Blame Game
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 "...it didn't end well." | ||||||
| "Blame Game" | ||||||
| Production code | 114 | |||||
| Season | 1 | |||||
| No. in season | 14 | |||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | February 9, 2019 | |||||
| Writer | Peter A. Dowling | |||||
| Director | Pete Slattery | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
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Blaming his teammates for a failed exercise that made him miss a cube game on Cybertron, Hot Shot tackles a rescue alone to show off his solo skills.
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Synopsis
The recruits work on stabilizing a bridge so they can rescue the occupant of a car trapped on top of it. After Hoist's adhesive inadvertently weakens it, Hot Shot steps in to hold it up—he's keen to succeed at the mission so the recruits can go to Cybertron for the Cube playoffs. Unfortunately his argument with Wedge leads to a series of mishaps, causing them to fail the rescue exercise and gluing Chuck to the ceiling. When Heatwave asks them what happened, the recruits start slinging blame around, and he assigns them to chores.
While the others clean the academy, Heatwave puts Hot Shot to monitor duty, with instructions to inform Boulder if an emergency crops up. Hot Shot rapidly grows bored with his task. Over in Griffin Rock, Jerry accidentally runs his truck into a tree and calls in the emergency. Hot Shot's unable to contact Boulder, but spots the still-open GroundBridge. Whirl and Hoist are busy dusting when they hear Hot Shot using the GroundBridge—Whirl volunteers to go get the team, but Hot Shot heads off to do the rescue on his own. With the tree threatening to topple on a house, Hot Shot grabs it to steady it, but quickly realizes he has no one to actually remove the tree.
Medix's repair of Chuck is interrupted by the rest of the recruits, who tell him about Hot Shot's disappearance, and after some discussion, realize they have to go give their teammate a hand. Hot Shot is just starting to lose his grip on the tree when the other recruits arrive and rescue him. At base, Heatwave discovers everyone is missing. The recruits finish stabilizing the tree and head back through the GroundBridge to find an annoyed Heatwave. Hot Shot owns up to going off on his own, and the others admit they should have reported that Hot Shot had left the base. Impressed that they've learned the right lesson, Heatwave says they can go to the Cube game after they finish cleaning the base.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"We'll have these cleaned up in no time!"
"Now we know dusting means taking the dust off instead of putting it on."
"Yeah, shouldn't this really be called undusting?"
- —Whirl and Hoist discuss the finer points of cleaning.
"Heatwave didn't mention me? Ever? Wow, that hurts a little."
- —Hot Shot
"What's wrong, Hot Shoes? Should I call the Rescue Bots?"
- —Jerry
"There's no I in team, but there's three of them in responsibility!"
- —Whirl
Notes
Continuity notes
- The never-before-seen Emergency Center in the Academy features a couple of posters with the unique Robots in Disguise alphabet. Two large monitors on one wall also show an aerial view of Griffin Rock along with Mount Botmore, from the episode of the same name.
Transformers references
- Hot Shot mentions space barnacles.
Animation and technical errors
- TBA
Foreign localization
French
- Title: "Chasse aux coupables" ("Hunt for culprits")
- Original airdate: ?
Spanish (Latin America)
- Title: "Juego de la culpa" ("Blame game")
- Original airdate: 29 September 2019
