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Augustus Edsel

2008-05-03T15:34:31Z

74.216.127.109: /* Trivia */

:''Mayor Edsel is a [[human]] in the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Animatedmayorandaide.jpg|right|thumb|200px|I'd like to have a beer with him.]]
The people of [[Detroit]] can always rest assured that '''Mayor Edsel''' is looking out for them.

When one considers that his city gets destroyed every week, yet gets rebuilt in time to be destroyed again, he must be a very good politician. When one considers that he is maintained in public office despite his apparent total unwillingness or inability to speak at all, he must be an ''incredible'' politician. Or he's got dirt on every other candidate.

He has an [[Mayor's aide|aide]], who can translate his body language and emotional state for everyone else.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
Surprisingly, Mayor Edsel was not the one to welcome the Autobots publicly to Earth on behalf of all Humanity. That honor went to [[Isaac Sumdac]], for reasons untold and mysterious.

The Mayor was shortly thereafter present at the dedication of Detroit's new [[Fully Automated Rapid Transit System|'''F'''ully '''A'''utomated '''R'''apid '''T'''ransit '''S'''ystem]] outside [[Michigan Central Station]]. He was shortly thereafter kidnapped by Starscream and then rescued by the Autobots, during which time he maintianed his usual stoic silence. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out!}}

Edsel, now in the company of his young lady-friend—er... his aide—then showed up again at a press conference held by [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]. When they realized that Sentinel Prime was a jerk and was only there to condescend to them, she apologized for wasting his time. The grand gesture of shaking hands and posing for photographs was more eloquent than any words could have been... yeah, that's it. {{storylink|The Return of the Headmaster}}

{{spoiler|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}
Because of a contract dispute with [[Sumdac Systems]]' new CEO [[Porter C. Powell]], trash disposal in Detroit was halted for a prolonged period of time, leading to public anger at the Mayor. He consented to viewing a demonstration of Powell's new garbage-destroying [[automaton|microbots]], and seemed to express a willingness to renewing the Sumdac sanitation contract. But when the aggressive, all-consuming nature of the microbots became clear, Mayor Edsel's mood soured, making a negotiated compromise less likely. Only when [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] threatened to throw both Edsel and Powell into the river did the two forge a new deal—sealed, of course, with a silent handshake. {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}}

==Trivia==
* The Mayor's [[wikipedia:Edsel|name]] refers to one of the most infamous failures of the automotive industry.
* No word on whether he's related to movie star [[Harold Edsel]].
* The Mayor has yet to have ''any'' lines in the series, since his Aide always speaks up for him.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Edsel}}
[[Category: Animated characters]]
[[Category: Humans]]
[[Category: Politicians]]<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>

Garbage In, Garbage Out

2008-05-03T15:32:00Z

74.216.127.109: /* Continuity errors */

[[Image:Wreck-Gar-Ani.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[Wikipedia:Raging Bender|Gender Bender]]!]]

{{episodenav|animated|20|season=2|prev=Mission Accomplished|next=Velocity}}

'''AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a sentient robot who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.'''

==Summary==
Garbage is piling up all over [[Detroit]], as the trash-bots are malfunctioning and [[Sumdac Systems]] CEO Porter C. Powell refuses to repair them until the city and he can come to an agreement on payment. In Powell's office, a technician demonstrates a new form of the nanobots that [[Transform and Roll Out|caused big problems a while back]], designed this time to break garbage down to its component molecules, quickly and cheaply solving the garbage problem (while allowing Powell to charge the city a hefty fee).

Elsewhere, the [[Autobot]]s are trying to patch up their still-damaged reputation by helping pile garbage into scows. Ratchet ends up getting into a shouting match with an old man whose car ended up under a garbage mound, resulting in the car being dumped in the river and the two old grouches almost coming to blows. Captain Fanzone arrives to break up the scene and remarks that Ratchet needs to work on his "people skills". Prime agrees and assigns Bumblebee and Sari to try and help out Ratchet while they work more on the garbage problem. Ratchet is not happy with this.

Just before the Autobots depart, though, [[Sari Sumdac's key|Sari's key]] glows, but she quickly disregards this...and misses the emergence of a junk-robot from the scow, brought to life by an [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] shard. The confused machine tries to figure out his identity using the scraps around him, but is unsatisfied with the results. Spying a passing blimp with a sign for the Detroit police department with the slogan "We're Here to Help", the robot happily goes about trying to find some police for some help with his identity.

{{epstub}}

==Stats==

*'''Written by:'''
*'''Directed by:'''
*'''Original airdate:''' May 3, 2008

===Featured characters===


(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"

! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]
*[[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]]
| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Lugnut]]
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]
| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Porter C. Powell]]
*[[Sari Sumdac]]
*[[Captain Fanzone]]
*[[Angry Archer]]
*[[Spike]]
*[[Carly]]
*[[Mayor Edsel]]
|}

==Quotes==
"I am Wreck-Gar, and I ''dare'' to be stupid!"
:{{m-}}'''Wreck-Gar'''. Yes, but does he count his chickens before they hatch?

==Other notes==
* This episode was first shown on Friday, April 25th, at [[BotCon 2008]]. The version aired still had the time-code running in the top-left corner.

===Continuity errors===
*Why doesn't Sari or Ratchet react to the Allspark Key when it starts to glow, indicating the presence of Allspark energy?

===Transformers references===
* Wreck-Gar interprets Lugnut's incoming rocket punch as an invitation to a high-five, and he happily delivers the [[universal greeting]].
* Wreck-Gar's shifting allegiance and red optics as he faces down Ratchet on the garbage scow appear to be callbacks to the [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|original Wreck-Gar]], who appeared to be an enemy to the Autobots at first, complete with red optics.
* The ''Animated'' incarnations of Spike and Carly, who made a cameo in [[Transform and Roll Out!|the pilot episode]], re-appear with speaking lines and even get their names called out.

===Real-world references===
* Wreck-Gar's "I ''dare'' to be stupid!" is, of course, a reference to one of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s most well-known songs, "Dare to be Stupid", a Devo "style parody" that appeared on the soundtrack to [[The Transformers: The Movie|the original animated movie]].

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Even Megatron gets annoyed from Lugnut's constant worshiping.
* Aside from Wreck-Gar, Weird Al also voiced the Sumdac Systems technician who explains the new version of the nanobots to Porter C. Powell.

{{epstub}}
[[Category:Animated episodes]]<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>

Garbage In, Garbage Out

2008-05-03T15:31:34Z

74.216.127.109: /* Continuity errors */

[[Image:Wreck-Gar-Ani.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[Wikipedia:Raging Bender|Gender Bender]]!]]

{{episodenav|animated|20|season=2|prev=Mission Accomplished|next=Velocity}}

'''AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a sentient robot who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.'''

==Summary==
Garbage is piling up all over [[Detroit]], as the trash-bots are malfunctioning and [[Sumdac Systems]] CEO Porter C. Powell refuses to repair them until the city and he can come to an agreement on payment. In Powell's office, a technician demonstrates a new form of the nanobots that [[Transform and Roll Out|caused big problems a while back]], designed this time to break garbage down to its component molecules, quickly and cheaply solving the garbage problem (while allowing Powell to charge the city a hefty fee).

Elsewhere, the [[Autobot]]s are trying to patch up their still-damaged reputation by helping pile garbage into scows. Ratchet ends up getting into a shouting match with an old man whose car ended up under a garbage mound, resulting in the car being dumped in the river and the two old grouches almost coming to blows. Captain Fanzone arrives to break up the scene and remarks that Ratchet needs to work on his "people skills". Prime agrees and assigns Bumblebee and Sari to try and help out Ratchet while they work more on the garbage problem. Ratchet is not happy with this.

Just before the Autobots depart, though, [[Sari Sumdac's key|Sari's key]] glows, but she quickly disregards this...and misses the emergence of a junk-robot from the scow, brought to life by an [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] shard. The confused machine tries to figure out his identity using the scraps around him, but is unsatisfied with the results. Spying a passing blimp with a sign for the Detroit police department with the slogan "We're Here to Help", the robot happily goes about trying to find some police for some help with his identity.

{{epstub}}

==Stats==

*'''Written by:'''
*'''Directed by:'''
*'''Original airdate:''' May 3, 2008

===Featured characters===


(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"

! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]
*[[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]]
| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Lugnut]]
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]
| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Porter C. Powell]]
*[[Sari Sumdac]]
*[[Captain Fanzone]]
*[[Angry Archer]]
*[[Spike]]
*[[Carly]]
*[[Mayor Edsel]]
|}

==Quotes==
"I am Wreck-Gar, and I ''dare'' to be stupid!"
:{{m-}}'''Wreck-Gar'''. Yes, but does he count his chickens before they hatch?

==Other notes==
* This episode was first shown on Friday, April 25th, at [[BotCon 2008]]. The version aired still had the time-code running in the top-left corner.

===Continuity errors===
*Why doesn't Sari or Ratchet react to the Allspark Key when it starts to glow?

===Transformers references===
* Wreck-Gar interprets Lugnut's incoming rocket punch as an invitation to a high-five, and he happily delivers the [[universal greeting]].
* Wreck-Gar's shifting allegiance and red optics as he faces down Ratchet on the garbage scow appear to be callbacks to the [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|original Wreck-Gar]], who appeared to be an enemy to the Autobots at first, complete with red optics.
* The ''Animated'' incarnations of Spike and Carly, who made a cameo in [[Transform and Roll Out!|the pilot episode]], re-appear with speaking lines and even get their names called out.

===Real-world references===
* Wreck-Gar's "I ''dare'' to be stupid!" is, of course, a reference to one of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s most well-known songs, "Dare to be Stupid", a Devo "style parody" that appeared on the soundtrack to [[The Transformers: The Movie|the original animated movie]].

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Even Megatron gets annoyed from Lugnut's constant worshiping.
* Aside from Wreck-Gar, Weird Al also voiced the Sumdac Systems technician who explains the new version of the nanobots to Porter C. Powell.

{{epstub}}
[[Category:Animated episodes]]<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>

Garbage In, Garbage Out

2008-05-03T15:20:07Z

74.216.127.109: /* Miscellaneous trivia */

[[Image:Wreck-Gar-Ani.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[Wikipedia:Raging Bender|Gender Bender]]!]]

{{episodenav|animated|20|season=2|prev=Mission Accomplished|next=Velocity}}

'''AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a sentient robot who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.'''

==Summary==
Garbage is piling up all over [[Detroit]], as the trash-bots are malfunctioning and [[Sumdac Systems]] CEO Porter C. Powell refuses to repair them until the city and he can come to an agreement on payment. In Powell's office, a technician demonstrates a new form of the nanobots that [[Transform and Roll Out|caused big problems a while back]], designed this time to break garbage down to its component molecules, quickly and cheaply solving the garbage problem (while allowing Powell to charge the city a hefty fee).

Elsewhere, the [[Autobot]]s are trying to patch up their still-damaged reputation by helping pile garbage into scows. Ratchet ends up getting into a shouting match with an old man whose car ended up under a garbage mound, resulting in the car being dumped in the river and the two old grouches almost coming to blows. Captain Fanzone arrives to break up the scene and remarks that Ratchet needs to work on his "people skills". Prime agrees and assigns Bumblebee and Sari to try and help out Ratchet while they work more on the garbage problem. Ratchet is not happy with this.

Just before the Autobots depart, though, [[Sari Sumdac's key|Sari's key]] glows, but she quickly disregards this...and misses the emergence of a junk-robot from the scow, brought to life by an [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] shard. The confused machine tries to figure out his identity using the scraps around him, but is unsatisfied with the results. Spying a passing blimp with a sign for the Detroit police department with the slogan "We're Here to Help", the robot happily goes about trying to find some police for some help with his identity.

{{epstub}}

==Stats==

*'''Written by:'''
*'''Directed by:'''
*'''Original airdate:''' May 3, 2008

===Featured characters===


(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"

! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]
*[[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]]
| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Lugnut]]
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]
| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Porter C. Powell]]
*[[Sari Sumdac]]
*[[Captain Fanzone]]
*[[Angry Archer]]
*[[Spike]]
*[[Carly]]
*[[Mayor Edsel]]
|}

==Quotes==
"I am Wreck-Gar, and I ''dare'' to be stupid!"
:{{m-}}'''Wreck-Gar'''. Yes, but does he count his chickens before they hatch?

==Other notes==
* This episode was first shown on Friday, April 25th, at [[BotCon 2008]]. The version aired still had the time-code running in the top-left corner.

===Continuity errors===

===Transformers references===
* Wreck-Gar interprets Lugnut's incoming rocket punch as an invitation to a high-five, and he happily delivers the [[universal greeting]].
* Wreck-Gar's shifting allegiance and red optics as he faces down Ratchet on the garbage scow appear to be callbacks to the [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|original Wreck-Gar]], who appeared to be an enemy to the Autobots at first, complete with red optics.
* The ''Animated'' incarnations of Spike and Carly, who made a cameo in [[Transform and Roll Out!|the pilot episode]], re-appear with speaking lines and even get their names called out.

===Real-world references===
* Wreck-Gar's "I ''dare'' to be stupid!" is, of course, a reference to one of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s most well-known songs, "Dare to be Stupid", a Devo "style parody" that appeared on the soundtrack to [[The Transformers: The Movie|the original animated movie]].

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Even Megatron gets annoyed from Lugnut's constant worshiping.
* Aside from Wreck-Gar, Weird Al also voiced the Sumdac Systems technician who explains the new version of the nanobots to Porter C. Powell.

{{epstub}}
[[Category:Animated episodes]]<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>