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...
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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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? An other possibility would be that he may have simply got orders from higher Decepticon Autorithy.
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".
