Shopping Brawl
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| "Shopping Brawl" | ||||||
| Production company | Entertainment One | |||||
| Airdate | March 25, 2022 | |||||
| Writers | Kevin Burke & Chris Wyatt | |||||
| Directors | Paul O'Flanagan | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
 Watch this episode on Netflix
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Better the devil you know.
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| BotBots | Humans | ||||
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Quotes
"I always thought we needed personal boundaries to have fun! So! Foolish!"
- —Batsby
Burgertron: Is he our enemy? Maybe in his own fleshy and gross way he loves the mall as much as we do! And he should be as free to be here as we BotBots are! In fact, maybe freedom is the right of all sentient beings!
Dimlit: What's "sentient"?
Kikmee: Like a snake.
Bonz-Eye: No, that's a serpent.
Clogstopper: Dave's a serpent?!
Notes
Continuity notes
- Dave lost his job at the end of the prior episode, "Agent Smartlit", after destroying the main hall's fountain and a chunk of the food court.
- A flier for Burgertron's The Real I, Cheeseburger production floats through the ruined main hall.
- The mall's master security code of "111111" was the code Clogstopper tried to unlock Dave's phone in "Phoning It In". It wasn't the right code there, but here? Vindication!
- Burgertron obtained the rare Costa Pasta collector's cup way back in "The Lost Bots and the Claw Crusade". He was convinced it was useless, but Kikmee told him to keep it as it might be useful some day.
Transformers references
(Wow, we haven't had to pull this section out for a while, have we?)
- Yes, Burgertron spouts the catchphrase of many an Optimus Prime. Which, given the original toy's similarities to the standard Optimus in the head region, makes sense.
Real-world references
- The killer security bots are a deliberate homage to the 1986 horror film Chopping Mall (aka Killbots), in which a trio of black, treaded, laser-visor-having, malfunctioning experimental security robots hunt down a group of teenagers who've snuck into a mall after hours to have a party. They even share the "Have a nice day" phrase.
Animation and technical errors
- Despite having happened almost assuredly a very short time ago, like possibly within hours, the fountain and food court have been rebuilt and are in perfect working order by the time Dave goes to clean out his locker. Of course, a similar situation happened in "Rage Against the Karaoke Machine", and also, it's funnier this way, so hey.
Trivia
- The music playing over the credits is the second chorus from Dave's lemons song, because of course.
