[Opening sequence and theme song.]
[Episode begins underground in the turtles’ lair. Donatello is working on a gadget in his workshop as Raphael and Leonardo watch.]
Donatello "Ah, just a little adjustment here. Hm, yeah."
Michelangelo "Hey dudes, what's the haps?"
Leonardo "Shh!"
Raphael "Cool it!"
Michelangelo "Well, excuse me! What's the teen green genius up to now?"
Raphael "Well, we're not sure but we think it's an electronic, state of the art, microwave pizza oven."
Michelangelo "All right! Monumental notion, dude!"
Donatello "Hold it down, guys. This is a delicate moment.
Just one micro millimeter more, and there! Finished."
[Raphael covers his mouth, Leonardo his eyes, and Michelangelo his ears, in a parody of speak, see, hear no evil.]
Just one micro millimeter more, and there! Finished."
Raphael "All right! I'll toss the dough."
Michelangelo "I'll heat the sauce."
Leonardo "And I'll grate the cheese."
Raphael "Hold the phone. That's not a pizza oven!"
Donatello "Of course it's not a pizza oven. It happens to be the world's first time-stopping machine."
Michelangelo "Get serious, dude."
Leonardo "A time stopper? Forget it."
Michelangelo "Bummer."
Raphael "Who needs it?"
Donatello "I wonder if Thomas Edison had to put up with this."
Raphael "Uh-oh. I think we hurt his feelings."
Donatello "Don't you guys realize this could be the most incredible invention of the twentieth century?"
Michelangelo "I thought that was the pizza oven."
Donatello "Will you guys quit thinking with your stomachs instead of your brains? Now watch.
Watch those sewer rats when the time-stopper ray hits them."
[He flicks on the machine and aims his invention at the sewer rats on the walls.]
Watch those sewer rats when the time-stopper ray hits them."
[The ray hits a pair of rats and freezes them mid-stride.]
Michelangelo "Whoa, fantabulouso!"
Donatello "For our furry little friends, time has stopped.
You'll notice there are no strings, wires or mirrors."
[He waves his hand around their bodies.]
You'll notice there are no strings, wires or mirrors."
Michelangelo "Big deal. So your gizmo works on rats. What's that got to do with us highly evolved turtle types?"
Donatello "Michelangelo, you have just volunteered for an experiment."
Michelangelo "I have?"
[Cut to the sewers, where a man seated atop a wooden raft floats on the water.]
Cycloid "How humiliating-- the great scientist, Professor Lloyd Cycloid, forced to float through the sewers on a pile of garbage. But not for long. Once I launch my invention, the Cycloid Satellite, the world will see what a genius I really am. Whoa!
Once I gather up the necessary parts, my satellite will numb the brain of every being on Earth. Then I will be the smartest person in the world!
And they said I'd gone round the bend!"
[His raft drops down a small waterfall.]
Once I gather up the necessary parts, my satellite will numb the brain of every being on Earth. Then I will be the smartest person in the world!
[Laughs maniacally.]
And they said I'd gone round the bend!"
[He continues laughing. Back at the lair, Splinter has joined the turtles.]
Splinter "Thank you for inviting me to your demonstration, Donatello."
Donatello "Your opinions are always honored, Sensei. Okay, Michelangelo, ready when you are."
Michelangelo "I've never been a test turtle before. Watch this for me, would you, Raphael?
Let me know when to smile and say ‘pizza cheese’."
[He hands over a slice of pizza and starts stretching.]
Let me know when to smile and say ‘pizza cheese’."
Donatello "All right, now!"
[Michelangelo runs and flips while swinging his turtle line grappling hook. Donatello aims the time-stopping machine at him.]
Michelangelo "Eee-yah!"
[Donatello activates his invention. The ray hits Michelangelo while he’s in mid-air and freezes him in place.]
Splinter "Quite remarkable. Remarkable indeed. Congratulations, Donatello."
Donatello "What Michelangelo doesn't know is that our time keeps moving on while his time is stopped."
Raphael "I've always felt that way about Michelangelo."
Splinter "And when the ray wears off, what then?"
Donatello "He'll just drop to the ground and say, "See, dude? I told you it wouldn't work”."
Raphael "I know just how to prove all this did happen. When he comes to, this pizza will be history."
Donatello "That's what you think."
[He zaps Raphael just before he can stuff the pizza slice into his mouth and then takes the pizza from him.]
Splinter "Raphael unable to eat is perhaps more incredible than Michelangelo unable to move."
Donatello "You said a mouthful, Master."
[Donatello finishes off the pizza. Splinter takes the turtle line out of Michelangelo’s hand.]
Splinter "This will be proof enough. Now, let their time resume, Donatello."
Donatello "Right, Sensei."
[Donatello reverses the time-stop and Michelangelo falls while Raphael chomps down on air.]
Michelangelo "Yah! Oof!"
Raphael "Um!"
Michelangelo "See, I told you it wouldn't work.
Whoa, where's my grappling hook?"
[Donatello winks at Splinter.]
Whoa, where's my grappling hook?"
Raphael "More importantly, where's my pizza? Well, there's a fresh baked one in the oven. Hey, let's break for some munchies. What do you say?"
Raphael "I say all right!"
[They all run from the room. Donatello sets his invention down on a table before racing after them.]
Donatello "Hey, wait for me!"
[Pan to nearby tunnel and the sounds of approaching footsteps. Professor Cycloid peers through a large grate and spots the invention.]
Cycloid "Ooh boy, a time-stopper! With that invention, I can complete the invention of my own invention, the Cycloid Satellite!"
[He opens the grate and tip-toes towards Donatello’s workshop. In the meantime, the turtles and Splinter are in the kitchen. Donatello takes a pizza from the oven and sets it on the table. Everyone starts eating. Cycloid reaches the time-stopper and picks it up. Alarms immediately begin to blare. The turtles leap into action.]
Leonardo "Trespassers in the lair!"
Donatello "The time-stopper, it's gone!"
Michelangelo "Over there! That little weird dude's got it."
Leonardo "Well, let's get it back."
[Professor Cycloid heads back to the tunnel and then turns to point the time-stopper at them.]
Cycloid "Where are your manners? Finders keepers!"
All "Turtle pow...!"
[The time-stopper ray hits them in mid-air and freezes all four. Cycloid gloats over the machine.]
Cycloid "Ha ha, you gorgeous little beauty, you! And you even come with batteries included.
Mwah!"
[He kisses it.]
Mwah!"
[Cycloid takes off down the tunnel, leaving the turtles stopped in time. Cut to the steps leading into Tu-Tu Karmen Exhibit at the Museum of Historical Art, where April is on-air.]
April O’Neil "This is April O'Neil at the Museum of Historical Art, the site of the most baffling antique theft in history, the famous Tu-Tu Karmen exhibit. This is the museum's director. Can you tell us what happened, sir?"
Museum Director "
I just don't know. One minute we unveiled the solid gold head of Tu-Tu Karmen, and the next minute, zhoop, it was gone."
[Stammering and speaking with a British accent.]
I just don't know. One minute we unveiled the solid gold head of Tu-Tu Karmen, and the next minute, zhoop, it was gone."
April "We'll show you just what he means. Here's the videotape of the actual unveiling."
[At the lair, Splinter is seated on the couch watching the televised report. The videotape plays.]
Museum Director "And now may I present the priceless golden head of King Tu-Tu Karmen.
Tu-Tu Karmen's head! Where did it go?"
[The crowd reacts. Cycloid sneaks in from the side and activates the time-stopper. The golden head vanishes and Cycloid runs away.]
Tu-Tu Karmen's head! Where did it go?"
April "You home viewers saw it with your own eyes. It's as if everything stopped for an instant and then started again. Only the solid gold head of Tu-Tu Karmen was gone. This is a baffled April O'Neil signing off."
Splinter "One could do exactly that with Donatello's time-stopper. I must notify him of this."
[Shift to Cycloid, who is holding the golden head under one arm and the time-stopper under the other. He is walking down an alley.]
Cycloid "Those fools think this head is made of gold, but it's actually deridium, a super hard metal that I need for my invention.
Now to put it together!"
[He laughs maniacally.]
Now to put it together!"
[Splinter enters Donatello’s workshop.]
Splinter "Donatello, I must speak to you.
Oh no! They must have been struck by the rays of Donatello's time-stopping apparatus. I must use it to reactivate them. It's not here! Without that device, they could be frozen like that forever! My poor students. I hope there is a time limit to their frozen state."
[He gasps as he spots the frozen turtles.]
Oh no! They must have been struck by the rays of Donatello's time-stopping apparatus. I must use it to reactivate them. It's not here! Without that device, they could be frozen like that forever! My poor students. I hope there is a time limit to their frozen state."
[Just as he says that, the effects of the time-stopper wear off.]
All "Power!"
[They all fall to the floor, grunting and groaning.]
Raphael "Where'd that bozo go?"
Michelangelo "The dude split!"
Leonardo "That's impossible. He was standing right there."
Splinter "Ah, thank goodness. It wore off just as I hoped it would."
Donatello "Now I remember. That weird little guy was trying to steal my time-stopper."
Splinter "I'm afraid he was successful. He turned it against you and ran off with it."
Donatello "Oh no! That thing could be dangerous in the wrong hands."
Splinter "Most dangerous. April just reported an astonishing robbery. The head of an Egyptian idol disappeared right in front of a large crowd and the TV cameras. It appears the thief is using your amazing invention for evil purposes, Donatello."
Donatello "Then I guess it's up to us to get it back."
Michelangelo "Mondo concept, dude, but how we gonna do it?"
Donatello "I haven't the slightest idea."
[Back to April, this time reporting from another site.]
April "This is April O'Neil at the world famous Philo Testing Laboratories, bringing you a Channel 6 exclusive; the first test firing of an amazing new laser device. They claim this laser beam will slice through anything from a two-foot thick titanium wall to a year-old pizza crust. A year-old pizza crust? Really, sir, don't you find that a bit hard to swallow?"
Professor "It's quite true, Miss O'Neil, I assure you. Allow me to demonstrate."
[He presses a button and a wall rises up from the floor in front of April.]
April "A two-foot thick wall of titanium?"
Professor "Precisely. You and your cameraman may stand behind it."
Vernon Fenwick "Oh, stand behind this thing?"
April "You're lucky we got the wall, Vernon. We could have gotten a year-old pizza instead."
Professor "This will allow you to photograph the beam as it cuts right through the titanium. Are you ready?"
April "Ready, Professor. Fire away!"
Professor "All right. Stand by, Miss O'Neil. Stand by, cameras."
[The Professor gets ready to activate the laser device. April and Vernon stand on the other side of the titanium wall. They don’t see a grate opening in the floor nearby, which gives Cycloid access to the room.]
Cycloid "Lloyd Cycloid standing by. That laser gun is just what I need to cut the deridium."
Professor "Five... four..."
Cycloid "Three, two, one, bingo!"
Professor "Three—"
[Cycloid fires the time-stopper at the Professor and freezes him. April peeks around the wall.]
April "Professor, what's going on?"
Cycloid "You are! You're going on a little time trip."
[He fires the time-stopper at April and freezes her. Vernon squats down behind the wall in fear.]
Vernon "Oh, please let this all be a bad dream!"
Cycloid "The final element I need for my invention. Now I can finish the Cycloid Satellite!"
[He grabs the laser device and laughs as he runs back to the floor opening with it.]
Vernon "Is it over? Did we get the shot? Are we still alive? Well, don't just stand there, April. Answer me!
April?
Professor, yoo-hoo! The laser gun--it's gone! Oh, what a predicament! Not a moving soul to save me."
[He taps her shoulder.]
April?
[He runs to the professor and waves a hand in front of his face.]
Professor, yoo-hoo! The laser gun--it's gone! Oh, what a predicament! Not a moving soul to save me."
[Back at the lair, April reports on what happened to her.]
Donatello "And then what happened?"
April "I came to and the laser gun was gone."
Donatello "Well, let's see what's on your tape.
Look, there in the background! I'll freeze frame and enlarge the image. That's the same weird little guy, and he's got my time-stopper."
[They watch the tape recording and see Cycloid.]
Look, there in the background! I'll freeze frame and enlarge the image. That's the same weird little guy, and he's got my time-stopper."
April "I recognize him. It's Professor Lloyd Cycloid, a mad scientist who's going to build some crazy invention."
Donatello "I remember that nutcase. He had a lab outside the city somewhere.
The basement grating-- He went in and out through the sewer system, just like he did here in the lair."
[They see a flash on the screen and then Cycloid is gone and the grate closed.]
The basement grating-- He went in and out through the sewer system, just like he did here in the lair."
April "Where are you going?"
Donatello "I'll track Cycloid on my sewer ski. Now he's on my turf."
[He grabs his sewer ski and carries it towards the sewers.]
April "Wait, Donatello. It could be dangerous."
Donatello "It'd be more dangerous not to do anything."
[He rides the ski through a tunnel before dropping into a lower water channel. He revs the engine and then speeds through the sewers.]
Donatello "Hm, if I didn't want to be followed, which route would I take? I'd take this one.
I know the scenery's not much, but you got to admit the music is pretty exciting."
[The theme song plays as he marks an arrow with chalk on the tunnel wall. He continues zooming through the tunnels, pausing at one point to break the fourth wall.]
I know the scenery's not much, but you got to admit the music is pretty exciting."
[Donatello stops when he reaches a dead end. Above the wall in front of him is a large pipe from which water is spilling.]
Donatello "A guy would have to be pretty desperate to go over that. And I'll bet that's just what he did.
Beware, Professor Cycloid, an angry Donatello is on your trail!"
[He backs up and then races forward, skiing right up the flow of water until he’s inside the pipe.]
Beware, Professor Cycloid, an angry Donatello is on your trail!"
[Above ground, a police car sits in front of a large, run-down home. A policeman walks over to the officer seating behind the wheel. The police radio can be heard.]
Police Radio "Seven-ten-one, pick up."
Respondent "Ten-four."
Officer "I checked out Cycloid's whole place from basement to attic. The guy hasn't been here for years."
Police Driver "This is Car 57, calling the Station House. The place is deserted. We're heading back in."
[A sing-song voice is heard from the sewers as the police car drives away.]
Cycloid "Good-bye, officers!
Come again real soon. Be it ever so crumbled, there's no place like home."
[He comes out through a manhole.]
Come again real soon. Be it ever so crumbled, there's no place like home."
[He pulls on a rope and brings up all of the stolen items, include a red wagon. With the objects in the wagon, he rolls them towards the house. Back in the sewers, Donatello has located the manhole.]
Donatello "Bingo! An open manhole with muddy footprints and wagon tracks.
This place has to be Cycloid's laboratory. It's as cracked as he is."
[He climbs the ladder, spots the house, and exits the sewers.]
This place has to be Cycloid's laboratory. It's as cracked as he is."
[He walks towards the house, unaware that Cycloid is watching him via a security camera.]
Cycloid "Hmm. Where have I seen that turtle before?
Of course! The inventor of the time-stopper. Well, it's time he was stopped for good.
Come in, young turtle, come in.
I've been expecting you."
[He gasps.]
Of course! The inventor of the time-stopper. Well, it's time he was stopped for good.
[Donatello approaches a door and Cycloid talks to him through the speaker mounted above it.]
Come in, young turtle, come in.
[He laughs.]
I've been expecting you."
Donatello "Boy, he is weird. Even I wasn't expecting me.
Okay, Professor, where are you hiding?"
[He opens the door and steps inside.]
Okay, Professor, where are you hiding?"
[On a metal platform above the room, Professor Cycloid watches Don.]
Cycloid "Yoo-hoo, I'm up here, shellback."
Donatello "The name's Donatello, psycho."
Cycloid "That's Professor Psycho-- I-I mean Cycloid! I mean Professor Cycloid! Now look what you've done. You got me all mixed up."
Donatello "Don't bother coming down, Professor, I'll be right up."
[Donatello bounces off a chair and leaps for the platform. Before he reaches it, Cycloid hits him with the time-stopper ray.]
Cycloid "And that's exactly where you'll stay."
Donatello "Uh-oh!"
Cycloid "Make yourself comfortable. You may be here for a long time."
[The scene cuts to the frozen Donatello, now hanging upside down with his ankles tied together. The rope runs across a pulley and Cycloid ties the end to the doorknob.]
Cycloid "And just so you won't be bored, I've arranged for a little entertainment.
You can watch your entire life pass before your eyes.
Just before you drop into this beautiful bubbling toxic slime. I should warn you. The moment anyone opens this door-- Plop! Turtle soup."
[He pulls a lever and a segment of the floor opens underneath Donatello. It is filled with a greenish liquid.]
You can watch your entire life pass before your eyes.
[He laughs.]
Just before you drop into this beautiful bubbling toxic slime. I should warn you. The moment anyone opens this door-- Plop! Turtle soup."
[Donatello begins wiggling. Cycloid laughs maniacally and repeats himself.]
Cycloid "I should warn you. The moment anyone opens this door-- Plop! Turtle soup.
Turtle soup. That's most amusing! I must remember that when I write my memoirs. But now on to more serious things, like completing the Cycloid Satellite. With it, I will turn the entire world into brainless idiots."
[The stolen objects are in the red wagon in front of him.]
Turtle soup. That's most amusing! I must remember that when I write my memoirs. But now on to more serious things, like completing the Cycloid Satellite. With it, I will turn the entire world into brainless idiots."
[He walks out of the room. Cut to the Channel 6 news building. Leonardo reaches out to April on her turtlecom.]
Leonardo "April, we have to locate Donatello. Have you seen him?"
April "Donatello? He went chasing after that nutty Professor Cycloid."
Leonardo "So that's where he went!"
Raphael "Hey, if Donatello thinks he can handle that weirdo nutcase all by himself, it's okay with me."
Leonardo "Well, it's not okay with me!"
[He snaps his turtlecom closed and runs out of the lair.]
Michelangelo "Me neither, dude!"
[He follows Leo, who jumps onto his sewer ski.]
Leonardo "Let's go! Turtle power!"
Michelangelo "Cowabunga!"
[They both race off as Raphael and Splinter arrive.]
Splinter "You were saying, Raphael?"
Raphael "Oh, oh, I was saying that I was just about to leave, Master.
Hey guys, wait for me!"
[He jumps onto his sewer ski and takes off.]
Hey guys, wait for me!"
Leonardo "Look, a directional arrow!"
Raphael "What a guy. He left a trail for us to follow."
Michelangelo "Hot studly move, Dude-atello."
[They continue following the trail of arrows. Back at Cycloid’s lab, he sings as he sets up the golden head.]
Cycloid "The laser cuts the deridium~~ The laser cuts the deridium~~ Hi-ho the merry-o~~ The laser cuts the deridium. The deridium makes a helmet~~ The helmet protects my brain~~ protects my brain from the effects of the Cycloid Satellite! Okay, so it doesn't rhyme. I'm a scientist, not a poet."
[The turtles reach the waterfall and see the arrow pointing upwards.]
Raphael "Okay, Leonardo, now what?"
Leonardo "We're turtles, remember? Water is our element."
[They rev their engines and race up the waterfall.]
All "Turtle power!"
[Cut to Donatello, who is dripping with sweat as he hangs above the boiling pool of toxic slime. In the sewers, the other turtles find his sewer ski.]
Leonardo "We found Donatello! There's his sewer ski."
Raphael "And look up there. Guys, I believe we're beginning to see the light at the end of the sewer."
[They clap hands. Donatello begins to fully snap out of his frozen state.]
Donatello "Oh, what's going on? It's that wacko Professor Cycloid."
[Cycloid is taking aim at the golden head with the stolen laser device.]
Cycloid "Perfect. With this shot, I can win a stuffed teddy bear. Ready, aim—"
Donatello "Whatever he's up to, I've got to stop him."
[He pulls his bō and throws it at the laser. The staff hits the laser and knocks it out of alignment just before Cycloid presses the button to activate it.]
Cycloid "Fire!
What's going on? The laser is going crazy! Yeow!"
[The laser fires into the floor and the beam bounces around the room.]
What's going on? The laser is going crazy! Yeow!"
[The turtles come up out of the sewer and see the lights going off inside the house.]
Michelangelo "Whoa, scope out that excellent light show."
Raphael "Wait, is this the Fourth of July already? My, how time flies when you're having fun."
Leonardo "Come on, we've gotta rescue Donatello.
Hurry, fellas! Every second counts."
[They enter the building and run towards the lab.]
Hurry, fellas! Every second counts."
[Donatello uses his turtlecom.]
Donatello "Turtles, this is Donatello. Come in, turtles, come in."
[The turtles slide to a stop and Leonardo answers on his turtlecom.]
Leonardo "That's what we're doing. We're right outside and we're coming in!"
Donatello "I mean, no, don't come in!"
Michelangelo "You know, I wish that dude would make up his mind."
Raphael "Yeah, I guess all the excitement's gone to his head."
Leonardo "Don't panic, Donatello. We'll save you!"
[They bash in the door and the rope snaps.]
Donatello "Oh no! Leonardo, use the time-stopper!"
[Leonardo grabs the time-stopper off the floor and shoots the ray at Donatello, freezing him before he hits the slime.]
Michelangelo "All right, it works!"
[Raphael finds Cycloid hiding under a table.]
Raphael "Tough break, Professor. It looks like no slime this time."
Leonardo "And speaking of time, I've got a feeling he'll be getting lots of it behind bars."
[Later, April reports from the museum.]
April "And so the priceless head of Tu-Tu Karmen has been returned to its rightful place in the museum, thanks to a quartet of devoted art lovers."
[The turtles watch from the lair. They are chowing down on pizza.]
Michelangelo "Not to mention pizza lovers."
April "This is April O'Neil, Channel 6 news, signing off."
Splinter "Tell me, Donatello, have you decided what to do with this time-stopper invention?"
Donatello "Well, I haven't decided yet, Sensei."
Raphael "That thing is dangerous. I say we donate it to the junk drive."
Michelangelo "I say we deep six it in the East River."
Leonardo "I say we bury it."
Donatello "What? Bury my precious invention? How could you even think of such a thing?"
Splinter "Donatello is right. I think we should drop all such suggestions."
Raphael "Sensei's right.
Just as I'm dropping this."
[He snatches the time-stopper out of Donatello’s hands.]
Just as I'm dropping this."
[He drops it on the floor and it shatters.]
Donatello "Oh no! It'll take me weeks to put this back together. Maybe months. Maybe even years."
All 3 turtles "We certainly hope so."
[End Credits]