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|title="Bumblebee's Night Off" | |title="Bumblebee's Night Off" | ||
|season=2 | |||
|season ep=8 | |||
|airdate=[[April 2]], [[2016]] (United Kingdom)<br>[[April 9]], 2016 (United States) | |airdate=[[April 2]], [[2016]] (United Kingdom)<br>[[April 9]], 2016 (United States) | ||
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]] | |production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]] | ||
|writer=[[Mairghread Scott]] | |writer=[[Mairghread Scott]] | ||
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]] | |animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]], [[drop]] (2D) | ||
|director=[[Todd Waterman]] | |director=[[Todd Waterman]] | ||
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aYmKYa1y74 | |||
|videosite=YouTube | |||
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'''Bumblebee takes a night off to see his favorite band, but things get dangerous when Bisk attacks the stadium.''' | '''Bumblebee takes a night off to see his favorite band, but things get dangerous when Bisk attacks the stadium.''' | ||
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==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
[[File:BumblebeesNightOff Autobots and Springload.jpg|left|thumb|250px|The thieves. The thieves. The filthy little thieves.<br> Where is it? Where is it? They stole it from us...my precious.<br> Curse them. We hates them! It's ours, it is, and we wants it!]] | [[File:BumblebeesNightOff Autobots and Springload.jpg|left|thumb|250px|The thieves. The thieves. The filthy little thieves.<br> Where is it? Where is it? They stole it from us...my precious.<br> Curse them. We hates them! It's ours, it is, and we wants it!]] | ||
[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] search the trains in a railyard. Though Grimlock and Strongarm are visibly bored, Bumblebee reminds them that the Cons have been reliably stealing shipments of high-output cable from the yard, so they need to find it first and they can use it as bait. Grimlock finally finds the cable in question, only to be shot from behind by [[Springload]]. The Decepticon makes off with the cable, and the Autobots start hunting the Con, however Bumblebee is so jumpy that when Grimlock comes up behind him, he accidentally zaps the Dinobot. Grimlock is relatively undamaged, but a cackling Springload is able to hop aboard a nearby train which whisks him away. | [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] search the trains in a railyard. Though Grimlock and Strongarm are visibly bored, Bumblebee reminds them that the Cons have been reliably stealing shipments of high-output cable from the yard, so they need to find it first and they can use it as bait. Grimlock finally finds the cable in question, only to be shot from behind by [[Springload (RID)|Springload]]. The Decepticon makes off with the cable, and the Autobots start hunting the Con, however Bumblebee is so jumpy that when Grimlock comes up behind him, he accidentally zaps the Dinobot. Grimlock is relatively undamaged, but a cackling Springload is able to hop aboard a nearby train which whisks him away. | ||
The Autobots return to the [[Vintage Salvage Depot for the Discriminating Nostalgist|scrapyard]], where the others' visible resignation when Bumblebee announces they're going back out on patrol in fifteen minutes prompts [[Denny Clay|Denny]] to suggest they need to take a break. Fixit believes he has worked out the Decepticons will next be after a sound board, and their most likely target is the [[Rear Axle]] concert at the [[Rumbledome]]. Both Bumblebee and Denny are huge fans, but both Strongarm and Grimlock are unenthusiastic and turn down staking out the Rumbledome parking lot. Denny also realizes he can't go because he has a prior engagement with [[Crackpot Carl]] and so [[Russell Clay|Russell]] is reluctantly pressed into service. | The Autobots return to the [[Vintage Salvage Depot for the Discriminating Nostalgist|scrapyard]], where the others' visible resignation when Bumblebee announces they're going back out on patrol in fifteen minutes prompts [[Denny Clay|Denny]] to suggest they need to take a break. Fixit believes he has worked out the Decepticons will next be after a sound board, and their most likely target is the [[Rear Axle]] concert at the [[Rumbledome]]. Both Bumblebee and Denny are huge fans, but both Strongarm and Grimlock are unenthusiastic and turn down staking out the Rumbledome parking lot. Denny also realizes he can't go because he has a prior engagement with [[Crackpot Carl]] and so [[Russell Clay|Russell]] is reluctantly pressed into service. | ||
[[File:BumblebeesNightOff Bisk and MiniCons.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Bisk, Pokémon trainer.]] | [[File:BumblebeesNightOff Bisk and MiniCons.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Bisk, Pokémon trainer.]] | ||
Once they arrive at the venue, Russell heads inside the Rumbledome to get Denny a t-shirt and avoid Bumblebee's bouncing. He manages to get the t-shirt, but takes a wrong turn and ends up in an area under the stage where props are being lifted up to be part of the show. After narrowly avoiding being lifted up with a rocket prop, he spies [[Bisk]] along with two [[Mini-Con]]s, [[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]] and [[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]], liberating a spare sound board. He knocks over a box of cymbals in his panic, alerting the Decepticons to his presence, but fortunately the two Mini-Cons are not the brightest sparks, and when Bisk sends them to find what the noise was, they return with two cymbals. The Cons return to the task of liberating the sound board, only for Russell to knock over a broom, leading to another large prop crashing to the floor. Russell hides in a box, and the two Mini-Cons, unable to find him, begin firing indiscriminately. Bisk sends them to guard the door while he searches himself, but Russell is able to jump onto one of the lifts carrying a prop up to the stage, and escapes. Bisk returns to his work stealing the sound board. Out in the parking lot, Russell realizes he's forgotten where Bumblebee is parked, and triggers several car alarms before he finds the Autobot. | Once they arrive at the venue, Russell heads inside the Rumbledome to get Denny a t-shirt and avoid Bumblebee's bouncing. He manages to get the t-shirt, but takes a wrong turn and ends up in an area under the stage where props are being lifted up to be part of the show. After narrowly avoiding being lifted up with a rocket prop, he spies [[Bisk (RID)|Bisk]] along with two [[Mini-Con]]s, [[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]] and [[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]], liberating a spare sound board. He knocks over a box of cymbals in his panic, alerting the Decepticons to his presence, but fortunately the two Mini-Cons are not the brightest sparks, and when Bisk sends them to find what the noise was, they return with two cymbals. The Cons return to the task of liberating the sound board, only for Russell to knock over a broom, leading to another large prop crashing to the floor. Russell hides in a box, and the two Mini-Cons, unable to find him, begin firing indiscriminately. Bisk sends them to guard the door while he searches himself, but Russell is able to jump onto one of the lifts carrying a prop up to the stage, and escapes. Bisk returns to his work stealing the sound board. Out in the parking lot, Russell realizes he's forgotten where Bumblebee is parked, and triggers several car alarms before he finds the Autobot. | ||
[[File:Bumblebee'sNightOff-BBvsBisk.jpg|thumb|left|300px|It was a rock concert lobster!]] | [[File:Bumblebee'sNightOff-BBvsBisk.jpg|thumb|left|300px|It was a rock concert lobster!]] | ||
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Later, Bumblebee and Russell throw Bisk and his Mini-Con companions into a box and smuggle them out of the venue. Returning to the scrapyard, Russell apologizes for the mess the t-shirt is in, though Denny is enthusiastic that it's "pre-distressed", and Russell shows Bumblebee the picture he has of the pair of them with Rear Axle. | Later, Bumblebee and Russell throw Bisk and his Mini-Con companions into a box and smuggle them out of the venue. Returning to the scrapyard, Russell apologizes for the mess the t-shirt is in, though Denny is enthusiastic that it's "pre-distressed", and Russell shows Bumblebee the picture he has of the pair of them with Rear Axle. | ||
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==Featured characters== | ==Featured characters== | ||
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*[[Springload]] (5) | *[[Springload (RID)|Springload]] (5) | ||
*[[Bisk]] (8) | *[[Bisk (RID)|Bisk]] (8) | ||
*[[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]] (9) | *[[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]] (9) | ||
*[[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]] (10) | *[[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]] (10) | ||
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"Decepticons wrecking property... | "Decepticons wrecking property... threatening innocent humans... making me miss a Rear Axle concert! Bisk messed with the wrong Autobot.” | ||
:—'''Bumblebee''''s berserk button has been mashed. | :—'''Bumblebee''''s berserk button has been mashed. | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
===Continuity notes=== | ===Continuity notes=== | ||
* Back in "[[Rumble in the Jungle]]" Springload was described as an "[[Amphiboid]]", but here he's referred to as an "Amphibicon". Maybe one term is a laybot's term and the other scientific? | * Back in "[[Rumble in the Jungle (RID)|Rumble in the Jungle]]" Springload was described as an "[[Amphiboid]]", but here he's referred to as an "Amphibicon". Maybe one term is a laybot's term and the other scientific? | ||
* Bumblebee mentions that he developed a taste for Rear Axle during his [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|first trip]] to Earth. Perhaps [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] introduced him to the band? | * Bumblebee mentions that he developed a taste for Rear Axle during his [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|first trip]] to Earth. Perhaps [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] introduced him to the band? | ||
===Prisoner manifest=== | ===Prisoner manifest=== | ||
* ''In stasis'': [[Hammerstrike (RID)|Hammerstrike]], [[Chop Shop (RID)|Chop Shop]], [[Terrashock]], [[Filch]], [[Minitron]], [[Ped (RID)|Ped]], "that one with all the eyes", [[Malodor]] and the [[Skunkticon]]s, [[Nightstrike]], [[Vertebreak (RID)|Vertebreak]], [[Octopunch (RID)|Octopunch]], [[Headlock]], [[Scowl (RID)|Scowl]], [[Scratch]], [[Zizza]], [[Pseudo]], [[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]], [[Airazor (RID)|Airazor]], [[Divebomb (RID)|Divebomb]], [[Underbite]], [[Backtrack (RID)|Backtrack]], [[Ransack (RID Mini-Con)|Ransack]], [[Polarclaw]], [[Razorpaw]], [[Swelter]], [[Glacius]], [[Torpor]], [[Axiom (RID)|Axiom]], [[Theorem]], [[Scorponok (WFC)|Scorponok]], [[Crazybolt (RID)|Crazybolt]], [[Slicedice]], [[Bludgeon (RID 2015)|Bludgeon]], [[Clout]], [[Bisk (RID)|Bisk]], [[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]], [[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]] | * ''In stasis'': [[Hammerstrike (RID)|Hammerstrike]], [[Chop Shop (RID)|Chop Shop]], [[Terrashock]], [[Filch]], [[Minitron]], [[Ped (RID)|Ped]], "that one with all the eyes", [[Malodor]] and the [[Skunkticon]]s, [[Nightstrike]], [[Vertebreak (RID)|Vertebreak]], [[Octopunch (RID)|Octopunch]], [[Headlock (RID)|Headlock]], [[Scowl (RID)|Scowl]], [[Scratch (RID)|Scratch]], [[Zizza]], [[Pseudo]], [[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]], [[Airazor (RID)|Airazor]], [[Divebomb (RID)|Divebomb]], [[Underbite]], [[Backtrack (RID)|Backtrack]], [[Ransack (RID Mini-Con)|Ransack]], [[Polarclaw]], [[Razorpaw]], [[Swelter]], [[Glacius]], [[Torpor]], [[Axiom (RID)|Axiom]], [[Theorem]], [[Scorponok (WFC)|Scorponok]], [[Crazybolt (RID)|Crazybolt]], [[Slicedice]], [[Bludgeon (RID 2015)|Bludgeon]], [[Clout]], [[Bisk (RID)|Bisk]], [[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]], [[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]] | ||
* ''Known at large'': [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]], [[Kickback ( | * ''Known at large'': [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]], [[Kickback (RID)|Kickback]], [[Saberhorn]], [[Glowstrike]], several unnamed Glowstrike/Scorponok associates, [[Springload (RID)|Springload]], [[Quillfire (RID)|Quillfire]], [[Groundpounder (RID)|Groundpounder]], [[Thunderhoof (RID)|Thunderhoof]], [[Clampdown (RID)|Clampdown]], [[Overload (RID)|Overload]] | ||
* ''Released'': Grimlock | * ''Released'': Grimlock | ||
* ''Unknown status'': [[Simacore]] escapes some time between "Brainpower" and "Decepticon Island (Part 2)". | * ''Unknown status'': [[Simacore (RID)|Simacore]] escapes some time between "Brainpower" and "Decepticon Island (Part 2)". | ||
* ''Countless others all missing, presumed at large'' | * ''Countless others all missing, presumed at large'' | ||
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===Animation and technical errors=== | ===Animation and technical errors=== | ||
* | * After failing to attack Bumblebee, the cable Springload carries disappears for a shot. | ||
===Trivia=== | ===Trivia=== | ||
* Bisk sports car kibble, suggesting that he's scanned an Earth-appropriate disguise since escaping the scrapyard. | * Bisk sports car kibble, suggesting that he's scanned an Earth-appropriate disguise since escaping the scrapyard. He also has a different voice, sounding more high-pitched and scowled compared to his last speaking role. | ||
===Foreign localization=== | ===Foreign localization=== | ||
'''French''' | '''French''' | ||
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;DVD | ;DVD | ||
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2017 — ''Transformers Robots in Disguise'' — Misdirection ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]])<br> | [[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2017 — ''Transformers Robots in Disguise'' — Misdirection ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]])<br> | ||
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) episodes]] | [[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) episodes]] | ||
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| "Bumblebee's Night Off" | ||||||
| Season | 2 | |||||
| No. in season | 8 | |||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | April 2, 2016 (United Kingdom) April 9, 2016 (United States) | |||||
| Writer | Mairghread Scott | |||||
| Director | Todd Waterman | |||||
| Animation studio | Polygon Pictures, drop (2D) | |||||
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Bumblebee takes a night off to see his favorite band, but things get dangerous when Bisk attacks the stadium.
Synopsis
[edit]
Where is it? Where is it? They stole it from us...my precious.
Curse them. We hates them! It's ours, it is, and we wants it!
Bumblebee, Strongarm and Grimlock search the trains in a railyard. Though Grimlock and Strongarm are visibly bored, Bumblebee reminds them that the Cons have been reliably stealing shipments of high-output cable from the yard, so they need to find it first and they can use it as bait. Grimlock finally finds the cable in question, only to be shot from behind by Springload. The Decepticon makes off with the cable, and the Autobots start hunting the Con, however Bumblebee is so jumpy that when Grimlock comes up behind him, he accidentally zaps the Dinobot. Grimlock is relatively undamaged, but a cackling Springload is able to hop aboard a nearby train which whisks him away.
The Autobots return to the scrapyard, where the others' visible resignation when Bumblebee announces they're going back out on patrol in fifteen minutes prompts Denny to suggest they need to take a break. Fixit believes he has worked out the Decepticons will next be after a sound board, and their most likely target is the Rear Axle concert at the Rumbledome. Both Bumblebee and Denny are huge fans, but both Strongarm and Grimlock are unenthusiastic and turn down staking out the Rumbledome parking lot. Denny also realizes he can't go because he has a prior engagement with Crackpot Carl and so Russell is reluctantly pressed into service.
Once they arrive at the venue, Russell heads inside the Rumbledome to get Denny a t-shirt and avoid Bumblebee's bouncing. He manages to get the t-shirt, but takes a wrong turn and ends up in an area under the stage where props are being lifted up to be part of the show. After narrowly avoiding being lifted up with a rocket prop, he spies Bisk along with two Mini-Cons, Hammer and Anvil, liberating a spare sound board. He knocks over a box of cymbals in his panic, alerting the Decepticons to his presence, but fortunately the two Mini-Cons are not the brightest sparks, and when Bisk sends them to find what the noise was, they return with two cymbals. The Cons return to the task of liberating the sound board, only for Russell to knock over a broom, leading to another large prop crashing to the floor. Russell hides in a box, and the two Mini-Cons, unable to find him, begin firing indiscriminately. Bisk sends them to guard the door while he searches himself, but Russell is able to jump onto one of the lifts carrying a prop up to the stage, and escapes. Bisk returns to his work stealing the sound board. Out in the parking lot, Russell realizes he's forgotten where Bumblebee is parked, and triggers several car alarms before he finds the Autobot.
Grimlock is practicing his sculpting and Strongarm is quizzing herself on regulations when Bumblebee contacts them to ask for backup. Russell poses as the son of Rear Axle's drummer, getting him and Bumblebee into the loading area. Unfortunately Strongarm reports that she and Grimlock are stuck in traffic, and when Bumblebee and Russell reach the backstage area, they find it empty of Decepticons. Bumblebee thinks Bisk may go after the sound board being used for the concert. Up top, the stage manager has an encounter with Bisk, whom he assumes is part of the band's show. Bumblebee heads up as well, and is promptly ordered onto the stage by the stage manager who believes he's also part of the show. Bumblebee is happy to comply, and soon he and Bisk are having a fight in full view of the audience. Bumblebee is momentarily starstruck when he realizes where he is, allowing Bisk to unleash Hammer and Anvil on him while the Con heads for the sound board. After taking out the two Mini-Cons, Bumblebee resumes fighting Bisk while Rear Axle continues playing, and takes out the Con just as the band hits the big finish to their song.
Later, Bumblebee and Russell throw Bisk and his Mini-Con companions into a box and smuggle them out of the venue. Returning to the scrapyard, Russell apologizes for the mess the t-shirt is in, though Denny is enthusiastic that it's "pre-distressed", and Russell shows Bumblebee the picture he has of the pair of them with Rear Axle.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
[edit]"I mean, they play songs about fighting for justice, and not giving up so long as the music's still playing! I mean it's like they know me!"
- —Bumblebee geeks out
"Whoever you are, you're playing against opponents with much higher combat attributes than yourself!"
- —Bisk, before trying to get Russell and EXP from crates.
"That's not sculpting! That's turning big rocks into smaller rocks!"
"Hmph, some bots have no appreciation for art."
- —For Fixit and Grimlock, art is so subjective.
"Decepticons wrecking property... threatening innocent humans... making me miss a Rear Axle concert! Bisk messed with the wrong Autobot.”
- —Bumblebee's berserk button has been mashed.
"It's...like being in a video game!"
"It's...like being in a dream!"
- —Bisk and Bumblebee
Notes
[edit]Continuity notes
[edit]- Back in "Rumble in the Jungle" Springload was described as an "Amphiboid", but here he's referred to as an "Amphibicon". Maybe one term is a laybot's term and the other scientific?
- Bumblebee mentions that he developed a taste for Rear Axle during his first trip to Earth. Perhaps Miko introduced him to the band?
Prisoner manifest
[edit]- In stasis: Hammerstrike, Chop Shop, Terrashock, Filch, Minitron, Ped, "that one with all the eyes", Malodor and the Skunkticons, Nightstrike, Vertebreak, Octopunch, Headlock, Scowl, Scratch, Zizza, Pseudo, Fracture, Airazor, Divebomb, Underbite, Backtrack, Ransack, Polarclaw, Razorpaw, Swelter, Glacius, Torpor, Axiom, Theorem, Scorponok, Crazybolt, Slicedice, Bludgeon, Clout, Bisk, Hammer, Anvil
- Known at large: Steeljaw, Kickback, Saberhorn, Glowstrike, several unnamed Glowstrike/Scorponok associates, Springload, Quillfire, Groundpounder, Thunderhoof, Clampdown, Overload
- Released: Grimlock
- Unknown status: Simacore escapes some time between "Brainpower" and "Decepticon Island (Part 2)".
- Countless others all missing, presumed at large
Transformers references
[edit]- (tbd)
Real-world references
[edit]- Rear Axle's style and face paint evokes the look of 80s glam rock, particularly the band KISS.
Animation and technical errors
[edit]- After failing to attack Bumblebee, the cable Springload carries disappears for a shot.
Trivia
[edit]- Bisk sports car kibble, suggesting that he's scanned an Earth-appropriate disguise since escaping the scrapyard. He also has a different voice, sounding more high-pitched and scowled compared to his last speaking role.
Foreign localization
[edit]French
- Title: "Un concert pour Bumblebee" ("A Concert for Bumblebee")
- Original airdate: April 24, 2016
Hungarian
- Title: "Szabad est" ("Night Off")
- Original airdate: May 10, 2016
Italian
- Title: "Un concerto per Bumblebee" ("A Concert for Bumblebee")
- Original airdate: May 12, 2016
Japanese
Home video releases
[edit]- DVD
2017 — Transformers Robots in Disguise — Misdirection (Beyond Home Entertainment)
