All episodes Season 1 S01E04 1987-12-17 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X

TV Flash files “Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X” as hour 4 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 1, episode 4, aired 1987-12-17, 25 min.

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This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 4 of 5 in season 1. It aired 1987-12-17 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “A Thing About Rats” (S01E03). Next is “Shredder & Splintered” (S01E05).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X (S01E04)

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The Turtles take over what's left of Baxter Stockman's equipment, to help them track Shredder and the Technodrome and create the turtle Van. Shredder opens a portal to Dimension X in hopes to obtain new weapons. Instead, The Neutrinos - Three Teenage Hot-Rodders, and two of Krang's militant Stone Warriors, General Traag and one soldier, come through.

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Where does Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 191 — hour 4 of 5 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S01E04 air?

Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X aired 1987-12-17 and is listed at 25 minutes.

Comics first or the 1987 cartoon?

The cartoon sanded Eastman/Laird into kid-friendly slapstick and became the voice most later versions copy. 1987 is the theme, the pizza, and merchandising as plot — franchise religion, not the grim comic.

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Cowabunga as a business plan: four pizza-eating sewer mutants, a rat sensei, and a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The cartoon sanded the Eastman/Laird comics into kid-friendly martial-arts slapstick and accidentally minted a franchise religion. The 1987 series is the voice, the theme, and merchandising as plot.

Cowabunga used to be a business plan, not a meme kit. Syndication, 1987 through 1996: four mutant turtles trained by Splinter battle Shredder and the Foot Clan — pizza, a rat sensei, and a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, from David Wise and Fred Wolf, sanded Eastman/Laird comics into kid-friendly martial-arts slapstick: Cam Clarke's Leonardo, Townsend Coleman's Michelangelo, Barry Gordon's Donatello, Rob Paulsen's Raphael. One hundred ninety-three…

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