All episodes Season 5 S05E13 1991-11-02 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Ice Creature Cometh

TV Flash files “The Ice Creature Cometh” as hour 117 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 5, episode 13, aired 1991-11-02, 25 min.

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This leaf is S05E13: listed hour 117 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 13 of 20 in season 5. It aired 1991-11-02 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Donatello's Duplicate” (S05E12). Next is “Leonardo Cuts Loose” (S05E14).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — The Ice Creature Cometh (S05E13)

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Bebop and Rocksteady botch another mutagen experiment, resulting in a giant ice creature who Bebop dubs "Frosty", and Shredder uses this monster to freeze New York solid, preoccupying the Turtles long enough for him to steal thermal explosives needed to melt the Technodrome free from the ice.

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Where does The Ice Creature Cometh sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S05E13 is listed hour 117 of 191 — hour 13 of 20 in season 5, season 5 episode 13.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S05E13 air?

The Ice Creature Cometh aired 1991-11-02 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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