01PLOT

Donatello has invented a "wind and wave" generator that Michelangelo wants to use for windsurfing. After turning up the machine too high, Michelangelo finds himself blown right out of the sewers and into the bay area. While windsurfing, he spots a ship suddenly growing tiny and disappearing.

This is the doing of Talbot Breech, a naval enthusiast who shrinks real ships and puts them in bottles. His cat Claude triggers the shrink ray accidentally, shrinking Michelangelo and putting HIM in a bottle, much to his horror.

While he's able to get out of the bottle - courtesy of a hungry Claude - Michelangelo struggles to find a way to contact the other Turtles or April O'Neil. He also is struggling to avoid being eaten by the cat.

Meanwhile Breech's latest acquisition is an aircraft carrier with April and Vernon Fenwick on board, which is shrunk down on live TV. April and Vernon escape the carrier and find themselves in the same tiny, potentially-eaten-by-a-cat pickle as Michelangelo, who finally manages to keep Claude from causing further trouble.

Michelangelo formulates a plan involving taking a tiny plane from the tiny aircraft carrier, but April and Vernon are both caught by Breech, who decides to add them to his collection. Fortunately the other Turtles recognize Michelangelo when he flies by, despite his resemblance to a bug.

Michelangelo leads the other Turtles back to Breech's home and bails out of his tiny plane. Unfortunately, Breech has a trio of deadly robots who fight the other turtles. But as he tries to swat Michelangelo, he accidentally damages his own equipment, causing the shrinking ray to reverse itself, turning Michelangelo, April, Vernon and all the boats back to their correct size.

Splinter gives Michelangelo his tiny sailboard back to remind him that bigger is not always better. The shadow of a giant cat appears outside the lair, only to be revealed as a tiny kitten who affectionately licks Michelangelo.

02CAST & APPEARANCES

Cam Clarke

Barry Gordon

Townsend Coleman

Rob Paulsen

Peter Renaday

Renae Jacobs

Pat Fraley

Peter Renaday

ALSO APPEARING

Talbot Breech · Cam ClarkeClaude · Renae Jacobs

03OBJECTS, VEHICLES & PLACES

OBJECTS & VEHICLESAircraft CarrierChannel 6 newsvanFighter Jet

LOCATIONSChannel 6City harborCity sewersTalbot Breech's hideoutTurtle Lair

SPECIESHumanMutant ratMutant turtle

04SCREEN GRABS

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

05NOTES & GOOFS

When Michelangelo turns up the wind and wave generator, he's standing at the control panel behind it. Then in the next shot, he's several feet away in FRONT of it, running to where he was before.
There's no possible way that Breech hadn't caught people on his collection of ships before, yet he acts as though it's a novelty to have tiny people.
The destruction of Breech's machinery leads to all the ships and people being automatically restored to their normal size. Yet at the end, the sailboard is still tiny.

06TRIVIA

This is the second time in the series Michelangelo has been shrunk, the previous instance being "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles".
This is the second episode in which the titular plot is instigated due to a technological malfunction resulting from a cat pressing a random button on a control panel. The previous instance occurred in "The Cat Woman from Channel Six".
When Michelangelo uses a telephone to dial Channel Six News, he uses the numbers 00767.
This episode derives its name from the film _Honey, I Shrunk the Kids_ starring Rick Moranis.

07HOME MEDIA

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