Code of Hero #2? I think you did that just to piss us off. Code of Hero is the single best Transformers episode of all Transformers series to date. Nothing comes close to the sophistication, maturity, and overall badassness of this episode.

It may look primitive (now), but the animation still surpasses that of the recent Doctor Who Dreamland animated episode.

I was anti-Beast Wars for years. It wasn't until Cartoon Network started showing it at 6 am weekdays that I began to give it a chance, I needed something to watch while getting ready for work and the news was pissing me off. It was a good show and with top-10 I feel inspired to see if any channel still is airing it.

I distinctly remember crying like a bitch after watching Code of Hero...THANKS FOR REMINDING ME AND RUINING MY LIFE.

Code of Hero isn't just one of the best Beast Wars episodes, it's one of the best episodes of any TV show ever. I cried.

Code of Hero is the greatest episode of Beast Wars. Of Transformers, arguably. I do love the Agenda, but it's Nerd love doesn't come close to the sophisticated, utterly believable and mournful final chapter of Dinobot. It's important because many fans of Beast Wars were too young to have seen G1 in it's original airing (such as myself, though I had seen many episodes on VHS, and the movie). As such, they did not have so much of a basis in the older series, and were completely grounded in Beast Wars. As such, it's a standalone work of art. It still makes me weep whenever I watch it.

while i agree that code of hero should have been number one, i think that "the agenda/optimal situation" can be seen as one-upping code of hero based on nerd factor.

while having that great story, characterization, etc., etc....i'm sure all nerds like to have their ego stroked with the superior knowledge that they, and they alone, possess about their beloved whatever. "the agenda/optimal situation" helps to give the stereotypical nerd the impetus to wallow in nerdiness...to feel superior to those that just aren't in the know.

long story short, while code of hero is pure win, "the agenda/optimal situation" is like getting a nerd blowjob from g1.

For once, I don't think I have an addendum or gripe about one of you's guys'lists.

Bravo.

God, this is depressing. Transformers hasn't been this good in a long, long time. This is the prime example of how to do a sequel series right. Every time someone tells me "it's a kids' cartoon, it wasn't meant for adult fans," I just point to Beast Wars. It is possible to please old fans and kids at the same time. Here's your proof.

And I'll just go ahead and throw this out there- I also cried. I was 14 when I saw Code of Hero, and I cried like a little girl. It was pathetic.

Hell yeah! Good list to get the day started to.

I re-watched all of Beast Wars last year, aged 20. I fucking sobbed when Dinobot died. No shame.

Ye...This was my transformers.
I was to young for G1. All I recall is the movie(witch was awesome)
and my brothers toys that I couldn't play with.
They don't make cartoons like this any more.
If they do I haven't found them.

I don't have any real quibbles with the order of the top two, aside from the fact that I think Code of Hero is the best episode solely using concepts from the series, while a lot of the fun of the Agenda is that they acknowledged the G1 base.

In other words, Code of Hero is the best Beast Wars episode, while The Agenda is the best Transformers episode. Whichever one you prefer comes down to whether you care more about TF as a whole or BW specifically, I think.

How about a follow up list of the best Beast Machines epi... ah, right, no real point to that. Robots in Disguise! Um, yeah. Ye gods, the entire franchise was infected with shit between the end of this series and Animated's debut.

I loved Beast Wars (or Beasties here in Canada :\ ) Great list!!!

What, "Crossing the Rubicon" doesn't even make the bottom of the list? It was written by DC—frikkinn'—Fontana!

i was going to be shocked if code of honor had not made the top five for it showed that a hero is willing to sacrifice himself for the cause. and tramute should have been higher up due to the argument the beast transormers were having over if they should kill trasmute intense for a cartoon as for number one that thing was really mind blowing when the beast wars characters found the g1 transformers and then having to repair origninal primes head. mind blowing

Well that's....just.....PRIME

The best episode of Beast Machine was the series finale, because that shitty series was finally over!

Man...what a great show. No matter how many times I watch it, Code of Hero still gets me all choked up. T___T Dinobot...

Second on Crossing the Rubicon though, that's gotta be one of my favorites.

Loved this show. I too was hesitant to accept BW as a Transformer show. It wasn't until season 1 ended that I realized how good it was.

The writing was top notch, only second to the whole DCAU writing. In fact, during season 1 there were hints about the Planet Buster, when they scanned the moon and said it wasn't a moon, but something else. Classic foreshadowing.

There are a ton of great episodes. Code of Hero is probably one of my favorites due to the story being told. But Transmutate, The Agenda/Optimal Situation episodes are also favorites of mine.

Unfortunately, BW is tainted by that damn horrible spin off Beast Machines. I couldn't watch that. I will never forget watching them try and transform, but they couldn't. Plus the last episode where Cybertron turns into a green planet!!! WTF!?!?!?

We need a list of top 10 worst BM episodes.

Great list. Like pretty much every "Beast Wars" fan ever I agree that "Code of Hero" is the undisputed number one. It shouldn't be dethroned by a fanwanky episode.

The only other change I'd make is dumping an episode like "Coming of the Fuzors" for the vastly underrated "Dark Designs." Evil Rhinox was cool back then before "Beast Machines" destroyed the concept. The simple fact that he was too evil that Megatron couldn't control him and he was capable of quickly taking out all of the Predacons was genius.

It's always the calm, quiet ones...

Never watched the original Transformers, but never missed an episode of Beast Wars. Such a fantastic show. I was pretty torn up when it finally ended.

Flip 1&2 and I'll agree 100%.

CoH was where Dinobot brought out his Pimp hand to the Preds, and got a great (paraphrased from Shakespeare) death monologue.

I don't think I'm the only one who thinks this here, but I believe BW was a better TV show than G1. Hell, TF: Animated was a better show than G1.

I love Beast Wars. And it good to see that it's finally getting its props. I was so mad when it ended. I always felt that it never got the recognition that it deserved. Especially compared to the other Transformer series.

Man, I can not describe how much I LOVE Beast Wars! I mention it piratically every day. it is the entire basis for every geek glory moment I have. I can name every episode in order and quote most of them. I just... there's no way Beast Wars was bad. The worst thing about it was how short it was.

Point of interests, You said Decepticon instead of Predacon, rattrap was the demolitions expert, and you have the wrong episode linked to Bad Spark.

Also, I agree that Agenda beat out Code of Hero (which made me cry for days) but look at it like this. It took 4 episodes to equal CoH's 1. :)

Can we get a clip of Megatron in his T-rex with roller skates mode? Cause that was awesome and adorable.

I loved the finale (at least i think it was the finale) when Waspinator lost his mind and tore off his predicon symbol like it was just a decal on a toy. I laughed out loud at that.

YAY! =D

Suck it Bayformers! BOOSH and or KA-KOW!

I actually met Garry Chalke (Optimus Primal) at Botcon '01,so that makes this list all the better.

Transmutate used to scare the shit out of me when I was little. Now it's one of my favorite episodes.

trying to rewatch this show right now just made me realize its impossible to watch this show without your beast wars toys amirte?

Fuck that. Code of Hero should be #1! dammit, now i want to watch Beast Wars again! such a great series!

I thought Agenda was much more than fanwank. It was a pulse-pounding adventure that revealed the most important plot point in Beast Wars.

To this day I still have some friends who consider Beast Wars inferior because it isn't the original series. It's rare that I say anyone's opinion is objectively wrong, but in this case, that is so. Beast Wars had superior plot and characterization to any Transformers series and almost any animated series from its era period. I'd put it against Gargoyles, Exo-Squad, and Batman: The Animated Series for best cartoon of the 90's.

Also, I still cry when I watch Code of Hero. If you don't, you are not human.

I recently sat down and watched the entire series (thank you, Netflix) in order after having watched most of the episodes when they first aired. It really was a pretty cool show, with some amazingly mature themes at times.

I think Marv Wolfman was credited with writing some of these episodes.

And they should fucking continue Beast Machines!!

Code of Hero should be #1. It's the best.

I sympathize with everyone who feels Code of Hero should be #1; but Agenda will always be my first pick, just for one fact alone...

... Megatron's monologue as he destroys G1's Optimus Prime.

That instance to me, showed just how bad-ass the Beast Wars Megatron was; intelligent with his words as always, but crazy enought to destroy the Autobots at any cost, even for the possible price of his own existence. (I'm sure he didn't contemplate that minor detail at the time).

To me, BW's Megatron is the one to all others will be measured to for the rest of time.

I love me some Beast Wars.

I met Scott McNeil a few years ago at Otakon after I'd been dumped, and he was awesome. Everyone was telling him how they loved him in Gundam Wing, or Dragon Ball Z. I walked up and said that he was all of my favorite Transformers.

He then started arguing with himself in all the voices. It was one of the greatest moments of my life. (He was Waspinator, Silverbolt, Rattrap and Dinobot for any of you young'uns who aren't hip to the Beast Wars. I can't believe I just typed that sentence. I should probably erase it. But no, I'll just pretend I didn't say anything. . . . SLAG.)

Please do a list of the best G1 episodes. My nostalga overrides all sense of quality or logic.

well, since you've got a sound argument, guess it's time for me to retire my "TRUKK NOT MUNKY" protest signboard.

Great list. I really want to bust out my DVDs and watch the show again now.

I do think Beast Machines gets a bad rap without good cause. While there were a few glaring problems with it, the show was high concept and took Transformers in a brave new direction that was neat and compelling for 26 episodes, though I wouldn't necessarily want it to become the standard. I think most people hate on the show because they can't cope with the concept itself irregardless of how well it was executed. The backlash against Beast Machines gave us RiD, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron, which were frankly just tedious shows. Beast Machines puts them all to shame and is second only to Beast Wars in my book.

All the people saying they remember watching "episode X" when they were a kid are making me feel fucking old. I was watching this show when I was finishing frigging university.

Thanks you little punks.

Now get off my lawn!

Great list! Kinda sad for all the BM hate though, I loved that series! Thought it was a great follow up to BW.

Add me to the list of people who think that Code of Hero should have topped the list as it's the greatest episode in Transformers history with the single word "OVERRIDE!" probably being the best moment in that TF series or any other.

I Loved this show...I don't mean I loved it like people say they casually love chocolate or the color red, I was literally in love with it- I spent every morning of my childhood in front of the TV watching beast wars and if I missed one ep. I threw a total bitch fit.

I can say with certainty that Beast wars made me a nerd. As a little girl I was always on the cusp of nerdery but Beast wars put me over the edge, I traded in my barbie dolls for a Blackarachnia-

But it wasn't until I got older (I own all three seasons on DVD and still watch them on occasion) that I realized there were some really adult themes in that show- which adds a very weird factor to the whole...transformer's thing. Sexual situations and tensions between the characters that may be a little creepy (It sure as hell sounds creepy now that I read over that...) but really make them interesting and give them that extra depth that transcended the bad CG and out there plots.

"wah wah wah. Beast Machines wah wah wah."

Yeah, Beast Machies was awful.

Four rules necessary to making a good (non Beast Wars or Animated)Transformers show:

1)Keep all of that shitty originality & uniqueness that was prevalent in Beast Wars/ Machines out of transformers.

2)Recycle the same tired g1 themes, tweaking them only slightly, to create the illusion of being something new or original.

3)Use the same popular (G1) characters in every show/toyline.

4)Never,ever violate the absolutely sacrosanct rule: Thou shalt never allow such things as plot or character development, EVER!!!110!!1!!)!()!0

Beast Wars was tight man, it was a great cartoon. Better than the one that followed it if you ask me. But if you can love Beast Wars, why all the Reboot hate?

Rattrap says "Die-cast technology, they don't make 'em like they used to."

It's been a few years, but IIRC Blackarachnia's betrayal in Optimal Situation was to save her own skin. To wit: she was originally a Maximal protoform; if the Maximals never existed, neither did she. She didn't actually switch sides for the POWER OF LOVE until Crossing the Rubicon.

If youve ever watched this show you know damn well there are no best episodes cause the fact remains that this is an abysmal fucking mess of a show that sucked from tits to toes.

i remember watching this as a kid and loving it, but i also remember that the episodes NEVER aired in order