Transformers: Rescue Bots Additional Season 3 Episode Listings

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Sabrblade wrote:It's up -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gev8Mm3OZbA

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Sabrblade wrote:

Archanubis wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:It's up -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gev8Mm3OZbA

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Someone posted "The New Recruits" on DailyMotion early. I kind of like Salvage; has kind of a "Southern country boy" feel to him, and he's a bit of a tinkerer. Not quite the trained engineer Boulder is, but I can see the two working with Graham on projects. Blurr on the other hand... well, there's room for improvement in his case. Saying any more would spoil the episode.

Archanubis wrote:Someone posted "The New Recruits" on DailyMotion early.

WAHOO! I missed the YouTube upload and don't have an Amazon Instant Video account, or an iTunes account, so now I can see it!

Episode 70 -

There was an earthquake on the previous night. Graham, Cody, and Frankie are checking out the sensors on Wayward Island for info on the quake.

They're checking out the cave where they previously found Ira.

An aftershock helped to unearth the spaceship that was previous glimpsed at back in episode 63.

There's someone inside it.

Short theme song.

The Bots examine the ship and note that it's ancient, way before their time. Heatwave thinks it looks like a cargo ship.

New purple guy thinks he's home and gives each of the "Cybertronians" a hug.

Purple guy's Blurr, "fastest transport pilot in the galaxy and two-time winner of the Cybertronian 500."

Blurr says that he and his loader, Salvage, got hit by a huge meteor storm that caused their ship to crash-land on Earth. That was ten thousand years ago.

Salvage can't remember anything after the crash. His stasis pod was damaged.

Salvage has taken an interest in recyclables, as he likes to tinker with odds and ends.

Blurr doesn't seem to want the others to find out what happened to his ship in the past.

Optimus has come to meet the newcomers.

Salvage and Blurr have chosen their new altmodes.

Hey, Optimus's Rescue Trailer is back. Wish it could turn into its toy's winged jetpack mode, though.

Optimus has talked with Chief about Blurr and Salvage staying with the team as Rescue Force Recruits. Prime makes this offer to the two (despite protests from everyone except Boulder and Cody), and while Salvage is honored, Blurr seems less concerned about being a Rescue Bot than he is about getting keep his sweet wheels.

Optimus requests that Heatwave and his team become Blurr's and Salvage's teachers, and only Chase accepts the task directly (the others are either surprised or in disbelief).

Cody volunteers to mentor Salvage. He takes the big guy to the local junkyard, where Salvage feels like he's in heaven.

Blurr and Heatwave have a race on Heatwave's obstacle course behind the firehouse.

Blurr wins by faking a crash.

Blurr alludes to possibly having had a vehicle mode back in the past, when he didn't have one when he was found in his ship earlier.

Don's trapped under a crane at city hall.

Blurr pull's Don and his car free of the crane, but fails to realize that Don's car was the only thing keeping the crane from falling over. After he yanks the car loose, the crane comes crashing down. While Blurr jumps out of the way, the others grab the crane before it could have fallen onto (and killed) the injured Don.

The crane's also threatening to fall onto city hall. Blurr is really not good at helping.

Salvage used his technical know-how to tinker up a uni-directional dynamic electromagnet out of junk to pull up the crane from the other side.

"Power Up and Energize!" -- Heatwave uses the jackhammer that cam with Bumblebee's toys to finish repairs on the crane.

Optimus has come to confirm what really happened in the past. Though it's true that the ship did crash-land on Wayward Island in a meteor storm, it was Salvage, not Blurr, who risked his life to save the cave people. Blurr wanted to stay with the ship, but Salvage couldn't ignore the humans. Salvage had Blurr help him build a raft to get the humans off of the island, but one of them went missing. Blurr had promised to go find the missing person, but Blurr never came back. Salvage sent off the other humans and went looking for Blurr. Salvage found the missing caveman (Ira), but Blurr was nowhere around. Salvage took Ira to the cave, where he gave Ira an amulet of energon to protect him. But then the ship closed, trapping them both inside.

Blurr attempted to start up the ship to get off of Earth instead of keeping his promise. He was going to leave Salvage behind, thinking he was too slow to make it back to the ship in time. The two bots fought, which scared Ira away. Then the meteors started hitting the cave. All they could do was go back into stasis and hope for the best.

After further consideration, Optimus feels that the team shouldn't give up on Blurr, and Boulder and Cody are the only ones still willing to give him another chance.



Jason Marsden -- Salvage
Max Mittelman -- Blurr



Wow. This one was surprisingly heavy. We got two new Autobot characters and one of them is presented as the black sheep of the family. At first, it seems as though Blurr was gonna be a case similar to Prime Smokescreen, in which the new guy is a rambunctious rule breaker who drives the more experienced members crazy, while still being endearing to the audiences. Instead, we got this turned on its head with Blurr instead depicted in a manner that reveals a shameful past marked by selfishness, cowardice, and an attempted betrayal of Salvage. He was going to abandon Salvage and leave him for dead. Even though Blurr's motivations for doing so had no malice or animosity, it's still surprisingly dark for this kind of show, yet it wasn't dealt with that darkly as much as it was dealt with more solemnly. and the episode even ends with nearly everyone having lost their respect for Blurr, with their being unsure if they can ever trust him. What's more is that very little action happens in this episode, as the majority of the episode is taken up by the characters just standing around talking to each other about very important matters. However, this episode wasn't all doom and gloom. On the upside, Salvage is a very charming addition to the show. Though he kinda feels like yet another Animated Bulkhead-esque character like Boulder (being a big green lovable lug who is mechanically talented and artistic), he felt unique enough to be likable in his own right. Though it was Blurr I was looking forward to the most before watching this episode, it's Salvage whom I look forward to seeing more of in the end.

Salvage looks like he's going to fit in with the rest of the team just fine, despite the others' initial objections to him and Blurr being part of the team. I also like how the writers make a point that Salvage and Blurr weren't friends, even though they were the only two on the ship (Salvage even mentions that they didn't interact much beyond what their jobs entailed). They'll probably develop Salvage a little more, but I think this episode's pretty much established his niche.

This is not the most complimentary incarnation of Blurr that's appeared on TV (not so sure about the comics). As you mentioned, Sabre, this Blurr is a self-invested coward who isn't leaving a very good impression on anyone at the moment - I mean, the guy made the rather easy-going Salvage angry enough to attack him. I suspect Blurr's going to have the most development in the next couple of episodes especially since the episode description for "A New Hero" pretty explicitly states that Blurr will steal the Sigma. At the moment though, he's not off to a great start - about the only ones who are willing to give him a chance right now are Optimus, Cody, and Boulder, for differing reasons. Heatwave's the most vocal at the moment (though that's not really anything new) and I suspect the two won't be on the best of terms - and I'm not sure Blurr will endear himself that well to High Tide if the latter appears in the next episode. It's almost a blessing High Tide didn't appear in this episode - he may have mellowed since his debut, but I can imagine that him chewing out of Blurr would still have been a lot worse than Heatwave's was.

We'll just have to wait and see how these two fit into the old Rescue Bots dynamic.

Thought: (Or Fanfiction fuel) of all people, Heatwave goes to HighTide for training advice, since he doesn't want to look like he's letting Prime down, giving High Tide a chance to shine again, ad buid on his past and past interaction with Heatwave.

Yeah, probably more FanFiction fuel, I just hate to see High Tide become "Token Boat guy".

Yep, gonna love Salvage. Just hope he doesn't become "Magic gadget saves the day" dude. And I think I'm gonna love what they do with Blurr's development, even if I don't end up loving Blurr.

Makes me sad that Medix and Hoist couldn't become characters too. Medix, you could right off as Ratchet in the Cybervirus ep, but poor Hoist.

I need a Salvage figure. He might have to be the first RB figure I buy, but I'm just too attached to figures with knees and elbows.

Any one else feel sad for Ira again, having seen his family, a wife or sister sent off to sea without him? And on those same lines, those poor cavepeople on a wooden raft with NO steering in the OCEAN? Not sure that was your brightest idea there, Salvage.

Since the Wiki is currently deeming Blurr to be the same guy as the Velocitronian Blurr from the Exiles novel, I wonder if Salvage could originally have been a Junkion, as I think it woul be cool if both of the new guys had hailed fromm both of the colony worlds featured in that book.

Though, it would alo be cool if High Tide had some connection to Aquatron, but I can live with him being a native Cybertronian.

Thoughts on time that bug me.

-Heatwave says that Salvage an Blurr's ship is "Before theur time."
-The Rescue Bots went into stasis sometime prior to the abandonment of Cybertron, some million or three years ago? (As seen in the pilot, when they say that they need to contact Cybertron Command) Di the Energon Eater Ep. establish a timestamp on that rescue?

Sabrblade wrote:Since the Wiki is currently deeming Blurr to be the same guy as the Velocitronian Blurr from the Exiles novel, I wonder if Salvage could originally have been a Junkion, as I think it would be cool if both of the new guys had hailed fromm both of the colony worlds featured in that book.

Though, it would alo be cool if High Tide had some connection to Aquatron, but I can live with him being a native Cybertronian.

But is there any reason to believe that or is this edmacated speculation based on continuity, because there's thrirty thousan Blurrs running around the Unicron Trilogy too. (or he's running so fast he can be in multiple galxies at once, a speed mirage, if you will.) he mentions being a two time winner of the Cybertronian 500, which implies Cybertron, alhough with no idea as to when that was, I suppose it could have been pre-colony . Doubtful, but possible

Archanubis wrote:It's almost a blessing High Tide didn't appear in this episode - he may have mellowed since his debut, but I can imagine that him chewing out of Blurr would still have been a lot worse than Heatwave's was.

I'm not so sure High Tide wouldn't have just told Blurr to hit the road, regardless of who else was in the room and what they thought about it.

Flashwave wrote:Thoughts on time that bug me.

-Heatwave says that Salvage an Blurr's ship is "Before theur time."
-The Rescue Bots went into stasis sometime prior to the abandonment of Cybertron, some million or three years ago? (As seen in the pilot, when they say that they need to contact Cybertron Command) Di the Energon Eater Ep. establish a timestamp on that rescue?

I don't recalled the Energon Eater episode establishing a time stamp on the events that sent the Bots into stasis. I do believe that they had been out for awhile, and their attempts to contact HQ were being met by silence; that may mean that while the Bots left before Cybertron went dark and when they tried to contact Cybertron in that episode, they weren't aware that it was now a dead planet (Heatwave at least seems familiar with the war, which means either the team left during the initial stages, or the team was briefed on current events when they arrived on Earth).

I will admit Heatwave's comment is odd, as is Boulder's comment that he's never see that particular class of ship. It's possible Heatwave's familiar enough with Cybertronian ship designs to tell that it's an older class of cargo hauler (as opposed to one that was commissioned after the bots went into stasis), but the class was rare enough when they were active that the team hadn't encountered it before the episode. Considering how long Cybertronian ships can (and apparently do) stay out in the vastness of space, it's probably not surprising that it stayed in service long enough to crash in prehistoric Maine - though why Ira and his kin are European looking cavemen instead of a proto-Native American people has me scratching my head...

BTW, was Optimus always so much taller than the Rescue Bots? Last couple of appearances, he looks like he's twice as tall as anyone on the team.

Flashwave wrote:Yep, gonna love Salvage. Just hope he doesn't become "Magic gadget saves the day" dude.

For some reason, I'm expecting Salvage and Boulder to wind up making junk art together at some point.

Flashwave wrote:But is there any reason to believe that or is this edmacated speculation based on continuity, because there's thrirty thousan Blurrs running around the Unicron Trilogy too. (or he's running so fast he can be in multiple galxies at once, a speed mirage, if you will.) he mentions being a two time winner of the Cybertronian 500, which implies Cybertron, alhough with no idea as to when that was, I suppose it could have been pre-colony . Doubtful, but possible

Granted, the RB Blurr info was put onto the Prime Blurr page prior to Blurr's debut in the cartoon, so it's kind of a case like how RID Grimlock's info and RID Sideswipe's info were each put onto the pages for their respective WFC counterparts ahead of their cartoon debuts. Prime Blurr and RB Blurr could be two different guys, but for now the Wiki's defaulting to its typical treatment of Aligned characters unless otherwise is stated.

However, what I was saying was just how I think it would be cool if the two new guys in this show each came from one of the planets from the Exiles novel.

Archanubis wrote:BTW, was Optimus always so much taller than the Rescue Bots? Last couple of appearances, he looks like he's twice as tall as anyone on the team.

Looking over previous episodes he appeared in, it seems so.

"Rescue Bot Academy" is up on WatchCartoonsLive.com and available for purchase on Hasbro Studio's YouTube channel. I'll hold off on my thoughts on it until Sabrblade posts the synopsis tomorrow.

Archanubis wrote:"Rescue Bot Academy" is up on WatchCartoonsLive.com and available for purchase on Hasbro Studio's YouTube channel. I'll hold off on my thoughts on it until Sabrblade posts the synopsis tomorrow.

Looks like it popped up online as a random torrent download.

Since I found a YouTube upload of it that hasn't been taken down yet (as of this typing), I might watch it early and post about it tonight instead of waiting.

EDIT: Just found out that it was another case like last episode, winding up on Amazon and iTunes early. If the YouTube upload goes down, here's a Dailymotion link.

Episode 71 -

Back when Bumblebee first appeared in his debut episode in season 1, Chief Burns noted how the sudden presence of a new Rescue Bot on the island might draw unwanted attention from the townspeople, yet the presence of newcomers Blurr and Salvage (and their obvious lack of human operators/partners) causes no such problems from the townsfolk. I guess Chief must have clued in the public on the arrival of two more Bots offscreen.

Blurr sure is reluctant to help the other Bots from being crushed by the platform.

Short theme song.

The whole thing was just a VR training simulation. Looks to be the same VR system as the one seen back in "A Virtual Disaster", only here it's used for rescue training instead of a video game.

Blurr didn't help for tactical reasons. Someone had to be free to handle things in case the rescue went wrong. Heatwave disagrees, citing teamwork as being more important, and suspends Blurr from Rescue Force training until further notice.

Heatwave left Optimus a voice message about things not working out with Blurr. Gotta wonder what Optimus was doing at the time for him (or anyone) to not be at the base to take Heatwave's call.

Each of the four Sigma-17 Bots are gonna school Blurr and Salvage on separate things, in a "Rescue Bots Academy".

Chase's curriculum takes the form of clip show style video logs of previous missions, on which they must take notes for a quiz.

Emergency call. A window washer is trapped on his malfunctioning hover platform. Blades and Boulder go out, while Heatwave and Chase remain on call. And after some persuading, Blurr and Salvage are allowed to go on the mission as well.

Salvage speaking to Kade is essentially Jason Marsden talking to himself.

Blurr nearly got the window washer killed!

Naturally, Chief is borderline furious with Blurr's rashness and carelessness.

Boulder suggests Blurr and Salvage might come to understand humans better if they learned more about them, starting with the Burns family. Enter Chase with more video clips.

Blurr and Salvage inquire about human genders and affections. Cue Chase trying to explain, and then showing more clips.

Blades notes how Cody seems to attract "falling objects". More clips from Chase.

The Burnses like to play a variation of Basketball that they and the Bots made up called Burns Ball.

Cody tells Blurr how he's a lot like how Heatwave was when he first came to Earth, always wanting Optimus to reassign him to something better. Blurr's not too sure he's cut out for this kind of stuff (just like Heatwave), but Cody's not going to give up on him.

Blurr mentions having been to Velocitron! "Nice planet. All roads, no speed limits, great spot to relax."

The voice chip from the window washer platform is used in an upgrade Salvage helps to install into the Sigma. It's call the Empathically-Reactive Voice-Interactive System, or ERVIS for short.

Blurr's out running red lights and speed limits, and without a driver.

Blurr toppled the statue of Horace Burns!

Jerry sees that Blurr was driverless. Luckily, Chief convinces him that it's a new experimental self-driving race car meant to making racing safer.

Heatwave. Is. CROSS!

Blurr is confined to the firehouse until further notice.

Blurr discovers the Sigma's hangar hidden under the basketball court.

Blades has finished the training video he was putting together for his own teaching session of Rescue Bots Academy.

Blades video is less clip show style and more of a homage to Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Blurr overhears Heatwave deciding that, as soon as he hears back from Optimus, Blurr has to go.

Blurr's stolen the Sigma and takes off into the sky!

TO BE CONTINUED...



Lacey Chabert -- Southern Belle Voice
Maurice LaMarche -- Platform Voice
Jason Marsden -- ERVIS
Steve Blum -- Bad Kids TV Voice



Well, this episode sure had some surprises in it. For one, Chase's clips gave the initial impression of this being a typical clip show episode, but it wasn't. Chase's clips were only a small portion of the episode. Another surprise came in the form of ERVIS, who seemed to be added into the episode rather abruptly and for little reason, as though it were instead a seeding for something else to come later. But what surprised me the most was how the episode veered away from how I was expecting it to go into being something else entirely. What I was expecting was simply that, Blurr and Salvage being schooled by the Bots, combined with Chase's clips, that this episode could be used as sample episode to show to a new viewer what this show is like in a nutshell, with Blurr serving as the audience's gateway character in getting to understand the nature of the show. But that all changed when we started getting more of a serious-toned plot in the second half, with Blurr becoming more and more distant from the rest of the team, culminating in his outright abandoning the team altogether in a cliffhanger ending. On top of that, we got Blades' video with its MST3K-style setup and Blurr referring to Velocitron.

But at the root of it all, what this episode really did that made it stand out was show just how difficult training a young newcomer can be, especially when it's one that doesn't want to learn or go along with what he's being told. In past series, we got such difficult characters as Hot Rod, Cheetor, Nightscream, Side Burn, Wedge, Armada Hot Shot, Energon Ironhide, Cybertron Hot Shot, Animated Bumblebee, Prime Smokescreen, and RID 2015 Sideswipe. All were as inexperienced and hard to work with as Blurr, but all of them still tried to act in line with their teammates most of the time. No matter how much trouble those guys caused, they always managed to come around by the end of the same episode in which they got into trouble. With Blurr, however, he consistently remained uncooperative, and Heatwave was ready to give up on him and toss him to the wind. I honestly cannot think of any series in which the leader/mentor of the rambunctious youngster ever became so irate with said youngster that he even considered giving up on the kid. Every one of those Optimuses (and RID 2015 Bumblebee) was still willing to give their guy a chance and believe that he was capable of following orders and being a team player when things would get hairy. This show, this young-aged preschool-aimed show, however, is the one that is willing to take its kid's misbehavior all the way into the territories of line-crossing insubordination and desertion, and likewise have its role model leader character get so cross as to want nothing more to do with said guy.

In many respects, this is WAY more fascinating than the relationships we've seen between the various Optimuses of the past (and RID Bumblebee) and their respective rebellious kid characters. Of all the TF cartoons we've ever gotten, it's THIS show that is willing to go as far as it has with this kind of relationship. An extent that is probably the most realistic and dramatic of any version of the leaderbot/kidbot relationship we've ever had. And arguably the least kid-friendly version, at that. This episode shows just how sugarcoated so many other versions of this relationship have been depicted up until now. The other versions would have the conflict between the leader and the kid usually resolved by the end of a single episode, with any new conflicts to come in later episodes being all new conflicts. Here, we started with Blurr's reluctance to comply with rescue commands in his debut episode, and said confict has continued straight into this episode, and has only gotten worse, ending with both parties resorting to extreme decisions. This is how character development is done, and done well! This show is one-upping a total of 11 other shows in how its handling the discontent between the leaderbot and kidbot. They don't see eye to eye, they flat out don't like each other, and they don't resolve everything (or even anything) by a single episode's conclusion. The story of their relationship just keeps on going and growing from episode to episode, with no signs of their situation improving.

In a word: Boss.

Sabrblade wrote:Well, this episode sure had some surprises in it. For one, Chase's clips gave the initial impression of this being a typical clip show episode, but it wasn't. Chase's clips were only a small portion of the episode. Another surprise came in the form of ERVIS, who seemed to be added into the episode rather abruptly and for little reason, as though it were instead a seeding for something else to come later. But what surprised me the most was how the episode veered away from how I was expecting it to go into being something else entirely. What I was expecting was simply that, Blurr and Salvage being schooled by the Bots, combined with Chase's clips, that this episode could be used as sample episode to show to a new viewer what this show is like in a nutshell, with Blurr serving as the audience's gateway character in getting to understand the nature of the show. But that all changed when we started getting more of a serious-toned plot in the second half, with Blurr becoming more and more distant from the rest of the team, culminating in his outright abandoning the team altogether in a cliffhanger ending. On top of that, we got Blades' video with its MST3K-style setup and Blurr referring to Velocitron.

But at the root of it all, what this episode really did that made it stand out was show just how difficult training a young newcomer can be, especially when it's one that doesn't want to learn or go along with what he's being told. In past series, we got such difficult characters as Hot Rod, Cheetor, Nightscream, Side Burn, Wedge, Armada Hot Shot, Energon Ironhide, Cybertron Hot Shot, Animated Bumblebee, Prime Smokescreen, and RID 2015 Sideswipe. All were as inexperienced and hard to work with as Blurr, but all of them still tried to act in line with their teammates most of the time. No matter how much trouble those guys caused, they always managed to come around by the end of the same episode in which they got into trouble. With Blurr, however, he consistently remained uncooperative, and Heatwave was ready to give up on him and toss him to the wind. I honestly cannot think of any series in which the leader/mentor of the rambunctious youngster ever became so irate with said youngster that he even considered giving up on the kid. Every one of those Optimuses (and RID 2015 Bumblebee) was still willing to give their guy a chance and believe that he was capable of following orders and being a team player when things would get hairy. This show, this young-aged preschool-aimed show, however, is the one that is willing to take its kid's misbehavior all the way into the territories of line-crossing insubordination and desertion, and likewise have its role model leader character get so cross as to want nothing more to do with said guy.

In many respects, this is WAY more fascinating than the relationships we've seen between the various Optimuses of the past (and RID Bumblebee) and their respective rebellious kid characters. Of all the TF cartoons we've ever gotten, it's THIS show that is willing to go as far as it has with this kind of relationship. An extent that is probably the most realistic and dramatic of any version of the leaderbot/kidbot relationship we've ever had. And arguably the least kid-friendly version, at that. This episode shows just how sugarcoated so many other versions of this relationship have been depicted up until now. The other versions would have the conflict between the leader and the kid usually resolved by the end of a single episode, with any new conflicts to come in later episodes being all new conflicts. Here, we started with Blurr's reluctance to comply with rescue commands in his debut episode, and said confict has continued straight into this episode, and has only gotten worse, ending with both parties resorting to extreme decisions. This is how character development is done, and done well! This show is one-upping a total of 11 other shows in how its handling the discontent between the leaderbot and kidbot. They don't see eye to eye, they flat out don't like each other, and they don't resolve everything (or even anything) by a single episode's conclusion. The story of their relationship just keeps on going and growing from episode to episode, with no signs of their situation improving.

In a word: Boss.

I think you hit the nail on the head there, Sabrblade. I can't really think of anything to add.

I will say that the episode does do a good job of showing how alienated Blurr feels from the rest of the rescue team, even from Salvage, who, by comparison, has pretty much fallen into place. How much of that is Blurr not making an effort and the team not exactly being all that welcoming towards him (especially Heatwave) the episode doesn't make entirely clear, but it does make clear that Blurr isn't fitting in. Blurr does, however, come across as a bit hypocritical when he accuses Heatwave of "taking the easy way" when he later steals the Sigma and runs off (and pretty much proves Heatwave's point). We'll see how things go down in the next episode.

And yet another episode has been put onto Amazon early. Seems to be a trend with all these latest episodes.

Episode 72 -

A "last time on..." segment. That's rare for this show.

Blurr ignores ERVIS's emergency alert about a situation in the Sigma launch hangar, and orders him to set coordinates for the Silicon Flats of Hydrus Four, "where the racing is fast, the energon is high-grade, and the locals never need rescuing."

The team's out looking for Blurr, unaware of his having taken off in the ship. Um, HOW do they not know this? Surely the ship's takeoff would have shaken the whole firehouse, not to mention that the door to the hangar and its exit were both left open when the ship took off. It's a pretty hard thing to miss.

Some solar flare activity has appeared. Apparently Doc has been detecting it for some time now. When it reaches the atmosphere, it can cause electro-mechanical problems, including with the Bots.

Cody's still trapped in the hangar, with more catwalks threatening to collapse on him.

Short theme song.

Cody contacts Servo via the whistle High Tide gave him, alerting Servo to return to the firehouse. The others rendezvous to follow him.

Cody's found and Salvage saves him before Heatwave catches and tosses away the fallen catwalks.

Optimus is contacted about Blurr's theft of the ship.

ERVIS updates Blurr about Cody's endangerment, Cody's rescue, five unread messages from Optimus, and the incoming solar flares.

The flares darken both the ship in space and the town back on Earth, and continues to harm the Bots.

Both Graham and Boulder suspect a Corona Mass Ejection at play. Sort of a super solar flare.

The team has to check out the town to see if everyone there is alright, but the Bots' lights and sirens and other non-essentials are still out. Though Chief and Chase will head to Doc's to see what he can do to help.

Blurr gets the Sigma restarted, but a communication satellite is heading straight for the ship.

Blurr gets the ship out of the way, but the satellite had been affected by the CME, and is now falling out of orbit on a trajectory toward Griffin Rock. Estimated time of impact is 30 minutes.

Some power is back online, but not enough to raise the island's protective dome. The island's residents must be evacuated to the underground shelter.

Salvage still hasn't given up on Blurr and jury-rigs a transmitter to contact him with.

Wow. For a second, the episode made us think that Blurr just might feel guilty enough to want to go back and stop the satellite, what with his hesitation to resume course to Hydrus Four, but nope, he says to resume course. Wow.

Oh, nevermind, he rethought his rethinking and ERVIS reverses course back to Earth, ready to shoot the satellite with the Sigma's laser blasters.

Unfortunately, the laser was just recently installed (being the upgrade to the ship that was installed last episode) but wasn't finished before Blurr took off with the ship. So it can't fire.

Salvage reaches Blurr and patches him into the others.

Boulder and Graham instruct Blurr on how to get the laser working, but it'll only work at 10% capacity. So Blurr decided to fly in ten times closer, which will put him in the path of the exploding debris. The ship, and Blurr himself, could be destroyed.

Blurr destroyed the satellite...

...and the Sigma.

Oh wait, the explosion just triggered the ship's cloaking shield. It's there.

Chase wants to court-martial Blurr for grand theft spaceship.

Hi Optimus.

Optimus performs a "Rite of the Autobrand"-style branding on Blurr and Salvage, and states that they have proven themselves to be Rescue Bots... at another Earth location.

Choral music closes the episode.



Okay, let's not beat around the bush, here. We all saw Blurr's redemption coming. It's in the episode title, even. We knew he'd have to come around and help out in some form in the end, or else run the risk of becoming one of the most despised-by-the-fandom Autobot characters ever. So it was predictable that he'd have a change of heart because it was inevitable. That said, it was still a good episode, if a bit confusing in places like with how literally NO ONE except Cody noticed the giant alien spaceship lift off at the end of last episode, or why Blurr and Salvage are suddenly reassigned to some other location by Optimus. Why did he do that? It took this show nearly 70 episodes to give us new Rescue Bots (High Tide is a guest star and not a Rescue Bot), and just as they were getting adjusted to working with our heroes, Optimus comes along to put them on a bus. Boo!

But, don't get me wrong, it really was good. The danger of the satellite falling out of orbit was gripping enough keep up interest in it, and Blurr's progression as a character came to its natural next step of development for one such as himself who had zero interest in rescue missions having to learn to get used to that kind of action. And three episodes of this development was ample time for it to occur in a manner that was both realistic and dramatic.

I just don't get why they can't stick around for good. Salvage is even voiced by series regular Jason Marsden, so he's not even a guest voice role. What's wrong with adding more Autobots to the main cast? Prime suffered this same problem with not getting a new main Autobot until season 3 with Ultra Magnus and then upgrading Wheeljack to full time status (he was just a guest in the first two seasons). I really hope that the new RID series doesn't suffer from this as well, as it's great when new faces added to the main team since it opens the door for new (and sometimes better) character dynamics between old and new characters. It's like Hasbro Studios is too afraid of changing things that much with its TF cartoon main character lineups, when every show that's ever come before theirs have had next to no problems with bringing in new faces. At the very least, this team needs its own full-time "Sixth Ranger" (well, "fifth", but you know what I mean).

Sabrblade wrote:I just don't get why they can't stick around for good. Salvage is even voiced by series regular Jason Marsden, so he's not even a guest voice role. What's wrong with adding more Autobots to the main cast? Prime suffered this same problem with not getting a new main Autobot until season 3 with Ultra Magnus and then upgrading Wheeljack to full time status (he was just a guest in the first two seasons). I really hope that the new RID series doesn't suffer from this as well, as it's great when new faces added to the main team since it opens the door for new (and sometimes better) character dynamics between old and new characters. It's like Hasbro Studios is too afraid of changing things that much with its TF cartoon main character lineups, when every show that's ever come before theirs have had next to no problems with bringing in new faces. At the very least, this team needs its own full-time "Sixth Ranger" (well, "fifth", but you know what I mean).

I have to agree; not sure why Salvage and Blurr couldn't have stuck around a little longer, if only to see them obtain a little more training, especially since I think Blurr still needs a little more development if only to make sure his "redemption" sticks. I think there would have been plenty of ways to feature the new 'bots without them completely stealing the spotlight from the original four.

As for the "sixth ranger" character - something tells me Servo is serving as this atm.

How many eps in the season? Seems like this would be a good ending for it, but I think this is only episode 21 accoring to Amazon?

I'm hoping Prime expounds more on that whole "Rescue Teams elsewhere" thing in Season 4...

Flashwave wrote:How many eps in the season? Seems like this would be a good ending for it, but I think this is only episode 21 accoring to Amazon?

26 episodes for season 3. So 78 episodes total. Six more episodes to go for the season.

The site that usually provides links to watch this show's episodes online has been extremely lackadaisical with doing so for the latest episode, so I haven't seen it yet and am wondering if anyone knows where it might be found to watch online?

Sabrblade wrote:The site that usually provides links to watch this show's episodes online has been extremely lackadaisical with doing so for the latest episode, so I haven't seen it yet and am wondering if anyone knows where it might be found to watch online?

Don't ask me, I depend upon you! i though the last several were Amazon.com jumping the gun, but they must have taken them back down cause its behind an ep

AT LAST!

Episode 73 -

Mrs. Luskey sounds like a valley girl.

When helping the motorist move his car, Boulder goes really CGI (save for his head, for some reason).

Short theme song.

Mrs. Luskey incorrectly called Cody "Jody".

Though Servo did a good job at saving Poopsie from traffic, Heatwave and Chase express some concern over Servo showing too much sentient behavior that he could blow their cover.

From now on, Servo must act only on command when out in public. Boulder and Cody want to help him get used to that.

An armored van delivered a diamond collar for Poopsie to the Luskey mansion. Poopsie doesn't seem to like it, though.

After seeing a news report about Servo, Poopsie grabs the diamond collar and runs off.

Mayor Luskey calls Chief believing that the diamond collar was stolen.

Poopsie brings the collar to Servo, buries it, and then wants Servo to dig it up, which he does. Heh, dogs.

Uh oh. The team sees Servo with the collar and suspect him of having taken it.

Surprisingly, Kade of all people stands up for Servo by pointing out an alibi: The drain pipe that he and Servo were working on earlier is now fixed, which Servo had finished by himself while the team was out looking for the collar. And he was with Cody and Boulder all morning before that, so Servo couldn't have had the time to go over to the mayor's mansion to steal the collar (and we know he didn't).

However, regardless of whether he's innocent or guilty, he was still acting on his own, and Chief states that if Servo can't get passed that, then he might have to be given back to High Tide.

Kade and Graham return the collar to the Mayor, and fib that the collar was found on the ground, as though the "thief" dropped it, and that they'll "keep looking for the thief".

Cody and Boulder help Servo learn how to behave as a robot.

Poopsie tries to give Servo her toy bone, but Servo can't accept it without a command.

As Poopsie chases a truck, Servo is torn between having to follow commands and saving Poopsie. He ultimately chooses the latter.

Poopsie wanders into a museum to chew on a T-Rex skeleton. Pulling out one bone causes the whole thing to collapse.

Servo appears out of the rubble and is accused of having destroyed the skeleton.

Poopsie nearly gets crushed by a fallen toolbox, which instead knocks a man off his ladder. Servo saves the man, but is accused of having knocked the ladder over himself.

Servo smashes an uninstalled window to save a skateboarder from crashing into it, much to the irate chagrin of the men who were carrying the window.

Heatwave and Chase are through letting Servo run free, for though he is a Cybertronian Helper Bot, they see him as having been anything but helpful.

Poopsie's entered the zoo cage of the cross-eyed lion!

Servo had to disable the zoo's power to let himself enter the lion's cage, but in turn he's made an opening for other animals to break free.

Servo's saved Poopsie, but now the gorilla's gotten out of its own cage.

Heatwave scares the gorilla back into its cage.

Servo finally succeeds in dropping off Poopsie back home.

Mrs. Luskey refers to her husband as "H.B."

Both Poopsie and the mayor get taken by a trash-collecting bot.

Servo is apprehended by the team.

Security footage reveals to the team that all of Servo's actions were less vandalism and more attempts to save Poopsie and other people. But he was still acting on his own. But but Cody argues that each emergency necessitated Servo to behave the way he did, and Chief concedes that Servo was justified.

The mayor and Poopsie are about to be eaten by a Scrapmaster. Luckily the team arrives just in time to stop it.

Servo is allowed to stay with the team, and Graham explains to the mayor that Servo acts the way he, er, it does due its programming.



Nicole Dubuc -- Mrs. Luskey
Jeff Bennett -- Anthropologist
Poopsie is uncredited, but was previously voiced by Dee Bradley Baker



Though a bit of a step down from the last three episodes, this episode wasn't meant to be as big a deal as the Blurr/Salvage trilogy, so while it was a smaller scaled episode, it was still decent in its own right. Servo proved that he could hold an episode focused on himself, and for a character limited by his having to basically be an animal, he was surprisingly expressive and emotive as a character. We could really feel for him when we needed to, and could also root for him when he did something great. His being a dog was of no consequence in our being able to relate to him, as we could really get invested in his ethical dilemma of having to choose between doing what was by the book and doing what was morally right. However, one thing in this episode did bug me, and that was the whole "Servo must not act on his own" thing. The whole time, I kept thinking "Can't they just tell people that Servo has advanced enough programming to behave the way he does?" And in the end, that's what was done, so why couldn't they think to have done that sooner? Sure, if they had, then we wouldn't have had the episode as it was, but come on.

Next episode is online early.


Episode 74

Boulder can take pictures with his eyes.

Boulder, Cody, Frankie, and a disgruntled Kade are bird watching in Blossom Vale. Kade's reluctantly filling in for Graham as Boulder's driver since Graham was too busy. The trip was Chief's idea.

Boulder mentions that Cybertron had nothing like Earth birds. Guess he either didn't know about the bird-like Cybertronians like Laserbeak, or simply considers Earth birds different enough.

Full theme song.

"Power Up and Energize!" - Boulder uses a dual-barreled water cannon to spray some brown liquid to stop the branch Cody and Frankie are falling on from hitting some baby birds, as well as to help lower their fall so Boulder can catch them.

On the trip, Boulder says he spotted 27 of the island's known bird species. But he can't recognize the woodpeckers he saw and can't find an entry on them in his book.

Doc discovers that the woodpeckers are a species thought to have been extinct, the golden-crested woodpeckers, which Dani states that these ones are the first ones seen in 40 years.

Doc insists that no one must find out about the birds until he can contact the proper authorities, and that they must be protected as an endangered species. The last thing they need are a bunch of tourists traveling through their habitat.

When Boulder brings up the notion of creatures who need protection from humans (as their mission is to protect humans), Chase points out the irony and moral dilemma in that notion.

Heatwave is the only Bot unwilling to protect the birds, as it's too off-mission for him.

Blades's advice to the baby birds trying to learn how to fly: "Just do what I did the first time. Close your eyes and scream."

The Bots do their best to guard the birds while Heatwave and Kade have to handle all of the city emergencies by themselves.

Mayor Luskey overhears Kade talking about the endangered birds (into his comm to his dad) and orders him to come clean.

The Mayor goes behind Kade's back and calls a press conference about the rediscovery of the golden-crested woodpeckers. He lets word slip to Huxley that the Burns family might know who made the discovery, and Huxley calls Cody. Huxley is determined to find out who found the birds, so now the Bots' undercover status is once again put in jeopardy.

Boulder's going to talk to Huxley using a voice changer and Cody says that the person demands to remain anonymous.

The voice changer winds up giving Boulder a cute little girl's voice.

And then it switches to a deep scary voice.

Boulder shuts off the voice changer and speaks with his real voice, which is okay since Huxley's only ever heard him speak as a robot.

Boulder failed to convince everyone to leave the bird alone.

Kade is confronted by the mayor and Huxley, and to cover up for Boulder, he claims to be the one who found the birds (not as a means to take the credit, but legitimately to keep Boulder's identity safe).

Kade is forced to give away to birds' location, much to the disappointment of his family watching him on TV at home.

The mayor abruptly announces his decision to build what he calls the Woodpecker Wonderland Luxury Campgrounds in (coincidentally) Blossom Vale.

The Burnses arrive ahead the tourist crowd to close up Blossom Vale, but the mayor soon gets a court order to open it back up for unlimited camping immediately.

As the tourists set up their campsites, sparks from Mr. Hunter's campfire drift to his firewood pile and start a fire that spreads to engulf the entire surrounding area.

I just noticed that Chase's cockpit has a backseat even in robot mode (Frankie's seated behind Chief).

In the aftermath of the fire, the woodpeckers are gone.

As in DEAD.

They state that they couldn't save the woodpeckers, and Chase refers to the incident as "the RE-EXTINCTION of a species".

No, wait, the team just thinks the birds are dead. Doc, however, confirms that he had leg-tagged the birds with tracers earlier that day. His computer tablet shows that the birds flew away to the next valley when they saw the fire. They're all okay, babies included.

Doc also thinks that they'll eventually return to their home in Blossom Vale since they're so territorial.

Cody asks if there might be some form of a balance to be found with the woodpeckers. A way for them to be safe while people can still see them. This give Doc an idea.

The mayor opens up the Luskey Bird Sanctuary, a haven for endangered birds. Only a few people at a time will be admitted so as not to disturb the birds. And webcams set up around the place will allow people from around the world to observe the woodpeckers as they rebuild their population.



Diamond White -- Little Girl Voice
Jeff Bennett -- Birdwatcher
Steve Blum -- Darth Vader Voice (yes, that is seriously what it is credited as!)
Parvesh Cheena -- Camper



Well, this episode was certainly not a bad one. Far from it. IT was just a simple... "cute" episode, with an animal activism message. It's fine for a show like this to have a message about endangered species every once in a while, but as a concept, it's not something that hasn't been done before. Luckily, there was enough humor and character focus to make this one entertaining, like with the voice changer malfunctions, or with Boulder and Huxley actually getting to speak with each other for the first time ever. Though, we literally had the whole "Bots' undercover status put at risk" threat just last episode, so to see it brought back up again so soon kinda felt like they were treading old waters. We need some new investment to keep us intrigued here, or it's gonna feel like they're running out of ideas. Both Morocco and Quarry have been beaten, so that only leave Madeline Pynch to deal with, and she is still out there. Whatever "ultimate sacrifice" the Bots are gonna make in the finale, it better be worth it.

Sorry if I sound like I went off topic there, but this show has done so much before now that episodes like this one, while nice, just pale in comparison to the many better ones. This show capable of so much more, and I really want it to keep being good. If not more intense then at least more funny would be fine.

Got link?

Flashwave wrote:Got link?

These'll have to do for now.
http://dubbedscene.me/transformers-rescue-bots-season-3-episode-23-endangered-species
http://www.watchcartoononline.com/transformers-rescue-bots-season-3-episode-24-endangered-species

Sorry, after I posted that, I foun .cd a DM link that is secure http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2r40r ... shortfilms if thats the one I think it is.

I agree, with as deep as the Rescue Bots have gone before, this is odd, but I think I find the actual choice in topic more odd for the demographic than anything else. I could be wrong, but I!'m not sure the target age is the right one to be going all World Wildlife Foundation on, although a few years in, their earliest fans might have grown up en o ugh. Or, maybe I have my age brackets wrong

Crazy thought, that I dont think will happen, what if their bringing up the Secret because after 3 seasons, the Cats out of the bg? But more probably, I think the Finale might have somethong to do with Jules, they left him deliberazely hanging.

The plot of this episode does sort of mirror the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker - though sightings of that bird have never been confirmed. But I agree, I don't think the target audience (or even the periphery audience) is too much the WWF kind of crowd.

I know this sounds rather trite.....but I found the Endangered Species episode pretty weak! hopefully the rest of the series'll pick up

Stuartmaximus wrote:I know this sounds rather trite.....but I found the Endangered Species episode pretty weak! hopefully the rest of the series'll pick up

I wouldn't call it "weak" per se, but certainly "weaker" than what we've gotten recently.

Hopefully the season finale to come in episodes 77-78 will be well worth the wait.

As a refresher, these are the remaining four episodes to come (episode 76 sounds slaggin' hilarious):

Episode 75 - "More than Meets the Eye" (May 30, 2015)

An injured Chase uncovers many mysteries while Doc's magician sister visits Griffin Rock.

Episode 76 - "I Have Heard the Robots Singing" (June 6, 2015)

Tensions arise on the team after Doc's new invention causes everyone to sing instead of talk.

Episode 77 - "Now and Then" (June 13, 2015)

The Island of Griffin Rock vanishes from the ocean.

Episode 78 - "Today and Forever" (June 13, 2015)

In order to save Griffin Rock, the Rescue Bots must make the ultimate sacrifice.

Soo... Funny Story.

Amazon FINALLY has Chief Woodrow up and listed, but as Epside 24... of THIS season. Not that I'm that phased by it, but I've still yet to watch it an would really like the REAL episode 24...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2saqj ... shortfilms

Episode 75 -

Doc's sister/Frankie's aunt is Maura the Magnificent.

The Bots are uncomfortable watching the magic act with the stabbing a basket with swords while the assistant is inside it.

Chase was late to arrive due to filing a report.

Chase interferes with the act, but the assistant inside the basket had already gotten out, and Maura improvised like a natural to work Chase's interruption into her act.

Chase crashed through a trap door on the stage.

Short theme song.

Chase's incident with the trap door is what causes his leg injury.

Doc's made some illusions for his sister's acts in the past, and she's come this time to pick up the latest one he's built for her.

To Doc, "Magic is just science dressed up, and science no more than magic explained."

Chase exclaims "Nuts and bolts."

Blades appears to be the team's medical expert. His diagnosis of Chase's injury is that Chase will either have to go into healing stasis for a few days or stay off his feet for a week. Chase chooses the latter, and Cody offers to let Chase do Cody's job of watching the command center.

Since the commander center is built for humans, Chase will instead use the monitors in the underground Autobot base next to the bunker. He's also in a giant Autobot-sized wheelchair, and Chief will ride with Dani and Blades in Chase's absence.

A truck trailer is complete stuck under an overpass. Clearly the truck was delivering said overpass and ran out of gas.[/BillEngvallHere'sYourSign]

Maura insists on staying at her motel instead of Doc's lab, especially since she couldn't bring her tiger Blizzard.

Chase reports the Mayor's wife panicking over what he assumes to be her husband missing, when it's really just Poopsie (who was just out of sight around the corner from her) she was overreacting about.

Ha! Heatwave transformed while Kade was leaning against him, causing Kade to gasp and stumble.

Chase witnesses Maura's assistant suspiciously entering Maura's motel room and activating some fireworks-based magic tricks from inside the building, starting a fire.

The team puts out the fire and saves Blizzard, but the assistant is nowhere to be found.

The devices Doc made for Maura's grand finale are gone.

Frankie's great-grandmother Loraine/Lorraine/however her name is spelled was also a magician. She had planned to go over Griffin Falls in one of her magic barrels, but left magic behind to raise a family.

One barrel is to show the crowd, while the is air-pressurized, like riding on a cushion of air.

Maura wants to do the Griffin Falls barrel trick that her grandmother didn't get to do, but even despite her assuring Doc that she can do it, Doc is against the idea since it's still to dangerous to try,

Maura is the elder sibling between her and Doc.

Chase reports that three stores were robbed, but with no visible suspects despite the cash having been taken in broad daylight.

All three stores claim to have been robbed by an invisible thief.

Chase calls Frankie so that she can spy on Maura's assistant.

The assistant returns to the motel room. As Frankie enters, she accidently knocks off her comm link.

Frankie's trapped in the room with Blizzard.

The teams gets her out... only to find that she's befriended Blizzard.

The team's trust is Chase is wearing ever thin now that they've learned that Chase put Frankie up to this. However, Doc reveals that Chase's suspicions about the assistant aren't so unfounded since the tricks that were made by Doc for Maura's act were a set of invisibility cloaks (well, ponchos, really) and that the assistant was the only other person besides Doc and Maura that knew about them.

Two more places have been robbed by the invisible thief. All five robbed locations form a circle around the bank.

The team sets a trap at the bank with a trip wire and a hologram to catch the thief. Or thieves, as there are two of them.

Two assistants! Graham explains that it's a classic magician strategy to hire twins for a vanishing act.

And these aren't just any twins. Dani exposes them to be none other than longtime Griffin Rock criminals Evan and Myles.

Even and Myles had used Maura's air-pressurized barrel to stash their cash in, so the barrel Maura has is the ordinary one!

In the absence of her assistants, two other Griffin Rock residents (whose names escape me at the moment) help Maura with her act.

Blades and Dani are on their way to the falls, but it's gonna take the rest of the team some time to get there. Chase risks his condition to hurry to the falls himself since he's closer.

Blades manages to catch Maura's barrel just as it falls over the falls.

But Maura isn't in it! She got out at some point.

But then she falls over the falls for real!

Phew! Chase caught her. She could have been dead for real that time!

Maura was able to do the trick without her grandmother's barrel by instead using an upgraded and improved barrel based on the original one's design.

Chase is about ready to get back into the field.



Cree Summer -- Maura the Magnificent


Okay! Now we're talking. After the last two weeks giving us simpler episodes, this episode returns us to the kind of over-the-top, daredevilish, death-defying fun blended together with small town heartwarming tenderness that this show is known and loved for. Let's start with the obvious high point of Maura the Magnificent. Cree Summer nailed it as this character being wonderfully entertaining and giving us a look into some of the history of the Greene family. Chase too was a highlight of this episode, inadvertently slotting into a "boy who cried wolf" role that suited his overzealous adherence to safety protocols quite well. It's rare that we get to see this much conflict with this team, especially between the likes of Chief and Chase since those tend to always get along so well. I'm reminded of how episode 1 established those two as the only Autobot/human partnership that had no problems getting along, and yet this episode depicts Chief constantly annoyed by Chase's zeal to help out, especially when said zeal goes far enough to put Frankie in danger. It really helps bring out the humanity in this show's already dynamic cast of characters. So this episode was a real winner.

Sabrblade wrote:And these aren't just any twins. Dani exposes them to be none other than longtime Griffin Rock criminals Evan and Myles.

I had a feeling the assistant was Evan and/or Myles around the time Frankie was following them the second time they access Maura's motel room. Not to mention their disguise was - well, it was pretty obvious that it was a guy in a wig and fake beard.


Nice to see Cree Summer returning to Transformers, and as LeVar's sister.

Started watching this show last week with my sons. What a great kids show. Seriously, I love how safe it is for them to watch, and surprisingly enjoyable for me.

I'll admit, it's very weird watching a transformer show with no Decepticons.

Ironhidensh wrote:Started watching this show last week with my sons. What a great kids show. Seriously, I love how safe it is for them to watch, and surprisingly enjoyable for me.

I'll admit, it's very weird watching a transformer show with no Decepticons.

Welcome to the second-longest (soon to be the first-longest) TF cartoon since G1.

It's full of fun, action, drama, comedy, and a lot of heart. It mixes the small town friendliness and heartwarming and wit of The Andy Griffith Show with the daredevilish, death-defying zaniness and thrills of the Back to the Future movies, along with surprises and more for everyone to enjoy. It's like if Doc Brown lived in Mayberry, plus giant robots.

Though, don't worry about the lack of Decepticons. This show has plenty to offer in their stead, from natural disasters to manmade crises to sci-fi horrors to competent sinister plots and intrigue, this show has a little of everything for everyone to enjoy.

And of course, the occasional celebrity actor guest stars don't hurt.

And it's even in continuity with Transformers: Prime, taking place at roughly the same time as that show.



So tell me, with this show being difficult to come by via most ordinary means (as in, it's neither readily available to watch on YouTube, nor is it available on DVD in season sets), are you and your kids watching each episode in order and through what venue?

Sabrblade wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:Started watching this show last week with my sons. What a great kids show. Seriously, I love how safe it is for them to watch, and surprisingly enjoyable for me.

I'll admit, it's very weird watching a transformer show with no Decepticons.

Welcome to the second-longest (soon to be the first-longest) TF cartoon since G1.

It's full of fun, action, drama, comedy, and a lot of heart. It mixes the small town friendliness and heartwarming and wit of The Andy Griffith Show with the daredevilish, death-defying zaniness and thrills of the Back to the Future movies, along with surprises and more for everyone to enjoy. It's like if Doc Brown lived in Mayberry, plus giant robots.

You just described the middle seasons of Eureka, but I digress.

Also, given Chief's Deputy's name, the Mayberry descriptor is EXTREMELY apt.

I just set the dvr to record any episodes of rescue bots, and about a week or two ago they started to show up.

Ironhidensh wrote:I just set the dvr to record any episodes of rescue bots, and about a week or two ago they started to show up.

Are you guys watching them in order, or just whatever records?

I highly recommend watching the show from start to finish. The first 13 episodes of season 1 alone feel like a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end. If you have Netflix, the entire first season, second season, and first half of season 3 are on there to watch.

However, for season 2, two episodes were held back from their proper airing placements and didn't get to air until when season 3 was airing, so Netflix mistakenly lists one of these episodes as a season 3 episode, and the other skipped episode from season 2 hasn't been put on Netflix yet (but it more than likely will likewise be listed as a season 3 episode when it is).

Here's a full rundown of the show's episodes in their proper order (Note that, as of this typing, the final three episodes of season 3 have not aired yet):

Season 1
01. Family of Heroes
02. Under Pressure
03. Hotshots
04. Flobsters on Parade
05. The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock
06. Walk on the Wild Side
07. Cody on Patrol
08. Four Bots and a Baby
09. Christmas in July
10. Deep Trouble
11. Return of the Dino Bot
12. The Other Doctor
13. The Reign of Morocco
14. Small Blessings
15. The Griffin Rock Triangle
16. Rules and Regulations
17. The Lost Bell
18. Bumblebee to the Rescue
19. You've Been Squilshed
20. Countdown
21. The Haunting of Griffin Rock
22. Little White Lies
23. Shake Up
24. Rescue Boy
25. It's a Bot Time
26. Bot to the Future

Season 2
27. Road Trip
28. Sky Forest
29. One for the Ages
30. Tip of the Iceberg
31. A Virtual Disaster
32. Spellbound
33. Prescott's Bots
34. Blame the Gremlins
35. Feed the Beast
36. What Lies Below
37. What Rises Above
38. Space Bots
39. The Island of Misfit Tech
40. The Vigilant Town
41. Buddy System
42. In Search of the Griffin's Nest
43. Bots and Robbers
44. Rescue Dog
45. Changes
46. The Riders of Midwinter (this is the skipped episode Netflix lists as Season 3, Episode 11)
47. Movers and Shakers
48. Chief Woodrow (this is the other skipped episode not on Netflix yet)
49. Odd Bot Out
50. The Griffin Rock Express
51. Double Villainy
52. Rise of the Heroes

Season 3
53. Land Before Prime
54. Big Game
55. Too Many Kades
56. Phantom of the Sea
57. Unfinished Business
58. No Place Like Dome
59. Bugs in the System
60. Switcheroo
61. Bot-Tastic Voyage
62. Quarry's Quarry
63. Did You See What I Thaw?
64. The Attack of Humungado
65. All Bots Great and Small (This is the latest episode Netflix has as of this typing)
66. Time After Time
67. Pirates Ahoy
68. Turning the Tide
69. The Last of Morocco
70. The New Recruits
71. Rescue Bots Academy
72. A New Hero
73. Four-Legged Hero
74. Endangered Species
75. More than Meets the Eye
76. I Have Heard the Robots Singing
77. Now and Then
78. Today and Forever

If you have any further questions on finding and/or watching the episodes, let us know so we can help.

A new episode has aired on the TV. The seventy-sixth on Discovery Family.
It's really funny and in addition, There is a twist to its condition.
Its name will explain everything: "I Have Heard the Robots Singing"
Priscilla Pynch steals Doc's latest invention, that makes this ep have a musical spin!
RESCUE BOTS! Crank up the mic, now! Everyone sings, with no stopping!
RESCUE BOTS! They really sing, wow! RESCUE BOTS!
And as a bonus is a trailer for thee, Rescue Bots season 3 finale!
RESCUE BOTS! Watch while you can, now! RESCUE BOTS!






Episode 76 -

Today's the auditions for Griffin Rock Idol.

The theme song is, unfortunately, the shortened version. I say "unfortunately" this time because, HOLY COW, SINGALONG VERSION!!!!

"Power Up and Energize!" -- Boulder uses a Collision Foam Cannon to soften Huxley, saving him from falling to his death.

Doc's new device is the "Tone-O-Tuner". When anyone sings into the microphone, it keeps them on pitch automatically and instantaneously. Doc figured it could be useful for the auditions.

Frankie and Cody convince Doc to put it away since letting everyone use it would be like cheating, but as he puts it up, Priscilla overhears Doc talk about the device and steals it when he isn't looking.

When she can't get it to work right, she gets rid of it by dumping it in Huxley's news van. And Huxley comes along afterward and tosses his microphone into the van, with it landing right on the Tone-O-Tuner.

The Bots have to make a presentation to Optimus, which will also involve Blurr, Salvage, High Tide, and a few others. The presentation will see the team go over rescue basics with the new guys.

Huxley crashes his van after Don loses his attention while driving his own car.

Huxley's camera falls right onto his broadcasting console, activating both it and the Tone-o-Tuner, causing the van to emit the Tone-o-Tuner's effects and making everyone sing everything they say in a music video format.

The team alerts Doc to all the singing, and he realizes that his Tone-O-Tuner is very likely the cause.

Blurr, Salvage, High Tide, and three other Protoforms get ready for the team's presentation. Unfortunately, Optimus couldn't make it, so Blurr and the others will be recording the presentation themselves. They're also going to put the recording of the presentation in the archives or future use.

At first, the Bots try to explain that they're forced to sing everything they say, but Boulder, Chase, and Blades quickly take advantage of their new condition and decide to give the presentation in song (Heatwave refuses to sing). Salvage seems to be digging the singing, though. As does one of the Protoforms.

Blurr tries to goad Heatwave and Kade into singing, but they (harmoniously) refuse.

Now that the entire town is able to sing, the entire town is all lined up for the auditions.

Chase actually singing properly is even funnier than his monotone "singing" from the Robo-Baby episode.

Blades is too shy to give his presentation, so Dani's helping to fill in for his nervousness.

Huxley, still unaware of what's causing all the singing, boosts the broadcast signal of his van for his news report, but the strengthened signal causes the ground to quake and glass to break wherever he goes.

Since Chase had to be present for the presentation, Chief used the Old Squad Car to get around in.

For Heatwave's presentation, he and Kade are going to give a demonstration of themselves in action (with an accompanying Beach Boys-esque song that also sounds like "Greased Lightning").

Heatwave: "Ready to rock and roll to the rescue!"

Huxley drives over the city hall, causing it to crumble too.

The team sings a song to the tune of the show's theme song!

"Power Up... Power Up and Energize!" -- Heatwave and Boulder both use dual-barreled water guns.

Huxley's van is finally revealed to be the culprit and Doc both finds and shuts off his Tone-O-Tuner, ending the singing (aw man!).

Um, the Bots are speaking normally with personality in front of the public onlookers, yet no one makes a fuss over it.

The city hall security camera got a shot of Priscilla stashing the device inside Huxley's van.

However, she gets her comeuppance when she fails her audition.

Frankie sings a great song for her audition. Though, perhaps a little too great, as her voice switches to that of a young adult instead of a child when singing (her voice actress, Diamond White, is 16 in real life). Still, she does let Priscilla duet with her for part of it.

Naturally, Frankie is made Griffin Rock Idol.

The end credits feature an additional song.


This episode ROCKED! It. Was. AWESOME! The singing was phenomenal, only made better by all the visuals that were put into the songs. Especially during the presentation songs. The imagery in Boulder's song and the Dani/Blades duet was especially gorgeous and otherworldly. They really went all out with this one and didn't make any of the singing bits cringeworthy in the slightest. In a way, it almost had a sort of MLPFIM feeling to it, but with a different flavor to it. Slag, if this episode proved anything, it's that this show NEEDS an album release containing all of its songs. The theme song, "Land of Tech", the two Clint Black songs ("Ready to Roll" and "Light the Fire"), and every song from this episode!


And next week is the two-part season 3 finale, in which the Bots must pull off their toughest rescue yet!

Quickie grabs:

I THINK "I'm Okay" was supposed to be set to the old NBC chime but being in a different key makes it harer to tell, but given this show and it's Easter Eggs, I wouldn't put it past them.

I felt a few places in the beginning where the singing fit in at first where words weren't landing on actual notes or the tune at large. Chief mostly. Maybe it's the HS Choir side. I tend to cringe at musical shows, But this was pretty good. (Side note: What I hated most about Les Miserables was the siging. I now it's a Musical, but Hello! French Revolution! Death and Destruction! Murder in the Streets! Why are yo SINGING about it? It loses something i thought)

An it was good to see High Tide and Salvage and Blurr again. I was hoping "Others" might mean Team Prime, although I kinda knew thst was a LONGshot. But at least we got to see more Rescuebots! Mybe we'll get Hoist and Medix after all.

There is some sad news for Transformers Rescue Bots fans. Season 3 of the popular show comes to an end in a 2-part season finale which airs tomorrow June 13 at 1:00 ET. The 2-part episode which has the titles "Now and Then" (part 1) and "Today and Forever" (part 2) airs on Discovery Family. The good news is that the show is coming back for season 4. The trailer for the season 3 finale is embedded for easy viewing.

With a fourth season on the way, it looks like Rescue Bots will be surpassing the episode count of the original G1 series. Quite an accomplishment, wouldn't you agree?

This will surpass G1 all right............

LOST Cybertronian wrote:There is some sad news for Transformers Rescue Bots fans.

Why is it sad news? The season finales are always awesome moments we all look forward to. If this was the end of the show for good, then yeah that would be sad. But there is a fourth season coming, so it isn't the end. It's the big climax we've been waiting for and ought to be great. I can't speak for anyone else, but I sure don't want a sad season finale, I want this season to go out on a high note of awesome once again.

The show's getting another full-packed fourth season. There ain't shit to be sad about.

PrymeStriker wrote:The show's getting another full-packed fourth season. There ain't **** to be sad about.

Sure there is! What am I gonna watch next weekend? Imma miss having Rescue Bots for six months.

Its like Reese's. They're awesome, but when the pack is empty you still want another one.

Episode 77 -

An old newsreel (sponsored by Luskey's Hair Tonic) reports the burying of a time capsule 75 years ago. Present at the burial are Dr. Morocco, the young Mrs. Neederlander as a child, and Dr. Elma Hendrickson (who spearheaded the effort). The time capsule was buried under the statue of Horace Burns.

Cody and Frankie are using the newsreel for a school project about the unearthing of the time capsule the following day.

There is no record of what was buried in the time capsule.

Heatwave remarks about how long the Bots have been on the island yet it's still not ready to accept alien visitors (hence the Bots' have had to pretend to be machines all this time).

Chief, Doc, and Chase are searching for diamonds in an old mine, using Doc's Gemstone Detector to locate them. They're looking for one to create a special engagement ring for Anna. As in Anna Baranova. Holy cow, Doc's gonna propose! I didn't realize they were that serious yet! Though, we haven't seen her since the episode where Quarry captured her, but still! This is big!

The three have fallen down a deeper mine shaft!

Yes! Full theme song!

Phew! Chase caught them.

Doc's found not one but two kinds of gemstones in the lower chamber. He refers to the second one as a rare form of some gem called "Reactolene".

His Gemstone Detector detects several veins of reactolene running under the entire island. Doc's only encountered one other specimen of this caliber in an ancient statue displayed at the museum. He;s always wanted to experiment on it, but it's much too valuable. Chief has Chase grab the rock to take back with them.

A mob has gathered in front of the firehouse to show Chief what items they want put into the new time capsule.

Tomorrow is official "Dig-up-an-old-time-capsule-and-bury-a-new-one Day".

Heatwave reminds the team that, in spite of everything the Bots have done for this town, they're still seen as just rescue equipment, declaring that he and the other Bots are not a part of this town's community.

Chief figures the crowd outside will leave once a forthcoming storm arrives. He also hopes that Woodrow (who is coming over on his boat [HOORAY!]) won't get caught in it.

In Doc's testing the reactolene, he finds that it's so conductive that it temporarily takes on the properties of whatever energy source it's exposed to.

Upon testing the reactolene's magnetic properties, the rock is not drawn towards metal, but to something else. So much so that it literally bursts out of the lab and shoots across the island toward downtown!

"Power Up and Energize!" -- Chase uses a grappler claw to snag the reactolene, but it gets free.

The reactolene smashes into the museum and strikes against a green griffin statue.

Out at sea, Woodrow was asleep at the wheel of his boat (the S.S. Close Encounter), unaware of the storm that had blown in.

His ship is sunk, and pulls him down with it. But a shadowy figure in the water swims after him.

It was High Tide! Woodrow awakens to find himself aboard the Rescue Rig with High Tide, Blurr, and Salvage keeping silent in vehicle mode, unaware of Woodrow being an Autobot ally.

Woodrow recognizes Salvage's Autobrand and reveals that he knows about Autobots.

Optimus has told Salvage about Woodrow and his underground expedition.

The three Bots are also headed to Griffin Rock. Optimus asked them to observe the time capsule ceremony as a lesson in Earth culture.

The ceremony has begun, and Doc intends to pop the question as soon as it's over.

The Bots remove the time capsule and Chief opens it. Inside is... a large crystal! With a note included.

The note reads, "Dear future citizens of Griffin Rock, I'm Dr. Elma Hendrickson. I am sorry for removing the items from the time capsule. But this quantum crystal is an important discovery, and too dangerous to fall into the wrong hands. I trust the scientists of tomorrow will be much more responsible with it."

In the flashback, Dr. Morocco is seen watching as Elma inserts the crystal into the time capsule.

Frankie recalls that it only took a tiny bit of quantum crystal to power Doc's teleportation device, the one from the season 2 premiere that zapped the MHQ all over town. With a crystal this big, however, there's no telling what it's capable of. The mayor asks if the island shoulbe evacuated, but is instead recommended to clear the area until they know what they're dealing with.

The storm gets worse. As the crystal is lifted to put it back inside the time capsule, it is struck by lightning and falls into the hole where the capsule was buried, unearthing a vein of reactolene. The quantum crystal sends a charge into the reactolene, which courses all through its veins throughout the island. The entire island is teleported away, leaving a gigantic crater in the middle of the ocean! Only the Luskeys (who were aboard their yacht), several citizens who were at the docks, and those aboard High Tide's vessel were spared from the teleportation.

The island was transported to the Arctic.

The quantum crystal was destroyed in the process.

Until they can find a way to get out of this, the island's dome will be raised (for however long its power will last), but the four dome generators must be de-iced.

Meanwhile, Woodrow, High Tide, Salvage, and Blurr rescue the adrift citizens.

"Power Up and Energize!" -- The Bots use dual-barreled water cannons to blast the generators with De-icing Foam.

The dome is up, but it's depleting the energy supplies faster than anticipated.

To be continued...


Michael Bell -- Newsreel Narrator
The woman who yelps when Salvage scoops her up is uncredited.


Hoo boy. Things are really looking bleak in this one. In fact, this who episode has had a very serious, even at times grim, tone to it. The reveal of the quantum crystal in the time capsule was unexpected, as I was thinking the shocked reaction to opening it was going to be an empty tim capsule. But instead, we got something more surprising and really dangerous. I can't help but wonder if the quantum crystal might actually be energon. On the more upside, however, this episode dived hard and fast into something that this show does really well: Worldbuilding. We got more of Griffin Rock's history and special qualities with the time capsule, the flashback to Elma Hendrickson and Dr. Morocco, and the reactolene. I'm real eager to see where things go from here in the next one.



Episode 78 -

Frankie and Cody continue making their time capsule video. It is used here to recap the previous episode.

Without eternal power, the dome won't last more than a day.

Graham and Boulder has previously taken apart the Sigma for maintenance, so it's no good to go.

Dani volunteers Blades and herself to go fly out for help.

An avalanche strikes Blades upon his exit from the dome.

Short theme song.

Heatwave heads out of the dome to help Blades.

Blades refers to the Disney-Pixar film Up after Cody suggests using Floatium to fly the island home (a la tying balloons to a house to make it fly).

For propulsion and steering, Heatwave suggests using the Sigma's rocket in conjuunction with the Floatium to get the island back to Maine.

The Floatium successfully lifts the island upward, and the rocket is installed in the earth beneath the island's surface. Let's just hope that earth holds together. If it crumbles, the island will be utterly destroyed.

An Energize screwdriver (flathead) is used to screw in the rocket with some giant Philips head screws.

Griffin Rock finally gets phone reception and Woodrow is called by Chief. He tells Woodrow that the island has to line up perfectly with the hole it left when it lands, or the island could break apart.

Blurr discovers that the hole is filled with sunken debris from the docks. It'll taken days to clear it out.

Doc realizes he never got a chance to propose to Anna. Frankie encourages him to do so right now.

A huge hole just opened in the ground next to Mr. Pfeiffer's shop.

Without solid earth to support them, the underground tunnels are crumbling.

Boulder's made a map of the island's most unstable places, one of which is at Baranova's house.

The two scientists have fallen through a sinkhole, just as Doc was proposing!

Chase and Chief arrive just in time to pull them up!

Doc suggests they fill the holes with foam, and when Anna gives answers his proposal ("Yes"), Doc mistakes it for an agreement to his foam plan. But Chief and Chase help him understand. There's no kiss, though.

Something is wrong with the dome. A new sinkhole just opened up near one of the dome generators. Boulder tries to pull up the generator's power supply, but the cables give out and the power supply falls to the ocean. One-fourth of the dome shuts down and the island begins to descend prematurely.

Graham hooks up a backup battery to the generator, repairing the dome and stablizing the island, but not for long.

Griffin Rock in about an hour away from home, but they're running out of power to keep the dome up.

Heatwave suggests recruiting the citizens to manually turn the turbines at the wind farm and water dam to generate enough power to keep the dome online.

Everyone works together to get the turbines moving.

Optimus has come to assist Blurr, Salvage, and High Tide in clearing the undersea crater.

High Tide: "Working together just like old times, eh O.P.?"
Optimus: "And the stakes are just as high." -- I like this little nod to Peter Cullen and Michael Bell reunited to work together again on a TF show.

Woodrow recognizes the reactolene found on the floor of the crater.

Everyone on the island has become exhausted. They're losing power and the island's still not reach its destination yet.

The dome's giving out and the Sigma's rocket has turned off, having run out of energon. The island's falling!

The rescue team forces itself past the point of exhaustion to keep the windmills turning, restoring enough power to the dome and restablizing the island.

The Bots suggest using their own energon to keep the dome powered, even at the cost of their own lives.

Cheif contacts Optimus about the island's loss of propulsion, and he, Salvage, and Blurr use Energize hooks to tow the island to its proper location, while High Tide uses his Mega-Bot Mode to keep the seafloor clear.

The mayor, Huxley, and Captain Shaw are amazed by the sight of High Tide's Mega-Bot Mode.

The four Rescue Bots are fading fast.

Doc, Frankie, and Anna magnetize the reactolene to make the island return to its proper arrangement inside the crater.

Optimus has said that his team's medic (Ratchet) has seen to the Rescue Bots and has given them several energon transfusions.

They're ALIVE!

The new time capsule is ready to be closed up and buried.

Historical items that show Griffin Rock's significance were chosen to go into the time capsule, including the video Frankie and Cody made in its unedited form (which contains footage of the Bots being themselves). They hope that, in 75 years, Griffin Rock will be accepting of alien robots. Optimus agrees, and decides that the team's newest mission to help Griffin Rock becoming accepting towards the Autobots starting now.

When asked if he and his team will carry out this mission, Heatwave can only give one answer: "Rescue Bots... Roll to the Rescue!"

As the human partner board their robot partners, Woodrow boards Salvage and Cody and Servo board Blurr.

And they ride off into the sunset.


Gotta admit, that was really something. It was gripping suspense with trying to keep the island's dome powered en route back to Maine, topped off with a very touching ending. And to be perfectly honest, I wasn't sure if the Bots were going to make it. I actually considered the possibility of this show having the four of them die in their final moment of heroism. This show has just been so well done that I completely ignored the fact that this show's target audience wouldn't go for that at all. However, because of the nature of Cybertronians, we can still say that, when the four of them were depleted of energon, they were considered practically deceased. Their sparks might not have yet gone out (but very well could have), but their bodies were definitely lifeless for that time. So in a way, they did make the ultimate sacrifice, but were given a second chance at life thanks to how Cybertronian death differs from human death, being reversible in certain cases like this one. While that may feel like a cop out in theory, in execution it made for a really heartfelt turning point for the series. Speaking of turning points, thi episode has changed the status quo with the Bots now having to work to make the rest of the island accept them as people instead of as robots. And Doc's getting married!

Though, a few things from both the previous episode and "The Last of Morocco" remain unfinished. Namely that Madeline Pynch still has the Verne Device, Jules Verne's first encounter with the Rescue Bots has yet to be seen, and the whole business with the Quantum Crystal (which was not stated either way about it being energon or not) in the past with Morocco and Elma Hendrickson needs to be touched upon. Hopefully these and more will be covered in season 4, to which I look forward to watching very much. Rescue Bots... Roll to the Rescue!