Television

Television is a crude means of entertainment used by Humans. Whether it is good or bad is a matter of debate, as is all human technology. It recieves broadcasts fom various different "channels", allowing for a wide range of "television shows", including news, sports events, or cartoons, such ones with aliens who turn into things.

Surprisingly, it has had a diverse effect on Cybertronians.

Generation 1
The race most affected by television is the Junkions, who have based their speech patterns around the use of lines from television shows. This can make it somewhat difficult to understand the Junkions and can also make initial communication difficult. After studying the Junkions while trying to recover one of their Journals, a trio of Quintessons tried to make the Junkions more xenophobic and neat by broadcasting subliminal messages through the television programs. However, a mishap also caused the Junkions to begin broadcasting those tainted programs to other, causing the recieving races to begin attacking their neighbors and risk dragging the Milky Way into an interstellar dark age. Although intrigued by the prospect of supplying races with materials, the Quintessons decided that the journal's recovery was more important. However, the journal was lost when the Autobots managed to destroy the device sending the affected programs.

Cybertronians are not above watching television every now and then. The Autobots are shown to be fans of a television show called As The Kitchen Sinks. This type of programming falls under the "soap opera" definition of television shows. What this says about the Autobots is open to interpretation.

Even Decepticons enjoy a good show every now and then. Rampage really loves watching television, especially mindless music videos. What this says about the other Predacons is open to debate. Additionally, Mindwipe believes that his ability to make contact with the other side and communicate with the lifeforces of departed Decepticons is actually just television broadcasts he managed to pick up.