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"A Brush with Danger"
Season	4
No. in season	24
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	October 1, 2016
Writer	Dean Stefan
Director	Frank Squillace
Animation studio	DHX Media Top Draw Animation
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Kade's idol, an arrogant movie star, comes to Griffin Rock in preparation for a role, causing trouble for the Rescue Team while they try to solve a series of mysterious break-ins.

Synopsis

"Appear in the hundredth episode of Rescue Bots, they said. It will be fun, they said..."

The Rescue Bots play a ball game refereed by Cody. Blades objects to Heatwave blocking his goal, but the other Bot responds that it's a training exercise and they need to expect the unexpected. The tables are turned moments later when his goal is intercepted by Quickshadow, who jets into the air and scores a goal herself. The ensuing trash talk is interrupted by a plane overhead with someone clutching onto the wing. The team goes into action, but before Dani and Blades can pluck the man from the plane, he falls, and by the time the team reaches him, he's already on the ground. To Kade's shock, it turns out to be his favorite movie star, Maven Danger. While Kade starts fawning, Quickshadow backs off to avoid being recognized. Chief lectures Danger on the danger he put everyone in, and they're soon joined by Danger's stunt double and manager, who Dani recognizes as Skip Scobble, an old schoolmate. Skip reveals they've come to research Maven's next movie, and though Chief's reluctant, Skip already has approval from the mayor.

Back at the firehouse, the Bots wonder how they're going to be able to work with Maven Danger staying with them. Quickshadow reveals she's returning to the mainland — as her alternate mode is the car from the Maven Danger movies, her cover is likely to be blown if the star sees her. Unfortunately Maven Danger picks this moment to tour the firehouse and, spotting Quickshadow in her alternate mode, assumes the studio has had his car sent over. As the tour moves to the living quarters, Skip hands Cody to film some behind-the-scenes stuff while he goes and runs errands. Kade shows Maven Danger the merchandise he's collected, but Danger is pretty much a jerk the whole time.

That night, Heatwave finds Kade watching a Maven Danger film. The alarm sounds, and Chief reports that there's an emergency at the library, but Kade's attempts to rouse Maven Danger are unsuccessful. The team heads to the library where Ms. Lima is attempting to tackle an intruder herself, but gets sealed in the rare books section. The fire system starts sucking the air out of the room. Heatwave smashes the locking system, only to find now the doors won't unlock at all, and start trying to bash his way through the door. Meanwhile, Blades and Dani lose the intruder when he ducks into a manhole. Heatwave and Chase manage to rescue Ms. Lima, but as they check the security footage, they find the intruder hasn't taken anything.

Morning arrives and Maven Danger rises, but is uninterested in helping the team with their cleaning duties. Skip borrows Maven and Cody to film some test footage, and Kade finds himself trying to defend his hero's obnoxious behavior once again. Professor Baranova contacts the team to report a break in at the laboratory, however again the intruder didn't steal anything.

The alarm sounds again at the firehouse, this time interrupting Maven Danger's slumber. The star turns down riding with Kade for instead driving in Quickshadow, though he's surprised by the "changes" to the car. Quickshadow feigns being an onboard computer, though when he taps the steering wheel, she pretends it's affecting her gyroscope and starts steering wildly. The rest of the team finds Mr. Harrison's helipack is out of control again. As Quickshadow arrives, the Bots snare Mr. Harrison. Maven, upset at the mess his hair is now in, tries to shut down the helipack only to end up being carried into the air by it. Despite Kade's attempts to give him instructions on shutting the thing down, Maven crashes into a tree and is less than grateful when Chase helps him down. Heatwave hits the helipack with foam, and Boulder manages to catch it before it hits Maven, who promptly faints. As Kade starts wondering why he ever considered Maven a hero, Skip arrives and Chief informs him that he and Danger are causing too much trouble. Skip tries to persuade him to let them film one scene before they leave, and when he sweetens the deal by letting the Burns kids take part, Chief agrees.

With an area of town shut off, Skip gives everyone their instructions before going to phone the studio. The Bots are all stuck at the firehouse, but Blades's complaining is interrupted by an intruder. As the Bots make like robots, the intruder grabs the book Boulder was reading. The Bots stop him, and the intruder reveals himself as Skip, claiming that he was picking up a prop to take to the set. The Bots transform to take him. Cody, having observed events remotely, informs Chief, and soon the reluctant Skip arrives at the movie set in custody. As it turns out, the book Skip was stealing, Pilgrim's Progress is extremely rare and worth a fortune. Skip tries to escape using the stunt elevator shoes, however it's Maven who's wearing them. Maven goes flying into the air and lands on the escaping Skip, who is promptly cuffed. Demanding someone get him off the island, Maven collapses into Quickshadow, who drives him away screaming.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"Great idea for the film! Of course our robots will be in CG. They'll look much better."

—Maven Danger

"He didn't even touch my Tasmanian geode collection, or Ezra's atomic wafflemaker."

—Professor Baranova

"My hair! It's no longer perfect!"

—Maven Danger

"Skip, I am disappointed. To think you brought me here for selfish reasons. I could have done all my research online in Tahiti instead of this dreary island, with Clyde and the Hearns family!"

—Maven Danger

Notes

Continuity notes

• Maven Danger's first appearance was back in "Plus One", in which it was established that Quickshadow had scanned the car from his films for her alternate mode.

Transformers references

• (tbd)

Real-world references

• Kade exclaims "That's so Maven", in reference to the show That's So Raven.
• In addition to Maven Danger being a blatant tribute to James Bond, at one point Kade announces his name is "Burns, Kade Burns" in reference to Bond's famous introduction.
• The Pilgrim's Progress is a 17th century book by John Bunyan.
• The opening segment of the episode is set to music that imitates the Fox Sports theme song, which originated with their NFL coverage.

Animation and technical errors

• (tbd)

Trivia

• This episode aired out of order to become the 100th episode broadcast in the United States, preceding the intended 100th episode, "To Infinity... And Back".
• No one saw a problem with a fire suppression system that could trap and suffocate people? More curiously, the switch to activate it is inside the rare book room — couldn't Ms. Lima have simply flipped the switch back? To its credit, it avoids the classic destroy-the-console-and-the-doors-open trope, correctly leaving the doors in their existing (locked) state. However, taken together, it probably warrants Ms. Lima carrying a master key allowing the system to be activated or deactivated, rather than any rando visiting the library.

Foreign localization

French

• Title: "À l'ombre de Bruno Dace" ("In the shade of Maven Danger")
• Original airdate: ?

Italian

• Title: "Arriva Danger!" ("Danger arrives!")
• Original airdate: 7 October 2017