All episodes Season 2 S02E07 1988-11-12 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Enter: The Fly

TV Flash files “Enter: The Fly” as hour 12 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 2, episode 7, aired 1988-11-12, 25 min.

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This leaf is S02E07: listed hour 12 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 7 of 13 in season 2. It aired 1988-11-12 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Case of the Killer Pizzas” (S02E06). Next is “Invasion of the Punk Frogs” (S02E08).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Enter: The Fly (S02E07)

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Shredder gets Bebop and Rocksteady back as his henchmen in exchange for Baxter. When Krang tries to exterminate him, a freak accident occurs turning him into a mutant fly.

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Where does Enter: The Fly sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S02E07 is listed hour 12 of 191 — hour 7 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 7.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S02E07 air?

Enter: The Fly aired 1988-11-12 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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