Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler: Somebody actually did listen to that voicemail Dave left at a government agency, and wants to ask him some questions about the story he told about seeing little robots running around...]]
Deleted line(s) 67 (click to see context) :
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Somebody shows up in response to a voicemail Dave left at a government agency about seeing little robots running around...]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Somebody shows up in response to a voicemail Dave left at a government agency about seeing little robots running around...]]
Changed line(s) 69 (click to see context) from:
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: In the season finale, Dave finally gets to meet one of the [=BotBots=] in his mechanoid mode and assures the entire group who are HiddenInPlainSight nearby that he will keep their secret from the world. Until the season ends on a government agent showing up in his office in response to a call he made telling about the Transformers...]]
to:
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: In the season finale, Dave finally gets to meet one of the [=BotBots=] in his mechanoid mode and assures the entire group who are HiddenInPlainSight nearby that he will keep their secret from the world. Until the season ends on a government agent showing up in his office in response to a call he made telling about the Transformers...Transformers.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 69 (click to see context) from:
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: In the season finale, Dave finally gets to meet one of the [=BotBots=] in his mechanoid mode and assures the entire group who are HiddenInPlainSight nearby that he will keep their secret from the world.]]
to:
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: In the season finale, Dave finally gets to meet one of the [=BotBots=] in his mechanoid mode and assures the entire group who are HiddenInPlainSight nearby that he will keep their secret from the world. Until the season ends on a government agent showing up in his office in response to a call he made telling about the Transformers...]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: When Dave gets fired for blowing up the mall fountain with another of his dumb schemes, he gets replaced by teams of indestructible laser-shooting security robots. Since the show isn't about Transformers who can fight back, they quickly miss their old night watchman.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* CaptainErsatz: The Halloween episode has a thinly-veiled pastiche of Creator/SpiritHalloween show up in the mall, including commenting on how the stores pop up in unoccupied retail space overnight in fall.
Deleted line(s) 68 (click to see context) :
* ShoutOut: The Halloween episode has a CaptainErsatz version of Creator/SpiritHalloween show up in the mall, including commenting on how the stores pop up in unoccupied retail space overnight in fall.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ShoutOut: The Halloween episode has a CaptainErsatz version of Creator/SpiritHalloween show up in the mall, including commenting on how the stores pop up in unoccupied retail space overnight in fall.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AnimalSweetOnObject: One episode's about Dimlit falling in love with a mannequin from a clothes store. The others connive to "break them up" to try to save Dimlit's sanity, and end up shipping the mannequin away. When they see how broken up Dimlit is, they manage to get the head back. [[spoiler: Which turns out to be a Transformer just like them who really is in love with Dimlit. She just never said anything when the others were around because she's too shy.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* ButtMonkey: Dave, the security guard. His life absolutely sucks, to the point his ''own mother'' doesn't respect him.
to:
* ButtMonkey: Dave, the security guard. His life absolutely sucks, to the point his ''own mother'' doesn't respect him. The only thing that makes him a threat to the Botbots is being a giant compared to them.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
lordy X3
Changed line(s) 56 (click to see context) from:
* TheMall: Happens entirely inside one, with the Transformers being little ones disguised as mundane items from the different stores. The shoe does somewhat acknowledge the overall decline of malls, having an episode that takes place mostly in an entire wing full of creepy, out of business stores.
to:
* TheMall: Happens entirely inside one, with the Transformers being little ones disguised as mundane items from the different stores. The shoe show does somewhat acknowledge the overall decline of malls, having an episode that takes place mostly in an entire wing full of creepy, out of business stores.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheMall: Happens entirely inside one, with the Transformers being little ones disguised as mundane items from the different stores. The shoe does somewhat acknowledge the overall decline of malls, having an episode that takes place mostly in an entire wing full of creepy, out of business stores.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
--> "Another win for Dave!...Well, ''a'' win for Dave..."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: No matter what the Lost Bots try to do to gain everyone else's respect, it always backfires in some way, [[spoiler: until the last episode]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 17,18 (click to see context) from:
* AdaptedOut: Most of the characters in the toyline are absent here. In particular, only seven of the Lost Bots show up compared to the twenty five of the toyline's counterpart. With Game Over being moved to the Gamer Geeks tribe and Ol' Tic Toc being independent of the tribes altogether.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: There's nothing in his toyline bio, or any of the other supplemental material, that indicated Spudmuffin was as selfish and manipulative as he is here.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: There's nothing in his toyline bio, or any of the other supplemental material, that indicated Spudmuffin was as selfish and manipulative as he is here.]]
to:
* AdaptedOut: Most of the characters in the toyline are absent here. In particular, only seven eight of the Lost Bots show up compared to the twenty five of the toyline's counterpart. With Game Over being moved to the Gamer Geeks tribe Geeks, Frostferatu over to the Sugar Shocks, and Ol' Tic Toc being independent of the tribes altogether.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: There's nothing in his toyline bio, or any of the other supplemental material, that indicatedSpudmuffin Spud Muffin was as selfish and manipulative as he is here.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: There's nothing in his toyline bio, or any of the other supplemental material, that indicated
Changed line(s) 23 (click to see context) from:
* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: Spudmuffin, for most of season one.]]
to:
* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: Spudmuffin, Spud Muffin, for most of season one.]]
Added DiffLines:
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:After Spending an entire season getting away with his crimes, Spud Muffin is exiled to the dark part of the mall in "The Goldrush Games - Part the Second" after admitting to all of his actions.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Bonz-Eye discovers this in "Lone Bot and Carb", when her journey to the other end of the mall ends up AllForNothing. Discovering that she is the only real remnant of her original tribe. A departure from the toyline, which aligns her with the Shed Heads much like Dimlit.
* LastOfHisKind: Bonz-Eye discovers this in "Lone Bot and Carb", when her journey to the other end of the mall ends up AllForNothing. Discovering that she is the only real remnant of her original tribe. A departure from the toyline, which aligns her with the Shed Heads much like Dimlit.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dimlit has traces of this, as his mind goes some ''odd'' places at times... but Clogstopper's more often ''completely'' out to lunch.
to:
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dimlit has traces of this, as his mind goes some ''odd'' places at times... but Clogstopper's he's nothing compared to Clogstopper, who's more often ''completely'' out to lunch.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dimlight has traces of this, as his mind goes some ''odd'' places at times... but Clogstopper's more often ''completely'' out to lunch.
to:
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dimlight Dimlit has traces of this, as his mind goes some ''odd'' places at times... but Clogstopper's more often ''completely'' out to lunch.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dimlight has traces of this, as his mind goes some ''odd'' places at times... but Clogstopper's more often ''completely'' out to lunch.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 9,11 (click to see context) from:
An AnimatedAdaptation of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' [[Toys/TransformersBotBots toy line of the same name]], it was released on March 25th, 2022 on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
to:
An AnimatedAdaptation of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' [[Toys/TransformersBotBots toy line toyline of the same name]], it was released on March 25th, 2022 on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
Changed line(s) 18 (click to see context) from:
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: There's nothing in his toy line bio, or any of the other supplemental material, that indicated Spudmuffin was as selfish and manipulative as he is here.]]
to:
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: There's nothing in his toy line toyline bio, or any of the other supplemental material, that indicated Spudmuffin was as selfish and manipulative as he is here.]]
Changed line(s) 29 (click to see context) from:
* CastHerd: Different [=BotBots=] are sorted into different squads based on their store of origin, just like the toy line.
to:
* CastHerd: Different [=BotBots=] are sorted into different squads based on their store of origin, just like the toy line.toyline.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 60 (click to see context) from:
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: In the season finale, Dave finally gets to meet one of the BotBots in his mechanoid mode and assures the entire group who are HiddenInPlainSight nearby that he will keep their secret from the world.]]
to:
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: In the season finale, Dave finally gets to meet one of the BotBots [=BotBots=] in his mechanoid mode and assures the entire group who are HiddenInPlainSight nearby that he will keep their secret from the world.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: In the season finale, Dave finally gets to meet one of the BotBots in his mechanoid mode and assures the entire group who are HiddenInPlainSight nearby that he will keep their secret from the world.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 61 (click to see context) from:
* WackyRacing: The Ruckus Rally, the focus of its titular episode, is a mall-wide race where the competitors use WeaponizedCars to race each other.
to:
* WackyRacing: The Ruckus Rally, the focus of its titular episode, is a mall-wide race where the competitors use WeaponizedCars {{Weaponized Car}}s to race each other.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15 (click to see context) from:
* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The characters and any object they interact with are all drawn in 2D animation, but everything else, backgrounds and alt modes included, are 3D-built. Of note is the episode "Dimlit in Love", where [[spoiler:Jacqueline, for the majority of the episode, is a realistically modeled mannequin head, while her reveal makes the halves of the mannequin much less detailed.]]
to:
* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The characters and any object they interact with are all drawn in 2D animation, but everything else, backgrounds and alt modes included, are 3D-built.3D-built, be they done semi-realistically or done like a background painting. Of note is the episode "Dimlit in Love", where [[spoiler:Jacqueline, for the majority of the episode, is a realistically modeled mannequin head, while her reveal makes the halves of the mannequin much less detailed.]]
* AdaptedOut: Most of the characters in the toyline are absent here. In particular, only seven of the Lost Bots show up compared to the twenty five of the toyline's counterpart. With Game Over being moved to the Gamer Geeks tribe and Ol' Tic Toc being independent of the tribes altogether.
* ArtShift: A regular feature of the show's style is depicting the [=BotBots=] in wide shots as little pegs color-coded to their intended character.
** "Crime and Bun-ishment" has a bit using real life food to represent Burgertron and Sprinkleberry in the supposed security footage the characters come across.
** "Crime and Bun-ishment" has a bit using real life food to represent Burgertron and Sprinkleberry in the supposed security footage the characters come across.
Changed line(s) 24 (click to see context) from:
* CanonImmigrant: [[spoiler: Sector Seven, making their first major appearance outside of the [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries live action movies]].]]
to:
* CanonForeigner: Many of the characters, including Ulf the Orange, Lady Macaron, most of the Custodial Crew and Jacqueline.
* CanonImmigrant: [[spoiler: Sector Seven, making their first major appearance outside of the [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries live actionmovies]].movies]] in the Season 1 finale.]]
* CanonImmigrant: [[spoiler: Sector Seven, making their first major appearance outside of the [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries live action
Changed line(s) 31 (click to see context) from:
* CuteLittleFangs: All the [=BotBots=] have this in the cartoon, due to how their teeth are set up.
to:
* CreepyDoll: Bonz-Eye encounters these in an abandoned toy store in "Lone Wolf and Carb", then uses these as a distraction to try and rescue Lady Macaron from being eaten by Dave.
-->Bonz-Eye (after hearing one of these dolls speak hauntingly): "Why would anyone make this?!"
* CuteLittleFangs: All the [=BotBots=] have this in the cartoon, due to how their teeth are set up. Frostferatu is the most notable example, being designed like Dracula in the series.
-->Bonz-Eye (after hearing one of these dolls speak hauntingly): "Why would anyone make this?!"
* CuteLittleFangs: All the [=BotBots=] have this in the cartoon, due to how their teeth are set up. Frostferatu is the most notable example, being designed like Dracula in the series.
* FunnyForeigner: Lady Macaron has a French accent, fitting with her alt-mode being a French pastry.
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* TheGhost: Dave's mother is never seen, with the only hint of her characterization being Dave's reaction to her messages on the other side of the phone.
to:
* TheGhost: Dave's mother is never seen, with the only hint of her characterization being Dave's reaction to her messages on the other side of the phone. His boss is treated much the same.
Changed line(s) 43 (click to see context) from:
* LogoJoke: The Netflix logo for the show is formed by multiple [=BotBots=] quickly transforming into the letters, with Cuddletooth panicking and forming a t-shape instead of actually transforming.
to:
* LogoJoke: The Netflix logo for the show is formed by multiple [=BotBots=] quickly transforming into the letters, letters after [[BreakingTheFourthWall seeing the viewer]], with Cuddletooth panicking and forming a t-shape instead of actually transforming.
Added DiffLines:
* ToiletHumor: The Custodial Crew, carrying over from the toyline. Additionally, two of their members in the show are an unnamed poop bot and Vomit Comet, a living puddle of puke.
* WackyRacing: The Ruckus Rally, the focus of its titular episode, is a mall-wide race where the competitors use WeaponizedCars to race each other.
* WackyRacing: The Ruckus Rally, the focus of its titular episode, is a mall-wide race where the competitors use WeaponizedCars to race each other.
Added DiffLines:
** Bonz-Eye and Clogstopper also get extensive redesigns compared to their toys. The former looking more boyish, while the latter inverts the plunger head so that it's pointing upwards instead.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CoolCar: Three of them, all built by different squads.
** Burgertron managed to turn a slice of pizza into the Racer-Roni, which somehow has a working engine and a condiment cannon.
** The Gamer Geeks built a hovercar called the Outta Controller.
** The Sugar Shocks have the Sugar Sonic Speedster.
** Burgertron managed to turn a slice of pizza into the Racer-Roni, which somehow has a working engine and a condiment cannon.
** The Gamer Geeks built a hovercar called the Outta Controller.
** The Sugar Shocks have the Sugar Sonic Speedster.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The characters and any object they interact with are all drawn in 2D animation, but everything else, backgrounds and alt modes included, are 3D-built. Of note is the episode "Dimlit in Love", where [[spoiler:Jacqueline, for the majority of the episode, is a realistically modeled mannequin head, while her reveal makes the halves of the mannequin much less detailed.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* LighterAndSofter: Almost every other Transformers cartoon is about the intergalactic war between two opposing factions of robots. This one? The nightly lives of pint-sized robots causing shenanigans in a shopping mall.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 33 (click to see context) from:
* HateSink: Spud Muffin is more unpleasant to the Lost Bots [[spoiler: the episodes before the final shows how under handed he is and the last episode revealed he is the one who sends Burgertron to the lost and found in the first place]].
to:
* HateSink: Spud Muffin Spudmuffin is more unpleasant to the Lost Bots [[spoiler: the episodes before the final shows how under handed he is and the last episode revealed he is the one who sends Burgertron to the lost and found in the first place]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HateSink: Spud Muffin is more unpleasant to the Lost Bots [[spoiler: the episodes before the final shows how under handed he is and the last episode revealed he is the one who sends Burgertron to the lost and found in the first place]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AdaptationNameChange:
** The Greaser Gang is now known as the Hunger Hubs in the show.
** The Toilet Troop is now known as the Custodial Crew in the show.
** The Greaser Gang is now known as the Hunger Hubs in the show.
** The Toilet Troop is now known as the Custodial Crew in the show.
Added DiffLines:
* FaintInShock: Frostferatu has the tendency to faint during dramatic moments.
Added DiffLines:
* HypnoticEyes: Frostferatu (supposedly) has the ability to hypnotize other [=BotBots=] via looking into his eyes. These attempts never work.
* InevitablyBrokenRule: The major rule of the [=BotBots=] is to never be seen by humans. The Lost Bots breaking this rule is what kicks off their plot for acceptance. [[spoiler:Spudmuffin ends up breaking it in the final episode of the first season, the fallout resulting in his comeuppance for sabotaging Burgertron's multiple attempts to redeem himself.]]
* InevitablyBrokenRule: The major rule of the [=BotBots=] is to never be seen by humans. The Lost Bots breaking this rule is what kicks off their plot for acceptance. [[spoiler:Spudmuffin ends up breaking it in the final episode of the first season, the fallout resulting in his comeuppance for sabotaging Burgertron's multiple attempts to redeem himself.]]
Added DiffLines:
* LogoJoke: The Netflix logo for the show is formed by multiple [=BotBots=] quickly transforming into the letters, with Cuddletooth panicking and forming a t-shape instead of actually transforming.
Added DiffLines:
* {{Ronin}}: Bonz-Eye's plot has parallels to her being one, [[spoiler:as the group she's meant to be in is entirely gone, leaving her alone]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* {{Expy}}: Both Burgertron and Spudmuffin's relationship is reminisces of Optimus and Sentinel Prime of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''.
to:
* {{Expy}}: Both Burgertron and Spudmuffin's relationship is reminisces reminiscent of Optimus and Sentinel Prime of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* {{Expy}}: Both Burgertron and Spudmuffin's relationship is reminisces of Optimus and Sentinel Prime of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 35 (click to see context) from:
* {{Ventriloquism}} Clogstopper is a practitioner with his sock puppet.
to:
* {{Ventriloquism}} {{Ventriloquism}}: Clogstopper is a practitioner with his sock puppet.
