This version of Vernon works for the Shredder at Channel 6. He is an on-air personality who is the host of the "I Love Shredder" TV show.
Audience members of the show are conscripted into service by Rock Soldiers. Leonardo and Raphael, while in disguise, are scooped up by the soldiers and forced to become audience members.
Vernon begins the show by rolling a tape of the Shredder's early years. It does not take long for Leonardo to become enraged at the show's worshipful tone and rips off his disguise as he shouts "Don't you realize that good old Shredder is to blame for this miserable condition things are in?"
The audience flees at the sight of the mutant, having been brainwashed by Shredder into believing that mutants are evil and are the cause of the general state of disrepair in the city.
Donatello and Michelangelo, searching for their brothers, encounter the frightened crowd and quickly locate the other two turtles, who have been confronted by Vernon and Burne Thompson. Both humans are carrying clubs and threaten the Turtles. However, when they question the Turtles' bravery, Leonardo counters with the same question and yells "Boo!"
Vernon leaps back in fright and falls into a piano. The lid snaps shut on top of him and the piano slides off the stage. He somehow escapes the piano to join Burne once more, but is intimated to see that they do not have Rock Soldiers backing them up. Vernon is not seen again, as the entire Shredderville visit proves to have been a shared dream by all four of the Turtles.