All episodes Season 3 S03E27 1989-11-24 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady

TV Flash files “Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady” as hour 45 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 3, episode 27, aired 1989-11-24, 25 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S03E27: listed hour 45 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 27 of 47 in season 3. It aired 1989-11-24 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Pizza By the Shred” (S03E26). Next is “Beware the Lotus” (S03E28).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady (S03E27)

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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

Shredder and Krang produce hi-tech versions of Rocksteady and Bebop to keep the Turtles busy.

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Where does Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S03E27 is listed hour 45 of 191 — hour 27 of 47 in season 3, season 3 episode 27.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S03E27 air?

Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady aired 1989-11-24 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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Why this series still plays

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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