Three's a Crowd (episode)
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 "Ben 10: Alien Force got none on this guys." | ||||||
| "Three's a Crowd" | ||||||
| Airdate | March 21, 2009 | |||||
| Written by | Rich Fogel | |||||
| Directed by | Kalvin Lee, Tetsuro Moronuki | |||||
There's a new boss in town... Dirt Boss!
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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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.
Lugnut: "Uh, you promise me you will, uh, never speak of this to Megatron..."
Liar Starscream: "Oh, I promise."
- —Epic foreshadowing of something that, sadly, probably won't be brought up again.
Notes
Animation or technical errors
Continuity errors
- When Bulkhead confronts Mixmaster and Scrapper, they speak to Bulkhead as if they remembered the events that transpired in "Rise of the Constructicons", saying that "they dont work for no stinkin' Autobots anymore" and referring to Bulkhead as "Bulky". Nevertheless nothing forbid that they may have remembered at some point, but if that's the case, it wasn't showed when.
- More AllSpark fragments are showed in the beginning of the episode, yet, all the previously collected pieces the Autobots found were placed into Omega Supreme last season. But again, it is still possible that they were found in a time not featured by the show.
Transformers references
- The Headmaster unit was recovered last episode.
- The Fossil Fuel 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.
Real-world references
- Scrapper and Mixmaster are found drinking heavily in a manufacturing plant that is deconstructing luxury cars piece by piece. Striptease, anyone?
- The climactic scene with Dirt Boss on top of the oil tank is closely based on the ending of the gangster movie White Heat.
Trivia
- Ratchet appears in the episode and does a few things, but never speaks.
- What exactly did Dirt Boss hope to accomplish by climbing up to the top of the oil tank, again?
