All episodes Season 9 S09E04 1995-10-07 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The New Mutation

TV Flash files “The New Mutation” as hour 179 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 9, episode 4, aired 1995-10-07, 25 min.

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This leaf is S09E04: listed hour 179 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 4 of 8 in season 9. It aired 1995-10-07 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Wrath of Medusa” (S09E03). Next is “The Showdown” (S09E05).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — The New Mutation (S09E04)

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The Turtles set out to prove Dregg's true motives, after nearly getting arrested by military police at Hyper Dyne Labs. The Techno Gang steal a substance called X-Fire, a highly explosive fuel. The Turtles are also still coming to grips with their unstable mutations.

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Where does The New Mutation sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S09E04 is listed hour 179 of 191 — hour 4 of 8 in season 9, season 9 episode 4.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S09E04 air?

The New Mutation aired 1995-10-07 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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