Thief In The Night

Episode Name: Thief In The Night
Series: The Transformers (classic, 1986), Season 3
Rating: Three and a Half Spaceships

Mission Briefing:
Trypticon has gone missing, beyond Autobot sight. He is in the African country of Carbomya, where Octane has tricked him to coming. Octane wishes to use Trypticon for his plans of taking over the Decepticons. But when the ruler of Carbomya threatens to kick the two Decepticons out, Octane knows he's going to have to pay a rent...
Trypticon starts stealing famous buildings from all over the world in the night, but without leaving a trace. The Autobots try and solve this mystery, but things are getting worse all the time...

Mission Report:
Not one of my favorites, but it wasn't bad either. The story wasn't too bad, though there were some glitches. For one thing, it was so obvious that Trypticon was the thief! He's the only dino big enough to steal those monuments! Yet the Autobots had to figure out tracing Energon Cubes left behind at the Fort Knox scene to figure it out! Yeesh! And then when, using Grimlock's words, "Whole Earth think Autobots building-snatchers!"... that was not a fave moment, though I liked how even the simple Grimlock saw that.
This show also includes an amusing Trypticon line I like. Octane is trying to get Galvatron to drink the Super-Energon Cubes (G's the one to call them "Super-Energon"), Trypticon encourages him to by saying, "Drink! Drink... and crush!" I don't know why, but the "crush" part is amusing. You've got to remember that Trypticon is basically a giant simple Decepti-Dino.
Anyway, this is not one of my favorite episodes, but it wasn't too bad either.

Added Note:
This episode starts a trend that annoys me. It turns out that Season 3 is not in chronological order! Most episodes it doesn't matter, but this is one of a couple where it's pretty clear that these stories are not in order. During the last two Seasons, they were, or it just didn't need to be, but not so much during this one. This is actually the episode where we see why Galvatron is hunting Octane in Starscream's Ghost. There are a few more episodes like this. Most of the time, the fact that these don't need to be in chronological order (though all are after the five-parter) is very clear, but it stills annoys me to know this fact.