This Is Why I Hate Machines

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"This Is Why I Hate Machines"
Airdate	May 9, 2009

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notes

Transformers references

• Ratchet's favorite hangout is Maccadam's Old Oil House.

• Animated Rattrap looks and speaks very much like his Beast-era namesake.

• At the end of the episode, Shockwave turns into his "true colors" purple form, represented by a Target exclusive redeco reminiscent of the G1 namesake's color scheme.

• The Autobot Council's headquarters is known as "Metroplex", and the Elite Guard's battle station is "Fortress Maximus".

Real-world references

• Sentinel Prime's propaganda broadcast concludes with him saying "I'm Sentinel Prime and I approve this message"--in the style of contemporary political campaign ads.

• Shockwave's slow, deadpan delivery of "I'm afraid I can't let you do that" is a reference to the menacing supercomputer HAL from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

• Rattrap is an underworld informant--you might say, a "rat".