When Kade accidentally swallows some bacteria-cleaning nanites, the Rescue Bots have to shrink down to microscopic size to round them up before they destroy his digestive microbiome! Can they get them out before Kade suffers a grosser digestive fate than this show wants to discuss? Will there be EVIL BRAIN IMPULSES? And what were our …

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Streets of Fire is a noir musical simultaneously set in the ‘50s, the ‘80s, and never. It’s a movie of brooding tough guys, icy dames, savage biker gangs, and Rick Moranis. It was designed to be a blockbuster, but it became a cult classic Cyberpunk movie without the Cyber.

A freak accident in SPACE leaves everyone (but Graham) body-swapped! Can the humans get used to being robots and the robots get used to being humans before Griffin Rock needs its rescue team to come rescue something? Can Heatwave survive a trip to the dentist? Why does Dani have a Blades-colored dress? And will we …

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A charmingly nerdy new resident named Amy has Graham all flustered! Can SCIENCE help him find the courage to talk to her (after Kade totally fails at it)? How will his solution tie in with Doctor Morocco’s ant-assisted escape from jail? Why didn’t they put Doctor Morocco in a fancy Magneto cell to begin with? …

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Doc Greene’s plan to enclose Griffin Rock in a giant dome to protect it from hurricanes backfires when the overzealous AI Vigil returns to take over! With Vigil putting the town to sleep for their own “safety”, can the Bots and their remaining human friends stop it and turn off the dome? How many callbacks …

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Bothered by the memory of a mission the Rescue Bots never got to finish before arriving on Earth, Chase takes Boulder back into space in search of a derelict ship and the Energon-sucking space monster threatening it! But will things turn out to be *drumroll* more than meets the eye? How bad are Blades and …

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It’s said that once every 10 years, the ghostly S.S. Phantom Voyager appears off the coast of Griffin Rock — and this time, the Greene and Burns families are ready! But when ship disappears with the Rescue Bots and their human friends on board, can they solve the mystery and make it back home before …

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Scheduling nonsense has us off on another diversion this week! The boys watch an old HBO original movie with a problematic element, and it’s not just that the main character is named H.P. Lovecraft. It’s Cast a Deadly Spell, a detective tale with magic starring Fred Ward, David Warner, a cast of character actors, and …

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Doc Greene’s Imagine Device malfunctions and creates four extra Kades, each with a different aspect of his personality! Can they pull themselves back together before the town burns down without its firefighter — and before his relationship with Hayley is wrecked? How many extremely important ethical questions fail to get answered? And did Optimus Prime …

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Optimus Prime’s dino mode attracts the attention of big game hunter Quint Quarry, who botnaps him to hunt on his private island! But with the Autobot leader stuck in dino mode mentally as well as physically, it’s up to the Rescue Bots to save him! Can they keep from getting captured themselves? How much dino …

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