Oh yeah! You know, it's crazy to think that the Nemesis crashed in South America after Beast Wars when Beast Megatron took control of it to try to wipe out the Maximals and the Ark.
Yeah. Cliff knew that they couldn't just sit back, even if I get why Ratchet knew they had to be careful thanks to the Heart of Cybertron boosting Megatron's power significantly! And I just imagine the fact of that being ONE reason why the Nemesis was so powerful, besides the weaponry she had.
Bumblebee may have been smallest & less powerful of the Autobots, but he was the most bravest & courageous of them all. Gotta respect him, especially how he stood up for Perceptor to Brawn.
I love Optimus putting Brawn in his place when he still calls Perceptor a coward for not being in a battle. It just proves that every member of the team is valuable in their own respect, and it isn't right to judge a person weak because they're not the same as everyone else.
Honestly, the funniest part of this episode for me was seeing Starscream getting strangled by an anaconda and Ravage duking it out with a _real_ jaguar.
One thing I think is sometimes missed in the Decepticons' drunken indulgence is that, yes, it's funny -- but it's also clear that they genuinely love Cybertron as much as the Autobots do. Megatron misses the hell out of that place
Well, a lot of fans feel that the war broke out partly because the Decepticons felt that the best way to protect Cybertron from hostile aliens was to form a large empire and conquer alien races first before they could attack Cybertron. The Autobots of course felt that conquering alien races was wrong and that they should live in peace with them and treat them as equals which the Decepticons felt was stupids and that Cybertronians were the master race. Such an ideological schism of course always leads to war which is sad as both Autobots and Decepticons care about Cybertron but they couldn't agree on how best to protect it.
@@girlgarde not to mention if you played the Fall of Cybertron storyline, the ancient age of Cybertron has reach the glorious age, it stated that such technology is lost during the war, eons of warfare causing their technology and themselves to degenerate to such state that their ancestors is way more advance than their current self... which is a bad realization in our real life that every high up answer to everything is... by fire steel
3:20 Perceptor rocking that Decpticon insignia. I'm amazed at how much I didn't notice when I was a kid. These errors are all over every episode, but I don't ever remember spotting them way back then.
You're not alone in thinking that - it's pretty much universal among G1 fans who were old enough to have seen the series during its original run. A part of the reason for that is because many such errors actually *were* corrected before the episodes aired on TV. Unfortunately, those "corrected" prints were either too degraded, lost or otherwise unusable when it came to releasing the series on DVD. As a result, it was the better preserved masters (the original prints, lacking those corrections) that were used as the source for the cleaned-up DVD releases. So it's not necessarily a case of our childhood memories playing tricks on us, forgetting all those animation mistakes, rather it's because the error rate in the series as televised in the 80's *actually was* a lot lower than that seen in the DVD-sourced episodes (which is where these UA-cam-episodes are from). A shame, really - I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison of corrected vs non-corrected episodes, to see just how many of those mistakes were fixed...
I'm seeing a lot of Unicron's inspiration in this episode. Also the art style of this one was almost on par with the movie. ....so many of the series had really cheap janky animation when these ones came along they were a real treat.
It's not Jaggi animation was pretty good especially back in the days I remember as a kid I thought the animation on some of the episodes of Transformers we're really good probably because most of the animation was done in Japan which was very common back in the 80s I think people are so used to the anime of today they start looking at the old animes of yester years start thinking at the animation was okay to Jaggi not very good Come on please !!
Never aired on weekends in my market.. for half a season, we in the midwest only got a single episode in one act per day from the Bozo the Clown show from Chicago. then we had an independent channel start that gave us the show every weekday.
The final moment when Perceptor shoots the Heart is a great nod to his comic version . Even in the Marvel continuity he was a Marksman and trained Sharpshooter.
Totally agree there. Love having all these classic episodes at the press of a button. And that the comments have been left on. All the comments are appropriation of the nostalgia and pointing out favorite scenes. What a great community.
I will always appreciate a drunk megatron now all we need is a drunk optimus prime and drunk megatron having a before we where enemies and at war moments that would be priceless suffice to say though though microbots will always be one of my favourite episodes especially with the wasted Desepticons
I just have to gush over this episode. I loved so much of what it brought. It tied up the mystery of what happened to The Nemesis nicely. Also showing the trans-mat beam shows the size changing power the Transformers use isn't limited to their own bodies. I always liked to think this is how Astrotrain, Blitzwing, and the other Decepticons came back, they were recovered from the ship after the fight. The one thing I always wondered about was why Megatron squandered the Heart of Cybertron for a power boost when he could have used it in an energon production scheme. It seems like a lot of his super-weapons could have been better used for energon production
@@thesailormercury2 Basically , energon = liquid energy; the equivalent of high-proof IPA or Everclear - which is why the Decepticons were - literally - too drunk to fly. (I normally drink Dogfish 90 Minute IPA - nine percent alcohol by volume. I limit myself to one bottle per meal - and only at dinner. It is brewed in Milford, DE - which makes me wonder if this is the "secret weakness" of the Bidens. No - the Bidens are NOT why I started drinking it; I first tried a different IPA from the same brewery at my birthday dinner five years ago - which also marked my first full year clear of cancer of any sort - Dogfish "Arrogant B*tch" a specialty variant of 90 Minute IPA. India Pale Ales are not weak; they have higher alcohol content than most standard beers - including imported beers. For that reason, I refer to them as "military-strength".) The last six-pack of 90 Minute IPA lasted me three months.)
This episode is the one I best remember from when I was a kid. Good use of the "heroes get shrunk" trope. And of course that scene with the decipticons get drunk off energy. (That's a thing?)
The Transformers use energon for more than just energy. Its basically their food supply that can be used for other things, in the comics and the g1 episode The Gambler, its was even used as currency
I always liked this episode of G1 since it not only is just crazy how the Decepticons are SO close to victory thanks to the Heart of Cybertron from the Nemesis, but it also has Brawn learning every Autobot has their place in their ranks, given how he's on Perceptor a lot in this episode for not being very macho, but he gets to appreciate what skills Perceptor does have.
@@great159 Well, the reason I thought it was the Nemesis is the fact that the Nemesis DID crash land somewhere else in the finale of Beast Wars after Beast Megatron had found it and tried to use it to destroy the Ark along with the Autobots. EDIT: And it IS the Nemesis. The star drive is just part of the ship itself.
i used to watch the dvd i have with the first 9 episodes of the first season on repeat everyday when i was like 4 lmao. im still glad i found the series on yt after losing the dvd and the dvd player for 8-9 years
Double the budget for the score. Honestly, the score and the animation were the two things that I loved most about this series. And then came Season 3...😐
I was able to get the original score on an LP a couple of years back on eBay. It resembles a golden disk with symbols from each faction on either side. So cool.
Not completely shameless: any tracks incorporating the G.I. Joe melody weren't included, and Joe didn't have TF melodies AFAIK. They both had Spider-Man music, and probably could've added Hulk stuff if they wanted. Why pay for new scores, and who wants to bet Rob Walsh and Johnny Douglas had no contract stipulations regarding usage outside of the intended products?
@@BrotherDerrick3X Makes you wonder what Prime's punishment would involve. Would he bend Brawn over his knee to spank his butt? Ground him? Send him to his room?
A quite famous episode. Not only it featured good animation, we also had a good insight on the anatomic structure of a Transformer. Too bad Beast Wars changed all that with the introduction of the Spark concept. Plus that infamous scene with the drunken Decepticons gave the Transformers a touch of huanity.
Not to mention how good looking Optimus look in this episode compare to some other episodes. His best appearance is in the series finale of Season 3, the Hate Plague arc.
@@minicle426 l agree and l think that's the problem with all the modern takes on Transformers..they've completely lost the essence of what made the original show work so well.
Perceptor can't even transform into a alt mode that can go faster than walking speed lol. He's be killed in seconds on the battlefield. Not an intelligent use of resources.
I’m convinced the Heart of Cybertron isn’t really connected to Cybertron itself like the Matrix is. The Matrix of Leadership is the literal heart of Robo-God himself. This thing is nothing more than a glorified Chaos Emerald.
Funny you should bring up Chaos Emeralds, seeing as how the Sonic the Hedgehog comic is now being produced by IDW, the same guys who publish the TransFormers comics. I wonder if a TransFormers/Sonic crossover event might be in the offing one of these days? While Sonic whips out the seven chaos emeralds to go Super Saiya-- err, Sonic, Optimus Prime whips out the Autobot matrix, the Key to Vector Sigma, the Ferrotaxis, the Heart of Cybertron, the Allspark, the Golden Disks, and The Enigma of Combination to become-- ummmm... PowerMaster Optimus Prime, I guess? Actually, it's more likely IDW will have their other video-game comic property Mega Man cross paths with the TransFormers. Now, THAT'S some hot bot-on-bot action-- um, wait, let me rephrase that...
@@zagnorch1336 my head canon is for that Crossover is that Unicron made the chaos emeralds in an attempt to counter Primus' 13 Primes. To make the Chaos Emeralds, Unicron collapsed 7 Solar Systems and harnessed the power from them to make 7 gems of power to fuel himself. Before he could use them, Unicron was defeated and the 13 Prime recovered them and brought them to Primus to be destroyed. Saddened by the sacrifice made to create the gems, Primus attempts to purify the gems of their evil, but is only half-successful, as they can still be used to bring ruination. He decided to scatter them to a remote part of the Galaxy. In addition, in order to keep them grounded on the side of order and unity, Primus creates the Master Emerald from part of his own spark in order to keep the Chaos Emeralds in check should they run rampant with their binary use of power, before launching it after the Chaos Emeralds.
Which aren't bad if they're done right. For example, I usually like shrinking episodes when the characters that undergo it don't mean to be shrunk on purpose. That happened in TMNT, 80's DuckTales, Smurfs, etc.
The ship at the bottom of the ocean is the space cruiser the Deceptions built in the pilot mini series and crash landed in the ocean due to Mirage dodging a blast that hit the computer counsel during one of Starscreamers coup attempts. It’s not the Nemesis that crashed at the same time the Ark did
@@lkultra2248 If you watch the first 3-part episode, you will notice that the Nemesis detatched from the Ark as it spun out of control. The Ark fell to Earth while the Nemesis was sent off into deep space.
I'm more partial to the season 3&4 theme, myself. However, the second-season opening features my favorite visuals, especially Omega Supreme squishing Blitzwing under his foot, then turning away to fire on Astrotrain as Scrapper scoops up & hauls away Blitzwing's flattened tank-carcass.
@@zagnorch1336 The 3&4 series theme was also my favorite. And, also, the animation WHEN it was whichever animation studio did clean up work for a couple of episodes/scenes, particularly some of The Return of Optimus Prime. Otherwise, it was animation by the lowest possible bidder from season 3 to the end.
I never understood why this episode is far and away the best animation of the series. Some episodes were downright awful, while here we get crisp, clean, and colorful animations.
They were forced to rely on cheaper Korean animation studios like AKOM for backup because there were three times as many episodes as Season 1 and they had to meet deadlines.
Funny how this is still the best series 35 years later. With all the improvements to animation technology the powers at be could still never figure out how to make a better Transformers show.
@@ceoofceos5219 Prime was the next best one in my opinion. I wasn't crazy about the 3 kids, or the other human characters. Similar to most iterations of TF including G1 the human characters tended to be the weak link. The stories or parts of stories that focused more on the robots tended to be more appealing.
Literally this. We need the series on a nice Bluray collector's edition. The rest of the Japanese G1 series with proper English Dubs would make it even more amazing.
@@Tonyboney939 What are you, crazy? Hunting for animation errors is half the fun of watching the show! I mean, what's next? You wanna do a remaster of the original Star Trek series, where all the spaceship models and cheesy special effects are replaced with CGI? Oh wait, they already did that, didn't they? Freakin' George Lucas, it's all his fault...
This always stands out as one of the better episodes imo. Animation is PERFECT, and if you just watch the pacing of it, it demonstrates why this cartoon was one of a kind. It wasn’t forcing anything, it wasn’t people-pleasing and trying to make you laugh or go “oooh aaah” at anything. It was just classic transformers, which at the end of the day was a cartoon that was super confident in what it was. And that confidence came through and made the show a classic. It’s like an older suv before they became overly technical, trendy and posh, or a classic Ralph Lauren shirt. Nothing flashy, just timeless, dependable and pleasing!
Season 2 FTW! As the season goes on, you can see better animation and the 'glossy' look to the materials, warming us up to the visuals of the movie. Pure Awesome!
Nobody finds anything remotely strange about an archeologist with blue hair at the beginning of this episode? Optimus Prime: "Something's been discovered in South America, something Megatron wants. And if he wants it, we don't want him to get it." Meanwhile in South America, Megatron is ordering out. Megatron: "I want a double cheeseburger, hold the onions, a large fries, and a medium Diet Coke..."
Thank you Hasbro for not disabling comments. Conversing with fellow TF fans and seeing their opinions is part of the fun.
A thousand times yes
sure is
Oh yeah! You know, it's crazy to think that the Nemesis crashed in South America after Beast Wars when Beast Megatron took control of it to try to wipe out the Maximals and the Ark.
My wife said that I’m having a midlife crises, she just doesn’t understand 🤣🤣🤣
@@gregd4633 Weird flex, but whatever works!
I love how Megatron seems to be annoyed by the fact that virtually all of his soldiers are lightweights
Lmao
LOL Im glad he never learns his lesson, more entertaining for us
Megatron is a lightweight himself, we need galatron a rogue that’s unpredictable…
I know! In their defense they didn't have the Heart of Cybertron powering their positronic core! LoL! I love this episode!
@@lukasyoon1118 i Love transformers
I love how, when Megatron gets drunk, he seems like a nice guy...
love it too Megatron drunk is epic.
14:09 Laserbeak drunk flying and crashing is hilarious!
10/10 flying on Lazerbeak's part it was hilarious
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😂LOL😂(14:09)
12:09 -The Decepticons give us what is quite possibly the intentionally funniest scene in the series.
not rlly prime standing and running at the same time is most funny
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The drunk decepticons are the best part of the entire episode 😂
While it is funny I always did think it was a bit odd. But to be fair, I have no idea of the... I want to say biology, of the Transformers.
@@philosophichuman1507 Imagine summarizing to a 10 year old the entire Transformers war on Earth as a galactic beer run.
@@desecration171 😂😂😂
Lazerbeak crashing always gets me.
iTS THE AROURROTS!!1!!!
Megatron getting drunk and then comforting the Autobots by himself...gotta love it
Confronting*
With Bumblebee, Brawn, & Perceptor inside him
Megatron shooting lasers from his hands like Palpatine with force lightning lol
7:42 "He'll blow us away if we attack."
"He'll blow us away if we just _stand here_ !"
For once, Cliffjumper actually had a point.
Cliffjumper was always 1 of my face Autobots considering that he was always Gung ho while most of the Autobots were pacificists
And there he have it. Shot by Megatron Cliffjumper always charging ahead without planning a strategy
Yeah. Cliff knew that they couldn't just sit back, even if I get why Ratchet knew they had to be careful thanks to the Heart of Cybertron boosting Megatron's power significantly! And I just imagine the fact of that being ONE reason why the Nemesis was so powerful, besides the weaponry she had.
Bumblebee may have been smallest & less powerful of the Autobots, but he was the most bravest & courageous of them all. Gotta respect him, especially how he stood up for Perceptor to Brawn.
Until Blaster's cassettes came along.
"The least likely can be the most dangerous."
Bumblebee is good with children. He would be a good preschool teacher. Especially with Headstart.
Don't brave and courageous mean the exact same thing? Lol
@@DekaNovelist be careful with youre pride
12:25 The Decepticons getting sauced is still 1 of the best moments in Transformers G1 history!😆
Lmao
DeadAss lmaoo
This got me thinking as a kid, "Wait...they drink the energon??? Like beer?" XD
"Dis stuff's the greatest!"
*gOOd old Cybertron!*
I love Optimus putting Brawn in his place when he still calls Perceptor a coward for not being in a battle. It just proves that every member of the team is valuable in their own respect, and it isn't right to judge a person weak because they're not the same as everyone else.
Facts
@@Ozymondias99 Thank you, my friend.
@@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate you are welcome.
@@Ozymondias99 nice to meet you and how are you?
@@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate i am good
Brawn's character development and final approval of Perceptor is the best part of this episode.
Yes it was.
Except that they had to make Brawn a jerk, just so they could turn him back into the nice guy he usually is.
But like… drunk decepticons
Honestly, the funniest part of this episode for me was seeing Starscream getting strangled by an anaconda and Ravage duking it out with a _real_ jaguar.
Nah Perceptor's sick sniper shot takes the cake
13:00 Megatron talking about the good ole days🤣
Did I hear him say ugly ass disguise?
@@denis197534 "Ugly Earth disguises", but yes.
What good old days killing autobots on Cybertron Megatron been fighting since his creation
@@Shadow-998-handlessuck wonder what megs Cybertron alt mode was
“Good Ole Cybertron, land of the metal moooon!”
I could've sworn Megs said "didn't have to sneak around in these ugly-ass disguises" at 13:06. 😆😂🤣
"ugly Earth-disguises"
3:58-"I hate nice things!" Scavenger shoots trees.
"This is why we can't have nice things!" Soundwave
bro that just sounds like my mom and nephews 💀
"The Mayans didn't have space craft." Best line EVER!😂😂😂
Can somebody tell me how did they uncover that ship with hand shovels? It must have taken them 2 or more months!
Did you watch Indiana Jones 4? Ancient Civilizations adding up with Extraterrestrials never ends well, though.
One thing I think is sometimes missed in the Decepticons' drunken indulgence is that, yes, it's funny -- but it's also clear that they genuinely love Cybertron as much as the Autobots do. Megatron misses the hell out of that place
Well, a lot of fans feel that the war broke out partly because the Decepticons felt that the best way to protect Cybertron from hostile aliens was to form a large empire and conquer alien races first before they could attack Cybertron. The Autobots of course felt that conquering alien races was wrong and that they should live in peace with them and treat them as equals which the Decepticons felt was stupids and that Cybertronians were the master race.
Such an ideological schism of course always leads to war which is sad as both Autobots and Decepticons care about Cybertron but they couldn't agree on how best to protect it.
@@girlgarde 😢
@@girlgarde not to mention if you played the Fall of Cybertron storyline, the ancient age of Cybertron has reach the glorious age, it stated that such technology is lost during the war, eons of warfare causing their technology and themselves to degenerate to such state that their ancestors is way more advance than their current self... which is a bad realization in our real life that every high up answer to everything is... by fire steel
@@girlgardewell said
@@girlgardeYou mean like what the Roman Empire did?
4:10 Starscream and a snake. How fitting. 😁
Is that an anaconda?
Rumble was SUCH a troll back then 😂
Braun learned his lesson. He realized geeks can be heroes too. Good life lesson.
Brawn. And he did, Perceptor was more of a warrior than a scientist here.
He also realized that if it hadn't been for that geek, he would've survived the movie.
Brawn has always been one of my favorites but man did he get on my nerves in this one.
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Aydush
Wfahaia
It is good that Brawn has started to become more mature.
3:20 Perceptor rocking that Decpticon insignia. I'm amazed at how much I didn't notice when I was a kid. These errors are all over every episode, but I don't ever remember spotting them way back then.
Holy crap you're right!
Lol, that's a surprise.
Glad im not the only one who caught that
I think Perceptor was a Decepticon b4 but was a pacifist and switch sides to Autobots.
You're not alone in thinking that - it's pretty much universal among G1 fans who were old enough to have seen the series during its original run.
A part of the reason for that is because many such errors actually *were* corrected before the episodes aired on TV. Unfortunately, those "corrected" prints were either too degraded, lost or otherwise unusable when it came to releasing the series on DVD. As a result, it was the better preserved masters (the original prints, lacking those corrections) that were used as the source for the cleaned-up DVD releases.
So it's not necessarily a case of our childhood memories playing tricks on us, forgetting all those animation mistakes, rather it's because the error rate in the series as televised in the 80's *actually was* a lot lower than that seen in the DVD-sourced episodes (which is where these UA-cam-episodes are from).
A shame, really - I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison of corrected vs non-corrected episodes, to see just how many of those mistakes were fixed...
12:54
"This stuff's the Greatest!!!!" (THEN falls over)
drunk thundercracker is the funniest i swear, other than when hes stopping frenzy and rumble from tag teaming skywarp lol
I'm seeing a lot of Unicron's inspiration in this episode. Also the art style of this one was almost on par with the movie. ....so many of the series had really cheap janky animation when these ones came along they were a real treat.
Yeah season 2 had pretty decent animation, season 3 was pretty lousy.
Season 2 had the best, Season 1's was OK, but Season 4's was terrible
Season 3 was hit or miss, but the stories were pretty good dealing with space and different planets.
Yes certainly, I just think Prime’s head is too wide.
It's not Jaggi animation was pretty good especially back in the days I remember as a kid I thought the animation on some of the episodes of Transformers we're really good probably because most of the animation was done in Japan which was very common back in the 80s I think people are so used to the anime of today they start looking at the old animes of yester years start thinking at the animation was okay to Jaggi not very good Come on please !!
Every time I see the commercial break theme it brings back memories of nostalgia. Makes me miss Saturday mornings as a kid.
Maaaannn what you Talkin about! Kids today just don't know what Saturday Mornings was all about hmm good times good times
ya make a man miss his childhood 😭😭
Amen
Dungeons and dragons
"on par with the movie" lol, are you completely blind?
Never aired on weekends in my market.. for half a season, we in the midwest only got a single episode in one act per day from the Bozo the Clown show from Chicago. then we had an independent channel start that gave us the show every weekday.
4:10 I still like this scene of them laughing at Starscream!😆🐍
With a snake the size of a jet!
@@TAKTAK_Toyseh, according to Wikipedia Starscream is 8 meters tall, an anaconda can reach it
@@ANIMATIONLOVERBT interesting fair enough, in that case it’s reasonable 👍
Starscream makes me think of Axl Rose from the 80's And for the record, I love GNR.
He seems to have a lot of bad luck with giant reptiles.
Perceptor was my favorite autobot. I appreciated his brain and any episode which made him a hero was a good episode.
He has a decepticon badge at the start of the episode in one scene, before prime tells him to stay at base, bit strange no?
@@Quidization the animation error
wheeljack + perceptor and ratchet = powerful brains
@@Quidization Animation error...they were a lot more plentiful back then.
@@kimberly8695 The finest Korean sweatshops, hard at work.
Megatron: Put it inside me!
Constructicon: Laying down made this weirder than it needed to be...
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xD
kinda gay megatron,,
😂😂😂
😭 megatron says the craziest most suspicious things
Perceptor: "Megatron's brain!"
Brawn: "How come it's so quiet?"
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6:06
Megatron: Cut it open!
Hook: *blows a massive hole in it*
I guess that'll do
Holy.. This episode is worth it just for the drunk Decepticons
Would’ve been cool to see drunk Autobots too
@@g1keitorin765 there's one
@@gandalflotr2898 where
@@g1keitorin765 search karaoke party
But where's the constructicons?
Megatron wearing a watch🤣 16:06
The final moment when Perceptor shoots the Heart is a great nod to his comic version . Even in the Marvel continuity he was a Marksman and trained Sharpshooter.
Hold my legs I feel a urge to shoot something Perceptor Last Stand of the Wreckers IDW comics
"What do you think of his intelligence now Brawn?" "I reserve judgement." 11:07
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Thanks Hasbro for bringing back the original unaltered The Transformers series!
More Than Meets The Eye! Love the bumpers being reinserted!
Totally agree there. Love having all these classic episodes at the press of a button. And that the comments have been left on. All the comments are appropriation of the nostalgia and pointing out favorite scenes. What a great community.
@@sonicguyver7445 definitely! And no add-on sound effects.
I love it, classic animation errors and all 👍🏼
If youtube could put their advertising in the right spot between "the transformers will return after these messages" and "we now return to"
Its a nice touch how Warpath's armour seems to be the only thing that stands up to Megatron's power towards the end.
I love how megatron casually looks at his watch
indeed -.- that gesture makes no sense
was still under the influence? im surprised he even knew what a watch is lmao
Love how rumble gets the hiccups and they all get drunk lol
Decepticons getting drunk on power is the highlight of this episode XD
17:15 One of the best moments in the whole series. Perfectly scored.
Can we just appreciate drunk Megatron for a moment?
yes, yes we can
Wish we saw more of him but I ain’t gonna complain
I will always appreciate a drunk megatron now all we need is a drunk optimus prime and drunk megatron having a before we where enemies and at war moments that would be priceless suffice to say though though microbots will always be one of my favourite episodes especially with the wasted Desepticons
This is definitely one of the better spotlight episodes of the series. Perceptor was always one of my favorites.
I had the Perceptor toy as a kid.
12:39 “Boy, these are good” - what we all said about wine coolers in the 80’s 🎉😂
"I HATE nice things!" LOL. Reminds me of something Skeletor would say.
"Bad things come in small packages" Never realized how hard the world can feel a hit till that line.
Love this episode.
I just have to gush over this episode. I loved so much of what it brought. It tied up the mystery of what happened to The Nemesis nicely. Also showing the trans-mat beam shows the size changing power the Transformers use isn't limited to their own bodies.
I always liked to think this is how Astrotrain, Blitzwing, and the other Decepticons came back, they were recovered from the ship after the fight.
The one thing I always wondered about was why Megatron squandered the Heart of Cybertron for a power boost when he could have used it in an energon production scheme. It seems like a lot of his super-weapons could have been better used for energon production
4:33 ravage be like : "It's over cheetah boi I have the high ground."
Thats a Jaguar.....not a cheetah
@@xblade4266 Can we all pretend that was Cheetor?
@@HunterTheHero it's your choice. I'm just making sure y'all know the right animal lol
21:40
Now I see why they made Perceptor a bad ass sniper in the IDW transformers comic books.
Pretty damn cool.
The deceptive cons drunk off of energy on oh my goodness LOL they were drinking the good stuff y’all
Energon beer the Energy of beers.
Drunk laserbeak hitting the ground! 😆
@@eastbayej does soundwave know not to gave his pet bird a beer
does his motherboard know?
@@thesailormercury2 Basically , energon = liquid energy; the equivalent of high-proof IPA or Everclear - which is why the Decepticons were - literally - too drunk to fly. (I normally drink Dogfish 90 Minute IPA - nine percent alcohol by volume. I limit myself to one bottle per meal - and only at dinner. It is brewed in Milford, DE - which makes me wonder if this is the "secret weakness" of the Bidens. No - the Bidens are NOT why I started drinking it; I first tried a different IPA from the same brewery at my birthday dinner five years ago - which also marked my first full year clear of cancer of any sort - Dogfish "Arrogant B*tch" a specialty variant of 90 Minute IPA. India Pale Ales are not weak; they have higher alcohol content than most standard beers - including imported beers. For that reason, I refer to them as "military-strength".) The last six-pack of 90 Minute IPA lasted me three months.)
@@PGHammer21A are you saying that they got drunk with high ipa of energy ?
This episode is the one I best remember from when I was a kid. Good use of the "heroes get shrunk" trope. And of course that scene with the decipticons get drunk off energy. (That's a thing?)
The Transformers use energon for more than just energy. Its basically their food supply that can be used for other things, in the comics and the g1 episode The Gambler, its was even used as currency
Preceptor just Snapped his fingers for his mind plan that he saw something (18:20)
(Preceptor)”Got it”
I always liked this episode of G1 since it not only is just crazy how the Decepticons are SO close to victory thanks to the Heart of Cybertron from the Nemesis, but it also has Brawn learning every Autobot has their place in their ranks, given how he's on Perceptor a lot in this episode for not being very macho, but he gets to appreciate what skills Perceptor does have.
It's called the Star Drive NOT the Nemesis. Scavenger even said it in this episode.
@@great159 Well, the reason I thought it was the Nemesis is the fact that the Nemesis DID crash land somewhere else in the finale of Beast Wars after Beast Megatron had found it and tried to use it to destroy the Ark along with the Autobots.
EDIT: And it IS the Nemesis. The star drive is just part of the ship itself.
One of the best animated shows on tv, I hope there are some younger people on here enjoying it to. Great stories.
i used to watch the dvd i have with the first 9 episodes of the first season on repeat everyday when i was like 4 lmao. im still glad i found the series on yt after losing the dvd and the dvd player for 8-9 years
@@prowlsleftfoot 1st season had a lot of the best episodes IMO
@@SignOfTheTimes008 it is, but season 2 has some of the best characters (like seaspray and perceptor imo)
love the way the background score is reused shamelessly between G.I. Joe and Transformers lol
Same universe apparently. There was a comic book mini-series called GI JOE VS TRANSFORMERS.
Double the budget for the score. Honestly, the score and the animation were the two things that I loved most about this series.
And then came Season 3...😐
I was able to get the original score on an LP a couple of years back on eBay. It resembles a golden disk with symbols from each faction on either side. So cool.
Not completely shameless: any tracks incorporating the G.I. Joe melody weren't included, and Joe didn't have TF melodies AFAIK. They both had Spider-Man music, and probably could've added Hulk stuff if they wanted. Why pay for new scores, and who wants to bet Rob Walsh and Johnny Douglas had no contract stipulations regarding usage outside of the intended products?
Does anyone know of the track at the start
12:48 wait, how is Soundwave drinking the Energon?
He has his ways of drinking even we humans don’t understand.
Poured it the mask drank it like a straw
Or the mask just open like a hatch or like a ⚰️ that open
just the fact that all the decepticons but megatron were blackout drunk is the funniest thing ever, especially lazerbeak crashing lmao
"Brawn, lay off Perceptor! If I hear one more word against him you'll answer to me."
& ME DAMMIT😡.
Unlike Bumblebee, Optimus Prime's threat carries more weight.
Primes just like our father's wen we younger 😏 firm.. but fair
@@BrotherDerrick3X Makes you wonder what Prime's punishment would involve. Would he bend Brawn over his knee to spank his butt? Ground him? Send him to his room?
@@BrotherDerrick3X prime was the strongest autobot
Great words from Megatron
We didn’t have to sneak around in these ugly ass disguises 🤣🤣🤣🤣
HE REALLY SAID THAT?- HOW DID THAT GET PAST MICHAEL BAY LMAO
"Ugly EARTH disguisesc 😂
EARTH disguises :D
Perceptor is the administrative professional of the autobots. If not for him, the other autobots wouldn't be healed quickly.
I guess having Ratchet around is kind of redundant then.
David wise did some impressive Transformers stories.
A quite famous episode.
Not only it featured good animation, we also had a good insight on the anatomic structure of a Transformer. Too bad Beast Wars changed all that with the introduction of the Spark concept.
Plus that infamous scene with the drunken Decepticons gave the Transformers a touch of huanity.
Not to mention how good looking Optimus look in this episode compare to some other episodes. His best appearance is in the series finale of Season 3, the Hate Plague arc.
Yeah that Spark thing really grates on me.
Speaking of spark 16:53
Honestly I never cared for the concept of a 'Spark' or the 'Allspark'. It went to far into the realms of mysticism for me.
@@minicle426 l agree and l think that's the problem with all the modern takes on Transformers..they've completely lost the essence of what made the original show work so well.
The episode where Brawn's tech spec quote "Might over microchips" gets challenged.
Bumblebee is right in real life armies don't need have just fighters. Doctors lawyers, scientists, chiefs and even musicians
Most importantly, competent leadership.
@@infernalstryfe most definitely. But unfortunately not everyone can be Optimus Prime
Perceptor can't even transform into a alt mode that can go faster than walking speed lol. He's be killed in seconds on the battlefield. Not an intelligent use of resources.
@@jlim003 He can turn into a tank. That's why his microscope doubles as a giant cannon at the end of the episode.
@@CryosisOfficial Yeh, I know he's a tank. A tank that goes "no faster than walking speed".
Prime did put Brawn in his place for sure but Brawn saw how Perceptor was just as brave as he is brilliant
21:20 it took 9 seconds for the heart of cybertron to reach a distance of 1,000 miles. That’s 400,000 mph. This man can THROW
"Real work is crushing Decepticons, not fussing with chips!"
Says the guy who's gonna get crushed by said Decepticons 20 years later.
The fact that the ending of this episode implies that Brawn can throw an object at approximately 500 miles a second is funny to me
Apparently he can lift 90,000kg aswell. He is pretty impressive.
This was one of the episodes that all the guys at school talked about the next day. And how great it was.
SOUNDWAVE GET YO CHILD 12:38 WE DONT STAND UNDERAGED DRINKING
I’m convinced the Heart of Cybertron isn’t really connected to Cybertron itself like the Matrix is. The Matrix of Leadership is the literal heart of Robo-God himself. This thing is nothing more than a glorified Chaos Emerald.
So, it must be zel quartz
XD
If it’s equal to a chaos emeralds, it is still very strong.
Funny you should bring up Chaos Emeralds, seeing as how the Sonic the Hedgehog comic is now being produced by IDW, the same guys who publish the TransFormers comics. I wonder if a TransFormers/Sonic crossover event might be in the offing one of these days? While Sonic whips out the seven chaos emeralds to go Super Saiya-- err, Sonic, Optimus Prime whips out the Autobot matrix, the Key to Vector Sigma, the Ferrotaxis, the Heart of Cybertron, the Allspark, the Golden Disks, and The Enigma of Combination to become-- ummmm... PowerMaster Optimus Prime, I guess?
Actually, it's more likely IDW will have their other video-game comic property Mega Man cross paths with the TransFormers. Now, THAT'S some hot bot-on-bot action-- um, wait, let me rephrase that...
@@zagnorch1336 my head canon is for that Crossover is that Unicron made the chaos emeralds in an attempt to counter Primus' 13 Primes. To make the Chaos Emeralds, Unicron collapsed 7 Solar Systems and harnessed the power from them to make 7 gems of power to fuel himself.
Before he could use them, Unicron was defeated and the 13 Prime recovered them and brought them to Primus to be destroyed.
Saddened by the sacrifice made to create the gems, Primus attempts to purify the gems of their evil, but is only half-successful, as they can still be used to bring ruination. He decided to scatter them to a remote part of the Galaxy. In addition, in order to keep them grounded on the side of order and unity, Primus creates the Master Emerald from part of his own spark in order to keep the Chaos Emeralds in check should they run rampant with their binary use of power, before launching it after the Chaos Emeralds.
"Leave him alone, Brawn! Or you're gonna tango with me!" Bumble Bee is pretty brave and badass.
I swear. It seems like every cartoon from the 80s/90s had a shrinking episode.
Which aren't bad if they're done right. For example, I usually like shrinking episodes when the characters that undergo it don't mean to be shrunk on purpose. That happened in TMNT, 80's DuckTales, Smurfs, etc.
My favorite show growing up as a kid,man I really miss the early 1980s😥😢
Same here
I'm a '90s kid, but even I miss the '80s lol
That is the most powerful Decepticon warship in Transformers history! The ship that shot down the Ark itself! The Nemesis!
No. The Nemesis is at the bottom of the ocean. Which also happens to be the Decepticon HQ
The ship at the bottom of the ocean is the space cruiser the Deceptions built in the pilot mini series and crash landed in the ocean due to Mirage dodging a blast that hit the computer counsel during one of Starscreamers coup attempts. It’s not the Nemesis that crashed at the same time the Ark did
@@lkultra2248 You're wrong. The ship that crashed as not the Nemesis, it was a second space cruiser that they built after losing the original ship.
@@crsrdash-840b5 where does it say that?
@@lkultra2248 If you watch the first 3-part episode, you will notice that the Nemesis detatched from the Ark as it spun out of control. The Ark fell to Earth while the Nemesis was sent off into deep space.
16:20: Brawn predicted to stay quarantined. Lol!
"He's horizontal" 16:38
Guys Megatron is horizontal!
I laughed so hard at this
G1’s Season 2 theme is my most favorite out of the three seasons for the series.
Same. This is the one I remember best.
Especially the beginning
Yeah the excited anticipation l used to feel as a kid while watching that opening sequence was unreal.
I'm more partial to the season 3&4 theme, myself. However, the second-season opening features my favorite visuals, especially Omega Supreme squishing Blitzwing under his foot, then turning away to fire on Astrotrain as Scrapper scoops up & hauls away Blitzwing's flattened tank-carcass.
@@zagnorch1336 The 3&4 series theme was also my favorite. And, also, the animation WHEN it was whichever animation studio did clean up work for a couple of episodes/scenes, particularly some of The Return of Optimus Prime. Otherwise, it was animation by the lowest possible bidder from season 3 to the end.
5:10 Way to go Prime! Care for the environment.🌏
But lucky 5:16
@@TigerWing141 Prime would not allow the Autobots to blaze their own trail hadn't the Decepticons already done so.
I never understood why this episode is far and away the best animation of the series. Some episodes were downright awful, while here we get crisp, clean, and colorful animations.
Are You Talking About The AKOM-Animated TRANSFORMERS G1 Episodes? Because AKOM Did The Messiest Animation While TOEI ANIMATION Doesn't.
They were forced to rely on cheaper Korean animation studios like AKOM for backup because there were three times as many episodes as Season 1 and they had to meet deadlines.
@@IndyCrewInNYC
The fact this show became a huge cultural phenomenon despite this speaks volumes.
12:17 when Decepticons have party! 🥳🎉
12:39 Hiccuping Rumble is the funniest thing I've seen for the last few days. 14:09 After drunk Laserbeak, of course.
Funny how this is still the best series 35 years later. With all the improvements to animation technology the powers at be could still never figure out how to make a better Transformers show.
Maybe if they followed closely to certain storylines. Like from this series and the comics.
Eh, I’d say Prime is better.
@@ceoofceos5219 Prime was the next best one in my opinion. I wasn't crazy about the 3 kids, or the other human characters. Similar to most iterations of TF including G1 the human characters tended to be the weak link. The stories or parts of stories that focused more on the robots tended to be more appealing.
Beast Wars Animated
@@arielfilmsinc1926 Yeah, I know people who are into Beast Wars, personally I was never into it.
We need to have the full seasons on 4k blueray!
Literally this. We need the series on a nice Bluray collector's edition. The rest of the Japanese G1 series with proper English Dubs would make it even more amazing.
I can go with this👌🏾.
Pointless. The series was made on analogue format,you cant make it better than the original quality.
Your tv can upscale to 4k. :)
@@Tonyboney939 What are you, crazy? Hunting for animation errors is half the fun of watching the show!
I mean, what's next? You wanna do a remaster of the original Star Trek series, where all the spaceship models and cheesy special effects are replaced with CGI? Oh wait, they already did that, didn't they? Freakin' George Lucas, it's all his fault...
14:03 Megs "Decepticons Attack!" looks behind himself Wasted Decepticons...........
Bruh, laserbeak lol
wasted, not waisted
🤣🤣🤣🤣that was funny!!
Talk about celebrating too early
The Deception ship buried in South America is called "Nemesis". It's the same ship that chase the Autobot Ship "The Ark".
yes, it should be that :) the Italian dub says only "it is a Decepticon ship"
4:20 Rumble: I think it looks Stunning on ya. (Laughing)
One of my favorite Decepticons besides Astrotrain. Lol
I give props to the Jaguar, He put up a good fight
Ravage firing the missile was funny xD
Ravage b*tch slap the hell out of it
They probably do regret saving Megatron's life. Especially Brawn, Ratchet, and Wheeljack....
Decepticons getting hammered. Classic stuff they don't let on the air today.
"Why don't we just blast our way through all these weeds?"
"That's not our style, Brawn."
It was in "Changing Gears". 😕
04:13 In house joke, regarding Chris Lata's other villian he voices...on a sister show.
9:45 One of Optimus' best lines.
Optimus Prime the father figure
This always stands out as one of the better episodes imo. Animation is PERFECT, and if you just watch the pacing of it, it demonstrates why this cartoon was one of a kind. It wasn’t forcing anything, it wasn’t people-pleasing and trying to make you laugh or go “oooh aaah” at anything. It was just classic transformers, which at the end of the day was a cartoon that was super confident in what it was. And that confidence came through and made the show a classic. It’s like an older suv before they became overly technical, trendy and posh, or a classic Ralph Lauren shirt. Nothing flashy, just timeless, dependable and pleasing!
A toast for the Decepticons for getting drunk then the 3 Autobots took advantage inside Megatron
One of the better Season 2 eps. Between the drunken energon scene and the Starscream looking stunning with the boa, it was pretty hilarious.
Season 2 FTW! As the season goes on, you can see better animation and the 'glossy' look to the materials, warming us up to the visuals of the movie. Pure Awesome!
Yeah, notable this, Megatron attacks scene was very smooth japanese-style animation, i was mesmerized
When Season 3 came everything went downhill.
Nobody finds anything remotely strange about an archeologist with blue hair at the beginning of this episode?
Optimus Prime: "Something's been discovered in South America, something Megatron wants. And if he wants it, we don't want him to get it."
Meanwhile in South America, Megatron is ordering out.
Megatron: "I want a double cheeseburger, hold the onions, a large fries, and a medium Diet Coke..."
This show brings back sweet memories of my childhood when life was simpler, people were nicer, and the world was just a darn better place.
Yes life was better when you're unaware of all the crap going on the outside.
Ignorance is bliss
didnt people in the 80s think you can catch aids by being near a gay person LOL
sometimes i wish i was born in the 80s bc of this, but im sadly a part of the rudest generation 💀
I like how Bee defends Percy from Brawn
🤨Me too.
Percy? Please don't.
@@ComicPhreak why not
I find Bumbleee far more likable in this show then in Animated. That version would probably join in.
@@minicle426 agreed
Quite hilarious watching the Decepticons getting blootered on Energon.
That must be some of that "unleaded" stuff, ey?
Man, The detail and shading and movement in some of Megatron's hand scenes is like something out of a good 80s Anime OAV.