All episodes Season 2 S02E03 1988-10-15 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

It Came from Beneath the Sewers

TV Flash files “It Came from Beneath the Sewers” as hour 8 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 2, episode 3, aired 1988-10-15, 25 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E03: listed hour 8 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 3 of 13 in season 2. It aired 1988-10-15 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Incredible Shrinking Turtles” (S02E02). Next is “The Mean Machines” (S02E04).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — It Came from Beneath the Sewers (S02E03)

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After discovering that a mutant plant has had its growth accelerated by the first fragment of the Eye of Sarnoth, Shredder unleashes it on the city to attack the Turtles.

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Where does It Came from Beneath the Sewers sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S02E03 is listed hour 8 of 191 — hour 3 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 3.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S02E03 air?

It Came from Beneath the Sewers aired 1988-10-15 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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