Pizza Face (episode)

Pizza Face is the 44th episode of the 2012 TV series. It aired on May 18, 2014.

Synopsis
Mikey struggles to convince the others that a new mutant is trying to attack and capture people using living pizzas.

Major Characters

 * Donatello (Rob Paulsen)
 * Leonardo (Dominic Catrambone)
 * Michelangelo (Greg Cipes)
 * Pizza Face (John DiMaggio)
 * Raphael (Sean Astin)
 * Splinter

Minor Characters

 * Ice Cream Kitty (Kevin Eastman)
 * April O'Neil (Mae Whitman)
 * Irma (Kate Micucci)
 * Pizza Guy (Ciro Nieli)
 * Super Robo Mecha Force Five!
 * Captain Dash Coolstar
 * Dr. Blip (Scott Menville)
 * Lunk (Nolan North)
 * Squeakums
 * Princess (Mae Whitman)
 * Hydra Beast
 * Pizza Zombies (cameos)
 * Shopkeeper
 * Sewer Worker
 * Fong
 * Tsoi
 * Sid
 * Carlos Chang O'Brien Gambe
 * Little Girl
 * Old Man
 * Homeless Guy

Plot
One night, April and Irma are about to watch a movie. April receives a call and starts lying about having a date with Casey. Then, a pizza delivery guy drives by them and falls off his bike. He screams about being attacked and leaves in a hurry. He drops a free pizza. April wants to bring it to the guys, but Irma says she wouldn't eat it. April receives another call and runs away. She thinks about what Irma said and throws the pizza in the trash. She hears creepy voices saying "Eat me." She comes closer to the pizza and opens it when a mutant pizza attacks her.

In the lair, Leo and Raph are watching TV and Donnie is worried because April isn't answering. And Mikey is worried as well because none of the pizza shops in town are answering too. Leo says that he is the culinary expert and that he should make his own. A happy Mikey runs in the kitchen. There, he prepares the ultimate pizza while singing and dancing. The smell reaches Leo and he is disgusted. Mikey offers some to the others and they decline. He rapidly starts eating. The other Turtles see a commercial about Antonio's pizza and Leo is suspicious. He orders a pizza and Raph sends Mikey to wait for it and not to eat it. Mikey receives the pizza from a weird acting pizza guy and returns to the lair. He is tempted to eat it and calls the guys.

The pizza then starts talking like it did to April, but Mikey thinks it's his imagination. He opens the pizza box and an angry pizza starts attacking him! After the fight, the guys show up and see Mikey rolling on the floor covered in pizza toppings. They thank him sarcasticly for ruining the dinner. Mikey stakes on the rooftops to Antonio's and sees April with human zombies. He is then attacked by three people that have pizzas on their faces. He almost gets pounded, but saves himself with a smoke bomb.

He rushes to the lair to warn the others, only to see them zombified from eating some of the pizzas too. He is attacked by several pizzas while the others escape. He takes one pizza as a hostage and interrogates him about the situation. The pizza finally says everything after Mikey threatenes to put it in the oven. Pizza says that, one day, chef Antonio was making a pizza and he heard a noise. A mutagen canister fell out of the sky and he had to know if it would be a good pizza topping. He tried some and mutated into a giant pizza blob. After the slice of Pizza finishes talking, Mikey asks what will he do with his zombie customers. The pizza slice says that he'll wrap them in calzones and eat them whole. Mikey says he'll save them, but first he throws the pizza slice in the freezer where it deals with Ice Cream Kitty.

Mikey sneaks to Antonio's acting like a zombie. Inside, he goes to the kitchen where he sees April getting prepared. When a pizza asks what to do with the Turtles and Splinter, Pizza Face says that they will be his guards, since they've tasted the secret ingredient (mutagen). He throws up on their faces and makes them his zombified pizza slaves. Mikey throws a box at Pizza Face, but Leo stops it by stabbing it. Mikey declares "the jig is up, Pizza Face!" and Pizza Face says that he likes the name before sending the other turtles and Splinter to attack. Mikey luckily knocks down the Turtles, while apologizing to Leo and Donnie, but not Raph, but is then knocked down by Splinter.

Mikey gets back up again and then gets stuck to the wall by Pizza Face's pizza barf. When Pizza Face is about to eat April, Mikey's stomach rumbles and he realizes that he's hungry and begins eating his way out, much to Pizza Face's horror. Pizza Face eats Mikey when the young turtle tries to attack only for Mikey to start eating him from the inside until he's just a slice of pizza. Mikey tells Pizza Face to bring everyone back to normal or he'd eat him to which he complies, mentally ordering the pizza zombies to return to their homes where they wouldn't remember a thing. Mikey begins to gloat loudly to his brothers about being right and saving them when Pizza Face attacks.

Mikey wakes up in his bed and his brothers and April walk in. Glad they're back to normal, Mikey starts babbling about how they were pizza zombies and that Pizza Face was gonna eat April. The others tell that it was just a dream and leave his room. Mikey begins to believe that it was all a dream and goes back to sleep. Pizza Face confirms that it isn't, hiding in one of Mikey's empty pizza boxes and laughs.

Quotes

 * Shopkeeper: It's so good, you'll want to obey its every command.


 * Sewer Worker: Obey the flavor.
 * Pizza Guy: At Antonio's the first one is free.


 * Michelangelo: Whoa! How many times can you order the first one!?
 * Pizza Minion: EAT ME!!
 * Michelangelo: Why are you doing this, pizza? I love you!
 * Michelangelo: Does he have a pizza for a face?


 * Pizza Minion: Yes!


 * Michelangelo: Then I will call him Pizza Face!


 * Pizza Minion: But we all have pizza faces...


 * Michelangelo: Enough!
 * Michelangelo: The jig is up, Pizza Face!


 * Pizza Face: Pizza Face? I like a-that. Cause I have a Pizza... For the face. (laughs) Get him!


 * Michelangelo: Guys, snap out of it! Oops, sorry D.! Oh man, sorry Leo! (Laughs) Not sorry Raph.
 * Pizza Face: Oh! That's a spicy meat-a-ball! (after eating michelangelo)
 * Pizza Face: A dream? I don't a-think a-so....

Errors

 * After Mikey fights the first pizza there're slices everywhere, but in the sequence the pizza appears whole again.
 * Mikey says "Now, how do I get my money back?" although he didn't pay for the pizza.

Trivia

 * Two sneak previews of this episode were revealed in the 2013 NYCC, both of them are incomplete story draft animatics.
 * In the begining of the episode Irma wants to watch Dusk of the Zombies 4, which is a reference to Dawn of the Dead.
 * The three-headed Hydra Beast is an homage to Ghidorah, the three-headed monster.
 * When Mikey traps the Pizza inside the freezer Ice Cream Kitty twists her head as an homage to The Exorcist, where the possessed girl not only twists her head, but also causes her room to get colder.
 * Mikey eats his way out of Pizza Face just like the Xenomorph's chestbusters do in the Alien franchise.
 * It's the second time Mikey sings "Go ninja, go ninja, go!" from the Vanilla Ice's Ninja Rap. The first being in Follow The Leader.
 * On a phone box, it says "The Triceratops are here" which is possibly foreshadowing the appearence of the Triceratons.

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