Human Error, Part I

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"Human Error, Part 1"
Airdate	April 18, 2009
Written by	Henry Gilroy
Directed by	Kalvin Lee Christopher Berkeley Naoto Hashimoto

On Christmas Morning, the Autobots wake up to an unpleasant surprise...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Optimus Prime (1) Bumblebee (2) Bulkhead (3) Prowl (4) Ratchet (9)	Soundwave (5) Laserbeak (10) Ratbat (11)	Porter C. Powell (6) Isaac Sumdac (7) Sari Sumdac (8)

Virtual Reality Cameos (in order of appearance): Starscream, Lugnut, Blitzwing, Shockwave, Strika, Oil Slick, Spittor, Cybertron, Megatron

Notes

Animation or technical errors

• In the bus tram scene, Daniel is shown levitating over is sitting place.

Continuity errors

• Bulkhead punches Starscream with his right hand... then screams and clutches his left hand... then after a scene cut he is shown clutching his right hand... and later he gets a bandage put on his left hand.

Transformers references

• One of the guests seen in Burger Bot is an homage of the Masterforce character Cancer.
• Cybertron was brought into Earth orbit in the Generation 1 multipart episode "The Ultimate Doom".

Real-world references

• A human looking like Marty Isenberg sits next to Cancer in the Burger Bot.

Trivia

• This episode features an unusually high amount of stock footage by Animated standards. Starscream's sequence is a few seconds longer than when it was last seen in "Megatron Rising - Part 1". Of course, all the sequences of the "human" Autobots transforming have been re-edited.