3. Sea Change
Oh wait, it gets worse. At least Powerglide and his would-be girlfriend didn’t get together. The same can’t be said for Seaspray. The Autobots follow a distress signal to another planet where the local merfolk are under the control of the evil Deceptitran. The merpeople have an ability to transform into whatever they like, and Seaspray falls head-over-heels in love with a mermaid named Alana. Oh, and he can magically transform into a merman in order to be with her and protect her from the invading Decepticons. What in the world? Am I only the only one who finds robot and human romance a little bit weird?
2. Child’s Play
What is this? What is this madness? This entire episode is one Big Lipped Alligator Moment! The Decepticons invade a baseball stadium to build a space bridge, throwing the players around, and then the Autobots join the mayhem to make every baseball pun in the book. However, half of the two factions get sucked up into the space bridge ending up on a weird planet where they are the size of toys and are stuck in the room of an alien child. How ironic. The alien characters are bizarre and freaky, and there are more animation errors in this episode than any other in the entire franchise. Though it is amusing to see Starscream get chased around by alligators.
1. Thief in the Night
The previously mentioned episodes have been weird or absurd, but none of them have been this embarrassing and insulting. I feel guilty for even putting this image up! In this episode, the characters spend some time in Middle Eastern country where Trypticon is devouring its oil. The name of the country – Carbombya. Yes, you read that right. Carbombya. This country is an obvious “take that!” to Libya and its then-dictator Gaddafi. In Carbombya, there is a population of four-thousand humans and ten-thousand camels, and it is ruled by a military dictator named Abdul Fakkadi. Wow. This dumb stereotypical and offensive episode caused Casey Kasem to quit the series in protest since he is of Middle Eastern descent. How embarrassing.
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