Velocity (episode)

2008-05-11T15:47:30Z

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'''Investigating a mysterious race car, Bumblebee gets involved with an illegal underground street racing circuit, which also captures the attention of the Decepticons.'''

==Summary==

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==Stats==

*'''Written by:''' [[Len Uhley]]
*'''Directed by:''' [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], & [[Kenji Itoso]]
*'''Original airdate:''' May 10, 2008

===Featured characters===

(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
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! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (3)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (4)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (5)
*[[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] (6)

| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (10)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (11)

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (7)
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (8)
*[[Master Disaster]] (9)
|}

==Quotes==
'''Fanzone''': I've been after these guys for weeks. They're part of an underground racing circuit. 
'''Bulkhead''': You mean they race in tunnels? 
'''Fanzone''': Underground as in illegal. As in they race in the streets and don't care who gets hurt. 
'''Bulkhead''': That's not what Sari told me. 
'''Optimus''': What purpose does this street race serve? 
'''Fanzone''': Eh, what else? They get a couple a' million pay-per-view customers for their pirate broadcasts, then it's "cha-ching cha-ching", big bucks. 
:{{m-}}Captain Fanzone introduces the Autobots to the seedy world of underground racing.

'''Bumblebee''': Lighten up, Bulkhead. We're supposed to be the ''fun'' bots. 
'''Bulkhead''': Yeah, but we still gotta set a good example. She looks up to us. 
'''Bumblebee''': Hello, she looks up to everybody. 
'''Sari''': HEY! 
:{{m-}}Bumblebee should be more sensitive about [[scale|size issues]].

"HA! I will crush all that stands in my way!" 
:{{m-}}'''Angry Blitzwing''', right before he is buried under the rubble of a bridge.

'''Crazy Blitzwing''': Oh, isn't zat cute? They're twins! 
'''Calm Blitzwing''': Readings indicate that one of them is carrying the AllSpark fragment. 
'''Angry Blitzwing''': I will destroy them both! 
:{{m-}}Whenever in doubt, Blitzwing's personalities can agree on one thing{{m-}}destroy everything.

"Hey...you know that's comin' out of my paycheck."
:—'''Captain Fanzone''' manages to see the down side of being saved before Blitzwing destroyed his car.

''[referring to Bumblebee's vehicle mode]'' 
"How come your interior's so much cleaner than mine?" 
"Hmm, maybe because it's not on fire?"
:—'''Sari''' zings '''Captain Fanzone'''.

"Well, that's the trouble with bending the rules—''cough''—they usually snap right back in your face."
:—Lessons in life from '''Captain Fanzone'''

'''Angry Blitzwing''': What is happening?! Why can't I control myself?! 
'''Crazy Blitzwing''': Not zat I ever could! AHAHAHA! 
'''Sari''': See? This is how Master Disaster fixed his races. By making the blue racer do whatever he wanted. 
'''Crazy Blitzwing''': Oh, dizzy. Not liking the dizzy.
:{{m-}}As Sari takes control, Angry Blitzwing wants it back, while Crazy Blitzwing has accepted his insanity.

'''Angry Blitzwing''': Never give up! 
'''Calm Blitzwing''': Never surrender! 
'''Crazy Blitzwing''': NEVER MIND!! 
''[Blitzwing swerves off into a nearby building]'' 
:{{m-}}Blitzwing and Blurr play a game of Chicken.

==Other notes==

===Continuity errors===
* Angry [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] demonstrates the ability to function in jet mode, instead of automatically switching to tank mode as he did in [[Megatron Rising, Part 2]]. His ice missiles are replaced with conventional explosive ones. Maybe he learned his lesson?

===Transformers references===
* Bumblebee's turbo boosters were first seen in [[Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec]].
* Master Disaster's truck has the [[Maximal]] faction sign on its side.

===Real-world references===
*Blurr's vehicle mode bears more than just a passing resemblance to the Mach 5 from ''[[Wikipedia:Speed Racer|Speed Racer]]''.
**(Though it's probably coincidence that the 2008 live-action ''Speed Racer'' movie opened the same weekend this episode first aired.)

*This episode borrows several plot and thematic elements from the popular street racing film ''[[Wikipedia:The Fast and the Furious|The Fast and the Furious]]''.

*Blitzwing's "Never give up! Never surrender! NEVER MIND!" quote refers to the catchphrase from the [[Dreamworks]] film, ''[[Wikipedia:Galaxy Quest|Galaxy Quest]]''.

*Blitzwing haphazardly fires off multiple missiles in all directions in a style reminiscent of the Veritech Fighters from ''[[wikipedia:Macross|Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]''.

*In this episode, Blitzwing's cannons make the familiar "high tension cable twang" normally associated with laser cannons in the [[Wikipedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]] films.
===Miscellaneous trivia===
* This is the first appearance of the [[Blurr (Animated)|mysterious blue race car]] who, despite his talkative reputation, doesn't say a single word, nor does he transform.

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