Human Error, Part I
| ||||||
| "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...
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Virtual Reality Cameos (in order of appearance): Starscream, Lugnut, Blitzwing, Shockwave, Strika, Oil Slick, Spittor, Cybertron, Megatron
Quotes
Ratchet: And I'm telling you, there is no way that this "Santa Claus" could deliver billions of presents in one night.
Prowl: I can think of at least one. Ho. Ho. Ho.
[Prowl projects holograms of himself]
Optimus: A sound theory, Prowl. I did see multiple Santas in the shopping district tonight.
- —The Autobots weigh in on the debate of how Santa does his job.
"We need to get to Sumdac Tower. Auto--er, men. Transfo--er, uh, roll--er, uh, oh, lets just go.
- —Optimus Prime has a few slips on roll out.
"Oh look! I have a hole in my rocket!"
- —Even horrible injury cannot faze Random Blitzwing.
Bumblebee: Hey, we're baaaaack!
Bulkhead: Not all of us!
Bumblebee: It might help you if you make the noise with your mouth like this: Choo-chuh-chah-chik!
Bulkhead: Sounds silly... But, okay. Choo-chuh-chah-chah-chik! Choo-chuh-chah-chah-chik!!
- —Sound effects have never been so much fun.
Notes
Animation or technical errors
- In the bus tram scene, Daniel is shown levitating over his seat.
- 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.
- When being held by the giant Soundwave, Prowl is briefly missing his armor.
Continuity errors
- Presumably Soundwave tapped into the Autobots' memories in order to create images of the Decepticons. But if that's the case, what's Team Chaar doing there?
Transformers references
- Two of the guests seen in Burger Bot are homages of the Super-God Masterforce characters Cancer and Hydra.
- Cybertron was brought into Earth orbit twice in the Generation 1 series: first in the multipart episode "The Ultimate Doom", and then in the series finale "The Rebirth, Part 3".
- Derrick Wyatt stated this episode was a partial homage to a "classic" Generation 1 episode.
- The sound Bulkhead makes with his mouth to help him Transform is the original Transforming sound from Generation 1, just erm .... spoken.
Real-world references
- A human looking like Marty Isenberg sits next to Cancer in the Burger Bot.
- When Laserbeak chases Sari into the elevator, he makes sounds like a seagull.
- Bumblebee says "We're not in Detroit anymore," which is an oft-paraphrased line from The Wizard of Oz.
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.
- The baby that Prowl plays peekaboo with at Burger Bot is the daughter of Spike and Carly Witwicky, who was being born during the Season 2 episode "Garbage In, Garbage Out". In the audio commentary for that episode, she is jokingly named "Jennifer Witwicky".
