All episodes Season 7 S07E02 1993-09-14 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Rust Never Sleeps

TV Flash files “Rust Never Sleeps” as hour 142 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 7, episode 2, aired 1993-09-14, 25 min.

From the desk

How this hour is filed

This leaf is S07E02: listed hour 142 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 2 of 27 in season 7. It aired 1993-09-14 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Tower of Power” (S07E01). Next is “A Real Snow Job” (S07E03).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Rust Never Sleeps (S07E02)

Catalog log

Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

In the Technodrome, Krang works on an oxidizer rocket with enough power to blast the Technodrome to Earth. But something goes wrong, and instead of thrust, the device grows rust!

Viewer FAQ

Where does Rust Never Sleeps sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S07E02 is listed hour 142 of 191 — hour 2 of 27 in season 7, season 7 episode 2.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S07E02 air?

Rust Never Sleeps aired 1993-09-14 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.

In the series

Why this series still plays

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…

Open the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles package · Season 7 hub

Filed against

Also in season 7

← Full episode guide · Show package · All shows