Fungus Humungous (episode)

Fungus Humungous is the thirty-sixth episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series). It aired on February 16th 2014.

Major Characters

 * April O'Neil (Mae Whitman)
 * Casey Jones (Josh Peck)
 * Donatello (Rob Paulsen)
 * Fungus Humungous (Fred Tatasciore)
 * Leonardo (Jason Biggs)
 * Michelangelo (Greg Cipes)
 * Raphael (Sean Astin)

Minor Characters

 * Captain Ryan (Brian Bloom) (Hallucination only)
 * Kirby Bat (Hallucination only)
 * Splinter (Hoon Lee)
 * Spy-Roach (Hallucination only)
 * Squirrelanoids (Hallucination only)
 * Super Robo Mecha Force Five!
 * Captain Dash Coolstar (Brian Bloom)
 * Dr. Blip (Scott Menville)
 * Lunk (Nolan North)
 * Princess (Mae Whitman)
 * Squeakums

Plot Synopsis
The episode begins with Casey and April sitting on a bench in New York City. They soon decide to go down into the sewer to visit the turtles, but when they get down there, an extremely noxious smell (not the sewage) catches their attention. Suddenly, the same man that was seen in "Invasion of the Squirrelanoids" appears out of nowhere and runs right past April and Casey, screaming "SQUIRREL!! GIANT MUTANT SQUIRREL!'' The two then follow the terrified man around a corner, but find that he has disappeared....Then, April hears something strange and before she knows it, something blows some type of powder directly into her face...She then glances at Casey and glimpses that his face looks like a bat! Mortified, she walks in the opposite direction and suddenly sees what appears to be her mutated father standing there!!

Casey is utterly bewildered by April's strange behavior - and he quickly goes to inform the turtles of this. Meanwhile, in the lair, Splinter and Leo are in deep meditation. Splinter has no trouble whatsoever in doing so, but Leo is having some trouble, due to some recent nightmares he's been having about losing his brothers. Splinter tells him that losing one's team is a common fear that every singal leader must face here and there. Casey then enters the lair and tells them of April's very odd attitude. When Casey says that he doesn't know exactly where he left her, Donnie begins chastising him, but the two quickly break up the squabble. So, the team heads out into the sewers to find April. However, the same thing that stunned April stuns Casey as well - and this same thing provokes his absolute greatest fear as well - Rats. And tons of them appear in his hallucination and begin engulfing Casey...much to his own dismay. This time, it's the turtles who are utterly baffled...While Casey becomes increasingly frantic, Donnie rounds a corner and spots a still horrified April, who is also still hallucinating that her mutated bat father is there. Donnie tries to calm her down, but to no avail whatsoever. The turtles then realize what's been the perpetrator of all of this turmoil - Mushrooms!! Tons of them!! One then attaches itself to Mikey's face, and from that point on, the four brothers do the best they can to dispose of the pests, but one manages to spray Raph with the very same stuff that caused Casey and April to become terrified - and thus, Raph does as well...He hallucinates Leo as Chong (the Spy-Roach) and, vowing to eliminate the repugnant roach, he quickly jumps into the air and mistakenly is about to harm Leonardo!

Leo dodges out of the way and Raph lands hard on the ground. Mikey wraps his nunchuks around his now extremely mortified brother - and is able to contain him for a brief moment...Then, Donatello is sprayed by the substance and begins hallucinating April (who is hallucinating Donnie as a bat) as a wicked vampire. Everyone then leaves the area, leaving Leo completely abandoned...However, he is sprayed too. Then, he hallucinates that a character from Space Heroes (Captain Ryan) is scolding him because of his utter failures in life - His failure to protect his brothers...He then imagines his own brothers admonishing him about his failure. He tries to snap out of it, but this does not work. Then, a ton of mushrooms gather in a single file line and start to slowly surround Leo. Two of them fly up and squirt the substance into his face, which causes him to slip and fall off of a nearby edge. He lands in an unkown place, but, luckily, is uninjured. He quickly gets himself up, and sees a gigantic figure standing nearby - The gargantuan mushroom has one huge eye protruding from the center of it's "head" and the creature can seemingly speak......

It orders some other mushrooms to cause more fear within Leo - and sure enough, Leo becomes more fearful and more guilt-ridden. However, he is able to snap out of it and slice all of the attacking mushrooms in half. When he becomes fearful yet again, he instinctively remembers what Master Splinter told him earlier. Thus, he grabs his two katanas, destroys the gigantic mushroom, and snaps out of his trance with relative ease. Meanwhile, the other turtles, April, and Casey snap out of it as well, but only due to the fact that "Fungus Humungous" was destroyed - and that itself caused all of the other fungi to be destroyed as well...The others soon find Leo lying on the ground, seemingly unconscious, but he quickly wakes up and Raph thanks him for saving all of their lives - however he did it. They then head back to the lair and joyously discuss their trumph. Leo tells his Master Splinter about everything that he did, which causes his sensei to commend him. Meanwhile, Mikey brings out a 'victory pizza', with pepperoni, sausage, and mushrooms - which disgusts all of them and they leave the area. Mikey then lifts up a slice and examines it, noticing that there is a mushroom on it that is MOVING.........

Trivia

 * The Mushroom dancing around Leo to the tune of "The Nutcracker Suite." is a reference to Walt Disney's 1940 animated film, Fantasia.
 * Leo has the same general fear as his other incarnations, failure since he fears of losing his brothers, and there's nothing he can do about it.
 * Mikey makes a Super Mario Brothers reference, as he jumped on the top of the mutant mushrooms and called it "super mikey brothers"

Quotes
Michelangelo: "Leo, dude, speak to me bro. Do you need mouth to mouth?"

Leonardo: -Grabs Mikey's face- "Absolutely...... not!"

Raphael:What is that?

Michelangelo:''*leans closer* It's a mushroom! With feet. Aww, it's so cute. *the mushroom grabs Mikey's face* AHHHHH...get it off of me! Get it off of me!''

Raphael:I'm freakin out!...I'm freakin out!...I'M FREAKIN OUT!

Michelangelo: (to raphael) BREATHE WITH MEEEE!

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