What is your favorite episode from Season 8?
 

Now, we're starting to wind down here as we progress into the Red Sky era, but the seasons are shorter, which means there will be less time sorting it out.

My favorite is The Wrath Of The Rat King. I liked that they showed where the Technodrome landed.

Get Shredder.

The fact that the Channel 6 building actually blows up was one of the most shocking moments in the shows history. This is the building we saw in almost every episode for 8 seasons where April worked...and to see Shredder actually succeed in blowing it up was shocking.

this is tough since I like almost all the episodes in season eight. I guess the one where Shredder actually grows a pair and blows up the channel six building.

Casey Jones vs. Shredder in a sword fight?

Yeah, I totally voted Cyber Turtles.

Get Shredder! Get Shredder! Get Shredder!
 

Get Shredder! It rocks where he just blows up the Channel 6 News Building, and the Turtles first think April and Irma are dead before we learn that Splinter saved them, as well as Vernon and the other staff.

I can only imagine how it would be if April and Irma were killed. Maybe the show would have been cancelled.

Of season 8-10, season 8 is the only of them I really like.

He was pretty badass in that ep. I remember he also took on Krang and Rocksteady.

I just recently started re-watching the "red sky" seasons. What a strange, strange turn for this show. Every episode looks post apocalyptic. It's really addictive because these are the OT turtles I love, but they're a bit more bold, and angry. "Get Shredder" was fantastic for two reasons. When Shredder says "I never bluff!" and the Channel 6 building explodes and crumbles behind him. And when the turtles tackle Shredder afterward, and Mikey shakes his fist at Shredder's face and grumbles "Cowabunga dude". It's pretty much the episode where things got serious for the turtles, and thats why its my favorite from Season 8.

Second place is when H.A.V.O.C. is introduced. I love the idea behind that organization, and part of me wishes that Titanus became the new big villain instead of Dregg later on.

Cyber Turtles ALL the way. Wrath Of The Rat King comes in second place.

Get Shredder! for the same reason everyone else likes it. If only he was as threatening as he looked in the cartoon all the time.

It's too bad James "Uncle Phil" Avery quit th show by then.

Get Shredder, because Shredder finally acts competent in this one. Blowing up the channel 6 building was great too.


I have to say, did anyone notice Rocksteady didn't get any lines at all in "Turtle Trek"? Or Bebop, I think it was Rocksteady but one of them didn't speak at all in their last appearance.

Yes, Rocksteady didn't say one word in Turtle Trek, all he said was whoa!!!! when the turtles threw him and Bebop out of the portal room in the Technodrome.

Get Shredder.

It's the shock value really. Channel 6 building blew up with the Shredder's "I never bluff." The Turtles seriously pissed because they genuinely believed April and Irma were in there and basically the fallout between them, April's boss and April quitting her job and became freelancer.

Solid episode... so I can't really hate how OT became darkier and edgier. Because of stories like this, but then Wise left and everything fell apart.

Cyber Turtles. Casey Jones, and an interesting integration of a toy with the story. What more could you want?

I thought Cyber Turtles sounded familiar! Now I'm going to hunt down those figures.

Fun fact: That episode would remain Rocksteady/Bebop's final animated appearance all the way till 2009's Turtles Forever.

Rocksteady and Bebop went nearly 15 years between animated appearances, from 1994-2009.

I actually feel the new Shredder voice suits the Red Sky atmosphere better than James Avery or all others at that point. Just look at the line "I'm not bluffing" right before the Channel 6 building blows up. It really shows that Shredder is finally for real and one of the good changes. That's my favorite episode of this season, followed by Turtle Trek. In that episode, it was cool to see the TMNT battle in Dimension X before toppling Shredder in that tank of goo, and then kicking Rocksteady & Bebop out of the control room to strand them for good. The H.A.V.O.C. episodes are basically Season 9/early 10 lite with some super-mutations, but incredible action from beginning to end with few breaks. There wasn't really a bad episode this season watching back, though there were some weak spots in State of Shock and Enter: Krakus.

I think Turtle Trek might be my choice. The red sky seasons veered so far from how the turtles are for me that it's almost a different series altogether. Though Turtle Trek might be the closest it gets for me to keeping the old style a bit longer.
Though I'm not as familiar with most of this season anyway and I do agree about the Channel 6 building in the first episode.

I think I'll vote for Turtle Trek if only because it's the last time we see the Technodrome in motion.

I disagree, Uncle Phil would have rocked every line spoken in this episode. Go rewatch season one.

Get Shredder! This is my second overall favorite!This episode proves that this Shredder version is not the incompent bafoon people think he is. The character is very capable its just who he surrounds himself with and the fact of the time of which the show is made and can only do so much damage. Shredder stole the show here away from Beserko who was cool in his own right and had background that should have been fleshed out more. He would have been the perfect successor to Shredder/Krang if they had to be reomoved at least for awhile opposed to Dregg. The season was great in tone and Wesley Knight and Krakus had potential just like Beserko for further appearances. Loved Rat King and Casey Jones' roles in thier last appearancs. Burne Thompson and Channel Six should have stayed on whether April had been fired or left over dsiagreement to head up Dregg's anti-turtle campaign. Dregg could have given Burne the means for a new building then that small building that was being rented and then after Dregg's plan was revealed a character moment for Burne.