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Episode 33: Take Me to Your Leader
Written by: David Wise

Voice Cast:
James Avery: Shredder, Second Policeman
Cam Clarke: Leonardo, Rocksteady
Townsend Coleman: Michaelangelo
Jennifer Darling: Irma Langinstein
Barry Gordon: Donatello, Bebop
Pat Fraley: Krang, Burne Thompson
Renae Jacobs: April O’Neil
Rob Paulsen: Raphael, First policeman
Peter Renaday: Splinter, Robot Guard, Bridge Attendant

Mistakes:
1. In Leonardo's dream, Raphael refers to Rocksteady as "hog-breath" which is Bebop's common insult.
2. When the Turtles slide on the ice while running from the polar bear, Leonardo is heard screaming, and the same would happen when Donatello slips on the snowy stairs and crashes on Michelangelo and Raphael, but Leonardo isn't in these scenes. This was a result of a stock voice effect used in post-production and not a live vocal.
3. After Donatello falls down the snowy stairs in the schoolhouse, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo gain snow boots.
4. When Leonardo leaves the turtles, he wears his winter outfit, but when he returns he wears blue colors, and the snow boots the other turtles received moved suddenly in the snowy schoolhouse (see mistake 3).
5. During Leonardo's dream, a dog bites Leonardo's foot, but he shows no reaction.
6. After Raphael declares Donatello the leader, Donatello's belt initial changes from gray to white.
7. When Donatello explains how he found the other Turtles and points to the fireworks, Raphael and Leonardo switch positions.

Catchphrase Countdown:
1. Shredder says "Turtle Soup" at the end of Leonardo's dream.
2. Michelangelo says "Cowabunga!" as he slides on the ice trying to escape the polar bear.
3. Michelangelo soon says "Let's Make Turtle Tracks!" as they escape from the polar bear.
4. Michelangelo says "Holy Guacamole!" when he enters the schoolhouse.
5. Krang says "you Wretched Reptiles" during the skyscraper battle.
6. Michelangelo says "Cowabunga!" as the Turtles slide down the elevator shaft.

Pizza References:
1. Michelangelo sees a pizza on the Technodrome's floor during Leonardo's dream, but it turns out to be a trap door.
2. Raphael says that he would play "Spin the Pizza" with Michelangelo. It determined who would be the new leader.
3. The pizza billboard next to the Channel 6 building is visible in this episode.
4. Michelangelo throws a snowball at Raphael, he said that "I'll roll you over through a pizza cutter like hot mozzarella."
5. There are three pizzas in Splinter's room at the end of the episode. Michelangelo eats a slice and says "that's scarfing down pizzas" when Splinter asks about what he does best.

Pop Culture References:
1. Rocksteady says "Where's that Abe Lincoln guy when you need him" when Shredder asks him to help, in reference to his emancipation of slavery.
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2. After Michelangelo falls from the schoolhouse's stairs, he spins around and states why they call it Breakdancing, a popular dancing fad of the mid-1980s.
3. After the school's facade collapses, Michelangelo says "School's Out" after the 1972 Alice Cooper song.
4. Raphael says "Who programmed this Robot? King Kong?"
5. Raphael says "Easier said than done, leadhead" as they start to fight the bad guys at the top of the skyscraper, in reference to the 1963 song by the Essex.
6. As the bad guys flee from the skyscraper, Shredder's parachute has a smiley face and says "Have a Nice Day!", a popular 1970s expression and symbol.

Fourth Wall Breaking Humor:
1. Krang says "You have a way with words, Shredder" as he activates the Solar Ciphon.
2. Afterwards, Shredder says "Well I've always wanted to be a writer".
3. Raphael says, "If we don't get up their quick, this is going to turn into a two-part episode" right before the turtles enter the skyscraper.

Wacky Inventions:
1. The Robot Guard guarding the Mile High Towers
2. The Solar Ciphon
3. Donatello's Energy Tracker
4. The transmitter bomb in the schoolhouse

Notable:
1. This is the last episode in which the turtles eyelids colors match their bandana colors until Leatherhead Terror of the Swamp. However, not all episode prior to this one featured bandana color-matching eyelids. This feature was occasionally seen in Season 1, but was mostly used in Season 2 as well as in a few early Season 3 episodes as well.
2. This is the first episode in which Krang with his android body appears in the city since Shreddered and Splintered.