Typhoon Twister
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| "Typhoon Twister" | ||||||
| Production company | Wang Film Productions | |||||
| Airdate | 2003 | |||||
| Written by | Sean Roche | |||||
| Directed by | Vic Dal Chele, John Grusd | |||||
| Animation studio | Wang Film Productions | |||||
| Continuity | Go-Bots continuity | |||||
| Packaged with | Speed-Bot | |||||
Silver-Bot spoils seaside sojourns, silly sod!
Synopsis
Silver-Bot pops out of a portal over the sea and, after briefly landing on a giant pearl adorning a tower, proceeds to enjoy himself by creating a huge whirlpool that destroys a pier and a number of rowboats. The Go-Bot Protectors are soon made aware of his antics, as his high-speed passes upturn vehicles, and create a dangerous tornado. Aero-Bot, Strong-Bot and Speed-Bot head for the Go-Chutes for launch.
Silver-Bot's hurricane has begun to threaten a cruise ship, though the captain assures his passengers that they'll get the ship out of danger. While Strong-Bot and Speed-Bot go to help people on the ground, Aero-Bot find himself being challenged to a race by Silver-Bot, who starts towing the cruise ship to make it more of a challenge. Aero-Bot neatly severs the tow-chain, sending Silver-Bot flying into a nearby cliff.
Aero-Bot tows the ship to calm waters by the shore and hands it off to Strong-Bot before heading back to find the troublemaker. Silver-Bot is still intent on having a race to the Island Pearl Resort, so Aero-Bot makes a deal — if he beats Silver-Bot, the upstart will leave Earth. The pair race to the giant pearl and Aero-Bot reaches it first. After a brief struggle over the pearl, Aero-Bot shuts Silver-Bot in the giant clam the pearl was resting in, and starts back.
Meanwhile Speed-Bot is towing a chain of buses filled with people to safety, but his way is blocked by a number of palm trees knocked over by Silver-Bot during the race. What's worse, the approaching twister knocks over a power line which ignites the fallen trees! Aero-Bot swiftly throws the pearl into the nearby sea, dousing the flames with a huge wave, and knocks the obstruction out of the way.
Silver-Bot takes his chance to snatch the pearl back, but is suddenly caught in the hurricane of his own making. Aero-Bot calls to his two companions, who have constructed a cave to keep the humans safe, and he and Speed-Bot race around the twister in the opposite direction to its spin, dissipating the storm and allowing Aero-Bot to snatch the errant Go-Bot from mid-air.
As the humans gather around, Aero-Bot lectures Silver-Bot, who says he's learned his lesson and will go back Botropolis and train to become a protector. All of the humans who he recklessly endangered cheer!
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Go-Bot Protectors | Other Go-Bots | Humans |
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Quotes
"Silver-Bot's got armor plating as thick as his head!"
- —Aero-Bot
Notes
Animation or technical errors
- The cruise ship passengers never seem particularly panicked by anything that happens.
- Improbable viewpoints:
- Every single image received by the Go-Pod.
- As Speed-Bot stops in front of the road block, the camera pans along to show he's towing only four buses instead of five.
- After the obstruction is cleared and Speed-Bot starts to move off, the sea appears to be on the other side of the buses.
- In the next shot, the beach becomes a gentle slope rather than the sudden cut-off it was before.
- The hurricane rotates clockwise when Silver-Bot makes it and when he gets caught in it. In between, it rotates counterclockwise.
Continuity errors
- How did the ground-vehicles Speed-Bot and Strong-Bot get to the island, exactly?
- That anchor chain sure broke easily.
- The pearl's weight is not consistent. Aero-bot throws it into the sea to get water to jump out, which suggests the pearl to have a density bigger than water. However, the pearl is later seen floating, meaning it is lighter than water and shouldn't have been able to cause such a big splash... unless Aero-Bot is really, really, "who-needs-Strong-Bot?" levels of strong.
- Where does the pearl go after Silver-Bot is caught in the hurricane?
- As Aero-Bot outlines his plan to Speed-Bot, the hurricane is over the sea, but a few seconds later, it's suddenly on the beach so Speed-Bot can drive around it.
Trivia
- This and "Arctic Oil Spill" were only available on a video cassette that came packed with one of Speed-Bot's toys in 2003.
- Despite the title being "Typhoon Twister", it is only called a "typhoon" once and a "hurricane" the rest of the time. Given that the episode seems to take place in the United States of America rather than Asia, the proper term is "hurricane".
