All episodes Season 4 S04E37 1990-11-24 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Big Bug Blunder

TV Flash files “Big Bug Blunder” as hour 102 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 4, episode 37, aired 1990-11-24, 25 min.

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This leaf is S04E37: listed hour 102 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 37 of 39 in season 4. It aired 1990-11-24 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Beyond the Donatello Nebula” (S04E36). Next is “The Foot Soldiers are Revolting” (S04E38).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Big Bug Blunder (S04E37)

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A failed mutagen experiment results in an invasion of giant insects and arachnids in New York City.

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Where does Big Bug Blunder sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S04E37 is listed hour 102 of 191 — hour 37 of 39 in season 4, season 4 episode 37.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S04E37 air?

Big Bug Blunder aired 1990-11-24 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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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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