Strongarm's Big Score
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| "Strongarm's Big Score" | ||||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | September 17, 2016 (Canada) | |||||
| Writer | David McDermott | |||||
| Director | Vinton Heuck | |||||
| Animation studio | Polygon Pictures | |||||
An attempt to impress Fixit turns dangerous when Strongarm encounters another Scavenger.
Synopsis
Featured characters
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Quotes
"Thanks, that could have been ugly."
"Don't mention it. I mean, I will. Probably twice a day for the next couple of weeks..."
- —Strongarm and Sideswipe
Fixit: Sideswipe a ninety five.
Sideswipe: That's like ninety four points higher than I've gotten on any test, ever!
Fixit: Grimlock received a ninety three.
Grimlock: Oh! That's like two hundred and fifty seven points higher than I've gotten on any test ever!
"Did someone get the license plate of that multi-axle cargo transport?"
- —Strongarm
"Well, that was a brilliant defensive move on your part."
"Each quill does something different, ya galloot! How could I know you'd turn magnetic?!"
- —Strongarm and Scatterspike
"Thanks, Sideswipe, but I'm over it. Numbers don't matter, only results."
"That is a very mature attitude... for someone I still beat by four and a half points! Woo!"
- —Strongarm and Sideswipe
Notes
Continuity notes
- The encounter with Paralon and Buzzstrike which Bumblebee mentions took place in the previous episode.
- The existence of a base earlier than Autobot Outpost Omega One alludes to the undefined period of time that the Autobots spent on Earth prior to the events of the Transformers: Prime animated series. This part of their story has been left completely untold in all "Aligned" media (even the comprehensive history in The Covenant of Primus), but the 'bots were established at the beginning of Prime to have been on Earth for at least three years. Bumblebee notes that his workout video in the previous episode was "in style" at the time of its recording, implying that the Autobots were on Earth in the 1980s.
- Strongarm's temporary magnetism, including her becoming stuck to Scatterspike, is exceptionally similar to what happened with Arcee and Bulkhead when they were affected by the polarity gauntlet in "Metal Attraction".
Transformers references
- The training simulator, minus the Thunderhoof hologram, bears a more-than-uncanny resemblance to the auto-combatant from The Transformers: The Movie... well, with giant antlers added on, of course.
- Mount St. Hilary being the location of the first Autobot base on Earth is, of course, a cross-continuity allusion to the volcano being the location of the Autobots' base of operations in the original Generation 1 Marvel comic and cartoon (though it was only named in the former).
Real-world references
Trivia
Animation and technical errors
Foreign localization
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