Mousers Attack!

"Mousers Attack!" is the eleventh episode of the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series). It aired on December 8, 2012.

Major Characters
Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Splinter, April O'Neil and Baxter Stockman

Secondary Characters
Chris Bradford (Dogpound)

Main Locations
NYC

Synopsis
The episode begins with the Turtles in the middle of a training session. As usual Leo and Raph start to argue. Master Splinter, having had enough of this bickering, tells the two of them that they must team up against Donnie and Mikey. Donnie and Mikey accept the challenge but are defeated quickly.Meanwhile, Dogpound informs The Shredder that he has intimidated the Purple Dragons into increasing the Foot Clan's cut of their take to 80%. This shows Shredder that Dogpound's mutated form can be useful, in stark contrast to Xever, who can't leave his aquarium. Shredder orders Dogpound to get him information about Splinter and the Turtles.Back at the lair, Leo and Raph are still giving Mikey and Donnie a hard time and label them "The B team". April comes in and tells the Turtles that the Purple Dragons just mugged her and stole her phone. The boys decide to get the phone back, but Splinter cautions that a simple phone isn't worth the risk of a fight and April agrees. The boys see no danger from the gang and go anyway, leaving Splinter and April to continue her training.The Turtles break into the Purple Dragons' hideout and easily defeat the gang with Leo and Raph carrying the fight, much to Donnie and Mikey's annoyance. They demand to see the gangs stash of stolen goods, mentioning that they want an item stolen from a friend of theirs. Just as they find the phone, dozens of small, bipedal robots burst through the floor and steal the gang's stash. The Turtles take out the remaining robots but, in the confusion, the gang leader Fong escapes with April's phone. Leo orders the "B team" to go after the phone while he and Raph take care of the robots. Donnie and Mikey comply, still stung by the "B team" comments.Leo and Raph follow the tunnel dug by the robots as do the remaining two Purple Dragons, Tsoi and Sid. They emerge into an old warehouse and discover Baxter Stockman is the creator of "Mousers" to steal for him, as well as to eliminate the Turtles. He sprays Leo and Raph with a red mist that seems to be harmless but somehow causes the Mousers to home in on them relentlessly. The two turtles easily destroy the few Mousers around Stockman, but he reveals that he has hundreds more. The boys retreat with an army of robots on their heels. As Stockman gloats after them, but he is knocked out and abducted by Tsoi and Sid.Meanwhile, Mikey and Donnie follow Fong to Dogpound in a defunct futon factory. Fong gives the phone to Dogpound, saying that it belonged to a friend of the Turtles. On seeing Dogpound, Mikey says they can't handle him on their own and suggests calling Leo and Raph for help. Donnie rejects the idea and decides they should use stealth to sneak into the building and get the phone without having to fight Dogpound.The Mousers continue chasing Leo and Raph across the city, fighting as they go. They try to wash the spray off with no effect. They know they should probably call Donnie and Mikey for help but are too proud. They keep fighting but the supply of Mousers seems endless and the turtles are tiring out. Leo finally has to call for help. At the futon factory, Donnie comes up with several plans for retrieving the phone while Mikey comes up with a name for each one. When Leo calls Donnie, they both deny that they are having problems and Leo hangs up, saying to Raph that they have to deal with the Mousers on their own.Soon Tsoi and Sid bring Stockman to Dogpound, telling him that the scientist is responsible for stealing from him. At first, wants Baxter disposed of but the scientist mentions that his Mousers are destroying the turtles that very moment. Dogpound reasons the Stockman must be good with electronics and enlists him to hack into April's phone. Donnie and Mikey finally settle on cutting the power to the building and swiping the phone in the darkness. They almost succeed but are caught by Dogpound and chained to a wall. Stockman, meanwhile, continues his efforts to hack into April's phone, stating that the GPS will let him see every place the phone has been, including the Turtles' sewer lair.Leo and Raph are overwhelmed by Mousers again and try to call Donnie for help. When Leo's call for help comes in, Dogpound finds Donnie and Mikey's T-phones and takes them. Before they can be hacked Donnie orders the phones to self-destruct and they blow up in Dogpound's hands. Just as Stockman hack is about to finish hacking April's phone, Raph and Leo burst in. Stockman demands to know how they escaped the Mousers and Leo replies that they didn't. The robot horde crashes into the room, distracting Dogpound, Stockman, and the Purple Dragons. Leo and Raph free their brothers while the Purple Dragons flee. During the fight, Leo tosses April's phone to Mikey and he barely manages to keep it away from Dogpound.Donnie figures out how the Mousers are tracking Raph and Leo. The red spray is some sort of radio-isotope that the Mousers can let. It can't be washed off and must be worn off over time but someone sprayed now would give off a stronger signal. Raph hits Stockman's spray can with two shuriken, covering Stockman and Dogpound with isotope spray, causing the Mousers to attack the two. Pound finally gets his hands on April's phone but it is knocked away and destroyed by a tanto thrown by Donnie. Dogpound flees, grabbing Stockman on the way and bursts through a wall with a few dozen Mousers on his tail.Leo and Raph congratulate Donnie and Mikey with Raph now calling them the G minus team". Donnie muses that this is probably the best they'll get from him. Back at the lair the team all relax. Mikey break-dances, Raph feeds Spike, and Leo and Donnie play some pinball. They give April her phone back but it shatters in her hands. Donnie offers to replace it with one of his custom-made I-phones, which Mikey accidentally causes to self-destruct.At the Foot Clan lair, Donny brings Stockman before Shredder.Raphael threatens to kill Stockman for his interference, but spares him as he has need of his skills.

Quotes
Leonardo:  (To Donnie and Mikey) "Look guys, Raph and I may be better fighters, but you´re still an important part of this team."

Donatello: (annoyed) "As important as you two?"

(Leo and Raph look at each other)

Leonardo: "Humm.. Very important. We shouldn´t compare ourselves. I -It´s like apples and oranges."

Raphael: (whispering) "Yes, apples are way better which they are"


 * Donatello: " So, the truth comes out."


 * Michelangelo: "You guys think of us as some kind of ... B Team!"


 * Raphael: (To Mikey)" Good one Dr Namenstein. We´ll call you The B Team!"


 * Michelangelo: "Thanks" (Now realizes what just happened) "I mean hey!"

Xever: (Grumbles) "If I weren't stuck in here, I would have caught Splinter by now!"

Dogpound: "But you are stuck in there." (Starts tapping the glass of Xever's fishtank, creating vibrations that harm Xever's hearing)

Xever: "No no no no! Stop that! Stop that! Ow! Ow! Stop it! Ow! Stop it!"

Dogpound: (Laughs, stops tapping) "I'm sure you'll have your chance to shine one of these days. Master Shredder might get hungry for sushi..."

Xever: "Why don't you get in the water and say that!"

Shredder: "Enough Xever! Bradford is right, you are useless to me this way!" (Xever swims off; to Dogpound) "I'm counting on you, find me information I can use. Or Xever won't be the only one missing his legs..."

Leonardo: "It got a little out of hand, but atleast we got April's phone back."

April: "You did? Sweet! (Breaks in Donnie's hand)"

Leonardo: "The important thing is, is that it didn't fall in the wrong hands."

April: "(says sarcastically) Gee, thanks guys."

Donatello: "Don't worry, April, you can have one of my custom built T-Phones!"

April: " Wow, cool!"

Michelangelo: " Just don't say :T-Phone self-destruct."

(the T-Phone breaks down)

Tsoi: "This man was stealing from us, stealing from you!!!!!"

Dogpound: "Let's get rid of him and find the turtles!"

Baxter: "Turtles? I hate those guys!"

Dogpound: "Explain."

Baxter: "My Mousers are destroying the turtles as we speak, two of them of least!"

Dogpound: "Mousers? You must be good with electronics..."

Baxter: "The best! There's nothing I can't build, hack, or fix!"(Dogpound frees Baxter)

Dogpound: "Could you maybe...(holds up April's phone)hack into this phone?"

Baxter: "Oh please. Something so simple would be a waste of my talent."

Dogpound: "Then start wasting your talents, or I'll waste you!"

Michelangelo: "B-team is go!"

Donatello: "Don't call us that!"

More to be added...

Gallery
See: Mousers Attack! / Gallery 

Trivia

 * This episode was originally titled "Mouserthon".
 * Donnie calls Fong by name in this episode.
 * The name "Irma", along with a shot of the glasses-clad eyes of a young female, appears on the caller ID of April's cell phone before it breaks. Beneath her name, it seems to read "Weirdo McGee".
 * A running-gag throughout the episode is one of the Turtles mispronouncing Baxter Stockman's name as Dexter Speckman (much to his annoyence).
 * When Dogpound breaks through the wall to escape from the mousers, he says "Oh Yeah", which could be reference to the Kool-Aid Man.

Goofs

 * While Donnie is visualizing "Operation Space Out", Baxter Stockman's face appears along with Dogpound and the Purple Dragons, Tsoi and Sid. Except for Dogpound, none of those characters had arrived at Donnie's location yet.

Mousers Attack!