Flobsters on Parade

2012-03-18T20:33:45Z

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{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 4
|prev=Hotshots
|next=The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock
|image=FlobstersOnParade flobsters attack diner.jpg
|title="Flobsters on Parade"
|airdate=[[March 3]], [[2012]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[Atomic Cartoons]]
|writer=[[Brian Hohlfeld]]
|director=[[Nathan Chew]]
}}

'''Chase, Blades and Boulder must battle a swarm of flying lobsters.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:FlobstersOnParade Doc Greene takes flight.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
[[Cody Burns]] and [[Frankie Greene]] are attending the [[Lobster and Technology Festival]]. While Cody prefers the lobsters, Frankie is looking forward to the technology parade, in which she'll get to ride on her dad's float. Discussing which is better, they find [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] and [[Doc Greene]] inflating a helium lobster balloon. Frankie scoffs at the fact that the [[Rescue Bot]]s are taking part on the parade too, but at that moment a strong gust of wind causes the balloon's cables to snap. One catches Doc Greene's leg, and as the balloon drifts away, he's taken with it. The others give chase, collecting [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] along the way, but even the [[Autobot]] is unable to save Doc Greene from being whisked away.

Back at the fire station, the other Rescue Bots and the rest of the Burns family get the alert and roll out. Doc Greene manages to catch on to a building and, following Chief Burns's suggestion, unties the rope from his ankle, freeing himself from the balloon. While [[Kade Burns|Kade]] and [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] rescue the Doc from the building, [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] and [[Dani Burns|Dani]] hook the balloon and bring it back down to earth. As the Doc thanks Kade, Heatwave makes a throat-clearing noise, and Chief Burns asks Cody to remind the bots that they're supposed to be pretending to be robots.

[[Image:FlobstersOnParade robots on parade.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
As Cody instructs the Rescue Bots again, he notices Heatwave is missing. [[Boulder]] is also distracted by a bird out the window, so Cody holds an impromptu game of "Simon Says" to help them get acting like robots. Heatwave picks that moment to appear, announcing he's not going to be in the parade because he hates acting like a robot and being climbed all over by kids. Thus when the rest of the Burns family arrives to leave for the parade, Heatwave fakes an engine problem. Kade's just happy not to have to deal with Heatwave, so the others head out without him. They arrive at the parade, where Doc Greene is filling balloons with his latest invention, [[floatium]], which is a more controllable version of helium. The parade soon starts, with the Rescue Bots marching along behind the floats, though Boulder has to be shushed by Chase. Back at base, Heatwave watches the parade on TV and is irritated by the [[Huxley Prescott|reporter's]] comments.

[[Image:FlobstersOnParade Doc Greene and Chief check tank.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
Back at the fairgrounds, a hungry fair-goer accidentally knocks the tank of floatium into the lobster tank and the lobsters inside immediately begin floating out of the tank. After the Rescue Bots return to the square, Coby points out the [[flobster]]s now filling the sky. While the Bots continue to pretend to be robots, despite a flobster having a close encounter with Blades's face, the humans investigate. Doc Greene quickly calculates it will take two days for the effects of the floatium to wear off, and heads back to the lab to work on a solution. Unfortunately the flobsters quickly turn hostile to the humans present. Coby quickly formulates a plan, and Dani and Blades scoop up a bunch of the flobsters in a cage, before dropping the whole cage back into the lobster tank.

[[Image:FlobstersOnParade Chase holds up lobster.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
The Rescue Bots and their partners are soon responding to flobster-related emergency calls all over [[Griffin Rock]]. Boulder and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] help [[Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] after a flobster severs a nearby power cable. Kade calls the station and attempts to be polite in talking to Heatwave. More flobsters trap Frankie in a phone booth, attracted to the starfish on the back of her jacket. She calls Cody for help, but luckily Heatwave is nearby and gets rid of the flobsters with his hose. As the others celebrate Frankie's rescue, Dani calls them back to the town square, where Doc Greene shows off the destabilizing compound he's created to remove the floatium from the water and flobsters. They can spray the compound directly on the flobsters, but there's only one batch and the flobsters are everywhere. Cody has the idea of using the giant lobster balloons to scare the flobsters and herd them back to the town square where Heatwave can spray them, ending the flobster menace.

The people of Griffin Rock enjoy their lobster lunches, while Blades finally gets the flobster joke, and Heatwave has kids climb all over him.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (5)
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (6)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (7)
*[[Boulder]] (8)

|c3=
*[[Cody Burns]] (1)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (2)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (3)
*[[Doc Greene]] (4)
*[[Kade Burns]] (9)
*[[Graham Burns]] (10)
*[[Dani Burns]] (11)
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (12)
*[[Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] (13)
}}

==Quotes==
"Simon did not authorize that last movement."
:—'''Chase''' wins the game of "Simon Says".

"Ah, at least it's not livestock again."
:—'''Charlie Burns''' on seeing the flobsters.

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

===Continuity errors===
* The common form of helium isn't radioactive and thus ''does not have a half life''. Also, to make a helium balloon neutrally buoyant, all you need to do is add an appropriate amount of weight or use a appropriate helium/air mix rather than pure helium, there's no need to invent a new gas.
* One should probably also not ask how floatium gives lobsters the ability to cut through tree branches and power cables with their claws.

===Real-world references===
* Doc Greene's tenuous grip on the courthouse roof before being rescued bears a suspicious resemblance to the same in the movie ''Back to the Future''.

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

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This may be the stupidest plotline of any episode of Transformers ever. EVER.

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