Shredderville

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Season List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes: Beneath the Sewers (aka "Beneath These Streets") Turtles on Trial Attack of the 50-Foot Irma The Maltese Hamster Sky Turtles The Old Switcheroo Burne's Blues The Fifth Turtle Enter the Rat King Turtles at the Earth's Core April Fool Attack of Big MACC The Ninja Sword of Nowhere 20,000 Leaks Under the City Take Me to Your Leader Four Musketurtles Turtles, Turtles Everywhere Cowabunga Shredhead Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers Camera Bugged Green With Jealousy Return of the Fly Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero Mutagen Monster Corporate Raiders from Dimension X Pizza by the Shred Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady Beware the Lotus Blast from the Past Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp Michaelangelo's Birthday Usagi Yojimbo Case of the Hot Kimono Usagi Come Home The Making of Metalhead Leatherhead Meets the Rat King The Turtle Terminator The Great Boldini The Missing Map The Gang's All Here The Grybyx Mr. Ogg Goes to Town Shredderville Bye Bye Fly The Big Rip-Off The Big Break-In The Big Blow Out 1987 Season – 1988 Season – 1989 Season – 1990 Season – 1991 Season – 1992 Season – 1992-1993 Vacation in Europe sideseason – 1993 Season – 1994 Season – 1995 Season – 1996 Season

"Shredderville" is episode number 61 of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. This episode of the show was written by Francis Moss. It originally aired on November 2, 1989 in syndication. Not yet transferred to DVD, it deals a lot with existential thoughts, and is inspired by the movie It's a Wonderful Life.

The Shredder gets away once again, and the turtles believe that the world would be better if they weren't around. The Turtles wake up, discovering that Splinter and their lair are gone, and that New York City has been renamed "Shredderville". Donatello theorizes that they have somehow been dislocated into an alternate reality, a parallel earth where events unfolded slightly differently than on their own Earth, namely that the Turtles never existed in this world. Shredder was able to conquer New York, and presumably the entire world. Bebop and Rocksteady are humans, and Krang is a powerless alien brain without a robot body (because, without the Turtles to oppose him, Shredder never found the need to mutate Rocksteady and Bebop, or to build a robot body for Krang). New York City/Shredderville and the Technodrome have seen better days; poor maintenance has left the Technodrome a wreck in danger of exploding, and would likely take most of the city with it. Shredder makes numerous public announcements blaming mutants for all the problems in the city so they won't blame his incompetent administration. April O'Neil and Irma are servants of Bebop and Rocksteady, while Krang is a bureaucrat. When the Turtles confront Shredder, they find him to be overwhelmed by the problems of serving as administrator for the entire world and begs the Turtles to take him to their world, where he doesn't rule. The Technodrome blows up, and then the Turtles wake up they find out that all was a dream. They are unsettled to realize, however, that all four of them shared the same dream.

The Turtles stop wishing they weren't around.

[edit] Trivia

• This episode is one of the few times during this series Shredder is pictured outside his battle armor. He wears only the helmet and face mask from his combat armor, and is clad in a business suit.
• Dorian Harewood Voices Shredder.