Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) s04e23 Episode Script

9061-017 - Donatello Makes Time

[THEME SONG.]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Heroes in a half shell Turtle power They're the world's Most fearsome fighting team We're really hip.
They're heroes in the half shell And they're green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles When the evil Shredder attacks These turtle boys don't cut him no slack Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Splinter taught them to be ninja teens He's a radical rat.
Leonardo leads Donatello does machines And that's a fact, Jack.
Raphael is cool, but rude Gimme a break.
Michelangelo is a party dude Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Heroes in a half shell Turtle power [TRUMPET & XYLOPHONE.]
Ah, just a little adjustment here.
Hm, yeah.
Hey dudes, what's the haps? Shh! Cool it! Well, excuse me! What's the teen green genius up to now? Well, we're not sure but we think it's an electronic, state of the art, microwave pizza oven.
All right! Monumental notion, dude! Hold it down, guys.
This is a delicate moment.
Just one micro millimeter more, and there! Finished.
All right! I'll toss the dough.
I'll heat the sauce.
And I'll grate the cheese.
Hold the phone.
That's not a pizza oven! Of course it's not a pizza oven.
It happens to be the world's first time-stopping machine.
Get serious, dude.
[ALL TALKING.]
A time stopper? Forget it.
Bummer.
Who needs it? I wonder if Thomas Edison had to put up with this.
Uh-oh.
I think we hurt his feelings.
Don't you guys realize this could be the most incredible invention of the 20th century? I thought that was the pizza oven.
Will you guys quit thinking with your stomachs instead of your brains? Now watch.
(BUZZING) Watch those sewer rats when the time-stopper ray hits them.
Whoa, fantabulouso! For our furry little friends, time has stopped.
You'll notice there are no strings, wires or mirrors.
Big deal.
So your gizmo works on rats.
What's that got to do with us highly evolved turtle types? Michelangelo, you have just volunteered for an experiment.
I have? How humiliating-- the great scientist, Professor Lloyd Cycloid, forced to float through the sewers on a pile of garbage.
But not for long.
Once I launch my invention, the Cycloid Satellite, the world will see what a genius I really am.
Whoa! Once I gather up the necessary parts, my satellite will numb the brain of every being on Earth.
Then I will be the smartest person in the world! (LAUGHS MANIACALLY) And they said I'd gone round the bend! (LAUGHS) Thank you for inviting me to your demonstration, Donatello.
Your opinions are always honored, sensei.
Okay, Michelangelo, ready when you are.
I've never been a test turtle before.
Watch this for me, would you, Raphael? Let me know when to smile and say "pizza cheese.
" All right, now! Eee-yah! Quite remarkable.
Remarkable indeed.
Congratulations, Donatello.
What Michelangelo doesn't know is that our time keeps moving on while his time is stopped.
I've always felt that way about Michelangelo.
And when the ray wears off, what then? He'll just drop to the ground and say, "See, dude? I told you it wouldn't work.
" I know just how to prove all this did happen.
When he comes to, this pizza will be history.
That's what you think.
(BUZZING) Raphael unable to eat is perhaps more incredible than Michelangelo unable to move.
You said a mouthful, Master.
This will be proof enough.
Now, let their time resume, Donatello.
Right, sensei.
Yah! Oof! Um! See, I told you it wouldn't work.
Whoa, where's my grappling hook? More importantly, where's my pizza? Well, there's a fresh baked one in the oven.
Hey, let's break for some munchies.
What do you say? I say all right! Hey, wait for me! (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) Ooh boy, a time-stopper! With that invention, I can complete the invention of my own invention, the Cycloid Satellite! (SLURPING) (ALARM BLARES) Trespassers in the lair! The time-stopper, it's gone! Over there! That little weird dude's got it.
Well, let's get it back.
Where are your manners? Finders keepers! [ALL.]
Turtle power! (BUZZING) Ha ha, you gorgeous little beauty, you! And you even come with batteries included.
Mwah! This is April O'Neil at the Museum of Historical Art, the site of the most baffling antique theft in history, the famous Tu-Tu Karmen exhibit.
This is the museum's director.
Can you tell us what happened, sir? (STAMMERING, BRITISH ACCENT) I just don't know.
One minute we unveiled the solid gold head of Tu-Tu Karmen, and the next minute, zhoop, it was gone.
We'll show you just what he means.
Here's the videotape of the actual unveiling.
[MUSEUM DIRECTOR.]
And now may I present the priceless golden head of King Tu-Tu Karmen.
(EVERYONE GASPS) Tu-Tu Karmen's head! Where did it go? You home viewers saw it with your own eyes.
It's as if everything stopped for an instant and then started again.
Only the solid gold head of Tu-Tu Karmen was gone.
This is a baffled April O'Neil signing off.
One could do exactly that with Donatello's time stopper.
I must notify him of this.
(LAUGHS) Those fools think this head is made of gold, but it's actually deridium, a super hard metal that I need for my invention.
Now to put it together! (LAUGHS MANIACALLY) Donatello, I must speak to you.
(GASPS) Oh no! They must have been struck by the rays of Donatello's time-stopping apparatus.
I must use it to reactivate them.
It's not here! Without that device, they could be frozen like that forever! My poor students.
I hope there is a time limit to their frozen state.
[ALL.]
Power! (ALL GRUNTING AND GROANING) Where'd that bozo go? The dude split! That's impossible.
He was standing right there.
Ah, thank goodness.
It wore off just as I hoped it would.
Now I remember.
That weird little guy was trying to steal my time-stopper.
I'm afraid he was successful.
He turned it against you and ran off with it.
Oh no! That thing could be dangerous in the wrong hands.
[MASTER.]
Most dangerous.
April just reported an astonishing robbery.
The head of an Egyptian idol disappeared right in front of a large crowd and the T.
V.
cameras.
It appears the thief is using your amazing invention for evil purposes, Donatello.
Then I guess it's up to us to get it back.
Mondo concept, dude, but how we gonna do it? I haven't the slightest idea.
This is April O'Neil at the world famous Philo Testing Laboratories, bringing you a Channel 6 exclusive: the first test firing of an amazing new laser device.
They claim this laser beam will slice through anything from a two-foot thick titanium wall to a year-old pizza crust.
A year-old pizza crust? Really, sir, don't you find that a bit hard to swallow? It's quite true, Miss O'Neil, I assure you.
Allow me to demonstrate.
A two-foot thick wall of titanium? Precisely.
You and your camera man may stand behind it.
Oh, stand behind this thing? You're lucky we got the wall, Vernon.
We could have gotten a year-old pizza instead.
This will allow you to photograph the beam as it cuts right through the titanium.
Are you ready? Ready, Professor.
Fire away! All right.
Stand by, Miss O'Neil.
Stand by, cameras.
Lloyd Cycloid standing by.
That laser gun is just what I need to cut the deridium.
Five four Three, two, one, bingo! Three-- Professor, what's going on? You are! You're going on a little time trip.
Oh, please let this all be a bad dream! The final element I need for my invention.
Now I can finish the Cycloid Satellite! (LAUGHS MANIACALLY) Is it over? Did we get the shot? Are we still alive? Well, don't just stand there, April.
Answer me! April? Professor, yoo-hoo! Laser gun--it's gone! Oh, what a predicament! Not a moving soul to save me.
And then what happened? I came to and the laser gun was gone.
Well, let's see what's on your tape.
Look, there in the background! I'll freeze frame and enlarge the image.
That's the same weird little guy, and he's got my time-stopper.
I recognize him.
It's Professor Lloyd Cycloid, a mad scientist who's going to build some crazy invention.
I remember that nutcase.
He had a lab outside the city somewhere.
The basement grating-- He went in and out through the sewer system, just like he did here in the lair.
Where are you going? I'll track Cycloid on my sewer ski.
Now he's on my turf.
Wait, Donatello.
It could be dangerous.
It'd be more dangerous not to do anything.
(ENGINE REVS) Hm, if I didn't want to be followed, which route would I take? I'd take this one.
[THEME SONG.]
I know the scenery's not much, but you got to admit the music is pretty exciting.
A guy would have to be pretty desperate to go over that.
And I'll bet that's just what he did.
Beware, Professor Cycloid, an angry Donatello is on your trail! [POLICE RADIO.]
Seven-ten-one, pick up.
I checked out Cycloid's whole place from basement to attic.
The guy hasn't been here for years.
This is Car 57, calling to Station House.
The place is deserted.
We're heading back in.
(FALSETTO) Good-bye, officers! Come again real soon.
Be it ever so crumbled, there's no place like home.
Bingo! An open manhole with muddy footprints and wagon tracks.
This place has to be Cycloid's laboratory.
It's as cracked as he is.
Hmm.
Where have I seen that turtle before? (GASPS) Of course! The inventor of the time-stopper.
Well, it's time he was stopped for good.
[CYCLOID.]
Come in, young purple, come in.
(LAUGHS) I've been expecting you.
Boy, he is weird.
Even I wasn't expecting me.
Okay, Professor, where are you hiding? Yoo-hoo, I'm up here, shellback.
The name's Donatello, psycho.
That's Professor Psycho-- I-I mean Cycloid! I mean Professor Cycloid! Now look what you've done.
You got me all mixed up.
Don't bother coming down, Professor I'll be right up.
And that's exactly where you'll stay.
Uh-oh! Make yourself comfortable.
You may be here for a long time.
And just so you won't be bored, I've arranged for a little entertainment.
You can watch your entire life pass before your eyes.
(LAUGHS) Just before you drop into this beautiful bubbling toxic slime-- (LAUGHS) I should warn you.
The moment anyone opens this door-- Plop! Turtle soup.
(LAUGHS MANIACALLY) (CYCLOID LAUGHING) I should warn you.
The moment anyone opens this door-- Plop! Turtle soup.
Turtle soup.
That's most amusing! I must remember that when I write my memoirs.
But now on to more serious things, like completing the Cycloid Satellite.
With it, I will turn the entire world into brainless idiots.
(LAUGHS) [LEONARDO.]
April, we have to locate Donatello.
Have you seen him? Donatello? He went chasing after that nutty Professor Cycloid.
So that's where he went! Hey, if Donatello thinks he can handle that weirdo nutcase all by himself, it's okay with me.
Well, it's not okay with me! Me neither, dude! Let's go! Turtle power! Cowabunga! You were saying, Raphael? Oh, oh, I was saying that I was just about to leave, Master.
Hey guys, wait for me! Look, a directional arrow! What a guy.
He left a trail for us to follow.
(ENGINES REV) Hot studly move, Dude-atello.
The laser cuts the deridium The laser cuts the deridium Hi-ho the merry-o The laser cuts the deridium The deridium makes a helmet The helmet protects my brain Protects my brain from the effects of the Cycloid Satellite Okay, so it doesn't rhyme.
I'm a scientist, not a poet.
Okay, Leonardo, now what? We're turtles, remember? Water is our element.
[ALL.]
Turtle power! We found Donatello! There's his sewer ski.
And look up there.
Guys, I believe we're beginning to see the light at the end of the sewer.
Oh, what's going on? It's that wacko Professor Cycloid.
[CYCLOID.]
Perfect.
With this shot, I can win a stuffed teddy bear.
Ready, aim Whatever he's up to, I've got to stop him.
(GRUNTS) Fire! (GASPS) What's going on? The laser is going crazy! Yeow! Whoa, scope out that excellent light show.
[RAPHAEL.]
Wait, is this the Fourth of July already? My, how time flies when you're having fun.
[LEONARDO.]
Come on, we've got to rescue Donatello.
Hurry, fellas! Every second counts.
Turtles, this is Donatello.
Come in, turtles, come in.
That's what we're doing.
We're right outside and we're coming in! I mean, no, don't come in! You know, I wish that dude would make up his mind.
Yeah, I guess all the excitement's gone to his head.
Don't panic, Donatello.
We'll save you! Oh no! Leonardo, use the time-stopper! [MICHELANGELO.]
All right, it works! Tough break, Professor.
It looks like no slime this time.
And speaking of time, I've got a feeling he'll be getting lots of it behind bars.
[APRIL O'NEIL.]
And so the priceless head of Tu-Tu Karmen has been returned to its rightful place in the museum, thanks to a quartet of devoted art lovers.
Not to mention pizza lovers.
This is April O'Neil, Channel 6 news, signing off.
Tell me, Donatello, have you decided what to do with this time-stopper invention? Well, I haven't decided yet, sensei.
That thing is dangerous.
I say we donate it to the junk drive.
I say we deep six it in the East River.
I say we bury it.
What? Bury my precious invention? How could you even think of such a thing? Donatello is right.
I think we should drop all such suggestions.
Sensei's right.
Just as I'm dropping this.
Oh no! It'll take me weeks to put this back together.
Maybe months.
Maybe even years.
[ALL.]
We certainly hope so.
(ALL LAUGHING) Closed Captioned By [THEME SONG.]

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