All episodes Season 4 S04E18 1990-09-22 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X

TV Flash files “Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X” as hour 83 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 4, episode 18, aired 1990-09-22, 25 min.

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This leaf is S04E18: listed hour 83 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 18 of 39 in season 4. It aired 1990-09-22 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Raphael Meets His Match” (S04E17). Next is “Leonardo Lightens Up” (S04E19).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X (S04E18)

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Bebop and Rocksteady use Krang's new Mutagen on Bebop's pet turtle Slash so he can do their housework for them. Slash runs away and is conned by an irritated entrepreneur into framing the TMNT.

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Where does Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S04E18 is listed hour 83 of 191 — hour 18 of 39 in season 4, season 4 episode 18.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S04E18 air?

Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X aired 1990-09-22 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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