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Episode 45: Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady
Written by: David Carren & Larry Carroll

Voice Cast:
James Avery: Shredder
Cam Clarke: Leonardo, Rocksteady/Super Rocksteady
Townsend Coleman: Michelangelo
Jennifer Darling: Irma Langinstein, Vinnie's Pizza Waitress
Pat Fraley: Krang, Burne Thompson
Barry Gordon: Donatello, Bebop/Mighty Bebop
Renae Jacobs: April O’Neil
Rob Paulsen: Raphael
Peter Renaday: Splinter, Vernon Fenwick, Channel 6 Anchorman

Mistakes:
1. The title of the episode is "Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady", but Krang names the supermutants Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop. This is also how Family Home Entertainment named this episode upon its VHS release.
2. When Leonardo and Donatello are outside Channel 6 patrolling, Leonardo's hand holding the Turtlecom shows four fingers, but the Turtles have only three fingers.
3. After installing the Mesmerizer on the antenna, Shredder's skin turns to light tan, and his vest turns a dark grey.
4. Burne seems much shorter than usual in some scenes, in particular when Shredder contacts Krang while looking down from the roof in the news studio.
5. Krang's eyes are white instead of purple when he responds to Shredder's complaints about the Mesmerizer.
6. The disk Rocksteady holds when Donatello spins him into the Channel 6 lobby is a rectangle instead of a square.
7. When inspecting the disk in the Turtle Van, Donatello's animation appears much more "cartoony" than usual. His eyes are wider and his smile on his face seems rather goofy.
8. When Donatello says "Here it goes" in the Channel 6 lobby, his bandana is tied more like rabbit ears than usual.
9. Burne's body gets bigger and bigger as he falls off of the hanging light.
10. Donatello's teeth were red instead of white when he uses the Super Mutant Remote Device on the supermutants.
11. Michelangelo's belt color matches his plastron and the bottom of the pastron is green while Donatello inspects the Mesmerizer's schematics.
12. When the reprogrammed supermutants are seen dancing and Mighty Bebop grabs Shredder to dance, the animation is recycled after Shredder turns around.
13. Even though the Turtles have green eyelids by this point in the series, right before the Turtles leave the lair, Leonardo has blue eyelids.
14. The mesmerizer's glow is colored blue when Shredder turns it on, but then when the Turtles see the glow from the street, it is magenta, despite still having the same function.
15. When the Turtles first enter the Channel 6 building in front of the supermutants, Donatello says "what are these guys" in Raphael's voice.
16. Donatello's "D" on his belt is not visible when he says "they're big trouble that's what they are" right before the second commercial break.
17. When the supermutants pull the Turtles off of the side of the Channel 6 building, Michelangelo lands on top of Raphael, even though on the shot before it is clear that Michelangelo was further down the building as they cut to the next scene.

Catchphrase/Insult Countdown:
1. Bebop says "Mama!" (in a natural voice) right before he and Rocksteady fall from the antenna tower.
2. Shredder calls Rocksteady and Bebop "moronic mutants" after seeing that they fell from the antenna tower.
3. Bebop says "Mama!" (in a stock voice) right before he and Rocksteady get thrown by the supermutants.
4. Krang calls Rocksteady and Bebop complete idiots and imbeciles.
5. Shredder calls Rocksteady and Bebop "stupid mutants" to distinct them from the supermutants.

Pizza References:
1. Michelangelo sees Vinnie's Pizzeria while patrolling the Channel 6 building, and the Turtles decide to have a pizza there since it is close enough to the building to patrol.
2. Michelangelo wishes he ordered a pickled hair and caramel fudge topping pizza at Vinnie's, but it turned out to be just cheese and anchovies.
3. The pizza billboard (see mistake 14) next to Channel 6 is visible. This confirms that this is Vinnie's Pizzeria next to Channel 6.
4. Shredder, Rocksteady, and Bebop crash into a pizza delivery cart. Michelangelo admits that all of that pizza is totally trashed.
5. The Turtles return to Vinnie's Pizza at the end of the episode. They eat a marshmallow and asparagus pizza as a gift from April and Irma.

Pop Culture References:
1. The various spells cast by the Mesmerizer turn those who are affected into a spell identified by the Mesmerizer's schematics. First, it was slaves/zombies. Next, after the screw fell out of the Mesmerizer, it was young children. This included games such as Tag, Hopscotch, Jump Rope, One Potato Two Potato, and watching cartoons. When the Mesmerizer's radiation color changed from blue to yellow, it was dogs, expressed by barking sounds. When it changed from yellow to pink, it was gorillas, shown by Burne's swinging on the light in the news studio and Shredder climbing the Channel 6 antenna.
2. When holding onto the disk while caught in the Channel 6 revolving door, Rocksteady states that he won't spill the beans by giving the disk to the Turtles. This refers to the Depression-era expression by the poor "hobo" culture.
3. While the Turtles are watching the hypnotized Channel 6 crew members, Michelangelo jokes that they're watching "Night of the Living Newscaster", a parody on the 1968 George A. Romero film "Night of the Living Dead".
4. At the start of the episode, the generic news reporter reports on a shortage of rutabagas. A rutabaga is a vegetable that originates as a cross between cabbage and turnips.

Fourth Wall Breaking Humor:
1. Michelangelo thinks that the Channel 6's crew's "you command, I obey" chant kind of has a catchy beat.
2. Michelangelo says "is this ever suspenseful or what?" right before the Turtles fall from the side of the Channel 6 building.
3. Raphael says "that's right, give him ideas" right after the Supermutants pick up the globe in the Channel 6 lobby.
4. Donatello says that he's a Ninja Turtle, not a cartoon writer when responding to Michelangelo's question about how to get back into the building.
5. Vernon is gliding outside of Channel 6's canopy like a monkey, and Irma admits that Shredder tried to turn her and the rest of the crew into monkeys, despite never actually remembering it consciously.

Wacky Inventions:
1. Krang's Mesmerizer
2. Supermutant reprogrammable Schematics floppy disk
3. Shredder's Mesmerizer-proof Amulet
4. Super Mutant Remote Device

Notables:
1. The Playmates action figure Mighty Bebop was released in 1993. However, it is not based upon the same character in this episode. In fact, Robotic Rocksteady and Robotic Bebop also released in 1993 by Playmates are far more accurate to the supermutants.
2. With the shot of Rocksteady and Bebop crashing into the news studio, it is revealed that Channel 6's main newsroom is directly below the roof.
3. First appearance of the Channel 6 building's lobby.
4. Despite being a widely known super villain by this point, the people on the Channel 6 elevator do not recognize Shredder.
5. On the Family Home Entertainment VHS release, a few seconds between Acts Two and Three are edited out to appear that there is no commercial break present.
6. Bebop calls Krang the "boss" rather than Shredder right before he's instructed to retrieve the disk.