All episodes Season 4 S04E06 1990-09-17 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Four Turtles and a Baby

TV Flash files “Four Turtles and a Baby” as hour 71 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 4, episode 6, aired 1990-09-17, 25 min.

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This leaf is S04E06: listed hour 71 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 6 of 39 in season 4. It aired 1990-09-17 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Shredder's Mom” (S04E05). Next is “Turtlemaniac” (S04E07).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Four Turtles and a Baby (S04E06)

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When General Traag and his troops attack the Neutrino capital, the Neutrino leaders, Zenter and Gizzla, send their infant daughter Tribble through a portal to Earth, asking the Turtles to look after her, but Tribble causes big trouble for our heroes.

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Where does Four Turtles and a Baby sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S04E06 is listed hour 71 of 191 — hour 6 of 39 in season 4, season 4 episode 6.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S04E06 air?

Four Turtles and a Baby aired 1990-09-17 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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