This Is Why I Hate Machines

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

Synopsis

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans

Quotes

Notes

Animation or technical errors

Continuity errors

Transformers references

  • Steeljaw and Saur are among the terrified crowd of Transformers.
  • 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.
  • Speaking of Target, when Ratchet and Fanzone are headed to Maccadam's, they stop in front of a building which appears to have Target's trademark "bull's-eye" logo.

Real-world references

  • Sentinel Prime's broadcast was based on The Red Scare during the Cold War. The broadcast concludes with him saying "I'm Sentinel Prime and I approve this message"--in the style of contemporary political campaign ads.
  • Sentinel's insistence that he is the one who "makes the tough decisions" and insistence that any questioning of his orders is tantamount to treason is probably some kind of statement about someone or something, but we'll leave it at that. Seriously. We will.
  • 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... which also featured an unblinking single red "eye".
  • Rattletrap is an underworld informant--you might say, a "rat".

Trivia

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