The Foot Soldiers are Revolting

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The Foot Soldiers Are Revolting is a 1990 (season 4) episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. This episode of the show was written by Michael Reaves.

Plot Summary
In the New York City sewers, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles watch a videotape with mistakes made by Bebop and Rocksteady. Michaelangelo wonders why Krang and Shredder don't fire them, because of their incompetence in all situations.

Meanwhile in the Technodrome, at this point of the series located in Dimension X, Shredder fires Bebop and Rocksteady after they failed. Instead, Shredder tried to replace them with an "intelligent" and "thinking" Foot Soldier called "Alpha One". Because Bebop and Rocksteady are playing a video game when Krang is programming Alpha One, this causes the main computer to malfunction. The end result is that Alpha One comes out more intelligent than Krang and Shredder wanted. Alpha One becomes able to control the other Foot robots too. Alpha One doesn't want to work for Krang and Shredder anymore, so he sends them away in a life pod. When Alpha One shall do the same with Bebop and Rocksteady, they tell him where he can find a "wave modulator". Alpha One thinks that this will be helpful, and decides to keep Bebop and Rocksteady. His plan is to transport all the living organisms on Earth to Dimension X so he and his robots will have control of the Earth.

The TMNT are looking for the wave modulator in the sewer. Just as they find it, a white light erupts. It's the dimensional portal which opens, and out come Alpha One, his Foot soldiers and Bebop and Rocksteady. The TMNT try to stop Alpha One from taking the modulator, but they fail. Alpha One and the Foot soldiers returns to Dimension X, but leaves Bebop and Rocksteady in the sewer by closing the dimensional portal. Bebop and Rocksteady and the TMNT decide to work together to try and stop Alpha One.

When the TMNT go to the surface, they discover that Alpha One is on Earth with a "Dimensional Displacement Device", which he is using to transport all organic lifeforms to Dimension X by shooting out a beam from the rooftop on a skyscraper.

Meanwhile, Krang and Shredder are in the life pod when it's hit by a "plasma storm", re-powering the life pod. Because of this, Krang and Shredder manage to return to the Technodrome. When they arrive, they discover all the people that Alpha One has transported there. They immediately start transporting all of them back to Earth through the dimensional portal. Alpha One sees the people coming back, and becomes distracted. This distraction allows the TMNT to take the wave modulator out of the "Dimensional Displacement Device". The TMNT turn the device against Alpha One transporting him to an unknown place. The TMNT then use the "Dimensional Displacement Device" to transport Bebop and Rocksteady back to Dimension X. Bebop and Rocksteady lie and tell Krang and Shredder that they took care of Alpha One themselves, without any direct or indirect help from the TMNT. Krang and Shredder re-hire Bebop and Rocksteady.

Character voices

 * Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
 * Donatello (Barry Gordon)
 * Michaelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
 * Raphael (Rob Paulsen)
 * Splinter (Peter Renaday)
 * April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
 * Burne Thompson (Pat Fraley)
 * Vernon Fenwick (Peter Renaday)
 * Irma Langinstein (Jennifer Darling)
 * Shredder (James Avery)
 * Bebop (Barry Gordon)
 * Rocksteady (Cam Clarke)
 * Krang (Pat Fraley)
 * Alpha One (Jim Cummings)
 * Male Tourist (Cam Clarke)
 * Movie Robot (Jim Cummings)

Locations

 * Turtles' Lair
 * New York City Streets
 * Tower Block
 * City Sewer System
 * Dimension X
 * Channel 6
 * Technodrome

Vehicles

 * Technodrome Life Pod

Gadgets

 * Turtlecom
 * Portable Portal Generator
 * Dimensional Displacement Device
 * Wave Modulator

VHS

 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Unidentified Flying Leonardo

DVD

 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 4
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection

Errors

 * The volcano that the Technodrome is stuck on in this episode is missing.
 * When the Turtles pursue Alpha-1 to the top of the building, there are two Foot Soldiers that have his faces but return to normal in the following shot. There are also two Alpha-1 clones that fire upon the Turtles on the roof of the building later on.
 * When the elevator fails to work there is a shot of April missing her lipstick.
 * After Burne Thompson, Irma and Vernon Fenwick get transported to Dimension X, April's camera looks like a gun.
 * When the Foot Soldiers advance on Krang and Shredder before pushing them into the life pod, their entire bodies are coloured purple.
 * Donatello lets out a yelp with Leonardo's voice after one of the Foot Soldiers blasts the Wave Modulator out of his hand.
 * One of the female tourists on the building roof talks with the male tourist's voice as Alpha-1 and the Foot Soldiers appear through the portal.
 * The colours on Rocksteady's dagger and sheath were switched when he poked out of the manhole cover.
 * Michaelangelo's nunchucks were placed upside down on his belt when he exited from the manhole and before Alpha-1 fired at the Turtles with the Displacement Device.
 * When Leonardo spoke to April on his Turtlecom, he didn't open it up.
 * When Donatello backs away from the teleportation device after removing the Wave Modulator from it he is seen with Leonardo's colours and his bo is missing from his belt.
 * When Rocksteady used the stair bannister to tie up the two Foot Soldiers in the stairwell, his grenade was missing from his shoulder strap.
 * Rocksteady's right nostril is missing when he tells Alpha-1 about the Advanced Wave Modulator being on Earth.
 * Raphael was seen wearing green ankle bands as he fell off the sewer pipe he was clinging onto.
 * The Foot Soldier that fired away the Wave Modulator from Donatello's hand only had four fingers when he held out his blaster.
 * The cyclist that Alpha-1 shot with the Displacement Device was white skinned when he was on his bike but brown skinned when he arrived at the Technodrome.
 * Rocksteady's dagger is missing from his back when Bebop tells Alpha-1 that they will work for him.
 * When all the people looked up at Krang's dimensional portal after he'd activated it, the frame's detailing on it was missing.
 * Rocksteady's bandolier was missing when the Turtles were seen tying them up in the sewers.
 * There is some scuffs on the animation background when Donatelo tells the others that they'll need Bebop and Rocksteady to help them defeat the Foot Soldiers.

Trivia

 * First and only appearance of Alpha One, the only foot solider with a designated name.
 * For some unknown reason April uses the Channel 6 telephone to contact the Turtles instead of using her Turtlecom.
 * Upon meeting Alpha One for the first time, none of the Turtles were surprised or confused as to why he could speak.
 * A similar plot of this episode is mimmicked in a comic strip in the UK TMNT (TMHT) 1992 annual.

Quotes

 * Krang: Our power cells are charged to full capacity!!
 * Shredder: (holding head) So are the fillings in my teeth!