Human Error, Part II
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 The tiny thing at their feet? Yeah, that's right, that's their leader... | ||||||
| "Human Error, Part 2" | ||||||
| Airdate | April 25, 2009 | |||||
| Written by | Tom Pugsley | |||||
| Directed by | Kalvin Lee Yosuke Hatta | |||||
| Animation studio | Mook | |||||
With the Autobots trapped in Soundwave's virtual world, Sari seeks help to rescue them.
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Substitute Autobots |
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Quotes
Driver: Take it easy, lead foot!
Bulkhead: What, it's not lead any more!
[Bumblebee's car hits Bulkhead's car]
Bumblebee: Virtual Fanzone is gonna be ticked!.
Optimus: I have to hand it to the humans Driving is much more difficult than it looks.
Ratchet: [Driving backwards] This ain't so hard.
Prowl: It's merely a matter of becoming one with the machiAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! [Begins popping a wheelie]
- —The Autobots take their turn at driving...and fail miserably.
"Hey, weren't there three of you? Where's the other one."
"Me Grimlock not talking to him. Him traitor. Dinobots not pets."
- —Sari Sumdac and Grimlock on the status of the Dinobots.
Sari: Alright. Substitute Autobots, transform and roll out!
Wreck-Gar: Transform. What a good idea!
[Transforms and drives off]
Scrapper: [Riding Snarl] Hi ho Snarl!
[Snarl slips on some ice, knocking Scrapper off, who transforms and follows]
Scrapper: Hey Snarl, wait for daddy!
Sari: Hey, wait for me! I'm your leader!
- —The Substitue Autobots aren't getting off to a good start.
Powel: I'm ruined! I'll have to refund every last penny!
Sumdac:And you can start by refunding mine!
- —Oh, come on, Isaac, you loved it when it was dancing...
Notes
Animation or technical errors
Human ratchet has is scar on the wrong side when he is driving backward... Sort of make sens?
Continuity errors
Transformers references
- Multiple Electrostatic Soundwaves populate Soundwave's virtual world.
- Virtual human Bulkhead uses Prowl's first toy's primary weapon.
- Scrapper names the triceratops Dinobot "Snarl" as a second choice after he took offense to "Slag", referencing the real-life name change for Snarl.
- Soundwave also mass-hypnotized humans in the Generation 1 cartoon episode Auto-Bop.
Real-world references
- Both Wreck-Gar and his voice-actor, "Weird Al" Yankovic, play the accordion.
- Optimus refers to Laserbeak as an "axe" (a common nickname for guitars) before forcibly transforming him into his alt. mode.
- Scrapper's cry of "Hi ho Snarl!" is a reference to the Lone Ranger's cry of "Hi ho Silver!"
- Some of the sound effects used when Optimus attacks Soundwave with Laserbeak date back to Hanna-Barbara's Quickdraw McGraw, whose title character's alter-ego El Kabong used a guitar as a melee weapon.
Trivia
- Several questions were left unanswered in this two-parter, including how Soundwave was rebuilt after the destruction of his body in "Sound and Fury", and where Laserbeak and Ratbat come from.
