Raphael Versus the Volcano

“Raphael Versus the Volcano”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode
Season Code:	5
Episode:	8
Original airdate	October 5, 1991
Written by	Carole Mendelsohn
Producers:
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Episodes: "The Turtles and the Hare" "Once Upon a Time Machine" "My Brother, the Bad Guy" "Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko" "Enter: Mutagen Man" "Donatello's Badd Time" "Michelangelo Meets Bugman Again" "Muckman Messes Up" "Napoleon Bonafrog: Colossus of the Swamps" "Raphael Versus the Volcano" "Landlord of the Flies" "Donatello's Duplicate" "The Ice Creature Cometh" "Leonardo Cuts Loose" "Pirate Radio" "Raphael, Turtle of a Thousand Faces" "Leonardo, the Renaissance Turtle" "Zach and the Alien Invaders" "Welcome Back, Polarisoids" "Michelangelo, the Sacred Turtle" "Planet of the Turtleoids, Part 1" "Planet of the Turtleoids, Part 2" 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

"Raphael Versus the Volcano" is an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Characters

• Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
• Donatello (Barry Gordon)
• Raphael/The Green Defender (Rob Paulsen)
• Michelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
• Splinter (Peter Renaday)
• April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
• Vernon Fenwick (Peter Renaday)
• Burne Thompson (Pat Fraley)
• Wilhelm Vanilli (Rob Paulsen)
• LaVerne Portside (Renae Jacobs)
• Channel 6 Cameraman

Plot Synopsis

SYNOPSIS:

Thanks to a malfunction in Donatello's "Healthometer", an invention designed to diagnose one's health, and a misunderstanding, where Michelangelo's pizza oven breaks and he thinks his younger brother is crying about him, Raphael is convinced that he is not long for this world. Raphael decides to make the world a better place with what little time he has left.

Meanwhile, Burne Thompson has assigned Vernon to cover the eruption of a volcano on the Island of Poppalua and April to cover the dedication of a new species of lily at the local Flower Society Club.

Raphael, disguised in a Musketeer costume and calling himself "The Green Defender", risks his life by stopping crime all over the city. The "terminal" terrapin even rescues a cat off of a ledge of a high-rise apartment building.

Back at the Turtle Lair, Donatello repairs the "Healthometer" and searches for Raphael to tell him that he is okay and that the invention was broken, only to discover Raphael's farewell note. The Turtles join April and scour the city for Raphael/The Green Defender.

Meanwhile, a Professor Wilhelm Vanilli is angry that LaVerne Forsythe, president of the Flower Society Club, has named the recently discovered species (discovered by Professor Vanilli himself) of lily after herself. Vanilli vows to kill every living plant on the planet for revenge by dropping a canister of the toxic chemical into the volcano on the Island of Poppalua.

When Raphael sees the live broadcast of Professor Vanilli's threat, he takes the Turtle Blimp and heads for the island of Poppalua. The other Turtles team up with April as she is assigned to cover the story as well.

They arrive in the Channel Six News Helicopter just in time to see Raphael leap into the volcano. With the help of the other Turtles, Raphael/The Green Defender saves the world's vegetation.

Trivia

• These are the readings on the Healthometer:
  • A-1 Specimen
  • Physically Fit
  • Not So Hot
  • Sick as a Dog
  • Adios Amigo
• Raphael calls himself "The Green Defender".

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