HOT RODDING TEENAGERS FROM DIMENSION X

01PLOT

In the Technodrome deep under New York City, Krang reminds The Shredder that once again he has failed to destroy the Turtles. Krang demands a "body", mentioning his old home, Dimension X - which gives Shredder the idea to open the recently completed "Trans-Dimensional Portal" so that he can retrieve advanced weapons to use against the Turtles. However, when Shredder opens the portal, he lets out three teenage Neutrinos in flying cars, chased by a flying jeep piloted by two of Krang's Rock Soldiers. The Neutrinos blast through the Technodrome and escape. Bebop and Rocksteady fire on the Rock Soldiers, General Traag and Granitor, until Shredder establishes that they work for Krang.

Meanwhile, the Turtles and April O'Neil went to Baxter's lab at an abandoned building. There, they finished rebuilding Baxter Stockman's old van into the "Turtle Van." Donatello has included weapons, gadgets and modern equipment that will help him and the Turtles locate the Technodrome, which is under the World Trade Center. Suddenly, the Neutrinos burst out from a subway station, and the Turtles decide to pursue them, believing them to be Shredder's agents.

The two Rock Soldiers, also chasing the Neutrinos, encounter their old master Krang without a body. Krang blames Shredder for releasing the Neutrinos, whom he labels "juvenile delinquents" that hate war and love fun. Shredder gives the Rock Soldiers a "Technorover" to aid their chase of the Neutrinos.

Meanwhile on the streets, the Turtles use the Turtle Van's Retrocatapult to catch the Neutrinos. When the Turtles discover the Neutrinos do not work for Shredder, they decide to be friends. They all go to "Clowntime Food and Games" for pizza and arcade games, where the Neutrinos describe the war in Dimension X. April is worried what else may come from Dimension X. Suddenly the building is leveled by a missile attack from the Rock Soldiers. The Turtles jump inside the Turtle Van, and the Neutrinos jump into the flying cars. As the Neutrinos fire their laser guns at the Rock Soldiers, Leonardo leans out the window and slices the Techno-Rover's wheels with his katana. This allows the Turtles, April, and the Neutrinos to escape before the police arrive. The Rock Soldiers retreat back to the Technodrome, after releasing a weather satellite that, instead of providing weather data, "makes weather." Within two hours time, the weather satellite will create a devastating storm and allow them to evade the police and army.

Back in the Turtles' sewer lair, the Neutrinos tell Splinter that Krang was banished from Dimension X, lost his body, and is now just a brain. Splinter and the Turtles conclude that this is the same brain that Michelangelo encountered when they defeated Baxter Stockman's mousers at the end of the episode "A Thing About Rats". Splinter also realizes Shredder has been getting his advanced technology from Dimension X. He fears that Krang will bring his Rock Soldiers to Earth. The Neutrinos and the Turtles agree to team up to send Krang and the Rock Soldiers back to Dimension X.

Up on the streets, the weather satellite is causing snow in June. The Neutrinos, the Turtles, and April go to the Technodrome, where they find the Transdimensional Portal. The Turtles destroy the Foot Soldiers, defeat Bebop and Rocksteady, and send the Rock Soldiers through the portal back to Dimension X. The Neutrinos also go home to Dimension X, after giving one of their flying cars (a "Starcruiser") to the Turtles. The Turtles hurry to the surface to disable the weather satellite. They fly up to it using the star mobile, so that Leonardo can cut the weather satellite in half with his katana, destroying it and saving the city.

Back in the Technodrome, Shredder finally agrees to give Krang a body so Krang himself can destroy the Turtles.

At the Turtles' sewer lair, April reads the story "The Tortoise and the Hare" out loud as Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael drift to sleep. Leonardo enters the room, cleaning his katana, and suggests that they need their rest, vowing to find Shredder on the morrow...

02CAST & APPEARANCES

03OBJECTS, VEHICLES & PLACES

04SCREEN GRABS

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

05MEMORABLE QUOTES

April O'Neil: "You got 'em! Who are they? Let's interrogate them!"

Michelangelo: "Relax, April, they're cool."

Rocksteady: "Aw, we was startin' to have fun."

Raphael: "Is it my imagination, or did we just get buzzed by a couple of rocket-powered low-riders?"

Donatello: "Just what we needed--company!"

Bebop: "\_snorts_\ Just what you're gonna get--a pounding!"

General Traag: "This weather satellite will take care of them."

Granitor: "But we don't need to know what the weather is."

General Traag: "It doesn't report the weather, you idiot! It _makes_ weather!"

General Traag: Alright Neutrinos, "Come out fighting!!"

Dask: "Rock Soldiers from Dimension X! They're _baaad_!!!

Raphael: Yah...I guessed that. You got any weapons on those hot-rods?

06NOTES & GOOFS

• First appearance of the Technodrome's portal chamber and Krang and Shredder's dimensional portal generator.
• First appearance of the Turtle Van in its current form.
• First appearance of General Traag and the only appearance of Granitor.
• First appearance of a Techno-Rover.
• Some of the members of Bebop and Rocksteady's gang make cameos in their mutated form. Scrag is a mutant bat, Grunt is a mutant lizard, Dumbo is a mutant sloth, and Dopey is a mutant elephant shrew. The punks' mutations also seem incomplete as with Shredder mentioning this, with Scrag having no visible wings despite being a bat, Grunt not having a tail as he is a mutant lizard, Dumbo's arm colouring is off with the colour of his head, (however, this could just be an animation error) and Dopey looking completely deformed and ugly in appearance.
• Granitor's name is never spoken in the show and he remained unnamed until the release of his bio in _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game._

07TRIVIA

• Ever wonder what happened to the four remaining punks who vanished in "Enter the Shredder"? Shredder apparently made mutants out of all of them, changing one into a lizard, one into a bat (named Scrag in the coloring book) & another behind them, mutated into a sloth. It's not clear what the other one is, probably an elephant.
• Leonardo references Michelangelo's past experience with Krang in this episode. Not only that, but he also establishes that the events of that episode happened the day before. Later on, April confirms that these events are happening in June.
• At the time of the episode's airing, some viewers criticized Michelangelo's implied attraction to Kala, accusing the show of promoting pedophilia._[[citation needed]](/wiki/TMNTPedia:Policy#Sources_and_Citations "TMNTPedia:Policy")_ However, Michelangelo is a _Teenage_ Mutant Ninja Turtle, and Kala is, as the episode's title reminds us, a _Teenager_ from Dimension X, so in actual fact the characters are supposed to be roughly the same age, even if they don't look or sound it.
• When this episode was released on VHS, it was actually shown before the episode which preceded it.
• The Global Trade Center refers to the World Trade Towers.
• The wax that Michelangelo uses to repair Donatello's damaged shell is a reference to Turtle Wax.
• The Neutrinos themselves are a wellspring of various cultures. They ride futuristic low riders from the 50's, speak slang in the style of jive turkey and 80's slang, and possess punk hairstyles, most prevalent in the 80's at the time.
• When the cops arrive, Raphael says, "Some dirty rat must've squealed to the coppers about us, nyah!" in the style of Edward G. Robinson, an actor famous in the 1930s and '40s for playing gangsters.
• Granitor speaks in a style reminiscent of Peter Lorre.

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