All episodes Season 4 S04E33 1990-11-10 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Leonardo vs. Tempestra

TV Flash files “Leonardo vs. Tempestra” as hour 98 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 4, episode 33, aired 1990-11-10, 25 min.

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This leaf is S04E33: listed hour 98 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 33 of 39 in season 4. It aired 1990-11-10 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Big Cufflink Caper!” (S04E32). Next is “Splinter Vanishes” (S04E34).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Leonardo vs. Tempestra (S04E33)

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One night the turtles crash the video arcade to play video games all night. Leonardo's eye is caught by a video game called Tempestra's revenge. No matter how good of player, Leonardo is, he always loses to Tempestra. But things get much worse after the video game comes to life and Tempestra breaks free. She needs an awful lot of energy source in order to continue to exist.

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Where does Leonardo vs. Tempestra sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S04E33 is listed hour 98 of 191 — hour 33 of 39 in season 4, season 4 episode 33.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S04E33 air?

Leonardo vs. Tempestra aired 1990-11-10 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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