Crime Time: Under Control

Oh, that clever Shifty (The Criminal). He pulls his heists right under the nose of a junk-food eating cop who's too chubby to catch him.

Crime always pays - with big laughs in this clever series of rambunctious animated shorts. Shifty (The Criminal), a pint-sized pilferer with lofty ambitions and limited brainpower, perpetrates crimes from the sublime to the ridiculous - and never quite pulls them off, resulting in hilarious consequences. Rendered in a graphic style reminiscent of classic UPA shorts, the action is nothing short of... arresting!

Production Company: Future Thought Productions

Rate, review and vote for the series at IMDB: part in the contest "What happens to Shifty next?":

Shifty is the comic anti-hero of Crime Time. The little, annoying but resilient petty thief that you love to hate... and in some cases hate to love! Shifty has so far been electrocuted, crushed, pissed on, plastered.... Well, you get the drift. We are currently running a contest to see what kind of situation YOU, the YouTube community would come up with to stop Shifty. Head on over to and get cracking!