The Case of the Killer Pizzas
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The Case of the Killer Pizzas is the eleventh episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. It is the sixth episode of season 2 (1988). This episode was written by Douglas Booth. It originally aired on October 13, 1988, in syndication. It is available on DVD in the box set released on April 26, 2005.
The unnamed creatures later appeared throughout "Sewer Surfin'" the third level of the video gameTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. They appear throughout the level jumping from the water to attack the player and a cluster of them make up the level's boss battle, they were replaced in the Super Nintendo version of the game by the Rat King on a Footski.
[edit] Story
Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady send eggs, looking like meatballs, from Dimension X to Shredder and Baxter Stockman. The plan is to put the eggs inside pizzas and hope that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles eat it. Shredder sends down information to the sewers about a pizza competition.
April O'Neil and Irma also attend the Pizza Bake-Off, and when Irma tries to avoid a man who wants here as a girlfriend, April discovers the TMNT and agrees to enter their names in the raffles for the Three Prize Pizzas.
Meanwhile, Baxter Stockman has placed each one of the "eggs" onto the "Three Prize Pizzas" while no one is watching him. He doesn't know is that the pizza maker has a rush order and sends two of the "Prize Pizzas" out on delivery and replaces them with fresh ones. Baxter is chosen to read off the winning names in the drawing. The drawing is held and Baxter Stockman lies and does so the TMNT win. April delivers the "Three Prize Pizzas" to the TMNT and they give her one of them. April and Irma decide to take that pizza to Irma's apartment and eat it there. They don't know that the "egg" from Dimension X is inside that pizza
At Irma's apartment, the energy of the microwave oven activates the "egg" and out comes a little Red Creature. The Red Creature causes Irma to faint when it jumps out when Irma opens up the microwave oven. April contacts the TMNT, who rush over to Irmas apartment and try to capture the little red creature. The red creature escapes, Then they realize that it came from the pizza, they figure out that there must be two other red creatures out there as well.
The TMNT fly in the blimp over the New York City and spy Mario, the pizza delivery boy, as he delivers pizza to two children in an apartment. The TMNT try to stop the children from placing the pizzas in the microwave oven, causing the eggs to activate. The two red Creatures escape from the building and lead the TMNT down to the sewers. The two red creatures are joined by the original one and they go into the subterranean river and mutate into large, big yellow monsters.
When the TMNT search for what they still believe are the little red creatures, they meet Shredder and Baxter Stockman. Baxter Stockman controls the monsters with a handheld device. The TMNT face Shredder in combat when the monsters attack the TMNT. Donatello uses his bo staff to smash Baxter Stockman's controller, causing it to go out of function. The monsters come out of control. Donatello jumps into the water after the control, while the other turtles team up with Shredder to fight the monsters as Baxter Stockman reads the instructions on how to reverse the monsters mutating back to eggs again. Michaelangelo finds the water-logged remote control in the water and uses it on the monsters, but the effect is bad. The controller's batteries are bad. Leonardo spots a power box and uses his katana swords to cut the electrical lines. A loose line falls into a puddle of water, causing an arc to leap from puddle to puddle until it reaches the monsters. This causes the monsters to become eggs again because of the overload of power. Shredder and Baxter Stockman escape.
[edit] Goofs
There is an unusually high amount of mistakes in the episode:
- Shredder's gauntlets seem to be longer when he uses them on the fire hydrant.
- Leo's red chess piece flashed red & white as he starts his turn.
- When the turtles are watching the contest on each other's shoulders. Raph speaks but his mouth doesn't move
- The turtles seem to withdraw their heads into their bodies which real turtles can't do however this was a common mistake in the series, most prominently used in the live action films, particularly the first and third.
- Raph's bandanna is purple when he grabs the pizza dishes. he changes back to red when he throws them at Shredder
- When Baxter is receives the contest winners' tickets (and lies to trick the turtles) the fourth ticket disappears as it shows the actual winners' names.
- The creature is animated late just as the box lid flies open.
- Leo's tail is missing when he's looking through the hole.
- The last shot of Raph shows he has Leo's swords.
- Just as Leo & Raph are on the roof & coming inside Leo has been switched to Don.
- Mikey has been replaced with Raph inside the house.
- When Leo says they should catch the creatures, Mikey has swords on his back.
- The TV shows April & her crew chasing the creatures with the cameraman shown too.
- The full grown monster throws a brick without picking it up & throwing it, ignoring the hole on the wall.
- Mikey seems to jump onto the giant monster from nowhere.
- The monster doesn't have a tonsil in it's mouth
- Mikey asks April is she's alone with Raph's voice.
- Leo tackles Shredder out of the monsters' way, but is suddenly replaced by Raph when Shredder argues with him. then Raph ends up responding with Leo's voice.
- Leo jumps over the monster to the electric switch when it & the other Monsters were infront of the turtles
- Baxter's hair changes length throughout the episode
- many characters switch positions nearly every screen-time.
