Carjacked!

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"Carjacked!"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	June 23, 2015 (uploaded to YouTube)
Animation studio	Polygon Pictures
Watch this episode on YouTube

One car thief's incredibly bad night.

Synopsis

It is nighttime on the streets of Crown City. A car-stealing ne'er-do-well tries to open some cars before sighting a rather nice-looking sports car with the windows open. When the thief tries to start the ignition, he gets electrified as the force of the door opening pushes him back.

Later, the thief has the gall to try his luck with a stationary police truck. After he opens the door, it suddenly snaps into his right hand as the truck drags him along, sirens and lights blaring. After getting a cast on the affected hand, the thief comes back to try to pinch an exotic car. After getting in, the car buckles up the thief and sends him on a fast ride, which includes being driven upside down under a bridge and getting thrown out.

The thief then gets a cast and crutch for his right foot, yet does not give up. He manages to find a normal compact car and gets in, only to have it get eaten by Underbite. After falling out of the compact just before Underbite is done, the thief waves the symbolic white flag of defeat.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Bumblebee (2) Strongarm (3) Sideswipe (4)	Underbite (5)	Car thief (1)

Notes

Transformers references

• The last car the thief tried to steal uses the same model as Clampdown's vehicle mode.
  • Coincidentally, the car's color scheme appears close to Clawtrap's.

Trivia

• Clearly the "don't harm humans" principle doesn't count when the human is trying to jack you.
• On the Shout! Factory Season One DVD release, this short is included as the final short, slightly out-of-sequence compared to the original release of the other ten shorts.

Foreign localization

• This short was originally released on Hasbro's Transformers website.

Home video releases

All releases listed are in English audio unless otherwise noted.

DVD

2016 — Transformers Robots in Disguise — Season One (Shout! Factory)