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Where Is Thy Sting?

2009-03-28T21:22:39Z

86.148.200.136:

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|image=WhereIsThySting-Bumblebeecreepilydefeated.jpg
|caption=We enjoyed that together.
|ep=34
|title="Where Is Thy Sting?"
|airdate=[[March 28]], 2009
|written by=[[Todd Casey]]
|directed by=[[Kalvin Lee]], [[Shigeharu Takahashi]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
}}

'''A crazed Wasp finds his way to Earth to exact his revenge on Bumblebee... but he doesn't count on the Elite Guard following him.'''

==Synopsis==

Drawing closer to [[Earth]] in their pursuit of the presumed traitor [[Wasp]], [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] are at their stations on the bridge of the [[Elite Guard]]'s ship when [[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime]] contacts them and demands to know what they are doing in the Earth sector. [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] joins the conference call to apologize for not letting Longarm know of the situation, pointing out that they couldn't risk tipping off Wasp when he stands poised to lead them to his Decepticon contact on the planet. Except, as Jazz points out, Wasp isn't headed for the [[Decepticon]]s... he's making a bee-line for the [[Autobot]]s' base!

In the Autobots' headquarters, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] is immersed in a game of ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]'' when [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] shuts the television off and reprimands Bumblebee for neglecting his monitor duty. In mid-argument, the base computers detect a [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] signal nearby, but no other information can be obtained due to interference caused by recent torrential rain, Prime and the other Autobots have to depart to investigate first-hand. Bumblebee, of course, returns to playing his video game.

The Elite Guard ship touches down in Detroit, and Sentinel and Jazz disembark. Sentinel is immediately disgusted by the notion of liquid falling from the sky, and finds himself all but incapable of driving on the slick roads, but Jazz just rolls with it.

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-reflectingface.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Get out of my head!]]

Back at the base, Bumblebee continues playing games until the base is suddenly plunged into darkness. As the red emergency lights come on, Bumblebee finds himself staring into the all-too-familiar face of Wasp, now sporting an Earth-mode body styled after Bumblebee's own. Bumblebee tries to explain that they had both been set up by Longarm, but the insane Wasp doesn't care, and downs Bumblebee with a blast of his stingers, and takes off his helmet, revealing a wound on the top of his head. Just before passing out, Bumblebee sees Wasp standing over him with a strange gun fitted with a glowing green canister, and vowing to make Bumblebee lose everything, just like he did...

A little later, Bumblebee awakens to find the other Autobots all staring down at him, including... himself? Looking down at himself, Bumblebee is horrified to discover that Wasp has repainted his armor, swapped their helmets, and exchanged their vocal synthesizers, making each a dead ringer for the other. As Wasp stands there, with Bumblebee's [[battle mask]] "stuck" up, Bumblebee attempts to convince the other Autobots that he is himself, but they aren't sold, and when [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] attempts to [[stasis cuffs|stasis cuff]] him, Bumblebee is forced to shoot out the lights and make a break for it. He zooms out of the plant, right past Sentinel Prime and Jazz, who intercept Prime and the other Autobots when they try to pursue him. Sentinel demands to know why Optimus's Autobots haven't checked in in so long, but when Optimus tries to explain, Sentinel refuses to listen, informing them he is here to bring in Wasp... who, Optimus points out, just drove right past him. Sentinel ignores Optimus when he tries to tell him that Longarm is the real traitor, and departs immediately to hunt down "Wasp". Optimus instructs his Autobots to locate Wasp first, and they head out to search, while the true Wasp tells them he will stay behind in case Bumblebee comes back.

On Cybertron, Shockwave desperately makes another attempt to contact the missing [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], and transmits a message to him alerting him to the direness of the situation, and that Shockwave is about to take matters into his own hands...

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-obligatorymisunderstanding.jpg|right|thumb|200px|I has logos-Autobot on my shoulders, ya?]]

Back on Earth, Optimus and Ratchet discuss how odd "Bumblebee" has been behaving when two jets suddenly come roaring by overhead. Knowing that no organic could pilot a plane the way these two crafts fly, the two Autobots assume they are dealing with Decepticons, and zoom after them in hot pursuit. The two jets soon track down "Wasp", who is desperately attempting to rub his green paint off with a discarded couch cushion, and transform to robot mode to attack him with blasts of flame and roaring hurricane winds. Ratchet and Optimus arrive to hold off these apparent Decepticons, who reveal a remarkable power to combine into [[Safeguard (Animated)|one mighty robot]], but before the fighting can get too intense, Sentinel and Jazz arrive to reveal that these two are, in fact, Autobots! Sentinel introduces [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], Elite Guard warriors created using specs from [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], and orders the duo to resume their mission.

In the Autobots' base, Wasp is playing (and losing) ''Ninja Gladiator'', and decides that he could get used to being Bumblebee. In order to complete the illusion, Wasp scans the Autobots' computer files, so that he can learn everything about Bumblebee and better pass himself off as his old rival.

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-hotdogbot.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Bumblebee needs a lesson in kitbashing.]]

Racing through the city streets, Bumblebee discovers a hot dog cart and desperate tries slathering his armor in mustard to try and make him look more like himself. He is caught in the act by [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], but he is finally able to convince Bulkhead of his true identity when he tells him something only he could know: namely, that he took the blame for Bulkhead when he knocked a tower over on Sentinel Prime at [[Autobot boot camp|boot camp]]. Jetfire and Jetstorm arrive just in time to witness this happy scene, but get the wrong end of the stick and assume that Bulkhead and Prowl are traitors as well! The twins report this to Sentinel, and he, Optimus, Jazz and Ratchet head for their position, with Sentinel obstinately refusing to listen to Optimus as he attempts to explain the numerous misunderstandings that have happened. When everyone reunites, Bulkhead explains that Bumblebee is definitely Bumblebee, and Optimus orders everyone back to the plant to straighten everything out.

[[Image:WhereIsThySting-UltraMagnusDamaged.jpg|thumb|right|200px|If anyone inserts a "He's been dealt with" caption here, so help us...]]

A little later, back at the plant, Wasp cheerily denies Bumblebee's accusations, using the information he has gleaned from the Autobots files to "prove" he is who he claims. When interrogation yields no results, Bulkhead comes up with the best way to figure out who's who: A versus match on ''Ninja Gladiator''! Before the game even starts, Wasp chokes, and grabs Bumblebee, holding his stinger to his neck. Wasp insists that he was always a good bot, but Bulkhead says that isn't true: he might not be a traitor, but he was always mean to him and Bumblebee, and was hardly good. Wasp blasts out the lights to cover his escape, and when the emergency lights kick in, both Wasp and Bumblebee are gone. The Autobots head outside, where they spot was looks like Bumblebee lying on the ground. Bulkhead assumes it is Wasp and leaps upon the prone figure, pummelling him and ripping off his helmet... only to find out that it really is Bumblebee underneath. Prowl examines Bumblebee's helmet, and discovers that their colors were switched so quickly because Wasp had hit him with an [[electronic paintjob]] that he could turn off with the press of a button. As things begin to calm down, the truth of the whole matter hits Jazz—if Wasp really was innocent, that means that Longarm Prime really is a Decepticon spy!

Sometime later, on Cybertron, [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] is searching for Longarm in order to apprehend him. Entering the council chamber, Ironhide is horrified to discover the mangled, barely-alive body of Ultra Magnus, and asks the Supreme Commander where his [[Magnus hammer|hammer]] is, and who was responsible. Before collapsing, Ultra Magnus manages to choke out... "Shock...wave..."

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters

|c1=
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (1)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (2)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (4)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (6)
*[[Wasp]] (7)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (8)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (9)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (10)
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] (11)
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]] (12)
*[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]] (13)
*[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] (14)

|c2=
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave/Longarm Prime]] (3)
|}}

==Quotes==
"Besides, if I'm playing ''Ninja Gladiator'', I'm at least getting valuable combat training." 
:—'''Bumblebee''' gives justification for slacking off.

"Liquid falling from the sky? What is ''wrong'' with this planet?!" 
"Crazy! It's like a planet ''and'' a car wash! You diggin' this or what?"
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' and '''Jazz''' share their thoughts on the rain.

'''Optimus''': Sentinel, you have to warn Ultra Magnus about Longarm! 
'''Ratchet''': Come on! You're doing it wrong! Turn ''into'' the skid! 
'''Sentinel''': Into the skid? That's stupid! 
'''Jazz''': Just gotta go with the flow, S.P.! 
'''Optimus''': How do you put up with him? 
'''Jazz''': I just tune out half of everything he spits out. 
'''Optimus''': Only half?
:—The Autobots attempt to put up with the jerk, with no such luck.

"I don't care! Arrest 'em all and let Ultra Magnus sort 'em out!"
:—'''Sentinel Prime''', jerk.

"So hit me with that one more time. A robot in disguise swaps metal with a double agent, who is really on the level?" 
"Makes even less sense when you say it."
:—'''Jazz''' and '''Bulkhead''' try their best to fathom what's been going on.

==Notes==

===Animation or technical errors===
*When Bulkhead knocks Jetfire back, Jazz (who isn't even ''there'' yet), instead of Jetstorm, is standing next to Bumblebee.
*When Wasp is playing Bumblebee's video game (and liking it), the characters on screen switch sides as he loses.

===Continuity errors===
*This isn't an ''error'' as such, but just when did Wasp get an identical earth form to that of Bumblebee?

===Transformers references===
[[Image:WhereIsThySting-Bumblebeesvideogame.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Referenciality!]]

*We last saw Wasp in "[[Autoboot Camp]]", which this episode is essentially a sequel to. Optimus's Autobots discovered that he wasn't guilty in "[[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]".
*The background of the ''Ninja Gladiator'' video game prominently features [[TORQ III]].
*Sentinel Prime discusses the modifications made to Jetfire and Jetstorm, which took place in the "[[Rise of Safeguard]]" comic book.
*Among the events that Wasp recites to "prove" his identity are those of "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]".
*In the scene before he switches places with "Bumble-Bot", Wasp is wearing a [[rubsign]] in place of a conventional Autobot insignia.

===Real-world references===
* The video game ''Ninja Gladiator'' is a possible reference to the popular fighting game series, ''Mortal Kombat.''

===Miscellaneous trivia===
*This episode received an impromptu online debut on [[March 25]] [[2009]], when a copy loaded onto the Cartoon Network website's server, intended to go live after the episode aired a few days later, was pilfered and leaked by some ne'er-do-wells. Something similar happened with much of the third season of The Venture Brothers.
*Wasp has purple eyes, which were visible even with Bumblebee's battle mask up. The Autobots didn't notice this, because...?

[[Category:Animated episodes]]

List of Transformers Animated episodes

2009-03-28T21:21:44Z

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==Season 1: 2007–2008==
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|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 1|Transform and Roll Out! (Part One)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=1
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his small crew of [[Autobot]]s come into possession of the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]], a powerful [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]ian artifact that attracts the attention of their long-forgotten enemies—the [[Decepticon]]s—and sends them crashing to a strange and distant planet known as [[Earth]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 2|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Two)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=2
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 3|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Three)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=3
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Home Is Where the Spark Is]]"
|EpisodeNumber=4
|OriginalAirDate=January 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots settle into their new home base, an abandoned automobile manufacturing plant, but the ancient assembly line machinery seems to have developed a mind of its own.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Total Meltdown]]"
|EpisodeNumber=5
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Naoto Hashimoto]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A bio-engineering genius experiments with some of [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]'s hydraulic fluid and accidentally transforms himself into [[Prometheus Black|Meltdown]], whose corrosive touch can melt anything—including Autobots!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Blast from the Past]]"
|EpisodeNumber=6
|OriginalAirDate=January 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Kevin Hopps]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] upgrades a trio of animatronic dinosaurs from a local theme park, but the creatures develop minds of their own and become rampaging [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobot]]s, bent on destroying the Autobots.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Thrill of the Hunt]]"
|EpisodeNumber=7
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=While the Autobots encounter a [[Lockdown|mysterious muscle car]] creating havoc in [[Detroit]], [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] keeps flashing back to his "tour of duty" in the [[Great War|Great Autobot-Decepticon War]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec]]"
|EpisodeNumber=8
|OriginalAirDate=January 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee's self-proclaimed title as "fastest thing on wheels" is threatened by [[Nanosec]], a super speedster crook on a deadly mission that could destroy all of Detroit.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Along Came a Spider]]"
|EpisodeNumber=9
|OriginalAirDate=February 16, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s first Halloween turns even spookier when they encounter a giant spider that turns out to be the deadly Decepticon [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sound and Fury]]"
|EpisodeNumber=10
|OriginalAirDate=February 23, 2008
|Aux1=[[Henry Gilroy]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Sari]]'s new [[Soundwave (Animated)|toy musical robot]] seems to have an evil streak—and the ability to control other machines—but Bulkhead is the only one who sees it.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Lost and Found (Animated episode)|Lost and Found]]"
|EpisodeNumber=11
|OriginalAirDate= March 1, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots clash with Decepticons [[Lugnut]] and [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], who come to Earth searching for their missing leader, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Survival of the Fittest]]"
|EpisodeNumber=12
|OriginalAirDate=March 8, 2008
|Aux1=[[Steven Granat]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Sari is kidnapped and the evidence points to the Dinobots. So [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] and Bulkhead head to a mysterious island to investigate—with a highly suspicious [[Captain Fanzone]] on their tail.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=13
|OriginalAirDate=March 15, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A [[Headmaster (Animated)|disgruntled Sumdac employee]] seeks revenge and profit by taking control of one of the Autobots and sending him on a rampage.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nature Calls]]"
|EpisodeNumber=14
|OriginalAirDate=March 22, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Bouakeo Thongkham]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl, Bumblebee and Sari get more than they bargained for when they head out to the remote woods to investigate a mysterious energy signal.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=15
|OriginalAirDate=March 29, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prime begins to doubt his leadership abilities as the Decepticons mobilize for a big invasion of Earth.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=16
|OriginalAirDate=April 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots are decimated by the Decepticon invasion, but still must rally to prevent the AllSpark from falling into their clutches.
}}
|}

==Season 2: 2008==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Elite Guard]]"
|EpisodeNumber=17
|OriginalAirDate=April 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] arrives on Earth to retrieve the AllSpark and relieve Prime and his crew of their post, but they prove less than adept at blending in with the human world.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Return of the Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=18
|OriginalAirDate=April 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Optimus Prime is forced to team up with his rival [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] after Sentinel has a humiliating and potentially fatal encounter with the Headmaster.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Mission Accomplished]]"
|EpisodeNumber=19
|OriginalAirDate=April 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yoshio Chatani]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Convinced there are no Decepticons left on Earth, the Elite Guard prepares to take Optimus Prime and his crew back to Cybertron, unaware of the increasing Decepticon activity taking place under their very noses.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]"
|EpisodeNumber=20
|OriginalAirDate=May 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|sentient robot]] who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Velocity]]"
|EpisodeNumber=21
|OriginalAirDate=May 10, 2008
|Aux1=[[Len Uhley]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Kenji Itoso]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Investigating [[Blurr (Animated)|a mysterious race car]], Bumblebee gets involved with an illegal underground street racing circuit, which also captures the attention of the Decepticons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Rise of the Constructicons]]"
|EpisodeNumber=22
|OriginalAirDate=May 17, 2008
|Aux1=[[Stan Berkowitz]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead befriends a pair of [[Constructicon (Animated)|construction vehicles]] brought to life by AllSpark energy. But the Decepticons have their scanners set on the duo for their latest construction project.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Fistful of Energon]]"
|EpisodeNumber=23
|OriginalAirDate=May 24, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Matt Youngberg]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl goes off on his own to capture the fugitive [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], but finds some competition in the form of a Decepticon bounty hunter.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[S.U.V.: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]"
|EpisodeNumber=24
|OriginalAirDate=May 31, 2008
|Aux1=[[Dean Stefan]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Aided by a [[Swindle (Animated)|mysterious benefactor]], Detroit's B-level villains team up to take down the Autobots once and for all.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Autoboot Camp]]"
|EpisodeNumber=25
|OriginalAirDate=June 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=On the trail of an escaped Autobot [[Wasp|traitor]], Bumblebee flashes back to a previous encounter with the traitor when he first met Bulkhead in Autobot Boot Camp.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]"
|EpisodeNumber=26
|OriginalAirDate=June 4th, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Blackarachnia enlists Prometheus Black, also known as Meltdown, to aid her with a dangerous experiment, while Prime and [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] are forced to team up to stop them.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sari, No One's Home]]"
|EpisodeNumber=27
|OriginalAirDate=June 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Left alone in the Autobots' home base, Sari must defend it against an intrusion by the Constructicons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=28
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Decepticons kidnap Bulkhead to aid in [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron's]] ultimate plan to take over Cybertron.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=29
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Noboro Huruse]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The fates of Cybertron and Earth lie in the balance as Optimus Prime and his Autobots battle Megatron and his Decepticons in a fight to the finish for the AllSpark.
}}
|}

==Season 3: 2009==
{| class="wikitable" style=margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original Airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[TransWarped]]"
|EpisodeNumber=30
|OriginalAirDate=March 14, 2009
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]], [[Michael Ryan]], [[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=As Sari and Dr. Sumdac deal with the fallout from her shocking discovery, the Autobots try to contact Cybertron to warn them of the traitor in their midst. Meanwhile, Megatron inadvertently stumbles upon a new plan to take over Cybertron, where an increasingly desperate Longarm attempts to cover his tracks.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Three's a Crowd]]"
|EpisodeNumber=33
|OriginalAirDate=March 21, 2009
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Kalvin Lee]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead seeks the help of the Constructicons for a vital construction project, but, thanks to their [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|new leader]], the Constructicons have bigger and deadlier plans.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Where is Thy Sting?]]"
|EpisodeNumber=34
|OriginalAirDate=March 28, 2009
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Kalvin Lee]], [[Shigeharu Takahashi]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A crazed Wasp finds his way to Earth to exact his revenge on Bumblebee... but he doesn't count on the Elite Guard following him.
}}
|}

[[Category: Animated episodes| ]]
[[Category:Episode lists|Animated]]

List of Transformers Animated episodes

2009-03-28T21:19:50Z

86.148.200.136: /* Season 3: 2009 */

{{main|Animated (cartoon)}}
==Season 1: 2007–2008==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 1|Transform and Roll Out! (Part One)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=1
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his small crew of [[Autobot]]s come into possession of the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]], a powerful [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]ian artifact that attracts the attention of their long-forgotten enemies—the [[Decepticon]]s—and sends them crashing to a strange and distant planet known as [[Earth]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 2|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Two)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=2
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 3|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Three)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=3
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Home Is Where the Spark Is]]"
|EpisodeNumber=4
|OriginalAirDate=January 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots settle into their new home base, an abandoned automobile manufacturing plant, but the ancient assembly line machinery seems to have developed a mind of its own.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Total Meltdown]]"
|EpisodeNumber=5
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Naoto Hashimoto]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A bio-engineering genius experiments with some of [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]'s hydraulic fluid and accidentally transforms himself into [[Prometheus Black|Meltdown]], whose corrosive touch can melt anything—including Autobots!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Blast from the Past]]"
|EpisodeNumber=6
|OriginalAirDate=January 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Kevin Hopps]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] upgrades a trio of animatronic dinosaurs from a local theme park, but the creatures develop minds of their own and become rampaging [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobot]]s, bent on destroying the Autobots.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Thrill of the Hunt]]"
|EpisodeNumber=7
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=While the Autobots encounter a [[Lockdown|mysterious muscle car]] creating havoc in [[Detroit]], [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] keeps flashing back to his "tour of duty" in the [[Great War|Great Autobot-Decepticon War]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec]]"
|EpisodeNumber=8
|OriginalAirDate=January 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee's self-proclaimed title as "fastest thing on wheels" is threatened by [[Nanosec]], a super speedster crook on a deadly mission that could destroy all of Detroit.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Along Came a Spider]]"
|EpisodeNumber=9
|OriginalAirDate=February 16, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s first Halloween turns even spookier when they encounter a giant spider that turns out to be the deadly Decepticon [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sound and Fury]]"
|EpisodeNumber=10
|OriginalAirDate=February 23, 2008
|Aux1=[[Henry Gilroy]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Sari]]'s new [[Soundwave (Animated)|toy musical robot]] seems to have an evil streak—and the ability to control other machines—but Bulkhead is the only one who sees it.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Lost and Found (Animated episode)|Lost and Found]]"
|EpisodeNumber=11
|OriginalAirDate= March 1, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots clash with Decepticons [[Lugnut]] and [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], who come to Earth searching for their missing leader, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Survival of the Fittest]]"
|EpisodeNumber=12
|OriginalAirDate=March 8, 2008
|Aux1=[[Steven Granat]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Sari is kidnapped and the evidence points to the Dinobots. So [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] and Bulkhead head to a mysterious island to investigate—with a highly suspicious [[Captain Fanzone]] on their tail.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=13
|OriginalAirDate=March 15, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A [[Headmaster (Animated)|disgruntled Sumdac employee]] seeks revenge and profit by taking control of one of the Autobots and sending him on a rampage.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nature Calls]]"
|EpisodeNumber=14
|OriginalAirDate=March 22, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Bouakeo Thongkham]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl, Bumblebee and Sari get more than they bargained for when they head out to the remote woods to investigate a mysterious energy signal.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=15
|OriginalAirDate=March 29, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prime begins to doubt his leadership abilities as the Decepticons mobilize for a big invasion of Earth.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=16
|OriginalAirDate=April 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots are decimated by the Decepticon invasion, but still must rally to prevent the AllSpark from falling into their clutches.
}}
|}

==Season 2: 2008==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Elite Guard]]"
|EpisodeNumber=17
|OriginalAirDate=April 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] arrives on Earth to retrieve the AllSpark and relieve Prime and his crew of their post, but they prove less than adept at blending in with the human world.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Return of the Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=18
|OriginalAirDate=April 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Optimus Prime is forced to team up with his rival [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] after Sentinel has a humiliating and potentially fatal encounter with the Headmaster.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Mission Accomplished]]"
|EpisodeNumber=19
|OriginalAirDate=April 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yoshio Chatani]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Convinced there are no Decepticons left on Earth, the Elite Guard prepares to take Optimus Prime and his crew back to Cybertron, unaware of the increasing Decepticon activity taking place under their very noses.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]"
|EpisodeNumber=20
|OriginalAirDate=May 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|sentient robot]] who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Velocity]]"
|EpisodeNumber=21
|OriginalAirDate=May 10, 2008
|Aux1=[[Len Uhley]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Kenji Itoso]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Investigating [[Blurr (Animated)|a mysterious race car]], Bumblebee gets involved with an illegal underground street racing circuit, which also captures the attention of the Decepticons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Rise of the Constructicons]]"
|EpisodeNumber=22
|OriginalAirDate=May 17, 2008
|Aux1=[[Stan Berkowitz]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead befriends a pair of [[Constructicon (Animated)|construction vehicles]] brought to life by AllSpark energy. But the Decepticons have their scanners set on the duo for their latest construction project.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Fistful of Energon]]"
|EpisodeNumber=23
|OriginalAirDate=May 24, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Matt Youngberg]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl goes off on his own to capture the fugitive [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], but finds some competition in the form of a Decepticon bounty hunter.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[S.U.V.: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]"
|EpisodeNumber=24
|OriginalAirDate=May 31, 2008
|Aux1=[[Dean Stefan]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Aided by a [[Swindle (Animated)|mysterious benefactor]], Detroit's B-level villains team up to take down the Autobots once and for all.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Autoboot Camp]]"
|EpisodeNumber=25
|OriginalAirDate=June 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=On the trail of an escaped Autobot [[Wasp|traitor]], Bumblebee flashes back to a previous encounter with the traitor when he first met Bulkhead in Autobot Boot Camp.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]"
|EpisodeNumber=26
|OriginalAirDate=June 4th, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Blackarachnia enlists Prometheus Black, also known as Meltdown, to aid her with a dangerous experiment, while Prime and [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] are forced to team up to stop them.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sari, No One's Home]]"
|EpisodeNumber=27
|OriginalAirDate=June 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Left alone in the Autobots' home base, Sari must defend it against an intrusion by the Constructicons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=28
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Decepticons kidnap Bulkhead to aid in [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron's]] ultimate plan to take over Cybertron.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=29
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Noboro Huruse]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The fates of Cybertron and Earth lie in the balance as Optimus Prime and his Autobots battle Megatron and his Decepticons in a fight to the finish for the AllSpark.
}}
|}

==Season 3: 2009==
{| class="wikitable" style=margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original Airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[TransWarped]]"
|EpisodeNumber=30
|OriginalAirDate=March 14, 2009
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]], [[Michael Ryan]], [[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=As Sari and Dr. Sumdac deal with the fallout from her shocking discovery, the Autobots try to contact Cybertron to warn them of the traitor in their midst. Meanwhile, Megatron inadvertently stumbles upon a new plan to take over Cybertron, where an increasingly desperate Longarm attempts to cover his tracks.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Three's a Crowd]]"
|EpisodeNumber=33
|OriginalAirDate=March 21, 2009
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Kalvin Lee]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead seeks the help of the Constructicons for a vital construction project, but, thanks to their [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|new leader]], the Constructicons have bigger and deadlier plans.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Where is Thy Sting?]]"
|EpisodeNumber=34
|OriginalAirDate=March 28, 2009
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Kalvin Lee]], [[Shigeharu Takahashi]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A crazed Wasp finds his way to Earth to exact his revenge on Bumblebee... but he doesn't count on the Elite Guard following him.

|}

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[[Category:Episode lists|Animated]]

List of Transformers Animated episodes

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==Season 1: 2007–2008==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 1|Transform and Roll Out! (Part One)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=1
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his small crew of [[Autobot]]s come into possession of the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]], a powerful [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]ian artifact that attracts the attention of their long-forgotten enemies—the [[Decepticon]]s—and sends them crashing to a strange and distant planet known as [[Earth]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 2|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Two)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=2
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 3|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Three)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=3
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Home Is Where the Spark Is]]"
|EpisodeNumber=4
|OriginalAirDate=January 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots settle into their new home base, an abandoned automobile manufacturing plant, but the ancient assembly line machinery seems to have developed a mind of its own.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Total Meltdown]]"
|EpisodeNumber=5
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Naoto Hashimoto]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A bio-engineering genius experiments with some of [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]'s hydraulic fluid and accidentally transforms himself into [[Prometheus Black|Meltdown]], whose corrosive touch can melt anything—including Autobots!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Blast from the Past]]"
|EpisodeNumber=6
|OriginalAirDate=January 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Kevin Hopps]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] upgrades a trio of animatronic dinosaurs from a local theme park, but the creatures develop minds of their own and become rampaging [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobot]]s, bent on destroying the Autobots.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Thrill of the Hunt]]"
|EpisodeNumber=7
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=While the Autobots encounter a [[Lockdown|mysterious muscle car]] creating havoc in [[Detroit]], [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] keeps flashing back to his "tour of duty" in the [[Great War|Great Autobot-Decepticon War]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec]]"
|EpisodeNumber=8
|OriginalAirDate=January 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee's self-proclaimed title as "fastest thing on wheels" is threatened by [[Nanosec]], a super speedster crook on a deadly mission that could destroy all of Detroit.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Along Came a Spider]]"
|EpisodeNumber=9
|OriginalAirDate=February 16, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s first Halloween turns even spookier when they encounter a giant spider that turns out to be the deadly Decepticon [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sound and Fury]]"
|EpisodeNumber=10
|OriginalAirDate=February 23, 2008
|Aux1=[[Henry Gilroy]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Sari]]'s new [[Soundwave (Animated)|toy musical robot]] seems to have an evil streak—and the ability to control other machines—but Bulkhead is the only one who sees it.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Lost and Found (Animated episode)|Lost and Found]]"
|EpisodeNumber=11
|OriginalAirDate= March 1, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots clash with Decepticons [[Lugnut]] and [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], who come to Earth searching for their missing leader, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Survival of the Fittest]]"
|EpisodeNumber=12
|OriginalAirDate=March 8, 2008
|Aux1=[[Steven Granat]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Sari is kidnapped and the evidence points to the Dinobots. So [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] and Bulkhead head to a mysterious island to investigate—with a highly suspicious [[Captain Fanzone]] on their tail.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=13
|OriginalAirDate=March 15, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A [[Headmaster (Animated)|disgruntled Sumdac employee]] seeks revenge and profit by taking control of one of the Autobots and sending him on a rampage.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nature Calls]]"
|EpisodeNumber=14
|OriginalAirDate=March 22, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Bouakeo Thongkham]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl, Bumblebee and Sari get more than they bargained for when they head out to the remote woods to investigate a mysterious energy signal.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=15
|OriginalAirDate=March 29, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prime begins to doubt his leadership abilities as the Decepticons mobilize for a big invasion of Earth.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=16
|OriginalAirDate=April 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots are decimated by the Decepticon invasion, but still must rally to prevent the AllSpark from falling into their clutches.
}}
|}

==Season 2: 2008==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Elite Guard]]"
|EpisodeNumber=17
|OriginalAirDate=April 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] arrives on Earth to retrieve the AllSpark and relieve Prime and his crew of their post, but they prove less than adept at blending in with the human world.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Return of the Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=18
|OriginalAirDate=April 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Optimus Prime is forced to team up with his rival [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] after Sentinel has a humiliating and potentially fatal encounter with the Headmaster.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Mission Accomplished]]"
|EpisodeNumber=19
|OriginalAirDate=April 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yoshio Chatani]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Convinced there are no Decepticons left on Earth, the Elite Guard prepares to take Optimus Prime and his crew back to Cybertron, unaware of the increasing Decepticon activity taking place under their very noses.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]"
|EpisodeNumber=20
|OriginalAirDate=May 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|sentient robot]] who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Velocity]]"
|EpisodeNumber=21
|OriginalAirDate=May 10, 2008
|Aux1=[[Len Uhley]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Kenji Itoso]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Investigating [[Blurr (Animated)|a mysterious race car]], Bumblebee gets involved with an illegal underground street racing circuit, which also captures the attention of the Decepticons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Rise of the Constructicons]]"
|EpisodeNumber=22
|OriginalAirDate=May 17, 2008
|Aux1=[[Stan Berkowitz]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead befriends a pair of [[Constructicon (Animated)|construction vehicles]] brought to life by AllSpark energy. But the Decepticons have their scanners set on the duo for their latest construction project.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Fistful of Energon]]"
|EpisodeNumber=23
|OriginalAirDate=May 24, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Matt Youngberg]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl goes off on his own to capture the fugitive [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], but finds some competition in the form of a Decepticon bounty hunter.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[S.U.V.: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]"
|EpisodeNumber=24
|OriginalAirDate=May 31, 2008
|Aux1=[[Dean Stefan]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Aided by a [[Swindle (Animated)|mysterious benefactor]], Detroit's B-level villains team up to take down the Autobots once and for all.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Autoboot Camp]]"
|EpisodeNumber=25
|OriginalAirDate=June 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=On the trail of an escaped Autobot [[Wasp|traitor]], Bumblebee flashes back to a previous encounter with the traitor when he first met Bulkhead in Autobot Boot Camp.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]"
|EpisodeNumber=26
|OriginalAirDate=June 4th, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Blackarachnia enlists Prometheus Black, also known as Meltdown, to aid her with a dangerous experiment, while Prime and [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] are forced to team up to stop them.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sari, No One's Home]]"
|EpisodeNumber=27
|OriginalAirDate=June 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Left alone in the Autobots' home base, Sari must defend it against an intrusion by the Constructicons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=28
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Decepticons kidnap Bulkhead to aid in [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron's]] ultimate plan to take over Cybertron.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=29
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Noboro Huruse]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The fates of Cybertron and Earth lie in the balance as Optimus Prime and his Autobots battle Megatron and his Decepticons in a fight to the finish for the AllSpark.
}}
|}

==Season 3: 2009==
{| class="wikitable" style=margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original Airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[TransWarped]]"
|EpisodeNumber=30
|OriginalAirDate=March 14, 2009
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]], [[Michael Ryan]], [[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=As Sari and Dr. Sumdac deal with the fallout from her shocking discovery, the Autobots try to contact Cybertron to warn them of the traitor in their midst. Meanwhile, Megatron inadvertently stumbles upon a new plan to take over Cybertron, where an increasingly desperate Longarm attempts to cover his tracks.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Three's a Crowd]]"
|EpisodeNumber=33
|OriginalAirDate=March 21, 2009
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Kalvin Lee]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead seeks the help of the Constructicons for a vital construction project, but, thanks to their [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|new leader]], the Constructicons have bigger and deadlier plans.
}}
|}

[[Category: Animated episodes| ]]
[[Category:Episode lists|Animated]]

List of Transformers Animated episodes

2009-03-25T18:46:44Z

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{{main|Animated (cartoon)}}
==Season 1: 2007–2008==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 1|Transform and Roll Out! (Part One)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=1
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his small crew of [[Autobot]]s come into possession of the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]], a powerful [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]ian artifact that attracts the attention of their long-forgotten enemies—the [[Decepticon]]s—and sends them crashing to a strange and distant planet known as [[Earth]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 2|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Two)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=2
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 3|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Three)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=3
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Home Is Where the Spark Is]]"
|EpisodeNumber=4
|OriginalAirDate=January 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots settle into their new home base, an abandoned automobile manufacturing plant, but the ancient assembly line machinery seems to have developed a mind of its own.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Total Meltdown]]"
|EpisodeNumber=5
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Naoto Hashimoto]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A bio-engineering genius experiments with some of [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]'s hydraulic fluid and accidentally transforms himself into [[Prometheus Black|Meltdown]], whose corrosive touch can melt anything—including Autobots!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Blast from the Past]]"
|EpisodeNumber=6
|OriginalAirDate=January 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Kevin Hopps]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] upgrades a trio of animatronic dinosaurs from a local theme park, but the creatures develop minds of their own and become rampaging [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobot]]s, bent on destroying the Autobots.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Thrill of the Hunt]]"
|EpisodeNumber=7
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=While the Autobots encounter a [[Lockdown|mysterious muscle car]] creating havoc in [[Detroit]], [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] keeps flashing back to his "tour of duty" in the [[Great War|Great Autobot-Decepticon War]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec]]"
|EpisodeNumber=8
|OriginalAirDate=January 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee's self-proclaimed title as "fastest thing on wheels" is threatened by [[Nanosec]], a super speedster crook on a deadly mission that could destroy all of Detroit.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Along Came a Spider]]"
|EpisodeNumber=9
|OriginalAirDate=February 16, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s first Halloween turns even spookier when they encounter a giant spider that turns out to be the deadly Decepticon [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sound and Fury]]"
|EpisodeNumber=10
|OriginalAirDate=February 23, 2008
|Aux1=[[Henry Gilroy]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Sari]]'s new [[Soundwave (Animated)|toy musical robot]] seems to have an evil streak—and the ability to control other machines—but Bulkhead is the only one who sees it.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Lost and Found (Animated episode)|Lost and Found]]"
|EpisodeNumber=11
|OriginalAirDate= March 1, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots clash with Decepticons [[Lugnut]] and [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], who come to Earth searching for their missing leader, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Survival of the Fittest]]"
|EpisodeNumber=12
|OriginalAirDate=March 8, 2008
|Aux1=[[Steven Granat]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Sari is kidnapped and the evidence points to the Dinobots. So [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] and Bulkhead head to a mysterious island to investigate—with a highly suspicious [[Captain Fanzone]] on their tail.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=13
|OriginalAirDate=March 15, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A [[Headmaster (Animated)|disgruntled Sumdac employee]] seeks revenge and profit by taking control of one of the Autobots and sending him on a rampage.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nature Calls]]"
|EpisodeNumber=14
|OriginalAirDate=March 22, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Bouakeo Thongkham]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl, Bumblebee and Sari get more than they bargained for when they head out to the remote woods to investigate a mysterious energy signal.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=15
|OriginalAirDate=March 29, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prime begins to doubt his leadership abilities as the Decepticons mobilize for a big invasion of Earth.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=16
|OriginalAirDate=April 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots are decimated by the Decepticon invasion, but still must rally to prevent the AllSpark from falling into their clutches.
}}
|}

==Season 2: 2008==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Elite Guard]]"
|EpisodeNumber=17
|OriginalAirDate=April 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] arrives on Earth to retrieve the AllSpark and relieve Prime and his crew of their post, but they prove less than adept at blending in with the human world.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Return of the Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=18
|OriginalAirDate=April 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Optimus Prime is forced to team up with his rival [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] after Sentinel has a humiliating and potentially fatal encounter with the Headmaster.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Mission Accomplished]]"
|EpisodeNumber=19
|OriginalAirDate=April 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yoshio Chatani]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Convinced there are no Decepticons left on Earth, the Elite Guard prepares to take Optimus Prime and his crew back to Cybertron, unaware of the increasing Decepticon activity taking place under their very noses.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]"
|EpisodeNumber=20
|OriginalAirDate=May 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|sentient robot]] who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Velocity]]"
|EpisodeNumber=21
|OriginalAirDate=May 10, 2008
|Aux1=[[Len Uhley]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Kenji Itoso]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Investigating [[Blurr (Animated)|a mysterious race car]], Bumblebee gets involved with an illegal underground street racing circuit, which also captures the attention of the Decepticons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Rise of the Constructicons]]"
|EpisodeNumber=22
|OriginalAirDate=May 17, 2008
|Aux1=[[Stan Berkowitz]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead befriends a pair of [[Constructicon (Animated)|construction vehicles]] brought to life by AllSpark energy. But the Decepticons have their scanners set on the duo for their latest construction project.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Fistful of Energon]]"
|EpisodeNumber=23
|OriginalAirDate=May 24, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Matt Youngberg]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl goes off on his own to capture the fugitive [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], but finds some competition in the form of a Decepticon bounty hunter.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[S.U.V.: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]"
|EpisodeNumber=24
|OriginalAirDate=May 31, 2008
|Aux1=[[Dean Stefan]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Aided by a [[Swindle (Animated)|mysterious benefactor]], Detroit's B-level villains team up to take down the Autobots once and for all.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Autoboot Camp]]"
|EpisodeNumber=25
|OriginalAirDate=June 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=On the trail of an escaped Autobot [[Wasp|traitor]], Bumblebee flashes back to a previous encounter with the traitor when he first met Bulkhead in Autobot Boot Camp.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]"
|EpisodeNumber=26
|OriginalAirDate=June 4th, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Blackarachnia enlists Prometheus Black, also known as Meltdown, to aid her with a dangerous experiment, while Prime and [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] are forced to team up to stop them.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sari, No One's Home]]"
|EpisodeNumber=27
|OriginalAirDate=June 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Left alone in the Autobots' home base, Sari must defend it against an intrusion by the Constructicons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=28
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Decepticons kidnap Bulkhead to aid in [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron's]] ultimate plan to take over Cybertron.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=29
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Noboro Huruse]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The fates of Cybertron and Earth lie in the balance as Optimus Prime and his Autobots battle Megatron and his Decepticons in a fight to the finish for the AllSpark.
}}
|}

==Season 3: 2009==
{| class="wikitable" style=margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original Airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[TransWarped]]"
|EpisodeNumber=30
|OriginalAirDate=March 14, 2009
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]], [[Michael Ryan]], [[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=As Sari and Dr. Sumdac deal with the fallout from her shocking discovery, the Autobots try to contact Cybertron to warn them of the traitor in their midst. Meanwhile, Megatron inadvertently stumbles upon a new plan to take over Cybertron, where an increasingly desperate Longarm attempts to cover his tracks.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Three's a Crowd]]"
|EpisodeNumber=33
|OriginalAirDate=March 21, 2009
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Kalvin Lee]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead seeks the help of the Constructicons for a vital construction project, but, thanks to their new leader, the Constructicons have bigger and deadlier plans.
}}
|}

[[Category: Animated episodes| ]]
[[Category:Episode lists|Animated]]

List of Transformers Animated episodes

2009-03-25T18:46:03Z

86.148.200.136: /* Season 3: 2009 */

{{main|Animated (cartoon)}}
==Season 1: 2007–2008==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 1|Transform and Roll Out! (Part One)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=1
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his small crew of [[Autobot]]s come into possession of the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]], a powerful [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]ian artifact that attracts the attention of their long-forgotten enemies—the [[Decepticon]]s—and sends them crashing to a strange and distant planet known as [[Earth]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 2|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Two)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=2
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Transform and Roll Out!#Part 3|Transform and Roll Out! (Part Three)]]"
|EpisodeNumber=3
|OriginalAirDate=December 26, 2007
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]], [[Minoru Yamaoka]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Home Is Where the Spark Is]]"
|EpisodeNumber=4
|OriginalAirDate=January 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots settle into their new home base, an abandoned automobile manufacturing plant, but the ancient assembly line machinery seems to have developed a mind of its own.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Total Meltdown]]"
|EpisodeNumber=5
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Naoto Hashimoto]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A bio-engineering genius experiments with some of [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]'s hydraulic fluid and accidentally transforms himself into [[Prometheus Black|Meltdown]], whose corrosive touch can melt anything—including Autobots!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Blast from the Past]]"
|EpisodeNumber=6
|OriginalAirDate=January 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Kevin Hopps]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] upgrades a trio of animatronic dinosaurs from a local theme park, but the creatures develop minds of their own and become rampaging [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobot]]s, bent on destroying the Autobots.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Thrill of the Hunt]]"
|EpisodeNumber=7
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=While the Autobots encounter a [[Lockdown|mysterious muscle car]] creating havoc in [[Detroit]], [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] keeps flashing back to his "tour of duty" in the [[Great War|Great Autobot-Decepticon War]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec]]"
|EpisodeNumber=8
|OriginalAirDate=January 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee's self-proclaimed title as "fastest thing on wheels" is threatened by [[Nanosec]], a super speedster crook on a deadly mission that could destroy all of Detroit.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Along Came a Spider]]"
|EpisodeNumber=9
|OriginalAirDate=February 16, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bumblebee and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s first Halloween turns even spookier when they encounter a giant spider that turns out to be the deadly Decepticon [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sound and Fury]]"
|EpisodeNumber=10
|OriginalAirDate=February 23, 2008
|Aux1=[[Henry Gilroy]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=[[Sari]]'s new [[Soundwave (Animated)|toy musical robot]] seems to have an evil streak—and the ability to control other machines—but Bulkhead is the only one who sees it.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Lost and Found (Animated episode)|Lost and Found]]"
|EpisodeNumber=11
|OriginalAirDate= March 1, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots clash with Decepticons [[Lugnut]] and [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], who come to Earth searching for their missing leader, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Survival of the Fittest]]"
|EpisodeNumber=12
|OriginalAirDate=March 8, 2008
|Aux1=[[Steven Granat]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Sari is kidnapped and the evidence points to the Dinobots. So [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] and Bulkhead head to a mysterious island to investigate—with a highly suspicious [[Captain Fanzone]] on their tail.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Headmaster (episode)|Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=13
|OriginalAirDate=March 15, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A [[Headmaster (Animated)|disgruntled Sumdac employee]] seeks revenge and profit by taking control of one of the Autobots and sending him on a rampage.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Nature Calls]]"
|EpisodeNumber=14
|OriginalAirDate=March 22, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Bouakeo Thongkham]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl, Bumblebee and Sari get more than they bargained for when they head out to the remote woods to investigate a mysterious energy signal.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=15
|OriginalAirDate=March 29, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prime begins to doubt his leadership abilities as the Decepticons mobilize for a big invasion of Earth.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=16
|OriginalAirDate=April 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots are decimated by the Decepticon invasion, but still must rally to prevent the AllSpark from falling into their clutches.
}}
|}

==Season 2: 2008==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto; width: 100%;"
|-
!#!!Title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Elite Guard]]"
|EpisodeNumber=17
|OriginalAirDate=April 12, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] arrives on Earth to retrieve the AllSpark and relieve Prime and his crew of their post, but they prove less than adept at blending in with the human world.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Return of the Headmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=18
|OriginalAirDate=April 19, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Optimus Prime is forced to team up with his rival [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] after Sentinel has a humiliating and potentially fatal encounter with the Headmaster.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Mission Accomplished]]"
|EpisodeNumber=19
|OriginalAirDate=April 26, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yoshio Chatani]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Convinced there are no Decepticons left on Earth, the Elite Guard prepares to take Optimus Prime and his crew back to Cybertron, unaware of the increasing Decepticon activity taking place under their very noses.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Garbage In, Garbage Out]]"
|EpisodeNumber=20
|OriginalAirDate=May 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|sentient robot]] who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Velocity]]"
|EpisodeNumber=21
|OriginalAirDate=May 10, 2008
|Aux1=[[Len Uhley]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Kenji Itoso]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Investigating [[Blurr (Animated)|a mysterious race car]], Bumblebee gets involved with an illegal underground street racing circuit, which also captures the attention of the Decepticons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Rise of the Constructicons]]"
|EpisodeNumber=22
|OriginalAirDate=May 17, 2008
|Aux1=[[Stan Berkowitz]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead befriends a pair of [[Constructicon (Animated)|construction vehicles]] brought to life by AllSpark energy. But the Decepticons have their scanners set on the duo for their latest construction project.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Fistful of Energon]]"
|EpisodeNumber=23
|OriginalAirDate=May 24, 2008
|Aux1=[[Andrew Robinson]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Matt Youngberg]], [[Makoto Fuchigami]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Prowl goes off on his own to capture the fugitive [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], but finds some competition in the form of a Decepticon bounty hunter.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[S.U.V.: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]"
|EpisodeNumber=24
|OriginalAirDate=May 31, 2008
|Aux1=[[Dean Stefan]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Ciro Nieli]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Aided by a [[Swindle (Animated)|mysterious benefactor]], Detroit's B-level villains team up to take down the Autobots once and for all.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Autoboot Camp]]"
|EpisodeNumber=25
|OriginalAirDate=June 3, 2008
|Aux1=[[Michael Ryan]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=On the trail of an escaped Autobot [[Wasp|traitor]], Bumblebee flashes back to a previous encounter with the traitor when he first met Bulkhead in Autobot Boot Camp.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]"
|EpisodeNumber=26
|OriginalAirDate=June 4th, 2008
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Derrick J. Wyatt]], [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Kentaro Mizuno]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Blackarachnia enlists Prometheus Black, also known as Meltdown, to aid her with a dangerous experiment, while Prime and [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] are forced to team up to stop them.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Sari, No One's Home]]"
|EpisodeNumber=27
|OriginalAirDate=June 5, 2008
|Aux1=[[Todd Casey]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Left alone in the Autobots' home base, Sari must defend it against an intrusion by the Constructicons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 1]]"
|EpisodeNumber=28
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Ben Jones]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Shunji Oga]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Decepticons kidnap Bulkhead to aid in [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron's]] ultimate plan to take over Cybertron.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Bridge Too Close - Part 2]]"
|EpisodeNumber=29
|OriginalAirDate=June 28, 2008
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]]
|Aux2=[[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], [[Noboro Huruse]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The fates of Cybertron and Earth lie in the balance as Optimus Prime and his Autobots battle Megatron and his Decepticons in a fight to the finish for the AllSpark.
}}
|}

==Season 3: 2009==
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{{Episode list
|Title="[[TransWarped]]"
|EpisodeNumber=30
|OriginalAirDate=March 14, 2009
|Aux1=[[Marty Isenberg]], [[Michael Ryan]], [[Marsha Griffin]]
|Aux2=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=As Sari and Dr. Sumdac deal with the fallout from her shocking discovery, the Autobots try to contact Cybertron to warn them of the traitor in their midst. Meanwhile, Megatron inadvertently stumbles upon a new plan to take over Cybertron, where an increasingly desperate Longarm attempts to cover his tracks.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Three's a Crowd]]"
|EpisodeNumber=33
|OriginalAirDate=March 21, 2009
|Aux1=[[Rich Fogel]]
|Aux2=[[Kalvin Lee]], [[Three's a Crowd]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Bulkhead seeks the help of the Constructicons for a vital construction project, but, thanks to their new leader, the Constructicons have bigger and deadlier plans.
}}
|}

[[Category: Animated episodes| ]]
[[Category:Episode lists|Animated]]

TransWarped

2009-03-25T18:40:08Z

86.148.200.136: /* Part 2 */

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|series=Anitoon
|image=TFA TransWarped Sari hands.jpg
|caption="WhY mY hAnDs HuRt?"
|prev=A Bridge Too Close, Part II
|next=Three's a Crowd
|ep=30, 31 and 32
|title="TransWarped"
|airdate=[[March 14]], 2009
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]], [[Michael Ryan]], [[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|animation studio=
}}

'''In the aftermath of the battle at the mine, Sari and her father’s relationship takes a strange turn; the Autobots have their work cut out for them trying to contact Cybertron; and Megatron and Starscream find a new opportunity'''

==Synopsis==
===Part 1===
[[Image:TransWarpedRodimusCosmicRust.jpg|thumb|left|180px|No fair, I just got here!]]

Somewhere along the outer rim of the galaxy, a contingent of [[Autobot]]s led by [[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Prime]] defends a [[space bridge]] against the [[Decepticon]]s' "[[Team Chaar]]", led by [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]]. She, [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] and [[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] strafe [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]], [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] and [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]], badly injuring Hot Shot's leg and forcing team medic [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] to perform an amputation. Before she can do so, however, she is swallowed up by [[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]], who explosively vomits her back at her team. Rodimus contacts the [[Elite Guard]] for backup, but the Autobot forces are spread much too thin, defending space bridges from Decepticon attacks all across the galaxy. Oil Slick and Cyclonus proceed to take down Brawn and Ironhide, leaving Rodimus on his own, at which point Blackout arrives and all but finishes the fight with a huge electromagnetic pulse. Rodimus still has some fight left in him, but it drains away when Oil Slick offlines him with a vial of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]]. Strika contacts [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], who informs her that nobody is to TransWarp to the planet until [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] himself arrives. But Megatron was supposed to be there megacycles ago...

[[Image:TransWarpedStarscreamsScream.jpg|thumb|right|180px|How... literal. And disturbingly yonic.]]

Off in the depths of space, the disembodied head of [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] attempts to remove Megatron's stasis cuffs with his teeth as the Decepticon leader berates him all the while. As Starscream begins bellowing back at Megatron, the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] fragment in his forehead begins to glow, and he undergoes a surprising transformation: his mouth converts into a sonic blaster that shoots the cuffs clean off Megatron's wrists. There is no time for the two villains to celebrate, however, as the giant form of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] materializes above them. But after a moment, Megatron realizes that the colossus is offline...

[[Image:TransWarpedProtoform.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Hush little baby, don't say a word. Sumdac's gonna buy you a mockingbird.]]

On [[Earth]], as the Autobots return to [[Detroit]], [[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] explains [[Sari Sumdac|Sari's]] origins to her as best he can, revealing that he discovered her in his laboratory years ago, in the form of a small, liquid metal robot. Sari finds the story hard to believe, and her strained patience reaches its end when the group returns to [[Sumdac Tower]] and confronts [[Porter C. Powell]] and [[Henry Masterson]]. When the two men refuse to vacate the premises, Sari's hands transform into energy projectors that hurl the villains to the building's elevator. This newest revelation pushes Sari over the edge, and she walks out on the man she can no longer even think of as her father, returning to the Autobots' base with her "fellow robots". While [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] examines Sari—deducing that she's basically human, but partially Cybertronian—Prowl departs to carry out some research of his own. With Ratchet lost in his memories of [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] head back to the Decepticons' destroyed mine base to salvage some equipment that will let them contact Cybertron and inform the Autobots there of the traitor in their midst.

On a small planetoid somewhere in space, [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] is still trapped in a cement blob with Starscream's [[Thundercracker (Animated)|egomaniacal]] and [[Skywarp (Animated)|cowardly]] clones. Blurr proposes using sonic pulses to dissolve the glue, and the egomaniac takes the idea for his own and successfully frees them. Blurr immediately speeds off, launching into space and literally running across the galaxy, ricocheting off everything in his path (including the egomaniac) to get back to Cybertron and inform the Elite Guard of Megatron's invasion plan.

Megatron and Starscream force their way into Omega Supreme's body, but this action brings the giant Autobot back online, and his internal systems immediately seize the Decepticons. Megatron exploits Omega's simple processor and convinces him to take him back to Cybertron "to face justice". Omega transforms back into ship mode and TransWarps off toward Cybertron.

Back on Earth, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are searching through the ruins of the mine when Bumblebee discovers a [[Plasmadynamic thruster|plasmadynamic thruster]] space bridge component that abruptly TransWarps him away. While Bulkhead is wondering where his buddy went, he is suddenly attacked by Henry Masterson, who recovered his Headmaster unit and Starscream's headless body from the mine the night before.

At Sumdac Tower, Prowl shadows Sumdac into his laboratory, and quickly accesses his computers and scans the scientist in an attempt to learn more about Sari's origins. Ratchet is having distinctly less luck back at the Autobot base, where Sari refuses to let him perform an exploratory surgery. The whole unpleasant affair reminds Ratchet of his past on Cybertron, when he performed open-processor surgery on Arcee, and discovered she was carrying the codes that were key to the creation of Omega Supreme. Prime snaps Ratchet out of his flashback with the news that he cannot contact Bumblebee and Bulkhead, and Ratchet heads out to the mine to investigate.

With the other Autobots busy, Optimus Prime tries to patch up the Sumdac family feud by surreptitiously opening a comm channel to Professor Sumdac's laboratory and explaining loudly and at length to Sari that he is going to take her to [[Burger Bot]]. Sumdac catches on and heads out to meet them there, but Sari is furious at being set up and refuses to talk to him. Unfortunately, the Headmaster soon arrives, having picked up Prime's phone call through bugs left in Sumdac Tower, and threatens to unleash t0t47 0wN4ge!

===Part 2===
[[Image:TFAni TransWarped Headmaster PWN3D.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Heads out.]]
Optimus Prime engages the Headmaster, binding him with his grapplers and dragging him around the Burger Bot parking lot before taking a moment to usher the Sumdacs to safety behind a dumpster. The fight carries the two combatants to an overhead roadway and back, with the Headmaster eventually downing Prime with a slab of concrete. Sumdac is forced to take action, and hides Sari within the dumpster so that he can draw the Headmaster's attention and keep her safe. Touched by this, Sari unleashes her energy projectors on the Headmaster in defence of her father, though they do little to the villain other than draw his attention. Prime rejoins the battle just in time, ramming the villain in truck mode and goading the Headmaster into trying to transforming Starscream's body as well. Infuriated by Prime's claim that a n00b such as he would find it difficult, the Headmaster tries to meet the challenge... only to find his Headmaster unit squeezed clean off Starscream's body by the transformation process. As Starscream's lifeless carcass spirals off into the river, the Headmaster is apprehended by Prime and handed over to [[Captain Fanzone]].

Back at Sumdac tower, Prowl reveals his findings to Prime, Sari and Sumdac: he believes that the body Sumdac found in his lab was, in fact, a Cybertronian [[protoform]] that scanned Professor Sumdac's data. Sari takes the revelation in stride, although everyone else remains mystified as to how a protoform wound up on Earth in the first place. There is no time to dwell on the subject, however, as Ratchet radios Prime to inform him of Bulkhead's injuries and Bumblebee's disappearance.

Out in space, Omega Supreme re-merges from TransWarp, and his systems all power down, having been sapped of energy by the effort of the teleport. Megatron attempts to escape from the confines of the giant Autobots' body, but without his weapons, he is unable. Starscream's new sonic blaster is similarly uneffective, and Megatron instead schemes to take control of Omega's very body.

[[Image:TFAni TransWarped Blurr Crushed.jpg|180px|left|thumb|"We... are going... to die!"]]
On Cybertron, Shockwave (in the form of Longarm Prime) is informed by [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] that the space bridge network has been shut down to prevent a Decepticon invasion of the planet. Suppressing his frustration, Shockwave is promptly presented with an outlet for his anger when Blurr comes streaking out of the sky and crashes at his feet. Blurr informs him of the double-agent on Cybertron, who he plans to identify by cross-referencing his voice-print with the Cybertron intelligence database, and Shockwave immediately attacks the speedster, intent on silencing him before his cover can be blown. Blurr streaks off into a series of nearby corridors, but his speed fails to carry him beyond Shockwave's reach: using a control console, Shockwave seals off the tunnels, and Blurr is crushed between two walls.

Back on Earth, Ratchet's treatment of Bulkhead is interrupted by Sari, who volunteers use of her Key to fix the larger Autobot's wounds. Ratchet is indignant, insisting that just because something is new, it doesn't make it better, but Bulkhead request the Key. While Sari goes to work on Bulkhead's injuries, the sullen medic is overtaken by his memories, and he recalls the creation of Omega Supreme, and how he was partnered with the new-born titan to serve as his mentor, teacher and friend. Ratchet is roused from his unpleasant trip down memory lane when discussion turns to the whereabouts of Bumblebee, and before long, Bulkhead figures out that the plasmadynamic thruster has TransWarped Bumblebee off across the galaxy. Bulkhead suggests using a homing beacon generator recovered from the mine ruins to pinpoint Bumblebee's location, and Sari uses her Key to fix it before Ratchet can even begin examining it.

Aboard Omega Supreme, Megatron uses his stasis cuffs to "hotwire" Omega's body and bring it back online. However, when the light from Omega's "headlights" falls upon a nearby asteroid, Megatron and Starscream are shocked to see the rock react to the light, transforming into a humanoid monster that immediately attacks the ship! As more asteroids transform around him, Omega TransWarps away to safety... only for Bumblebee, cruising on the tail end of Omega's TransWarp signature, to materialize in his place, right in the midst of the rock creatures! The largest creature swallows the tiny Autobot with a single gulp.

Simultaneously, on Earth, Bulkhead locks in on Bumblebee's position and teleports him back, but the rock creature he is inside comes with him, and is immediately driven to a rampage by the blinding light of the [[Sun]]. Optimus Prime detects Bumblebee's signature within the creature, and the Autobots prepare to give chase as the alien stomps off through the city. Prowl is rather taken aback to see Ratchet wearing his EMP generator on his arm once more, while Prime has to deal with Sari's demands that she be allowed to join them in the fight now that she has powers. Prime refuses, and the Autobots zoom off after the rock monster, but Sari won't take no for an answer, and is struck with inspiration: give herself an upgrade! Sari concentrates and a port opens in her chest, into which she inserts her Key... and in an explosion of energy, Sari's whole body transforms into a taller, older form, suited in combat armor!

[[Image:TFAni TransWarped Screamer Hotwire OmegaSupreme.jpg|right|180px|thumb|"What am I, [[Laserbeak (G1)|a]] [[Buzzsaw (G1)|t]][[Ravage (G1)|a]][[Frenzy (G1)|p]][[Rumble (G1)|e]]?]]
Meanwhlie, Megatron has discovered that Omega Supreme has again expended all his power, and his stasis cuffs do not have the energy left to rectify the situation. He grabs Starscream's head and jams it into the circuits, where the traitor's AllSpark fragment energizes Omega's systems once more.

Back in Detroit, the Autobots are attempting to figure out how to stop the rock creature without hurting Bumblebee when the upgraded Sari comes streaking onto the scene on jet skates. As the Autobots look on in shock, Sari begins attacking the alien with arm-blades and an energy-hammer that morphs out of her arms. A single strike of the hammer reduces the alien to boulders, freeing Bumblebee, who is immediately struck by Sari's new look, but then shouts a warning: the smaller boulders surrounding the pair have transformed into small creatures. But the creatures pose no threat to Sari, and she pounds them into pebbles. As Sari basks in her triumph, Ratchet realizes with horror that she has used the Key on herself - and the elderly Autobot's concern is soon proven to be valid, as the Key overloads Sari's systems, and she loses control of her body. With Sari attacking everything and everyone around her, the Autobots attempt to stop her with a variety of non-lethal strategies, but Sari counters everything they throw at her, including Prowl's processor-over-matter technique. Even as Prime and Sari tell Bumblebee to keep back, the young Autobot races to his friend's side... only for the out-of-control Sari to stab him through the chest! Frozen for a horrific moment, Bumblebee is then hurled back by an energy discharge, and the light dims from his optics...

===Part 3===
Ratchet leaps to Bumblebee's aid, but without Sari's Key, Bulkhead fears his little buddy is done for. Ratchet denies that he requires the key to do his job, but his memories of when he was forced to place the dying Omega Supreme in stasis haunt him as he begins to operate on Bumblebee.

Sari, meanwhile, is storming through the city streets, causing objects to explode when she comes into contact with them, and the Autobots head after her, seeking to remove the Key in hopes of bringing her back under control. They corral her with a wall of steel girders, affording Prowl the chance to get the drop on her and rip the Key from her chest, but Sari continues to rampage. With Bumblebee fading, Ratchet goes back on his previous claim and requests the Key be brought to him, but when Prowl complies, he discovers that the energy of the Key has been completely drained. Prowl assures Ratchet that he can accomplish the task without the Key, and the old medic gravely takes up the challenge, and manages to bring Bumblebee back online.

Back with Sari, Prime and Bumblebee, Sari's energies are growing increasingly more out of control, as the street beneath her explodes with every step she takes. Bulkhead suggests just trying to "hold it in," but when Sari tries, things get even worse, as she begins to glow with so much energy that she is on the verge of exploding. Optimus summons Ratchet so that he can use his EMP generator to take Sari down, and while Ratchet is hesitant to do so, Sari begs him to stop her. Ratchet fires, and Sari collapses, her energy fading.

On Cybertron, Longarm Prime has Cliffjumper dispose of the crushed remains of Blurr, and is then contacted by Megatron. Learning that the space bridge network is down at that the Earth-based Autobots are poised to blow Shockwave's cover, Megatron orders the Decepticons to cease their attacks on the space bridges so that he can solve both problems his own way. Team Chaar recieve the transmission and fall back, much to the Elite Guard's surprise.

In the Autobots base, Ratchet completes a rewiring of Sari's systems, bypassing the circuits that caused her to run out of control. Professor Sumdac soon arrives, having been informed of the location of the base by Optimus Prime, who desires that there no longer be any secrets between the Autobots and their friends. The Autobots step outside the plant to give the Sumdacs some time together, and are in the middle of catching Bumblebee up on recent events when the small Autobot suddenly begins to glow with TransWarp energies once more. Bulkhead quickly deactivates the plasmadynamic thruster, but the source of the TransWarp wave the thruster was picking up soon becomes apparent, as Omega Supreme materializes in the sky overhead. Much to the Autobots' surprise, the titan fires upon them, before transforming to robot mode, revealing a projected image of Megatron's face upon his visor! The Decepticon leader is in complete control of Omega's body and begins attacking the Autobots, forcing Optimus Prime to consider unleashing an uncontrollable Sari on the giant. Before resorting to this desperate last resort, the Autobots attempt to lure Megatron away from the city; Ratchet even upgrades Bumblebee's stingers to a more powerful battle grade for the mission. Taking refuge in the nearby river, the Autobots attack Omega's legs, forcing open an access hatch through which Prime and Prowl enter Omega's body. Fighting off Omega's internal defences, Prowl taps into Omega's processor in order to help him fight off Megatron's control, and they succeed in forcing Megatron out of the system. Prime engages Megatron in battle in order to keep Prowl safe, but as their battle rages, Starscream seizes control of Omega's mind and forcibly disconnects Prowl from Omega's processor. Prime and Prowl are unceremoniously ejected from Omega Supreme's body, but Starscream is not finished there: he uses Omega's internal defences to seize Megatron, and resumes attacking the Autobots all around him. Megatron manages to talk Starscream into an alliance, suggesting they forget Earth and conquer Cybertron together. Starscream struggles to activate Omega's TransWarp system, and while his attention is occupied with this task, Omega's consciousness fights its way to the surface and begs Ratchet to shut him down again. Ratchet regretfully unleashes his EMP generator upon Omega, but it has no effect, and Starscream transforms Omega into starship mode in order to begin the TransWarp. Bulkhead and Bumblebee hit upon the idea to plant the plasmadynamic thruster on Omega Supreme, and they hand it off to Prime to complete the task. Prime plants the thruster at the last second before Omega disappears into TransWarp, and Ratchet catches Prime with his magnets as he falls out of the sky.

Back at the Autobot base a little later, Sari comes to, and admits to Ratchet that he was right about taking it slow. Sumdac apologizes for holding back the truth from Sari for so long, and Bumblebee thanks Ratchet for saving his tailpipe. Unfortunately, Bulkhead brings the mood down by reminding everyone that they still have to find a way to contact Cybertron.

On Cybertron, [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] holds an Autobot council sand announces that all the evidence points to a double agent on Cybertron. Longarm Prime implicates escaped convict [[Wasp]], and Ultra Magnus instructs [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] to put together a unit to hunt the fugitive down. Magnus also notes that he have to make contact with Optimus's crew on Earth, and Longarm hastily demands that all contact with them be filtered through him, adding that it will be purely for security reasons after the rest of the council give him wary looks.

In the sky above Cybertron, Omega Supreme materializes, and Starscream howls with glee... only for the Autobot spaceship to immediately TransWarp away to another random point in space... and another... and another...

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]] (2)
*[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] (3)
*[[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]] (4)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (7)
*[[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus]] (9)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (10)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (11)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (12)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (17)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (18)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (19)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (20)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (21)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (22)
*[[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]] (27)
*[[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]] (28)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (29)
*[[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] (31)
*[[Wheeljack (Animated)|Wheeljack]] (33)
*[[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] (34)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (36)
*[[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]] (37)

|c2=
*[[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] (1)
*[[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] (5)
*[[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] (6)
*[[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]] (8)
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime/Shockwave]] (13)
*[[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] (14)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (15)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Starscream clone|Starscream clones]]
**[[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp, the Coward Starscream II]] (30)
**[[Thundercracker (Animated)|Thundercracker, the Egomaniac Starscream]] (32)

|c3=
*[[Isaac Sumdac]] (24)
*[[Headmaster (Animated)|The Headmaster]] (25)
*[[Porter C. Powell]] (26)
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (35)

|c4=
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (23)
*[[Rock creature|Rock creatures]] (38)
}}

==Quotes==
"Bulkhead and genius in the same sentence? I'll never get used to that."
:—'''Bumblebee''' shows his high opinion of his best friend.

"I'll warn them even if I have to run halfway across the galaxy to Cybertron to do it!" 
:—'''Blurr''', who apparently does just that.

"Sari, I don't pretend to fully understand humans, but from what I've seen, being a father is far more than a simple organic bond. It has much more to do with the spark. With the heart."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' muses on the nature of family. Sadly, the [[fandom]] desires more [[Relatives|concrete answers]].

"Prepare for T.O.T! Total Ownage Time!"
:—'''Headmaster''' to Optimus Prime and the Sumdacs.

'''Masterson''': Cut it out and fight like a robot! 
''[Optimus fully transforms]'' 
'''Optimus''': Why don't you try fighting like a jet? That is, unless you don't think you can handle transforming. It is pretty difficult. Especially for a "n00b" such as yourself. 
'''Masterson''': N-Nobody calls me a n00b! NOBODY!
:—Optimus hits the Headmaster where it hurts the most—his own vocabulary.

'''Megatron''': It's no use. I can't break through without my weapons. 
'''Starscream''': A-hem. You're forgetting one of us ''is'' a weapon. 
''[Starscream fires his sonic blast, but the recoil sends him ricocheting around the bridge, screaming all the while]'' 
'''Megatron''': And a pitiful one at that. 
:—Even weaponless and traped inside an Autobot, Megatron can still take comfort in the fact that he's still better off than Starscream.

'''Ratchet''': Last time I checked, I was this team's medic, and I've been doing it this way for over four million stellar cycles! Any bot got a problem with that? 
'''Prowl''': Uh, no, not really. 
'''Bulkhead''': No, I'm good.
:—Ratchet lays down the law on the Autobots.

==Notes==

===Technical or animation errors===
* The damage to Starscream's body disappears during the commercial break.
* When Ratchet is talking to Bumblebee about Sari's condition, the side of his head is miscolored white.
* When Sari removes her key in order to place it in the homing beacon generator, the string doesn't actually go over her head... It just phases through her neck. Somehow.
* Once the key has been removed from Sari, the string attached to it mysteriously reappears.

===Continuity errors===
* When Bumblebee gets blown away in Part 2 after being stabbed by Sari, he lands on his back. When it starts again in Part 3, he appears on his side.
* Bumblebee’s rocket boosters seemingly appear out of nowhere. With Ratchet's upgrading of his stingers and now this, it seems that <s>Hasbro</s> the Autobots have gotten over their from "Upgrades are bad, m'kay" phase. Spending two seasons out-gunned will probably do that to you.
* Sentinel is back in his Earth body, despite being back on Cybertron.

===Transformers references===
*Bar Oil Slick, every member of the new squads harkens back to a previous series. Rodimus, Ironhide, Brawn and Cyclonus are heavily based off their Generation One counterparts. Red Alert and Hot Shot take after their Unicron Trilogy incarnations. Spittor and Strika are both modeled after Beast Era characters and Blackout's design is heavily influenced by the live action movie version.
*As Sari dismisses Isaac Sumdac's story of her origin, she suggests that he should have told her how he found her "in a cabbage patch", or the "stork brought me". These same ideas were suggested by Professors Bumblebee and Bulkhead in "[[Return of the Headmaster]]". In that episode, the professors also suggested that Sari was really a robot, that she came to Earth in an egg, and that she could have fallen through a portal, ''all'' of which seems to have some nugget of truth to them: she ''is'' a robot, she was contained in a strange pod, and she appeared in Sumdac's lab out of thin air. ''Foreshadowing!''
*After Sari mentions those theories, Optimus Prime recalls how Sari told him of human manufacturing, which occurred in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]".
*While lecturing her on taking it slow with her powers, Ratchet says that there's "more than meets the vis-scanners" on having powers, a clear reference to the time honored Transformers tagline "[[More Than Meets the Eye]]."
*Starscream says Omega Supreme is "more powerful than I imagined... okay, not AllSpark-powerful...", in reference to his use of the same phrase to describe the AllSpark way back in "Transform and Roll Out!"
*Arcee's open head looks ''waaay'' too much like [[Alex Milne]]'s cover for [[IDW Publishing]]'s "[[Spotlight: Arcee]]" to be a coincidence.
*Blurr races along a Saturn-style planetary ring, as [[Blurr (G1)|his namesake]] had done in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 3|Generation 1 season 3]] opening credits.
*The building in which the Autobot Elite Guard have their meeting looks [[Metroplex (G1)|somewhat familiar]].
*Blackout seems to have retained his seismic stomp that was used by his [[Blackout (Movie)|movie counterpart]].

===Real-world references===

===Trivia===
*[[Derrick J. Wyatt]] confirmed via. Twitter after the show aired that like the series pilot, "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", "TransWarped" was made "as one 70 minute movie", although it was also cut into 22-minute episodes for syndication.<ref>[[Derrick J. Wyatt]] - http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450 - "We made it as one 70 minute movie, but it has also been cut into three 22s".</ref> ''Unlike'' the pilot, however, "TransWarped" counts as three episodes out of the thirteen alotted for the show's third season. While Cartoon Network aired all three episode in movie form for their premiere, Canadian network YTV opted to debut them in episodic form, airing only the first two in a double-bill, and then screening the final part the following week.
*Ultra Magnus builds a living WMD and makes him purposefully stupid so he won't question his lot in life. Optimus considers sending an overloading Sari against said death machine even at the risk that the kid might blow up and take the whole city with her. ''Damn''.
*Sari's transformation sequence upon absorbing the power of the key is a nod to the transformation sequence of the title robot in ''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann''.
* The Creatures that turn into rocks are a reference to the Rock Lords from the GoBots movie ''[[Wikipedia:Gobots:_Battle_of_the_Rock_Lords|GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords]]''
*It is revealed that the streak of white in Isaac's hair came from the shock he received when he approached the protoform that would become Sari. Do not pay attention to the streak in the hair of his younger self appearing in the "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", please...

==References==
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[[Category:Animated episodes]]

TransWarped

2009-03-25T18:39:34Z

86.148.200.136: /* Part 2 */

{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|image=TFA TransWarped Sari hands.jpg
|caption="WhY mY hAnDs HuRt?"
|prev=A Bridge Too Close, Part II
|next=Three's a Crowd
|ep=30, 31 and 32
|title="TransWarped"
|airdate=[[March 14]], 2009
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]], [[Michael Ryan]], [[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Matt Youngberg]], [[Yoshio Frank Chatani]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]], [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|animation studio=
}}

'''In the aftermath of the battle at the mine, Sari and her father’s relationship takes a strange turn; the Autobots have their work cut out for them trying to contact Cybertron; and Megatron and Starscream find a new opportunity'''

==Synopsis==
===Part 1===
[[Image:TransWarpedRodimusCosmicRust.jpg|thumb|left|180px|No fair, I just got here!]]

Somewhere along the outer rim of the galaxy, a contingent of [[Autobot]]s led by [[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus Prime]] defends a [[space bridge]] against the [[Decepticon]]s' "[[Team Chaar]]", led by [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]]. She, [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] and [[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] strafe [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]], [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] and [[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]], badly injuring Hot Shot's leg and forcing team medic [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] to perform an amputation. Before she can do so, however, she is swallowed up by [[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]], who explosively vomits her back at her team. Rodimus contacts the [[Elite Guard]] for backup, but the Autobot forces are spread much too thin, defending space bridges from Decepticon attacks all across the galaxy. Oil Slick and Cyclonus proceed to take down Brawn and Ironhide, leaving Rodimus on his own, at which point Blackout arrives and all but finishes the fight with a huge electromagnetic pulse. Rodimus still has some fight left in him, but it drains away when Oil Slick offlines him with a vial of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]]. Strika contacts [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], who informs her that nobody is to TransWarp to the planet until [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] himself arrives. But Megatron was supposed to be there megacycles ago...

[[Image:TransWarpedStarscreamsScream.jpg|thumb|right|180px|How... literal. And disturbingly yonic.]]

Off in the depths of space, the disembodied head of [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] attempts to remove Megatron's stasis cuffs with his teeth as the Decepticon leader berates him all the while. As Starscream begins bellowing back at Megatron, the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] fragment in his forehead begins to glow, and he undergoes a surprising transformation: his mouth converts into a sonic blaster that shoots the cuffs clean off Megatron's wrists. There is no time for the two villains to celebrate, however, as the giant form of [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] materializes above them. But after a moment, Megatron realizes that the colossus is offline...

[[Image:TransWarpedProtoform.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Hush little baby, don't say a word. Sumdac's gonna buy you a mockingbird.]]

On [[Earth]], as the Autobots return to [[Detroit]], [[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] explains [[Sari Sumdac|Sari's]] origins to her as best he can, revealing that he discovered her in his laboratory years ago, in the form of a small, liquid metal robot. Sari finds the story hard to believe, and her strained patience reaches its end when the group returns to [[Sumdac Tower]] and confronts [[Porter C. Powell]] and [[Henry Masterson]]. When the two men refuse to vacate the premises, Sari's hands transform into energy projectors that hurl the villains to the building's elevator. This newest revelation pushes Sari over the edge, and she walks out on the man she can no longer even think of as her father, returning to the Autobots' base with her "fellow robots". While [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] examines Sari—deducing that she's basically human, but partially Cybertronian—Prowl departs to carry out some research of his own. With Ratchet lost in his memories of [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] head back to the Decepticons' destroyed mine base to salvage some equipment that will let them contact Cybertron and inform the Autobots there of the traitor in their midst.

On a small planetoid somewhere in space, [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] is still trapped in a cement blob with Starscream's [[Thundercracker (Animated)|egomaniacal]] and [[Skywarp (Animated)|cowardly]] clones. Blurr proposes using sonic pulses to dissolve the glue, and the egomaniac takes the idea for his own and successfully frees them. Blurr immediately speeds off, launching into space and literally running across the galaxy, ricocheting off everything in his path (including the egomaniac) to get back to Cybertron and inform the Elite Guard of Megatron's invasion plan.

Megatron and Starscream force their way into Omega Supreme's body, but this action brings the giant Autobot back online, and his internal systems immediately seize the Decepticons. Megatron exploits Omega's simple processor and convinces him to take him back to Cybertron "to face justice". Omega transforms back into ship mode and TransWarps off toward Cybertron.

Back on Earth, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are searching through the ruins of the mine when Bumblebee discovers a [[Plasmadynamic thruster|plasmadynamic thruster]] space bridge component that abruptly TransWarps him away. While Bulkhead is wondering where his buddy went, he is suddenly attacked by Henry Masterson, who recovered his Headmaster unit and Starscream's headless body from the mine the night before.

At Sumdac Tower, Prowl shadows Sumdac into his laboratory, and quickly accesses his computers and scans the scientist in an attempt to learn more about Sari's origins. Ratchet is having distinctly less luck back at the Autobot base, where Sari refuses to let him perform an exploratory surgery. The whole unpleasant affair reminds Ratchet of his past on Cybertron, when he performed open-processor surgery on Arcee, and discovered she was carrying the codes that were key to the creation of Omega Supreme. Prime snaps Ratchet out of his flashback with the news that he cannot contact Bumblebee and Bulkhead, and Ratchet heads out to the mine to investigate.

With the other Autobots busy, Optimus Prime tries to patch up the Sumdac family feud by surreptitiously opening a comm channel to Professor Sumdac's laboratory and explaining loudly and at length to Sari that he is going to take her to [[Burger Bot]]. Sumdac catches on and heads out to meet them there, but Sari is furious at being set up and refuses to talk to him. Unfortunately, the Headmaster soon arrives, having picked up Prime's phone call through bugs left in Sumdac Tower, and threatens to unleash t0t47 0wN4ge!

===Part 2===
[[Image:TFAni TransWarped Headmaster PWN3D.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Heads out.]]
Optimus Prime engages the Headmaster, binding him with his grapplers and dragging him around the Burger Bot parking lot before taking a moment to usher the Sumdacs to safety behind a dumpster. The fight carries the two combatants to an overhead roadway and back, with the Headmaster eventually downing Prime with a slab of concrete. Sumdac is forced to take action, and hides Sari within the dumpster so that he can draw the Headmaster's attention and keep her safe. Touched by this, Sari unleashes her energy projectors on the Headmaster in defence of her father, though they do little to the villain other than draw his attention. Prime rejoins the battle just in time, ramming the villain in truck mode and goading the Headmaster into trying to transforming Starscream's body as well. Infuriated by Prime's claim that a n00b such as he would find it difficult, the Headmaster tries to meet the challenge... only to find his Headmaster unit squeezed clean off Starscream's body by the transformation process. As Starscream's lifeless carcass spirals off into the river, the Headmaster is apprehended by Prime and handed over to [[Captain Fanzone]].

Back at Sumdac tower, Prowl reveals his findings to Prime, Sari and Sumdac: he believes that the body Sumdac found in his lab was, in fact, a Cybertronian [[protoform]] that scanned Professor Sumdac's data. Sari takes the revelation in stride, although everyone else remains mystified as to how a protoform wound up on Earth in the first place. There is no time to dwell on the subject, however, as Ratchet radios Prime to inform him of Bulkhead's injuries and Bumblebee's disappearance.

Out in space, Omega Supreme re-merges from TransWarp, and his systems all power down, having been sapped of energy by the effort of the teleport. Megatron attempts to escape from the confines of the giant Autobots' body, but without his weapons, he is unable. Starscream's new sonic blaster is similarly uneffective, and Megatron instead schemes to take control of Omega's very body.

[[Image:TFAni TransWarped Blurr Crushed.jpg|180px|left|thumb|"We... are going... to die!"]]
On Cybertron, Shockwave (in the form of Longarm Prime) is informed by [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] that the space bridge network has been shut down to prevent a Decepticon invasion of the planet. Suppressing his frustration, Shockwave is promptly presented with an outlet for his anger when Blurr comes streaking out of the sky and crashes at his feet. Blurr informs him of the double-agent on Cybertron, who he plans to identify by cross-referencing his voice-print with the Cybertron intelligence database, and Shockwave immediately attacks the speedster, intent on silencing him before his cover can be blown. Blurr streaks off into a series of nearby corridors, but his speed fails to carry him beyond Shockwave's reach: using a control console, Shockwave seals off the tunnels, and Blurr is crushed between two walls.

Back on Earth, Ratchet's treatment of Bulkhead is interrupted by Sari, who volunteers use of her Key to fix the larger Autobot's wounds. Ratchet is indignant, insisting that just because something is new, it doesn't make it better, but Bulkhead request the Key. While Sari goes to work on Bulkhead's injuries, the sullen medic is overtaken by his memories, and he recalls the creation of Omega Supreme, and how he was partnered with the new-born titan to serve as his mentor, teacher and friend. Ratchet is roused from his unpleasant trip down memory lane when discussion turns to the whereabouts of Bumblebee, and before long, Bulkhead figures out that the plasmadynamic thruster has TransWarped Bumblebee off across the galaxy. Bulkhead suggests using a homing beacon generator recovered from the mine ruins to pinpoint Bumblebee's location, and Sari uses her Key to fix it before Ratchet can even begin examining it.

Aboard Omega Supreme, Megatron uses his stasis cuffs to "hotwire" Omega's body and bring it back online. However, when the light from Omega's "headlights" falls upon a nearby asteroid, Megatron and Starscream are shocked to see the rock react to the light, transforming into a humanoid monster that immediately attacks the ship! As more asteroids transform around him, Omega TransWarps away to safety... only for Bumblebee, cruising on the tail end of Omega's TransWarp signature, to materialize in his place, right in the midst of the rock creatures! The largest creature swallows the tiny Autobot with a single gulp.

Simultaneously, on Earth, Bulkhead locks in on Bumblebee's position and teleports him back, but the rock creature he is inside comes with him, and is immediately driven to a rampage by the blinding light of the [[Sun]]. Optimus Prime detects Bumblebee's signature within the creature, and the Autobots prepare to give chase as the alien stomps off through the city. Prowl is rather taken aback to see Ratchet wearing his EMP generator on his arm once more, while Prime has to deal with Sari's demands that she be allowed to join them in the fight now that she has powers. Prime refuses, and the Autobots zoom off after the rock monster, but Sari won't take no for an answer, and is struck with inspiration: give herself an upgrade! Sari concentrates and a port opens in her chest, into which she inserts her Key... and in an explosion of energy, Sari's whole body transforms into a taller, older form, suited in combat armor!

[[Image:TFAni TransWarped Screamer Hotwire OmegaSupreme.jpg|right|180px|thumb|"What am I, [[Laserbeak (G1)|a]] [[Buzzsaw (G1)|t]][[Ravage (G1)|a]][[Frenzy (G1)|p]][[Rumble (G1)|e]]?.]]
Meanwhlie, Megatron has discovered that Omega Supreme has again expended all his power, and his stasis cuffs do not have the energy left to rectify the situation. He grabs Starscream's head and jams it into the circuits, where the traitor's AllSpark fragment energizes Omega's systems once more.

Back in Detroit, the Autobots are attempting to figure out how to stop the rock creature without hurting Bumblebee when the upgraded Sari comes streaking onto the scene on jet skates. As the Autobots look on in shock, Sari begins attacking the alien with arm-blades and an energy-hammer that morphs out of her arms. A single strike of the hammer reduces the alien to boulders, freeing Bumblebee, who is immediately struck by Sari's new look, but then shouts a warning: the smaller boulders surrounding the pair have transformed into small creatures. But the creatures pose no threat to Sari, and she pounds them into pebbles. As Sari basks in her triumph, Ratchet realizes with horror that she has used the Key on herself - and the elderly Autobot's concern is soon proven to be valid, as the Key overloads Sari's systems, and she loses control of her body. With Sari attacking everything and everyone around her, the Autobots attempt to stop her with a variety of non-lethal strategies, but Sari counters everything they throw at her, including Prowl's processor-over-matter technique. Even as Prime and Sari tell Bumblebee to keep back, the young Autobot races to his friend's side... only for the out-of-control Sari to stab him through the chest! Frozen for a horrific moment, Bumblebee is then hurled back by an energy discharge, and the light dims from his optics...

===Part 3===
Ratchet leaps to Bumblebee's aid, but without Sari's Key, Bulkhead fears his little buddy is done for. Ratchet denies that he requires the key to do his job, but his memories of when he was forced to place the dying Omega Supreme in stasis haunt him as he begins to operate on Bumblebee.

Sari, meanwhile, is storming through the city streets, causing objects to explode when she comes into contact with them, and the Autobots head after her, seeking to remove the Key in hopes of bringing her back under control. They corral her with a wall of steel girders, affording Prowl the chance to get the drop on her and rip the Key from her chest, but Sari continues to rampage. With Bumblebee fading, Ratchet goes back on his previous claim and requests the Key be brought to him, but when Prowl complies, he discovers that the energy of the Key has been completely drained. Prowl assures Ratchet that he can accomplish the task without the Key, and the old medic gravely takes up the challenge, and manages to bring Bumblebee back online.

Back with Sari, Prime and Bumblebee, Sari's energies are growing increasingly more out of control, as the street beneath her explodes with every step she takes. Bulkhead suggests just trying to "hold it in," but when Sari tries, things get even worse, as she begins to glow with so much energy that she is on the verge of exploding. Optimus summons Ratchet so that he can use his EMP generator to take Sari down, and while Ratchet is hesitant to do so, Sari begs him to stop her. Ratchet fires, and Sari collapses, her energy fading.

On Cybertron, Longarm Prime has Cliffjumper dispose of the crushed remains of Blurr, and is then contacted by Megatron. Learning that the space bridge network is down at that the Earth-based Autobots are poised to blow Shockwave's cover, Megatron orders the Decepticons to cease their attacks on the space bridges so that he can solve both problems his own way. Team Chaar recieve the transmission and fall back, much to the Elite Guard's surprise.

In the Autobots base, Ratchet completes a rewiring of Sari's systems, bypassing the circuits that caused her to run out of control. Professor Sumdac soon arrives, having been informed of the location of the base by Optimus Prime, who desires that there no longer be any secrets between the Autobots and their friends. The Autobots step outside the plant to give the Sumdacs some time together, and are in the middle of catching Bumblebee up on recent events when the small Autobot suddenly begins to glow with TransWarp energies once more. Bulkhead quickly deactivates the plasmadynamic thruster, but the source of the TransWarp wave the thruster was picking up soon becomes apparent, as Omega Supreme materializes in the sky overhead. Much to the Autobots' surprise, the titan fires upon them, before transforming to robot mode, revealing a projected image of Megatron's face upon his visor! The Decepticon leader is in complete control of Omega's body and begins attacking the Autobots, forcing Optimus Prime to consider unleashing an uncontrollable Sari on the giant. Before resorting to this desperate last resort, the Autobots attempt to lure Megatron away from the city; Ratchet even upgrades Bumblebee's stingers to a more powerful battle grade for the mission. Taking refuge in the nearby river, the Autobots attack Omega's legs, forcing open an access hatch through which Prime and Prowl enter Omega's body. Fighting off Omega's internal defences, Prowl taps into Omega's processor in order to help him fight off Megatron's control, and they succeed in forcing Megatron out of the system. Prime engages Megatron in battle in order to keep Prowl safe, but as their battle rages, Starscream seizes control of Omega's mind and forcibly disconnects Prowl from Omega's processor. Prime and Prowl are unceremoniously ejected from Omega Supreme's body, but Starscream is not finished there: he uses Omega's internal defences to seize Megatron, and resumes attacking the Autobots all around him. Megatron manages to talk Starscream into an alliance, suggesting they forget Earth and conquer Cybertron together. Starscream struggles to activate Omega's TransWarp system, and while his attention is occupied with this task, Omega's consciousness fights its way to the surface and begs Ratchet to shut him down again. Ratchet regretfully unleashes his EMP generator upon Omega, but it has no effect, and Starscream transforms Omega into starship mode in order to begin the TransWarp. Bulkhead and Bumblebee hit upon the idea to plant the plasmadynamic thruster on Omega Supreme, and they hand it off to Prime to complete the task. Prime plants the thruster at the last second before Omega disappears into TransWarp, and Ratchet catches Prime with his magnets as he falls out of the sky.

Back at the Autobot base a little later, Sari comes to, and admits to Ratchet that he was right about taking it slow. Sumdac apologizes for holding back the truth from Sari for so long, and Bumblebee thanks Ratchet for saving his tailpipe. Unfortunately, Bulkhead brings the mood down by reminding everyone that they still have to find a way to contact Cybertron.

On Cybertron, [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] holds an Autobot council sand announces that all the evidence points to a double agent on Cybertron. Longarm Prime implicates escaped convict [[Wasp]], and Ultra Magnus instructs [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] to put together a unit to hunt the fugitive down. Magnus also notes that he have to make contact with Optimus's crew on Earth, and Longarm hastily demands that all contact with them be filtered through him, adding that it will be purely for security reasons after the rest of the council give him wary looks.

In the sky above Cybertron, Omega Supreme materializes, and Starscream howls with glee... only for the Autobot spaceship to immediately TransWarp away to another random point in space... and another... and another...

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hot Shot (Animated)|Hot Shot]] (2)
*[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] (3)
*[[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]] (4)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (7)
*[[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus]] (9)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] (10)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (11)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (12)
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] (17)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (18)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (19)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (20)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (21)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (22)
*[[Mainframe (Animated)|Mainframe]] (27)
*[[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]] (28)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (29)
*[[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] (31)
*[[Wheeljack (Animated)|Wheeljack]] (33)
*[[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] (34)
*[[Cliffjumper (Animated)|Cliffjumper]] (36)
*[[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]] (37)

|c2=
*[[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] (1)
*[[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]] (5)
*[[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] (6)
*[[Spittor (Animated)|Spittor]] (8)
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime/Shockwave]] (13)
*[[Blackout (Animated)|Blackout]] (14)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (15)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Starscream clone|Starscream clones]]
**[[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp, the Coward Starscream II]] (30)
**[[Thundercracker (Animated)|Thundercracker, the Egomaniac Starscream]] (32)

|c3=
*[[Isaac Sumdac]] (24)
*[[Headmaster (Animated)|The Headmaster]] (25)
*[[Porter C. Powell]] (26)
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (35)

|c4=
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (23)
*[[Rock creature|Rock creatures]] (38)
}}

==Quotes==
"Bulkhead and genius in the same sentence? I'll never get used to that."
:—'''Bumblebee''' shows his high opinion of his best friend.

"I'll warn them even if I have to run halfway across the galaxy to Cybertron to do it!" 
:—'''Blurr''', who apparently does just that.

"Sari, I don't pretend to fully understand humans, but from what I've seen, being a father is far more than a simple organic bond. It has much more to do with the spark. With the heart."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' muses on the nature of family. Sadly, the [[fandom]] desires more [[Relatives|concrete answers]].

"Prepare for T.O.T! Total Ownage Time!"
:—'''Headmaster''' to Optimus Prime and the Sumdacs.

'''Masterson''': Cut it out and fight like a robot! 
''[Optimus fully transforms]'' 
'''Optimus''': Why don't you try fighting like a jet? That is, unless you don't think you can handle transforming. It is pretty difficult. Especially for a "n00b" such as yourself. 
'''Masterson''': N-Nobody calls me a n00b! NOBODY!
:—Optimus hits the Headmaster where it hurts the most—his own vocabulary.

'''Megatron''': It's no use. I can't break through without my weapons. 
'''Starscream''': A-hem. You're forgetting one of us ''is'' a weapon. 
''[Starscream fires his sonic blast, but the recoil sends him ricocheting around the bridge, screaming all the while]'' 
'''Megatron''': And a pitiful one at that. 
:—Even weaponless and traped inside an Autobot, Megatron can still take comfort in the fact that he's still better off than Starscream.

'''Ratchet''': Last time I checked, I was this team's medic, and I've been doing it this way for over four million stellar cycles! Any bot got a problem with that? 
'''Prowl''': Uh, no, not really. 
'''Bulkhead''': No, I'm good.
:—Ratchet lays down the law on the Autobots.

==Notes==

===Technical or animation errors===
* The damage to Starscream's body disappears during the commercial break.
* When Ratchet is talking to Bumblebee about Sari's condition, the side of his head is miscolored white.
* When Sari removes her key in order to place it in the homing beacon generator, the string doesn't actually go over her head... It just phases through her neck. Somehow.
* Once the key has been removed from Sari, the string attached to it mysteriously reappears.

===Continuity errors===
* When Bumblebee gets blown away in Part 2 after being stabbed by Sari, he lands on his back. When it starts again in Part 3, he appears on his side.
* Bumblebee’s rocket boosters seemingly appear out of nowhere. With Ratchet's upgrading of his stingers and now this, it seems that <s>Hasbro</s> the Autobots have gotten over their from "Upgrades are bad, m'kay" phase. Spending two seasons out-gunned will probably do that to you.
* Sentinel is back in his Earth body, despite being back on Cybertron.

===Transformers references===
*Bar Oil Slick, every member of the new squads harkens back to a previous series. Rodimus, Ironhide, Brawn and Cyclonus are heavily based off their Generation One counterparts. Red Alert and Hot Shot take after their Unicron Trilogy incarnations. Spittor and Strika are both modeled after Beast Era characters and Blackout's design is heavily influenced by the live action movie version.
*As Sari dismisses Isaac Sumdac's story of her origin, she suggests that he should have told her how he found her "in a cabbage patch", or the "stork brought me". These same ideas were suggested by Professors Bumblebee and Bulkhead in "[[Return of the Headmaster]]". In that episode, the professors also suggested that Sari was really a robot, that she came to Earth in an egg, and that she could have fallen through a portal, ''all'' of which seems to have some nugget of truth to them: she ''is'' a robot, she was contained in a strange pod, and she appeared in Sumdac's lab out of thin air. ''Foreshadowing!''
*After Sari mentions those theories, Optimus Prime recalls how Sari told him of human manufacturing, which occurred in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]".
*While lecturing her on taking it slow with her powers, Ratchet says that there's "more than meets the vis-scanners" on having powers, a clear reference to the time honored Transformers tagline "[[More Than Meets the Eye]]."
*Starscream says Omega Supreme is "more powerful than I imagined... okay, not AllSpark-powerful...", in reference to his use of the same phrase to describe the AllSpark way back in "Transform and Roll Out!"
*Arcee's open head looks ''waaay'' too much like [[Alex Milne]]'s cover for [[IDW Publishing]]'s "[[Spotlight: Arcee]]" to be a coincidence.
*Blurr races along a Saturn-style planetary ring, as [[Blurr (G1)|his namesake]] had done in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 3|Generation 1 season 3]] opening credits.
*The building in which the Autobot Elite Guard have their meeting looks [[Metroplex (G1)|somewhat familiar]].
*Blackout seems to have retained his seismic stomp that was used by his [[Blackout (Movie)|movie counterpart]].

===Real-world references===

===Trivia===
*[[Derrick J. Wyatt]] confirmed via. Twitter after the show aired that like the series pilot, "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", "TransWarped" was made "as one 70 minute movie", although it was also cut into 22-minute episodes for syndication.<ref>[[Derrick J. Wyatt]] - http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1329673450 - "We made it as one 70 minute movie, but it has also been cut into three 22s".</ref> ''Unlike'' the pilot, however, "TransWarped" counts as three episodes out of the thirteen alotted for the show's third season. While Cartoon Network aired all three episode in movie form for their premiere, Canadian network YTV opted to debut them in episodic form, airing only the first two in a double-bill, and then screening the final part the following week.
*Ultra Magnus builds a living WMD and makes him purposefully stupid so he won't question his lot in life. Optimus considers sending an overloading Sari against said death machine even at the risk that the kid might blow up and take the whole city with her. ''Damn''.
*Sari's transformation sequence upon absorbing the power of the key is a nod to the transformation sequence of the title robot in ''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann''.
* The Creatures that turn into rocks are a reference to the Rock Lords from the GoBots movie ''[[Wikipedia:Gobots:_Battle_of_the_Rock_Lords|GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords]]''
*It is revealed that the streak of white in Isaac's hair came from the shock he received when he approached the protoform that would become Sari. Do not pay attention to the streak in the hair of his younger self appearing in the "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", please...

==References==
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[[Category:Animated episodes]]

Three's a Crowd (episode)

2009-03-25T18:28:47Z

86.148.200.136: This is the short summary for Transformers Animated 'Three's a Crowd', shown on the CartoonNetwork video site.

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|series=Anitoon
|image=TFAni Threes a Crowd Constructicons.jpg
|caption="''[[wikipedia:Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10: Alien Force]]'' has nothing on these guys."
|ep=33
|title="Three's a Crowd"
|airdate=[[March 21]], 2009
|written by=[[Rich Fogel]]
|directed by= [[Kalvin Lee]], [[Tetsuro Moronuki]]
|animation studio=
}}

'''Bulkhead seeks the help of the Constructicons for a vital construction project, but, thanks to their new leader, the Constructicons have bigger and deadlier plans.'''

==Synopsis==
At [[Sumdac Tower]], [[Isaac Sumdac]] and [[Bulkhead]] are spending the night working to construct a new [[space bridge]], although Isaac is a bit distracted by the damaged [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster unit]] sitting in the lab. Bulkhead is eager to get the job done, but Sumdac is tired, having spent the previous night overriding the signal dampeners he created for the [[Decepticon]]s.

Elsewhere in [[Detroit]], the other Autobots are taking advantage of the overridden dampeners, and are on the trail of a Decepticon energy signature at that very moment. Unfortunately, the Decepticon in question turns out to be [[Lugnut]], who doesn't shy away from a fight, and drops out of the sky on the pursuing Autobots, unleashing his "[[Punch of Kill Everything]]".

Back at Sumdac Tower, Sumdac loads the power core for the space bridge onto a forklift, as Bulkhead fits a few [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] fragments into it in order to give it a boost. When Bulkhead reclines against the core, however, the floor beneath them gives out, and the core, the forklift and the Headmaster unit go tumbling down, taking out a few more floors on their way. Luckily, Sumdac is saved from the fall by Bulkhead's wrecking ball, and retires to bed to recover from the shock. Bulkhead examines the damage, and decides that he knows just the experts to help him fix it... but as he departs, at the bottom of the pit, the Headmaster, the forklift, and the power core begin creeping towards each other, as the familiar glow of an AllSpark fragment lights up the darkness...

Across town, [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] and [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] are enjoying the "show" at an automotive disassembly plant when Bulkhead, having tracked them down through their energy signatures, arrives to ask them for help. The two [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructicons]] refuse to work for the Autobots, until Bulkhead promises to keep the job "off the books". The trio return to Sumdac Tower, and Scrapper begins clearing the debris when suddenly, something grabs the other end of his shovel. The Constructicons reel in the offending item, which turns out to be a forklift... which promptly transforms into a diminutive robot that introduces itself as [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]]. Bulkhead realizes that the forklift has fused with the Headmaster unit and the AllSpark fragment, and the perpetually cranky Dirt Boss quickly announces his intention to take charge of the Constructicons. Scrapper is amused by this prospect, but Dirt Boss brings him around to his way of thinking by launching a shell from his forehead which burrows into Scrapper's head and gives the tiny terror control of Scrapper's motor functions. Bulkhead contacts the other Autobots to inform them of the new problem, but they are too busy battling Lugnut to offer any help. Bulkhead is struggling to figure out what to do when Sumdac appears to find out what the commotion is all about. In order to keep his human friend safe from Dirt Boss, Bulkhead introduces Sumdac as his servant, and barks an order at the scientist to get back to work finishing the [[plasmadynamic thruster]] they require. Sumdac, of course, completely fails to understand Bulkhead's ruse, and becomes genuinely afraid of the big Autobot, scampering off in terror to complete his task. With that taken care of, Dirt Boss announces his plan to take back the city that machines like he helped build, by stealing the its oil. That, as it turns out, is a plan Mixmaster and Scrapper can definitely get behind! The Constructicons commence Dirt Boss's plan by hijacking a tanker truck, but when Bulkhead tries to talk them out of it, Mixmaster turns on him and glues him to the road with a pair of cement galoshes. The evil trio proceed to go on a crime spree, stealing oil from all over the city.
The other Autobots, meanwhile, have managed to get a pair of [[stasis cuffs]] on Lugnut, but find themselves lacking in the physical strength necessary to haul his paralyzed body out of the crater his punch had created earlier. The cable they are using to haul the huge Decepticon soon snap, putting them right back where they started.

Back at the Constructicons' plant, Mixmaster and Scrapper celebrate their successful run of heists by enjoying a tipple, but Dirt Boss promptly smacks the barrels from their hands, telling them they didn't steal the oil to drink it. Bulkhead, meanwhile, is snooping on the Constructicons through a nearby window when Professor Sumdac comes running up to him, with the plasmadynamic thruster completed as requested. Bulkhead struggles to make the human understand that he was merely acting before, but when the Constructicons hear the noise outside and come to investigate, Bulkhead has to start acting again and sends Sumdac away. This time, however, Sumdac has grasped Bulkhead's deception, and eavesdrops as Dirt Boss reveals his plan to blow up fossil fuel refinery, thereby giving him control of the largest supply of oil in the city. Bulkhead decides that he cannot let things go any further and attacks the Constructicons, but when his wrecking ball becomes jammed in Mixmaster's arm-cannon, the three Decepticons simply walk off, dragging the helpless Bulkhead behind them. They soon arrive at the refinery, where Bulkhead is able to give Scrapper and Mixmaster pause by asking them where they'll get any oil to drink if they blow up the refinery. With Mixmaster wavering, Dirt Boss takes control of his body, and orders him to finish Bulkhead off. The resulting fight is a bit on the awkward side, given that the two combatants are stuck together, and Bulkhead is able to open a comm channel to the other Autobots, transmitting the noise of the fight to them. Realizing their friend is in trouble, the other Autobots leave Lugnut lying in his crater, and race off to aid Bulkhead in battle.

The fight between Mixmaster and Bulkhead winds up damaging the refinery's main fuel tank, which begins leaking oil everywhere. Dirt Boss proceeds to remove his control shell from Mixmaster, and plants it in Bulkhead instead, intending to use the Autobot to ignite the oil and send the refinery up in flames. Mixmaster is distressed at this prospect, given that he is still stuck to Bulkhead, but neither Dirt Boss nor Scrapper are particularly bothered.

The other Autobots soon arrive at the refinery and nearly run over Professor Sumdac, who quickly brings them up to speed. Suddenly, Bulkhead comes storming towards the Autobots, whirling his wrecking ball (and Mixmaster) as he and Scrapper follow Dirt Boss's command to attack. Luckily, Ratchet is able to magnetically extract Dirt Boss's control shell, and Bulkhead uses some of the spill oil to loosen his wrecking ball and disconnect himself from Mixmaster. He then hurls the Constructicon at Scrapper, but when the two collide, their metal bodies create a spark that sets the refinery ablaze. Worse yet, Scrapper's fist has become lodged in Mixmaster's chest drum, but as the pair struggle to free themselves from each other so they can make themselves scarce, Dirt Boss leaps on Scrapper's head and takes manual control of his body, refusing to let either of them chicken out. The Constructicons wind up on top of the main fuel tank as the Autobots try to fight the fire below, but it soon becomes apparent that the heroes can't stop the tank from blowing. Sumdac suggests using the plasmadynamic thruster to [[transwarp|TransWarp]] the tank away, and Bulkhead reprograms the device to do the job. Bulkhead hurls the thruster onto the top of the tank, and it and the Constructicons are warped away, materializing just off the shores of [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]] seconds before the tank explodes.

With the Constructicon threat dealt with, the Autobots return to the crater to take Lugnut back into custody. Unfortunately, someone has beaten them to it: Lugnut has been liberated by the [[Liar Starscream|lying Starscream clone]], who ''promises'' he'll ''never'' speak a word of the whole embarrassing affair.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (2)
* [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (3)
* [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (4)
* [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (5)
* [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (6)
* [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] (13)
* [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]] (14)
* [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]] (15)
|c2=
* [[Lugnut]] (7)
* [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]] (8)
* [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] (9)
* [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]] (10)
* [[Liar Starscream|Liar Starscream clone]] (16)
|c3=
* [[Isaac Sumdac]] (1)
* [[Sparkplug (Animated human)|Sparkplug]] (11)
* [[Captain Fanzone]] (12)
|c4=

}}

==Quotes==
'''Bulkhead''': These AllSpark fragments should give the power core a boost. 
'''Sumdac''': Be careful, Bulkhead! We don't want to overload it. 
'''Bulkhead''': Relax. When it comes to space bridges, I know what I'm doing. 
''[The floor starts to give way beneath them]'' 
'''Bulkhead''': But I'm not so hot at structural integrity!
:—Bulkhead and Sumdac learn that there are flaws with building a giant space bridge in a tower.

"Tell 'em there's a new boss in town: Dirt Boss!"
:—'''Dirt Boss''', every chance he gets.

"Will you slag that annoying little pipsqueak already?!" 
"Who're you calling "pipsqueak", short stuff?
:—'''Dirt Boss''' and '''Bumblebee''' engage in height cracks.

"Oh, I so don't have time for this."
:—'''Optimus Prime''', in desperate need of some leave.

"Uh, you promise me you will, ahem, never speak of this to Megatron..." 
"Oh, I promise."
:—'''Lugnut''' and '''Liar Starscream''' engage in epic foreshadowing of something that, sadly, probably won't be brought up again.

==Notes==
===Animation or technical errors===
*Bulkhead is shown with the other Autobots as Lugnut crashes to the ground.
*One of the ''[[Detroit Powell Press]]'' editions has a headline typo: "RACKETEERS STRIKES OIL" should read "RACKETEERS STRIKE OIL".
*During Dirt Boss's debut scene, the position of his mouth switches several times from the middle of his face (at the "W" shape) to the bottom, and presumably correct, position.

===Continuity errors===
*When Bulkhead confronts Mixmaster and Scrapper, they speak to Bulkhead as if they remember the events that transpired in "[[Rise of the Constructicons]]", saying that they "don't work for no stinkin' Autobots anymore" and referring to Bulkhead as "Bulky". While nothing says they can't have regained those memories by some point, if that's the case, it wasn't shown when this happened.

*More AllSpark fragments are shown in the beginning of the episode, yet all the previously collected pieces the Autobots found were placed into Omega Supreme last season. It's possible the Autobots have found some more since then, off-screen, but it seems an odd thing to omit, plus they would have only had between the end of "[[TransWarped]]" and the start of this episode to do so, which doesn't seem like a long time.

===Transformers references===
[[Image:TFAni Threes a Crowd Sludge Sign.jpg|thumb|right|So cars & trucks ''do'' eat dinosaurs!]]

* At least one Detroit paper is titled the ''Detroit Powell Press''. [[Porter C. Powell]] has corporate investments everywhere, it seems.

* The Headmaster unit was recovered [[TransWarped|last episode]].

* The [[Fossil Fuel]] Oil Company's logo is [[Generation 1]] [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] doing an impression of the [[wikipedia:Sinclair Oil Corporation|Sinclair Oil]] logo.

* This isn't the first series to have [[Space bridge#Generation 1 cartoon|a space bridge in a tower.]]

===Real-world references===
*The ''Detroit Powell Press'' is a reference to a real-life Detroit paper, the ''Detroit Free Press''. Minus the freedom.

*Scrapper and Mixmaster are found drinking heavily in a manufacturing plant that is deconstructing luxury cars piece by piece. Striptease, anyone?

*The climactic scene with Dirt Boss on top of the oil tank is closely based on the ending of the gangster movie ''[[Wikipedia:White Heat|White Heat]]''.

===Trivia===
* The Detroit newspaper business is incredible; within what is apparently a single night of Constructicon rampage, the ''Detroit Powell Press'' puts out three separate editions announcing the new threat. Either that, or the Autobots spend a ''long'' time focusing on hauling Lugnut out of his crater and nothing else. (Though really, it's impressive that newspapers even still ''exist'' in the future...)

*It appears that Lugnut has accepted Starscream's clones (or at least the liar) as part of the main Decepticon force. Apparently, being Starscream's duplicate is fine as long as you worship the GLORIOUS Megatron.

* What ''exactly'' did Dirt Boss hope to accomplish by climbing up to the top of the oil tank, again?

* An exploding oil tank in the middle of Lake St. Clair is probably going to be a real mess, isn't it?

* There is also a Decepticon forklift named [[Dirt Boss (ROTF)|Dirt Boss]] in the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|toyline]].

[[Category:Animated episodes]]