Party Down

	; To be fair, this is what happens at most parties once the keg runs dry.
	"Party Down"
Production company	Allspark Animation
Airdate	September 14, 2019 (Australia/NZ)
Writer	Andrew Robinson
Director	Ehud Landsberg
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio

The Autobots celebrate their newfound victory, but the party quickly takes a violent turn.

Synopsis

Thanks for helping me... pull myself together.

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(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Others
Optimus Prime (1) Autobot soldiers (2) Wheeljack (3) Jetfire (4) Bumblebee (5) Windblade (6) Drift (7) Cheetor (8) Hot Rod (9) Grimlock (10) Ratchet (11) Prowl (12) Arcee (13) Rack'n'Ruin (14) Perceptor (17)	Starscream (15)	Teletraan-X (16)

Wheeljack's clip-on emitters play a similar role to the energon stars from Transformers: Energon.
The symptoms exhibited by the Autobots strongly resemble those of the Hate Plague introduced in The Transformers episode "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1". Rather than the affected's entire bodies turning red, however, only their optics change, as was the case with the plague's new strand in the Beast Machines episode "A Wolf in the Fold".
The idea of Optimus Prime finding it difficult to relax and have fun is something that has seen traction in both the 2005 IDW comics continuity and Aligned continuity. It was even hinted at as far back as the Marvel Comics Transformers Universe bios, where Smokescreen's bio included mention of how as commander there is naturally a barrier between Optimus and the other Autobots, preventing him from ever truly befriending his soldiers.

Optimus begins the episode by making a Captain's Log, famously done by Star Trek.

Having last appeared in "The Visitor" looking identical to his time as Deadlock, Drift appears here in a new body sporting his Generation 1 counterpart's traditional color scheme. No explanation is offered for the sudden change.
This is the first time in the history of Transformers that an Optimus Prime can be seen dancing.

Despite the aforementioned change in Drift's appearance, he appears in his original design during one shot in the final scene.