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*A couple of days have passed since "[[Soldier]]". | *A couple of days have passed since "[[Soldier]]". | ||
*When Fred notices Hot Shot, the latter is wearing the famous [[JaAm]] grin. | *When Fred notices Hot Shot, the latter is wearing the famous [[JaAm]] grin. It actually makes several appearances in this episode. | ||
*When Alexis catches up with the boys, [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] perches on her shoulder. [[Laserbeak (G1)|As we know]], this makes her supremacy official. | |||
*This episode is totally totally awesome. | *This episode is totally totally awesome. | ||
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 Meet Mr. Penguin, Mr. Bear, and Mr...er...Squidhead? | |||||||||
| Carnival (Shakusai [Ōsawagi]) "Festival (Clamor)" | |||||||||
| Production code | TF: A-07 | ||||||||
| Production company | TV Tokyo, NAS | ||||||||
| Airdate | October 11, 2002 (English) 21 February 2003 (Japanese) | ||||||||
| Writer | Ryō Motohira | ||||||||
| Director | Osamu Kamijō | ||||||||
| Animation studio | Actas | ||||||||
| Continuity | Unicron Trilogy | ||||||||
A fair is a veritable smorgasbord.
Synopsis
The kids puzzle over why the Mini-Con in the panel recovered from Antarctica hasn't emerged yet. When High Wire tells them it's sleeping, Carlos tries to think of ways to wake it up. Alexis suggests they leave it to wake up naturally and do some cleaning while they're waiting. Meanwhile Optimus and Hot Shot are watching Red Alert fix equipment. Hot Shot asks Rad and Carlos to pass him a huge spanner, which turns out to be too heavy for them to lift. This is apparently just Autobot humour. Hot Shot returns to work, and the kids realise there's not much they can do to help.
Up on the Moon, Demolishor clumsily gets in Megatron's way, earning a reprimand and the scorn of his fellow Decepticons. He then stumbles through the base hull, causing more damage. Disgusted, Megatron tells him to get lost.
Meanwhile, Rad and Carlos are growing bored. Carlos suggests some fresh air at the science carnival and the pair sneak out with their Mini-Cons while Alexis and Sureshock are occupied at the computer. Sparkplug spots them leaving. The two kids cruise through the fair, riding on their transformed Mini-Cons, who naturally want to have some fun too. As the kids are telling the Mini-Cons they can't transform in public, they overhear some children talking about robots and spot Sparkplug, Longarm and Jolt, who have followed them from the base. High Wire and Grindor transform and join their fellow Mini-Cons, much to the dismay of Rad and Carlos, but it seems the crowd is just assuming that they're products of the laboratory which set up the fair. Soon the Mini-Cons are enjoying the carnival, even taking part in a parade.
Also at the carnival are Fred and Billy. Fred spots the strange robots following Rad and Carlos around and tells Billy they should check out what's going on. Meanwhile Rad, nervous at how long the Mini-Cons have been out in public, suggests they return to return to base, and High Wire and Grindor transform to vehicle mode—observed by the spying Fred and Billy, who subsequently become convinced there's something going on.
The children at the carnival are upset when Carlos tells them the Mini-Cons are going back to "the lab". Billy and Fred turn up armed with a net and rope in order to capture one of the robots, which Fred believes are invading aliens, but while the pair are arguing, their quarry escapes. The Mini-Cons scatter through the carnival, causing chaos and confusion.
Laserbeak leads Alexis, Sureshock and Hot Shot to the carnival, and Rad and Carlos are soon on the end of a scolding. Fred and Billy have cornered Jolt, but a trio of children prevent them from making the capture. As Billy makes veiled threats, the children run off in fear—but only because Hot Shot is right behind Fred and Billy. The pair hug Jolt in fear, and the Mini-Con transforms to copter mode, carrying them high into the air before they bail onto a hot-air balloon. Rad asks Hot Shot to get the duo down, and the Autobot borrows a tennis-ball cannon from one of the sideshows. After using it to burst the balloon, he stunt-jumps, transforming in mid-air to catch Fred and Billy and, with Jolt's help, fly them to safety. The small children who watch him land are extremely impressed. Rad, Carlos and Alexis make Fred and Billy swear not to tell anyone about what they've seen, and Hot Shot takes the Mini-Cons back to base.
Sometime later, Rad and Carlos are being lectured by Alexis, who tells them again they should be cleaning. Rad is impressed by the amount of work the Autobots have gotten done, and Carlos seems to trigger some activity from the Mini-Con panel, but neither of the boys is sure exactly what it means.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Mini-Cons |
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Guests |
Quotes
Carlos: "Hey, I got an idea! OK, let's scare it! That'll wake it up for sure."
Rad: "So how you gonna do that?"
Carlos: "Huh, good point. Wait, I got another idea! How about we throw a bucket of water on it!"
Alexis: "Great plan! While we're at it, why don't I throw a bucket of cold water on your head too?"
Carlos: "Come on, Alexis; I was just pulling his leg!"
Alexis: "Hey, nothing like ice water for clearing out the cobwebs. So next time you're woken up from a comfy sleep by some ice-water in the face, remember who thought of it first!"
- —The kids debate how to wake up Jetstorm.
"Huh? It's them! Billy! Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy."
- —Fred subtly attempts to attract Billy's attention.
"They're getting away! What do we do?"
"I'll give you one guess."
"'K, to the hot dog stand!"
"We're going after them! Come on, ya goof."
"Aw, well I tried."
- —Fred and Billy.
"Better get out of the way while you can, otherwise something terrible might happen to ya. Like maybe... this robot will destroy the Earth!"
"You've been watching too much TV. Besides, everyone knows that red robots are always the good guys."
"OK, OK! So maybe it wasn't a good example!"
- —Fred matches wits with a small child and loses.
"No! Please! I'm allergic to chromium."
- —Billy fleeing from Hot Shot.
"My therapist was right—seventy dollars an hour does work out to mere pennies a day."
- —A random passerby on seeing a giant flying robot.
Notes
Differences with Micron Legend
Continuity errors
- Grindor and Sureshock swap names for the whole episode. In fact, this trend will continue for the rest of the series, suggesting perhaps that their names had been swapped in some internal documentation.
- At the Decepticon base, Starscream calls Swindle "Grid", his Japanese name.
Miscellaneous trivia
- A couple of days have passed since "Soldier".
- When Fred notices Hot Shot, the latter is wearing the famous JaAm grin. It actually makes several appearances in this episode.
- When Alexis catches up with the boys, Laserbeak perches on her shoulder. As we know, this makes her supremacy official.
- This episode is totally totally awesome.
