Several Autobots and Decepticons find themselves battling over a planet whose civilization completely revolves around music, and whose inhabitants are capable of using sound as a powerful weapon.
Detailed synopsis
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Eurhythma, a planet whose culture is based entirely on music, is threatened by a comet. Zebop Skandana joins fellow Eurythmans Allegra and Basso Profundo to use their combined harmonic weapon to destroy the comet, inadvertently shooting down a number of Autobots and Decepticons.
After Galvatron and Soundwave collapse a bridge on Ultra Magnus, Blaster and Broadside, Zebop joins a number of other citizens to revive the Autobots. He then leads them to Allegra's retreat, where they find that Galvatron has beaten them there and swayed Allegra to their side. When Soundwave uses Allegra's third of the harmony against them, Zebop counters with his own third, which Soundwave then records and combines with Allegra's, plunging Zebop and the Autobots into a chasm. As the Autobots pull themselves up, Galvatron turns on Allegra, prompting Zebop to run onto the battlefield to save her. While he is successful, he is accidentally crushed by Blaster and Soundwave in the process, but is harmonically revived by a tearful Allegra soon after.
Returning to the capital city, the Autobots discover the fallen forms of Perceptor and the Protectobots, who Zebop, Allegra, and Basso heal. The three returned to Earth with the Autobots, where Galvatron and Soundwave were overwhelming Metroplex with the stolen harmony. The trio of aliens countered it with anti-sound, giving Blaster enough time to erase the harmony from Soundwave's tapes. With the battle concluded, Zebop returns to his world with the others, vowing to live in harmony.
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Written by: Buzz Dixon
Notable quotes
Soundwave: My tapes! You've erased my tapes!
Other Notes
- Notes
Animation and/or technical glitches
- This is what you get when you combine all bloopers into 1 episode.
Continuity errors
Maybe it's not Bonecrusher, but a rare cameo by Load Hauler?
- In one infamous scene, Brawn shows up alive and well alongside a bizarre fusion of Gears and Huffer. And it seems Bonecrusher has switched sides as he's helping them shoot at the giant Decepticon rocket engine he'd just helped build!
Transformers references
- References
Real-world references
- The Eurhythman characters' names are all music-related puns.
Miscellaneous trivia
- "Carnage in C-Minor" is widely regarded by fans as the worst episode of the Generation 1 cartoon (and one of the worst episodes of any TF series to date), but this is seemingly due to the sheer volume of animation errors, and the glaringly obvious nature of many of the individual errors. However, the actual plot is certainly not the weakest to grace the cartoon series, and its "continuity errors" have little to nothing to do with the script itself... certainly not to the level of, say, "B.O.T.".
- That said, there is plenty of inannity to be found in the story too. For instance: because the aliens say every thing with sing-song rythm none of the Transformers except Blaster and Soundwave can apparently understand them, and despite their dialogue being perfect understandable english, the two tape decks spend a large (and annoying) amount of time translating it to "non-sing-song" for everyone else.
- Also, apparently, a single blast from Perceptor's lightning cannon can cause Devastator to disassemble. And Grimlock believes that intellectuals are weak.
- This was one of several episodes subjected to the MSTF treatment at BotCon 1999.
Keywords
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Music
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