Bee in the City 2: Electric Bugaloo
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| "Bee in the City 2: Electric Boogaloo" | |||||||||||||
| Original presentation | April 29, 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | TransTech & a G1 universe | ||||||||||||
"Joe" escapes from Axiom Nexus with his most devious scheme yet!
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons/Predacons | Others |
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Quotes
Notes
- The cast:
Transformers references
- Towards the beginning, Megatron, Soundwave, and Lugnut are said to have been employees of Cryotek, working at The Blue Deployer. Both Cryotek and his pub were established first back in "Gone Too Far".
- Road Rage is introduced as having "always been here", poking fun at the notion that she was a later addition to Generation 1 lore having not yet existed back in the 1980's fiction.
- Prior to seeing each other, both Megatron and Optimus assume that the other is the Optimus and Megatron that they are familiar with, based only on hearing the sound of each other's voices. This is a reference to how Garry Chalk and David Kaye, respectively, have voiced the Optimus and Megatron of both the Beast Era and Unicron Trilogy cartoons.
- Later, Optimus notes to Stungun that he (Optimus) has dealt with Megatron's kind before and knows how to play to Megatron's ego, furthering the reference.
- After recognizing that neither Megatron nor Optimus are the ones that they knew, Megatron asks Optimus why his CGI is "cel-shaded". This is a nod to how the Cybertron cartoon utilized cel-shaded CG for its robot characters instead of being fully CGI like the Beast Wars cartoon.
- Optimus's "Galaxy Force Punch!" attack is named after the Japanese name of the Cybertron cartoon, Transformers: Galaxy Force. The name was also later applied to two Cybertron toy redecos: Galaxy Force Optimus Prime and Galaxy Force Vector Prime.
- Whilst buttering up Megatron with the other Autobots, Bumblebee quote's Megatron's famous "Yeeesss" line.
Real-world references
- The title is a reference to the 1985 film Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
- Optimus calls out his attack name "Galaxy Force Punch!" (complete with Garry Chalk performing a full punching motion) in traditional anime fashion, which was commonplace in most Japanese Transformers animated media, but not as common in the English dub versions of the Unicron Trilogy cartoons.
Trivia
- Though titled "Bee in the City 2", the story has very little to do with the first "Bee in the City" story aside from the return of Megatron and his manipulating a Bumblebee character. Towards the end, the characters even question why this story was titled as "Bee in the City 2" since it didn't take place in a city or really focus that much on Bumblebee.
- Having not played Blaster in over two decades, Buster Jones's performance in this script reading was far more laid back and relaxed compared his more lively, upbeat Blaster performance in the Generation 1 cartoon.
