All episodes Season 7 S07E11 1993-09-20 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

April Gets in Dutch

TV Flash files “April Gets in Dutch” as hour 151 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 7, episode 11, aired 1993-09-20, 25 min.

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This leaf is S07E11: listed hour 151 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 11 of 27 in season 7. It aired 1993-09-20 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Turtles on the Orient Express” (S07E10). Next is “Northern Lights Out” (S07E12).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — April Gets in Dutch (S07E11)

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The Turtles and April are in Amsterdam. April is covering the showing of the world-famed Duchess Diamond. Krang wants the diamond, a flawless stone, to focus the rays on his Laser Dimension Blade, which will cut through the dimensions and bring the Technodrome to Earth.

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Where does April Gets in Dutch sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S07E11 is listed hour 151 of 191 — hour 11 of 27 in season 7, season 7 episode 11.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S07E11 air?

April Gets in Dutch aired 1993-09-20 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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