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| Series = Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 Cartoon) |
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| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 Cartoon) episode | |||||||
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| Season Code: | 3 | ||||||
| Episode: | 18 | ||||||
| Original airdate | November 13, 1989 | ||||||
| Written by | Duane Capizzi Steve Roberts | ||||||
| Producers: | – | ||||||
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Character voices
- Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
- Michaelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
- Raphael (Rob Paulsen)
- Donatello (Barry Gordon)
- Splinter (Peter Renaday)
- April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
- Shredder (James Avery)
- Bebop (Barry Gordon)
- Rocksteady (Cam Clarke)
- Krang (Townsend Coleman)
- Vinnie (Barry Gordon)
Errors
When Bebop and Rocksteady dance around Michaelangelo, they switch positions.
Just before Leonardo and Raphael are about to enter the giant pizza oven, Leonardo speaks in Raphael's voice.
Michaelangelo is seen with his nunchuks when he walks out of the lair, but his nunchuks are not seen on his shell when he's captured by Rocksteady and Bebop.
Micahelangelo has a sock in his mouth, but later, he's gagged with a cloth.
Michaelangelo's ankles are tied, but later, when a cloth covers his mouth, his ankles are untied.
When the Turtles (except Michaelangelo) pop out of the trash cans after Shredder leaves the pizza kitchen, Leonardo is seen with Michaelangelo's colors.
When Splinter hypnotises Shredder to his regular self, Donatello and Michaelangelo grab him, but a shot later, they are replaced by a duplicate Leonardo and Raphael.
When Donatello and Michelangelo grab Shredder after Splinter hypnotises him back, Michaelangelo is seen with Leonardo's "L".
Locations
- Turtle's Lair
- Technodrome
- Shredder's hideout
- Channel 6
- Vinnie's Pizzeria
Vehicles
Plot
Michaelangelo has been having problems with being a pizza glutton. He ate all the pizzas that he was supposed to serve for dinner. Because he did this before, Splinter says that he must learn a form of inner self-control, which involves him saying "I crave pizza no more" repeatedly. After it is done, Michaelangelo no longer wants pizza and hears in his mind "I crave pizza no more" whenever he comes near one.
Meanwhile, Shredder is working on a plan to destroy the Turtles by creating a holographic clone of Michaelangelo to infiltrate the Turtles' Lair. Something goes wrong with the mainframe when Bebop puts the disk with Michaelangelo's psychological profile in backwards, resulting in laser shoots. One of the lasers hits Shredder, and he groggily stumbles off.
In the sewers, the other three Turtles are impressed by Splinter's self-control method on Michaelangelo and figure they can finally cook some pizzas. Suddenly Shredder appears, having bought some pizzas. The Turtles are shocked to see Shredder, much less him thinking of the Turtles as friends. It is realized that by his mannerisms and behavior that the Shredder somehow thinks he is Michaelangelo! Splinter then uses a hypnotic method on Shredder to get him to see why he is behaving in such a manner, and says the word "Shredder" to get him to gain his appropriate personality of Saki. The right-minded Shredder suddenly lashes out at Splinter and the Turtles, albeit confused what he is doing in their residence. Aware of the danger, Splinter hypnotizes him into taking Michaelangelo's persona once again to prevent a fight, by using the word "Michaelangelo". Splinter warns the Turtles that any mention of the word "Shredder" will cause him to revert to his Shredder persona, so such word should be avoided.
Meanwhile, Michaelangelo has been feeling left out, and goes by himself to his favorite restaurant, Vinnie's Pizza. Remembering Splinter's hypnosis in his mine of "I craze pizza no more", he feels no need to eat pizza and instead orders a soft drink. Bebop and Rocksteady have been stalking Michaelangelo, and manage to capture him after a fight.
Meanwhile, Donatello discovers a computer disk that fell out of Shredder's pocket and decides to take it to Channel 6 News to use April's computer system to access the information on the diskette. Once there, they surmise that Shredder plans to clone Michaelangelo, and Shredder, who thinks he is Michaelangelo, is none too happy about that. Raphael asks Shedder/Michaelangelo where he might go if he wanted to sulk—the answer: Vinny's Pizza.
But Leonardo, Raphael, and Shredder/Michaelangelo arrive just moments after the real Michaelangelo is abducted by Rocksteady and Bebop. While they search the kitchen, Shredder/Michaelangelo stuffs his face with pizza and sees some cheese clinging to a cheese shredder. When he says the word "shredder" aloud, he is transformed back into his former self: the evil villain, Shredder. He is confused, but not so confused that he does not realize that he is alone with the Turtles. The Turtles, not suspecting that he has reverted, are also caught by surprise and are left stuffed inside a pizza and heading straight for the oven.
Back at Shredder's hideout, while he returns to find Michaelangelo gagged and tied to a chair as Rocksteady and Bebop dance in delight, Donatello and April have learned Shredder and Krang's master plan - and it involves the President of the United States. They try to contact Leonardo and Raphael, via the TurtleCom, but there is no answer. Meanwhile, Shredder discovers that his "master plan" computer disk is missing and races back to Vinny's Pizza to "save" the Turtles and recover it, but they call him Michaelangelo and he reverts, once again, into the "surfer Turtle."
At the Channel Six News Building, the Turtles realize that they must find the holographic synthesizer and destroy it, along with finding the real Michaelangelo. Dontello has a plan that might accomplish both. They head back to Vinny's Pizza and recreate the scene just as Shredder/Michaelangelo had encountered Leonardo and Raphael moments before they were "saved" by Shredder. After calling him by name, he reverts to Shredder and demands the computer disk. They give it to him and "beat feet" before he has a chance to capture them. They then follow him back to his hideout, where he discovers that his disk has been reprogrammed and he is surrounded by dozens of holographic Michaelangelos. This gives the turtles time to rescue their brother, as they untie and ungag him.
Shredder ejects the disk and all of the holographic Turtles disappear only to be replaced by the real Turtles. In their attempt to destroy the Holographic Synthesizer, Shredder has them encased in a force field - but they outsmart him when they call him Michaelangelo and he reverts to a "Turtle" and destroys his own machine when he sees his "amigos" in trouble. Before the machine blows, Shredder is zapped by the machine once again, and is, once again, reverted to Shredder but, by now, Rocksteady and Bebop believe that he really is a Turtle in disguise and they take him back to Krang and the Technodrome.
In celebration of their victory, the turtles have Pizza, and as a reward, Splinter allows Michelangelo to Crave pizza once again.
