Donatello Makes Time

	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Season; September 10, 1990 - December 8, 1990; List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes
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“Donatello Makes Time”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 Cartoon) episode
Season Code:	04
Episode:	23
Original airdate	October 20, 1990
Written by	Dennis Marks
Supervising Producer	Fred Wolf
Producers:	Walt Kubiak
Supervising Director	Bill Wolf
Episode chronology
"The Big Zipp Attack"	"Farewell, Lotus Blossom"

Donatello Makes Time is a season 4 episode of the 1987 TV series.

Appearing in Donatello Makes Time[]

Major characters[]

Minor characters[]

Museum Director (Rob Paulsen)
Professor (Cam Clarke)
First policeman (Townsend Coleman)
Second policeman

Species[]

Objects and vehicles[]

Cycloid Satellite
Laser Cutting Machine
Sewer Skis
Time-Stopper
Turtlecom

Locations[]

Museum of Historical Art
Professor Cycloid's house
Turtle Lair

Plot[]

Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo watch eagerly as Donatello puts the finishing touches on a new device, which they believe to be a new microwave pizza oven. Instead, it turns out to be a time-stopping machine, and the disinterest of the other three Turtles irritates Donatello. Anything that the machine is focused on will be frozen in time.

Meanwhile, a mad scientist known as Professor Lloyd Cycloid floats through the sewers on a homemade raft. His goal: create a satellite that will turn the rest of the human race stupid, so he can dominate them with his intellect. While Donatello is having pizza with the others, Cycloid spots the Time-Stopper and steals it. The Turtles try to intercept him, but are zapped by the Time-Stopper.

April covers the theft of a solid gold Egyptian statue of Tu-Tu Karmen (later revealed to actually be iridium), and Splinter recognizes the effect of the Time Stopper. He is horrified to find the Turtles frozen in mid-air, but fortunately they snap back into normal time shortly thereafter.

Cycloid uses the Time-Stopper a second time, this time to steal a powerful laser gun. April recognizes him from the camera footage, and Donatello sets out on his Sewer Ski to find Cycloid and reclaim his invention, leaving a trail of arrows for the other Turtles to follow.

Cycloid and his stolen items arrive back at his long-abandoned home, shortly followed by Donatello. Donatello is hit by the Time-Stopper again. While he's frozen, Cycloid dangles him over a vast pool of toxic slime that will kill him if anyone opens the door. Despite his perilous situation, Donatello manages to sabotage Cycloid's laser device, causing it to blast out of the house.

The other Turtles follow Donatello's trail through the sewers, and burst into the room where Donatello is suspended. Just before Donatello can fall into the acidic slime, Leonardo uses the Time-Stopper to save his life and proceeds to hand Cycloid to the authorities.

The priceless Egyptian relic is returned to the museum (and presumably the laser ray is returned as well). The other Turtles are in favor of getting rid of the Time-Stopper, but Donatello is outraged by the idea. Raphael responds by deliberately dropping the Time-Stopper, destroying it, and a mournful Donatello laments that it might take years for him to fix it.

Notes and errors[]

Whenever a character is frozen by the Time-Stopper, the position they'd be frozen in would later change.
When the Turtles are frozen after the commercial, they are in different positions.
The Turtles' weapons did not made a clashing sound when they and the Turtles fell to the floor after the effects of the Time-Stopper wore off.
The tips of Raphael's sais were missing when Donatello said that the Time-Stopper could be dangerous in the wrong hands.
When Leonardo spoke to Donatello on the Turtlecom at Cycloid's house he was seen with Raphael's sai.
When April is interviewing the scientist, the tip of her microphone vanished.
When Donatello is watching the rays from Cycloid's malfunctioning laser cutter, the knob on the lab door is missing.
The Time-Stopper was drawn mirror-flipped during the final scene.
The mushrooms on Michelangelo and Raphael's pizzas were colored red in the final shot at the tail end of the episode.

Trivia[]

When Donatello scolded the other Turtles for making so much noise while he tried to concentrate on completing his invention, they adopt the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" stances from the three wise monkeys.

Home media releases[]

VHS[]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donatello's Degree

LaserDisc[]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donatello's Degree/Raphael Meets His Match

DVD[]

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