The WORST episodes of The Transformers
Every episode of The Transformers ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Transformers!
Two opposing factions of transforming alien robots engage in a battle that has the fate of Earth in the balance.
#1 - The Return of Optimus Prime (2)
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/3/1987
Optimus Prime is back and leads a team to Charr to retrieve the ship alloy from Galvatron. Galvatron guides them to it's location, but they confront a couple dangers and must fend off infected Transformers. Optimus and SkyLynx are the only ones not infected and barely get away with the alloy. The alloy is used to safeguard Optimus from the Hate Plague for his battle against Rodimus as the Matrix is the key to the cure.
#2 - The Return of Optimus Prime (1)
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/2/1987
While testing a new ship alloy, Jessica Morgan and Gregory Swafford (who hates Transformers) stumbled upon the ship Optimus Prime was on and saved him. Some time afterward, Jessica gets hurt in a battle between Protectobots, Technobots and Terrorcons, causing her father and Gregory to plot revenge. They use Optimus to lure the Autobots into a trap, getting them infected with Hate Spores which make them go berserk. As the infection spreads, Sky Lynx seeks out a Quintesson that could bring Optimus back to life.
#3 - Ghost in the Machine
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/21/1986
Starscream, in Scourge's body, attempts to complete three assignments for the damaged Unicron in exchange for getting a new body.
#4 - Heavy Metal War
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1984
The Constructicons, recently created for the Decepticons, have built a device to give Megatron the powers and skills of his soldiers. All this is to give him the advantage in a challenge he issues to Optimus Prime. And if Optimus loses, he and the Autobots must leave Earth.
#5 - Carnage in C-Minor
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/14/1986
The Autobots and Decepticons find that the voices of three aliens (Allegra, Zebop Scandana and Basso Profundo) can make a powerful weapon.
#6 - Kremzeek!
Season 2 - Episode 46 - Aired 12/27/1985
A creature made out of energy, Kremzeek, gets made and causes trouble for the Autobots, Decepticons and Japan.
#7 - A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/24/1985
Spike, Hoist and Warpath find their battle with a group of Decepticons interrupted when they all get sent back in time to the middle ages.
#8 - The Dweller in the Depths
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/30/1986
The Quintessons trick the Decepticons into releasing the dangerous Trans-Organics. One of them, the Dweller, begins taking control over Autobots and Decepticons alike.
#9 - The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/18/1985
The Decepticons are trying to learn the secret surrounding a man's invention and go after his teenage daughter. Powerglide intervenes to rescue her, but this causes her to fall in love with him.
#10 - Sea Change
Season 2 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/20/1985
Seaspray falls in love, but the object of his affection is part of a rebel movement on another world.
#11 - Hoist Goes Hollywood
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/21/1985
Hoist gets a big break into show business after rescuing stuntmen. Sunstreaker, Powerglide, Warpath and Tracks are along for the ride as well. On the road to a movie career, however, they learn Dirge has stolen a device from Wheeljack's lab.
#12 - Surprise Party
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/9/1986
Wheelie and Daniel want to have a party for Ultra Magnus after a recent good deed of his. However, Ultra Magnus' birthday is unknown, even to him. Wheelie and Daniel try to find out the answer from Autobot records. Unfortunately for them, Cyclonus decides to intervene.
#13 - Webworld
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/20/1986
Galvatron goes into therapy, but it does not exactly agree with him. Every one of the doctors' attempts at treating him fail before they consider using one last option. Cyclonus tries to stop them, however, after learning it would make the Decepticon leader an invalid.
#14 - Nightmare Planet
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/31/1986
Daniel's nightmare troubles get a lot worse when the Quintessons make them real. Autobots and Predacons are forced to join forces in order to fight these nightmares.
#15 - Grimlock's New Brain
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/14/1986
Grimlock becomes a genius after trying to stop anti-electrons (released by Scukzoid and Slizardo) from causing disruptions in the new power generator. This proves very useful to the Autobots, especially when Grimlock learns Unicron is the source of the anti-electrons. The Autobots journey to Unicron to prevent more anti-electrons from being obtained, but Galvatron and his forces are also heading that way.
#16 - The Face of the Nijika
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 11/20/1986
A group of Autobots, Cyclonus and Quintessons become trapped within a Quadrant Lock Disc that has also kept the planet Zimojin and it's inhabitants trapped for thousands of years. To get out the Quintessons need a component belonging to Perceptor, but he has several parts taken out which are used by Katsudan to make repairs on a robot. Now in the small form, Perceptor learns the Zimojins were trapped there by the Quintessons out of fear.
#17 - Madman's Paradise
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/13/1986
Daniel leaves a banquet being hosted by his parents. He and Grimlock end up discovering a Quintesson chamber and get stuck in a magical world.
#18 - Chaos
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1986
An alien is discovered to have a powerful weapon that fires crystals, which are taken from a creature Kup knows of, Chaos. Galvatron plans to construct his own powerful weapon on Chaos' home and several Autobots race to prevent him from using it on Cybertron.
#19 - The Gambler
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/11/1985
With the others rendered powerless, Smokescreen has to enter the gambling world to get the Energon needed to revive them.
#20 - Auto-Bop
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/13/1985
Innocent people fall under Megatron's control through music being played at a club.
#21 - Trans-Europe Express
Season 2 - Episode 43 - Aired 12/23/1985
Some Autobots take part in a charity race in Europe, but it's all a Decepticon ploy to obtain metal from Augie Canay's car in order to house the Pearl of Bahoudin. With their teammates damaged by the Stunticons, it will be up to Bumblebee, Bluestreak and Tracks to stop the Decepticon plot.
#22 - B.O.T.
Season 2 - Episode 49 - Aired 1/9/1986
During a battle, the Protectobots finish off the Combaticons, with the exception of Swindle. Megatron orders Swindle to reconstruct his destroyed comrades or else a bomb in his head will go off, destroying him. As Swindle works to complete this task in time, three students get a hold of Brawl's personality component and use it for their science project, B.O.T., with disastrous results.
#23 - The Killing Jar
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/29/1986
The Quintessons use Wreck-Gar, Cyclonus, Ultra Magnus and Marissa as research subjects, watching how they interact. Unfortunately for all of them, the ship they are on is heading for a black hole and this unusual group will have to work together to survive.
#24 - Thief in the Night
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/6/1986
Octane locates the defeated Trypticon and brings him to Carbombya. There, they follow orders from Fakhaddi in order to get energon. They begin stealing landmarks around the world for him.
#25 - The Ultimate Weapon
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/10/1986
Metroplex's transformation cog is taken by Swindle and First Aid blames himself for not stopping him. Meanwhile, Galvatron threatens to use a powerful weapon.