[Opening sequence and theme song.]
[Episode begins in the sewer tunnels. Donatello mans the controls of a large machine with several fan blades mounted on it. They face outward, over the water. Michelangelo hops onto a sailboard.]
Michelangelo "Thanks for helping me sewer test my new board, Donatello."
Donatello "Hey, no sweat, Michelangelo. This invention of mine should do the trick just fine."
Raphael "Sure, every sewer needs a wind and wave generator."
Michelangelo "All right! Switch on!"
Donatello "Hang on! Here it comes!"
[He throws a switch. The fans turn and so do the rotors that churn the water. Unfortunately, it barely moves the sailboard.]
Michelangelo "Aw, great, it's like trying to sailboard in a kiddie pool. Donatello, I hunger for a cowabunga. Give me more wind, dude, and some awesomely humongous waves!"
Donatello "Well, I'd rather not, it isn't perfected yet. Who knows what might happen if I crank it up too high?"
[Splinter steps out of the tunnel which leads to the lair to address the four turtles.]
Splinter "Have patience, Michelangelo. Bigger is not always better. Sometimes it is best for things to remain as they are."
Michelangelo "If you say so, Master. I guess."
Splinter "Come, my turtles. It is time to practice your ninja skills."
Michelangelo "Boy, I hate to let a dynamite adventure go to waste. Not to mention my new sailboard.
There are only two things a dude needs if you're gonna windsurf. Wind and surf!
Uh oh, maybe I did overdo it just the teensiest bit! Whoa!
What was that?
It's a Kauai killer wave!
Whoa! Totally tubular! Man, there is nothing like windsurfing. The fresh, sea air filling your lungs, the waves rolling beneath your feet, the fresh breeze blowing through your hair, or in my case, scalp. Man, my turtle buds just don't know what they're missing."
[He stops at the machine.]
There are only two things a dude needs if you're gonna windsurf. Wind and surf!
[He pulls down several of the levers. The wind kicks into high and the waves start churning.]
Uh oh, maybe I did overdo it just the teensiest bit! Whoa!
[The wind blows him into the surfboard sail.]
What was that?
[A huge wave comes his direction.]
It's a Kauai killer wave!
[The wave carries him out of the sewers and into the bay.]
Whoa! Totally tubular! Man, there is nothing like windsurfing. The fresh, sea air filling your lungs, the waves rolling beneath your feet, the fresh breeze blowing through your hair, or in my case, scalp. Man, my turtle buds just don't know what they're missing."
[Back at the lair, the remaining turtles spar with Master Splinter.]
Splinter "Together, my turtles, attack!"
[Splinter knocks them all down.]
Donatello "Aw, my aching carapace."
Splinter "Your reactions are extremely slow today. One must always be prepared for the unexpected."
Leonardo "Uh, yes, Master Splinter."
Donatello "I still say three against one isn't fair."
Raphael "Yeah, now four against one, that's fair."
Splinter "Again, my turtles, attack!"
Raphael "I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but we need Michelangelo."
[In the bay, Michelangelo enjoys some waves.]
Michelangelo "Whoa! That set was epic! It even beats surfing in the sewer.
Huh? Whoa!
Come to think of it, the sewer's starting to look really good. What a harbor hog. Why can't they make those things in mini-subcompact size?"
[He hears the blast of a horn and looks ahead to see a ship coming straight at him.]
Huh? Whoa!
[The ship moves just past him, its wake nearly turning him over.]
Come to think of it, the sewer's starting to look really good. What a harbor hog. Why can't they make those things in mini-subcompact size?"
[Suddenly, from below it, a blue, glowing beam envelopes the ship. It shrinks and then sinks below the water.]
Michelangelo "Wha--talk about service."
[In a dilapidated building next to the pier, a miniaturizing ray machine zaps the shrunken ship into a bottle. Machine hands place a stopper in the bottle, and then deliver it to a man sitting at the controls.]
Talbot Breech "Excellent, excellent! Another splendid specimen for my miniature collection. My hobby may be shrinking, but my collection is growing!
They said I was too small for the Navy. Now the Navy is too small for me!
Thanks to my miniaturizing ray, I, Talbot Breech, shall have my revenge. I'll show those small-minded Lilliputians.
Claude, no, you're getting hair all over my uniform! That's against regulations. Now, shoo shoo shoo!"
[He places the bottle on one of the shelves in a set, where other ships are already displayed.]
They said I was too small for the Navy. Now the Navy is too small for me!
[A cat lying in a box meows and stretches.]
Thanks to my miniaturizing ray, I, Talbot Breech, shall have my revenge. I'll show those small-minded Lilliputians.
[The cat follows and rubs against his leg.]
Claude, no, you're getting hair all over my uniform! That's against regulations. Now, shoo shoo shoo!"
[Claude runs away, jumping into the man’s chair and then onto the control panel. His tail flicks the miniaturizing ray switch.]
Breech "Oh, Claude, what have you done?"
[Cut to Michelangelo, still floating on his sailboard.]
Michelangelo "Shrinking oil tankers. Whirlpools in the middle of the bay. Oh, when I tell the dudes about this, they'll think I've been scarfing some bad pizza.
Whoa!"
[Suddenly he and the sailboard are enveloped in the blue, glowing beam.]
Whoa!"
[He shouts as he shrinks, his voice growing higher in pitch. The ray zaps him into a bottle.]
Breech "Bad kitty! You know you're not allowed on two things. The couch or my weapons of total destruction. What?
See what you've done now, you naughty, naughty thing! Well, let's see what the cat has dragged in, shall we? Ah, just what I need for my collection, a miniature sailboard. Hold on, what's this?"
[The machine hand drops Michelangelo’s bottle and Breech dives to catch it.]
See what you've done now, you naughty, naughty thing! Well, let's see what the cat has dragged in, shall we? Ah, just what I need for my collection, a miniature sailboard. Hold on, what's this?"
[Michelangelo shouts at him, his voice high and muffled.]
Michelangelo "Hey, let me out of here! What's the big idea?"
Breech "A tiny turtle, with a headband. Hmm, it must be some new species of aquatic life. Oh, well, I'll deal with that later.
After a hard day of shrinking, there's nothing like a relaxing bath."
[He places Michelangelo’s bottle on a shelf.]
After a hard day of shrinking, there's nothing like a relaxing bath."
[Breech retires to his bath, which includes mini-boats for him to play with.]
Breech "Toot toot! Make way for the tug boat. Oh, being the commander of a boat is a real hoot."
[He blows the whistle attached to the tugboat. Meanwhile, Michelangelo is evaluating his predicament.]
Michelangelo "Well, now I know how a genie in a bottle feels. Oh, it's no use. With my size, this glass might as well be super-reinforced titanium.
Agghhhh! Scram, kitty! Beat it, would you? Make cat tracks.
Whoa, whoa! I wonder how you put these things in reverse."
[Claude jumps onto the shelf next to him and meows.]
Agghhhh! Scram, kitty! Beat it, would you? Make cat tracks.
[Claude bats at the bottle and knocks it off the shelf.]
Whoa, whoa! I wonder how you put these things in reverse."
[The glass shatters and startles Breech.]
Breech "Oh, what now? I'll bet it's that darn cat again. Why didn't I get a parrot like every other scourge of the seven seas?"
Michelangelo "All right, at least I'm out of that bottle.
Agghhhhh! And into the frying pan. Now I know how I must look to a pizza with everything.
Back off, kitty! I'm not as tasty as I look. I'm all shell.
Major bummer.
Why is it you can never find a mouse hole when you really need one, like in the real cartoons."
[Claude sneaks up behind him and howls.]
Agghhhhh! And into the frying pan. Now I know how I must look to a pizza with everything.
[Michelangelo backs away from the cat.]
Back off, kitty! I'm not as tasty as I look. I'm all shell.
[He starts running and Claude gives chase.]
Major bummer.
[He runs under desk.]
Why is it you can never find a mouse hole when you really need one, like in the real cartoons."
[Suddenly Breech appears and picks Claude up.]
Breech "Claude, you naughty cat. I don't know what's gotten into you."
Michelangelo "I know what almost got into him, me!"
[Breech doesn’t see Michelangelo, but he sees the broken bottle.]
Breech "Oh, look at what you've done, you bad, bad, kitty.
You can come back when you've learned not to break things."
[He tosses Claude outside.]
You can come back when you've learned not to break things."
Michelangelo "This thing's too big for me to handle. Come to think of it, everything's too big for me to handle. I better call in the turtle cavalry.
Yo, dudes, pick up the phone! Aw, the power on the turtlecom shrunk, too. There's got to be some way to contact the guys."
[He tries using his turtlecom, but only gets static.]
Yo, dudes, pick up the phone! Aw, the power on the turtlecom shrunk, too. There's got to be some way to contact the guys."
[The other three turtles come up from the sewers into an alley, each carrying a garbage bag.]
Raphael "Yup, leave it to Michelangelo to disappear when it's his turn to take out the trash."
Donatello "Worse yet, he left my wind and water generator turned on."
Leonardo "You know, it's not like Michelangelo to be gone this long."
Raphael "Oh, he'll be back soon now that all the work is done."
[Back at Breech’s hideout, Michelangelo has climbed to the top of a floor lamp.]
Michelangelo "I'll bet my buds are mondo worried about me. I gotta find some way to let them know where I am.
All right! Reach out and touch some turtles!"
[He spots a phone on the desk.]
All right! Reach out and touch some turtles!"
[He slides down the lamp and runs over to the desk.]
Michelangelo "How's a dude supposed to get way up there?
First floor. Carpets, drapes, Venetian blinds, going up.
Man, I'm starting to feel like the seafood special. Under glass!"
[He starts climbing the drape pulley.]
First floor. Carpets, drapes, Venetian blinds, going up.
[His weight opens the drapes. Claude spots him through the window and licks his lips.]
Man, I'm starting to feel like the seafood special. Under glass!"
[He swings over to the desk on the venetian blind cord. The window is open at the top and Claude hops through.]
Michelangelo "Lucky thing this isn't a pay phone. I don't have any small change large enough."
[He places a letter opener under the handset and jumps onto the handle. After knocking the handset off the phone, he uses a pencil to punch in a phone number. The phone on Vernon’s desk starts ringing.]
Vernon "Channel 6 news, Vernon Fenwick speaking. Oh, what's that? Speak up, I can't hear you."
Michelangelo "I said I have to talk to April O'Neil!"
Vernon "Did you say April? She's out on assignment."
Michelangelo "No, don't hang up, dude. This is mondo importanti! You have to tell April—"
Vernon "Uh huh, mmm hmm. Yeah, I see. Uh huh."
Michelangelo "Shrinking boats and not only that, he's got this huge, hungry cat!"
[Claude pounces and Michelangelo runs.]
Vernon "Ohhhh!"
Burne Thompson "Who was that on the phone?"
Vernon "I'm not sure. Something about raising votes to feed hungry cats."
Thompson "Well, never mind that. Get down to the harbor and help April do that aircraft carrier report. Go go go!"
Vernon "Must I? I suffer from sea sickness."
Thompson "Would you rather suffer from unemployment?"
Vernon "On second thought—"
[Meanwhile, Michelangelo continues trying to evade Claude, the cat.]
Michelangelo "Yo, goldfish breath, pick a card!
Uh oh!"
[He runs on the rolodex wheel and the cards slap Claude’s face. Claude extends his claws.]
Uh oh!"
[Michelangelo runs to the end of the desk and jumps into the pocket of a lab coat hanging nearby. Claude jumps on the coat and tears it up and both fall to the floor. Michelangelo spots a mouse hole and dashes inside.]
Michelangelo "Phew! What a life. I went from manhole to mouse hole.
I know you won't believe this, but one of my best friends is a giant rat."
[He hears squeaking and turns to see a rat stalking him.]
I know you won't believe this, but one of my best friends is a giant rat."
[Michelangelo makes a run for it, going past Claude, who turns to chase him. Claude pounces on Michelangelo and licks his lips. Breech arrives and lifts Claude up from a flattened Michelangelo.]
Breech "Claude, how did you get in here? Oh, just look at the mess you've made. I cannot even have lunch without you destroying my laboratory. Either shape up or ship out!"
[Michelangelo runs over to the table and then stops to sniff the air. He can’t see the pizza sitting on the table.]
Michelangelo "Something in here smells truly stupenduloso. This spaghetti stick ought to get me up there.
Tah dah! Pizza! Acres and acres of it. So much pizza, so little time."
[He uses a piece of uncooked spaghetti to pole-vault onto the table.]
Tah dah! Pizza! Acres and acres of it. So much pizza, so little time."
[He starts eating. Back at the lair, the other turtles are also eating pizza.]
Donatello "Peanut butter and salami pizza with double-yogurt topping. Michelangelo doesn't know what he's missing."
Leonardo "He's been gone for an awfully long time. Maybe we should go look for him."
Raphael "Better yet, let's just save him a slice. A small one."
[He turns on the television to April’s on-site newscast.]
April O’Neil "This is April O'Neil reporting from the deck of the U.S.S. Flat Top, the Navy's newest and largest aircraft carrier. In a Channel 6 exclusive, our viewers will be getting a special pre-launch tour of this massive ship."
[Breech is also watching April’s report from his miniaturizing ray control panel.]
Breech "What a momentous day. This is going to be the biggest ship I ever made little."
Michelangelo "Uh oh. I recognize that sound. It's that shrinking machine! At full power! Talbot's about to sink another ship, and April's on board."
[Breech throws the switch and the blue ray envelopes the ship. The turtles see it happening on TV.]
Leonardo "What's going on?"
Raphael "It's some weird kind of beam."
Vernon "I knew we should have stayed onshore."
[The ship shrinks and is drawn down into a whirlpool.]
April "Help! Help! Aah!"
Donatello "April's in big trouble."
Leonardo "We've got to do something."
Raphael "And without Michelangelo, wherever he is."
[The miniaturized ship appears on the miniaturizing ray platform.]
Breech "Oh, just what I've always wanted. My very own aircraft carrier. It even has lots of teeny-weeny airplanes. I cannot wait to get this into the bathtub."
[A shrunken April and Vernon speak in high-pitched voices.]
April "Vernon, we've got to get off this ship and get help."
Vernon "Uh, that's a lovely idea, I'll hide--I'll wait here."
April "Suit yourself. If you want to stay here all alone."
Vernon "Alone? April, wait up!"
Breech "I bet none of those Naval Academy grads have a real aircraft carrier in their bathtubs."
[As he carries the ship, April tosses a ladder over the side and starts to climb down.]
April "Follow me, Vernon. We'll use this emergency ladder."
Vernon "Why couldn't they put emergency elevators on ships?"
[April reaches the bottom rung of the ladder and dangles above the floor.]
April "Uh oh, the ladder's too short! Maybe if I can jump down!"
Vernon "Jump? From way up here?"
April "It's only a couple of feet."
Vernon "A couple of feet?"
[April lets go of the ladder and falls into the cat’s water bowl. Vernon falls into the food bowl.]
Vernon "Only a couple of broken feet."
[Michelangelo spots them.]
Michelangelo "April and Vernon! All right!"
[The sound of the cat door opening turns him around in time to see Claude’s approach. Michelangelo steps back and slams a door in Claude’s face. While the cat is stunned, Michelangelo climbs onto the desk chair and then ducks into a torn section of the seat. Claude pushes open the door and starts looking for him.]
Vernon "Oh, cat food? Yuck. How will I ever get it off?"
[Claude walks over to Vernon, sniffs him, and starts licking.]
April "Well, that's one way.
Vernon, that phony purring won't fool that cat for a moment!"
[Vernon pretends to purr.]
Vernon, that phony purring won't fool that cat for a moment!"
Michelangelo "Uh oh, April's about to be a kitty treat. A turtle's gotta do what a turtle's gotta do.
Hey, dude, pick on somebody your own size!"
[He climbs onto a spring, pulls a tiny knife, and bangs on the spring until it shoots him into the air. He lands on the back of Claude’s neck.]
Hey, dude, pick on somebody your own size!"
[Vernon has fainted and April is holding him up.]
April "Michelangelo!
Ride 'em, Catboy!"
[Claude rears up and runs, with Michelangelo clinging to him.]
Ride 'em, Catboy!"
Michelangelo "Yee Haw! Cowabunga!
Thanks for the totally gnarly ride, dude."
[Claude springs onto a shelf and through an opening that actually a glass case. Michelangelo leaps off as the glass door swings shut, trapping the cat.]
Thanks for the totally gnarly ride, dude."
Vernon "What's happening?"
April "You're all right, Vernon. Let's just say your purring worked. Michelangelo, we gotta do something before every ship on the ocean is shrunk. We need a plan!"
Michelangelo "Or better yet, a plane."
[Breech is again in his bathtub, playing with his various ‘toys’.]
Breech "Now, for the grandest moment of all. When I personally sink the Navy's prize aircraft carrier. Boop boop, dive, dive! Run, everyone, look out! Here he comes, ooh!
Owee, I got soap in my eye. Oh, but that's so embarrassing, especially for a submarine commander!"
[He splashes himself in the face.]
Owee, I got soap in my eye. Oh, but that's so embarrassing, especially for a submarine commander!"
[Michelangelo has climbed onto the sink. He grabs a soap-on-a-rope and swings across to the tub, landing on the aircraft carrier deck.]
Michelangelo "Cowabunga!
This couldn't be much harder to fly than the turtle blimp, or could it?
Well, here goes nothing."
[He climbs into the cockpit of one of the jets.]
This couldn't be much harder to fly than the turtle blimp, or could it?
[He starts pressing buttons and the engine starts.]
Well, here goes nothing."
[Breech takes the towel away from his face and sees the movement.]
Breech "Huh? What's that? You listen, you, nobody plays with my toys but me!"
[April and Vernon are standing on the tissue boxes near the tub.]
April "He’s got Michelangelo. We gotta do something!"
Vernon "Like what?"
April "Like this!"
[She jumps onto the top of a can of shave cream and shoots some into Breech’s eyes.]
Breech "What in blazes!"
[As he tries to remove the shave cream from his eyes, Michelangelo takes off in the jet.]
Michelangelo "Houston, we have liftoff."
April "Let's go, Vernon."
Michelangelo "There's only one way out of here."
[He heads for the skylight and presses a button to shoot one of the jet’s rockets. It blasts a hole for him to fly through.]
April "Michelangelo escaped. Why don’t you and I do the same thing—"
[Breech grabs April and Vernon.]
Breech "Uh, uh, uh. Not so fast, my little friends. Well, some human beings to add to my collection. Aren't I the little shrinker?"
[The other turtles have arrived at the bay area and have found the Channel 6 news van.]
Donatello "It's crazy, April and Vernon disappeared just like that."
[The monitors in the van come on as Burne Thompson tries to reach April.]
Thompson "April, where are you? What's happening with that aircraft carrier story?"
Leonardo "Sorry, Mr. Thompson, but the carrier's vanished, along with April."
Thompson "So, the turtles again. Why is it, whenever there's trouble, you shell-back delinquents are always involved?"
Raphael "Just lucky, I guess."
[Michelangelo reaches the news van and see the other turtles. He starts flying around them.]
Michelangelo "Hey, it's my bosom buds!"
Donatello "Guys, we've gotta come up with a plan."
Raphael "Well, how can a guy think with these giant mosquitoes bugging us?"
[He swats and grabs at the jet as it flies around his head. Michelangelo uses his turtlecom to reach Leonardo.]
Michelangelo "Hey, dudes, it's me, Michelangelo!"
Leonardo "That's no mosquito, it's Michelangelo."
[Donatello uses his turtlecom also.]
Donatello "Michelangelo? What happened to you?"
Michelangelo "Forget me, dudes, it's a long story. We've gotta save April and Vernon. Follow me, guys."
[He flies off and the turtles follow in the news van. Meanwhile, Breech has placed April and Vernon in a glass bottle.]
Breech "Consider yourselves fortunate. Instead of being destroyed, you'll reside with me here forever. Besides, I like having someone smaller than me hanging around the place."
[He presses a button which opens the door on the glass case that imprisons Claude. The cat jumps out and bounces off of Breech’s head, knocking him down. He drops the bottle. Michelangelo flies back inside and buzzes Breech.]
Breech "So, it's you again. I'll fix you."
[He engages the mechanical hands. One of them manages to pull a wing off the jet.]
Michelangelo "Uh oh, time to hit the silk! Michelangelo geronimo!"
[He parachutes out just before the jet hits the wall, smashes, and falls to the floor to explode. Michelangelo’s parachute catches on a corner of the desk, leaving him dangling.]
Breech "I'm so glad you could drop in."
[There is a sound of tires screeching and then Leonardo drives the van straight through a wall.]
Leonardo "Change our friends back to the right size."
Raphael "Yeah, or you'll be in big trouble, shorty!"
[Breech climbs onto a stool.]
Breech "Shorty, eh? I'll show you.
Turn them into turtle tidbits!"
[He presses a button next to a panel. The panel opens and several robots, dressed as sailors roll out.]
Turn them into turtle tidbits!"
[The turtles battle the robots, who snap at them with their multiple arms.]
Raphael "Whoa, these tin cans mean business."
Michelangelo "How do I get out of this thing?
Uh, thanks, robotic dude!"
[One of the clamps on a robot snaps the rope and drops him to the floor.]
Uh, thanks, robotic dude!"
Breech "Surrender! You cannot defeat my robots!
As for you, you've bugged me long enough."
[Michelangelo jumps onto a section of the miniaturizing ray control panel.]
As for you, you've bugged me long enough."
[He takes a fly swatter and swats at Michelangelo, who runs across the panel dodging him.]
Michelangelo "Na na na na na!"
[Breech keeps missing him and hitting the control panel. Finally it starts to spark, and then it explodes. The miniaturizing rays tilt and shoot April and Vernon, who return to their full size.]
April "Vernon, we're back to normal."
Vernon "Normal is a strange word coming from someone who's best friends are mutant turtles."
[Michelangelo is using his nunchucks to keep Claude away. A ray hits him and he’s returned to normal. Claude shrieks and runs.]
Michelangelo "Let's boogie, dudes!"
[The rays hit all the shrunken ships and they return to normal size, destroying Breech’s hideout in the process. Breech is caught on a pole on the tugboat. When the turtles are back at their lair, Splinter hands a gift to Michelangelo.]
Splinter "This is for you, Michelangelo. A small memento of your latest adventure."
Michelangelo "A present? Wow, Sensei, you didn't have to do that.
My pre-shrunk sailboard?"
[He opens the box.]
My pre-shrunk sailboard?"
Splinter "So that you'll always remember that bigger is not always better."
Michelangelo "Except in this case."
[A giant cat-shaped shadow looms over them. Michelangelo takes up a fighting stance, only to relax when a small kitten bounds into the room.]
Splinter "You were saying, Michelangelo?"
Michelangelo "Ah, nothing, Master. Small is cool with me.
Whoa, hey, that tickles!"
[The kitten licks his cheek.]
Whoa, hey, that tickles!"
[End Credits]