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The Transformers episode 52
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.

The Decepticons use music to enslave humans.
Original USA broadcast date: November 13th, 1985

Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Notes
3) Errors


Synopsis

Tracks and Blaster save Raoul, Poplock and Rocksteady from a gang. It turns out the gang came from the Dancitron, a new dance club everyone is trying to get into. Tracks and Blaster investigate it, where they see some out of place people, including a woman dancing whilst wearing a dressing gown. Raoul's group head back home via train, but the driver suddenly goes crazy, smashing up the controls. Tracks and Blaster manage to stop the train, but when they go to find the driver, he's already left.

Tracks and Raoul go to check the club again, but Tracks sees a strange sight: a bunch of people working at a construction site at one in the morning. They see more out of place people working on it, but are then spotted, forcing them to leave. Meanwhile, Poplock and Rocksteady are given tickets to get into Dancitron, so they head in. Tracks then goes to the club, where he sees Poplock and Rocksteady. They say they've found something, and lead Tracks up to a room where Starscream and Soundwave are. Starscream starts firing at Tracks.

Raoul then enters the club, and realizes the music itself is being used to hypnotize people. He throws some water over Poplock and Rocksteady, freeing them from the music's influence. They find that Tracks has been chained to the club's sound system, its vibrations threatening to tear Tracks apart. They free Tracks, as Blaster has a showdown with Soundwave. Soundwave uses his sonic waves to send Blaster crashing through the sound system, destroying it. But Blaster picks up some parts from it and uses them to boost his own power, defeating Soundwave and wrecking the club.

Tracks chases after Starscream, and eventually makes him crash and retreat. The Autobots go back to the construction site and destroy the building. Later on, Raoul's group realize their boom box was lost, so they start dancing for money -Tracks tells Blaster to cheer up, at this rate they'll have raised enough cash to buy a new blaster in just two or three days! Blaster doesn't know if he can hang out that long, but Tracks tells him to relax -some people have got the juice, and some don't -and Raoul says they've got the juice!

Notes

-Raoul has a lighter skin tone than he did when he last appeared in Make Tracks. Whilst his outfit is the same as before, most of it has different colors.

-Furg isn't named in the episode itself, but he is called that in the script.

-This episode has a really small cast of regular characters, with just two Autobots and three Decepticons -and even then, Megatron is barely in the episode, getting just one line to say.

-You never get to find out what it is the Decepticons were trying to build.

Errors

-The title card doesn't look quite right -the word "AUTO" appears to be typed out as "AUT0".
-Rocksteady is seen taking his jacket off, but when he starts breakdancing, he's wearing his jacket again.
-Then, when Furg pulls the mat, Rocksteady suddenly doesn't have his jacket on.
-This guy's laser blast overlaps the guy standing behind him.
-Blaster is firing pink lasers instead of yellow during this shot.
-Soundwave's mouth plate is colored dark gray during this shot.
-Blaster's white visor is colored red during this shot.
-For this shot, part of Tracks' head is colored blue instead of gray.
-When Raoul enters Tracks, Tracks has no interior.
-When Tracks says they have to get to Dancitron, he transforms to jet mode. His wings are colored entirely blue as he transforms.
-Poplock is colored like Raoul when Tracks ducks to avoid being blasted. Rocksteady also appears to have white skin, and is missing his red hat.
-Soundwave's eyes are miscolored during this shot. They're colored gray instead of red, put a little bit of his head is colored red instead of blue.
-Megatron's chest Decepticon insignia is colored red instead of purple during this shot.
-When Blaster says he's been waiting a long time for this, his white visor is colored red again.
-During this shot, the pink glow effects for Starscream's jets aren't lined up properly with Starscream.
-During this shot, Starscream is colored like Ramjet.
-During the above, the sound effects have been taken from Star Wars, you can hear the sound of Darth Vader's TIE fighter... then you can hear Darth Vader's breathing!