Part-Time Heroes

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"Part-Time Heroes"
Season	4
No. in season	11
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	June 2,2016(UK) June 25,2016(US)
Writer	Gregory Bonsignore
Director	Patrick Archibald
Animation studio	DHX Media Top Draw Animation
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When Griffin Rock's communication tower needs replacing, the Bots and Burnses take on part-time jobs to raise the money.

Synopsis

The rescue team watchKadeand hisBrash Ballteam practicing, with Blades giving a running commentary.Jerry's alarm goes off, and he has to rush off to make a delivery without even taking off his moose mascot costume. This leads into a discussion of what the plural of "moose" is, whichFrankieresolves using her new phone, bought using her savings. With practice over, the team heads home. Meanwhile Jerry runs into trouble — having issues driving with his moose costume on, he crashes his truck on a mountain road and is surrounded by several moose. He jumps back into his truck, but a moose starts pushing it over the edge of the cliff.Heatwavecomes across this scene, however he's unable to approach the truck thanks to the moose and he and his passengers realize the communications tower is busted so they can't contact the rest of the team. They use a flare to try to attract Blades's attention before Heatwave moves in. He manages to scare off all the moose, but the truck goes over the edge. Luckily Blades has arrived in time to save both it and Jerry. The team heads off to findDoc Greeneand get the tower fixed.

Doc does his best, but says the tower is old and outdated and needs to be replaced. They head to town hall to talk toMayor Luskeyabout getting a replacement, but it turns out the budget has been spent along with the rest of the town's savings on a new Brash Ball stadium. As it turns out, this is an inflatableInsta-adiumhe's bought online. Down at the dock, he starts the stadium inflating, confident that the town will be able to lure in the Brash Ball Big Bowl which will bring in a ton of money. They're still stuck for communications until then, soCodyhits on the idea of calling inSalvageto have a go at repairing the tower. Salvage tries, but in the process the top falls off the tower, though at least the phones are temporarily working.

I swear, this has never happened to me before!

Cody has a plan to raise the money to replace the tower — he suggests everyone get side jobs. Reluctant to involve any of the rest of town, the team starts going through the job listings.Bouldertakes a landscaping job, only to discover it's just pulling weeds fromMrs. Neederlander's lawn, whileGrahamtakes what he thinks is a tutoring job, but turns out to be working as a nanny forMr. Harrison's kids.Chaseopts for a job working as a taxi. Kade starts work as a clown for children's parties, much to Heatwave's disgruntlement. Blades andDanihave more fun giving traffic reports forHuxley Prescott,but they quickly discover a dumpster fire. The team have to abandon their side jobs to respond to the emergency. Later in thefirehouse,they review their takings for the day, and Graham calculates it'll take them over ten years to save enough. Meanwhile Chief announces the team has to be at tomorrow's Brash Ball game as some out-of-town officials are coming.

The next day, the team are all working their side jobs when Chase gets into an argument with his passenger,Mr. Sharma,which almost results in Chase running overa pedestrianon the crossing Kade and Heatwave are looking after. As arguments break out, Chief announces that trying to hold down second jobs just isn't working. The team heads to the Brash Ball game, however Kade quickly realizes he's left his cleats at home and has Graham fetch them. Luskey greets the officials to the stadium. As Graham arrives and hands over Kade's cleats, he and Cody quickly realize what the combination of the spikes and the inflatable stadium are going to result in, however their warnings are in vain and the stadium rapidly begins to deflate, taking on water as it does so. The team works together to stabilize the structure longer enough to allow everyone to get out, though the stadium itself ends up sinking. After the Brash Ball officials storm off, the rest of the townsfolk realize the team had been taking on extra jobs to replace the tower and they all pitch in. A new communications tower is later successfully erected on the mountain.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"One question first: Why is there a moose driving Jerry's truck?"

—Boulder

"Mayor, everything I've learned in engineering warns against inflatable structures. No one in the country has mastered them."
"Well, this isn'tfromour country. It's from... ah, er, I don't know how to pronounce it, but I'm sure it's safe. "

—GrahamandLuskey

"No tip? Thank you for nothing, you big palooka"

—Chaseworking as a taxi.

"What did he forget this time?"
"His cleats."
"Wait, cleats?"
"Yeah, you know. Sports shoes with little spikes."
"Spikes!"
"Oh no."

—CodyandGrahamrealizing whats about to happen.

Chase:By my calculations, you would have to sell 287,112.5 cookies to purchase the new communications equipment.
Dani:That's a lot of olives.
Kade:Olives?
Dani:Well yeah, my secret ingredient.
Graham:That explains a lot.

Notes

Continuity notes

• Kade wears the same clown outfit he wore forEarliween.No wonder it scares the kids.
• Heatwave tries scaring off the moose with a load roar, the same trick he used to repel a bear in "Road Trip".The method fails in this instance, and the fire-bot ends up switching to dino mode to finish the job.

Transformers references

• (tbd)

Real-world references

• The music that plays during Kade's Brash Ball practice is set to music that imitates theFox Sportstheme song, which originated with their NFL coverage.
• Doc Greene refers toGuglielmo Marconi.
• The dispatcher who hires Chase is based on Louie DePalma, Danny DeVito's character from the sitcomTaxi.The episode's score uses music similar to that show's theme song as Chase drives up to the dispatch office.
• Mayor Luskey says, "Inflate it, and they will come," a reference to the famous phrase from the movieField of Dreams.

Animation and technical errors

• Mr. Watkins can be seen sitting in the audience shortly before he again appears as referee for the game.

Trivia

• Is it too late to get Chase back as mayor?
• According to this episode, even bot-to-bot communications traverses the human telecommunications network, as evidenced by Heatwave being unable to contact Blades during Jerry's rescue. This is kind of weird in the context of an intergalactic alien species who've mastered faster-than-light travel, and made weirder when factoring in some oftheir adventuresand travels.Hopefully they have a good roaming plan with unlimited data...

Foreign localization

French

• Title:"Héros à temps partiel..."(" Part-time heroes... ")
• Original airdate:?

Italian

• Title:"Eroi Part-Time"(" Part-Time Heroes ")
• Original airdate:29 September2017