Three's a Crowd (episode)

There's a new boss in town... Dirt Boss!

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"Three's a Crowd"
Airdate	March 21, 2009
Written by	Rich Fogel
Directed by	Kalvin Lee, Tetsuro Moronuki

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Bulkhead (2) Optimus Prime (3) Ratchet (4) Bumblebee (5) Prowl (6) Grimlock (13) Snarl (14) Swoop (15)	Lugnut (7) Scrapper (8) Mixmaster (9) Dirt Boss (10) Liar Starscream clone (16)	Isaac Sumdac (1) Sparkplug (11) Captain Fanzone (12)

Quotes

Bulkhead: These AllSpark fragments should give the power core a boost.
Sumdac: Be careful, Bulkhead! We don't want to overload it.
Bulkhead: Relax. When it comes to space bridges, I know what I'm doing.
[The floor starts to give way beneath them]
Bulkhead: But I'm not so hot at structural integrity!

—Bulkhead and Sumdac learn that there are flaws with building a giant space bridge in a tower.

"Oh, I so don't have time for this."

—Optimus Prime, in desperate need of some leave.

Notes

Transformers references

So cars & trucks do eat dinosaurs!

• The Headmaster unit was recovered last episode.

• The Fossil Fuels Oil Company's logo is essentially an Animated version of Sludge, doing an impression of the Sinclair Oil logo.

• It's not the first series to have a space bridge in a tower.

• Dirt Boss appears to be using something akin to cerebro-shells.

Trivia

• Ratchet appears in the episode and does a few things, but never speaks.

• Dirt Boss's design is very reminiscient of another mind-controlling supervillain.

• What exactly did Dirt Boss hope to accomplish by climbing up to the top of the oil tank, again?