Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Elementary, My Dear Turtle
TV Flash files “Elementary, My Dear Turtle” as hour 153 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 7, episode 13, aired 1993-09-21, 25 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E13: listed hour 153 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 13 of 27 in season 7. It aired 1993-09-21 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Northern Lights Out” (S07E12). Next is “Night of the Dark Turtle” (S07E14).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Turtles and Splinter win a trip to Europe... but wind up riding in a crate with the Turtle Van. Once ashore they head for Paris. Meanwhile, Krang devises a giant electromagnet to pull the Technodrome free of its dinky Dimension X asteroid, using the Eiffel Tower in Paris as a giant antenna.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Elementary, My Dear Turtle sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?
S07E13 is listed hour 153 of 191 — hour 13 of 27 in season 7, season 7 episode 13.
When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S07E13 air?
Elementary, My Dear Turtle aired 1993-09-21 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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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…
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- Cam Clarke as Leonardo
Cam Clarke voiced Leonardo on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — cowabunga as a business plan, four pizza-eating sewer mutants, a rat sensei, a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The cartoon sanded Eastman/Laird comics into…
- Townsend Coleman as Michelangelo
Townsend Coleman voiced Michelangelo on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — cowabunga as a business plan, pizza in the sewers, a 1987 cartoon that sanded Eastman/Laird comics into kid-friendly martial-arts slapstick and accidentally minted a…
- Barry Gordon as Donatello
Barry Gordon voiced Donatello on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — cowabunga as a business plan, pizza-eating sewer mutants, a rat sensei, a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The 1987 cartoon sanded Eastman/Laird comics into…
- Rob Paulsen as Raphael
Rob Paulsen’s Raphael made cowabunga a business plan on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — pizza, a rat sensei, toy-glut Christmas lists — then ran amok as Yakko-era velocity on Animaniacs. 1987 sewer martial-arts slapstick; variety-cartoon…