All episodes Season 6 S06E04 1992-10-03 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Adventures in Turtle-Sitting

TV Flash files “Adventures in Turtle-Sitting” as hour 128 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 6, episode 4, aired 1992-10-03, 25 min.

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This leaf is S06E04: listed hour 128 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 4 of 16 in season 6. It aired 1992-10-03 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Super Irma” (S06E03). Next is “The Sword of Yurikawa” (S06E05).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Adventures in Turtle-Sitting (S06E04)

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Michelangelo accidentally turns his 3 brothers into 5-year-olds with Donatello's "Food Revivifier"(a machine that turns old and rotten food fresh again), while Shredder, Rocksteady, and Bebop steal weather balloons and helium tanks.

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Where does Adventures in Turtle-Sitting sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S06E04 is listed hour 128 of 191 — hour 4 of 16 in season 6, season 6 episode 4.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S06E04 air?

Adventures in Turtle-Sitting aired 1992-10-03 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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