The Haunting of Griffin Rock

2025-09-26T22:19:34Z

Windy: Adding a Trivia bit that should've been there.

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' ep 21
|prev=Countdown (RB)
|next=Little White Lies
|image=HauntingGriffinRock Kade and Lady ghost.jpg
|caption=Hee hee hee! "Get her!" That was your whole plan, huh, "get her." Very scientific.
|title="The Haunting of Griffin Rock"
|season=1
|season ep=21
|airdate=[[July 28]], [[2012]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|animation studio=[[Atomic Cartoons]]
|writer=[[Steve Aranguren]]
|director=[[Patrick Archibald]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUSEi_hhDI
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Ghosts haunt and terrorize the residents of Griffin Rock.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:HauntingGriffinRock ghost appears on road.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A full torso apparition, and it's real!]]
[[Jerry (RB)|Jerry]] is driving an armored truck through rough weather when he suddenly spots a spectral figure standing in the road. He swerves, crashing through a barrier and plunging from a cliff. The Burns family and their [[Rescue Bot]]s are soon out searching and find Jerry clinging to rocks but no sign of the truck. Once [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] fishes Jerry out of the water, they question him and he claims to have see the ghost of the [[Charlotte Wayne|Lady of Griffin Rock]].

The next morning, the Bots ask Cody to explain ghosts and he does his best, though Blades still doesn't want to meet one, having seen all the ''[[Haunted Halls]]'' movies. Cody's interrupted by a call from [[Frankie Greene|Frankie]], who has seen [[Huxley Prescott]]'s news report on the ghost and believes it's time to test [[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]]'s [[Spectral Vapor Filter]]. The pair meet at the [[Hall of Inspiration]], where Frankie points out the portrait of Charlotte Wayne, the Lady of Griffin Rock. Cody takes a picture to show the driver, and Frankie hands him a Filter. When Cody arrives back at the station, [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] is checking on [[Evan (RB)|Evan]] and [[Myles]]. Cody's attempts to tell the Chief about Charlotte are interrupted by a call from [[Russell (RB)|Russell]] at the bank, reporting a ghost. Cody gives the Chief the Filter before he takes the team to investigate.

[[Image:HauntingGriffinRock Heatwave vs ghost soldier.jpg|thumb|250px|Sir, what you have there is what we refer to as a focused, non-terminal, repeating phantasm, or a Class Five full roaming vapor.]]
The team arrives at the bank in time for the security system to seal off the building. The team are startled when a [[Ghost Soldier]] appears and floats into a vault. [[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] opens the vault but the soldier floats back out. To Blades's discomfort, the team splits up to follow it, but after it has a brief encounter with [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]], the team follows the ghost outside until it vanishes through a wall. Cody alerts them to the alarm at the bank, and the team rushes back to find the vault empty.

Cody alerts them to more trouble—there's reports of ghosts all over town! A [[Ghost Cook|ghost]] at the restaurant causes a fire which Heatwave and Kade put out, but Kade's startled by the ghost and flees. Another [[Ghost Inventor|ghost]] scares people at a jewelery store and passes right through Boulder and [[Chase (RB)|Chase]]. Cody suggests using the Spectral Vapor Filter, but the device only holds the ghost temporarily. Kade reports that the register at the restaurant has been emptied. Prescott tries to interview a [[Ghost Gangster|ghost]], only to be frightened off. As he speeds away, the dish is clipped off his van by an overhanging tree, and Chase has to save a couple of bystanders from being flattened by it. [[Dani Burns|Dani]] and Blades also have a close encounter with a ghost.

[[Image:HauntingGriffinRock Arthur vs Filter.jpg|thumb|left|250px|You know, it just occurred to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment.]]
Frankie recognizes [[Elma Hendrickson|one of the ghosts]] on the news report and shows the picture to Doc Greene. They grab Cody and check out the portraits at the Hall of Inspiration, which all turn out to be the people who are appearing as ghosts. They're caught unawares by a ghost popping through the wall, and when Frankie uses her Spectral Vapor Filter on it, it only holds the ghost for a few seconds. Then they realize that it's just the [[hologram]] of [[Chester A. Arthur]]. This leads them down a new line of thinking, and the soon determine that the ghosts are appearing where there are hologram projectors. Among the holograms in the database are Evan and Myles.

[[Image:HauntingGriffinRock multiple thieves.jpg|thumb|250px|I don't have to take this abuse from you, I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me.]]
Chief Burns soon determines that the pair are no longer locked up, having left holograms in their cells. Cody comes up with a plan, and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] and Boulder are called off from the jewelery store.
As Evan and Myles loot the store, the Rescue Bots surround the entrance with the help of hologram Bots. When the pair come up, along with their own hologram duplicates, they're swiftly chased down by Heatwave. Kade briefly see the Lady of Griffin Rock again and waves her off as a hologram.

Later, at the Hall of Inspiration, Frankie puts on a show of the holograms, as they were originally intended to be seen. Kade wonders where the Lady of Griffin Rock is, and Doc Greene points out she was never in the hologram database.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Blades (RB)|Blades]] (3)
*[[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] (7)
*[[Chase (RB)|Chase]] (8)
*[[Boulder (RB)|Boulder]] (11)

|c3=
*[[Jerry (RB)|Jerry]] (1)
*[[Charlie Burns]] (4)
*[[Dani Burns]] (5)
*[[Cody Burns]] (6)
*[[Kade Burns]] (9)
*[[Graham Burns]] (10)
*[[Frankie Greene]] (12)
*[[Huxley Prescott]] (13)
*[[Barney]] (14)
*[[Mrs. Luskey]] (17)
*[[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]] (22)
*[[H.B. Luskey|Mayor Luskey]] (24)

|c4=
*[[Charlotte Wayne]] (2)
*[[Ghost Soldier]] (15)
*[[Ghost Cook]] (16)
*[[Ghost Inventor]] (18)
*[[Ghost Gangster]] (19)
*[[Mister Pettypaws]] (20)
*[[Elma Hendrickson]] (21)
*[[Chester A. Arthur]] (23)
}}

==Quotes==
"There's not really any police protocol for this situation."
:—'''Charlie Burns''' on the limitations of policing.

"No! Don't split up! In scary movies, you never split up!"
:—'''Blades''' is genre savvy, but everyone else has already gone.

"This behavior is against the laws of physical science ''and'' polite society."
:—'''Chase'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The bank is a completely different building from the one that appeared in "[[Four Bots and a Baby]]". This is probably ''not'' an error, seeing as that bank nearly fell into a sinkhole.
* Evan and Myles previously appeared in "[[Small Blessings]]".
* The character model for the Ghost Gangster was previously used during "[[The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock]]" as one of the people trying to flee on the island's ferry. As the gangster is supposed to predate 1949, it's presumably not the same guy.
* Gadgets and powers:
** Apparently, Heatwave's knuckle-lights function as lights as well as water nozzles.

===Real-world references===
* The Spectral Vapor Filters bear more than a slight resemblance to the traps used by the [[Ghostbusters]].
* Barney is an homage to Barney Fife from ''The Andy Griffith Show''.

===Trivia===
* How the heck did the two thieves manage to clean out the bank vault by themselves in that short a time? And how did they rob a restaurant while it was on fire?
* Why does Frankie keep a Spectral Vapour Filter in a drawer with her clothing?
* Kade sleeps with a night light!
* This episode was later adapted into storybook form as ''[[The Ghosts of Griffin Rock]]''.
* The episode is a giant reference(whether intentional or not) to the Scooby-Doo franchise given that the twins used fake ghosts to cover up thefts and scare people away.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Les fantômes de Griffin Rock'''" ("The Ghosts of Griffin Rock")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Kísértetvadászat'''" ("Ghost Hunt")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 27|27 February]] [[2013]]

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Rahasia Wanita Griffin Rock'''" ("The Secret of the Lady of Griffin Rock")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fantasmi a Griffin Rock'''" ("Ghosts at Griffin Rock")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[June 14|14 June]] [[2017]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fantasmas do Passado'''" ("Ghosts from the Past")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[January 2|2 January]] [[2014]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Mystery Rescue" ([[Shout! Factory]])<br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Bot to the Future" ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]])<br />
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Rescue Bots'' — "Complete Season 1" ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]])

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