Sick as a Bot

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"It ain't easy being green!"
"Sick as a Bot"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	October 21, 2017
Writer	Will Friedle
Director	Todd Waterman
Animation studio	Polygon Pictures

After the Energon seeking Wingcode infects the Autobots with a virus, Bulkhead joins Grimlock in his hunt for the Decepticon.

Synopsis

"Here's something interesting. It's a possible gamma sickness."

"Well, if Banner knows what it is, I'm gonna track him down, I'm gonna put my foot on his throat, and I'm gonna..."
"That was Banner. IT was Banner."

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"I want more. You've seen what he becomes, right?"
"I have. And it's beautiful. Godlike."

"You should know that there's a flip side to this, too. If we miss on the low side, if we induce me and it fails, this will be very dangerous for you."
"I've always been more curious than cautious, and that's served me pretty well."

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Grimlock (2) Sideswipe (3) Strongarm (4) Bumblebee (5) Fixit (8) Bulkhead (9)	Wingcode (1)	Russell Clay (6) Denny Clay (7) Campers (10-14) Ice cream man (15)

Quotes

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Stay calm. Calm helps, crazy doesn't.

—Bulkhead

"Hey! No amusing antenna toppers! Pull over!"

—Strongarm lays down some Cybertronian law.

"A fist denting in a Sharkticon's snout with one punch."

—Bulkhead calms down Grimlock

"I think part of the problem is we're not really thinkers."
"Yeah, not so much."

—Grimlock and Bulkhead

"Hey, don't talk smack about my tail. It will smack you back."

—Grimlock

Notes

Continuity notes

• He's back, baby! Bulkhead was last seen on-screen in Predacons Rising; he had also appeared in Robots in Disguise's tie-in comic, but the episode establishes that they are in a seperate continuity from the cartoon, as Bulkhead has to be introduced to the Bee Team.
• Nightstrike is referred to multiple times.
• Grimlock uses the fake energon cubes that were meant to trick Ped in "Can You Dig It?".

Prisoner manifest

• In stasis: Clampdown, Quillfire, Underbite, Thunderhoof.
• Held Prisoner: Wingcode
• Known at Large: Steeljaw.
  • The Autobots have run out of stasis pods at this point in the series.

Transformers references

• Bulkhead jokingly calls Grimlock "Dinobutt," which was an affectionate insult Rattrap frequently lobbed at Dinobot in the Beast Wars cartoon.

Trivia

• The episode's name comes from the common expression "sick as a dog".