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"Cody on Patrol"
Season	1
No. in season	7
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	March 17,2012
Writer	Bob Forward
Director	Patrick Archibald
Animation studio	Atomic Cartoons
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Cody accidentally unleashes a swarm of futuristic nanites while he's trying to super-charge his go-kart to help in the team's rescue missions.

Synopsis

"Look, Ma, I caught a big one!"

Cody Burns is having breakfast when he spotsMr. Harrison having trouble with his heli-pack again.Dani requests the help of the rest of the team, and they set about trying to rescue Harrison.Heatwave fails to wash Harrison out of the air, Boulder misses catching him in his scoop, Chase narrowly misses catching him, but then a mysterious masked rider in a go-kart drives past in pursuit. The newcomer uses a fishing line to hook Harrison, who takes a plunge into the sea. As Harrison clambers out of the sea, the stranger unmasks himself as Cody to the surprise of the rest of his family. The go-kart, it turns out, is oneChief Burns built when he was Cody's age.

Back at thefire station, theRescue Bots inspect Cody's go-kart as he works on it. Later, whileBoulder andGraham deal with junk at the junkyard by feeding it to theScrapmaster, Cody hunts through the trash for useful parts for his go-kart, and comes up with a seat and steering wheel.

Jazz hands!

Finally, the changes are finished, and Cody unveilsRolling Thunder. The others are impressed, and when Chief Burns gets a call fromMrs. Neederlander, he sends Cody along in his go-kart to help. Unfortunately Rolling Thunder is very slow, and by the time Cody gets there, Mrs. Neederlander has rescuedher cat herself. Cody reports back to his dad, but there are no more assignments for him. Discouraged, he spotsFrankie walking her dogsEdison andAristotle, but when he tries to talk to her, his backfiring engine startles her dogs which run off. Cody tries to chase them, but is again too slow, and Boulder steps in to stop the dogs running into traffic. Cody is upset that Frankie referred to Rolling Thunder as a toy car, and though Boulder tries some words of encouragement, Cody decides what he really needs is a bigger engine.

"Sure, let's use one of my dad's experimental super-fuels in your go-kart. What could possibly go wrong?"

Unfortunately Chief Burns turns down Cody's request to use his credit card to buy a larger engine and tells him someday he'll be able to drive something more powerful. Undaunted, Cody visitsDoc Greene's lab where Frankie shows him the cupboard full of super fuel additives. Cody selects somenanite fuel and dumps the contents of the container into Rolling Thunder's fuel tank. Moments later he's roaring off, fire belching from the exhaust, and Frankie's alerting the emergency services. When Cody discovers Rolling Thunder's brakes don't work, he rings his father who suggests he heads for the junkyard and uses the piles of garbage to slow down.

This isGriffin Rock; if the owner doesn't have giant robot insurance, he's a fool!

Cody successfully stops his ride, but the nanites emerge from the gas tank and enter the Scrapmaster. The trash device immediately goes out of control and starts eating random objects before starting to chase Cody. Just as he's cornered by the scrapmaster,Blades and Dani arrive in time to distract it by throwing a car at it. The others soon arrive and Cody tells them about the nanites. Heatwave's attempt to stop the Scrapmaster by throwing a gas tank at it fails. Boulder comes up with another idea, and while the others distract the Scrapmaster, he pulls the device's tank off. That's when the nanites leave the gas tank and enter Boulder. Out of control, Boulder rampages down the road, but manages to avoid doing much damage, though he crushes a parked car and as he enters the park, starts knocking down trees, much to his distress. Cody has an idea to take the nanites to thepower plant and lure them into the generators. Boulder manages to get to the power plant, and though things look hairy for a minute or so, the generators prove too much power for the nanites, which are overwhelmed.

Cody helps Boulder replant the trees in the park, while Chief Burns does laps around the park in Rolling Thunder. In Doc Greene's lab, Frankie finds the nanites are mysteriously not listed on the lab's inventory.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"Cody! What happened?"
"Frankie's dogs broke loose, and RollingTortoise couldn't catch up!"

—Graham andCody

"If a little is good, a lot will be better!"
"My dad said something like that once, just before the lab exploded."

—Cody andFrankie

"Dispatch? Connect me to Chief Burns please. Emergency? Not yet, but any second now."

—Frankie uses her past experience of her father's inventions.

"Just be glad I didn't have to tackle you and give you a thumpin'."
"Not entirely sure who'd have thumped whom."

—Heatwave andBlades

Notes

Continuity notes

Chief Burns enjoys his copy ofBlue Rectangle Daily.

• Griffin Rock is so hi-tech, even the newspapers are holographic!
• The symbol on the tube of nanites is the first hint of an upcoming plot arc.

Real-world references

• Boulder and Graham talk about baseball, including the obscureBaltimore chop.
• In theme with Doc Greene's resemblance toDoc Brown fromBack to the Future, Edison and Aristotle are named forThomas Edison and Greek philosopherAristotle.

Animation and technical errors

• We get a close-up of the newspaper Chief Burns is reading, and it doesn't appear to have any text on it!

Trivia

• For a reasonably small town, there sure are a lot of wrecked cars in the junkyard.
• The gas tank has a no smoking sign on it. It's unusual for cartoons to even imply smoking exists so this is quite a rare sight.
• When the team is chasing Mr. Harrison, why does Blades swerve with the others to go around the crates instead of just flying over them?
• Despite being the youngest character in the show, Cody is typically depicted as the "voice of reason" and often times wiser than his elder siblings. This episde, along with "Rescue Boy" marks a rare occasion of Cody acting impulsively and irresponsibly.
• This is the only episode of anyTransformers series to be written solely byBob Forward without usual writing partnerLarry DiTillio.

Foreign localization

French

• Title: "Le tonnerre sur roues" ("Thunder on Wheels")
• Original airdate:2 November2012

German

• Title: "Cody wills wissen" ("Cody wants to know it")
• Original airdate:26 February2013

Hungarian

• Title: "Cody szolgálatban" ("Cody on Duty")
• Original airdate:13 February2013

Indonesian

• Title: "Mobil Baru Cody" ("Cody's New Car")
• Original airdate: ?

Italian

• Title: "Cody è di pattuglia" ("Cody is on Patrol")
• Original airdate:11 June2017

Portuguese

• Title: "Cody na Patrulha" ("Cody on Patrol")
• Original airdate:12 March2013

Home video releases

2013 —Rescue Bots — "Energize" (Shout! Factory)
2013 —Rescue Bots — "Weihnachten im Juli" (EDEL:kids) — German and English audio
2013 —Rescue Bots — "Cody on Patrol" (Beyond Home Entertainment)
2015 —Rescue Bots — "Complete Season 1" (Beyond Home Entertainment)