Plan 6 from Outer Space

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Season September 10, 1990 - ? List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes: Plan 6 from Outer Space Turtles of the Jungle Michaelangelo Toys Around Peking Turtle Shredder's Mom Four Turtles and a Baby Turtlemaniac Rondo in New York Planet of the Turtles Name That Toon Menace, Maestro Please Super Hero for a Day Back to the Egg Son of Return of the Fly Raphael Knocks 'em Dead Bebop and Rocksteady Conquer the Universe Raphael Meets His Match Slash: The Evil Turtle from Dimension X Leonardo Lightens Up Were-Rats from Channel 6 Funny, They Shrunk Michaelangelo The Big Zipp Attack Donatello Makes Time Farewell, Lotus Blossom Rebel Without a Fin The Adventures of Rhino-Man Michaelangelo Meets Bugman Poor Little Rich Turtle What's Michaelangelo Good For? The Dimension X Story Donatello's Degree The Big Cufflink Caper! Leonardo VS Tempestra! Splinter Vanishes! Raphael Drives 'em Wild Beyond the Donatello Nebula Big Bug Blunder The Foot Soldiers Are Revolting Unidentified Flying Leonardo 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

Plan 6 from Outer Space is episode number 66 of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. It is the first episode of season 4 (1990). This episode of the show was written by David Wise. It originally aired on September 10, 1990 in syndication.

The name Plan 6 from Outer Space is a play on the title of Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s 1959 science fiction movie Plan 9 from Outer Space. The 6 here stands for the fictional TV-channel Channel 6 in this cartoon.

At the end of the previous episode, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes (TMNT) sent the Technodrome back to Dimension X with Krang, The Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady in it. The Technodrome now stands at an asteroid. Krang and Shredder want revenge and send Bebop and Rocksteady to Earth to bring the entire Channel 6 building to Dimension X via trans-dimensional thrusters. Krang disguises them as humans, so they can go unnoticed. But the disguise only lasts for a few hours, so they must hurry. Bebop and Rocksteady also have a Pretendicon, a robot disguised as Splinter, to lure the TMNT into the building and send them to Dimension X.

The TMNT believe that the Shredder and his gang are gone, and they plan for a vacation.

Meanwhile, Bebop and Rocksteady get hired as Channel 6 janitors and begin to control the programs. But the Shredder calls them and reminds them why they are there. Bebop and Rocksteady resume their search for the basement, but instead find where they are taping an episode of "The Idaho Potatoes", a parody of the California Raisins (with lyrics like "I heard it through the potato vine"). Bebop and Rocksteady then fire the actors playing the potatoes, thinking they could "play potatoes" better. April O'Neil stumbles into the studio and wonders why the two executives are dancing in potato costumes. She then looks into a camera filming the show... revealing the two executives are really Bebop and Rocksteady! Before she can escape, the two mutants capture her.

The TMNT encounter the Pretendicon/Splinter and think that Splinter has lost his memory after being hit on the head by a sign. They discover that he is not Splinter when the real Splinter radios them to tell them that April O'Neil has been captured by Bebop and Rocksteady. They go to the Channel 6 building and discover what Bebop and Rocksteady are doing. Bebop and Rocksteady locked April in a locker in the basement and started setting up the thrusters. When the Channel 6 building is launched, the TMNT disconnect the thrusters and stop the building from taking off, save April and send Bebop and Rocksteady back to Dimension X.

[edit] Trivia

• This episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series is the prelude to the series' Vacation in Europe sideseason. The following episode is the postlude to the sideseason.