All episodes Season 9 S09E08 1995-11-04 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Doomquest

TV Flash files “Doomquest” as the last listed hour of season 9 — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 9, episode 8, aired 1995-11-04, 25 min.

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This leaf is S09E08: listed hour 183 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, last listed hour of season 9. It aired 1995-11-04 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “Carter, the Enforcer” (S09E07). Next is “The Return of Dregg” (S10E01).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Doomquest (S09E08)

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An interdimensional being called Doomquest comes to Earth to try to get a powerful crystal from Lord Dregg. The turtles find that their unstable mutations are now starting to cause them to lose their intelligence whenever they mutate into their new forms. In the end, April is able to successfully expose Lord Dregg's true intentions to the world.

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Where does Doomquest sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S09E08 is listed hour 183 of 191 — last listed hour of season 9, season 9 episode 8.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S09E08 air?

Doomquest aired 1995-11-04 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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