Michelangelo Meets Bugman

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Season September 10, 1990 - December 8, 1990 List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes: Syndication "Plan Six From Outer Space" "Turtles of the Jungle" "Michelangelo Toys Around" "Peking Turtle" "Shredder's Mom" "Four Turtles and a Baby" "Turtlemaniac" "Rondo in New York" "Planet of the Turtles" "Name That Toon" "Menace Maestro, Please" "Superhero for a Day" "Back to the Egg" Saturday Mornings "Son of Return of the Fly II" "Raphael Knocks 'em Dead" "Bebop and Rocksteady Conquer the Universe" "Raphael Meets His Match" "Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X" "Leonardo Lightens Up" "Were-Rats from Channel 6" "Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo" "The Big Zipp Attack" "Donatello Makes Time" "Farewell, Lotus Blossom" "Rebel Without a Fin" "Rhino-Man" "Michelangelo Meets Bugman" "Poor Little Rich Turtle" "What's Michelangelo Good For?" "The Dimension X Story" "Donatello's Degree" "The Big Cufflink Caper!" "Leonardo Versus Tempestra" "Splinter Vanishes" "Raphael Drives 'Em Wild" "Beyond the Donatello Nebula" "Big Bug Blunder" "The Foot Soldiers are Revolting" "Unidentified Flying Leonardo" 1987 Season – 1988 Season – 1989 Season – 1990 Season – 1991 Season – 1992 Season – 1992-1993 Vacation in Europe sideseason – 1993 Season – 1994 Season – 1995 Season – 1996 Season

Plot

Michaelangelo was reading a Bugman comic Splinter interrupts and tells him you are late for your practice. During their practice the power suddenly goes out. While Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael goes to check the electricity Michaelangelo continues to read his Bugman comics. Suddenly he hears someone screaming and thinks the other turtles are in the wrong path. However he again someone screaming and checks it out. It was a man named Brick Bradley been tied up on a chain in a piece of wood. Michaelangelo dives into the water to rescues him. Later Brick wakes up and sees Michaelangelo holding his chain and tells him to get rid of it. Michaelangelo is confused and tells him it's only a chain but he tells him it's List the night. He quickly throws it away after realizing he's weakness. Michaelangelo notices him and his weakness and tells him that you are Bugman. And he tells him that i am Bugman and tells him that he had many enemies and he tells him that i have all the comics about him and his enemies. Brick explains to him how he become Bugman while working in a science lab experimenting some insects he trips on a cable landing on his experiment and screams. After his accident while on his way back home a group of bank robbers robs a nearby bank and nearly hits him with their truck but manages to jump out of the way while walking through the road he slowly turns into Bugman and how he defeats the robbers by carrying their truck into a prison. Michaelangelo shows his comic about Electrozapper and he tells him he's in the power plant. After watching April's news about Bugman beating Electrozapper Michaelangelo tells the other turtles that April has gone buggy leading the other turtles to beat him using their pillows. Michaelangelo tells them that he's only kidding and begs them to stop and they continue beating him and he yells in pain.

Character voices

• Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
• Donatello (Barry Gordon)
• Michaelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
• Raphael (Rob Paulsen)
• Splinter (Peter Renaday)
• April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
• Burne Thompson (Pat Fraley)
• Brick Bradley/Bugman (Dan Gilvezan)
• Electrozapper (???)
• Doctor Dome (Peter Renaday)

Trivia

• First appearance of Brick Bradley/Bugman
• Doctor Dome's (one of Bugman's enemies) name is a parody of the Marvel supervillain Doctor Doom.
• The plot of this episode loosely resembles the episode "Captain Steel Saves the Day" from The Real Ghostbusters but in this episode the Bugman comic book characters exist in the TMNT universe.
• Leestanite, the substance to which Bugman is weak to, is named after famed Marvel Comics author Stan Lee. Bugman's powers and origin story were inspired by Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, both of whom were created by Lee. The villain Electrozapper may also have been based off the Spider-Man villain Electro.

Errors

• When Raphael and Donatello free April from the fire at the power station Donatello's bo disappears like magic when it's laying on the ground.
• When the Turtles are practicing their ninja skills, Michelangelo is seen with Donatello's colours and Donatello's letter in a shot. Also Michelangelo's bandana is yellow and his eyes are gone.
• When Leonardo asked where Michelangelo is, his mouth didn't move.