All episodes Season 7 S07E21 1993-11-06 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Escape from the Plant of the Turtleloids

TV Flash files “Escape from the Plant of the Turtleloids” as hour 161 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 7, episode 21, aired 1993-11-06, 25 min.

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This leaf is S07E21: listed hour 161 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 21 of 27 in season 7. It aired 1993-11-06 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Attack of the Neutrinos” (S07E20). Next is “Revenge of the Fly” (S07E22).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Escape from the Plant of the Turtleloids (S07E21)

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Kerma the space turtle returns once again for the Turtles help in programming his city's new defence robots but Groundchuck and Dirtbag have also returned to the city to cause trouble.

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Where does Escape from the Plant of the Turtleloids sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S07E21 is listed hour 161 of 191 — hour 21 of 27 in season 7, season 7 episode 21.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S07E21 air?

Escape from the Plant of the Turtleloids aired 1993-11-06 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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