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Episode trivia from Season 3, Part 2

65. The Christmas Aliens

When Usagi gives Leo a sword as a gift, this sword look just like the sword Oroku Saki gave Leo in "The Shredder Strikes Part One." [View Clip]

Mikey has his mask off for most of this episode.

Mikey's pet cat, Klunk, makes his first appearance since the comics in this episode.

Usagi Yojimbo and the Silver Sentry return in this episode.

This story is based on the December 1985 Michaelangelo #1 titled The Christmas Aliens by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird where he retrieved stolen dolls of the same name during the Christmas season.


66. The Darkness Within

Donatello is not just bi-lingual, but he is MULTI-lingual. He can speak and read English, Japanese, Egyptian, and Italian.

Klunk, the orange cat Mikey got in "The Christmas Aliens", makes a short appearance in the beginning of this episode.

Raphael's greatest fear is to give into his anger and become his very enemy: The Shredder, this is a reference to a popular story arc used in the now discontinued "Third Volume" of the Ninja Turtles comics which were published under IMAGE, Peter Laird has since confirmed this volume is the only one of the four TMNT titles set in the original universe to have no place in continuity.

Raphael knocks off the Shredder's helmet, and it's his face underneath. Similarly, Luke Skywalker fights an illusion of Darth Vader in a cave on Yoda's planet. When Luke knocks Vader's helmet off, it's Luke underneath the mask in Star Wars V The Empire Strikes Back.

Donatello says, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." That's an exact quote from the book Dante's Inferno. This Italian inscription is placed aboce the Gate of Hell (not the opening) and is not included in the nine circles. Similarly, the entrance into the basement wasn't the entrance into the Turtles' nightmare (a hell of itself) but the cocoons they were entrapped in.

There are, intentional or not being the question, apparent references to the works of H.P. Lovecraft in this episode. The creature at the end bears a slight resembelence to Cthulu. The old man who disintegrates at the end of the story can also be equated to one of his short stories, "The Colour Out Of Space," made into the movie "Die, Monster, Die!" with Boris Karloff.


67. Mission Of Gravity

The words "kill" and "dead" were said--directly--this episode, rather then use synonyms.

Hun and Stockman aren't exactly friends, but they are no longer enemies, work together and are both being duped and are doing the same thing about it. Shredder and Hun aren't getting along anymore, Hun is like Stockman... a failure.

First time Hun suffers consequences at Oroku Saki's hands.

By the end of the episode, it seems that the city of Beijing is now facing the wrong direction when it is returned to terra firma.

Professor Honeycutt returns in this episode as a partial core consciousness download.

Baxter gets yet another new body in this episode. A humanoid configuration without a physical head; where its head should be is the hologram projection of Baxter's human head that was also used on Mark II and III of the jar containing the remains of his nervous system. His brain is now stored in the chest. Stockman changes bodies more often than the Doctor on Doctor Who.


68. The Entity Below

The Turtle Tunneler returns in this episode.

The Green Woman from the episode "Monster Hunter" is a human mutated by the underground race.

This is the first episode aired on Cartoon Network.

The Underground turned out to be part of the lost city of Atlantis. It was indicated there are more underground cities of Atlantis somewhere.

Donatello says the line, "Itlintias is Atlantis!" The underground turned out to be the lost city of Atlantis who's name was originally Itlintias. This is not the first time Atlantis has popped up in TMNT. In the original series Atlantis was featured in 2 episodes. Once while they were in Greece where April was the reincarnation of a Queen of Atlantis and had a necklace that made Atlantis rise out of the ocean untill Donatello destroyed the necklace (causing Atlantis to fall back) and a 2nd time when the turtles helped Merdude find his way back to Atlantis, this time off the coast of New York.


69. Time Travails

The Aardvark at the beginning of the new time period is a character from an old series of comic books and appeared in the 1980's comic of this episode.

Drako and The Ultimate Nina return in this episode.

The turtles' knight armor has been adapted into a toy line.

This episode first aired on Cartoon Network.

First appearance of Renet.

Adapted from Issue# 8 of the original TMNT comic book.

In another concession to the dictates of kid's animation, Renet is considerably less busty than her original comic book incarnation.

In the original comic book version the Turtles were teamed up with fellow indie comic character Cerebus. He is absent from this adaptation due to the rights to his character not being acquired in time. However, a reference is made to him briefly in the form of a masked aardvark witnessing the Turtles and Renet's arrival.

Savanti Romero (the satyr-like demon sorcerer) was the enemy the turtles, Renet, and Cerebus faced in the original comic TMNT #8. Like the Savanti in the cartoon, the comic Savanti wanted the Time Sceptre to take revenge on Lord Simultanious. He too summoned up zombies to try and stop the turtles and their crew. And just like in the cartoon, comic book Savanti was banished to yet another time by Lord Simultanious.

Draco and the Ultimate Ninja return in this episode as a merged being.

The scene where Raphael is eaten by a huge cockroach and then comes bursting out of its stomach, is virtually identical to when Agent K from Men in Black is swallowed by an alien cockroach. After retrieving his gun, K then comes exploding out of the cockroach's chest, covered in goo, just like Raph.

This episode seems to be a riff on the movie "Time Bandits." In the film, the heroes steal a map that will allow them to travel anywhere in time (with mixed results). Hot on their heals is the the Lord of Time (AKA God) who appears as a giant Oz like head. Much like in this episode, when the Lord of Time finally catches up to them, he turns out to be a harmless old man.

The castle in this episode bares a striking resemblance to Castle Grayskull, a noted location from the various incarnations of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.


70. Hun On The Run

This is the last time until the Ninja Tribunal Season where Karai and the turtles work together.

The quote from Bishop "Seems the odds have changed. But I never play the odds." was used twice. First was in this episode. Second was in a video game called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare after you beat Bishop.

An interesting brother-sister dynamic between Karai and Hun is seen here, with Shredder as a very strange father indeed. Though intelligent, Baxter Stockman's biggest character flaw is his overreaching arrogance and naivete. Considering there's a new rooster in the henhouse--Dr. Chaplin--he's no longer truly indispensable. This episode may be Stockman's last hurrah. He probably should have known better, cooled it with the schemes, and just lain low.

Apparently, Shredder is not aware that Hun conspired with Baxter to foil his plans in Mission Of Gravity. He says to Hun's face that he all is but punishing him merely for repeated failures and not treason by his words that Hun has always been unquestioningly loyal.

This episode first aired on Cartoon Network.

Donatello gains a train, but Raph's Shell Cycle is destroyed.


71. Reality Check

Utromidium, the weakness of the Super Turtles, is obviously named after the Utroms, the beings responsible for the Shredder's appearances, and for the Turtles' being.

At the beginning of the episode, Mikey's main focus is on his comics. Interesting that he wound up in a world that had superheroes.

Mikey's cat Klunk makes yet another brief appearance at the beginning of the episode. [View Clip]

Ultimate Draco returns.

A classic Ninja Turtles cartoon in-joke makes his way into the episode, whilst looking through a database of villains The Turtles come across the "Transmagrafier", which was a device used in the original series.

This episode is adapted from Issue Seven of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The 'Penultimate Nullificator' is a spoof of the 'Ultimate Nullifier' used in the Fantastic Four comics.

Grid-X says, "He's infiltrated the Shell of Justice, we better scan him." The headquarters for the Super Turtles is the "Shell of Justice," which is a reference to the "Hall of Justice" from the 1970's Superfriends series and most recently in the 2006 comic book run of Justice League of America.

This episode appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare.
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