All episodes Season 5 S05E03 1991-09-21 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

My Brother, the Bad Guy

TV Flash files “My Brother, the Bad Guy” as hour 107 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 5, episode 3, aired 1991-09-21, 25 min.

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This leaf is S05E03: listed hour 107 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 3 of 20 in season 5. It aired 1991-09-21 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Once Upon a Time Machine (2)” (S05E02). Next is “Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko” (S05E04).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — My Brother, the Bad Guy (S05E03)

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A family secret is revealed when Lieutenant Kazou Saki arrives from Japan to arrest his brother Oroku Saki, who turns out to be the Turtles' greatest enemy. Shredder and Krang send the Technodrome from Dimension X to Earth, but Donatello re-programs it to crash in the Arctic.

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Where does My Brother, the Bad Guy sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S05E03 is listed hour 107 of 191 — hour 3 of 20 in season 5, season 5 episode 3.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S05E03 air?

My Brother, the Bad Guy aired 1991-09-21 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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