Nick TMNT Season 2 Best Episode Tournament: Squirrelanoids vs. Fungus Humungous
 

It's time, once again, for the TMNT Season 2 Best Episode Tournament. It's now time for number 5, this will be a 3 day and a private vote, unless you decide to post your choice of course. :D.

Last time, Mazes & Mutants used +1 Ring of Awesome...Mazes & Mutants still loses 27-10 to Follow the Leader. Shame they didn't have a +19 Ring of Awesome, could have lead them to victory. :P

Previous Poll & Thread here:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=49753


Here's the Official Updated Tournament Bracket:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cf...455365&tclass=

Want to see where your favorite episodes are, check the official rankings here:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sho...3&postcount=19


This is the 15 vs. 18 matchup. Two fillers that both exhibited horror elements. Could we be in line for another upset? The episodes are...

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SQUIRREL INVASION vs. SHROOM HALLUCINATION


Breakdown of the two episodes:

Invasion of the Squirrelanoids
Overall Seed - #15
Where JTH ranked this episode - #22

Important events that occurred in Invasion of the Squirrelanoids:
1. Debut of The Squirrelanoids
2. First death of Metalhead...of the season :D

Fungus Humungous
Overall Seed - #18
Where JTH ranked this episode - #15

Important events that occurred in Fungus Humungous:
1. Debut of the Mushroom Men
2. Characters darkest fears are realized

Winner Faces: #2 Seed Vengence is Mine

Cast your vote, and remember...HAVE FUN!!!

Invasion Of the Squirrelanoids.

Fungus Humungous by a long shot.

Invasion of Squirrelanoids just seemed...boring. But I did like it when Raph and Mikey went to Mikey's room to look for the squirrels, and acted high. I really hope I wasn't the only one who noticed that.

"This pizza is the best. Haaah....wait...what were we supposed to be doin' again?" (both of them smiling and squinting the whole time)

Damn this is a hard one, both great episodes, Mikey shined a little bit in this episode and he had a plan to defeat the Squirrelanoids and he nearly died

Leo was such a Badass in Fungus Humungous, the end fight was awesome

Think i'll go with squirrelanoids.

I'm gonna go with Squirrelanoids cause everyones fears in Fungus Humungous were kinda lame except Leo's and April's....

Squirrels over shrooms any day. Loved the Aliens references. Fungus was good, but I prefer IOTS. Fun fact: when I was watching this last year for the second time, my dog started barking at the squirrels and the Squirrelanoids. Annoying as all hell. He actually barked when he saw them in Metalhead Rewired too. Actually, that's how I noticed they were there.

Definitely Squirrelanoids. It's my fave filler episode so far, the best!

And you get to see Mikey's room for the first time too, and how he's chilling with Raph. I love the horror elements too like they attempting to saw open Raph's stomach, decapitation of Metalhead's metal head (lol), etc.

This is just cruel! I love both of these episodes and are two of my most rewatched. I like the trippiness of Fungus Humungus and like the Alien homage in the Squirrelnoids ep.

Hm which one...can't decide...I know, I'll vote for the one with the least amount of votes. lol I just can't choose this time.

How were the fears lame?

Mikey having a fear of the Squirrelnoids made sense given that they nearly killed him.

Raph having a fear of cockroaches was established back in season 1 (and as far as I know, was brought back from the 2k3 series as he had a fear of bugs, right?) This fear I understand because I have a terrible fear of spiders. I have a spider out on my patio. I refuse to go on my patio to even hang out my clothes. I'll dry my clothes at the laundromat. lol

Casey hates and fears rats. He's in New York. Have you ever SEEN rats in New York? They're frightening. One time I thought I came across a squirrel when visiting my aunt (I was born in NYC, btw). We were taking a shortcut through the park. I thought I saw a squirrel out the corner of my eye and then my aunt was like, "WENDY, HURRY UP. WALK FASTER!" I was curious why, and after we reached her apartment complex, she said what I thought were squirrels were actually rats. They can get as big as cats, which I have seen. I don't blame Casey for being scared of New York rats.

Donnie's fear didn't seem to be losing April to Casey...because of what Fungus April was saying at the beginning. I think he feared losing her friendship again and hating him because of what he is..."a mutant freak". She'd just recently made up with all of them and now she's saying she hates him because he was responsible for mutating her father and because he's a mutant himself. If it was solely about romance, seems Fungus April would've said something like that first. If anything, I felt it showed that Donnie has a slight complex over being a mutant and probably was blaming himself for Kirby's mutation.

Some fears are rational others are a bit irrational, but I would never call anyone's fear of anything "lame" because I'm not in their shoes.

Fungus Humungous. I love episodes that are scary and funny at the same time! This is like the Parasitica-equivalent of Season 2, except Leo saved the day instead of Mikey.

D: April's been exposed to toxins found in certain types of fungi. That mushroom man must produce them as a defense mechanism.

L: Defense against what? Being stir-fried?

R: I'm freakin' out. I'm freakin' out! I'M FREAKIN' OUT!

M: It's okay, dude. It's me, Mikey. Give your bro a hug. It'll make you feel better. Come on now. Where's the love?

* Hugs *

M: Aw. It's right here between my arms!

R: I think I'm gonna hurl.

Also for some reason I actually enjoy eating mushrooms more than ever since I watched this episode. Coincidence? :trazz:

Fungus Humungous. Just for Leo's trippy Fantasia moment alone. So, this is what it's like when our boys get high!:lol:

Tough choice, but Fungus Humongous mostly for that scene when Mikey's head just rolls off, his body tilts forward, and he shoots a torrent of cockroaches out of his neck hole. I nearly choked when that happened. It's one of the funniest things I've seen on this show.

Squirrelanoids, due to showing how those mutagen canisters react following the Mutation Situation's invasion of them, and I like squirrels in general more than mushrooms.

Going with Fungus Humungous, my fav filler. I enjoyed the nice little insight to everyone's fears, the mushroom dance, and that giant mushroom.

Squrrielanoids, while I like that Mikey/Raph moment and seeing Metalhead get used again, was boring and kinda repetitive. Look, the turtles are chasing squirrels in the lair. Now their chasing squirrels in teams. Next their searching for squirrels in the dark. Finally, they head into the dark sewers to split up and search for squirrels.