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It’s time to return to the scrapyard for Robots in Disguise season… 3? 4? Honestly no one seems to be sure. (Though if you want to watch along, the Transformers Official channel on YouTube has it listed as season 4.) After defeating all kinds of dangerous Decepticons, Team Bee is feeling like they can take … Continue reading

Have Rob and Dave bitten off more than they can chew? In this week’s episode, the two follow up their discussion of Streets of Fire with “Tinsel City”, the first episode of its totally unlicenced spiritual successor, Bubblegum Crisis! It’s a little bit Terminator, a little bit Blade Runner, and a whoooole lot ’80s anime! … Continue reading

Before we head back to Denny Clay’s junkyard, we’re checking in on Frankie Greene’s VA Diamond White and her starring role in a new Marvel Disney+ cartoon, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur! The cosmic entity known as the Beyonder picks Lunella to convince him that humanity is worth keeping around, but she just wants to … Continue reading

After the entire island of Griffin Rock is transported to the Arctic, everybody is going to have to pitch in to help get it back where it belongs! Can they fly the island home before the whole place falls apart? Can Doc Greene work in a marriage proposal to Professor Baranova? And how many special … Continue reading

Everybody is gathering in Griffin Rock for the opening of a time capsule — but nobody’s ready for the quantum crystal hidden inside, and when it gets hit by lightning, the whole island is teleported all the way to the Arctic! Can they get the situation under control before everyone freezes? Who does and does … Continue reading

WHO’S READY FOR A MUSICAL EPISODE!? (Hint: Not David!) A mishap with Doc Greene’s new Tone-O-Tuner leaves all of Griffin Rock unable to communicate in anything but song! Who is into it and who is absolutely not? Can they stop it before the sonic waves shake the town apart and/or Heatwave or Kade end up … Continue reading

Chase gets injured and has to stay at the firehouse — so he takes up residence in front of their highly questionable panopticon so he can “help out”! But when Doc Greene’s stage-magician sister’s hotel room is broken into, will he do more harm than good? Is there ANOTHER criminal at work in Griffin Rock!? … Continue reading

Boulder, Kade, Cody, and Frankie discover a family of woodpeckers in Blossom Vale that were thought to be extinct! Can they protect the birds from the greatest threat Griffin Rock has apparently ever faced: birdwatchers? Why is Kade so terrible at keeping secrets? And seriously, why does this episode hate birdwatchers so much!? Join us … Continue reading

Servo needs to learn how to act like a robot in disguise — but when Mrs. Luskey’s dog Poopsie runs away from home and pulls Servo into a whole lot of trouble, can he protect her without blowing the Rescue Bots’ cover? How frustrating must it be for Servo to be so smart but unable … Continue reading

It’s Jen’s turn to be on an Extra as the pod’s most otaku hosts watch the first episode of the new Mobile Suit Gundam series, The Witch from Mercury! It’s Suletta’s first day at the Asticassia School of Technology, where the nepo babies of the future learn how to be financial and military leaders alongside … Continue reading

As Blurr decides to leave Griffin Rock and the Earth behind, the planet is hit by a coronal mass ejection that sends a satellite plummeting conveniently toward the island! Can he find it in himself to be the hero the Rescue Bots need him to be? Or will he *checks notes* die horribly while trying? … Continue reading

New recruits Blurr and Salvage (especially Blurr) need to learn what it takes to live as an Autobot on Earth and be a Rescue Bot — so it’s time for a clip show! But will a charming retrospective on the Rescue Bots’ adventures be enough when Blurr just wants to go back to Cybertron? Can … Continue reading

The Bots find a crashed Autobot ship on Wayward Isle — with two stasis pods inside! But are their newfound friends Rescue Bots material? What’s their connection to that unfrozen caveman Ira? And WHY DOES THE FIREHOUSE HAVE A HOT WHEELS TRACK!? Join us this week as we meet “The New Recruits”!

An estranged friend of Doctor Morocco’s arrives in Griffin Rock to help him replace the Verne Device that’s kept him young all these years — and it’s Jules Verne himself! Can the time-traveling author convince everyone to give his old friend a chance to reform? Will he get some very exciting story ideas from the … Continue reading

Optimus Prime’s old friend High Tide arrives on Earth to help train the Rescue Bots, but he needs to learn some things too — like how not to be such a jerk! Can he learn to work with the younger bots in time for a high-seas rescue? He’s got a great big new toy to … Continue reading

Huxley Prescott interrupts a ceremony honoring the Burns family with some late-breaking news: Their ancestor Bertha was a PIRATE! Can Dani clear her family’s name — or will Kade and Uncle Woodrow get their way and find some ancestral pirate treasure? Who will Mayor Luskey get to protect the town while the actual trained rescue … Continue reading

This week we’re taking a little road trip to Witwickey, PA to check in on the premier of the newest Transformers series, Earthspark! When siblings Robby and Mo Malto find a strange glowing stone, they accidentally trigger the creation of the first Earth-born Transformers! Can they learn to fit in with a human family? How … Continue reading

The dedication of the town’s new clock tower locks Cody into an hour-long time loop — but why is it only Cody, and how can he escape his own personal Groundhog Day? Does it have something to do with the clock using something called “magno-fusion” to keep time? Or maybe that suspiciously industrious little squirrel? And who did … Continue reading

Mayor Luskey declares a festival for Bot Appreciation Week, complete with 3D-printed “souvenirs” of the Rescue Bots! But when something inevitably goes wrong and the tiny toy bots are reprogrammed to do crimes by Evan and Myles, can the Bots get things under control without their human partners? How many campaign finance laws is the … Continue reading

Doc’s attempt to upgrade the drive-in’s projector unleashes a kaiju menace on Griffin Rock! But Kade knows all about Humangado and his frenemy Rayvenous, and what he knows is that they hate dinosaurs! Good thing the Rescue Bots know where they can get some Dinobots! Join us this week for an episode we promise was not … Continue reading

While checking out an Energon reading on Wayward Isle, the crew finds a caveman frozen in ice — and he’s alive! But why is the caveman so excited to see the Rescue Bots? Why does this take a sharp turn into old-school farce? Has anyone in the target audience even heard of the Marx Brothers? … Continue reading

It’s time for everyone to get dino modes! The uncomfortably Q-obsessed Quint Quarry returns, and this time he wants more than just a single robot dinosaur – he wants all the Rescue Bots, and he’ll hold Professor Baranova hostage until he gets them! So who’s gonna turn into what? How did Optimus get there so … Continue reading

When Kade accidentally swallows some bacteria-cleaning nanites, the Rescue Bots have to shrink down to microscopic size to round them up before they destroy his digestive microbiome! Can they get them out before Kade suffers a grosser digestive fate than this show wants to discuss? Will there be EVIL BRAIN IMPULSES? And what were our … Continue reading

Streets of Fire is a noir musical simultaneously set in the ‘50s, the ‘80s, and never. It’s a movie of brooding tough guys, icy dames, savage biker gangs, and Rick Moranis. It was designed to be a blockbuster, but it became a cult classic Cyberpunk movie without the Cyber.

A freak accident in SPACE leaves everyone (but Graham) body-swapped! Can the humans get used to being robots and the robots get used to being humans before Griffin Rock needs its rescue team to come rescue something? Can Heatwave survive a trip to the dentist? Why does Dani have a Blades-colored dress? And will we … Continue reading