Super Irma

	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1992 Season; 1992 ; List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes
	Episodes: "Rock Around the Block"; "Krangenstein Lives!"; "Super Irma"; "Adventures in Turtle-Sitting"; "Sword of Yurikawa"; "Return of the Turtleoid"; "Shreeka's Revenge"; "Too Hot to Handle"; "Nightmare in the Lair"; "Phantom of the Sewers"; "Donatello Trashes Slash"; "Leonardo is Missing"; "Snakes Alive!"; "Polly Wanna Pizza"; "Mr. Nice Guy"; "Sleuth on the Loose"; ; 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

“Super Irma”
1987 TV series episode
Season Code:	06
Episode:	03
Original airdate	September 26, 1992
Written by	David Wise
Producers:
Episode chronology
"Krangenstein Lives!"	"Adventures in Turtle-Sitting"

Super Irma is a season 6 episode of the 1987-1996 TV series.

Appearing in Super Irma[]

Major characters[]

Minor characters[]

Burne Thompson (Pat Fraley)
Vernon Fenwick (Peter Renaday)
Guy in Grim Reaper costume (Barry Gordon)

Species[]

Human
Mutant rat
Mutant rhinoceros
Mutant turtle
Mutant warthog

Objects and vehicles[]

Locations[]

1st City Bank
Alleyway
Channel 6
City streets
Magno-Dyne Labs
Technodrome
Turtle Lair

Plot[]

While the Turtles are busy trying to decide what costumes to wear to this year's Channel 6 Hallowe'en party, April and Irma are doing a story on the "reverse polarity magnet" at Magno-Dyne Labs. While at the Labs, Irma falls into some "goop" that the good Professor Chumley describes as harmless. Nonetheless, she feels ill and goes straight home.

Meanwhile, inside the Technodrome on the Arctic Ocean floor, Krang and Shredder watch April's broadcast and decide that the "reverse polarity magnet" device is just what they need to rule the world.

Later that night, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady break into Magno-Dyne Labs and attempt to steal the Professor's invention. As fate would have it, Irma is walking by in her Halloween costume (which looks like Wonder Woman's in design). As she passes by, Irma is accidentally "zapped" by the magnet device when Bebop accidentally turns it on.

When Shredder and company try to "take care" of Irma, they find themselves being "taken care of," as Irma inadvertently displays super powers.

Later, on the way home from the party, Irma tries to convince both the Turtles and April of her new found powers. No one believes her, until April and Irma separate from the Turtles and are confronted by two muggers in a dark alley.

April and the Turtles become believers as they witness Irma's spectacular super powers. But Irma is now out of control. She sees herself as the new crime fighter in town and is determined to right all wrongs. Fortunately, Donatello planted a tracking device on her before she fled from the alley in pursuit of evil-doers everywhere.

So our intrepid heroes follow Irma around town, all night long, saving herself from herself, that is until the inevitable happens -- Irma finds herself trapped inside a Transport Module, with Shredder, Bebop, Rocksteady and the "reverse polarity magnet machine," headed for the Technodrome.

The Turtles learn that Irma's super powers will wear off in five minutes. Meanwhile, Krang tests the "reverse polarity magnet" machine on a battleship, doing target practice on a mothball fleet in the harbor, by lifting it out of the ocean and flying it across the city skyline.

With the flip of a switch, the Turtle Van becomes a Turtle Sub and the TMNT race to the Technodrome, rescue Irma, and gently put the battleship down on a busy thoroughfare.

Donatello then rewires the controls to turn the "reverse polarity magnet" machine into a regular magnet machine -- which means the mothball fleet will be pulled down under water and drawn toward the Technodrome, destroying it.

Notes and errors[]

When Irma gets locked in the safe and she hunches over saying, "...but nothing gets in the way of Super Irma!" her body's chest area is not only drawn at the wrong angle, but her eyes are slightly off.
Bebop's mohawk turns brown when Krang is scolding Shredder.
Not so much an error, but Bebop's skull neckwear's outline gets noticeably thicker when Shredder vows to retrieve the super magnet. As soon as he turns, it's back to normal.
After Shredder and Krang flee through the garbage shoot, Raphael and Leonardo's masks are switched.
Shredder's Transport Module's main hatch door opens downwards when he and the mutants are in the professor's lab and is missing its front top tread when they load the Reverse Polarity Magnet into it.

Trivia[]

Leonardo does a title drop when Splinter suggests that the Turtles go as themselves at the costume party. Subtle.
This is the first appearance of the Turtle Van's "Submarine Mode". Donatello comments, however, that it can't handle a lot of underwater pressure, which would have some basis in fact due to it primarily being a land vehicle.
This is the second time Shredder uses a sword for combat only to have it break like a cheap butter knife later on. The first instance would be in the episode "Shredder & Splintered".
This is the third and final time Irma visits the Technodrome. The other two times were in the episodes: "The Dimension X Story" and "The Foot Soldiers are Revolting".
When the Turtles are discussing what to wear at the Hallowe'en party, Leonardo holds up an Elvis Presley outfit.
Donatello references the sinking of the Titanic when the Turtles escape from the Technodrome.
Irma wears a leotard, cape and boots that strongly appear to be based on Wonder Woman.
First appearance of the Technodrome's main eyeball control room.
April wears a costume that is similar to a costume she wore in "April Fool".
Irma wears her superhero costume in her appearance in Kongregate's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Madness 2020 mobile game.

Home media releases[]

DVD[]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 6
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection