Home Is Where the Spark Is

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The Autobots settle into their new home base, an abandoned automobile manufacturing plant, but the ancient assembly line machinery seems to have developed a mind of its own.

Synopsis

As a armored car leaves a bank in the dead of night, The Angry Archer robs it and makes his escape from the cops on a fire engine. Little does he know that it is actually Optimus Prime who quickly captures him. Elsewhere, Prowl observes a cat stalking a bird and finds it amazing only to have his safari cut short by civilians. Prowl is greatly angered by this and leaves for the base where everyone shares their views on their newfound stardom. In his room, Prowl lectures Optimus on his fascinaction with the Earth's animals only to have that cut short with Bumblebee's antics.

Meanwhile, Sari tries to enter her father's private lab. After she uses her Allspark key to open the door, Professer Sumdac leaves with her before she can enter reminding her no one but him is allowed in there. As they leave, the Allspark energy awakens Megatron's head and much to his surprise, he is without a body, and to top it all, he figures out Starscream's betrayal over him!

(further plot pending)

Stats

• Written by: Michael Ryan
• Directed by: Matt Youngberg, Shunji Oga
• Original airdate: January 5, 2008

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Optimus Prime Ratchet Bulkhead Bumblebee Prowl	Megatron Starscream	Angry Archer Isaac Sumdac Sari Sumdac

Quotes

"HAHAHA!!! Victory is mine! Yon police would ne'er stop a firetruck from speeding to an emergency!"
"Only one problem with that theory. You're the emergency."

-The Angry Archer's escape is cut short by Optimus Prime

"Oh-baaa-MegaMega-Meeeegaaa-Mega-I am Megatron!"

- Megatron awakening after his 50 year long slumber

"That can't be good."

- Bulkhead seconds away from being crushed

"You Autobot fools are the keepers of the All Spark! This must be some cosmic joke...

- Megatron disgusted at the Autobots merry-making.

Other notes

Continuity errors

• When the Angry Archer turns around to notice he's being followed by police cars, the bags of money he'd just tied to his waist are nowhere to be seen. They're back in other shots, though.

• Sari says "Right foot on green." during the Twister game. The only problem is there are no green spaces in the next scene, just purple, orange and yellow.

Transformers references

• In a different kind of Transformers reference, the Angry Archer is designed to resemble Hasbro's Aaron Archer.

=Real-world references

• Bumblebee's line "I make it look good!" is paraphrased from Will Smith in Men in Black.

• Bumblebee pounds on Prowl's head and says "Anybot home?", much like Biff Tannen does to George McFly in Back to the Future.

• A high-tech, Transformer-scaled version of Twister is repeatedly played in this episode.

Miscellaneous trivia

• When Megatron awakens from his stasis lock, he says the exact same words as his movie namesake.

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