DONATELLO MAKES TIME

01PLOT

Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo watch eagerly as Donatello puts the finishing touches on a new device they believe is a new microwave pizza oven. Instead, it turns out to be a time-stopping machine, and the disinterest of the other three Turtles irritates Donatello. Anything that the machine is focused on will be frozen in time.

Meanwhile, a mad scientist known as Professor Lloyd Cycloid floats through the sewers on a homemade raft. His goal: create a satellite that will turn the rest of the human race stupid so that he can dominate them with his intellect. While Donatello is having pizza with the others, Cycloid spots the Time-Stopper and steals it. The Turtles try to intercept him, but are zapped by the Time-Stopper.

April covers the theft of a solid gold Egyptian statue of Tu-Tu Karmen (later revealed actually to be iridium), and Splinter recognizes the effect of the Time Stopper. He is horrified to find the Turtles frozen in mid-air, but fortunately, they snap back into normal time shortly thereafter.

Cycloid uses the Time-Stopper a second time, this time to steal a powerful laser gun. April recognizes him from the camera footage, and Donatello sets out on his Sewer Ski to find Cycloid and reclaim his invention, leaving a trail of arrows for the other Turtles to follow.

Cycloid and his stolen items return to his long-abandoned home, shortly followed by Donatello. Donatello is hit by the Time-Stopper again. While he's frozen, Cycloid dangles him over a vast pool of toxic slime that will kill him if anyone opens the door. Despite his perilous situation, Donatello manages to sabotage Cycloid's laser device, causing it to blast out of the house.

The other Turtles follow Donatello's trail through the sewers and burst into the room where Donatello is suspended. Just before Donatello falls into the acidic slime, Leonardo uses the Time-Stopper to save him and then hands Cycloid to the authorities.

The priceless Egyptian relic is returned to the museum (and presumably the laser ray is returned as well). The other Turtles are in favor of getting rid of the Time-Stopper, but Donatello is outraged by the idea. Raphael deliberately drops the Time-Stopper, destroying it, and a mournful Donatello laments that it might take years to fix it.

02CAST & APPEARANCES

03OBJECTS, VEHICLES & PLACES

04SCREEN GRABS

9 frames. Screencaps via Turtlepedia (CC BY-SA).

05NOTES & GOOFS

• Whenever the Time-Stopper freezes a character, the position they'd be frozen in would later change.
• When the Turtles are frozen after the commercial, they are in different positions.
• When Splinter says, "I hope there is a time limit to their frozen state," for a brief second, his nose turns into the same color as his fur.
• The Turtles' weapons did not make a clashing sound when they and the Turtles fell to the floor after the effects of the Time-Stopper wore off.
• The tips of Raphael's sais were missing when Donatello said that the Time-Stopper could be dangerous in the wrong hands.
• When Leonardo spoke to Donatello on the Turtlecom at Cycloid's house he was seen with Raphael's sai.
• When April is interviewing the scientist, the tip of her microphone vanished.
• When Donatello is watching the rays from Cycloid's malfunctioning laser cutter, the knob on the lab door is missing.
• The Time-Stopper was drawn mirror-flipped during the final scene.
• The mushrooms on Michelangelo and Raphael's pizzas were colored red in the final shot at the tail end of the episode.

06TRIVIA

• When Donatello scolded the other Turtles for making so much noise while he tried to concentrate on completing his invention, they adopt the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" stances from the three wise monkeys.
• In the episode “Quirky Eggheads and Texas Snow Globes” of the sitcom Young Sheldon, Missy and her George Sr. are both watching this episode while Missy is explaining to her Dad which turtle is which.

07HOME MEDIA

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