[Opening sequence and theme song.]
[Pan down from a night sky to the Turtles, wearing their standard disguises, walking down a city street.]
Michelangelo "Whoa, dudes, I can just taste that anchovy and hot fudge pizza now."
Donatello "Why do we always have to do this stuff in the dead of night?"
Michelangelo "Hey, haven’t you ever heard of the midnight munchies?"
[Up ahead of them, a very large and barely clothed man pulls at the door of Howard’s Pets , which is closed.]
Michelangelo "Whoa, check out the weirdo."
Leonardo "He’s breaking into that pet store."
Raphael "From the sound he’s making, he oughta be breaking out of one."
[The man manages to pull the doors completely off their hinges and throws them aside.]
Leonardo "I see we’ll have to teach him a lesson."
[The Turtles remove their disguises and grab their weapons. They run into the store, where the man is standing and looking around.]
Raphael "All right, tubby. Who are ya’, what are you doing here, and what’s your name, rank, and serial number?"
Tattoo "Me Tattoo.
Me look for home."
[He lifts the check out counter off the floor.]
Me look for home."
[He throws the counter, including the cash register, at the Turtles.]
Turtles "Whoa! Look out! Head’s up!"
Michelangelo "What a showoff, throwing money around like that."
Leonardo "Let’s take him, Turtles!"
[Donatello runs at Tattoo, who catches him and throws him onto cages holding puppies. The cages smash open and the puppies swarm over Donatello, licking his face. Feeling tickled, he starts laughing.]
Donatello "Oh! Oh, no! No, no, no, no, stop, please!"
Raphael "Try that with me, why don’t ya?"
[He charges at Tattoo, who ducks. Raphael flies over his head and lands on some bird cages.]
Raphael "Whoa!
And I thought this only happened in cartoons."
[He sits up with a bird cage containing birds on his head.]
And I thought this only happened in cartoons."
[Meanwhile, Tattoo has Michelangelo pressed against the wall and is squishing him with his belly.]
Michelangelo "That’s a pretty heavy argument, dude."
[Leonardo, seated on a shelf overhead, throws a bird cage down on Tattoo’s head.]
Leonardo "Hi-yah!"
[Tattoo paces around trying to remove the cage. Raphael manages to take off his own cage.]
Raphael "There’s something weird about that guy."
Donatello "You’re right. He looks like a human, but he sounds like an animal."
[Tattoo tosses a cat scratching post at Leonardo, who uses his katana to slice it into pieces.]
Leonardo "Now, just calm down, okay? Let’s talk."
[Tattoo backs up and pulls an electrical box off the wall.]
Tattoo "Tattoo want go home."
[He grabs a length of wire and spins the live electrical box overhead. Leonardo backs up.]
Leonardo "Hey, watch it! That’s a live wire!"
[Tattoo loses control of the makeshift weapon and winds the cord around his own body. The electrical box touches him and he receives a shock. He cries out and then begins to shrink until suddenly he’s regressed to a hamster.]
Turtles "Whoa!"
Raphael "Now that’s what I call a neat trick."
Michelangelo "Outstanding, dudes."
[Tattoo enters a hamster cage and Leonardo closes the door after him.]
Leonardo "Well, he said he wanted to go home."
Raphael "Would somebody mind explaining what just happened here?"
Donatello "You don’t suppose Krang and Shredder are messing around with mutagen again, do you?"
Raphael "A mutant sumo-wrestling hamster? Where do they think up these things?"
Leonardo "And Shredder must’ve gotten the hamster from this very pet store. That’s why he honed in on it."
Michelangelo "Hey, dudes, for all we know, this might be the same pet store we came from."
[Behind them is a terrarium containing turtles.]
Donatello "You know, sometimes I wonder if we wouldn’t have been better off if we’d just stayed ordinary turtles."
Raphael "What? And miss out being attacked by Shredder and his goons every week?"
Donatello "At least we’d have had a good home."
[They leave the pet store.]
Michelangelo "What’s wrong with the sewers, dude? Okay, so they are a little smelly."
Leonardo "And damp..."
Raphael "And disgusting. But it beats living in some super deluxe penthouse overlooking the park. I think the pressures of this job are starting to get to me."
[Cut to the Technodrome.]
Shredder "Tattoo, come in, Tattoo. This is Shredder, your master. Answer me! Blast it. What has happened to that miserable mutant?"
Krang "Oh, fact it. You’ve lost him. We should never have let him go on this mission alone."
Shredder "But, Krang, we need more mutants to break into that museum to steal that giant ruby. With it, we can refocus your new heat ray and finally free the Technodrome."
[He and his two mutants walk over to where Krang is filling a canister with mutagen.]
Bebop "Hey, what’s wrong with me and Rocksteady?"
Rocksteady "Yeah, we’re mutants, you know."
Shredder "You two losers couldn’t steal the free prize from a cereal box. Is the new batch of mutagen ready?"
Krang "Yeah, but this time, there must be no slip-ups. That’s why all of us are going to the city."
Shredder "Bebop, Rocksteady, get the Transport Module ready. Forget pet shops, we’re headed for the city wild animal park."
Rocksteady "I hope we can stop at the petting zoo."
Bebop "Uh, yeah, I especially like to feed the little bunnies."