Shredder's Mom

“Shredder's Mom”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode
Season Code:	04
Episode:	05
Original airdate	September 14, 1990
Written by	Francis Moss Ted Pedersen
Supervising Producer	Fred Wolf
Producers:	Michael Algar
Episode chronology ← Previous Next → "Peking Turtle" "Four Turtles and a Baby"

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Season September 10, 1990 - December 8, 1990 List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

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

Shredder's Mom is an episode from season 4 (1990) of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series.

Appearing in Shredder's Mom

Major characters

• Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
• Donatello (Barry Gordon)
• Raphael (Rob Paulsen)
• Michelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
• Splinter (Peter Renaday)
• April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
• Shredder (James Avery)
• Krang (Pat Fraley)
• Bebop (Barry Gordon)
• Rocksteady (Cam Clarke)
• Miyoko Saki (Jennifer Darling)

Minor characters

• General Yogure (Pat Fraley)
• Fort Lauderdale Guard (Peter Renaday)
• Professor Higgins
• United World Plaza Ambassador (Barry Gordon)

Species

• Human
• Mutant rat
• Mutant rhinoceros
• Mutant turtle
• Mutant warthog

Objects and vehicles

• Space shuttle
• Technodrome

Locations

• Dimension X
• Fort Lauderdale Home for Retired Villains
• Technodrome
• Turtle Lair
• Dimension X asteroid

Plot

Krang and the Shredder demand to the governments of all the countries on the Earth surrender to them. When the governments reject, Krang and the Shredder set up a massive orbiting mirror in Dimension X to bathe the Earth in a steaming heat. The extensive heat causes the polar ice to melt and also starts to evaporate the world's water supply.

When the Shredder's mother Miyoko hears about her son's plans from her retired home for villains, she decides to join him.

The Ninja Turtles get help from General Yogure and together board a space shuttle to go to Dimension X to stop Krang and the Shredder. Before they leave, Splinter gives Donatello an abacus because the computers on board the shuttle may not work. In Dimension X, the Turtles end up in the radiation beam which disables the computers on board the ship. However, Donatello manages to determine an escape route with the abacus Splinter handed him.

When they finally arrive at the Technodrome, Miyoko had set up obstacles in the form of cardboard signs; one of which says it leads to the control room, but actually leads to a garbage compactor. Eventually, the Turtles find their way into the real control room, where Miyoko traps them in a force field. Donatello tries to contact General Yogure to help them, but he ends up captured by Bebop and Rocksteady. Learning from Donatello that Miyoko seems to be infatuated with him, Yogure distracts her by seducing her and trapping her in a force field. This gives the TMNT time enough to destroy the massive orbiting mirror. The TMNT and general Yogure then leave Dimension X and return home to Earth just as the dimensional portal closes.

The Shredder gets tired of his mother because she treats him like a baby, so he transports her back to the retirement home. Back in the sewers, Splinter gives the Turtles a lesson about how faulty modern technology can be.

See also

• Shredder's Mom/Gallery
• Shredder's Mom/Transcript

Notes and errors

• Raphael is missing one of his sai from his belt when he's talking to Leonardo before the Turtles head into the garbage crushing room, and happens again in one shot after they enter it.
• When Miyoko said the Techndrome was a dump the top of Bebop's mohawk was colored brown.
• Raphael's letter on his belt is colored white after the Turtles crouch on the floor and trip Bebop and Rocksteady through the door.

Trivia

• This episode breaks the fourth wall when Michelangelo asks, "Didn't we do this in another episode?" as the Turtles are about to be crushed.
  • Michelangelo once again breaks the fourth wall moments later, saying, "Oh, get real, dude, we already fell for that once this episode", to which Leonardo responds, "This time it'll be different".
• The trash compactor that the Turtles are trapped in partly mimics the trash compactor scene from Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope with Donatello even jimmying the walls in place like Han Solo did in the movie.
• First time the Turtles go to Dimension X.

Home media releases

VHS

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Four Turtles and a Baby

DVD

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 4
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection