Least Loved TMNT Episodes!
 

So, I'm watching season 3 of the OT and as the 25th anniversary is coming up and I do do a lame video series, and this is a TMNT fan forum I figured I'd post this thread.

What is your least favorite episode of the original TMNT series? I ask because part of me wants to, as part of the 25th anniversary and an MCubed special do episode commentaries on some of them.

So, what episodes make even you Turtle fans roll your eyes?

I'm just gonna go down the list on the official site and put which ones I remember being horrid

Green With Jealousy - Just a really stupid plot. This entire DVD set I remember had some bad ones on it but this ones almost unwatchable for me.

Mutagen Monster - Even as a kid I hated this episode. I don't understand why I just did. Maybe it was all the lame cow jokes and stuffy nose Don was in the episode instead the one we normally have. That was a huge issue with all these episodes on that set.

The Gang's All Here - A really stupid pointless waste of an episode. Everything about it is bad.

Mr. Ogg Goes to Town - He's insanely annoying that's all I can say.

Michaelangelo Toys Around - The turtles can beat the crap out of Shredder but some nerdy toymaker and his robot dinosaurs are hard for them to beat and it takes an army of toys to do it...

Name That Toon - If I need to tell you why this ones bad you've never seen it.

Menace, Maestro Please - See above

Back to the Egg - Any baby turtle episode is unwatchably bad.

Funny, They Shrunk Michaelangelo - Mikey really got the screw job on this season. This episode is pretty insanely stupid.

Poor Little Rich Turtle - Annoying as hell whiny support character.

Super Irma - Irma, her own episode...yeah bad idea.

Adventures in Turtle-Sitting - This is possibly even worse then the first baby turtles episode as there's 3 of them this time.

Polly Wanna Pizza - Super retarded episode. Mikey renting pets? It just didn't make any sense. The bird was annoying too.

Other then that pretty much every European vacation episode and that's it. I liked everything else in the series after those.

I second Mr. Ogg goes to town. And some of the European Vacation ones. And some in the final two seasons.

When I first saw the title, I was going to say that some of the ones in season 4 of the NT were insufferable.

I'm in the middle of season 4 right now and most of the "villian of the week" episodes are pretty lame. Also:

Attack of the Big Macc
The Turtle Terminator
Michelangelo Toys Around
Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo
Leonardo Lightens Up
Donatello Makes Time
Turtles of the Jungle
Rondo In New York
Turtlemaniac
Name That Toon
Menace Maestro Please
Superhero For a Day

I actually have to second all the ones Spitfire said too if I didn't mention them already...(besides Green with Jealousy)
And the lamest of the list has to be Michelangelo Toys Around...nearly unwatchable..

I actually liked the Ogg episode.

Irma in her own episode is always a great idea.

It's probably the best episode out of all of those "Turtles as Babies" storylines. At least this time you get April faced with some semblence of motherhood and Krang thinking more about eliminating his competition

Yeah, I can see how it gets so much hate and all... but I enjoyed it... Not loved it or even really liked it... enjoyed it. Basically it was just a knockoff of that Superman villain, and there was no call to make him an ultra annoying Pee Wee Herman parody... but I liked some of the concepts.

But I second Mutagen monster... When Vernon has the best scene in the episode, you know something is wrong.

I also really disliked Rebel without a Fin. This is all Ray Fillet gets in the series? An episode where the turtles spend a good quarter of the episode making "We can't pronounce the villain's name" jokes?

And that Zach and the Alien Invaders episode was trash too. Wingnut and Screwloose as alien Army men? I mean, really?

I'm on season four of the 80's toon ninja turtles and i have to say though I enjoy most of season four there seems to be a greater number of groaners in this season.

I just about hate most of the episodes on the first two dvds of the season four boxset. The animation seems extremely cheap and lousy (which actually affects how I like an episode believe it or not) and the plots just seem over all bad. I almost gave up on the watching 80's toon because of the first two dvds in season four. :dead: But I was pleased to see that the animation and episodes get better throughout afterwards.

I didn't like the episode with the guy who wanted to make wax sculptures of the turtles. Or the episode where Don becomes big to fight a king Kong knock off. Or the one where Mikey pretends to be a toy.

I am currently in the middle of season 3, here's my list:

The Cat Woman of Channel Six
Attack of the 50 Foot Irma
Too Hot to Handle
Michaelangelo Toys Around
Name That Toon
The Fifth Turtle
Poor Little Rich Turtle
Raphael Knocks 'em Dead
Zach and the Alien Invaders
Menace, Maestro Please
Welcome Back, Polarisoids
Super Hero for a Day
A Real Snow Job
Adventures in Turtle-Sitting
Super Irma
Artless

Which episode was it with the little guy from dimention Z (I think), that was the illusionist that turned everything into stuff...

Yeah I hated that one.

I always hated Rebel Without A Fin. I think that's easily my least favourite episode from the entire series.

Other than that, there are a few that I'm not a huge fan of. I plan on rewatching all of the DVDs before Season 7 comes out.

I'm watching Turtle Terminator right now....gah I hate episodes with one replacement VA, but this has 2...and one of them is Rob Paulsen, my fave TMNT VA...yet they reuse his "Banzai!" yell. :roll:

Then of course there is Lesatherhead's debut episode with alternate Shredder and Donnie.

And one I find hilarious, Blast from the Past, a rehash of the pilot, has alternate Krang, for like 2 lines...and Fraley's Krang in the recycled clips. :P

EDIT: And Spit, I totally agree with Mutagen Monster, I've always disliked that episode, mainly again because of Alternate/Bizarro Donnie.

super rocksteady and mighty bebop for only one reasons the people of cannel six acting like babies it sicken me to watch that everytime so i skipped it on my dvd set other than that i like all the tmnt episodes.

You mean "Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady" Yeah, that's right the title totally flips the names...:P

I kinda like that one if only because of the anchor repeating "Rutabagas..." :P

Watching Missing Map...man what a bad episode.

The entirety of season 9.

Watching The Gang's All Here, why didn't they Turtles feed an Anti-Mutagen cookie to Splinter to turn him back to Hamato Yoshi? And since when did being a Turtle become the contributing factor to the TMNT being Ninjas? I thought it was the training from Splinter. If it's not, then why do they even need to train or have a sensi. And what "powers" do they have?

EDIT: Oh, right the cookies exploded, but they only found that out after Mikey ate one.

Hate to double post but as much as I love Shredderville, I must beg the question: What happened to Hamato Yoshi in this alternate universe, a world where the TMNT never mutated?

That always bugged me about that episode too. Becoming humans makes them lose their fighting skills? Is there no such thing as a skilled ninja human? Maybe without their big shells they're just mega off-balance?

Good question about Shredderville..never really thought about that before...maybe the same events happened, but the boy with the Turtles never tripped? The real question is, why did Shredder try to kill Yoshi with mutagen anyway?

And maybe that's the answer...the turtles never mutated because the mutagen worked...and killed them and Yoshi...wow, that's way to dark for the OT.

Most of the episodes after the Technodrome leaves the center of the Earth (when TMNT moved from FOX to CBS). :sick:

And of the older ones, "The Gang's All Here", for the reasons the others have elaborated on.. And the Mister Ogg one. And others I haven't recalled yet.

Aw, come now... it was all worth having to sit through a clip show to see the Cur Li maneuver!

Yes..comedy gold there. It was also worth sitting through "Ogg" to set up Shredder's line at the end of "The Big Blow Out"..."It could be worse..we could've wound up in Dimension Z."

I really don't care for April's Fool. Is it just me or does the worst plots for the show always seem to have the cheapest animation as well?

I also don't care for Raphael nocks 'em dead, the animation was good but the jokes made my eyes water they were so bad. I would think that an episode starring Baxter's brother would be better than that. :ohwell:

that episode with the hicks that stole the turtle van from donatello :|

Not much to say now... but I do hate one episode that hasn't been mentioned so far.

While it's part of a good story arc, I really hate "The Big Break In" for some reason. I don't know why, but it just puts me to sleep.

I agree, not only did Mike somehow lose his skateboard skills but also all his strength? April was stronger than him. Geez, does being a mutant turtle somehow make you stronger, a great skateboarder and easier to learn martial arts?

I hate that episode with the singing guy who looks like Woody Allen... or is it Woody Alan? Either way, I hate that guy and I hate that episode.

Episodes you mean... there were two...

Don't remind me! :P

I hate the ones with that singing guy too...ugghh so lame. :P

His name was Howie!

"He's the phantom of the floxy, and he's got a lot of moxy... and he's always a-lurkin (a-lurkin) in the studio where he used to be a-workin (a-workin)

Ok, so I'm watching Were-Rats from Channel 6 and you all know how I love mistakes in the OT, and here's a doozie:

So Leo, Mikey, Raph, and Splinter go to the airport to stop Vernon, Irma, and the Rat King from stealing the cheese while Donnie gets the Turtle Blimp. At the air port Donnie reappears, sometimes with just 2 other turtles, and occasionally all 3. In fact the doozie is that all 4 Turtles, Vernon and Irma fall out of the plane, only to be saved by, you guessed it, Donatello in the Turtle Blimp....WHAT!?

Let's not forget in New York's Shiniest when Shredder's evil Rex-1 clones forced the turtles to dump their Van into the river, and later we see April and Splinter driving ANOTHER Turtle Van.... when did they get two?

Hey, if Donatello can make one out of spare parts in an evening and still later had the access to the workshop to finish and paint a blimp in an afternoon, there's no reasn why there can't be two vans.

But that's just me justifying things.

Did he create a clone too...oh wait...he did in that one episode.

I agree with the fact the baby turtles were beyond annoying, and the dialogue was real bad at some points ("Wouldn't you rather watch the Turtle that Ate Pizza?")... but the entire idea of Krang forcing Shredder to work with a partner- especially since Shredder's ego and jealousy ruined a perfectly good chance to really destroy the turtles- was the bright point of the episode.

I remember liking Back to the Egg as a kid. I wonder if I'll like it as an adult, too.

I have a hard time coming up with "bad episodes". Maybe it's because I have a hard time remembering a lot of them, or maybe it's because I tend to accept all of them as being cheesy fun. If I rewatch season three I'm probably bound to come up with a couple.

I know as a kid there was an episode with Raphael and some mobsters that I didn't like very much.

I liked Back to the Egg and the other Baby Turtles one.

But then, I love all the Toddler Turtles episodes in the NT. And the flashback issues of Archie featuring them.

I liked the Tales issue where they run into Leatherhead as toddlers.

this episode irritates me to no end, why the hell would the turtles have special powers by being huge talking turtles? It shouldn't have had any bearing on the turtles physical abilites at all. Not only that the excution of the episode sucked. Mike turning into a human was such a plot device, and a poor one at that. Plus human Mike looked like such a geek.

"Leonardo, Renaissance Turtle" is probably the most unwatchable episode I can remember at the moment.

And overall, Season Four had alot of duds in it. Though I'd like to pre-emptively defend "Leonardo Lightens Up" because its freaking hilarious.

I also don't understand the hate for "Rebel Without a Fin." Yes, they altered Man Ray's character, and yes it was filled with groan-inducing puns, but I've always loved the episodes with mutant villains, and the action was decent.