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Rondo in New York
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 Cartoon) episode
Rondo in New York Title Card
Season Code: 04
Episode: 08
Original airdate September 19, 1990
Written by Francis Moss
Ted Pedersen
Supervising Producer Fred Wolf
Producers: Michael Algar
Episode chronology
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"Turtlemaniac" "Planet of the Turtles"
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Season
September 10, 1990 - December 8, 1990
List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes
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Episodes:

  • Syndication
  1. "Plan Six From Outer Space"
  2. "Turtles of the Jungle"
  3. "Michelangelo Toys Around"
  4. "Peking Turtle"
  5. "Shredder's Mom"
  6. "Four Turtles and a Baby"
  7. "Turtlemaniac"
  8. "Rondo in New York"
  9. "Planet of the Turtles"
  10. "Name That Toon"
  11. "Menace Maestro, Please"
  12. "Superhero for a Day"
  13. "Back to the Egg"
  • Saturday Mornings
  1. "Son of Return of the Fly II"
  2. "Raphael Knocks 'em Dead"
  3. "Bebop and Rocksteady Conquer the Universe"
  4. "Raphael Meets His Match"
  5. "Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X"
  6. "Leonardo Lightens Up"
  7. "Were-Rats from Channel 6"
  8. "Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo"
  9. "The Big Zipp Attack"
  10. "Donatello Makes Time"
  11. "Farewell, Lotus Blossom"
  12. "Rebel Without a Fin"
  13. "Rhino-Man"
  14. "Michelangelo Meets Bugman"
  15. "Poor Little Rich Turtle"
  16. "What's Michelangelo Good For?"
  17. "The Dimension X Story"
  18. "Donatello's Degree"
  19. "The Big Cufflink Caper!"
  20. "Leonardo Versus Tempestra"
  21. "Splinter Vanishes"
  22. "Raphael Drives 'Em Wild"
  23. "Beyond the Donatello Nebula"
  24. "Big Bug Blunder"
  25. "The Foot Soldiers are Revolting"
  26. "Unidentified Flying Leonardo"

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Rondo in New York is a season 4 episode of the 1987 TV series.

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April has gotten the Turtles tickets to the action movie Rondo 8: Hit Hardest. Raphael's disgust for the character and Leonardo's training initially cause them to reject the offer, but the free pizza being given out at the premiere changes their minds.

Until the movie, Donatello secretly visits a college biology lab to check out their equipment, and he becomes acquainted with Oswald Dren, a grad student/theater projectionist. Dren has worked on a "vitalizer" that activates the molecules of inanimate things, which impresses Donatello deeply.

Unfortunately, Krang has learned of its existence, and sends Shredder, Rocksteady and Bebop to search for it. A fallen sample of the vitalizer is splashed onto a TV monitor while a cartoon is playing, bringing the cartoon mouse and cat Cheezy and Sleazy to life. At the movie premiere, Shredder appears and attacks Dren, causing a fight to break out between him and the Turtles. During the scuffle, the vitalizer falls on some film reels, causing a pair of monsters from the movie to come to life.

While Donatello and Dren try to figure out a solution, the other Turtles stumble across the movie star Rondo. He's actually a rather short, weak cowardly man who flees almost immediately. As they try to protect him, Leonardo quickly discerns that the movie monsters' weakness is bright lights.

Donatello and Dren try to recreate the formula of the vitalizer, only to be interrupted and captured by Shredder. The villain unleashes a nest of poisonous snakes on the pair, but accidentally unleashes the movie version of Rondo as well, who rescues them and fights off the monsters.

Unfortunately, Shredder is planning to cause more chaos by heading to a monster movie marathon, and bringing all the monsters to "life," including a vampire, a mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, and a giant slug. As the Turtles fight the monsters, Dren brings in the last vial of the vitalizer to Donatello, who has the perfect roll of film for it. Shredder takes the bait, heading back to Dimension X, only for all the vitalizer to accidentally be spilled on the Cheezy and Sleazy cartoon reel, which ends up causing trouble for the bad guys onboard the Technodrome.

Donatello uses a pair of searchlights to drive the monsters back into the theater and back onto the screen.

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Notes and errors[]

  • When Shredder scolded Bebop and Rocksteady for watching Cheezy and Sleazy at the college lab, Rocksteady was missing the bullets on his bandolier.

Trivia[]

  • The fictional cartoon Cheesy and Sleazy is a parody of the Tom and Jerry cinema shorts.
  • Rondo is a reference to the movie franchise Rambo.
  • Raphael broke the 4th wall by turning to the camera when saying "Oh yeah, well which condo belongs to Rondo? I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist".

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