1x05 Roll for It - Transformers Episode Guide

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Episode: 01x05
Title: Roll for It
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 700-02
First Aired: Oct. 13, 1984

Season 1 » Episode #05 - Roll for It

Summary: Chip Chase, a new Autobot friend, creates the Anti-Matter formula and the Decepticons are after it. Can the Autobots protect their friend and stop the Decepticons?

Who appeared in this episode?

Prowl	voiced by Michael Bell
Dr. Alcazar	voiced by John Stephenson
Thundercracker	voiced by John Stephenson
Hound	voiced by Ken Sansom
Additional Voices	voiced by Don Messick
Ratchet	voiced by Don Messick
Reflector	voiced by Chris Latta
Teletraan I	voiced by Casey Kasem
Cliffjumper	voiced by Casey Kasem

Episode Quotes

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: Ravage breaks through Chip's front door, taking most of a side window with him. After he opens Chip's bedroom door and absconds with the human, he leaps through the now-repaired side window, and the front door is undamaged as well.
FACT: 5.25" floppy disk cannot contain so much information as described by Dr. Alcazar - enabling Chip's computer to interface with the lab computer.
FACT: Apart from the goof noted above, floppy discs cannot be torn to shreds as it is shown in this episode. Chip somehow manages to tear one apart like a piece of paper.
CONT: When the Decepticons are fleeing the jets' base, Skywarp (who hasn't been shown before, except as an error replacing Thundercracker) appears besides Thundercracker and Starscream.
FAKE: When Soundwave runs through what appears to be a chainlink volleyball net, the net is animated as if the background art is sliding, but the background is sitting still.

TRIVIA

The antimatter formula includes handwritten screens with the following written on them: AH ONNAG MOSHII DOKOKANI EE ONN AGA ORANKNAA KYOUMO HAYO KA EETE NEYO ..... El HABARA ..... MOU DOUTEI ..... SUTETAKAI ..... SONOUTHI ..... TORUKO IKO ..... UZE This should be Japanese staff joke, as in English the text roughly translates: "Ah a girl... is there a (nice) girl somewhere? Let's call it (a day) and get home quick and let's sleep. Hey Habara (a common Japanese name, certainly a staff member) did you finally dropped your virginity? Let's go to Turkish (kind of prostitutes' salon) sometimes."
Due to a production error, Frank Welker's voice is not modulated with a vocoder for the line "Excellent Ravage" in this episode. The result is Soundwave sounding like Dr. Claw from "Inspector Gadget" (1983).
In several scenes in this episode, all of the Transformers are drawn using different, more stylish animation models. In particular, the Decepticon jets seen near the beginning are sleeker, more detailed and have a drooping nosecone.

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