Along Came a Spider
Bumblebee and Bulkhead's first Halloween turns even spookier when they encounter a giant spider that turns out to be the deadly Decepticon Blackarachnia.
Synopsis
Stats
- Written by: Marty Isenberg
- Directed by: Matt Youngberg, Irineo Maramba, Yutaka Kagawa
- Original airdate: February 16, 2008
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
"Did he just say 'Energon-y Goodness'?"
- —Elita-1, perplexed at Sentinel Prime's terminology.
Optimus: Somebody has got to keep you walking malfunctions from getting in over your heads.
Sentinel: We never get in over our heads.
[The ground they're walking on falls out from underneath them, causing the three to fall into a cavern. Optimus gives Sentinel a look.]
Sentinel: What?
- —Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime.
Sari: Optimus! Check out my costume!
[Camera reveals that Sari is Optimus Prime]
Sari: [Imitating Optimus] Oh, look at me. I'm Optimus Prime. I'm scared of spiders.
[Bumblebee and Bulkhead chuckle]
Optimus: That's not what I sound like...is it?
- —The Autobots roast of Optimus Prime
"This is all your fault!"
- —Sentinel Prime, blaming Optimus for the disaster that happened on an excursion he suggested. Jerk.
Other notes
Continuity errors
Transformers references
- In the Generation 1 animated series, Elita One was G1 Optimus Prime's paramour. The Animated incarnation of the character refrains from attempting to visually homage the original pink-and-white Elita, instead creating a blue-and-yellow pony-tailed character who instead bears resemblance to Elita's earlier (pony-tailed) form, Ariel. Her relationship with Prime is less distinct, with this episode's flashbacks not suggesting any romantic connection between the two, but the present-day scenes suggesting some kind of personal tension (though that could be guilt on Prime's part and anger on Elita's).
- Sentinel Prime is depicted here as Optimus Prime's friend. Wheras in all other series he's either been a mentor, a superior officer, or the predecessor of Prime's.
- With this episode, Energon cubes make their first appearance in Transfomers cartoons since Beast Wars. They look exactly like they did in the Generation 1 cartoon, which even Beast Wars didn't pull off.
Miscellaneous trivia
- This is the first episode to not feature Ratchet or Prowl
- A discarded helmet that matches Blackarachnia's head can be seen in a corner of the abandoned Decepticon warship.
- Bulkhead's "ghost" costume, with its constant cloud of dust/smoke at the bottom, resembles "Pig-Pen's" costume from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
