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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"!

The Burns family's plan to throw their dad a surprise party backfires when he assumes they just forgot! Lying about picking up a cake for himself to keep them from feeling bad seems harmless enough, but not when he stops on the way home to check out something suspicious and he and Chase fall into an old lead mine! Can the others figure out where they are before things get too perilous? Can Chase g...

Oh no, spooky ghosts are showing up all over town! Who ya gonna call? The Rescue Bots! But ghosts aren't real, right? So who's responsible for these Scooby Doo shenanigans? How deep will the Ghostbusters references get? And can Cody explain the concept of ghosts to the Bots without actually mentioning dead people? Join us this week for "The Haunting of Griffin Rock"!

Some tiny, adorable bug drones escape from a canister in Doc Greene's warehouse -- and they make people disappear! Can the Rescue Bots protect their human buddies from this flying menace? Why did someone even make these things!? (Actually, that gets an answer.) And how long does it take for us to break into "The Final Countdown"? Join us this week for "Countdown"!

Doc Greene's questionable approach to science unleashes a rapidly growing blob of Martian goo on the town of Griffin Rock! How are they going to do The Blob with an age-appropriate level of danger? How is Doc Greene so bad at actual science? And who's ready for some Wolverine/Cyclops-style shipping? Join us this week for "You've Been Squilshed"!

It's time for a Special Guest Star as Transformers Prime's Bumblebee pays a visit to Griffin Rock! Will he be enough to help Blades when the other three Rescue Bots fall victim to a space virus from a sinister meteor? Can Blades stop fanboying for long enough to let him? What trait does this Bumblebee clearly not share with his G1 counterpart? And what other Prime characters would we like to see h...

As Griffin Rock prepares for its Founders' Day celebration, a massive storm hits the island and washes Cody and the Bots out to sea! Can they survive on a deserted island using only the native resources and the skills from Cody's Lad Pioneers handbook? How does this all tie in to Founders' Day -- and the pirates who stole the town's Settlers' Bell? And who killed a seagull!? Join us this week for...

Chief Burns takes Cody on a father-son trip to check out part of the island that's off-limits to machines. Can the Rescue Bots follow the chief's instructions not to follow them -- when it sounds like they might be in danger? How many anime-level miscommunications will it take to carry this plot? Has Doc Greene been engineering some kind of super-bears? And wait, WHO is in charge!? Join us this we...

Investigating strange boat wrecks in a spot off the coast of Griffin Rock, Cody and Frankie discover the records of the mysterious Professor Anna Baranova, who built an underwater station to study the same phenomenon before her mysterious disappearance! Can they find her lost Project Midgard -- and maybe the professor herself? Who among us knows more about Norse mythology from Final Fantasy than f...

Oh no, Blades, Boulder, and Heatwave have been shrunk! Can they find a way to let Chase and the others know where they are before it's too late? Why do Griffin Rock's petty criminals look like druids? Will the museum's holographic Chester A. Arthur blow their cover? And who's gonna get a sexy carwash? This week we channel the spirit of David Wise with "Small Blessings"!

Now that they've been replaced by the totally-not-evil Dr. Morocco's totally-not-evil MorBot, the Rescue Bots don't know what to do with themselves! Should they go join up with Team Prime? Take the opportunity to catch up on their TV shows? Maybe learn to cook? Or maybe they'll be needed to save Griffin Rock from the guy who's a top hat and a few decorative gears from being a steampunk villain! Jo...

Doc Greene's been fired as Griffin Rock's official mad scientist, but where will they find someone to take his place? Fortunately Doctor Morocco has conveniently arrived -- and his MorBot has an eye on the Rescue Bots and Burns Family's jobs as well! And no one voiced by Tim Curry is ever evil! Can we stop going on about how great Tim Curry is for long enough to actually discuss the episode? Join...

And now, the exciting conclusion of... The Transformers: The Movie !

Everything has been quite a lot for everyone lately, so we're going into our Patreon archives for a movie we think is comfort food viewing for all of us: The original 1986 The Transformers: The Movie ! We discuss the movie from memory -- no rewatching! -- and still manage to spend twice the runtime of the movie itself discussing this gem of 80s action animation (which is why it's a two-part episod...

Doc Greene has repurposed the Dino Bot as a home assistant, and nothing could possibly go wrong! Connecting all of Griffin Rock's many automated functions to one central computer? Also a very good idea! And using technology that some rando left in his lab after breaking in? Absolutely nothing bad could come of that! Right? Join us this week for the totally chill and not at all destructive "Return...

No one is very excited about the annual Burns Family fishing trip except the Chief, Cody, and the Rescue Bots -- but that changes when a mechanical shark starts attacking Doc Greene's underwater equipment! Can they stop this robotic aquatic sabotage? Is there anything Heatwave won't try to solve with punching? And are they gonna need a bigger boat to carry all these Jaws references? Join us this w...

Griffin Rock is having a heat wave, so Cody talks Doc Greene into setting his weather machine to Snow for a little Christmas in July! What could possibly go wrong? Who's surprised Doc Greene has a Weather Dominator? (No one.) And who is "gonna hit that"? Join us this week for "Christmas in July"!

When Doc Greene gives Cody a super-advanced robot baby to care for, he enlists the aid of the Rescue Bots to help them learn about humans! Can they keep the ridiculously expensive Robo-Baby fed, changed, napped, and away from the constant danger that follows everyone on Griffin Rock? How long did Doc Greene spend developing synthetic baby poop? And how long will we spend talking about Leonard Nimo...