Velocity (episode)
Investigating a mysterious race car, Bumblebee gets involved with an illegal underground street racing circuit, which also captures the attention of the Decepticons.
Summary
Stats
- Written by: Len Uhley
- Directed by:
- Original airdate: May 10, 2008
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
Fanzone: I've been after these guys for weeks. They're part of an underground racing circuit.
Bulkhead: You mean they race in tunnels?
Fanzone: Ungerground as in illegal. As in they race in the streets and don't care who gets hurt.
Bulkhead: That's not what Sari told me.
Optimus: What purpose does this street race serve?
Fanzone: Eh, what else? They get a couple a' million pay-per-view customers for their pirate broadcasts, then it's "cha-ching cha-ching", big bucks.
- —Captain Fanzone introduces the Autobots to the seedy world of underground racing.
Bumblebee: Lighten up, Bulkhead. We're supposed to be the fun bots.
Bulkhead: Yeah, but we still gotta set a good example. She looks up to us.
Bumblebee: Hello, she looks up to everybody.
Sari: HEY!
- —Bumblebee should be more sensitive about size issues.
"HA! I will crush all that stands in my way!"
- —Angry Blitzwing, right before he is buried under the rubble of a bridge.
Crazy Blitzwing: Oh, isn't zat cute? They're twins!
Calm Blitzwing: Readings indicate that one of them is carrying the AllSpark fragment.
Angry Blitzwing: I will destroy them both!
- —Whenever in doubt, Blitzwing's personalities can agree on one thing—destroy everything.
Angry Blitzwing: What is happening?! Why can't I control myself?!
Crazy Blitzwing: Not that I ever could. AHAHAHAHAHA!
- —Angry Blitzwing wants control, while Crazy Blitzwing has accepted his insanity.
Angry Blitzwing: Never give up!
Calm Blitzwing: Never surrender!
Crazy Blitzwing: NEVER MIND!!
[Blitzwing swerves off into a nearby building]
- —Blitzwing and Blurr play a game of Chicken.
Other notes
Continuity errors
Transformers references
- The street racing cars (including Master Disaster's truck) are highly reminiscent of the G1 Stunticons.
- Bumblebee's turbo boosters were first seen in Nanosec.
Real-world references
- Blurr's vehicle mode bears more than just a passing resemblance to the Mach 5 from Speed Racer.
- (Though it's probably coincidence that the 2008 live-action Speed Racer movie opened the same weekend this episode first aired.)
- This episode borrows several plot and thematic elements from the popular street racing film The Fast and the Furious.
- Blitzwing's "Never give up! Never surrender! NEVER MIND!" quote refers to the catchphrase from the Dreamworks film, Galaxy Quest.
Miscellaneous trivia
- This is the first appearance of the mysterious blue race car who, despite his talkative reputation, doesn't say a single word.
