All episodes Season 4 S04E30 1990-11-03 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Dimension X Story

TV Flash files “The Dimension X Story” as hour 95 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 4, episode 30, aired 1990-11-03, 25 min.

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This leaf is S04E30: listed hour 95 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 30 of 39 in season 4. It aired 1990-11-03 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “What's Michelangelo Good For?” (S04E29). Next is “Donatello's Degree” (S04E31).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — The Dimension X Story (S04E30)

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Shredder has a plan to destroy the Turtles, but with the Technodrome's portal out of commission, he is unable to challenge them on Earth, so he uses the Dimensional Teleporter to bring his enemies to Dimension X.

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Where does The Dimension X Story sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S04E30 is listed hour 95 of 191 — hour 30 of 39 in season 4, season 4 episode 30.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S04E30 air?

The Dimension X Story aired 1990-11-03 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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