Poor Little Rich Turtle

	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Season; September 10, 1990 - December 8, 1990; List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes
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“Poor Little Rich Turtle”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 Cartoon) episode
Season Code:	04
Episode:	15
Original airdate	November 10, 1990
Written by	David Wise
Supervising Producer	Fred Wolf
Producers:	Walt Kubiak
Supervising Director	Bill Wolf
Episode chronology
"Michelangelo Meets Bugman"	"What's Michelangelo Good For?"

"Poor Little Rich Turtle" is the ninty-fourth episode of the animated series 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which originally aired on October 27, 1990.

Appearing in Poor Little Rich Turtle[]

Major characters[]

Minor characters[]

Buffy's father (Pat Fraley)
Mrs. Kawolchick (Renae Jacobs)
Krang (Pat Fraley)

Species[]

Human
Mutant rat
Mutant rhinoceros
Mutant turtle
Mutant warthog

Objects and vehicles[]

Locations[]

Plot[]

The Turtles must protect a bratty rich girl, Buffy, from Bebop and Rocksteady, who are under orders from Shredder to kidnap her and learn the secret of a company she inherited from her late grandfather.

Errors[]

When the Turtles jump off the wall, Michelangelo flickers for a frame.
When Raphael says "How come the odds got so lousy all of a sudden?" he is wearing Donatello's colors.
The strapping on Donatello's bo is colored brown when he speaks about the shrink ray's ability, and the strapping was higher than normal.
In the first shot of the Turtles saying goodbye to Buffy, Leonardo has his weapon sleeves on his belt from the first two seasons.
Krang and especially Shredder don't seem as concerned that the Turtles are in the Technodrome and this is the first of two Technodrome visits that none of them directly engage the turtles save for sending out the Foot Soldiers. Attack of the Neutrinos is another example, but Bebop and Rocksteady do engage the Turtles while Shredder and Krang are oblivious to their visit.
If Shredder and Krang had been monitoring Buffy all this time as Shredder claimed, they would have heard Donatello give Buffy the portal co-ordinates to the lair.
In the end, Michelangelo runs out yelling "Like Pizza!" but he is holding two apple pies, not pizza. In the next shot the Turtles are seen eating actual pizza and the apple pies are gone.

Trivia[]

David Wise, the writer of this episode, recycled its plot, and even its set pieces, wholesale from his The Transformers episode "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide" (2-35), even down to replicating the merry-go-round sequence and the brain-sucking sequence.
The episode takes its name from Poor Little Rich Girl, a Shirley Temple movie.