A disgruntled Sumdac employee seeks revenge and profit by taking control of one of the AUTOBOTS and sending him on a rampage.

Another good episode focusing on Bulkhead, finally his artistic skills are shown. Loved the Daniel cameo with him crying after BH crushed the poor reporter bot, and Prime pulling G1 Prime's trailer brought a smile to face.

Lol now that 3 or so threads already started........

Well I missed the first half of the ep. Not so sure I like the Headmaster being like a gamer version of Teen Titans Control Freak. Loving the classic trailer on Prime. Was worried for a moment that the Headmaster wouldn't be able to transform himself. Still quite an arsenal in that small body.

Also, it must be said that this episode was...

TOTAL OWNAGE!

Headmaster was awesome! A totally l337 dude. Also, this episode made me like Bulkhead a lot more.

I caught the Witwicky boy and the g1 trailer too.

Bulkhead has won my approval.



How can you not love a 'bot who reduced Daniel to tears???

Ah, so many funny and interesting points. There's Prime's Trailer, Danny crying (okay, maybe not the best but funny that they used him. And before anyone complains that they keep reusing him, remember that he lives in the area where all of this is happening) "Where's the fire extinguisher?" "Attached to Prime!". Hee hee. I kind of like how Bulkhead is gonna forever deal with his clumsiness. Considering his size and build it's a big obstacle to get around (no pun intended)

And Henry Masterson (ooooh, bad pun name XD ) is just a dork.

Cute one again. And that's never a bad thing. I missed the first half, so I only caught the ending fight. So that means I only heard the HM guy talk for only ten minutes, and it annoyed me bad! Although it was still funny at the same time...I can only hear the word Noob and Pwned so many times in one sitting, you know? Lol. And I still love hearing grown ups trying to say it. Good job Sumdac.

One thing bugged me though. So random metal put together = robot. Fair enough. But then sparking it to make it move = life. That's fine. But then why did we have the whole Dinobot episode and Prowl getting all upset about destroying 'mindless machines' when he didn't even raise an eyebrow at their new little friend that was sent in to stop the meltdown. Seems rather odd. My nephew look at it was that the new robot wasn't as cool looking as a transformer, so it was ok to sacrifice him. *sigh*

That was good, per usual. Hooray more Fanzone!


I don't think they gave the thing a spark. After all, Meltdown's toilet didn't come to life.

Sumdac was actually reasonably competent this time around. Heh.

Not the first time something like that's happened.

Oooooh yeah....Stupid BOT.

Yeah... Didn't care for this episode. It was too weird, even for me. Headmaster was easily the most dull of the human villians this far - Meltdown was amazing, Nanosec was fun, and Archer and Princess were both good for a laugh - heck, even Collosus Rhodes had some funny bits. Headmaster tried, but generally failed to entertain me.

And Bulkhead's head joke didn't work for me either. I'm already dreading the Sentinel head-jokes for that later episodes.

Yeah, I call this the weakest Animated episode by far.

so... headmaster is basically the transformers version of the head component to gurren laggan?

heh. even has a stumpy robot mode.

i liked the episode, headmaster got on my nerves a bit though.. but, i guess he was meant to.

the animation seemed a bit... different, not sure exactly how..

Another TTGL reference, specifically to episode... four, was it?

Hm. I am willing to believe it's an intentional reference. I mean, with the glasses on other guys and all...

that was fun. i noticed Ratchet's hole on his arm is gone, too

I guess they know that that the key can't instantly make living machines I guess. With Grimlock and co there was the possibility of them having a spark. The episode with Soundwave proves that it takes a certain amount of energy to make a self aware robot. As Soundwave had to be keyed several times before being able to think for himself or have any intelligence.

The power of the key was magnified in the case of the Dinobots. With Soundwave it took more than one shot of the key to give him life. I think Megatron came back to life with one shot of the key because there was already more advanced Cybertronian circuitry to work with.

It seems that the key evolves machines until they become self aware. I'm guessing it depends on how long the key interacts with a machines systems for it to become really advanced enough to consider it alive.

I'm figuring they know this now.

This episode is a perfect example of why we write better Transformers fiction.


A friggin "Airplane!" ref and the most absurd one of all time too. When Bumblebee was posing he was doing THIS



It even had the Jeep as the background! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me I wasn't the only one to get that. The people worked so hard to put that in and should be applauded for it.

Okay, Headmaster was hilarious. If only because of the random gamer references. As a gamer, they made me laugh

And the part with Daniel at the beginning was also pretty funny

Did anyone else think of the "A-Team" when they were putting that robot together at the end?

So, to push the analogy as far as I possibly can... They created, in essence, an unborn sapient robot, and then sent it to their death.

OMG ANIMATED PROMOTES BABYKILLING AND ABORTIONS, LOVES TERRORISM.

I have to admit, I really like the Headmaster, if only for the face he's a complete prat with a midget robot head. Must admit, I'm rather tired of Bulkhead getting a lot of screentime, but eh, minor complaint.

I could see Masterson striking a deal with the 'Cons at some point.

So THAT'S why Bumblebee's pose looked so familiar to me, good catch!

Well, I was amused.

I like Bulkhead as experimenting with art and such; a big and clumsy (yet lovable) oaf making an effort towards fine motor control through stuff like painting is absolutely perfect...and him painting his own hand rather than the posed Bumblebee is hilarious. I'll admit though, I didn't get the reference with Bumblebee's pose there.

Headmaster I love as a character, as I can sorta equate him with Syndrome from 'The Incredibles' - this crazy little geek boy builds his dream project and shows it to the man he idolizes, and gets fired for his trouble. However, if there was any villain for this show that I'd support seeing removed from the Autobots' rogues gallery, it's him. His screws are loose, his invention was incredibly destructive, he DECAPITATED Bulkhead, he nearly blew up the city...it's not gonna happen, but you can dream.

The next time he has a full villain's appearance, however, he needs to get some TOTAL OWNAGE of his own...heh heh...

Sumdac rocked here, by the way, rightly firing Headmaster. Absent-minded he may be, he does have a certain degree of morality...which'll make the eventual revelations concerning Megatron all the more tragic...

Still, fun episode.

indeed.

I liked the episode, Headmaster's powers were awesome and definately reminded me of Lagann. I loved it when Bulkhead was using the Tutor Bot for a body and I like that Bulkhead has an interest in art, he's probably my favorite Animated character.

I didn't really like the animation for this episode in some parts, especially the humans.

I did!

The ep was in the middle for me.

The action wasn't terribly entertaining. The fight was clumsy and Prime chucking Bulkhead's head at the escaping headmaster was goofy as hell.

But it was a very funny episode.
All the gamer speak from Headmaster, Daniel crying (god that was hilarious), "where's the fire extinguisher?" -"attached to prime!", the whole Bulkhead/Bumble bee painting scene, bulkhead being blindsided by the reporter bot, etc...

It kept the g1 references pumping with the g1 prime trailer and daniel.

I find it hilarious how much righteous fury Sumdac has towards Masters for wanting to make military robots. I mean, while Sumdac trusts Megatron to be a good guy, building a body with powers/weapons is pretty much the same thing.

I might've, except my DVR cut out twice during the episode, skipping Bulkhead's artwork scenes entirely. I didn't figure I'd missed anything good, but there we go.

I did see and appreciate that Bulkhead's built-in spraypaint is a dot matrix printer (what kid's going to recognize that sound?), and that Headmaster's test-bots were Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. Well, not so much in the robot designs, but definitely in the controls and the head-poppin' action.

Overall, I wasn't a huge fan of the episode or the Headmaster himself. They really only had two or three "gamer" terms they kept using over and over ("Ownage! N00b! Ownage on the n00b!"), and it made him pretty grating after a couple of scenes.

Well look at it this way. Sumdac knows the Autobots have weapons/powers, so thinking that Megs is an Autobot makes him feel more comfortable creating a body with weapons. After all, he thinks he's helping a good guy that'll be responsible with that kinda firepower.

You guys are over analyzing everything. It's just a simple case of bad writing.

Oh yeah, and how would Headmaster not recognize the Autobots, even in their alt forms? They're major superheroes, they're always with Fanzone and Sumdac, they're all over the news every day... I can see him not recognizing one of them in a field of a bunch of other cars, but when only those exact four vehicles showing up after he's captured the fifth, I'd think he'd know the game right away.

To say nothing of the fact two police vehicles, an ambulance, and a fire truck pulling a trailer full of money.

I'm thinking back to the G1 Cartoon here and all the con's not wanting to do it so they make Blitzwing do it to take out the random factor of his personalities. Doubt Black Arachnia would let them, though there would be some comedy there, Lugnutz dumb enough but is totally obedient to Megatron so Megs would be against such a move, Starscreams got too big of an ego to let anyone "Test Drive" his body. Megatron would not let him anywhere near himself and for the moment it wouldn't matter, but thats gonna change soon.

HIGHLIGHT to view:
Headmaster's toy can be attached to Leader-class Megatron.

I was referring to the idea of them bankrolling him to use them to steal Autobots bodies and smash things. Smash things good.

Okay episode. Headmaster is definitely in the bottom tier of villians for me (right next to Meltdown). The whole Headmaster head turning into a smaller robot thing was cute though (I think only Targetmasters did that before in G1 fiction to escape...)

I liked the Airplane! reference, as well as the A-Team one at the end. And the "where's the fire extinguisher?!" line actually elicited a full-on laugh from me.

I really wish we could move on from the whole Bulkhead-is-a-clumsy-destructive-oaf storyline. WE GET IT ALREADY.

the g1 trailer was pure good.

HIGHLIGHT to view:
Headmaster has a toy? SWEET! I'm so buying that...for TOTAL OWN*shot*

WE may get it but this show is aimed at kids, and kids tend to have the attention spans of gnats. So the writers have to remind the kids every chance they get about how Bulkhead is a clumsy oaf.

Was anyone else surprised to find out that Headmaster actually cut a bot's head off before taking over? I know I was, I figured he would just jump from head to head and control whatever bot he was attatched to, I didn't expect decapitation first....creepy.

I thought he's be fitting on top of robot heads like a helmet. So I was a little surprised. It's cooler/more brutal with decapitation.

Unfortunately, the decapitation isn't taken seriously. Instead we get a goofy Bulkhead head, bouncing around.

I mean seriously, how does a decapitated head move around. than alone jump out of a trailer to bit someone's shoulder?

I have to say, this is my least favorite episode...right next to Nanosec (I actually like Meltdown and all his appearances).

I accept a lot of the stuff Animated does, and I can explain/rationalize away most of the stuff that doesn't make sense. I get into arguments with The Fortress Maximus every week because I love this show and constantly defend it. But this weeks ep was just too much to defend.

The humor bits were all it had. Though they were genuinely funny.

like how the writers have to remind the short attention span comic book readers how daredevil is blind every single issue.

While I definitely though of Lagann it lacks the most obvious characteristics, like being a head with limbs as a robot mode and upgrading whatever it plugs into (in fact, I kinda expected it'd sprout extra stuff on Bulkhead like the weapons on his leader-with-headmaster toy). Plus his taking over is nowhere as dynamic as the Lagann Impact. I blame the lack of drills

I did catch the A-team reference right when I saw it but not the airplane one.

Yep. It would be equally unbelievable if Bulkhead suddenly *were* really well-coordinated and the issue never came up again. It's the guy's personality...! Nothing I dislike more than "This character has a serious problem, but only through the end of this episode, and afterwards it's never mentioned again." Sorta like how I dislike when a character is a badass, but *only* for his first episode, and doesn't get demoted in strength as a result of meeting someone more powerful, but just...because it's not his intro episode anymore. Part of why I liked Rampage being pretty consistently a threat *throughout* Beast Wars. Sure, they found ways to deal with him, like Rattrap in s. 3 did with his explosives, but he hardly became a pushover.

Exactly, and it's good to see that Bumblebee isn't any less a jerk, "little buddy" indeed.

Quite the Lagann and Headmaster references, but not as cool (in the case of Lagann). And those gamer quips such as "noob"? Tad much in regards for the kids. Not a good or bad episode.

Did like G1 Prime's trailer. That brought a smile.

Loved it.

Control Fre-...I mean "the Headmaster's" use of 1337 slang got annoying quick, but I gathered that was the point.

The animation in this one seemed several notches above most of the other episodes, with not only the fight scenes looking more impressive, but characters being more expressive when talking and so on.

I liked how the Headmaster escaped at the end, rather than being arrested only to show up later with no explanation as to how he escaped prison (ie: Meltdown).

A funny episode and a good Bulkhead spotlight.

As if I needed another reason to get Bulkhead's toy. I wanted so much to cuddle him when everyone was berating him for his clumsiness. He can't help his size and strength.

I laughed hard when Headmaster transformed into an itty bitty bot.

It was kind of nice to see Isaac stand up for himself for once