Stasis Pod

It's SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY and where better for Decepticon brawler Groundpounder to find some action than the Crown City RUMBLEDOME! But when all the "adults" on the Bee Team get sidelined by an unreliable GroundBridge, can Grimlock and Denny stop Groundpounder and his buddy Headlock before they blow everyone's cover? How many terrible dinosaur-vehicle pun names did the Rumbledome regulars come up...

The Bee Team tracks the Decepticon Octopunch to a crashed Cybertronian spaceship under the sea! Can they stop him before it lifts off -- or will the injury that Grimlock is hiding scuttle the mission? But why did our Fixit think it was a good idea to open a GroundBridge under the sea? Are we just accepting crashed Cybertronian ships as a normal part of Earth's landscape now? And why does it have a...

Drift's Mini-Con student Jetstorm has run away from home -- and he wants Commander Russell to be his new teacher! But what did he do that was so bad he felt he had to leave? And what about those Decepticons he accidentally let out of their stasis pods when he crash-landed in the junkyard? Can Drift himself help with the Decepticon situation, or will his arrival only make things worse? And why does...

The Decepticon scientist Vertebreak has set up a lab in Crown City's subway tunnels! But when Sideswipe runs ahead of the rest of the Bee Team to catch him, he discovers this scientist has a freaky gimmick -- when he transplants his own head onto Sideswipe's body! Wait, didn't we see this back in Animated? When did Crown City get this fancy shinkansen-looking subway? And wait, is this a Cybertroni...

The Autobots face a bat-like Decepticon named Nightstrike who has the power to make them face their greatest fears while he devours their energon! Russell says he's not afraid of anything -- but is he afraid of losing his friends? Why is Grimlock so hung up on cats? How many Decepticons has this bat guy killed already? And are these, like, edited-for-TV horror movies Russell is watching, or uncut?...

A scuttling snitch named Clampdown leads the Bee Team into a confrontation with Steeljaw's Decepticons! Can they manage a rematch between Steeljaw, Thunderhoof, Underbite, and Fracture -- all at the same time? What terrible secret is Strongarm hiding? What A-List voice actor plays our crabby Decepticon of the Week? And is Steeljaw capable of not being sexy for, like, two minutes? Join us this week...

The Bee Team faces not one, but FOUR Skunkticons who have holed up in the conveniently-automated dam! What does any of this have to do with Optimus Prime being hassled by one of the Thirteen in the afterlife? And how many actors from Agents of SHIELD can we fit in an episode? Join us this week for "Out of Focus"!

A pair of bounty hunters shows up looking to bring Bumblebee back to Cybertron -- and they've each brought some adorable little Mini-Con friends along! Can Bee convince the Autobot bounty hunter that he's not as bad as the council says he is? What longstanding tradition of the Transformers franchise does Denny suddenly have a problem with? And why is this Drift such an asshole? Join us this week f...

While trying to capture the Decepticon anarchist Quillfire, Bumblebee gets hit with one of his neurotoxin quills, and suddenly the Team Adult isn't such an adult! Can the rest of the team pull together enough to catch the Decepticon AND deal with a prank-pulling, focus-deprived leader? Doesn't this raise A LOT of questions about Cybertronian life cycles? And is Quillfire really wrong, though? Join...

Special Guest Star Jazz shows up just in time to help the Autobots deal with a scavenging Decepticon named Ped whose tunneling threatens to destroy Crown City! Will he be enough to even the odds -- and to get Sideswipe to behave? How do Bumblebee and Jazz even know each other in this continuity, anyway? How much slapstick abuse can Fixit's tiny body take? And how many special guest voices can we g...

Strongarm is supposed to be on her first solo mission -- but Bumblebee can't help following along to make sure she's all right. But when they run into the Decepticon Springload in the jungle obsessively hunting for the lost city of Doradus, will Bee be able to trust her long enough to get the job done? Can Russell and the other Autobots keep Denny and Fixit from murdering each other? Would a Fount...

Grimlock's turned on the Autobots and run off with Underbite's stasis pod to give to Steeljaw! But has Grimlock really betrayed them -- and if he hasn't, who's going to believe him? What's the labor market in Crown City like if literally every piece of important infrastructure is completely automated? Why is Steeljaw so sexy? And can we stop singing Cyndi Lauper for long enough to talk about it? J...

The Corvicon Filch wants to steal all the shiny things Crown City has to offer -- no matter how architecturally important they are! Meanwhile, Russell and Fixit have their hands full with a reality-TV frenemy of Denny's who's not above trespassing to get a look at Denny's collection! Can the Autobots stop Filch before she causes any human casualties? Can Fixit figure out how a television appearanc...

A run-in with a local cryptid in the woods near Crown City has convinced some local humans that they must do whatever the massive, antlered Kospego commands -- but why does that elk-creature sound like Frank Stallone? Is Thunderhoof even pretending to be a cryptid, or is he just ordering the native life around? Can Sideswipe be a useful member of the team long enough not to sabotage the whole oper...

Bumblebee knows he's not the leader Optimus Prime was, and it feels like his team's antics are constantly reminding him of that. So as they go on a mission to retrieve a stasis pod that's been found by a local museum, he asks himself, "What would Sky Lynx Optimus Prime do?" Are big, dramatic speeches what he needs to turn his team into a cohesive fighting unit? Is he being too hard on himself? Is...

Things are getting dull for the less combat-oriented members of the team, so while Denny talks Russell into joining the neighborhood kids' football game, Fixit decides he wants to tag along with the other Autobots! Can Denny help him put together a believable human disguise? How does the bug combiner Chop Shop's consciousness work? Do all the bugs have their own roles in the heist, like, is one th...

The team splits up to investigate double Decepticon sightings: Bumblebee and Grimlock go after the Sharkticon pirate Hammerstrike and Strongarm and Sideswipe track down the unreasonably sexy furry-magnet Steeljaw! But with the team still lacking in teamwork, will these Decepticons get the better of them? Where is Crown City even located that it's getting Russian oil tankers right off its coast? AN...

Underbite's loose and he's looking for metal to munch! Can Bumblebee and his new team get their act together and stop him before he gets to Crown City? What's a "dad"? What's OPTIMUS doing there!? How great a catchphrase is "THAT'S 'CAUSE I ATE IT"? And will David have remembered to update the wiki by the time this is posted? Join us this week for the inventively-named second half of the Robots in...

On patrol with the rookie Strongarm and the apprehended troublemaker Sideswipe, Bumblebee starts seeing visions of Optimus Prime -- the Optimus Prime who gave his life to reignite the Allspark! And he wants Bumblebee to go to Earth! What new adventure awaits them there? What new human friends await them there? And how is he supposed to get anything done with all these people tagging along? Join us...

With season 1 of Rescue Bots finished, it's time to move on to Robots in Disguise! No, not the Car Robots dub. Or the IDW series. No, this Robots in Disguise is the post-Prime animated series with an anthro twist, and this week we've brought in our friends Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop from The Isle of Rangoon to give us a primer on Team Bee and their beastly Con adversaries!

Before we shift from Rescue Bots to Robots in Disguise, this week we're jumping back to Hasbro's earlier attempt at a preschool Transformers cartoon, 2003's Go-Bots! It's time to dust off our VCRs and spend a little time on Earth with Aero-Bot, Speed-Bot, Beast-Bot, and an assortment of other obviously-named robot pals as they help defend humanity against... the egos and hubris of their own kind,...

After accidentally leaving the almanac Dithers behind, the Bots and the kids return to the present to find themselves in a dystopian alternate timeline where Doctor Morocco has taken over all of... Griffin Rock? Maine? The United States? Honestly the boundaries are unclear! Can they evade his army of MorBots long enough to find a way home? Are Prime and Bee only good for doing murder? And can we g...

Doc Greene finds a nearly-completed time machine from the 30s in a hidden bunker, so he does what any red-blooded citizen of Griffin Rock would do and gets it working! But when the Rescue Bots accidentally get pulled in with the kids in tow, can they find a way back on their own? Without the internet? Wait, is that Doctor Morocco in the 30s, exactly the same age as he is now? What the heck?! Join...

Cody wants to be more involved with the Burns family's rescue operations, but his attempt to help out during a fireworks warehouse fire shows how dangerous that can be for a kid. But something being a terrible idea has never stopped Doc Greene! Equipped with a force field generator, Cody is ready to save the citizens of Griffin Rock as the superhero Rescue Boy! What could possibly go wrong? What d...

Something is causing earthquakes all over Griffin Rock! What kind of nonsense is causing regionally-inappropriate disasters this time? Can the Rescue Bots stay undercover saving the citizens when Frankie is waving her new video camera around trying to make a movie? And can Chase figure out this "humor" thing? Join us this week for "Shake Up"!