| “Hot Soup: The Game” | |||||||
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| Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode | |||||||
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| Season Code: | 024 | ||||||
| Episode: | 12B | ||||||
| Original airdate | February 16, 2019 | ||||||
| Written by | Russ Carney & Ron Corcillo | ||||||
| Producers: | Vladimir Radev | ||||||
| Directed by | Abe Audish | ||||||
| Voice Direction | Rob Paulsen | ||||||
| Supervising Director | Alan Wan | ||||||
| Storyboard Artist: | Alicia Chan Christina "KiKi" Manrique | ||||||
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"Hot Soup: The Game" is the twenty-second episode (Episode 12B) of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It first aired on February 16th, 2019.
Synopsis[]
Mikey goes on a solo mission to retrieve a classic Lou Jitsu video game.
Appearing in Hot Soup: The Game[]
Major characters[]
Minor characters[]
- Boss Level Guy (Rob Paulsen) (debut)
- Donatello (Josh Brener)
- Leonardo (Ben Schwartz)
- Lou Jitsu/Splinter (Eric Bauza)
- Raphael (Omar Benson Miller)
- Tang Shen (image only) (debut)
- Video Game Commercial Thugs (debut)
- Voiceover Guy (Maurice LaMarche) (debut)
Additional Voices by Eric Bauza
Species[]
- Human
- Altered human
- Mutant rat
- Mutant turtle
Objects and vehicles[]
- Hot Soup: The Game (debut)
- Ice Cream Kitty (debut)
- Kunai
- Kusari-fundō
- Mystic communicator (debut)
- Mystic Ōdachi
- Pixel 2 (debut)
- Tech-Bō
- Tonfā
Locations[]
Plot[]
The episode starts as the four Turtles watch an old advertisement of a Lou Jitsu video game. Mikey immediately checks online to see if it's in stock, and proceeds to purchase it. There is a copy of the game at the Montes Auction House, which means that the Turtles will have to go pick it up themselves. Raph is uncertain how they will get the game without being questioned by their mutant appearances. Mikey implies that he can go get the game himself as his first solo mission. Leo and Donnie are willing to let Mikey go, much to Raph's disapproval. Unfortunately, the eldest turtle has noticed that Mikey has left his Kusari-Fundo in the Lair, moments after he left.
Mikey is later seen moving across building rooftops until he finally arrives at the Montes auction house. Mikey then states he should have brought candles the mission seems to be a piece of cake. After he jumps through the skylight the Foot Brute and Foot lieutenant are shown on top of another building along with a new recruit.
The lieutenant praises the recruit's progress before telling her that her final test is a solo mission. The recruit asks, while literally crushing a brick in her hand, what clan enemy she needs to crush between her fists. They tell her that her mission is to retrieve a mysterious artifact said to have been owned by Lou Jitsu. The clans members briefly gush over his movies, such as Jitsu for Justice and Punch Chowder. The recruit says she will study the films and that she will tear the auction house apart to find every Lou Jitsu item it has. While the clans member like her intensity they tell her stick with stealth. The recruit proceeds to jump off the roof yelling "Foot Clan!"
Mikey is shown lowering himself into the auction house. He talks about getting the game and going home, only for the rope he's using to break. He then falls into a suit of armor. Mikey is amazed by the armor until the recruit shows up behind him and asks who he is and why he is there. When Mikey says he's there to get his Lou Jitsu video game and asks if the the recruit likes Lou Jitsu the recruit appears to be ready to explore in anger before calmly stating Punch Chowder is her favorite motion picture.
She then proceeds to steal Mikey's receipt and tells him to stay there and do nothing. The recruit goes to another room and calls her masters to tell them that one of the turtles is there. The brute asks if she thinks she'll need help only for the lieutenant to nix the idea. The recruit asks if she can "vanquish his soul to the depths of oblivion" and her masters agree. After the call ends the brute asks what they'll do it Mikey defeats the recruit. The lieutenant says they could just hire Jocelyn, another recruit, since they go through about one a week.
Meanwhile Mikey is trying to figure out what's up with the recruit. He notes that she seems like an employee, but the lights are off. He wonders if there was a power outage but she didn't seemed shocked that Mikey is a mutant. He wonders if maybe she thought he was in costume but she did like Punch Chowder. Mikey, after stating that only criminals like that movie, is attacked by the recruit who says enemies of the foot clan must perish. She then proceeds to take several swipes at Mikey while chasing him with a giant axe. She ends up knocking Mikey onto a record play while also, unintentionally, freeing him from the armor.
When the recruit throws the axe at Mikey he grabs a stand to block it. He then notices that the stand holds the video game he came for. Mikey grabs the game and dodges an attack from the recruit who then demands that Mikey handover the game. Mikey runs towards the exit only to find it locked. After dodging multiple knifes thrown at him he tries to climb out the window only for the recruit to try to pull him back in. Just then Raph calls to check up on things and asks, in a cutesy voice, if Mikey is ok. Mikey tries to pretend he is fine, only to be pulled back into the auction house. The recruit, who has the game now, says Mikey won't leave until she's smashed his shell into powder. Raph, hearing the commotion over the phone, asks who that was.
After narrowly avoiding getting kicked in the head Mikey says it's just a pushy clerk trying to sell him the extended warranty and then hangs up. Raph's "overprotective brother sense" starts to tingle and he tells Donnie to tap into the security cameras. When the brothers first look at the footage Mikey seems fine. But upon seeing the recruit kick Mikey out of view Raph says Mikey needs them and drags Leo and Donnie off to go save him.
The fight eventually leads to the storage room, where the recruit kicks Mikey back before extending a spear, making Mikey grab an umbrella. As they make and block blows, Mikey backs into a statue of a cat made of ice cream, which he finds cute as he puts it back, only for the recruit to break it when she throws knives him, making Mikey open the umbrella to shield himself as he ducks down. Seeing the statue's destruction, Mikey calls the recruit a monster before throwing a cloth over her head to blind her, but she continues to fight Mikey, who grabs the game from the recruit with the handle and puts it in his mouth to counter an oncoming strike, which traps the spear into the opened umbrella before Mikey spins it out of the recruit's hand, only for her to kick him back and catches the game. The lieutenants soon contact the recruit to check up on her status, to which she replies it is under control and will be out in a minute. Proclaiming Mikey finished, the recruit charges at him, only for him to throw a giant beach ball at her and kicks her towards a harp, trapping her in the strings.
Mikey soon swipes the game from the recruit, remarking how Raph thought he couldn't retrieve it by himself. As he proclaimed his mission complete, the emergency exit door is knocked over, pinning Mikey underneath it before Raph, Leo, and Donnie show up, intending to rescue him, only to hear his groaning from underneath the knocked down door.
Waiting for the recruit, the lieutenants discover all the turtles in the same location and, mistaking it for an ambush, move to assist the recruit. While Mikey reprimands Raph for nearly compromising the solo mission, who tries to apologize before Leo interrupts the former, reminding him of the game, the recruit frees herself from the harp strings, throws knives at Mikey, who dodges, and rams him down, kicks Raph back, throws Leo over her shoulder, and grabs Donnie's weapon before spinning to pull him along and throws him down, grabbing the game in the process. As she proclaimed her mission complete, the wall behind her is blasted open, knocking her down as the lieutenants arrive. The recruit reprimands the two with the same thing Mikey said before Mikey remarks it, resulting in Raph grabbing the brute, proclaiming his protection for Mikey as the lieutenant picks up the game, only to reveal it was not the artefact they were seeking and proclaims the recruit's mission as a bust on a technicality. The lieutenant then creates a portal as the recruit proclaims she'll prove her worth next time before they leave, leaving the brute behind, who continues fighting Raph as Mikey picks up the game and holds it triumphantly.
As he installs the game, Mikey sarcastically asks Raph, whose upper body and right leg are in casts, wearing a neck brace, bandaged head, bust left toe, and swollen right eye, if he wants the first game, amusing Leo and Donnie before Mikey begins to play it, only to be disappointed that Lou Jitsu is a beige rectangle and claims it a rip-off. Splinter then arrives, excited at seeing the game, swipes the controls from Mikey and begins to play it himself.
Quotes[]
Mikey: I had it in my hands! I was literally ready to leave. What part of “by myself” don't you understand?
Donnie: Oh, sure. Let me just load my tap into every security camera in New York app. I’m sorry if it sounded like sarcasm. It wasn’t, I am in.
Trivia[]
- Tang Shen's name is shown in one of the movie title cards, Lou Jitsu and Tang Shen: Jitsu for Justice, while Foot Lieutenant and Foot Brute are telling Foot Recruit how much they love Lou Jitsu.
- An ice hockey stick is seen next to a katana when Mikey battles Foot Recruit.
- The katakana text in this episode (ホットスープ) translates to: "Hot Soup".
- There were a few items in the Montes Auction House that serve as Easter Eggs of the 2012 TV series:
- As Mikey grabs the umbrella while battling Foot Recruit, there is a katana with the 2012 TV series' Hamato Clan emblem on it.
- A statue of Ice Cream Kitty appears and is remarked on by Mikey.
- After the three Turtles break into the auction house to "rescue" Mikey, he shouts out "Narf!". This is a reference to the Animaniacs' Pinky and Pinky and the Brain, who is also voiced by Rob Paulsen.
- It was revealed in August 2020 by Rise of the TMNT staff writer Ron Corcillo in a Tweet that, "['Hot Soup: The Game' is] Probably my fave ep that [Russ Carney] and I have written for this show. The idea was to write an ep that was one big [Inspector Clouseau] and [Cato Fong] fight (check out old Pink Panther movies if you haven't seen them). Managed to get in some heart and everyone's favorite, Foot Recruit. Score!"[1]
- It was revealed in August 2020 by Rise of the TMNT staff writer Corcillo in a Tweet that this episode was nearly discarded entirely during its outline stage.[2]
Errors[]
- When Splinter first enters the lair TV room, Splinter's hair is colored the same grey as his fur instead of white while the camera zooms in on him.