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| "Back to School" | ||||||
| Production code | 201 | |||||
| Season | 2 | |||||
| No. in season | 1 | |||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | March 21, 2020 | |||||
| Writer | Jodi Reynolds | |||||
| Director | Ray Quigley | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
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The recruits start their second year of training and learn they're going to get personal tutors.
Synopsis
Chase and Heatwave stack boxes while the former reflects how quiet it is without the students. Unfortunately for Chase, the sound of the space bridge heralds the return of the five recruits, who burst enthusiastically into the main hall—too enthusiastically in Hoist's case, as he crashes into the pile of boxes. Though the recruits are keen to start lessons, Heatwave tells them to settle in, so they retire to the living quarters and reflect on what they learned last year. Heatwave soon joins them to reveal they're being assigned personalized designated training zones. They check out Medix's medbay, Hoist's converted laboratory (with reinforced walls), Wedge's gym, Whirl's wind turbine, and finally Hot Shot's action matrix, which Heatwave realizes is just going to be used as a Cube court.
Later, Optimus Prime joins them in the classroom to reveal that the students will also all be partnered with a teacher as tutor. He introduces them to Medix's uncle Ratchet, who's created the Aptitude Analyzer to partner each student with the perfect tutor. Whirl is mildly apprehensive at the idea, but Hoist is sure it will all work out.
The recruits exercise in the gym while speculating over which teacher they'll be assigned. Though everyone else has someone they want to be paired with, Hoist says he's good with whoever gets picked for him. Ratchet begins the tests—the first has them running on treadmills, though Hot Shot tries to speed his up and ends up thrown backwards into a wall. This is followed by a psychological exam of each student. Finally he puts them through a maze, which they all solve in their own ways. Ratchet departs with the analyzer, but Hoist notices Whirl is looking worried. She expresses her concern that the analyzer won't think she's worthy of a mentor, but Hoist assures her she's worthy.
Ratchet runs the analyzer to pair everyone up. Whirl is matched up with Chase, Medix with Blades, and Wedge with Bumblebee, much to his shock and delight. Hot Shot, despite hoping for Optimus, ends up paired with Heatwave. Hoist confidently waits for his match which turns out to be Grimlock. The Dinobot immediately bursts into the room, sending the terrified Hoist running.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Quotes
"For a start, I learned how to be calm and patient... AHH, I can't wait for the lessons to start! Are they going to start soon? Like what's the holdup?!"
- —Whirl
"Okay, let's try word association. Say the first word you think of. Up."
"BUMBLEBEE! Uh, I mean, down."
- —Ratchet analyzes Wedge.
"And finally Hoist. You've got a very special mentor. Grimlock!"
[crashing through the front door] "RAAAAAAGGHHH!"
- —Ratchet and Grimlock fail to put Hoist at ease.
Notes
Continuity notes
- The recruits recap what they learned in Year 1, including Hoist "getting over" his fear of Dinobots.
- Ratchet was previously established to be Medix's uncle back in "Tyrannosaurus Wrecked".
- Hot Shot speculates that he'll be assigned Blurr as a tutor.
- Perceptor is among the prospective tutors that flash up on the Aptitude Analyzer, though he has not yet made an appearance in the series.
Transformers references
- Ratchet is using his evergreen design, and like Optimus and Bumblebee, is voiced by his Transformers: Cyberverse voice actor—Todd Perlmutter was, of course, already a regular on Rescue Bots Academy.
Real-world references
- TBA
Animation and technical errors
- The text on the treadmills is printed mirrored from the point of view of the bot actually using the treadmill.
Trivia
- This episode was originally intended to be part of a two-parter, with the following episode titled "Back to School Part 2".
- The Cybertronian text on the treadmills reads "SUPPORT" and "CAR". Possibly this has been reused from "Glitch".
Foreign localization
- TBA
