[Opening sequence and theme song.]
[Episode opens in the turtles’ lair. Raphael is on the couch, thumbing through a photo album. His brothers walk up behind him.]
Donatello "What’cha doing, Raphael?"
Raphael "Aah!"
[Startled, his tosses the book and Leonardo catches it.]
Leonardo "Ha ha ha. Taking a trip down memory Lane, I see. I didn't know you were so sentimental."
Raphael "Me sentimental? Heh. No way. I just opened that photo album by accident."
Donatello "Wow! Remember these guys?"
Michelangelo "Oh, yeah, the frogs. They were mondo cool amigos."
[A flashback commences.]
Leonardo "Hey, remember how Krang sent that can of mutagen to the wrong place?"
Raphael "Yeah, and it turned those swamp frogs into punk frogs."
[Flashback ends. In the swamp, a man and his son are in a boat, searching for alligators.]
Son "Gator hunting's slim in this swamp, Pa. Maybe we better go back to Louisiana."
Pa "That old leatherhead's somewhere in these waters, boy. He's the biggest gator that ever got born. I'm not leaving till I catch him."
[A giant alligator swims up behind them and then ducks beneath the water. It appears again next to them and leaps from the water to break their boat in two.]
Pa "Whoa! It's Leatherhead! Whoa! Yowey!"
[Pa begins madly paddling the front end of the boat to get away from Leatherhead.]
Son "W-where we headed now, Pa?"
Pa "Whoa! Back to Louisiana, lickety-split!"
[Leatherhead climbs onto the embankment and then begins to transform.]
Donatello "I wonder, what ever happened to the frogs?"
Michelangelo "Well, they're probably having a truly bodacious time in those peaceful Florida swamps."
[Cut to the swamps. Leatherhead is chasing the punk frogs.]
Leatherhead "No use skedaddling, frogs! You don't be escaping from old Leatherhead."
Napoleon Bonafrog "Faster, fellows. He's right on our tails!"
Genghis Frog "But that's impossible. We lost them things when we was itty bitty tadpoles."
Attila the Frog "It's just a figure of speech, Genghis."
Genghis "Why are you stopping, Napoleon?"
Napoleon "There comes a time when you've gotta stop running."
Attila "But why’d you have to pick this time?"
Napoleon "'Cause a frog's got to do what a frog's got to do."
[He snaps his whip at Leatherhead. The twist wraps around Leatherhead’s forearm, but the alligator grabs the thong.]
Leatherhead "Heh heh! You frogs be plenty pitiful."
[He yanks Napoleon off his feet, spins him a few times overhead, and tosses him into the other frogs.]
Napoleon "Whoa!"
Leatherhead "Ha ha ha ha! I showed them frogs, by gumbo."
Attila "Things don't look so good, do they?"
Rasputin the Mad Frog "We ain't giving up yet."
[He shoots an arrow into the air. It releases a net, which falls on Leatherhead.]
Leatherhead "Hey! What is this?"
Attila "Good shootin', Rasputin."
Genghis "Yeah. That ought to hold him."
[Leatherhead breaks out of the net.]
Leatherhead "It ought to-- but it won't! I guarantee."
Genghis "Fellas, it's time to regroup and rethink."
Attila "Okay, but first let's retreat!"
Leatherhead "You don't get so easy, you betcha."
[He throws the net and catches all four of the frogs.]
Frogs "No! Oh, gosh!"
Rasputin "What's plan b?"
[Shift to the punk frogs carrying Leatherhead on a litter. He is relaxing with a pillow under his head.]
Leatherhead "This sure be some good life. Heh heh heh."
Napoleon "This sure is hard work."
Leatherhead "Better you get used to it. You gonna be my slaves for life. And us gators live for hundreds of years, yeah. Ha ha! And in case you figure on escaping, my crawfish clamps make sure you don't. Now, I'm going to catch me forty winks, so, uh, keep it quiet, hear?"
Rasputin "It appears we're going to need some help dealing with Leatherhead. And I know just where to get it."
Attila "Who you gonna call, gatorbusters?"
Rasputin "No. Better yet."
[Cut to the turtles’ lair.]
Donatello "There's nothing like a trip down memory lane to work up an appetite."
Michelangelo "I can dig that, Donatello. Anyone for pizza?"
[Leonardo’s turtlecom beeps.]
Leonardo "Leonardo here. Who's this?"
Rasputin "This here's Rasputin."
Leonardo "Hey, the frogs. We were just talking about you fellas."
Rasputin "We kinda need your help. How fast can you get to Florida?"
Donatello "Where we going to stay while we're in Florida?"
Michelangelo "Hey, no problemo. April and Irma are down there on vacation. We could crash with them."
Leonardo "See how conveniently everything's working out? We won't have a bit of trouble."
[Scene shifts to the Technodrome, far underground.]
Krang "My tracking equipment tells me the turtles are up to something. Hmm."
[The group stands before the Technodrome’s giant view screen.]
Krang "Ahh. So this is what the Florida swamp looks like. Wait. What's this? Look at the size of that creature and those pesky punk frogs. That thing has captured them. Ooh, Shredder, I want you to go to the surface and enlist the help of that beast."
Shredder "A half alligator, half man? What do we need with a freak like that?"
Krang "If he can handle four armed frogs, he can certainly help us destroy those bothersome shellbacks. Now, go, and don't come back without that mutant."
Shredder "Just what we need-- more of them."
[In Florida, Donatello wears a disguise as he explains the situation to April and Irma, at the swimming pool of their hotel.]
Donatello "So you see, we're here to help out the frogs. Come on. I left the other guys back at the swamp."
Irma "Hold on. Did you say swamp?"
Donatello "Well, yeah. That's where the frogs live."
Irma "Icky things? Ohh, yuck. I just remembered a nail appointment back in the city. Ciao!"
[Irma runs away. Shift to April walking through the swamp with the turtles.]
Leonardo "Still no sign of the frogs or of this Leatherhead character, either."
[The group steps on a net, which snaps up to capture them. They dangle from a tree limb.]
All "Whoa! Hey!"
Donatello "Leonardo, try to cut us free."
Leonardo "I can't reach my sword."
Leatherhead "What you bums doing here in my swamp?"
Raphael "Uh, nothing much. Just hanging around."
Leatherhead "You come in here, but you ain't never going to leave. I guarantee. Ha ha ha!"
April O'Neil "I never thought it would end like this-- hanging in a net, captured by a mutant alligator."
Raphael "Yeah. Life sure takes funny twists, doesn't it?"
Rasputin "Uh, oh. Looks like our pals the turtles are in hot gumbo."
Attila "One of us really ought to do something."
Genghis "I guess it's my turn."
[He throws his ax and slices the rope that’s holding the net to the tree. The group falls and lands on Leatherhead.]
All "Uhh! Ooh!"
Leatherhead "Grr. Get off of me, and I'll fix you good."
Raphael "Which is why we're not about to."
Rasputin "Howdy, turtles. Welcome to the swamp. You fellas all right?"
Donatello "Never been better."
Leatherhead "Ohh! I get my claws on you, I make you into swamp stew!"
Leonardo "I doubt if you'll get the chance, my scaly friend."
[He tosses a line around a tree limb and attaches the end to Leatherhead’s belt. Leonardo yanks on the rope, pulling Leatherhead up off the ground. The others exclaim as Leatherhead is pulled out from under them.]
Leonardo "Frogs, this is our friend April."
Punk Frogs "Hey, pleasure, ma'am. Pleased to meet you."
April "Are things always this exciting around these parts?"
Rasputin "Only since this no-good Leatherhead showed up."
April "How do you suppose a creature like that came about?"
Donatello "Probably from some of Krang's mutagen that seeped into the swamp."
Raphael "But we've got a bigger problem. Now that we've got him, what do we do with him?"
[Leatherhead is growling and struggling. In another part of the swamp, a transport module erupts from the ground, disturbing a large bee hive hanging from a tree limb.]
Shredder "Rocksteady, you mutant muttonhead. You missed the coordinates completely."
Rocksteady "Oh, what's the difference, boss? A swamp is a swamp."
All "Bees! Ouch!"
[The bees swarm Shredder, Rocksteady, and Bebop, who jump into the swamp to escape them.]
Shredder "Now what do you have to say for yourself?"
Rocksteady "How about oops?"
Bebop "You always did have a way with words."
[Back to the turtles, frogs, April and Leatherhead. They have Leatherhead tied up, and are pulling him along with a rope.]
Napoleon "When we reach the edge of the swamp, we can turn Leatherhead over to the authorities."
April "How much farther is it?"
Napoleon "'Bout twelve miles as the crow flies. I don't know how far it is as the frog hops."
Donatello "Ugh. I'm bushed. Let's take a break."
Leonardo "We've been trudging through this swamp for hours now."
Donatello "And all we've got to show for it are blisters the size of Rhode Island."
Michelangelo "Yeah, and mosquitoes the size of 747s."
Rasputin "Shucks, I'll handle that.
Mmm. That sure hit the spot."
[He flicks his tongue to catch a mosquito and then eats it.]
Mmm. That sure hit the spot."
April "Ew, how could you do that?"
Rasputin "You're right, Miss April. I should've offered the two of you some."
Michelangelo "Forget it, dude. Not even on a pizza."
[Shredder’s comlink beeps.]
Shredder "Yes, Krang, what is it?"
Krang "Well, what's the delay? Haven't you located that mutant alligator yet?"
Shredder "Will you get off my back? I've got enough annoying pests bugging me already."
Krang "Ooh. Temper, temper, Shredder. Just keep an eye out for that creature. My scanners show he's in the area."
Bebop "Hey, boss, look what I found."
Shredder "It's the turtles."
Bebop "And a whole bunch of frogs."
Rocksteady "And they've got that mutant alligator with them."
Shredder "This is our lucky day-- we capture two prizes instead of one."
Rocksteady "Ooh! Ooh! You want we should rush them, boss?"
Shredder "Not yet. We'll follow them and see what they're up to."
Leatherhead "Hey, what you say we stop here? My feets, they are plenty tired."
Leonardo "Hmm. Maybe we should take a break."
Michelangelo "Yeah. Why not? Mutant alligators are only human, too."
Leonardo "All right, group, let's take five."
Leatherhead "Why don't you rest in that there shade? It be plenty cool there. I guarantee."
Genghis "That's mighty thoughtful of him, don't you think?"
Napoleon "Yeah, for a murderous stealing, cheating, double-crosser, ahh, he sure is nice."
April "Fellas, I've suddenly got a sinking feeling about this."
[The group starts to sink.]
Donatello "That's weird. So do I."
Leonardo "No wonder. We're standing in quicksand."
Leatherhead "You fell for the oldest trick in this here swamp. Yeah! Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Shredder "What did I tell you-- that alligator outsmarted them."
Leatherhead "You be finished now. The quicksand take care of you real good."
April "You're forgetting one thing, mister-- where we go, you go."
[They pull on the rope and yank him headfirst into the quicksand.]
Leatherhead "Whoa!"
Rocksteady "Ha ha ha ha! You're right, boss. He sure outsmarted them."
Shredder "Oh, shut up."
Raphael "Uhh! Uhh! This stuff's stickier than Michelangelo's melted mozzarella."
Rasputin "Fellas, we're sinking fast."
April "Oh, that's just great. Well, this is the last vacation I ever spend here."
Napoleon "Poor Leatherhead. He sure has got himself in a jam."
Donatello "Poor Leatherhead? What about poor us?"
Raphael "I suppose it's a little late to ask you frogs to teach us to breathe under water?"
Napoleon "Oh, well, we couldn't do that. That's a family secret that's going to die with us."
Shredder "It certainly is, you web-footed wimps."
Donatello "Shredder!"
Shredder "Hurry up and get them out."
Rocksteady "Uhh! Right, boss."
[He tosses a rope around Leatherhead’s feet and yanks him out of the quicksand. Leatherhead slams into Shredder.]
Shredder "Uhh!"
Leatherhead "You saved my life. Heh heh. What for you do that?"
Shredder "Let's just say I'm a lover of all wild creatures."
Leatherhead "Well, there ain't no creature wilder than old Leatherhead, you betcha! Ah, that feel plenty good.
Heh heh heh."
[He splashes mud.]
Heh heh heh."
Shredder "I wish you wouldn't do that. It's so hard to find a decent dry-cleaner in these swamps."
Leatherhead "Why you be so good to Leatherhead?"
Shredder "Because I have great plans for your future."
Michelangelo "Yo, Shredhead, what about us?"
Donatello "You're not just going to leave us here, are you?"
Shredder "Sorry, but I've already done my reptile rescue for this year. What a fitting end for the bunch of you-- back into the primordial swamp you came from. Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Genghis "Golly. He sure is one mean person."
Rasputin "But you got to admit, he does have a pleasant laugh."
Napoleon "I got an idea to get us out of here."
Michelangelo "Oh, yeah? Like how?"
Napoleon "Like so.
Follow me, y'all."
[He uses his whip to snag a tree branch and then climbs up.]
Follow me, y'all."
April "It's working, Napoleon."
Attila "You first, Rasputin. Oh, no."
Rasputin "After you, Attila."
Attila "Oh, but I insist. Be my guest."
Donatello "Fellas, this Southern courtesy is a bit much."
Raphael "Yeah, it'll be the de-ath of me."
[They are all out of the quicksand and rubbing the gunk off themselves.]
Michelangelo "Yuck! Maximum gross-out, dudes. This swamp is scuz city."
April "Oh, my hair is an absolute mess."
[Michelangelo spots a pool and waterfall nearby.]
Michelangelo "Scope it out, buds-- a public bath.
Cowabunga! Whoa! This water feels mondo-bizarro on my shell."
[He jumps in.]
Cowabunga! Whoa! This water feels mondo-bizarro on my shell."
April "Michelangelo, you're starting to glow!"
Donatello "Oh, no. It must be that left over mutagen that turned our friends the frogs here into their present form."
Michelangelo "Did you say mutagen? Whoa! It's split-city for this dude!"
[He leaps out of the water.]
Raphael "Does this mean it's back to the pet shop for Michelangelo?"
Donatello "I doubt it. It's not a strong enough dose."
Rasputin "Uh, maybe you ought to take a rest, Michelangelo."
[Michelangelo begins jumping around, doing handstands and swinging from tree limbs.]
Michelangelo "Me rest? Are you kidding, dude? I've never felt so pumped in my whole life! Yahoo! Cowabunga! Tubuloso! Ta-da!"
Donatello "Hmm. I have a theory about that pool."
[He dives into the pool.]
April "Donatello, what are you doing?"
Donatello "Yeah-ha, ha! Michelangelo was right. That water makes you feel like a young turtle again."
Attila "Which means?"
Donatello "The mutagen content mixed with the water's natural minerals have turned it into a modern-day fountain of youth."
April "A fountain of youth? Just the thing to shed a few wrinkles."
Donatello "No, better not, April. We don't know how that water might affect humans."
April "Oh, great. I'm doomed to be a decrepit twenty-eight-year-old hag."
Shredder "All this heat is making me thirsty. If only I had something to drink. Water! I must have some. Ah!"
[He starts forward but Leatherhead grabs his shoulder and yanks him back.]
Leatherhead "Hold on! That water no good for drinking. It be full of voodoo magic."
Shredder "Voodoo magic? What sort of nonsense are you blabbering about? Wait.
What's that peculiar odor?"
[He sniffs the air.]
What's that peculiar odor?"
Rocksteady "Maybe it's us, boss."
Shredder "No, no. It's something else. Now I remember. It's mutagen."
Bebop "Ain't that the stuff that turned me into a warthog?"
Rocksteady "And me into a rhino?"
Leatherhead "And me into a gatorman?"
Shredder "Precisely. And in all your cases it was a definite improvement. Now quiet, all of you. I must think of some way to transport this mutagen back to Krang."
Leatherhead "Hold on. Somebody, she be coming this way."
Shredder "It's the turtles. I don't believe it. How did they escape from that quicksand trap?"
Leatherhead "It make no never mind. This time we finish them good, you betcha."
Genghis "You still feeling the effects of that mutagenated water, Michelangelo?"
Michelangelo "Man, I feel totally jazzed. Like I could tangle with anyone."
[Laser blasts shoot past them.]
Rocksteady "Did you say anyone?"
Donatello "Rocksteady."
Shredder "And let's not forget us."
Leatherhead "And me, too. Heh heh heh."
Leonardo "Shredhead and Leatherhead joining forces?"
Shredder "Why not? They say two heads are better than one."
Michelangelo "Like, get serious, dudes. We've got you outnumbered."
Rasputin "Yeah. And there's also more of us than you."
Shredder "Get them!"
Bebop "You don't have to ask us twice."
Donatello "Rasputin, haven't you got an arrow for a situation like this?"
Rasputin "As a matter of fact, I do. They can't shoot what they can't see."
[He shoots an arrow into the ground in front of the villains. It produces a cloud of smoke, making the villains cough.]
Leonardo "Okay, turtles, now's our chance!"
Genghis "Uh-oh, fellas. I think the wind just changed."
[The smoke blows back on the heroes and they all start coughing.]
Raphael "I distinctly asked for the no-smoking section."
Shredder "Blasted smoke!"
[He backs away from the smoke and trips over a log, falling into the pool. He starts to glow and then to shrink.]
Shredder "Wha--what's happening to me? I'm shrinking!"
Bebop "We got them now, boss. Duh, boss? Hey!"
[They look into the pond and see a very young Shredder sitting there. He responds in a child’s voice.]
Shredder "Don't just stand there, you morons. Do something!"
April "It really is a fountain of youth."
Michelangelo "Now aren't you glad you didn't go in?"
Bebop "
Aw, ain't he cute?"
[Lifts Shredder out of the pool.]
Aw, ain't he cute?"
Shredder "Careful, you overgrown klutz."
Rocksteady "You want we should burp you, boss?"
[Leatherhead grabs the blaster from Rocksteady and approaches the heroes.]
Leatherhead "Maybe he failed, but I'll get rid of you. I guarantee."
[Donatello knocks the blaster from his hands with his bō.]
Leatherhead "Hey, what you do?"
[The gun hits the water and starts firing. It blasts a hole in a dam.]
Leatherhead "The dam, she blasted to smithereens!"
Heroes "Get down! Oh, no!"
[The group of heroes rushes out of the way, with Leatherhead close behind. A wave of water hits Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady. It washes all three down into the hole made by the transport module earlier. Leatherhead looks up at the heroes, who have taken refuge in the branches of a large tree.]
Leatherhead "Maybe you win this time, heh heh, but I'm gonna be back, you betcha!"
[He stalks off.]
Genghis "Good going, Donatello."
Napoleon "Yeah, it sure was neat the way you blew up that dam."
Donatello "Me? Blew up the dam?"
April "You did plan it that way, didn't you?"
Donatello "Oh-- oh, yeah. Uh, sure. Of course. You bet."
[Cut to the Technodrome.]
Krang "What's keeping Shredder? He should've been back by now. I want that water sample."
[A module tube bursts open, flooding the Technodrome and knocking Krang down in the wave.]
All "Whoa! Whoa-o! Whoa!"
Krang "Shredder, is that really you?"
Shredder "Boo-hoo, Krang, you've got to help me. I need to grow up."
Krang "Heh heh heh. I've been trying to tell you that for years. Ha ha ha."
Rocksteady "Gee, I feel just like a daddy. Koochie-koochie koo."
Shredder "Oh, just wait till I'm big. Oh, you're going to get it!"
[Everyone laughs at him. Shift back to the swamp.]
Leonardo "Well, it looks like our job here is done, frog friends. It's back to the city for us."
Donatello "It's probably best that the fountain of youth remain a secret."
Rasputin "Don't worry. We already forgot about it."
Napoleon "Forgot about what?"
Michelangelo "And don't worry about old leatherlips. We hung that dude out to dry. But totally. Whoa!"
[He starts to walk off and steps into a rope trap. Michelangelo is yanked upside down.]
Leonardo "Who hung who out, Michelangelo?"
Michelangelo "Major bummer, dudes."
[Everyone starts laughing.]
[End Credits]