#135: THE INSECTICON SYNDROME - FORAGING FOR CONTENT
Join your greens-gathering guys of the APDC as they cover S2 Ep13, “The Insecticon Syndrome,” from the 1985 classic animated series, The Transformers.
100 year-old Aunt Update! Ryan’s van update!! Inquiring minds want to know!!! Tool sharing!! Shit Bucket!! Chow Line!!! Insecticons…We’re not talkin’ termites!! Foraging the Ozarks!! Soundwave’s a slave!! New voice actors!! In the Real World! Script Deviations!! Iconic Moments!! We’re starting to foam at the mouth!!!
THE CEREBRO SHELL GIN SLING p. 45
· I’m not very good at naming things
· The book says, “Met in 1926, and thereafter never forgotten…the Singapore Gin Sling is a delicious, slow-acting, insidious thing.”
o 2 parts gin
o 1 part cherry brandy
o 1 part Benedictine
§ Shake it for a moment, or stir it in a bar glass, with 2 large lumps of ice to chill
§ Turn into a small 10 oz highball glass and fill up to individual taste with club soda
§ Garnish with a spiral peel of lime
§ I also garnished this with lemon salt on one side of the rim and watermelon sugar on the other.
· “In other ports…drinkers often use ginger ale or even ginger beer.”
· I used club soda, because I found it to be a cleaner flavor, and ginger beer, which I love, tends to overpower subtle liquors like these
Wood Sorrel
Plantain weed.
Ryan drew the cover for this issue. Check it all out here! https://www.transformersreanimated.com/2020/08/05/transformers-reanimated-issue-13-food-court-fury/
The new, fairly useless transformer, Chow Line.
The antidote. Just, like, in a test tube with a cork. No delivery system.
We maintain that Prime is manually transforming Megatron.
