Carnage in C-Minor
Several Autobots and Decepticons find themselves battling over a planet whose civilization completely revolves around music, and whose inhabitants are capable of using sound as a powerful weapon.
Detailed synopsis
Eurhythma, a planet whose culture is based entirely on music, is threatened by a comet. Zebop Skandana joins fellow Eurythmans Allegra and Basso Profundo to use their combined harmonic weapon to destroy the comet, inadvertently shooting down a number of Autobots and Decepticons.
After Galvatron and Soundwave collapse a bridge on Ultra Magnus, Blaster and Broadside, Zebop joins a number of other citizens to revive the Autobots. He then leads them to Allegra's retreat, where they find that Galvatron has beaten them there and swayed Allegra to their side. When Soundwave uses Allegra's third of the harmony against them, Zebop counters with his own third, which Soundwave then records and combines with Allegra's, plunging Zebop and the Autobots into a chasm. As the Autobots pull themselves up, Galvatron turns on Allegra, prompting Zebop to run onto the battlefield to save her. While he is successful, he is accidentally crushed by Blaster and Soundwave in the process, but is harmonically revived by a tearful Allegra soon after.
Returning to the capital city, the Autobots discover the fallen forms of Perceptor and the Protectobots, who Zebop, Allegra, and Basso heal. The three returned to Earth with the Autobots, where Galvatron and Soundwave were overwhelming Metroplex with the stolen harmony. The trio of aliens countered it with anti-sound, giving Blaster enough time to erase the harmony from Soundwave's tapes. With the battle concluded, Zebop returns to his world with the others, vowing to live in harmony.
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Written by: Buzz Dixon
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Other Notes
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Animation and/or technical glitches
- This is what you get when you combine all bloopers into 1 episode.
Continuity errors
- In one infamous scene, Brawn shows up not only alive and well, but fighting for the Decepticons. In the same shot, a bizarre fusion of Gears and Huffer has also switched sides!
Transformers references
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Real-world references
- The Eurhythman characters' names are all music-related puns.
Miscellaneous trivia
- "Carnage in C-Minor" is widely regarded by fans as the worst episode of the Generation 1 cartoon (and one of the worst episodes of any TF series to date), but this is seemingly due to the sheer volume of animation errors, and the glaringly obvious nature of many of the individual errors. However, the actual plot is certainly not the weakest to grace the cartoon series, and its "continuity errors" have little to nothing to do with the script itself... certainly not to the level of, say, "B.O.T.".
- This was one of several episodes subjected to the MSTF treatment at BotCon 1999.
- Some fans refer to this episode as the "Gay episode" Due to the feminine attitude of both Soundwave and Blaster when they hear the harmony, A scene where it appears Galvatron and Soundwave are holding hands while flying and the look on Galvatron's face through the entire episode.
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