All episodes Season 4 S04E38 1990-12-01 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Foot Soldiers are Revolting

TV Flash files “The Foot Soldiers are Revolting” as hour 103 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 4, episode 38, aired 1990-12-01, 25 min.

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This leaf is S04E38: listed hour 103 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 38 of 39 in season 4. It aired 1990-12-01 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Big Bug Blunder” (S04E37). Next is “Unidentified Flying Leonardo” (S04E39).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — The Foot Soldiers are Revolting (S04E38)

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A Foot Soldier named Alpha-1 has his intelligence increased, but it results in a Foot Soldier rebellion against Shredder and Krang and the duo's exile from the Technodrome.

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Where does The Foot Soldiers are Revolting sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S04E38 is listed hour 103 of 191 — hour 38 of 39 in season 4, season 4 episode 38.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S04E38 air?

The Foot Soldiers are Revolting aired 1990-12-01 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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