“E-Turtle Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” | |||||||
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Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode episode | |||||||
Season Code: | 2 | ||||||
Episode: | 12A | ||||||
Original airdate | August 7, 2020 | ||||||
Written by | Josh Riley Brown | ||||||
Supervising Producer | Alan Wan | ||||||
Producers: | Vladimir Radev | ||||||
Directed by | Sebastian Montes | ||||||
Voice Direction | Rob Paulsen | ||||||
Storyboard Artist: | Max Collins & Sheldon Vella | ||||||
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"E-Turtle Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is the twentieth-first episode (Episode 12A) of the second season of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and is the sixty-seventh episode overall in the series. It first aired on August 7th, 2020.
Synopsis[]
The Turtles must enter Splinter's mind when a powerful foe returns.
Appearing in E-Turtle Sunshine of the Spotless Mind[]
Major characters[]
- April O'Neil (Kat Graham)
- Donatello (Josh Brener)
- Baron Draxum (Roger Craig Smith)
- Foot Clan
- Leonardo (Ben Schwartz)
- Michelangelo (Brandon Mychal Smith)
- Raphael (Omar Benson Miller)
- Splinter (Eric Bauza and Sander Argabrite)
Minor characters[]
- Hamato Atsuko (Keiko Agena) (debut) (flashback only)
- Hamato Karai (Gwendoline Yeo) (debut)
- Hamato Sho (Matt Yang King) (debut) (flashback only)
Species[]
Objects and vehicles[]
- Kuroi Yōroi
- Kusari-fundō
- Lou Jitsu's trailer (flashback only)
- Mystic baseball bat
- Mystic Collar (destroyed)
- Mystic Ōdachi
- Mystic Orb
- Mystic Ring
- Sands of Time Hourglass (debut)
- Tech-Bō
- Tonfā
Locations[]
- New York City
- Japan (flashback only)
- Hamato apartment (debut) (flashback only)
- Twilight Realm (debut)
Plot[]
The first part of the finale episode special starts with the Foot Shack, since the events after the disappearance of the city and the return of the Shredder, Foot Recruit announces to the Shredder that they can finally fulfill their mission. Foot Lieutenant tells her that he will not respond unless they utilize Big Mama's Mystic Ring. Foot Recruit demands that they free him from the Mystic Collar and properly revive him.
Meanwhile, the Mad Dogs, Baron Draxum, and Splinter return to the lair after the fight with Shadow Fiend. With the civilians still inside in the Mystic Orb. Michelangelo asks Draxum to let the people out, but Splinter refuses them to open it because Shredder is out there and Leo agrees with his father, saying that he don't want them to get "shredded". Splinter wished he had listened to his Grandpa Sho's stories about defeating the Shredder. Draxum suggests that they enter Splinter's memories to retrieve Sho's information.
Draxum created a mystic ritual using the Sands of Time Hourglass with the idea of his and tells them that they have to find the way to defeat Shredder. April asked him that it's safe which Draxum maybe agrees. When Splinter asks if they will see his private memories, Draxum innocently saying not his problem as he bids them good luck and sends the Turtles into Splinter's mind so they can gain across his memories to defeat the Shredder.
Yoshi was revealed that he didn't listen to his grandfather and never wanted to fulfill his destiny. As an adult he was very important about his career and never came back to his family. Sho tries to convince Yoshi that he must fulfill his destiny of defeating Shredder, but he still ignores him and sternly refuses and angrily slams the door on his grandfather's face. Seeing his grandson truly cut his ties off his own clan, Sho chooses to respect his grandson's decision and leaves sadly. Yoshi opens the curtains in his trailer and sees his grandfather leaving, he starts to tear up, feeling remorseful for his mistreatment towards his former sensei as he dejectedly closes the curtains. The Turtles follow Splinter's grandfather but then Splinter's subconscious begins fighting them.
After sensing that they are being rejected by Splinter's subconscious, Draxum moves them into another memory, this one located in Japan, where teenage Yoshi enters an argument with Sho. Teenage Yoshi reveals his frustration to his grandfather towards his own clan, asking if he must waste his life to believe in the existence of the Shredder, just like Sho and his mother, Hamato Atsuko, who is deceased. Angered, Yoshi told his grandfather of his dream to be a Hollywood actor, already having created headshots. Once Yoshi stormed out of his bedroom followed by Sho, his headshots mystically transformed into Lou Jitsu, small versions of Lou Jitsu emerging from the photographs to attack the Turtles.
The Turtles are chased from the apartment complex onto the street by Lou Jitsu where Raph splits off from his brothers to investigate a new memory while they fend off Lou Jitsu. In the memory, Raph learns that Atsuko left her family when Yoshi is still a child to defend the world. Raph also learns that the Shredder can be defeated by a powerful weapon to banish him into the Twilight Realm. Atsuko promises Yoshi the sacrifice he'll make and the words, "Anata wa hitori ja nai" are heard before she mystically fades. Lou Jitsu then disrupts the memory, punching the Mikey, Donnie, and Leo into it and attacking them further. April enters the memory to save them, striking Lou Jitsu with her baseball bat, and they all escape Splinter's brain.
Draxum stops the ritual and they all know what do to. He opens a portal to the Twilight Realm where Splinter and the Mad Dogs rip the weapon out out its lock. But the sword unexpectedly changes into the form of an unknown woman wearing a Hamato Clan emblem, she angrily asks them what they have done before she faints.
From below the Foot Shack, blue flames ignite and Shredder finally comes back to life and speaks for the first time while maniacally laughing as the first part ends.
Quotes[]
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Trivia[]
- The episode's title is a reference to the 2004 drama film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
- This marks the first time in the series where the Shredder speaks.
- This marks the first appearance of Karai in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- The animation used when April first emerges in Splinter's mind to rescue the Turtles is recycled from "Mystic Mayhem" when she jumps to attack Draxum in his laboratory.
- The Lou Jitsu production crew members depicted in the first memory when Sho talks to Lou Jitsu at his trailer are (from left to right) Rise of the TMNT director and story artist JJ Conway[1], Rise of the TMNT production coordinator Nancy Covarrubias Ramirez, Rise of the TMNT production assistant Kiara Franklin, and Rise of the TMNT production coordinator Cindy Y. Avila.[2]
- The green action figure Yoshi plays with is a kappa, a type of yōkai in Japanese folklore, and his red action figure is reminiscent of a tokusatsu (kanji: 特撮, "special effects") superhero.
- Hoon Lee, who voices the Shredder, also voiced Splinter and his father in the 2012 TV series.
- The "soft c.p. sales" writing on the Foot Shack store front stands for "soft consumer products sales".[3] The "hard pause" that is also depicted on the store front is a reference to the series' indefinite hiatus[4][5], referred to by the network as a "pause".[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
- Sho and Yoshi's apartment complex is next to a karaoke venue as shown by the neighboring building's signage, カラオケ (written in katakana).
- Splinter's manifested subconscious is called "Shadow Lou Jitsu" by Rise of the TMNT character designer Bryce Collins.[14][15][16]
- Although in the final memory they each wear red and indigo outfits, Yoshi wears Western clothing while Atsuko and Sho wear traditional Japanese clothing.
- When Atsuko stands up, instead of being wrapped left side over right side, her kimono is wrapped right over left which is used exclusively for the deceased.
- The poster hung on the side of Yoshi's bedside bookcase is a poster for 1954 epic film Godzilla. The katakana on the poster is: ゴジラ, "Gojira".
- Sho and Yoshi are shown wearing shoes (Sho wearing zōri and Yoshi wearing sneakers) indoors in the second memory. This is unusual in Japan as shoes are customarily removed when in homes, Yoshi wearing shoes on his bed is also disapproved of in Japan.
- The legible Japanese text on the Hamato Clan scroll (界, "kai") translates to: "border; realm; bound; world; boundary".
- Shadow Lou Jitsu's sunglasses fall damaged from his face once he is struck by April's baseball bat, but in the following shot, his sunglasses are intact and worn by him again. This may possibly be a result of Shadow Lou Jitsu supernaturally regenerating his sunglasses instead of a continuity error.
- The lanterns hung on the building exteriors during the Shadow Lou Jitsu chase sequence are likely akachōchin, implying that it is a commercial area with many restaurants and/or izakaya.
- A figurine that resembles Doraemon from the 1969 manga Doraemon can be seen on the second shelf of Yoshi's bedside bookcase.
Errors[]
- In the wide shot during Foot Recruit's line, "I will decide our next move," she turns her body to face the Shredder, but in the closer shot during her following line, "And I say we remove this collar and bring him back to his full Shredder-ness!" her body once again turns to face the Shredder as if it is her first time doing so.
- During Draxum's line, "Not my problem," there is a frame where his nose is missing its purple color.
- When Sho runs to Lou Jitsu's trailer, the three Lou Jitsu production crew members, Ramirez, Franklin, and Avila, are each missing cast shadows.
- Sho's dark circles below his eyes are missing during Lou Jitsu's line, "I told you, Jiji, I don't have time for that."
- When Yoshi initially reaches to grab Atsuko's arm, his left sock is missing in one frame.
- Splinter's tail is colored the same pink as his limbs and inner ears instead of dark pink when the family chants to celebrate Draxum.
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References[]
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