Five Servos of Doom

"Sentinel has incredible success capturing fugitive Deceptions, leading Prowl to suspect he's getting help."

Brief Synopsis


The episode begins at night where Prowl, Jazz, Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime, are tracking down Sunstorm. When Sentinel captures him without any help or making a noise Prowl is suspicious and goes to investigate. It then flashes back to the past where Prowl has been taken out of Stockade by his master. He and him then train him until he is ready to gone a journey to find his spark. When he returns, the place has been attacked and the master left for dead.

In the Present day, Prowl has followed Sentinel to a football stadium where he is making a deal with the bounty hunter Lockdown. When Prowl comes in, he finds out that it's a trap and there's a RBFATE. Prowl learns and the episode end with him getting all the credit and the rest learning that Ultra Magnus is damaged.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes
Jazz: "Deceived by a Decepticon.  Who'd have thought?"
 * Yeah, who would have?

 Prowl (To Yoketron) "See ya!" (Transforms into cybertronian Vehicle mode)
 * Wait, something's different about that Prowl...

 Jazz: Okay, stealthy ain't exactly S.P's strong suit.
 * And the long list of Sentinel's negatives continues to grow.

 Optimus: "Let go of the Autobot."  Liar Starscream: "What? This isn't my Autobot, I'm just holding it for a friend"
 * So wait, it is his autobot and he isn't holding it for a friend?

 Liar Starscream: "That didn't hurt."
 * The Liar, after a large chunk of Tigatron Stadium was dropped onto his head.

Jazz: "Wow! P over M! Sweeet!
 * After Jazz sees Prowl use Processesor Over Matter (Hey, it worked this time! Unlike in Transwarped.)

Note

 * Yet again Sari isn't in the episode, Primus, how long can someone sleep?
 * Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee don't appear either. Probably couldn't stand being anywhere near Sentinel.
 * We learn that apparently Ultra Magnus isn't dead (yet). Better luck next time Shockwave.
 * This is the first episode in Animated where a Transformer has willingly extinguished his own Spark.
 * This is the first episode where Lockdown is seen working for an Autobot. Guess Sentinel was willing to fork over the "Energon-y goodness" this time 'round.
 * The first two helmets shown to Optimus by Prowl belong to Ultra Magnus and Blitzwing, respectively.
 * So, Sentinel was going to hand over a (presumably) important part of his ship to Lockdown to obtain all of those Decepticons, leaving him stranded on Earth and unable to hand them over to Ultra Magnus? Not only is he a jerk, he doesn't plan ahead too much.
 * Prowl probably did not realize his master's helmet the first time he wore it.. Although that helmet design is a little bit different.
 * This is another of the few Animated episodes in which there are no humans at all. Except for Prowl's Mustache Man, but that's a hologram, so it doesn't count.
 * With Starscream bodiless, Megatron's weapons confiscated by Omega Supreme and the captured Decepticons disarmed by Lockdown, the Decepticons seem to be completely weaponless except for Thundercracker, Skywarp and Female Starscream. Almost makes you wonder why the Autobots are so scared of these guys.
 * As of this episode, every main-cast Autobot had a flashback and had their Cybertronian vehicle mode revealed.
 * Once again "Ramjet" can't stop from telling lies. Primus, how long will that go on? One can only wonder whether the "better deal" he offered Lockdown was real.
 * Well there are bit of him about him with a bit of truth.

Animation errors

 * Near the beginning on Sentinel's ship, Optimus is interrogating Sentinel. He appears to be 2-D from the chest down.
 * Prowl's Samurai armor is not worn in the sequence where the scoreboard falls on him, Lockdown, and Ramjet. However, it is present in the following sequence where Prowl exhibits his mastery over processor over matter.
 * During the first scene at the Elite Guard's ship's stockade, Blitzwing's changing his heads and when it comes to Hothead's, how can his massive chin fit in to the mouth clamp without potruding out? Then again, we can ask how that chin fits in Blitzwing's helmet in the first place, so yeah.

Continuity errors

 * What did Sentinel pay the fine for Swindle with anyway? That or "paying the fine" was code for "hiring Lockdown, who must've been pretty pissed off when he found out that all of Swindle's gear was deactivated".
 * Sentinel said he wouldn't remove Sunstorm's metal clamp because the last time they were "friendly" with Starscream he run away. Now that excuse sucks, not only because muting a giant robot isn't going to stop them from escapig and this wasn't technically Starscream, but because the time Starscream was captured he had a metal clamp as well. Sentinel needs a new teacher in lying.
 * If Prowl actually SAW Master Yoketron die, why did he accuse Sentinel of meeting with him? Answer: His guilt must have eaten away at his logic and he must've missed his master quite terribly.
 * So why didn't anyone inform Cliffjumper about Longarm Prime's real identity?
 * Answer: The Earth team may have assumed that Cliffjumper figured it out.


 * So Master Yoketron told Prowl about project Omega, wouldn't that make Prowl as old as Ratchet? Because the protoforms were to serve as back up if Omega did not win the war. Or maybe, Yoketron just likes to pretend he's in the past.
 * Prowl was meant to be quite young and inexperienced in that flashback, whereas Ratchet's flashbacks to the same time show him as being if not old, then at least in the Cybertronian equivalent of middle age.

Trivia

 * The stadium is called Tigatron stadium, after the Beast Wars character of the same name.
 * Tigatron Stadium bears a striking resemblance to Tiger Stadium, with the notable exception of the giant scoreboard.
 * While fighting Prowl in the stadium, Lockdown mentions the fact that he betrayed Yoketron, hinting at the fact that he was perhaps an Autobot or a Decepticon spy prior to becoming a bounty hunter.
 * Yoketron claims that one of his pupils brought shame on their order and was kicked out (leaving a space for Prowl). It's implied in the stadium fight that Lockdown was that pupil.
 * Having his mouth rivoted shut must be driving Random Blitzwing crazy!...er.
 * This is the first appearance Blizwing makes in the third season but he hasn't said a thing... Yet how come Blitzwing could not talk with the mouth clamp on? It may be a mouth clamp but its Blitzwing!
 * "I'm George Takei, dammit!" Yes, Mr. Sulu voices Yokitron.  This makes him the second Star Trek actor to voice a Transformer. The first was Leonard Nimoy who voiced Galvatron in the 1986 movie.
 * Lockdown is apparently very knowledgable and very experienced in Cyber-Ninja martial arts.
 * As Prowl leaves the dojo immediately after being given his weapons, the sound of a zat gun from Stargate can be prominently heard in the background.
 * Warpath is a bit quieter and a bit more violent than his G1 counterpart, threatening to beat up the "peacenik" Prowl. He also still has the "BAM KAPOW" quirk, but he says it the same way he talks normally. Which is pretty creepy, actually. Also, he bears an uncanny resemblance to the Marvel Comics character "c:marvel:Crimson Dynamo".
 * Sunstorm's real name wasn't even given in the ending credits of Five Servos of Doom.
 * In the holo deck where past Ninjas are celebrated, there is Sky Garry's head on one of the holo projectors along with Tap-Out and Heavy Load.