The Thrill of the Hunt

While Autobots encounter a mysterious muscle car creating havoc in Detroit, Ratchet keeps flashing back to his "tour of duty" in the Great Autobot-Decepticon Wars.

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• Original airdate: January 19, 2008

Featured characters

Numbers indicate order of appearance.

Autobots	Decepticons
Ratchet (1) Optimus Prime (2) Bumblebee (3) Arcee (5) Bulkhead (6) Prowl (7)	Lockdown (4) Blitzwing (8) Megatron (9)

Quotes

"Ooh, can I see him turn into a fire truck? Can I? Can I? Huh? Huh? Can I?"

- Blitzwing, Jack-o-Lantern personality.

"I'm not good with names and faces, but I never forget a trophy."

- Lockdown

"Now that was just sad. HAHAHAHA."

- Lockdown, after supposedly taking out Ratchet with one shot.

"Humans call it playing possum. Don't ask me what a possum is."

- Ratchet after getting the drop on Lockdown. The doc-bot was playing roboto-possum, perhaps?

Other notes

Transformers references

• Bumblebee's "new horn" plays the traditional melody of the phrase "Ro-bots in Dis-guise"!

Miscellaneous trivia

• This is the first episode of Animated where Sari does not appear.

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.