Decepticons just have horrible P.R. if they called them lovicons or Savicons you would love them and be fooled to. Seriously though I was suprised the Decepticons attacked everytime.
@@Nomad958 This episode was made during our attack on Libyan terrorists at the time and one of its characters Abdul Fakkadi was meant to be a play on real life leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was the leader of Libya (also being part of the Libyan Communist Party) at the time. The only problem is that this was done in the shittiest ways possible, with Fakkadi being infamously portrayed as an “evil Arab”. Due to this, along with the other stereotypes, notably “Carbombya”, Casey Kasem, Cliffjumper’s original VA ended up leaving the series as a result. It also didn’t help that Casey was Lebanese descent, which is another reason why he left the series. He also made an article in 1990 detailing this and the consequences of Stereotypes of Middle Easterners
Just how big is Tripticon supposed to be? One moment he can walk over skyscrapers like they were toys, and another moment he's "just" as big as Devastator.
How deliciously ironic that Octane’s ambition to lead the Decepticons eventually leads him to another Decepticon who plotted the overthrow of Megatron! 😆
@@JoseBronxRican Maybe, since Hasbro wanted to sell figures on the shelves at that exact time the episode aired, and Octane landed after Blitzwing and Astrotrain. 🤔
Thankfully Fort Knox,The Taj Mahal and the Kremlin don't have any plumbing,electrical wiring or anything connected to the ground or this could have been completely disastrous.
Yep. The show decided to make a fictional nation based on Libyan terrorists of the time, without making a positive counterpart to balance things out. Never mind the twins from Revenge of the Fallen, imagine the flak the show would get if it pulled this stunt today.
Although for what it's worth, he'd probably would have been let go since his characters were being phased out at this point. I mean we'd get what, 1 maybe 2 episodes with Cliffjumper and Bluestreak, IF we're lucky?
@@StarFighters76 blue streak was written out Hasbro gave him the axe in a script that gave the writers permission to kill off all the 84 autobots cast except jazz, bumblebee, and cliffjumper Plus the dinobots
tell me i'm not the only one who thinks that that general is an absolute idiot, he's ordering a decepticon kaiju to leave. Trypticon can easily flatten his domain without a problem.
@@kirongauff4934 I can't believe Metroplex managed to carry Trypticon around like that, they are literally the same size, heck, I would argue that Trypticon is heavier
Well to his credit, he mostly right about Trypticon's consumpstion of their oil, wihch was propably a part of their nation's economy. So if Trypicon ate more than he could chew, the people of the Carbombya would've suffered a massive economic deadlock and suffer. Too bad, he was easility maniplated by Octane, taking advantage of Abdul's greed and exploting it for his own benefit. Greed is the death of judgement and it nearly cost Abdul his country and his rule.
@@kdrapertrucker "Depressingly accurate" in what way, exactly? Defining an entire ethnic group by the actions of a tiny, tiny minority, and using terrorism as a cheap joke in a children's cartoon, is pretty miserable by any standards.
@@SuperMookles Meh... it's not really as bad as all that. Hardly an 'entire' ethnic group... one fictional country as opposed to the option of using a real one, which would've made it worse, I think. It's more ridiculous than offensive.
Trypticon rules!!! He's my favorite Decepticon titan in the G1 cartoon's third season, transforms into a Decepticon city mode, a battle station mode and a reptilian mode. Unlike Metroplex, he is the only titan capable of space flight as seen in the episodes "Ghost In The Machine" and "Call Of The Primitives". In the original G1 toy, it includes Brunt and Full-Tilt. Brunt is a multi component which transform into a tank drone and building components can be attached for his city/battle station modes. Full-Tilt transform into a robot and a futuristic style car mode, in car mode, it can be attached to Trypticon's reptilian mode chest and can also be launched down the ramp in city mode. It's battery powered it can walk by itself, workable lights, radars and weapons on all reptilian/city/battle station mode functions.
@@disneyboy3030 GOOD! I’d rather have the Kingdom of Car-bomb-ia & Abdul Fagadi than Casey Kasem anyday..Good riddance!! Way more ppl remember the original Transformers than him anyways! Bye felicia!! 👋
The US is the highest producer of barrels of crude oil today, at about 14 million per day. That means that Trypticon was probably tanking between 1/3 to 1/2 of whatever this African oil rich state was producing, if they were an absolutely massive producer.
The Autobot and Decepticon transition screen had a longer stretch to it than most of the other episodes. The only other one I remember that had this was "Only Human."
But he’s stuck in the background and doesn’t get to speak anymore His cassettes barely appear unless they decide to put rumble in as a background con who’s completely midsized
@@dennismcdonald2607… I’d rather have the Kingdom of Car-bomb-ia & Abdul Fagadi than Casey Kasem anyday..Good riddance!! Way more ppl remember the original Transformers than him anyways! Bye felicia!! 👋
10:30 *Octane* : _says giving a dictator a new palace_ *Scene turns to Taj Mahal of Agra in state of Uttar Pradesh* (man, I am an indian, and I would always get excited when ever anything related to my country India 🇮🇳) *Me* : _TRIGGRED_
At the time I’d heard his stand-up comedy but wasn’t aware he was also a voice actor; it’d be funny to he hear his stand-up material in a Trypticon voice :-)
So this is the episode that led up to Octane defecting from the Decepticons. Still, it's pretty nice the Aerialbots get plenty of screentime. Strange the Protectobots still don't get much mention.
@@StarFighters76the protectobots best episode was ultimate weapon but they seemed to be quite boring First aid was too passive , ratchet had more balls
The defector in the original script of "Starscream's Ghost" was supposed to be Blitzwing (Following the events of "Five Faces of Darkness part 5"), but Hasbro demanded for him to be replaced by Octane just because he was a brand new toy on the shelves back then. Such decision based only on marketing made Octane's sudden defection making no sense at all.
@@COMBOY He stole Trypticon to try to seize power for himself and Galvatron was annoyed. After the clusterfck that was Triple Takeover, this is on brand for the Decepticons. Octane also didn't really defect. He was just on the run and Sandstorm was nice enough to help him out. The other Autobots were also more than happy to scheme with Starscream's ghost to dogpile Galvatron.
Shouldn't this episode be placed before Starscream's Ghost in the playlist? Octain did say he was exciled from the decpticons because he tried to gain more power than Galvatron and because he stole Tripticon
@@disneyboy3030 first, it's Scramble City: Mobilization. Second, I've decided not to include it because it doesn't really add much except some continuity headaches. Also there's no official upload right now.
I used to have an old toy catalog from the 80s that showed Octane along side Blitz Wing and Astro Train. So the toys were released at the same time but Octane doesn’t appear until season 3. I still have the Octane toy and was glad he finally appeared on the show.
How was the toy? Did he transform well or was he all “clunky” when in robot mode. I had stopped watching transformers after episode 5 of season 3…. I hated it. I’m watching here on RUclips, and I still hate it but I’m trying to finish it. But Octane looks pretty cool
The toy is pretty clunky. His hips don’t move his knees don’t move independently and has visible arms in both truck and plane mode. He looks way cooler in the show.
And he has a couple of removable parts that don’t go anywhere when he’s transformed. There’s a cover for the fuel tank that’s only used in truck mode but he does have a tail fin from plane that turns into a shield when he’s a robot witch is cool.
@@urtgoufhgho I’ve never seen the toy and I stopped watching transformers after episode 6 or 7 season 3. (Not a fan since after the movie) so I never saw this guy. He looked cool in the cartoon that’s for sure
The one thing I don’t like about this episode is that the entire world jumped to conclusions thinking the Autobots stole Worldwide Landmarks. Stupid humans. It is so frustrating.
Years later, a resistance movement of various groups formed and managed to overthrow the repressive Fakkadi regime. Things later went sideways when Fakkadi was killed en route to his trial and the new regime split into three warring factions due to in-fighting. Intelligence agents on the field reported the crisis was fomented by the possible involvement of a Scottish arms manufacturing company, a financial organization owned by Corsican twin brother business magnates, and the notorious international terrorist known as Old Snake. (Cold Slither starts playing...)
Thief In The Night is not one of my favourite Transformers episodes from season 3 and not of the show's standouts but i thought it was a great introduction for Octane and a cool set up for Starscream's Ghost where he was exiled from the Decepticons after trying to take control of Trypticon which he referred to during a conversation with Sandstorm. I loved the little nice bit of continuity from season 2 where they mentioned Dinobot Island
People complain about Michael bay decepticons being weak, but c'mon the original decepticons almost got kicked by muammar Gaddafi riding a camel out of all people.
This episode will forever be the biggest stain on G1’s legacy; the fact that this episode was controversial even by 1980s standards speaks volumes as to how poorly-done the whole thing was. I’m surprised they uploaded this one in the first place, considering this was the episode that made Casey Kasem pissed off enough to quit the show.
@@honigdachs. Kids didn't need to understand it for people to get upset about this episode. Casey Kasem, who had a VERY long run as a voice actor for this series, quit the show in disgust because of this episode. Is something like that worth it?
@@dreadfury2485 Some people apparently thought it was really necessary to insert some completely irrelevant political commentary into something it has no business being in. This stuff happens time and again - in today's socio-political climate probably even more. These people don't make any sense. They obviously allow themselves to be way too occupied by whatever BS is on their mind, otherwise they wouldn't feel compelled to project it into things like kids cartoons where the audience doesn't even know what the hell it's supposed to mean. Of course, not even considering that it might negatively affect others involved in the project shows an extra layer of ignorance.
That "history lesson" at the end is very wrong. You'd think being only a few months from The Movie, the writers might have remembered their own storyline...
"We are now at the African nation of Car-bomb-ia. A desert country." I'm thinking its a probably a Muslim country. This whole series is laced with comedic gold. I still keep coming back to watch this.
I always found it weird that he’s a triple-changer who’s alt-modes are a jet and…an aircraft carrier? Why not vehicles of comparable sizes, or why not have just the aircraft carrier as his only alt-mode?
@@darwinxavier3516 - What I mean is, why a jet and a vehicle designed to carry an entire fleet of jets? Like the OP said, I think it would’ve made more sense for him to be a jet and a submarine.
The infamous episode that was apparently so racist that it made Casey Kasem quit the show. The Middle Eastern region was called Carbombya (Car-bomb-you), which was extremely distasteful because the Soviet/Afghanistan war was still happening at the time.
The Transformers Generation 1: Episode, "A Thief In the Night"! This Is the Transformers Generation 1 Episode were Voice Actor: Casey Kasem, decided to quit voice acting for the Transfomers Generation 1: Cartoon. (1984-1987) Voice Actor: Casey Kasem Is of Lebanese Decent and he thought the Transformers G1 episode, "A Thief In the Night" was offensive to Arab Americans or people of Arab descent. Casey Kasem Is also famous In the Music World ! Casey Kasem was the host of America's Top 40 TV show In the 1980's ! Lebanese Descent are people who are of Arab American or of Arab Descent. Another word for Lebanese Is Middle Eastern.
17:32 Didn't Galvatron already have the strength and Firepower to overpower that douchey, president King guy before that super Energon stuff? You know like smash him into a flesh puddle or like vaporize him off the face of the Earth 🌎?
And this is the episode that made Casey Kasem leave the show. Yup, Shaggy Rogers hated this episode so much, he straight up bailed, leaving Cliffjumper to fade into obscurity.
@@chrisedwards3214 Indeed, as Hasbro has already phased out the characters from the first two seasons to focus on Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, and the Autobots and Deceptions introduced in the animated movie, as they want to sell toys of those characters.
Strange how people who literally have a seizure if they see a person of colour or gay character on screen always accuse 'the woke' of being easily triggered
@@Jetblast01 , yeah but Pipes wasnt in it much...like 2 episodes( of the 30 of season 3) very briefly w only a couple of lines. if u blinked you would have missed him.
Only the original season 1 bots were on the chopping block. They were all supposed to be canonically dead except for the ones that survived the moonbases, according to some sources for the author's intent. Too bad for them author's intent don't mean jackfukinsquat if you only SHOW about 7 of them dying in the movie.
Since Trypticon is so crude in this show. It would be funny if the guy who voices Peter Griffin did Trypticon's voice reading the script. A re dub episode
Ha, its cringe-inducing and dated but welcome to most of actual human history, not to mention everywhere but a very few places on the planet to this day.
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It's amazing that after 22 years (2006), humans are STILL deceived by Decepticon ploys and turned against the Autobots.
Decepticons just have horrible P.R. if they called them lovicons or Savicons you would love them and be fooled to. Seriously though I was suprised the Decepticons attacked everytime.
The cons knew the humans weaknesses greed they learned that the humans love material objects and money
not amazing but very very sad ! ....
people are dumb.
You’d think they’d get the message by now, lmao
"I swear to you on the grave of my mother's camel!"
That made me spit out my drink. Holy shit, dude...
😂😂
I still laugh-cringe at "I swear by the beard of the prophet!"
This whole episode is literally Godzilla stealing a lot of things
Indeed
Mechagodzilla
what if he's a tweakersaurus
More like a Gigantosaurus
Mecha Godzilla is what I would say
The hands coming out of the dark clouds at 15:49 are a nice touch!
had a GODZILLA feel to it
Damn Trypticon did more damage with octane than under galvatron's leadership
Sky Lynxx: “I am definitely NOT a Dinobot!”
Yep!
Autobots were like “y’all all look a like”
😱
He's part lynx and part dino.bird
I aggre
He's more like a terrorcon
Metroplex is like an Giant Autobot Sheriff giving you a warning to get the fucked off
Ah yes, that one episode that literally explained why Cliffjumper didn’t appear in Season 3 during the Post-G1 Movie era
why?
@@Nomad958 This episode was made during our attack on Libyan terrorists at the time and one of its characters Abdul Fakkadi was meant to be a play on real life leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was the leader of Libya (also being part of the Libyan Communist Party) at the time. The only problem is that this was done in the shittiest ways possible, with Fakkadi being infamously portrayed as an “evil Arab”. Due to this, along with the other stereotypes, notably “Carbombya”, Casey Kasem, Cliffjumper’s original VA ended up leaving the series as a result. It also didn’t help that Casey was Lebanese descent, which is another reason why he left the series.
He also made an article in 1990 detailing this and the consequences of Stereotypes of Middle Easterners
but lore wise what happened
@@jtsmith1817 but lore wise
@@Nomad958 no one knows
Just how big is Tripticon supposed to be? One moment he can walk over skyscrapers like they were toys, and another moment he's "just" as big as Devastator.
It is Transformers, size is meaningless hhaha.
Transformer has never been really consistent with it's character size in the cartoons.
@@tykamen5588 Yeah! But sometimes they are not even efforting at all.
He's *supposed* to be city-sized, as in, he was literally a human city that was modified in Five Faces of Darkness.
The old Transformers series always had size issues and editing errors, Season 3 is chalk full of them
How deliciously ironic that Octane’s ambition to lead the Decepticons eventually leads him to another Decepticon who plotted the overthrow of Megatron! 😆
I.e., Starscream.
does this episode take place before or after the ghost of starscream episode?
@@kalebcook7215 Before.
So was Octane's "ambition" invented because they couldn't use Blitzwing anymore?
@@JoseBronxRican Maybe, since Hasbro wanted to sell figures on the shelves at that exact time the episode aired, and Octane landed after Blitzwing and Astrotrain. 🤔
Thankfully Fort Knox,The Taj Mahal and the Kremlin don't have any plumbing,electrical wiring or anything connected to the ground or this could have been completely disastrous.
Yeah like a foundation
Carbombya - the reason Casey Kasem rolled out.
Yep. The show decided to make a fictional nation based on Libyan terrorists of the time, without making a positive counterpart to balance things out. Never mind the twins from Revenge of the Fallen, imagine the flak the show would get if it pulled this stunt today.
Although for what it's worth, he'd probably would have been let go since his characters were being phased out at this point. I mean we'd get what, 1 maybe 2 episodes with Cliffjumper and Bluestreak, IF we're lucky?
@@StarFighters76 blue streak was written out Hasbro gave him the axe in a script that gave the writers permission to kill off all the 84 autobots cast except jazz, bumblebee, and cliffjumper
Plus the dinobots
@@StarFighters76 sad teletran 1 was destroyed
You knew then the good old days was gone
@@MMTrigger Mudflap and his twin were offensive? I never thought that
3:32 Octane: I don't want you wearing yourself out Tryptibabes.😆 I liked Octane I had him when I was a lil kid.
Trypticon burping: how pleasant. 👏👏
“Such fine roosters you never did see”. Wow. Amazing script guys.
William Shakespeare: 👌
tell me i'm not the only one who thinks that that general is an absolute idiot, he's ordering a decepticon kaiju to leave. Trypticon can easily flatten his domain without a problem.
He was threatening to call the Autobots. If they showed up, it would be over for Octane's scheme.
@@dangerousdays2052 and another dip in the ocean for Trypticon if Metroplex showed up.🌊🌊
@@kirongauff4934 I can't believe Metroplex managed to carry Trypticon around like that, they are literally the same size, heck, I would argue that Trypticon is heavier
Well to his credit, he mostly right about Trypticon's consumpstion of their oil, wihch was propably a part of their nation's economy. So if Trypicon ate more than he could chew, the people of the Carbombya would've suffered a massive economic deadlock and suffer. Too bad, he was easility maniplated by Octane, taking advantage of Abdul's greed and exploting it for his own benefit. Greed is the death of judgement and it nearly cost Abdul his country and his rule.
I'm genuinely surprised that Hasbro re-released this episode without so much as an apology.
For what? Car bombia? That's funny and depressingly accurate.
@@kdrapertrucker "Depressingly accurate" in what way, exactly? Defining an entire ethnic group by the actions of a tiny, tiny minority, and using terrorism as a cheap joke in a children's cartoon, is pretty miserable by any standards.
@@kdrapertrucker Fun fact: Carbombia is why Cliffjumper's VA left the show.
@@SuperMookles Meh... it's not really as bad as all that. Hardly an 'entire' ethnic group... one fictional country as opposed to the option of using a real one, which would've made it worse, I think. It's more ridiculous than offensive.
@@SuperMookles sounds like a typical democrat move.
Trypticon rules!!! He's my favorite Decepticon titan in the G1 cartoon's third season, transforms into a Decepticon city mode, a battle station mode and a reptilian mode. Unlike Metroplex, he is the only titan capable of space flight as seen in the episodes "Ghost In The Machine" and "Call Of The Primitives". In the original G1 toy, it includes Brunt and Full-Tilt. Brunt is a multi component which transform into a tank drone and building components can be attached for his city/battle station modes. Full-Tilt transform into a robot and a futuristic style car mode, in car mode, it can be attached to Trypticon's reptilian mode chest and can also be launched down the ramp in city mode. It's battery powered it can walk by itself, workable lights, radars and weapons on all reptilian/city/battle station mode functions.
What this episode was trying to do was poke fun at Muammar Gaddafi, who was bombing US embassies at the time. They just did it very badly.
This caused Cassy Kassam to leave the show and his characters written out.
@@disneyboy3030 GOOD! I’d rather have the Kingdom of Car-bomb-ia & Abdul Fagadi than Casey Kasem anyday..Good riddance!! Way more ppl remember the original Transformers than him anyways! Bye felicia!! 👋
@@GoldenAgeSk8Video The idea of preferring a horribly racist display over one of the most accomplished voice actors in the industry nauseates me.
@@foxfireinferno197 I think they were trolling.
It's also ridiculous that no human heroes in it to warn the autobots.
The US is the highest producer of barrels of crude oil today, at about 14 million per day. That means that Trypticon was probably tanking between 1/3 to 1/2 of whatever this African oil rich state was producing, if they were an absolutely massive producer.
Hang on, wasn't he only getting 1,000 barrels a day?
@@SuperMookles 50,000 barrels per hour apparently. 1K barrels makes 1 energon cube, and he drinks 50 cubes per hour.
@@prince_thomas I missed that bit - that's pretty excessive!
I like the naval-sounding voice for Broadside
The grave of my mother's camel and my father's goat? In other words he promises nothing XD
OMG!! I saw this when I was a kid and now (35) I'm way too happy to have found this
2:50 “the African nation of ‘Carbombia’”
Oh I miss the 80’s 😂 just no regard at all 🤦
The Autobot and Decepticon transition screen had a longer stretch to it than most of the other episodes. The only other one I remember that had this was "Only Human."
Starscream's Ghost too
The commercial bumper is different as well
@@lambda494 yep. It definitely is.
@@lambda494 you're right. I'm sorry--I had forgotten about that episode.
I miss Soundwave, I hope he is doing okay.
Me too the decepticons aren't the same without him and starscream
But starscream got what he deserved 💀
@@FoxFireDesignsSoundwave was still around.
But he’s stuck in the background and doesn’t get to speak anymore
His cassettes barely appear unless they decide to put rumble in as a background con who’s completely midsized
@@jmurray1110he had a couple scenes where he talked and had a major role in carnage in c minor.
@@michaelbucher9001 yeah but that’s carnage in C minor
"Carbonia" sounds alot like "Car bomb ya" when Perceptor says it....
Hilarious xD always fun to watch some G1 Transformers
3:54 It is.
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so this the episode the Casey Kasam (voice od Shaggy Rogers, everybody favorite top 40 hits radio DJ and proud Arab) left Transformers!
Why tho? Was he offended by something?
Lol, The African nation of 'Car-bomb-ia' 🤣
@@dennismcdonald2607 dat kinda makes sense
Thanks for the info
@@dennismcdonald2607… I’d rather have the Kingdom of Car-bomb-ia & Abdul Fagadi than Casey Kasem anyday..Good riddance!! Way more ppl remember the original Transformers than him anyways! Bye felicia!! 👋
10:30 *Octane* : _says giving a dictator a new palace_
*Scene turns to Taj Mahal of Agra in state of Uttar Pradesh* (man, I am an indian, and I would always get excited when ever anything related to my country India 🇮🇳)
*Me* : _TRIGGRED_
I was surprised when I found out that Trypticon was voice by Brad Garrett AKA Robert from Everybody Loves Raymond.
At the time I’d heard his stand-up comedy but wasn’t aware he was also a voice actor; it’d be funny to he hear his stand-up material in a Trypticon voice :-)
He also voiced Lobo in Superman tas (the animated series).
@@wiglafsfilms8418 The Main Man.
@@wiglafsfilms8418and The pufferfish from finding Nemo
So this is the episode that led up to Octane defecting from the Decepticons. Still, it's pretty nice the Aerialbots get plenty of screentime. Strange the Protectobots still don't get much mention.
Protecto-what? ;)
Yes, I agree, they got shafted big time.
@@StarFighters76the protectobots best episode was ultimate weapon but they seemed to be quite boring
First aid was too passive , ratchet had more balls
The defector in the original script of "Starscream's Ghost" was supposed to be Blitzwing (Following the events of "Five Faces of Darkness part 5"), but Hasbro demanded for him to be replaced by Octane just because he was a brand new toy on the shelves back then. Such decision based only on marketing made Octane's sudden defection making no sense at all.
@@COMBOY He stole Trypticon to try to seize power for himself and Galvatron was annoyed. After the clusterfck that was Triple Takeover, this is on brand for the Decepticons. Octane also didn't really defect. He was just on the run and Sandstorm was nice enough to help him out. The other Autobots were also more than happy to scheme with Starscream's ghost to dogpile Galvatron.
Shouldn't this episode be placed before Starscream's Ghost in the playlist?
Octain did say he was exciled from the decpticons because he tried to gain more power than Galvatron and because he stole Tripticon
I've been making my own playlists to rectify this, and have episodes largely in production order unless there's clearly a different continuity order.
@@TokuWaffle I might have another episode for the Season 2 Playlist.
@@disneyboy3030 mind elaborating?
@@TokuWaffle I was thinking that it would be fun to include Scrabble City.
@@disneyboy3030 first, it's Scramble City: Mobilization.
Second, I've decided not to include it because it doesn't really add much except some continuity headaches. Also there's no official upload right now.
Carbombya City? Population 4000 People, 10,000 Camels? WTF?😂
I used to have an old toy catalog from the 80s that showed Octane along side Blitz Wing and Astro Train. So the toys were released at the same time but Octane doesn’t appear until season 3. I still have the Octane toy and was glad he finally appeared on the show.
How was the toy? Did he transform well or was he all “clunky” when in robot mode. I had stopped watching transformers after episode 5 of season 3…. I hated it. I’m watching here on RUclips, and I still hate it but I’m trying to finish it. But Octane looks pretty cool
The toy is pretty clunky. His hips don’t move his knees don’t move independently and has visible arms in both truck and plane mode. He looks way cooler in the show.
And he has a couple of removable parts that don’t go anywhere when he’s transformed. There’s a cover for the fuel tank that’s only used in truck mode but he does have a tail fin from plane that turns into a shield when he’s a robot witch is cool.
@@urtgoufhgho I’ve never seen the toy and I stopped watching transformers after episode 6 or 7 season 3. (Not a fan since after the movie) so I never saw this guy. He looked cool in the cartoon that’s for sure
16:30 One of the few times in the series when there was no background music
I hated the background music In the movie lol
The one thing I don’t like about this episode is that the entire world jumped to conclusions thinking the Autobots stole Worldwide Landmarks. Stupid humans. It is so frustrating.
i like how they mention "Dinobot Island" twice from season 2. a nice small bit of continuity there
18:09 “Autobots! Transform and….let ‘em have it!” That pause was too damn funny!
2:00 Holy shit! I never know there's a literally aircraft carrier transformers before!
Real abe shit
Years later, a resistance movement of various groups formed and managed to overthrow the repressive Fakkadi regime. Things later went sideways when Fakkadi was killed en route to his trial and the new regime split into three warring factions due to in-fighting. Intelligence agents on the field reported the crisis was fomented by the possible involvement of a Scottish arms manufacturing company, a financial organization owned by Corsican twin brother business magnates, and the notorious international terrorist known as Old Snake.
(Cold Slither starts playing...)
Funny how the Autobots blamed the dinobots despite the fact trypticon was alive
They themselves even brought up the exact problem with that theory. Trypticon being the only one big enough to even be capable of doing it
Swoop could have picked off some buildings and flew off
Sky lynx could have split up.and did the same thing
Imagine thinking the Soviet Union would exist in 2006 lol aged like milk
WELL The Concorde stopped flying by this point
Thief In The Night is not one of my favourite Transformers episodes from season 3 and not of the show's standouts but i thought it was a great introduction for Octane and a cool set up for Starscream's Ghost where he was exiled from the Decepticons after trying to take control of Trypticon which he referred to during a conversation with Sandstorm. I loved the little nice bit of continuity from season 2 where they mentioned Dinobot Island
People complain about Michael bay decepticons being weak, but c'mon the original decepticons almost got kicked by muammar Gaddafi riding a camel out of all people.
This episode will forever be the biggest stain on G1’s legacy; the fact that this episode was controversial even by 1980s standards speaks volumes as to how poorly-done the whole thing was.
I’m surprised they uploaded this one in the first place, considering this was the episode that made Casey Kasem pissed off enough to quit the show.
Yeah, this is really disgraceful. What were they thinking. As if kids understood any of that shit in the first place.
no one cares about casey kasem get over it
@@honigdachs. Kids didn't need to understand it for people to get upset about this episode.
Casey Kasem, who had a VERY long run as a voice actor for this series, quit the show in disgust because of this episode. Is something like that worth it?
@@dreadfury2485 Some people apparently thought it was really necessary to insert some completely irrelevant political commentary into something it has no business being in. This stuff happens time and again - in today's socio-political climate probably even more. These people don't make any sense. They obviously allow themselves to be way too occupied by whatever BS is on their mind, otherwise they wouldn't feel compelled to project it into things like kids cartoons where the audience doesn't even know what the hell it's supposed to mean. Of course, not even considering that it might negatively affect others involved in the project shows an extra layer of ignorance.
@@dreadfury2485 Casey Kasem was someone with a middle eastern background?
this is where Sasha Baron Cohen got his Inspiration for The Dictator
I mean they're both based on the same guy. Though in his old age he mellowed out andstopped sheltering quite so many terrorists.
This whole episode is a trip
That "history lesson" at the end is very wrong. You'd think being only a few months from The Movie, the writers might have remembered their own storyline...
Oh please, like they would let something like proper continuity stand in their way of telling a story :p
Trypticon must take HUGE dumps
9:01-1000 barrels makes one cube so he’s expecting Trypticon to survive on just one cube a day?
he'll starve; they'll both starve...
"We are now at the African nation of Car-bomb-ia. A desert country." I'm thinking its a probably a Muslim country. This whole series is laced with comedic gold. I still keep coming back to watch this.
Man they did Muammar Gaddafi dirty and the consequences of it is devastating to say the least.
Indeed
*Cough Cough* "Pan Am Flight 103" *Cough Cough*
They couldn't get Trypticon's size right. They keep showing him as about the size of Omega supreme.
1:43. Metroplex’s signature move. Throwing his enemies into the ocean to become fish. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
There would be riots if this was made today. Car - Bomb - ya, 'population: 4000 humans, 10'000 camels'.
🤣
Its f’d up! But funny
Along with the woman on the cruise having animated cleavage
I NEVER realized the name till now
they did make this, and it was called The Dictator starring Sascha Baron Cohen
16:50 me : * gets triggered and enraged on my government itself *
"Carbombya"
Car-bomb-ya
Car bomb...
Hasbro? What were you THINKING??!?!
Ya
That's what they were thinking 😭
Why so butt hurt, bro. It's definitely true for what it is.
@@LeonSKennedyRE2 I'll tell you what I'm butt-hurt about.
The dang Mouse God (Disney)
Didn't release the entire Goosebumps show.
Now I'm sad
Casey Kasem was right to leave over this episode.
Overall I wish Starscream was still around to challenge Galvatron. Been watching this cartoon since the 1980s love it
Broadside’s alt mode should’ve been a destroyer class warship or nuclear attack sub.
Instead it's a sloppy aircraft carrier...FOR ANTS. You can't even fit a Micromaster on it!
I always found it weird that he’s a triple-changer who’s alt-modes are a jet and…an aircraft carrier? Why not vehicles of comparable sizes, or why not have just the aircraft carrier as his only alt-mode?
@@shadowdramon01 The jet mode was huge too. Larger than Skylynx.
LOL, scale. >_
@@darwinxavier3516 - What I mean is, why a jet and a vehicle designed to carry an entire fleet of jets? Like the OP said, I think it would’ve made more sense for him to be a jet and a submarine.
The infamous episode that was apparently so racist that it made Casey Kasem quit the show. The Middle Eastern region was called Carbombya (Car-bomb-you), which was extremely distasteful because the Soviet/Afghanistan war was still happening at the time.
It was more about Libya in the mid-80s than Afghanistan.
no one cares. stop bringing your political bs into cartoons
Same .
Correction: The episode wasn't racist, Casey Kasem merely perceived it as racist.
Shouldn't this have come out before Starscream's Ghost since it's showing what Octane talked about?
Wrong order
a lot of season 3 is out of order chronologically. they are in release date order.
4:22 Carbombia really is the ideal vacation spot.
Sea Spray sounds like Merman from He-Man!
Last appearance of seaspray
A giant robot dinosaur capable of stealing an entire building? Better round up the dinobots and accuse them.
First and last appearance of six gun who was voiced by Maurice Lamarche
He also voiced Egon Spengler in the real ghostbusters
19:50 How does Metroplex travel from India to France carrying the buildings? Walk?
The Transformers Generation 1: Episode, "A Thief In the Night"! This Is the Transformers Generation 1 Episode were Voice Actor: Casey Kasem, decided to quit voice acting for the Transfomers Generation 1: Cartoon. (1984-1987) Voice Actor: Casey Kasem Is of Lebanese Decent and he thought the Transformers G1 episode, "A Thief In the Night" was offensive to Arab Americans or people of Arab descent. Casey Kasem Is also famous In the Music World ! Casey Kasem was the host of America's Top 40 TV show In the 1980's ! Lebanese Descent are people who are of Arab American or of Arab Descent. Another word for Lebanese Is Middle Eastern.
0:59 Galavatron's Ghost 😂😂
6:10 man has balls of Steel talking like that unarmed on the back of camel
17:32
Didn't Galvatron already have the strength and Firepower to overpower that douchey, president King guy before that super Energon stuff? You know like smash him into a flesh puddle or like vaporize him off the face of the Earth 🌎?
Tripticon was probably fighting Godzilla during his absence
It would take all the gold in the USA to persuade me to let you stay here another day
(LUCKILY THE USA KEEPS ALL ITS GOLD IN ONE BUILDING!!!???)
I am glad I watched this before Starscream’s Ghost 👻, at the same time not.
Octane transforms into a “ jumbo jet” or airliner and flys through a building
ha, ironic
Show writers aren't fortune tellers, friend
And this was uploaded on the 20 year anniversary of 9/11, 09/11/2021.
Always makes me wonder how people can go on cruises and take trips; when Deception and Autobot fights are always going on!
20:11
I guess they were trying to remind the audience who and what the Decepticons were?
And this is the episode that made Casey Kasem leave the show. Yup, Shaggy Rogers hated this episode so much, he straight up bailed, leaving Cliffjumper to fade into obscurity.
I think CJ was gonna fade anyway whether Casey stayed or not
@@chrisedwards3214 Indeed, as Hasbro has already phased out the characters from the first two seasons to focus on Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, and the Autobots and Deceptions introduced in the animated movie, as they want to sell toys of those characters.
Skylinx (about the Dinobots): Don't put me with them I'm not with them
Teletraan II sounds a lot like KITT from the Knight Rider.
Lol, Island nation of Carbombia. Awesome
chuckle chuckle
9:20
Seriously? Octane just left all those energon? Some thief in the night.
Trypticon can't swim that's his weakness
I'm surprised hasbro posted this. Seeing as they don't want to be reminded of skids and mudflap I thought this would be a big no no
Basically that is Libya and gaddafi ruled it. I love the fake names though haha
The fact that they called the country that is offensive yet borderline holy crap funny
How comical! 🤣🤣🤣
One of the best g1 episodes due to how triggered thewoke get
Strange how people who literally have a seizure if they see a person of colour or gay character on screen always accuse 'the woke' of being easily triggered
This is the only Season 3 episode that has Seaspray in it. Glad he survived the carnage of the Movie...Most didnt.😔
We lost Huffer, but we got Pipes, who is a breath of fresh air really.
@@Jetblast01 , yeah but Pipes wasnt in it much...like 2 episodes( of the 30 of season 3) very briefly w only a couple of lines. if u blinked you would have missed him.
Seaspray and Beachcomber were the coolest of the mini autobots.
@@PeterG1975 , too bad they werent in hardly any episodes of season 3. they got the boot
Only the original season 1 bots were on the chopping block. They were all supposed to be canonically dead except for the ones that survived the moonbases, according to some sources for the author's intent. Too bad for them author's intent don't mean jackfukinsquat if you only SHOW about 7 of them dying in the movie.
The Nation of Car-bombia.........I love the lack of tact and truth in description.
Since Trypticon is so crude in this show. It would be funny if the guy who voices Peter Griffin did Trypticon's voice reading the script. A re dub episode
Typical Galvatron, only interested on something that powers him up. Its not wrong tho.
Oh dear, the OTHER worst episode of G1 that was so horribly offensive it made Casey Kasem quit the show.
Ha, its cringe-inducing and dated but welcome to most of actual human history, not to mention everywhere but a very few places on the planet to this day.
I'm genuinely surprised Hasbro's airing this one, particularly given the debacle in Afghanistan.
@@Balt21Raven Casey Kasem is a proud arab!
I'm not offended one bit.
@@triggerhappyreviews maybe not for a white person but for Casey Kasem who is a proud Arabian and hates negatives stereotypes!
6:04
Damn, I really just hate that guy. Give me Decepticons any day over him.
wasn't this supposed to be before Ghost of Starscream?
what a cute pair, octane and tripticon
7:49 God I hope those soldiers were OK
03:03 I think they didn’t dare to say “line of death” back then otherwise it’ll be related to real world events in Libya at the time.
Trypticon........CUTE!!!!!!