The Transformers Nitpickers Podcast Show
695 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEvery Monday and Thursday, Paul and John offer a fast-paced review of an episode of a Transformers series until they finish that series. Then they start another one.
Archived reviews include G1, Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Prime, Gobots, Animated, Armada, Energon, and a growing list of movies.
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Episodes
Cybatron Saturday: Carnage In C Minor
April 25, 2020 07:00 - 17 minutes - 24.3 MBOriginally aired April 4th, 2019 Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Season One Wrap-up
April 23, 2020 07:00 - 21 minutes - 29 MBIt's the episode you love to skip! Paul and John talk about their favourite, and least favourite, Maximals and Vehicons and episodes of Beast Machines: Season One. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Beast Machines: Season One Wrap-up
April 23, 2020 07:00 - 21 minutes - 29 MBIt's the episode you love to skip! Paul and John talk about their favourite, and least favourite, Maximals and Vehicons and episodes of Beast Machines: Season One. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
End Of The Line
April 20, 2020 07:00 - 24 minutes - 33.1 MBIn the season one finale, Cheetor protests the foolish path the Maximals are taking, Megatron begins to suspect Lackey, and John whines incessantly about Optimus. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Cybatron Saturday: City Of Steel
April 18, 2020 07:00 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBOriginally aired August 27th, 2018 Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
The Catalyst
April 16, 2020 07:00 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MBAs Megatron arms his Vehicons with copies of the Key to Vector Sigma, Blackarachnia steals just enough CreepyGlue™ to turn Thrust back into Silverbolt long enough to win him back to the Maximals. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
The Key
April 13, 2020 07:00 - 19 minutes - 26.5 MBNightscream is the first to be infected with Tankor's new transmogrification ray. What should be an easy mission to save his life turns into squabbling between Cheetor and Optimus. Is CreepyGlue™ the answer? Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Cybatron Saturday: Kremzeek!
April 11, 2020 07:00 - 17 minutes - 23.4 MBOriginally aired December 6th, 2018 Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Survivor
April 09, 2020 07:00 - 18 minutes - 25.5 MBI'm a survivor. What? I'm not goin' give up. What? I'm not goin' stop. What? I'm goin' work harder. What? I'm a survivor. What? I'm goin' make it. What? I will survive. What? Keep on survivin'! Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Revelations: Part III: Apocalypse
April 06, 2020 07:00 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MBOptimus is still on his vision quest, so Cheetor commands the Maximals to capture the Vehicon generals and convert them back to their former selves... but who ARE their former selves? Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Revelations: Part II: Descent
April 02, 2020 07:00 - 15 minutes - 20.9 MBPaul and John are on a quest to find Sales Guy as they talk about Maximals finding out Vehicons are Maximals. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Revelations: Part I: Discovery
March 30, 2020 07:00 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBAs the Maximals discover what Megatron did to the inhabitants of Cybertron, Blackarachnia discovers the reason she and Thrust are drawn to each other. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
The Weak Component
March 26, 2020 07:00 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBRattrap finally transforms only to find out his robot form is as threatening as the Oscar Meyer® Wienermobile. When he receives no sympathy at home, Rattrap forges a deal with Megatron to make himself like a big man. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Forbidden Fruit
March 23, 2020 07:00 - 18 minutes - 25 MBNah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah! Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah! Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah! Nightscream! Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Mercenary Pursuits
March 19, 2020 07:00 - 23 minutes - 32 MBWhile the Maximals hunt for a mysterious spark, Rattrap discovers a serum that makes him transform all fancy crazy and he goes wriiiing with the saw goin' off and like that. Yes. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Fires Of The Past
March 16, 2020 07:00 - 20 minutes - 28 MBRattrap joins Blackarachnia on a hunt for clues about their past. There may be answers in their old ship's logs, but Megatron's new spark-carrying Vehicons get in the way. Also, Optimus yells. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Master Of The House
March 12, 2020 07:00 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBWith three quarters of the reformatted Maximals now able to "become transformed", they decide to snoop around Cybertropolis which brings Optimus face-to-face with Megatron who may or may not have killed billions of transformers. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
The Reformatting
March 09, 2020 19:00 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBThe Maximals find themselves back on Cybertron with no memory of how they got there, no idea why everything is trying to kill them, and lacking the ability to maximize. Maybe, if they fall down enough holes, they'll find the answers they're looking for. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
The Transformers The Movie: Commentary Track
March 02, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBPaul and John watch 1986's The Transformers: The Movie... with you! Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Beast Wars: Series Wrap-up
February 20, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutes - 25.9 MBIt's the end of another series, so Paul and John sit down to discuss their favourite and least favourite Maximals, Predacons, and episodes. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Nemesis: Part II
February 17, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MBIn an episode that isn't bad but certainly isn't great, the Maximals attempt to flee in the Ark before The Nemesis' super-mega-laser-death-ray blows them up. Will Megatron and Superthing finally kiss? Listen this episode to find out!* Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive * They don't kiss.
Nemesis: Part I
February 13, 2020 08:00 - 19 minutes - 27 MBMegatron has one last plan up his sleeve... except it's not his plan. It's Tarantulas' plan and it might not exist but, if it does, you can be sure Megatron will claim credit for it. Also, more stupid humans! Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Other Victories
February 10, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 23.8 MBThe Vok decide to be relevant again! This time they send the combined sparks of Tigertron and Airazor in a new transformer ordered to destroy both the Predacons and the Maximals. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Master Blaster
February 06, 2020 08:00 - 19 minutes - 26.5 MBMegatron gains control over Optimal Optimus and captures most of the Maximals. Will Blackarachnia be able to save her fuckbuddy and his friends? Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Crossing The Rubicon
February 03, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutes - 26 MBBlackarachnia reluctantly agrees to let Rhinox remove her Predacon shell program. Assuming this means the Arc's access codes are up for grabs, Megatron launches an all-out assault on the Maximal HQ. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Go With The Flow
January 30, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBWhen Cheetor violates the Prime Directive by educating human children, Megatron kidnaps one of them so she can help construct a new weapon that will destroy the Maximals once and for all! Yes... Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Proving Grounds
January 27, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutes - 24.7 MBBlackarachnia believes the Maximals want to risk destroying her to remove her Predacon programming, so she runs away only to become prey for an irate Dinobot 2. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Feral Scream: Part II
January 23, 2020 08:00 - 16 minutes - 23 MBIn the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the...
Feral Scream: Part I
January 20, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBWhen Cheetor gets caught in the machine Megatron has built to create a new Dinobot, he's presumed dead by a callous Depthcharge and a wallowing Optimal Optimus. Also, there's a completely unrelated cat monster. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Cutting Edge
January 16, 2020 08:00 - 20 minutes - 27.7 MBWhen Megatron unleashes his newly created cyber-raptors upon the stupid humans, Blackarachnia and Cheetor are ordered to return two stupid human children to their family. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Changing Of The Guard
January 13, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MBOptimus sends Silverbolt and Rattrap on a mission to retrieve Sentinel from the remains of their spaceship. Unfortunately, Rampage plans to interfere. Unfortulatelyier, so does Megatron. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Deep Metal
January 09, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutes - 25.9 MBA Maximal named Depthcharge, on the trail of Protoform X, ends up on Earth. His bad blood with Super Thing, and the other Maximals, soon becomes apparent. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Optimal Situation
January 06, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 24.5 MBAfter Blackarachnia betrays Megatron, and stabilizes Optimus Prime, Rhinox is able to repair Prime's body... but only if Optimus Primal is able to carry Prime's spark inside himself. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive
Bumblebee (for real this time)
January 04, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBIf you were upset that our previous Bumblebee review wasn't long enough, this episode is for you. If you thought our previous Bumblebee episode was too long... we have some bad news. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Bumblebee
January 03, 2020 08:00 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBPaul and John review all the best parts of 2018's Bumblebee. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Beast Wars: Season Two Wrap-up
January 02, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MBSeason two of Beast Wars was short, so this episode is short. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Season Two Wrap-up
January 02, 2020 08:00 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MBSeason two of Beast Wars was short, so this episode is short. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
The Agenda: Part III
December 30, 2019 08:00 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBGeneration One shoves its massive dong in the face of Beast Wars when Blackarachnia locates The Ark. With Megatron hot on her tail, and the Maximals right behind him, it's a race to change the course of history. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
The Agenda: Part II
December 26, 2019 08:00 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MBWhen Ravage reveals he's in league with ██████████, Megatron convinces him to ██████████ by showing him a video of ████████ on the ███████████. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
The Agenda: Part I
December 23, 2019 08:00 - 19 minutes - 27.5 MBThe Maximals believe rescue is imminent, unaware the Predacon Alliance has sent their best Assassin to find Megatron in the past. Silverbolt continues to be Blackarachnia's chump. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Transmutate
December 19, 2019 08:00 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBIn the most irrelevant and pointless episode of the season two, possibly of the series, Rampage and Silverbolt battle to gain the friendship of a stupid dumb stupid robot. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Code Of Hero
December 16, 2019 08:00 - 18 minutes - 25.2 MBAfter monologuing for the past few episodes, Dinobot comes to realize his destiny just in time to save the human race from Megatron's plan. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Bad Spark
December 12, 2019 08:00 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBAs the Maximals and Predacons race to claim the recently crashed Protoform X, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt grow closer. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Other Visits: Part II
December 09, 2019 08:00 - 17 minutes - 24.4 MBMegatron gains control of the alien technology, which turns out to be a powerful weapon. Only Optimus and Rattrap are functional and able to stop the Predacons from gaining the power to conquer Cybertron. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Other Visits: Part I
December 05, 2019 08:00 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MBTigertron and Airazor discover a lush oasis but, before they can get nasty, they're abducted by alien technology. With both Predacons and remaining Maximials racing to the abduction site, battle is imminent. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Maximal, No More
December 02, 2019 08:00 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBWe all knew it was coming. Dinobot finally abandons the Maximals when he realizes that Megatron, with his nonsensical plan, was right all along. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Tangled Web
November 28, 2019 08:00 - 17 minutes - 23.4 MBTarantulas is at it again. This time he proposes an arachnid alliance against Megatron after the discovery of a location for his new laboratory. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Coming Of The Fuzors: Part II
November 25, 2019 08:00 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBThe weakened Maximals hold off a Predacon attack as Rhinox tries to bring Optimus' spark back from the void of interstellar something or other. Silverbolt deals with some personal issues. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Coming Of The Fuzors: Part I
November 21, 2019 08:00 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBRhinox searches for Optimus' consciousness in the void of space while Megatron inducts two new Predacons into the mix. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.
Aftermath
November 18, 2019 08:00 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MBWith some Maximals and Predacons missing, and some Maximals and Predacons sporting new forms, the second season of Beast Wars promises new storylines and more toys. Find Paul and John on Twitter. Full episode archive.