Career Day



Optimus Prime is forced to confront the most dangerous and horrifying force the world has ever known...school children.

Detailed synopsis
It is career day at Black River Elementary School, and Optimus Prime has stopped by to lecture the children. Prime is clearly a bit frazzled by the whole thing, and it doesn't help that one particularly inquisitive child is barraging him with a series of questions, such as where his head goes when he turns into a fire truck and how he manages to see when it's tucked away. Before Prime can adequately answer these questions, however, Daniel and all the other students start excitedly demanding that he change into a fire truck. Optimus reluctantly complies and, one stock footage sequence later, assumes his altmode, much to the delight of the students. Prime then returns to robot mode eliciting yawns and groans of boredom from the others, and attempts to return to his original speech. But Daniel raises his hand once more and asks where Prime's trailer goes when he returns to robot mode. The scene fades out as Prime is seen stuttering, trying to figure out the answer to that question for himself.

Stats

 * Written by: Uh...
 * Directed by: Er...
 * Original airdate: N/A (The DVD containing this short was released on June 17, 2008)

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes
Daniel: Can you turn into a fire truck right now? Optimus: Uh, well, I wasn't planning on... Children: *cheering* FIRE TRUCK! FIRE TRUCK! FIRE TRUCK! FIRE TRUCK! Optimus: *sighs* Fire truck...
 * Prime learns that there's just no pleasing some audiences...

DVD release
"Transform and Roll Out!" was released to DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment on June 17, 2008. The DVD includes all three episodes of the pilot movie and two all-new animated shorts. Together, the two shorts run just under three minutes.

Target sold the DVD with a special bonus disc that included the episode "Home Is Where the Spark Is."

Animation and/or technical glitches

 * Glitch

Continuity errors

 * Errors

Transformers references

 * Fans have been wondering about just where Optimus's trailer disappears to when he transforms for many, MANY years. In a way, though, it's relieving to know that Prime himself is just as in the dark as the rest of us...

Miscellaneous trivia

 * Admit it: when YOU were a kid, you wanted to be Optimus Prime when you grew up too.