Garbage In, Garbage Out
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AllSpark energy turns a junk pile into a sentient robot who tries to help the Autobots, but ends up doing more harm than good.
Summary
Stats
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- Directed by:
- Original airdate: May 3, 2008
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
Other notes
- This episode was first shown on Saturday, April 26th, at BotCon 2008. The version aired still had the time-code running in the top-left corner.
Continuity errors
Transformers references
- Wreck-Gar interprets Lugnut's incoming rocket punch as an invitation to a high-five, and happily delivers the Universal greeting.
- Wreck-Gar's shifting allegiance and red optics as he faces down Ratchet on the garbage scow appear to be callbacks to the original Wreck-Gar, who appeared to be an enemy to the Autobots at first, complete with red optics.
- The Animated incarnations of Spike and Carly, who made a cameo in the pilot episode, re-appear with speaking lines and even get their names called out.
Real-world references
- Wreck-Gar's "I dare to be stupid!" is, of course, a reference to one of "Weird Al" Yankovic's most well-known songs, "Dare to be Stupid", a Devo "style parody" that appeared on the soundtrack to the original animated movie.
Miscellaneous trivia
- Aside from Wreck-Gar, Weird Al also voiced the Sumdac Systems technician who explains the new version of the nanobots to Porter C. Powell.
