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Tracks and Blaster uncover a hypnosis plot.

Detailed Synopsis
Tracks and Blaster are in the city when they spot Raoul and his friends Poplock and Rocksteady being chased by a mob from the club Dancitron. Tracks realizes that something is wrong with the humans and investigates. Starscream and Soundwave are using the club to hypnotize humans so they can use them to construct a building.

Poplock and Rocksteady are hypnotized and lure Tracks into a trap at the club. Blaster and Raoul show up and free Tracks. During the fight Raoul discovers that water breaks the hypnosis.

Stats
Original Airdate: 13 November 1985

Written by: David Wise

Featured Characters
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notable Quotes
"I've been waiting a long time for this, you poor excuse for a sound system." "All talk...no shock."
 * -- Blaster and Soundwave, right as their sonic duel begins.

"Heeheeheehaahaahaahaahaahaahaaaaa...."
 * -- Soundwave, as he momentarily gets the upper hand in the sonic duel between himself and Blaster. This is one of the few times in the series that Soundwave is heard actually laughing, and coming from him in that quiet, metallic monotone of his, and in this context, it is actually kinda scary.

"Looks like your nightclub just went ouf of style."
 * -- Blaster to Soundwave, after he won the sonic duel.

"Now that is what I call a riveting experience."
 * --Tracks makes a terrible pun after being shot at by a guy with a rivet gun.

"Yo, the dude's gone crazy!" "Yeah... crazy like a fox!"
 * -- Raoul and Tracks.

Animation and/or Technical Glitches

 * In this episode, Raoul's skin color is colored slightly ligher than his last appearance in Make Tracks.

Continutity Errors

 * Continuity Errors

Transformers References

 * References

Real-World References

 * When confronted by the gang of thugs employed by Dancitron, Raoul suggests they "pull a Michael Jackson" (bugWHA?) and "beat it" (*sigh of relief*).


 * While fleeing from the thugs, Raoul wishes their blaster (boombox) was "THE Blaster". Rocksteady retorts that Raoul "knows the Autobots like I know Prince".


 * When first meeting Blaster and Tracks, Rocksteady responds to Blaster's implication of trouble-making with "Hey! We were just breakin' infront of the Dancitron (transforms from two open palms and a shrug to one thumb extended pointing behind him) and these Road Warrior rejects bounced us out".

Miscellaneous Trivia

 * This episode is one of two pre-movie episodes to not feature Optimus Prime.


 * This episode is also noteworthy for pitting the two tape decks, Soundwave and Blaster, against each other, in an intense sonic duel. It turns out that Soundwave is actually somewhat the more powerful of the two, and Blaster had to augment his output with some nearby additional speakers to best his opponent... the cheater...

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