Signs you are addicted to BW

 

-You name your cat Cheetor and explain to everyone he isn't acting himself today because his Beast mode is still Feral. 

-You try to mate an eagle and your dog in hope to get a Fuzor offspring

-Whenever you get in to your car you yell "Maximize!" or "Terrorize!"

-Before going to sleep you pretend an energon surge and then when you wake up you claim you went in to "Stasis Lock"

-You have enough toys to accurately re-create any given Beast Wars episode.

-Whenever somebody does something underhanded behind your back, you call them a "Treacherous Spider" as they walk away. 

-You wander around the kitchen muttering "where'd I put that slagging knife?"

-You are no longer able to yes without it coming out yeeezzzzz.

-You get into a heated debate with an eight year old who tells you Beast Wars suck.

-You plan to stay at home when the new episode comes out on Monday.

-You get a silly grin on your face every time you hear, "Maximize" no matter what it pertains to.

-You start religiously watching Ancient Civilizations on the Discovery channel to see if you can spot any of the alien sites.

-You wake up at 6:00 a.m. to watch BW but complain that starting school at 9 a.m. is criminal.

-You seem to have a better day at work after watching BW that morning.

-You yell, "Eat hot slag!" when you pass people on the highway.

-You whine, "Why universe hate Waspinator?" when you're having a bad day.

-You put food in the microwave or oven and say, "BUURRRRNNNN for the Royalty". 

-You talk to yourself ala Megatron

-You've had to tape the series more than once because of tape degradation.

-Your first choice for a pet is now either spiders, a lizard or a rat.

-Those who already have the rat can't find any glue strong enough to keep the wheels on.

-Neighbours have reported their pet cat has come home with tinfoil wings.

-When you miss work/school to catch any episode, even though you 1) have it on tape, 2) have seen it several times before.

-You time your weekend cartoon viewing around the show 

-You say "Maximize" in your sleep and then flip over in a new position. 

-You use Beast Wars "swear words" in your conversations:

            "What the pit are you talking about man?"

            "I hate having all this slaggin' homework."

-You train your dog to attack when someone yells "Terrorize"

-You wish your pet was a Transmetal.

-You can't look at any insect without being reminded of Waspinator. 

-You have an urge to spend large quantities of time in a hot tub, and have bought a rubber duckie.

-You create Depth Charge out of mashed potatoes and Rampage out of your vegetables and think they are battling to the death on the way to your stomach.

-Wonder how BA and Silverbolt will ever get to 'do it' without anybody hearing (the whole metal-on-metal thing)

-Refer to the characters in short form as if they are close acquaintances i.e. OpOp, Megs, BA, SB. RT, DC, QS, DBII. 

-When you think it is the end of the world every time you don't see two moons.

-When you are devastated when you forgot to tape "Crossing the Rubicon".

-When you play Beast Wars with Barbie Dolls and Ken/Beanies

You are on your 4th tape on recording Beast Wars.

-You've secretly taped your fingers together to figure out how the spiders survived the first season.

-You have a pair of shoes with pop cans welded to the bottom of them so you can make that neat clinky sound when you walk.

-You now classify animals as either Maximal or Predacon. (Not good for biology class)

-You have taken to voluntarily reading Shakespeare.

-You customize your car to look like TM Rattrap.

-When driving down the road, and somebody cuts you off, you yell 'Terrorize' and are heart broken when nothing happens.

-You buy videotapes by the box, and are pissed off that you run out of tapes when there's going to be a new episode on within the next three months

-You actually use terms like nanocycle, cycle, and megacycle everyday.

-You strap a jet engine to your cat's back and see if it can run at 200km/h

-You have positioned your BW figures to replicate a scene that happened in the series. The scene is altered every day when you get up in the morning.

-You blame wild bean vines every time you hear about an earthquake.

-The aforementioned neighbours cat has successfully proven that there are other cats that land on their head.

-You no longer try to catch yourself when you feel the urge to say "Oh, for bootin up cold!" in a crowd.

-Just as your parents do with JFK, you remember where you were the day Dinobot died.

-If whenever someone does something like help someone up or open a door for someone, you hum a noble fanfare

-If you walk around laughing insanely for no given reason

-You need to terrorize people to feed your life-force

-If the line's busy, you go "slag, energon interfearance!"

-You attempt to educate chimpanzees in hoping they can help you build a disruptor ray

-You replace all S's with 3 Z's

-When you pass gas, you claim that your Transmetal bod's been soaking up too much energon

-You brush your fingernails with a toothbrush and talk to it while scheming

-While falling from the stairs, you yell "jets, maximum burn!"

-Have used most of the following in conversation:

            "FOR BOOTING UP COLD"

            "SLAG"

            "WELL THATS JUST PRIME"

            "BURRRRRNNN TRAITOR BUURRRRNNNNNN"

            "CONSIDERING OUR PROXIMITY I BREATH THROUGH MY MOUTH"

            "WHY YOU HATE WAZZZPINATOR"

            "GREAT NOW WE CAN BE REDUCED TO HOT BURNING SLAG TOGETHER"

-When you get in your car you yell "JETS MAXIMUM BURN" and how about

            "Yyeeeeeeeyaaaaaaaa!!!!!!"

-If you've ever written a fanfic purposely to have Terrorsaur or Quickstrike get the slag beaten out of them.

-If you've speculated on what Blackarachnia's measurements might be.

-If you bought the entire set of the TM2 toys with the original "II" packaging.

-If you've ever paid more than $60 for a BW toy at Kmart.

-If you've ever wondered if BW chars ever have to go to the "bathroom", and if they did, what orifice would it be expelled from?

-If you got fired from your job for saying "Yes, My Queen!" to your boss.

-If you performed ceremonial last rites for your toys when the character was killed off in the show.

-If you're a guy and you've ever fantasized about BlackArachnia

-If you think that, from behind, Rhinox looks like he's wearing a skirt.

-If you peed yourself when Ravage made that trademark transforming sound in "The Agenda".

-If you watch other shows like "Dragonball Z", "Extreme Dinosaurs", "Mummies Alive", and even "The Wacky World of Tex Avery" because certain members of the BW cast are featured on those shows.

-If you've ever defended a weak episode. (Of course, if you were truly obsessed, you wouldn't think any ep was weak)

-If you've ever wondered how BW TFs "do it".

-If you tape episodes only in SP mode

-If you've taped each episode more than once.

-If you've cursed anyone out for interupting you during a new episode

-If you immediately purchased a copy of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" after you watched the episode "Maximal No More".

-If you're in your late 20's and you bought the Beast Wars puzzles.

-If you ever complained to someone that you couldn't get out of bed because you were in "stasis lock"

-If you got the joke when Silverbolt told Blackarachnia that she reminded him of "Venus".

-If you've ever pondered what it would look like if Silverbolt and Blackarachnia had sex.

-If you wondered what their kids would look like.

-If you set your alarm for 6:30 a.m. ...on a Saturday morning.

-If, deep down, you really can't stand Waspinator's voice.

-If you've ever visualized Megatron in a tuxedo.

-If the term "obsessive-compulsive" ever comes up in a conversation, and everyone immediately turns to look at you.

-If you quote at will the original airdates of any particular episode.

-If you melted down one of your toys and injected yourself intravenously with the molten plastic because watching the show just "wasn't enough".

-If you ever wrote lyrics for the Beast Wars music theme.

-If you've ever wondered what their Cybertronian names were.

-If you dream in CGI

-The only sounds you download are Beast Wars.

-Your windows desktop is a BW theme.

-You've built a shrine in the corner of your room dedicated to your fav. character.

-You watch an episode on TV and then run to get your videos out cause you just can't get enough.

-Your computer wallpaper features Waspinator's big mug on it...

-You have the dangerous urge to steal the BW display banner from your local TRU...

-You have a strange urge to get up way too early on a Sunday and watch other CG shows like War plannet and Voltron... 

-When you don't find Dinobot in the stores and yells: ''he lived a warrior died a hero''

-when you find waspinator in yer dog mouth and truing to fix im' up and yells ''oooh sure dont mind wasspinator, wasspinator just lays here and suffer...''

-When you yell at the sailor moon to maximize

-When you're terrorizing your fishes with rampage and saying to your goldfish: ''You're trickier than before, III like that!''

-You look at lawn mowers and tractors and wonder what their beast modes look like.

-Your wife won't let you barbeque because you always BUURRRNNN the food.

 -You pick your cat up, yell "Jets! Maximum burn" and throw her off the top of the stairs to see if she'll sprout jets and fly.

-If you created your own line of Beast Wars PEZ Dispensers.

-If you've ever looked in a dictionary to see if any of their names were listed.

-If someone walked in on you in the bathroom and caught you with a picture of Blackarachnia.

-If you wondered how Transmetal Megatron could pick up anything in Beast Mode without opposable thumbs.

-If you've ever wondered if Quickstrike sheds.

-If you've ever searched for hidden meaning in an episode.

-People on the street say to you: "Nice Wasp costume, but isn't it early for Halloween?"

-Whenever you hear of a crashed piece of space debris, you rush out to see if its a stasis pod.

-Your diary is written as if you were a character from BW.

-You make pilgrimages to Stone Henge in hopes of contacting the Vok.

-You go to all the Toy stores with a permanent marker and scribble over the word "Transformers" on all of the Animorphs toys so Beast Wars and Transformers don't get a bad name.

-When you try to make you everyone, including parents, classmate to watch BW with you.

-When Having BW characters appearing in your dreams

-Having BW quotes in your school projects

-Looking for some group of people that worship wasp or bee. 

-You dream about Beast Wars

-Any threats consists of "YOU SHALL BURN!!!"

-You've put BW toys on your Holiday/Birthday wish list.

-While getting dressed in the morning, you find a Predacon or Maximal faction symbol tattoo on your arm. 

-You light a candle every night in memory of all the 'bots who died in the Beast Wars. [Preds or Maxies, your choice] 

-If you have every single episode on tape

-If you've ever shouted at the T.V. while watching Code of Hero when DB overrides the stasis lock, "Just go into stasis lock, GO INTO STASIS LOCK!"    

-You know you're addicted when you're having a conversation with friends about BW and another joins in and doesn't know what you're talking about... and you think HE'S the loser. 

-You spend most of you free time on the net looking for new Beast Wars stuff.

 -You still laugh at every joke involving Waspinator as if you have seen it for the first time.

-When you re-watch "The Agenda series" on tape you are still shocked when you see Megatron blast Optimus Prime in "The Agenda part 3" 

-You are considering naming your first born son after your favourite character.

-You make a rough star map of our galaxy and point out a place where Cybertron could exist. 

-You wonder what it would be like to hang out with Rattrap.

-You call your room the Axalon and your little brother's room whatever the Predacon ship is. 

-For College Graduation you asked for BW Toys from your shocked parents.

-Your computer's sound events are all from Beast Wars, for example: Start and End windows is Megatron saying "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end".

-You get more excited watching BW than porno

-You've tried to find out who the voice actors were for the BW Computers! So you could potentially hire them to get even more computer sound event wavs.

-If you firmly believe all Animorphs toys are a disgrace to the line of transformers, though they don't really transform, Hasbro just named them that.

-If you talk to your Beast Wars toys and carry out full conversations with them.......  

-When your mum brings out cooked chicken for dinner, you run to your room in tears, screaming,  "Oh my God, you roasted AirRazor!"  or something along the lines of it being AirRazors mum/dad/cousin/great uncle Bob, etc    

-You know more about the toys than people who actually have them.    

-If you're a fanfic writer and you've rewritten an episode of BW to make it fit into your series.

-If you're a fanfic writer and you've come up with more than half a dozen different continuities for the series

-If you're a fanfic writer

-If, in choosing your college, you made damn sure that you'd be able to get BW there.

-If you've ever called home at seven am on a weekend to remind your brother to record this morning's episode.

-If you've ever burst out laughing in a public place because you just got the funniest idea/mental image from BW. {Tarantulas in lederhosen doing Riverdance!!}

-You ever make sound effects when you transform your toys

-You have enough toys to have a beast war in one faction's base

-You can recite any BW episode beginning to end from memory

-Instead of giving your cat cat food you give it cube shaped crystals. 

-When you've fought with a little kid for the last TM2 Cheetor at the store

-When you've had an argument with anyone over why Beast Wars is NOT a five-year olds cartoon, and used the words "characterization" "plot development" or "denouement"

-When you're known around work/school as "the guy who plays with toys" 

-Write a state assessment persuasive paper about Dinobot being on a stamp

-Instead of stealing candy from babies you steal their bw toys! 

-If you go to the funeral of a friend/family member and you recite Dinobot's last words for the person, but in third person point-of-view... (...tell his story to those who ask...) 

-You know who every transformer in the show is and how many forms they had.

-You can recite 1+ episodes of BW by heart

-You always call QS+I+W the Three Stooges 

-You accidentally find yourself calling tarantulas, cheetahs, and pterodactyls Tarantulus', Cheetors, and Terrosaurs.

-After watching the final episodes of BW, you took your toys, some black cloth, and dead roses and made a shrine to the characters who died.

-When you go to the store and don't have enough money to get the toy you want, you go and hide it in the book area in the store and hope no one finds it because it was the last one.

-You put a rare one back and bought a common one from the TV show

-You write a story for the teacher and it is about Beast Wars and you get an A+.

-If you ever superimpose an episode of Beast Wars onto normal, boring life (ie As you walk to the bus stop you pretend that Optimus/Megatron's sent you out on a scouting mission) However, if you try to attack the bus driver believing they are the enemy, you are getting a bit carried away.

-If you’ve ever had the strange mental image of Megatron singing, “Rubber Duckie”

 

Thank to…

- This list originates from the Axalon Underground Forums at http://beasties.gagames.com. When it was passed onto me, the voices demanded I put it up! So who am I to argue?