Robotic Unicycle (1987 TV series)

Roadkill Rodneys are unicycle-like robots. Their first appearance is in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, in the episode "Enter the Shredder". The name comes not from the episode itself but from their subsequent appearances in video game adaptions.

Overview
Roughly cylindrical and balanced on a single wheel, Roadkill Rodneys posses two powerful mechanical tentacles, a built-in blaster, a drill for tunneling and the ability to speak in monotone. In their first appearance, they are used to capture a rhinoceros and warthog from a local zoo in New York (these would subsequently be used to create the mutants Bebop and Rocksteady). One captures Splinter when he finds and approaches the Technodrome. Two Roadkill Rodneys fight the TMNT when they enter the Technodrome, failing miserably. At the end of the show, a Roadkill Rodney "rescues" Bebop and Rocksteady from the zoo cage the TMNT imprisoned the bumbling duo in. Telling them the Shredder wants to have a little talk with them.

Roadkill Rodney do not appear in the series proper again, but they appear in the Archie TMNT comic books.