All episodes Season 3 S03E24 1989-11-21 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Mutagen Monster

TV Flash files “Mutagen Monster” as hour 42 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 3, episode 24, aired 1989-11-21, 25 min.

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This leaf is S03E24: listed hour 42 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 24 of 47 in season 3. It aired 1989-11-21 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero” (S03E23). Next is “Corporate Raiders from Dimension X” (S03E25).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Mutagen Monster (S03E24)

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A train accident produces gallons of mutagen that drench nearby cattle. The result is a super bull with a temper!

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Where does Mutagen Monster sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S03E24 is listed hour 42 of 191 — hour 24 of 47 in season 3, season 3 episode 24.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S03E24 air?

Mutagen Monster aired 1989-11-21 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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