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Pizza Pit
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode
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Season Code: 022
Episode: 11B
Original airdate February 2, 2019 (television)
December 8, 2018 (online)
Written by Brian Posehn
Producers: Vladimir Radev
Directed by Sebastian Montes
Voice Direction Rob Paulsen
Supervising Director  Alan Wan
Storyboard Artist: Gladyfaith Abcede
Kai Lynn Jiang
Episode chronology
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"The Purple Jacket" "Smart Lair"

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 1
September 17, 2018 - November 16, 2019
List of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes:

  1. Mystic Mayhem
  2. Origami Tsunami
  3. Donnie's Gifts
  4. War and Pizza
  5. Newsworthy
  6. Repo Mantis
  7. Down with the Sickness
  8. The Fast and the Furriest
  9. Mascot Melee
  10. Shell in a Cell
  11. Minotaur Maze
  12. Bug Busters
  13. The Longest Fight
  14. Hypno! Part Deux
  15. The Gumbus
  16. Mrs. Cuddles
  17. Stuck on You
  18. Al Be Back
  19. The Purple Jacket
  20. Pizza Pit
  21. Smart Lair
  22. Hot Soup: The Game
  23. The Evil League of Mutants
  24. Late Fee
  25. Bullhop
  26. Mind Meld
  27. Nothing But Truffle
  28. Shadow of Evil
  29. Portal Jacked!
  30. Warren & Hypno, Sitting in a Tree
  31. Operation: Normal
  32. Sparring Partner
  33. You Got Served
  34. How to Make Enemies and Bend People to Your Will
  35. Mystic Library
  36. The Purple Game
  37. Man VS. Sewer
  38. The Mutant Menace
  39. Turtle-dega Nights: The Ballad of Rat Man
  40. The Ancient Art of Ninja Hide and Seek
  41. One Man's Junk
  42. Snow Day
  43. Cloak and Swaggart
  44. Jupiter Jim Ahoy!
  45. Insane in the Mama Train
  46. End Game

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"Pizza Pit" is the twentieth episode (Episode 11B) of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It first aired on February 2nd, 2019.

Synopsis[]

It’s Pizza Week, the greatest week of the year, but the Turtles' favorite pizza joints keep getting taken out.

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Locations[]

  • New York City
    • DIGG's Lair (debut)
    • Kaufman Coliseum (debut)
    • Lou Mike Toney's Pizza (debut) (destroyed)
    • Mike and Lou the Brothers Tony Pizza/Bro's Pizza (debut)
    • Mike Tony's Favorite Lou Pizza (debut) (destroyed)
    • Tony Lou's Pizza (debut) (destroyed)

Plot[]

An all-female rock band mutated by Oozesquitoes - DIGG - is beginning to devise a devastating plan that literally runs several pizza restaurants in New York into the ground. But the plan begins to slip apart as the Turtles conduct a culinary tour that night to quench their cravings for the New York Pizza Week, witnessing two pizzerias (Donatello's and Michelangelo's haunts) suddenly come to an end disappear into a huge pit of earth.

Donatello and Michelangelo are personally hit by the disappearance of their favorite food places, but Leonardo and Raphael leave things cold at first. That changes when the Turtles want to switch to Leonardo's favorite restaurant instead, but there they meet the three members of DIGG, who immediately dig their way to escape through the ground. The fierce Turtles follow Ground Hog and Honey Badger and try to challenge them, but fail because of their underground abilities. Then they come across Prairie Dog, who has just moved a support column with a battery of loudspeakers, to bring them to collapse with a clenched sound attack. They come too late to stop Prairie Dog from putting the loudspeakers into operation, and so another beloved pizzeria sinks into the ground.

Since Donatello has worked out a conspiracy theory out of these events, that the unknown attackers have a dislike for them and pizzas, they rush to the last remaining pizzeria (Raphael's favorite restaurant) and evacuate first the visitors and staff. Afterwards, they catch DIGG as they prepare their last sabotage, and the battle ensues. But during the fight, Donatello learns from Prairie Dog that the collapse of the pizzeria is just a coincidental collateral damage to their original plan to dump a concert hall into the ground. The underground support pillars of the hall that DIGG blew up were just standing directly where the pizzerias were located. DIGG has started sinking the hall.

With their explanation, DIGG first encounters extremely little understanding in Leonardo, Donatello and Michelangelo; but Raphael manages to save the situation for everyone involved with a (for him) brilliant idea. Thus, the pizzeria chefs concerned - who all "coincidentally" also belong to the same family - open a new, jointly operated restaurant in which DIGG can fulfill its dream as a regular entertainer. And so the Turtles now enjoy their much-anticipated pizza - until one of Donatello's conspiracy theories about a pizzasaurus is unexpectedly realized.

Quotes[]

  • Donnie: To lose one pizza place is New York real state, but to lose two pizza places is…a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top! What do Lou Mike-Tony's and Tony Lou's Pizzeria have in common?
  • Leo: Besides both being pizza places?
  • Donnie: Exactly! They're both pizza places, but not just any pizza places. Two of our favorite pizza places! And what's the key thing they have in common?!
  • Raph: Uh…besides having the same name but in different order?
  • Donnie: Do you think that's important?!
  • Leo: No.
  • Donnie: Whatever. It's us. We are the link between all these places! Ergo, whoever's behind this isn't only after pizza. They're after us. And clearly, we all know that it's Pizzasaurus-the evil spawn of the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot! It's taking over Pizza Week!
  • Leo: Pizzasaurus?! We've been over this! None of those things are real.
  • Raph: See? Everything's fine! [Everything was not fine.]

Trivia[]

Dig Dug homage

Dig Dug / Mr. Do! homage.

  • This episode, along with "The Purple Jacket", was leaked early on iTunes on December 7th, 2018, and was posted on Nick.com one day later.
  • Pictures of the 2012 Ninja Turtles, the Mirage Ninja Turtles and the 1987 Ninja Turtles can be seen on Donnie's conspiracy board with writing claiming them to be alternate dimensional counterparts.
  • In this episode there are some popular culture references:
    • Honey Badger's introduction is an allusion to the English band Iron Maiden.
    • Groundhog's introduction is an allusion to the American band Nirvana; specifically the cover of their album Nevermind.
    • Prairie Dog's introduction might be an allusion to Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, though the font does not match.
    • The chase between Raph, Mikey, and Groundhog is a reference to two extremely similar arcade games from 1982: Dig Dug and Mr. Do!
    • A brief scene of conflicts between Mikey and Groundhog is a reference to Whac-A-Mole.

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