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Episode 99: Splinter Vanishes
Written by: Francis Moss and Ted Pedersen

Voice Cast:
Cam Clarke: Leonardo, Rodney's Father, Food A La Dude Critic
Townsend Coleman: Michelangelo, Rat King, Food a la Dude announcer
Jim Cummings: Leatherhead
Pat Fraley: Burne Thompson
Barry Gordon: Donatello
Renae Jacobs: April O’Neil, Rodney Van Gelt
Rob Paulsen: Raphael
Peter Renaday: Splinter

Mistakes:
1. Leonardo is colored like Michelangelo as they split up as the Turtles are on the street.
2. Raphael tells April that Leonardo is at the corner of 5th and Main, which does not exist in the actual NYC.
3. In the first shot of Leonardo in Roseanne's Fitness Center right before we see Leatherhead, his "L" his missing.
4. After Raphael backflips onto a crate to dodge the Rat King and his rats at the warehouse, is "R" on his belt is missing.
5. When Donatello says "Raphael" while he's tied up upside down, his eyes disappear for a fraction of a second.
6. As the Rat King and Leatherhead's robots encroach on the Turtles, Michelangelo's twirling nunchucks or grappling hook are heard, but the Turtles are frozen.

Catchphrase/Insult Countdown:
1. April signs on with her report with "This is April O'Neil for Channel 6 News."
2. Rat King calls hits rats "his loyal subjects" after they sense to him that the Turtles and Splinter are gone.
3. The Turtles say "Turtle Power" after they are reunited by Leonardo.
4. Leatherhead calls Splinter a "fur-covered saw brat" as he encounters him and the Rat King.
5. Rat King calls his rats "his disloyal subjects" after Splinter meditates them away.

Pizza References:
1. Michelangelo decides to miss April's report so he can eat a couple of pizzas in the oven.
2. After April's report, Michelangelo says "It's pizza time," and then says to Leonardo that Splinter hates pizza.
3. Vinnie's Pizza's billboard is visible next to the Channel 6 building in this episode.
4. At the fitness center, Leonardo says that his job isn't much but does keep him in pizzas.
5. On the Food a la Dude show, Michelangelo demonstrates strawberry surprise pizza with anchovy sauce.
6. After Michelangelo is fired from Food a la Dude, he goes to the show's freezer to retrieve his secret pizza sauce.
7. When April arrives at the empty Food a la Dude studio, she feels Michelangelo must have swallowed all of the pizza pride he had.
8. Leonardo and Michelangelo say that a King without any subjects is like a Turtle without a pizza.
9. Michelangelo delivers a Swiss Cheese pizza topped with mint gator at the end of the episode.

Pop Culture References:
1. At the fitness center, Leonardo tells a couple of students to shake their booties, after the 1976 KC and the Sunshine Band disco song.
2. Michelangelo mentions John Wayne during the battle with the robots.
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3. Rodney Ven Gelt mentioned a Singing Turtlegram, a parody on the Singing Telegram that is used to deliver funny messages by telegraph, with the Sing-o-gram truck providing the transport of them.
4. Right before April is grabbed by Splinter, she describes the scene as a regular Rat Race, which provides a multitude of pop culture references including a 1950 science fiction novel by Jay Franklin and the 1960 film The Rat Race by Robert Mulligan.
5. Leatherhead tells Leonado in the Fitness Center "No more Mr. Nice Gator", a parody on "No More Mr. Nice Guy," which has provided a multitude of pop cultural references including an Alice Cooper song.

Fourth Wall Breaking Humor:
1. After Raphael sings Happy Birthday to Rodney, he says that he just sings it and doesn't write it.
2. Raphael feels that he is stupid saying "Sally's Silly Singing Song-o-Grams Here" in a warehouse.
3. Raphael says that its ironic that he's trapped like a rat like a rat after a hook grabs him at the warehouse.
4. After Donatello asks April after he escapes the burning Fix-it-Shop, April replies by saying "It's your show."
5. April says "don't these villains get tired of using an abandoned warehouse as their hideout?" as she enters the warehouse that Raphael got kidnapped in.

Wacky Inventions:
1. The Robotic Control Microchip
2. Leatherhead's Android Alligators
3. The Rat King's Robot Rats

Kidnappings:
1. The Rat King's rats freeze Michelangelo and tie him up in the freezer at Food a La Dude and drag him away to the Rat King, where he is later hung upside down by Leatherhead in the Rat King's lair.
2. Raphael gets grabbed by a hook by the Rat King in an abandoned warehouse and is tied up like Michelangelo is next to him.
3. Leatherhead sprays some gas at Donatello on the street and grabs him into Leatherhead's car and ties him up in the Rat King's lair next to Michelangelo and Raphael.

Notables:
1. This is the only CBS episode that aired during an hour block that was designated as a "Shredder episode" that does not feature Shredder.
2. Final usage of the original tension theme right before the first commercial break.
3. Michelangelo is seen twirling his nunchucks as the Turtles draw their weapons after they are reunited and say "Turtle Power."
4. The Group W logo as it appeared on "Michelangelo Meets Bugman" is used in this episode.


Episode 100: Raphael Drives 'Em Wild
Written by: Misty Taggart

Voice Cast:
Cam Clarke: Leonardo, Clothing Store Worker
Townsend Coleman: Michelangelo
Pat Fraley: Burne Thompson, Little Huey, Premier of Vadeem
Barry Gordon: Donatello, Mr. Big
Renae Jacobs: April O’Neil
Rob Paulsen: Raphael, Mayor, Professor
Peter Renaday: Splinter, Vernon Fenwick, Oscar

Mistakes:
1. Raphael was initially seen carrying five pizza boxes from Vinnie's, and is shown again when he reaches the Lair in Oscar's body. Then after the other Turtles attack him, the shot of him covered with pizzas shows about 15 to 20 pizza boxes on top of him.
2. A traffic signal shows a formation of green on the left and red on the right, which is the opposite formation of how a horizontally formatted traffic light is shown, right before we cut to shot where Mr. Big falls next to Raphael as Oscar in the cab.
3. As Michelangelo says Cowabunga, the Turtle Van bumper is only spelled "TURTLE", missing its "S".
4. After April makes a U-turn on her News Van and takes out her Turtlecom, the shell design on the back is missing.
5. When Oscar as Raphael does a ninja punch in front of the Turtle Van, both the word "TURTLES" and the shell design from the shell bumper is missing.

Catchphrase/Insult Countdown:
1. Oscar as Raphael says "Let's Make Turtle Tracks" and "Turtle Power" as he and the other Turtles head through the sewers.
2. Michelangelo says "Cowabunga" as the Turtle Van drives around with Oscar as Raphael driving.

Pizza References:
1. At the beginning of the episode, Michelangelo asks Leonardo and Donatello where Raphael is with the pizzas.
2. Raphael sees Vinnie's Pizza after his ride in a shopping cart.
3. Little Huey then drives over to Vinnie's Pizza, where Raphael is seen picking up five pizza boxes before hopping in Oscar's cab. Oscar then says that Raphael must pay extra for those pizzas because they aren't a pizza delivery service.
4. Soon, Little Huey carries seven pizzas out of Vinnie's, but after realizing that Oscar's cab is gone, falls down, dropping the pizzas and forcing one to open and splatter on Little Huey.
5. Mr. Big is upset that Little Huey stopped for a pizza instead of delivering him the Transmogrifier.
6. The Turtles get worried in the Lair that they've last seen Raphael at Vinnie's Pizza over two hours ago. Soon, the body swapped Raphael as Oscar delivers the pepperoni and onion pizzas to Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo. Unfortunately, the they suspect a intruder and knock him down, causing all the pizzas to topple on top of him, and some of the pizza flies out of the boxes onto other boxes, the wall, and the floor. Raphael in Oscar's body said that he was just a little late delivering the pizzas.
7. A whole pizza is shown on the coffee table in front of the couch when Michelangelo and Donatello sit on the couch with Leonardo and Oscar's body on either end of the table.
8. The Turtles are eating pizza when watching Oscar get an award on the TV in the Lair.

Pop Culture References:
1. When the Turtles start to discover that Raphael is inside Oscar's body, he says that he's just entered the Turtle Twilight Zone.
2. After Raphael returns back to his real body, he tells Donatello that he was driving a pumpkin on the way to Cinderella's Ball, referring to the fairy tale and Disney film.

Fourth Wall Breaking Humor:
Raphael says "Big city cab drivers, don't you just love 'em?" at the end of the first scene of him in Oscar's cab.

Wacky Invention:
The Transmogrifier

Kidnapping:
Little Huey and Mr. Big kidnap the Premier of Vadeem at Pier 53.

Notables:
1. The Rex Theater returns in this episode, but this time is playing "Slime Creatures From Planet Zurp." This would be its final appearance.
2. Similar to The Old Switcheroo, the Transmogrifier causes a body swap takes place between Raphael and Oscar, except this time their voices are switched along with their minds.
3. Michelangelo pronounces Raphael "Ra-fie-el" instead of is normal "Ra-fay-el" when he figures out that Raphael's personality is inside Oscar's body.
4. This marks the final appearance of the Group W logo for a CBS episode on the DVD releases. This time, the complete "Laser W" logo sequence that was shown abridged in "Michelangelo Meets Bugman" is used, and begins with a blue rectangular octagon rotating around with pinkish orange laser lights forming the W, along with a few extra ascending synth tones. However, for later episodes as originally aired on CBS and USA Cartoon Express for the rest of this season and Season 5, the Group W Productions laser lights logo would continue to be used (in its full form with the synth tones).