Transformers: Animated (TV Series) Garbage in, Garbage out (2008) User Reviews

There's a new 'bot in town, and his name is Wreck-Gar. Classic shout-outs ahoy!

[curseyouheman · 9/10 · 19 March 2010]

Sadly, I never caught this on TV, but went so far as to track it down on YouTube, braving the insufferable loading time of my sub-par computer. It was well worth it. In this gem of an episode, an Allspark fragment animates a garbage truck. The face of the constantly cheerful Wreck-Gar, remarkably similar to Mr. Yankovic's, is but the first of several nods and in-jokes. His helmet is an old-fashioned TV, a shout-out to his 80's incarnation, who spoke almost entirely in television quotes, and whose action figure makes a cameo appearance among the collection of random junk in our new hero's backpack. The ridiculously suggestible, help-anybody-who-asks Wreck-Gar derives his name from his initial moniker of "worthless wreck; walking pile of garbage", and proceeds to accidentally foil the capture of local B- grade villain, the Angry Archer, sow confusion and garbage amongst the populace, and prematurely set off Lugnut's Punch of Kill Everything, mistaking the wind-up of Luggy's signature attack for a high-five- while reciting the Universal Greeting from The Transformers: The Movie. Later, driving a garbage scow infested with Allspark-mutated, frighteningly omnivorous nanobots toward the city (believing that he is meant to deliver garbage to the populace), he responds to Ratchet's protests with "I am Wreck- Gar; I dare to be stupid!" Loaded as it is with references to the original movie, this is an ideal place to start for fans of the classic series who aren't sure how well Animated will stack up. I highly recommend it.