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? Join us this week for “Did You See What I Thaw?”!
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 fast? And has anyone explained the idea of “cultural appropriation” to ol’ Quint? Join us this week for “Quarry’s Quarry”!
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 favorite sci-fi comedies that we absolutely should not have been watching as kids? Join us this week for “Bot-Tastic Voyage”!
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 ever recover from hearing Chase’s voice say “Daddy”? Join us this week for “Switcheroo”!
A charmingly nerdy new resident named Amy has Graham all flustered! Can SCIENCE help him find the courage to talk to her (after Kade totally fails at it)? How will his solution tie in with Doctor Morocco’s ant-assisted escape from jail? Why didn’t they put Doctor Morocco in a fancy Magneto cell to begin with? WHY ISN’T HE IN FEDERAL CUSTODY!? Join us this week for “Bugs in the System”!
Doc Greene’s plan to enclose Griffin Rock in a giant dome to protect it from hurricanes backfires when the overzealous AI Vigil returns to take over! With Vigil putting the town to sleep for their own “safety”, can the Bots and their remaining human friends stop it and turn off the dome? How many callbacks to old episodes can they fit in here? And how many Stephen King references can WE fit in here? Join us this week for “There’s No Place Like Dome”!
Bothered by the memory of a mission the Rescue Bots never got to finish before arriving on Earth, Chase takes Boulder back into space in search of a derelict ship and the Energon-sucking space monster threatening it! But will things turn out to be *drumroll* more than meets the eye? How bad are Blades and Heatwave at filling Chase and Boulder’s roles with the Burns family? How does the Energon eater differ from a vampire? And how can an island even have the kind of flooding they’re dealing with back home? Join us this week for some “Unfinished Business”!
It’s said that once every 10 years, the ghostly S.S. Phantom Voyager appears off the coast of Griffin Rock — and this time, the Greene and Burns families are ready! But when ship disappears with the Rescue Bots and their human friends on board, can they solve the mystery and make it back home before another 10 years pass? How far into singing “My Heart Will Go On” will Rob get? And HOW DOES TIME TRAVEL EVEN WORK!? Join us this week for “Phantom of the Sea”!
Scheduling nonsense has us off on another diversion this week! The boys watch an old HBO original movie with a problematic element, and it’s not just that the main character is named H.P. Lovecraft. It’s Cast a Deadly Spell, a detective tale with magic starring Fred Ward, David Warner, a cast of character actors, and monstrous muppets. It’s a made-for-cable 90s movie, set in the noir 40s, based upon concepts of 20s weird horror. So there is a content warning about there being a trans character, or drag queen, the movie doesn’t think about that character too much because the 90s.
