The Incredible Shrinking Turtles (1987 TV series)


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The Incredible Shrinking Turtles is the seventh episode of the American animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a part of the larger Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. It is the second episode of the second season of the program, originally aired on October 8, 1988. The episode was written by Larry Parr. It is available on DVD in the box set released on April 26, 2005.

Plot summary
The Turtles are practicing martial arts in Central Park, when a "dude" who is supposed to be Shredder arrives. When knocked down, he reveals himself to only be Michelangelo who joked. Just then, an alien spacecraft crash into a small pond. The Turtles dive into it and rescue the alien pilot from drowning. The pilot tell the Turtles that the "Three Fragments of the Eye of Zarnov" fell accidentally fell towards the Earth from the spacecraft when it crashed. They have to find it before it comes into the "wrong hands", because the fragments have alien powers. The pilot then disappears (dies?). The Turtles don't know that Shredder has tracked them down, and hides behind the shrubs and listen. But before, he give the Turtles a tracking device, a "Crystal Converger", to use in their search for the fragments.

Shredder and Baxter Stockman contacts Krang in the Technodrome in Dimension X. Shredder wants his Foot soldiers, but Krang says no.

The Turtles drive around the streets of New York City, searching for the fragments. The tracking device lead them to the docks. They don't know that Shredder is following them. The Turtles grab the fragment, but Shredder arrives and take it out of their hands. After a fight, Shredder aims the fragment at the Turtles and discovers the secret power of the fragment: The fragment shrinks the Turtles down to mere inches. The Turtles escape down to Splinter in the sewers before Shredder can take the Crystal Converger from them.

Splinter contacts April O'Neil to help them. Just then, Shredder uses the fragment to shrink skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building, to impress Krang. Baxter Stockman shows Shredder a new invention: a "Heat Seeking Turtle Scope".

Meanwhile, the water in the sewers send away the Turtles out of the sewers and down into the river, where Baxter Stockman is in a rowboat and pick them away to Shredders hideout. At the hideout, Shredder show Krang how he will smash the Turtles to death with an iron pipe. Krang is impressed.

Meanwhile, Splinter and April are driving around the streets of New York City, searching for the Turtles. They are stuck in the traffic. Splinter has a feeling where the Turtles are, and he is right. When they arrive at Shredders hideout and crash through the front door, April activates the Turtle Van catapult and Splinter jumps out and attacks Shredder. While Shredder and Splinter fight, April takes the fragment and aims it towards the Turtles, who go back to "normal" size, but Shredder and Baxter Stockman escape with the fragments.

Back in the sewers, Splinter jokes and gives the Turtles small pizza.

Trivia

 * Shredder using a gem to shrink down a city will be revisted again in the video game "The Hyperstone Heist".
 * This episode was adapted to comic book format in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #3-4 published by Archie Comics.