Once upon a time, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles encountered Mr. Ogg, a card-carrying trickster type from an alternate dimension. Now he’s back and it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy as Ogg charges the Turtles with a crime that they’re most definitely guilty of, and Raphael is the guiltiest of all! It’s an extradimensional accusation of the meta kind—with some bonus extraterrestrials to boot in the form of Wingnut and Screwloose—all in this issue of Saturday Morning Adventures!
Appearing in A Far-out Encounter of the Ogg Kind[]
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- New York City
- Abandoned building
- Dimension Z
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In an abandoned building, Wingnut and Screwloose have taken April O'Neil prisoner. Screwloose, tinkering with a huge machine, brags that their plan to take over the world is foolproof. The Turtles suddenly arrive and face off with robot cockroaches while bantering about this evil plan they’ve never heard of. Screwloose tells Wingnut to finish prepping the machine while he deals with the Turtles. He screws a metallic device onto his snout then flies up to use it to shoot lasers at the Turtles.
The Turtles continue their fourth-wall breaking repartee during the fight. Raphael flings a sai at an angle at a robot cockroach, the sai bounces from it to one of Wingnut’s wings, and then up to knock the laser nose off of Screwloose. Angry, Screwloose shouts for Wingnut to activate the machine. Though he tries to do so, nothing happens because apparently some pieces are missing. Then a robot cockroach head bounces off of his. Standing over the remains of the robot cockroaches, Leonardo tells the pair of villains to be prepared to be turned over to the authorities. Just as the Turtles are about to attack, Screwloose activates his portal watch so that he and Wingnut can escape back to Planet Flagenon. Screwloose vows that they’ll be back to take over the world. As they vanish, Raph yells out that they’ll see them at the next relaunch.
Suddenly, a booming voice calls out “That’s the last straw!” April and the Turtles look around but see no one, so April wonders if that came from hidden speaker. Leo wonders if the alien machine actually works. Donatello examines it and says the machine is a dud. The voice announces that of course it didn’t and the machine vanishes. The owner of the voice appears overhead and the Turtles are not happy to see him, except Michelangelo, who doesn’t remember him at all.
It is Ogg, who introduces himself as “Ogg, the Magnificent”. Mikey still doesn’t know him, so Ogg reminds them that they met before in season 3, episode 42 and used to joke around and eat porcelain. Then Mikey recognizes him and Don asks if he doesn’t need a dimensional portal to come to Earth. Ogg says he doesn’t, he can do whatever he wants, but they can’t. That’s why he’s here, because the Turtles are to be tried for repeatedly breaking universal law.
April tells Ogg that the Turtles are heroes and demands to know what laws they’ve broken. She suddenly vanishes as Ogg says they aren’t going to hear from the supporting cast – she wasn’t even mentioned in the theme song. Leo points his katana at Ogg and insists on knowing what happened to April. Ogg tells him he sent her to a deli in the Bronx. He adds that it would be faster to explain without interruptions. Ogg also turns Leo’s sword into a flower and tells him not to point things at people because he could poke someone’s eye out.
Ogg then says if they finally realize they can’t fight him on this, they can discuss specific charges. He calls for a bailiff and a mini-Ogg appears with a long sheet of paper. He reads off each of the Turtles’ names, with emphasis on Raph, and states that they are charged with repeatedly breaking the fourth wall. The Turtles protest and Raph explains it’s just a stupid bit they do to make themselves laugh. Then all four Turtles look out at the reader to say “hey”. A furious Ogg shouts that they are doing it again. He tells them that only a select few are allowed to bend this rule. Ogg counts off the names, the first being his, but the others are bleeped out. Raph calls attention to that fact, and mini-Ogg appears on his shoulder to say that’s too bad and then blows an air-horn can right against his head.
The Turtles suddenly find themselves in a court room, with Ogg as a judge banging a gavel and calling for the trial to come to order. He recaps the charges and then asks the Turtles how they plead. The defense attorney, an unkempt and sweating Ogg, says his clients plead guilty. Leo protests that they’re the good guys. Judge Ogg changes their plea to not guilty and says that’s a shame because he might have let them off with a slap on the wrist. At the defendants table, Raph whispers to ask if they are being railroaded and Donatello whispers back that they need to stay sharp to find a way out of this. Mikey asks Ogg why he’s doing this and Ogg answers that he's bored and this seemed like a good way to fill an issue. He then tells the prosecution to proceed.
The prosecutor Ogg displays a video-cassette to admit into evidence. It is the Season 7 episode “Night of the Rogues” in which Raphael asks Shredder if he’s leaving the show. Defense attorney Ogg objects that the episode is beyond the statute of limitations and wasn’t even released on video-cassette. Mikey asks what he means by show and his attorney points out to the judge that they aren’t even aware of the series, so how can it be used against them? Judge Ogg agrees that’s a fair point, which inflames the prosecutor. He claims the Turtles are getting away with murder, to which the defense attorney objects. The pair begin to fight and the judge bangs his gavel, telling them they are out of order. The ranting prosecutor has to be dragged out of the courtroom.
An inflamed Raphael finally blows his top. He rips off the suit Ogg put him in and leaps at Judge Ogg, intent on teaching him a lesson. Judge Ogg decides to call a recess and the Turtles are zapped into Dimension Z. Raph asks why they are there and what happened to the trial. Ogg says he got bored with it and so it’s over and the Turtles lost. Sealing them in a large bubble, he says that their sentence is to remain in Dimension Z forever… or until their copyright expires. Mikey tells his brothers that this is like what Creepy Eddie was trying to do. Don agrees, but says that Ogg isn’t even pretending to give them a way to win. He adds that he thinks he’s figured out a way to outthink him and calls out to Ogg. When Ogg comes back, Don asks if he was serious when he said the trial was real, to which Ogg answers in the affirmative. Though Raph protests that he gave them no chance to defend themselves, Ogg claims that he can do whatever he wants. Don says that though Ogg can do anything, he still gets bored and it’s a shame he doesn’t know the cure to boredom the way he does.
Ogg immediately demands to know the cure for boredom. Don wonders why he should share that with someone who judged them guilty. Ogg drops all the charges and says that they are not guilty and he’ll never mention it again. Don then says that they are still stuck in Dimension Z, so Ogg zaps them back to the abandoned building in New York. Raph demands that Ogg promise this won’t happen again, so Ogg does promise, saying that he can’t break his promises. Raph also tells him to promise to go back home and leave them alone. Ogg agrees to the deal and asks for the cure to boredom. Donatello tells him that the cure is surprise. He can’t be bored if he never knows what will happen.
Ogg thinks about this and finally shouts that the answer was a rip-off. He yells that they made a big mistake and though he’s going to keep his promise and return to Dimension Z, he’s only staying long enough to cook up the right kind of payback. In a flash, he’s gone and Leonardo turns to the task of demolishing the machine left behind by Wingnut and Screwloose. He says that they need to call April and make sure she’s not still stuck in the Bronx. Afterwards, he suggests grabbing a pizza and going home. Raph agrees, saying they wouldn’t want to leave any dangling plot points this close to the end of the issue.