All episodes Season 8 S08E01 1994-09-17 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Get Shredder!

TV Flash files “Get Shredder!” as the first listed hour of season 8 — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 8, episode 1, aired 1994-09-17, 25 min.

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This leaf is S08E01: listed hour 168 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, first listed hour of season 8. It aired 1994-09-17 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Shredder Triumphant!” (S07E27). Next is “Wrath of the Rat King” (S08E02).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Get Shredder! (S08E01)

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Shredder & Krang are still loose on Earth, but without the resources of the Technodrome, they plan to steal equipment from the abandoned Hall of Science at the World Fair. Krang's former weapons engineer, Drakus, using the guise of Beserko, also shows up to cause trouble.

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Where does Get Shredder! sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S08E01 is listed hour 168 of 191 — first listed hour of season 8, season 8 episode 1.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S08E01 air?

Get Shredder! aired 1994-09-17 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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