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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...

Cody wants to go out on rescue patrol with the rest of his family, but the old go-kart he found might not be enough to keep up. Maybe there's something at Doc Greene's lab that'll add a little juice! Or, you know, put everyone in mortal peril as crazed nanites are set loose on the town, turning machinery both inanimate and otherwise into out-of-control monsters. Definitely one of those things. And...

Boulder and Blades get a little confused about the human concept of "pets" and accidentally let some zoo animals loose in Griffin Rock! But which is more dangerous, the cross-eyed lion -- or the obsessive recycling lemurs? Can they get them back to the zoo before they do too much damage? And who thought a building made entirely of unprocessed recyclable materials was a good idea? Join us this week...

Griffin Rock's apparent sole news reporter Huxley Prescott is convinced there are aliens living among the people of Griffin Rock -- and he's not wrong, but he's also very wrong! Can the Rescue Bots and the Burns family save the town from his "War of the Worlds" panic without revealing the truth? How many movies about aliens that the target audience absolutely should not have seen can this show ref...

Griffin Rock's Lobster and Technology Festival is disrupted by an unexpected combination of those elements when a canister of Doctor Green's new "floatium" falls into a lobster tank! Can the Rescue Bots save the town from the suddenly airborne crustaceans? Does anyone in this town actually understand the scientific process? Also WHY IS THERE A LOBSTER AND TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL!? Join us this week fo...

Dani gives Blades a scoop claw upgrade that makes him more useful in the field, but when it goes to both their heads, can they scoop-claw themselves out of trouble? How does it feel to out-asshole Kade and Heatwave? And isn't this still an awful lot of mortal danger for a kids' show? Join us this week for "Hotshots"!

It turns out the people of Griffin Rock have been making very bad decisions for a very long time, as we discover when the island suddenly develops a bad lava problem thanks to an old man-made volcano ! What the hell, people!? Can the Burns family get along with their new robot friends for long enough to save everyone from horrible, horrible deaths? Isn't this an awful lot of mortal peril for presc...

This week we return to a higher quality of programming with the first episode of Transformers: Rescue Bots! When a ship of non-combatant "Rescue Bots" answers Prime's call and arrives on Earth, they're assigned to work with a human rescue team that's also a family! Can they adapt to life on this strange new world? How dangerous can Griffin Rock possibly be? And what connection does this show have...

Before we move on to the idyllic home of the Rescue Bots, we're heading back in time to the days of Beast Machines to check out a different show about transforming animal warriors: DinoZaurs! And what we discover is IT'S TERRIBLE! Who are the Dino Knights? What toy company thought this was a good idea, and what American production company needed to fill time desperately enough to dub it? What is t...