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  • Fountain of Memes: Hot Shot's absurd dialogue is the source of many memes, usually applied to other iterations of the character. It's nearly impossible to discuss Hot Shot without jam or his shoulders hurting being brought up, and helicopter Transformers were frequently called "jam coptors" in the early 2000s as a by-product of his nickname for the helicopter Mini-con Jolt.
    • In fact, it became an Ascended Meme on one of Hot Shot's toys, where his bumper sticker said "JAAM" and the accompaning bio claiming that nobody knew exactly what "JAAM" was or why Hot Shot was so obsessed with it, but that other Autobots theorized that it was some sort of mysterious alternative fuel source.
    • In Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy, Hot Shot lets out a cry of "Jaaaaaaaaam!" after he's pulled out of a vat of goop.
    • The original pack-in comic was also included in a Thirtieth Anniversary Collection as the sole Unicron Trilogy comic simply because it was really well known.

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