"Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo" | |||||||
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 Cartoon) episode | |||||||
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Season Code: | 04 | ||||||
Episode: | 21 | ||||||
Original airdate | October 13, 1990 | ||||||
Written by | Michael Edens | ||||||
Supervising Producer | Fred Wolf | ||||||
Producers: | Walt Kubiak | ||||||
Supervising Director | Bill Wolf | ||||||
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Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo is a season iv episode of the 1987-1996 series.
Synopsis
Donatello has invented a "wind and moving ridge" generator that Michelangelo wants to apply for windsurfing. After turning upward the automobile too high, Michelangelo finds himself blown right out of the sewers and into the bay area. While windsurfing, he spots a send of a sudden growing tiny and disappearing.
This is the doing of Talbot Breech, a naval enthusiast who shrinks real ships and puts them in bottles. His cat Claude triggers the shrink ray accidentally, shrinking Michelangelo and putting HIM in a bottle, much to his horror.
While he'south able to get out of the bottle - courtesy of a hungry Claude - Michelangelo struggles to detect a mode to contact the other Turtles or Apr. He also is struggling to avert being eaten by the cat.
Meanwhile Breech's latest conquering is an shipping carrier with April and Vernon on lath, which is shrunk downwards on live TV. April and Vernon escape the carrier and discover themselves in the same tiny, potentially-eaten-by-a-cat pickle equally Michelangelo, who finally manages to keep Claude from causing farther problem.
Michelangelo formulates a plan involving taking a tiny airplane from the tiny shipping carrier, but Apr and Vernon are both caught by Breech, who decides to add them to his drove. Fortunately the other Turtles recognize Michelangelo when he flies by, despite his resemblance to a bug.
Michelangelo leads the other Turtles back to Breech'southward home and bails out of his tiny airplane. Unfortunately, Breech has a trio of deadly robots who fight the other turtles. Merely as he tries to swat Michelangelo, he accidentally damages his own equipment, causing the shrinking ray to reverse itself, turning Michelangelo, Apr, Vernon and all the boats dorsum to their correct size.
Splinter gives Michelangelo his tiny sailboard back to remind him that bigger is not ever ameliorate. The shadow of a giant cat appears exterior the lair, only to be revealed as a tiny kitten who affectionately licks Michelangelo.
Characters
- Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
- Donatello (Barry Gordon)
- Michelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
- Raphael (Rob Paulsen)
- Splinter (Peter Renaday)
- April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
- Burne Thompson (Pat Fraley)
- Vernon Fenwick (Peter Renaday)
- Talbot Breech (Cam Clarke)
- Claude (Renae Jacobs)
Locations
- Turtles' Lair
- Aqueduct 6
- City sewers
- Metropolis harbour
- Talbot Breech's hideout
Vehicles
- Channel half-dozen Newsvan
- Shipping Carrier
- Fighter Jet
Errors
- When Michelangelo turns up the wind and wave generator, he's continuing at the command panel behind it. So in the adjacent shot, he's several feet away in Front end of it, running to where he was before.
- In that location's no possible fashion that Breech hadn't defenseless people on his drove of ships before, yet he acts every bit though information technology's a novelty to have tiny people.
- The devastation of Breech'south mechanism leads to all the ships and people beingness automatically restored to their normal size. Yet at the terminate, the sailboard is notwithstanding tiny.
Trivia
- This is the second fourth dimension in the series Michelangelo has been shrunk, the previous instance existence The Incredible Shrinking Turtles.
- This is the second episode in which the titular plot is instigated due to a technological malfunction resulting from a cat pressing a random push on a command console. The previous instance occurred in The Cat Woman from Channel Half-dozen.
- When Michelangelo uses a telephone to punch Channel 6 News, he uses the numbers 00767.
Home media releases
VHS
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo
DVD
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Flavor 4
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection
Transcript
- Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo/Transcript
Gallery
- Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo/Gallery
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