How can I animate a GameObject that isn't parented, but will need to be for the animation?

Oh, ok. I didn't know that I could animate things like that. I'll try it, thanks!. Although, just to be sure: Say, the Empty GameObject is called Trashcan_parent, and the trash can is called Trashcan_Root. Trashcan_Root, currently, isn't parented to anything, and shouldn't be. The player drags the trash can into the box collider, which triggers a script, that will parent the Trashcan_Root to the Trashcan_parent. Then, it plays the animation. Once the animation finishes, it unparents the trash can (Trashcan_Root,), from the Empty GameObject, Trashcan_parent.

So what you're saying is, I should (in the scene editor,), parent the Trashcan_Root, to the Trashcan_parent GameObject, animate the trash can, then unparent it, reposition it to where it was before, then use that animation?

Hi, sorry for the late response also, I have gotten it to work... ...sort of. Here, I just thought of something I've seen somewhere here in Answers before, I've just created a Pastebin Account, and put it (my code, it goes past the character limit here,), there. Here it is: The Pastebin.

Right now, I have several different "Chunks", or maybe, sections, of code, for Unparenting the Trash can from the Trash Truck. I don't know which one would be the best to use. I just remember not being able to ever seem to get it to work, which is why I had made so many of them. Currently, it does unparent, but it also will distort now, when it is parented to the back of the Trash Truck. It also can (and it unfortunately recently seems more like it's been happening more frequently, now,), sometimes cause weird, I guess I would say, glitchy, physics. It will cause the Trash Truck to shake, jitter, bounce, as it will it's own self, and it can cause the Trash Truck to shoot up a bit and launch up a bit into the air, and flip around, and sometimes it will itself. I don't know how I can go about fixing this, either. Thanks!.