Stats[]
Original airdate: February 18, 1999
Written by: Bob Forward
Featured characters[]
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Maximals | Predacons | Others |
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Quotes[]
"Sit down and keep quiet."
"Yeah, yeah, story of my life."
- —Cheetor and Rattrap
"My disruptor ray shall destroy them."
- —Megatron, proving that he really is using every trick in the book.
"Waspinator to Megatron. Waspinator has female fleshy-bot, but there is problem."
"She'd better not be injured."
"No, she injuring Waspinator!"
"Ah, situation normal then. Yes."
- —Waspinator to Megatron, and Megatron has picked up the running gag.
"Waspinator want to re-negotiate contract!"
- —Waspinator, getting hacked to bits by a fleshling
Rattrap: "Hey, what are ya doin'?!"
Depth Charge: "Energon circuits...fried — no power."
Rattrap: "Ohhh, then switch to glide mode or somethin'!"
Depth Charge: "I don't have a glide mode, mouse!"
Rattrap: "But you gotta do SOMETHIN'!"
Depth Charge: "I'm open to suggestions."
Rattrap: "Oh. Okay. How 'bout we crash down into that mountains and die horrible, agonizing deaths?"
- —Rattrap and Depth Charge's discussion before they crash down into that mountains and die horrible, agonizing deaths. Or not.
Rattrap: "I ain't dead."
Depth Charge: "This day is just full of disappointments."
Rattrap: "So, uh, how are you doing there, Charlie Tuna? Them energon circuits still sizzled?"
Depth Charge: "They'll recover. Just dig me out."
Rattrap: "Heh, and leave me exposed to Pred fliers? Ha ha, NO way. You just lie there and get yer juice back."
Depth Charge: "Where are you goin'?"
Rattrap: "Hey, this is still a rescue mission, remember?"
(Rattrap races off.)
Depth Charge: "Marvelous."
(A butterfly lands on Depth Charge and stares at him.)
Depth Charge: "What are YOU looking at?"
- —Depth Charge's sentiments on the aftermath of the crash
Megatron: "A-he, yes. Finish installing that shielding plate."
(Una picks up the plate.)
Megatron: "There. Put it on those bolts."
(Una balances the plate on her head.)
Megatron: (chuckling) "N-no there" (chuckling) "Yea." (laughing) "Yes, there. Oh for the love..."
(Una tries to eat the plate.)
Megatron: "No no no." (Annoyed) "Right there! Do you understand?!"
(Una puts plate in its place)
Megatron: "Yes there! Now, now use the wrench to fasten it down."
Una: (holding a bone) "Wr-wr-wreh-wruh-wr-wrench?"
Megatron: "Oh, the WRENCH you imbecilic anthropoid!"
Una: "Wrench?"
Megatron: "YES! That-THAT THING! USE IT!"
(Una uses the wrench as a hammer.)
Megatron: "Oh, whatever."
Depth Charge: "Ow! Careful, you moronic mouse!"
Rattrap: "Hey, if you can ride a little steadier, maybe I can steer better."
Depth Charge: "You couldn't steer a garbage scow."
Rattrap: "Yeah, like a floatin' flounder's any better."
- —Rattrap and Depth Charge during escape
"The disruptor cannon is now operational. And as it happens, our targets are right in line with the Maximal base. We shall destroy both in a single, glorious onslaught of energon devastation!"
- —Megatron
"You better bail, sister. 'Cause the ray won't hurt ya, (panicked) but our exploding bodies might!"
- —Rattrap tells Una to run for her life
Depth Charge: "You know, those Preds are probably slagged and helpless back there, we oughta go finish 'em off."
Rattrap: "In case you haven't noticed, Scales, we ain't exactly in fighting trim ourselves. I say we go home."
Depth Charge: "Why am I not surprised?"
Rattrap: "Say, uh, Una, (points his gun at Depth Charge's head) Cheetor ever showed you my recipe for fried flounder?"
(Depth Charge hits Rattrap with his tail.)
- —Depth Charge and Rattrap, as they float back home with Una
Notes[]
- This episode was used in place of the planned episode "Dark Glass", but that episode was scrape as it was considered too dark for kids.
- The moral of the episode is, effectively, "It's good to steal."
- When Rattrap rescues Una from falling, Silverbolt's 'rescue' theme plays.
- Both Silverbolt and Rampage do not appear in this episode.
- After Megatron realizes that the energon powering his weapon affects all Cybertronians, his computer screen displays the words "screamin rocks" and then "fire a big gun in a mountain" in Cybertronix.
- Later, his screen says "hot stuff", as well as the names "Derek", "Nikki" and "Dawn" while showing the simulated effects of a blast.
- Brilliant that Waspinator collapsed into a pile of rubbish right after arriving at the site, and got zapped while he was sill a pile of rubbish. Combine that with a prior zapping due to Inferno's blunder (See Trivia, below), and getting defeated by mere MUD (!), and you have a bad day for old Waspinator for the umpteenth and - oh who's keeping count anymore. It's hard to tell which day was the worst for Waspinator: today, or the fiasco in "Feral Scream Part 1", the first part of the two-part "Feral Scream" Saga.
Technical/Animation Glitches[]
- When Rattrap says, "...and die horrible, agonising deaths!" before they crash into the forest, Depth Charge is also mouthing the words!
- When Depth Charge hits the rocks at the base of the waterfall (immediately before Dinobot II says 'Target immobilized!'), his right flipper very briefly clips through another nearby rock.
- When Cheetor begins firing at the Predacons, his blaster/jet engine is in his hand and on his back at the same time.
Continuity errors[]
- Dinobot II slices Rattrap's tail, but later it seems to be full-length as Rattrap uses it to paddle Depth Charge.
Transformers references[]
- Rattrap's interaction with Depth Charge is somewhat reminiscent of his ongoing rivalry with the then-recently deceased Dinobot.
- Megatron appears to be aware of Tarantulas' eating habits, since he leaves Una to him as opposed to the favored Inferno or Dinobot.
Real-world references[]
- Some lines such as "This Bot tries for positive programming." "Time to change channels, frisky!" are references to human television.
- A pond seeing Inferno and Waspinator, Chak says "Bamm, bamm, bamm, bamm... bamm!", a catch-phrase said by Bam-Bam, one of the main characters of the Hanna-Barbera Cartoon show, The Flintstones.
- Rattrap calls Depth Charge "Charlie Tuna", a reference to the mascot of the StarKist Tuna company.
- Beast Wars story editors Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio worked various references to the online Transformers fandom into the series. Dinobot detecting his quarry in Grid Joona is a reference to Finnish fan Joona I. Palaste.
Notes[]
- Why didn't Inferno just wait until Waspinator had finished installing the shielding plate before plugging in the main power source?
- When Depth Charge leaves the CR chamber, there is some blinking green Cybertronix text which then switches to solid red. Translated to English, it reads "f**k" (green) "you" (red.) Oddly, the text is upside down.
- Rattrap gives his opinion of education in this episode.
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