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10) Hoist Goes Hollywood
Way before Michael Bay got his claws on Transformers, an enterprising director realized that Autobot mechanic Hoist and his buddies might equal $$$ on the big screen. While at first the Autobots were disgruntled at being overshadowed by human actors, the director eventually decided to aim the camera more at the big robots... only he made them wear scary alien masks. You know, this feels like I'm describing Bayformers, after all!
9) Auto-Bop
The Decepticons tried a lot of wacky schemes during the course of the series, but one of the most amusing had to be brainwashing 1980s-style dance club patrons into construction workers with the hypnotic sounds of DJ Soundwave. Tracks, the Autobots' flying Corvette who possessed a blue blood demeanor, uncovered the operation along with his breakdancing human buddy, Raoul. Tracks, however, was captured and put into bondage by the Decepticons. It all led to the face-off we had all been waiting for, the Battle of the Boomboxes, when Soundwave's Autobot counterpart Blaster came to the rescue. The rivals put their sonic abilities to the test against each other and were evenly matched, until Blaster tapped into the dance club's killer sound system and forced Soundwave to retreat in typical, cowardly Decepticon fashion.
8) B.O.T.
Many Transformers fans consider this the worst episode of the series as things finally deteriorated into incomprehensible gibberish. The supposedly powerful Decepticon combiner Bruticus was blown into itty bitty pieces by a single shot from the Autobot combiner Defensor. Swindle, one of the Combaticons who forms Bruticus, somehow survived unscathed. And his first move was to sell the part of his teammates to black market dealers across the world. What a pal! None to pleased with the loss of the Combaticons, the Decepticons planted a bomb in Swindle's head that would go off if he didn't get back all of the parts. He succeeded, but was missing the brain of fellow Combaticon Brawl. Naturally, the brain was found by a trio of teenage misfits who, using junk and high school lab equipment, created a new robot body for Brawl that looked a bit like Tik-Tok from Return to Oz. Brawl, probably enraged because he now looked so stupid, went on a rampage through the school. The kids called the Autobots for help, as easily as if they were ordering a pizza. When the Autobots did show up, they walked throughout the school without a problem like they were all five-feet tall. More inanity ensued, but we're moving on...
7) Child's Play
The episode began with the Decepticons inexplicably setting up a space bridge in a baseball stadium, where they decided to play catch using humans and shoot baseballs at the crowd, among other abuses. But then the Decepticons and a group of Autobots that had shown up to thwart them accidentally got transported by the space bridge into the bedroom of a giant alien child on another planet, where they themselves became the playthings. The indignities they had to endure included Ravage running on a hamster wheel and the Autobots traveling through an alien sewer in a teacup. The cool part about it was that the Transformers essentially became the toys we monstrous children all had of them in our own toyboxes.
6) The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
Normally, Transformer-human love connections are the kind of thing reserved for Fan Fiction Fridays at Topless Robot. But the G1 series went there first, albeit in a Rated PG fashion. The high-flyin', daredevil Autobot Powerglide ended up the self-appointed protector of spoiled heiress
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