5.2/10145 votesLoading...#1 - Carnage in C-Minor
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 10/13/1986
The Autobots and Decepticons find that the voices of three aliens (Allegra, Zebop Scandana and Basso Profundo) can make a powerful weapon.
Director: N/A
Writer: Buzz Dixon
5.7/10147 votesLoading...#2 - B.O.T.
Season 2 Episode 49 - Aired 1/8/1986
During a battle, the Protectobots finish off the Combaticons, with the exception of Swindle. Megatron orders Swindle to reconstruct his destroyed comrades or else a bomb in his head will go off, destroying him. As Swindle works to complete this task in time, three students get a hold of Brawl's personality component and use it for their science project, B.O.T., with disastrous results.
Director: N/A
Writer: Earl Kress
6.0/10123 votesLoading...#3 - Nightmare Planet
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 10/30/1986
Daniel's nightmare troubles get a lot worse when the Quintessons make them real. Autobots and Predacons are forced to join forces in order to fight these nightmares.
Director: N/A
Writer: Beth Bornstein
6.1/10122 votesLoading...#4 - Surprise Party
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 10/8/1986
Wheelie and Daniel want to have a party for Ultra Magnus after a recent good deed of his. However, Ultra Magnus' birthday is unknown, even to him. Wheelie and Daniel try to find out the answer from Autobot records. Unfortunately for them, Cyclonus decides to intervene.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Mitchell, Barbara Petty
6.1/10113 votesLoading...#5 - The Face of Nijika
Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 11/19/1986
A group of Autobots, Cyclonus and Quintessons become trapped within a Quadrant Lock Disc that has also kept the planet Zimojin and it's inhabitants trapped for thousands of years. To get out the Quintessons need a component belonging to Perceptor, but he has several parts taken out which are used by Katsudan to make repairs on a robot. Now in the small form, Perceptor learns the Zimojins were trapped there by the Quintessons out of fear.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mary Skrenes, Steve Skeates
6.2/10122 votesLoading...#6 - Thief in the Night
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 10/5/1986
Octane locates the defeated Trypticon and brings him to Carbombya. There, they follow orders from Fakhaddi in order to get energon. They begin stealing landmarks around the world for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Paul Davids
6.3/10148 votesLoading...#7 - Child's Play
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 11/6/1985
The space bridge accidentally sends several Autobots and Decepticons to a strange world in which they are no bigger than toys.
Director: N/A
Writer: Beth Bornstein
6.3/10138 votesLoading...#8 - Kremzeek!
Season 2 Episode 46 - Aired 12/26/1985
A creature made out of energy, Kremzeek, gets made and causes trouble for the Autobots, Decepticons and Japan.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
6.4/10112 votesLoading...#9 - Money Is Everything
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 11/16/1986
Marissa Fairborne and the Technobots encounter Dirk Mannis, who possesses the dangerous Recreator. Turns out the Quintessons want the Recreator for themselves and Dirk is happy to give it to them so long as he gets paid. Marissa and the Technobots get tangled into the resulting betrayals and scheming.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gerry Conway, Carla Conway
6.5/10112 votesLoading...#10 - The Quintesson Journal
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 11/10/1986
Two planets are locked in a destructive war and the Autobots attempt to bring about peace. Things do not go so well, however, until a Quintesson Journal is found and provides evidence of Quintesson involvement in the war.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Merwin
6.6/10183 votesLoading...#11 - Autobot Spike
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1985
Spike is severely hurt during a battle. His mind is placed into Sparkplug's recent creation, Autobot X, until his body can be saved by an operation. But the Autobot X body was unstable to begin with and Spike soon ends up betraying his friends.
Director: N/A
Writer: Donald F. Glut
6.6/10135 votesLoading...#12 - Auto-Bop
Season 2 Episode 33 - Aired 11/12/1985
Innocent people fall under Megatron's control through music being played at a club.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
6.6/10149 votesLoading...#13 - The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 11/17/1985
The Decepticons are trying to learn the secret surrounding a man's invention and go after his teenage daughter. Powerglide intervenes to rescue her, but this causes her to fall in love with him.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
6.6/10125 votesLoading...#14 - Hoist Goes Hollywood
Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 11/20/1985
Hoist gets a big break into show business after rescuing stuntmen. Sunstreaker, Powerglide, Warpath and Tracks are along for the ride as well. On the road to a movie career, however, they learn Dirge has stolen a device from Wheeljack's lab.
Director: N/A
Writer: Earl Kress
6.6/10122 votesLoading...#15 - Madman's Paradise
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 10/12/1986
Daniel leaves a banquet being hosted by his parents. He and Grimlock end up discovering a Quintesson chamber and get stuck in a magical world.
Director: N/A
Writer: Craig Rand
6.6/10112 votesLoading...#16 - The Big Broadcast of 2006
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 11/11/1986
The Junkions fall victim to subliminal messages from the Quintessons, who are trying to get a journal off the Planet of Junk. This also causes the Junkions to attack Sky Lynx and Astrotrain, which brings the Autobots and Decepticons into the situation. Unfortunately, a screw up makes the Junkions send out the subliminal messages on their own, bringing about mass confusion and destruction.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
6.7/10148 votesLoading...#17 - A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 10/23/1985
Spike, Hoist and Warpath find their battle with a group of Decepticons interrupted when they all get sent back in time to the middle ages.
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Booth
6.7/10134 votesLoading...#18 - Prime Target
Season 2 Episode 34 - Aired 11/13/1985
A hunter sets his sights on Optimus Prime and uses several captured Autobots to force him into a confrontation.
Director: N/A
Writer: Flint Dille, Buzz Dixon
6.7/10131 votesLoading...#19 - Triple TakeOver
Season 2 Episode 36 - Aired 11/18/1985
Astrotrain and Blitzwing leave The Decepticons to do things their way, which includes capturing Megatron and Starscream and seizing control of a stadium.
Director: N/A
Writer: Larry Strauss
6.7/10128 votesLoading...#20 - Sea Change
Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 11/19/1985
Seaspray falls in love, but the object of his affection is part of a rebel movement on another world.
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Booth
6.7/10125 votesLoading...#21 - Aerial Assault
Season 2 Episode 41 - Aired 12/9/1985
The Decepticons work with a smuggler to take over a Mideast palace and begin acquiring plane parts for the construction of a air fortress. The Aerialbots head to the scene, but Slingshot and Sky Dive get into trouble. But a young man known as Hassan comes to their aid to help save the day.
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Booth
6.8/10138 votesLoading...#22 - The God Gambit
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 10/27/1985
Astrotrain tricks a race living on one of Saturn's moons, Titan, into thinking he is a god and gets them to do his bidding, which includes getting a hold of a newly discovered power.
Director: N/A
Writer: Buzz Dixon
6.8/10143 votesLoading...#23 - The Autobot Run
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 10/30/1985
Most of the Autobots lose their ability transform to robot mode after the Decepticons use a device on them. A handful of Autobots still capable of transforming are their only hope.
Director: N/A
Writer: Donald F. Glut
6.8/10133 votesLoading...#24 - The Gambler
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 11/10/1985
With the others rendered powerless, Smokescreen has to enter the gambling world to get the Energon needed to revive them.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Charles Hill
6.8/10130 votesLoading...#25 - Chaos
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 9/29/1986
An alien is discovered to have a powerful weapon that fires crystals, which are taken from a creature Kup knows of, Chaos. Galvatron plans to construct his own powerful weapon on Chaos' home and several Autobots race to prevent him from using it on Cybertron.
Director: N/A
Writer: Paul Davids
The Worst Episodes of The Transformers
Every episode of The Transformers ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Transformers!
The Transformers is the first animated television series in the Transformers franchise. The series depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Carnage in C-Minor" is the worst rated episode of "The Transformers". It scored 5.2/10 based on 145 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Buzz Dixon, it aired on 10/13/1986. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "B.O.T.".