rattrap:''' Oh, hey-hey, no sweat, heh heh. 'Cause I ain't lettin' ''nobody'' waste you down here! That's a job I'm reserving for myself!<br>
'''Dinobot:''' Oooh, I appreciate your concern, but let me assure you, being shot in the back by a malodorous ''mouse'' would not exactly earn me a seat in Silicon Valhalla!<br>
'''Rattrap:''' Awwww, poor baby.
:{{m-}}'''Rattrap''' and '''Dinobot''' trade insults, part 3

"A bargaining chip should remain in play until the game is over, yesss."<br>
"Why do you always talk to yourself?"<br>
"Ah, I simply have a penchant for...''intelligent conversation''."
:{{m-}}'''Megatron''' ripostes rather well to '''Blackarachnia'''.

(Dinobot enters, holding Tarantulas)<br>
"Do not fire, Megatron! I have a HOSTAGE!" <br>
"Why, so you do..." <br>
(Megatron shoots Tarantulas)
:{{m-}}Hostage negotiations with '''Dinobot''', '''Megatron'''-style

"This is ''certainly'' the most humiliating defeat of my entire career. Yess..."
:{{m-}}'''Megatron''' after Rhinox defeats the Predacons single...erm, handedly

==Notes==
===Animation and/or technical glitches===
*When Rattrap and Dinobot fall through the trapdoor leading to the underground tunnels, Rattrap's gun is left spinning in mid-air. The next shot is upwards from underground, as they fall, and the gun is not visible. Indeed, when Rattrap lands on Dinobot, the gun doesn't fall on top of them. Later, as they approach Tarantulas' lab, Rattrap has his gun back.

===Continuity errors===
* Errors

===Real-world references===
* Dinobot refers to a [[Silicon Valhalla]] as some kind of afterlife, which is in turn a reference to ancient Norse mythology and Silicon Valley.
* During one of their squabbles, Rattrap refers to Dinobot as a 'pre-evolved birdbrain'. This is a reference to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, part of which theorizes that modern birds evolved from ancient dinosaurs.

===Transformers references===
*The wild bean vine growth outside of the ''Axalon'' could have been caused by the severe rain the area received during the storm [[Possession|in the previous episode]].

===Miscellaneous trivia===
*When the Maximals burst into Tarantulas's lab, Airazor is kneeling at Optimus's feet, with one hand affectionately placed on his leg. Instead of, y'know, ''pointing a gun at the bad guys.'' The shot is a parody of the stereotypical heroic entrance/posturing scene, such as found on the theatrical poster for the original [[wikipedia:Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]] film. Once Rattrap undermines the moment, as evidenced by the musical score, Airazor can be seen standing normally with the other Maximals. All part of the fun, folks.

*The virus which infected Rhinox and which Megatron intended to use to infect the rest of the Maximals was never mentioned again. Can you blame him for washing his hands of the entire affair?

*Rhinox dons a beer-hat style contraption from which to sip his treatment.

*Rattrap actually does eat garbage.

*In this episode Blackarachnia mentions that Tarantulas encrypted all the information on his computers, foreshadowing that he has something to hide.

*Farts are funny. Hence, this episode is very funny if you like farts. And who doesn't?

*Episode writer Bob Forward summed up the reaction to the episode thusly: "[...] After 15 Years And A Couple Of Hundred Scripts, [I] Will Be Remembered Forever For A Rhinocerous ''[sic]'' Fart." [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/70dc1b8dd547cba9]

*Some of the slapstick, particularly temporarily defying gravity, and Rattrap's gun being momentarily left in the air when they do fall, is reminiscent of classic [[wikipedia:Warner Brothers|Warner Brothers]] cartoons, such as [[wikipedia:Road Runner (cartoon)|Road Runner]].

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