This episode: Transformers!

♪ More than meets the eye ♪

♪ (action music) ♪

Is this Transformers?

What the heck?

Oh yeah! Throwback. (laughs)

♪ Transformers ♪

I didn't know there was an old TV show.

♪ ...the eye ♪

♪ Autobots wage their battle to destroy... ♪

I've watched the old Garfield and Friends

but not the old Transformers.

(singing along) ♪ Transformers ♪

The song's catchy. I like it.

♪ Transformers ♪

Did Megatron just turned into a gun?

This is the Transformers my dad used to watch.

This is not the Transformers I know.

That was so weird. What?

I don't-- I don't know.

(children) Question time!

(Finebros) Okay. So did you know that the Transformers you know

- is not the original Transformers? - They're not?

I had no idea.

Yes.

They were actually based off a cartoon,

and then they turned them into movies.

I wanted to buy Transformers stuff.

And I found out there was actually-- it's based on something.

It makes me really upset,

because I thought that that was the original.

(Finebros) Have you watched any more recent versions

- of the Transformers? - No.

I don't really watch stuff like that.

I've seen the movie versions.

Real people, not cartoon.

I've seen them, but they look more real, not animated.

(Finebros) So what year did Transformers first come out?

Uh, 2014?

(rejection buzzer)

1976.

(rejection buzzer)

Maybe, like, 1985?

(rejection buzzer)

(Finebros) So the live-action movie started in 2007,

but what we showed you debuted in 1984.

Whoa, that is really old.

Whoa.

Ooh, whoa-ho-ho.

Oh my gosh, that's really old.

They waited that long to make a movie?

I guess they kinda had to 'cause technology.

(Finebros) Okay, so we're now gonna show you a split-screen

of the way a character used to look

and the way they look in the movies now.

I wonder what they looked like.

(Finebros) So here is one of the characters.

What?

Is that supposed to be Bumblebee?

Okay, Bumblebee got a little less fatter.

Bumblebee looks better now.

Bumblebee, wow! What happened to you?

- (Finebros) Next character... - That looks so old.

The new one actually looks scarier than the old one.

The old Megatron looks like a good guy.

That one looks like it can hug you.

He just looks like an Autobot with a bazooka.

Something about him just makes him look like a schoolboy.

Like, he has those pads, like, those green pads

and white shirt.

Where do I begin? They're just not similar.

They come from two different families.

They're not even stepbrothers.

- (Finebros) And finally... - Okay, this time I like the old one.

Optimus!

The newer one looks like a viking.

He would never have a gun.

Just letting you know, he would never have a gun.

The new one doesn't look like a car at all.

And that one actually makes sense.

They shouldn't even be called Transformers.

I mean, look at them. They're just evil-looking robot guys.

Back then, they really deserved the name "Transformers."

Right now, they all look like they could actually be real.

And that one looks like they're toys.

(Finebros) Well, that was the thing.

Transformers actually started as a toy first

and then became a cartoon.

(sulkily) Oh, so that's why.

(Finebros) Well, when we were kids, they were brand new,

- and we though they were awesome! - (laughs)

What?

What grade would you guys were in when you guys said that?

Well, you guys are old. (giggles)

I think it would still be cool today.

But now that we've been exposed to the movies,

the movies look so different, and that's what we're used to.

(Finebros) Why do you think movies and TV shows so often

recreate things that were popular in the past?

So more people can probably gain interest to it.

Well, maybe because they're running out of ideas.

They think that the old generation was tired of it,

and they brought it back to the new generation

to see if they would like it.

Because the parents might say, "Oh, I used to watch this."

And then their kids could watch it, just like them.

Maybe the producer was just like, "Oh, I can get so much money

from those people that have the nostalgia

and also money from those people that don't even know about it

but they think it's so cool."

(Finebros) How does it feel, though, that there's so many things

that you watch now that aren't original ideas?

Do you wish there were brand-new ideas,

or does it not really make a difference to you?

Not really make a difference.

I don't really care.

As long as it's good.

As long as I'm watching TV.

New ideas.

I like it if it's new,

because it's just like a new thing that nobody's heard of.

It shows no creativity whatsoever.

And it's like, you can't be that creative

just to come up with a new idea or anything? Seriously?

Everything is based on everything.

Everything from the 21st century

was probably based on something that was in the past.

(Finebros) So last question: when you find out

a movie or a TV show that you've seen

is actually based on something from a long time ago,

does it make you want to watch the original?

It actually does.

It makes me want to watch just one episode.

I want to see how it compares to the old one

and see which one's better and continue the one that's better.

I kind of enjoy watching the old version,

because it's funny and I like making fun of it a lot.

If it's my favorite show and I run out of series,

I definitely want to see other versions.

It actually does.

And then you watch this and you're heartbroken,

'cause you're like, "This is the exact same thing."

It's like Groundhog Day. It's like Groundhog Day.

It's repeating the exact same thing over and over and over

and over and over and over and over,

hoping that it will get better.

(slowly) It never will.

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♪ Transformers, more than meets goodbye ♪

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