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Powell not only takes Sumdac Systems from Sari, he kicks her out of her home too -- and moving into her pink princess room is none other than the newly rehired Henry Masterson! As Sari deals with Bumblebee and Bulkhead's dubious attempts to make her feel more at home in their base, the Headmaster sets his sights on Sentinel Prime! Is Optimus a good enough guy to help out his asshole of a rival? Will Masterson redecorate? Is this universe's Prowl actually capable of basic empathy? Join us this week for The Return of the Headmaster!

Word of the Allspark's discovery and Megatron's resurrection on Earth finally reaches Cybertron, so it's time to send in...management! Are Ultra Magnus, Sentinel Prime, and Jazz ready to meet some organic life? Will they get cooties? And is this Megatron like the absolute most manipulative jerk or what? Join us this week for the arrival of The Elite Guard!

For our between-seasons special, we take a look at another great battle between giant robots voiced by Peter Cullen and Frank Welker -- in an episode of the mid-'00s love letter to all things robots, superheroes, and anime, Megas XLR! After accidentally destroying a robotic alien society's sacred monument, Coop, Jamie, and Kiva become prime targets! Can they escape an army of '70s-anime-inspired robots out for vengeance? Will immature misogynists ever be harmlessly funny again? And whatever happened to this show, anyway? Join us this week for the Megas XLR season 1 finale, "Coop D'Etat"!

This week we take a look at a handful of animated shorts that were released online and on some of the Transformers Animated DVDs. Join us for creative uses of the POKE, Peak Starscream, and lil' Daniel Witwicky asking the questions we've all been wondering!

With a reformed body and the Allspark key, Megatron is ready to return to Cybertron -- but not without taking out his anger on Earth first! Can the Autobots stop him? Will Isaac Sumdac fess up to helping him? And is this Megatron actually going to -- Gasp! -- kill Starscream? Join us this week for the final episode of Transformers Animated season 1, Megatron Rising, Part 2!

With his body found and freedom nearly at hand, Megatron starts rallying his Decepticons! Can the Autobots keep them from getting Sari's key? What crawled up Optimus's tailpipe? And what's Starscream going to do about it all? Join us this week for the first part of the season 1 finale, Megatron Rising!

(Hey, check out our new Patreon exclusive episode, where we talk Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2! Not a patron? $1 a month will fix that!) When Optimus notices an unusual energy reading from the Michigan wilderness, he sends Prowl, Bumblebee, and Sari on a camping trip to investigate. But what they find is a space monster! Can they survive both the monster and the camping? Just what lurks under the monster's slimy exterior? And why did they think it was a good idea to let a little kid go camping in the middle of winter? Join us this week for Nature Calls!

When Sumdac Systems employee (and obnoxious gamer dood) Henry Masterson is fired after his Headmaster demonstration sends a missile heading straight for downtown Detroit, he vows to have his revenge (as you do). But when that revenge involves stealing Bulkhead's body, he's got to deal with not just Sumdac and the police but the Autobots as well! Can they stop him before he blows up the city? Does the obnoxious gamer dood archetype hold up post-Gamergate? And just how weird is Bulkhead's disembodied head? Join us this week for "Headmaster"!

Meltdown needs a new test subject, and he's got his sights set on Sari -- AND he's using the Dinobots to kidnap her! Can Bulkhead and Prowl save her without letting the others know about Dinobot Island? Or will she manage to save herself? And just where did Fanzone get that amazing retro cell phone? Join us this week for Survival of the Fittest!

Lugnut and Blitzwing arrive on Earth looking for their lost commander, but after Megatron contacts Lugnut and orders him to retrieve the Allspark, can the Autobots keep it out of their clutches? Will Blitzwing even believe him? And how does Sari even get away with being so badly behaved? Join us this week for Lost and Found!

Megatron schemes to harness the power of Sari's key by giving her a new toy to upgrade. Will her new Soundwave toy evolve enough to become Megatron's new body? Or will it become something else entirely? And how cute is a Derrick Wyatt-designed robot uprising, come on? Join us this week for Sound And Fury!

This week it's Optimus's turn for traumatic flashbacks as Sari's Halloween decorations remind him of a lost friend and a run-in with giant alien spiders. But when that friend returns, she's not what he expected! Will she be able to manipulate her way to Sari's key? How does she stack up to her Beast Wars incarnation? And just how cool is it to get a Transformers Halloween episode? Join us this week for Along Came a Spider!

Without a body of his own, Megatron resorts to recruiting a small-time crook to steal the Destronium he needs with the help of a discarded super-speed supersuit from Sumdac. Can Bumblebee's own ill-advised speed upgrades give him the boost he needs to stop him? And does anybody actually use the word "nanosec" in conversation? Join us this week as we catch up with Nanosec!

A Cybertronian bounty hunter arrives on Earth looking for the Autobots who took down Megatron -- and he's an all-too-familiar face from Ratchet's past! Can the grouchy old medic overcome his fear to save the others? What familiar voices show up this time around? And is it really body horror when it's robots? Join us this week for The Thrill of the Hunt!

This week David makes April Fools of us all by making us watch the inexplicably popular new anime Kemono Friends! How much are Serval-chan, Sand Cat-chan, and Tsuchinoko-chan like Cute Anime Girl Cheetor, Tigatron, and Dinobot? Was Japari Park actually Earth all along? Does it have a second moon that will turn into a superweapon? And who comes out of it thinking that anime was a mistake? Join us this week as we make some Kemono Friends!

After the Autobots accidentally break a trio of tourist trap animatronic dinosaurs, Sumdac decides it would be a great idea to rebuild them... with the help of his new buddy Megatron! What could possibly go wrong? How many homages to Jurassic Park can they fit in a single episode? And what obvious supervillain hideaway actually exists in real-life Detroit? Join us this week for a Blast from the Past!

Sumdac's rival Prometheus Black is determined to prove that the future is human modification, not robotics, but when he has a lab accident while trying to find a way to sabotage the Autobots, he becomes the series' first new human supervillain, Meltdown! Can the Autobots put a stop to him before he turns Sumdac Tower into a puddle of goo? Can Bumblebee prove that size doesn't matter and make Bulkhead and Prowl stop picking on him? Was "Prometheus Black" not a supervillain enough name already? And which one of us is a big Peter Stormare fan? Join us this week for "Total Meltdown"!

Sari helps the Autobots settle into their new home on Earth, and she decides to start with a sleepover! But when her key jolts Megatron awake, he immediately starts looking for ways to get the Allspark from them! Can the Autobots survive a game of Twister? Will Prowl stop being a jerk? And just what kind of vocal range does Corey Burton have? Join us this week as we learn that Home Is Where The Spark Is!

The Autobots are getting settled into their new home, but there's still one loose thread: Starscream is coming for the Allspark! Can the Autobots stop him? Is this the fastest an Optimus has died in a new series? And does that make it real Transformers now? Join us this week for Transform and Roll Out! Part 3!

In near-future Detroit, Issac Sumdac has revolutionized the world with his company's robotic creations. But when an experiment in the nanotech lab gets out of control, it wakes the Autobots' ship from its stasis at the bottom of Lake Erie! Can they figure out what these squishy "human" things are and save the city at the same time? Whatever happened to this brave Cartoon Network that encouraged its creators to have a human character like Sari? And really... Detroit? Join us this week as we Transform and Roll Out! ...part 2.