SUPER BEBOP & MIGHTY ROCKSTEADY

01PLOT

Bebop and Rocksteady are climbing the tower atop the Channel 6 News building in the middle of a thunderstorm. Rocksteady is carrying Krang's newest creation: the Mesmerizer, a device that will hypnotically enslave everyone in New York City to serve Krang and the Shredder. The two are successful in setting up the Mesmerizer, and shortly afterwards the people at Channel 6 News (April, Irma, Vernon, Burne and an anchorman) are put under its control. This causes a great deal of confusion for the Turtles and Splinter, since mutants are unaffected by the Mesmerizer's rays. They quickly deduce that Krang and the Shredder are behind the news crew's behavior.

Shortly after setting up the Mesmerizer however, a bolt of lightning frightens Bebop, and he, Rocksteady, and the still-active Mesmerizer crash through the roof of the building, exposing Shredder's plan to the Turtles, who quickly spring into action. By the time the Turtles arrive, the mutants have awoken and have realized the power the Mesmerizer gives them. Bebop and Rocksteady try to use the hypnotized news cast to protect themselves, but when the plan backfires, the Mesmerizer is broken in the scuffle. With the device disabled, the crew snaps out of their hypnosis and Bebop and Rocksteady make a quick escape, with Burne quick to blame the Turtles for the commotion.

Fed up with the constant failures of Bebop and Rocksteady, Krang has them both cloned into robotic doppelgängers known as "Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop." Ten times stronger and smarter than the originals, Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop quickly dispose of their fleshy counterparts, which impresses Shredder. Krang orders Shredder to the surface, but Shredder retorts that he’s a human and will fall victim to the Mesmerizer. Krang remarks that he thought of that and gives Shredder an amulet that will shield him from the Mesmerizer's rays. The real Rocksteady and Bebop remain behind, sulking.

Meanwhile the Turtles take refuge at a local pizzeria, keeping a close eye on April and the Channel 6 building. So far there is no trouble, as all seems OK. However, as the Turtles are eating, Shredder and the robot clones make it into the lobby, and Shredder leaves Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop to guard the entrance while he goes off to setup the Mesmerizer himself.

However the broken Mesmerizer's effects quickly begin to show. Rather than enslave the population, the victims mentally regress to their childhood and their spoiled behavior makes them impossible for Shredder to control. The Turtles make their way into the Channel 6 building, but they are confronted by Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop. The robot mutants swiftly overpower the Turtles and drive them from the building. They attempt to scale the building's exterior, but are knocked down by the robots as well.

Krang learns of the Mesmerizer's damaged effects and thus is forced to send the real Rocksteady and Bebop to assist Shredder by bringing him a schematic disk. The Turtles manage to steal the disk from them and find that it is capable of disabling Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop. As the real mutants are left to "fix" the Mesmerizer without the disk, they damage it even further, causing its victims to starts acting like dogs and later monkeys, much to Shredder's annoyance. The Turtles return to face Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop once again, but thanks to the information on the disk, the Turtles are able to override the control over the robots and instead, use them against Shredder.

With the Mesmerizer off the tower once again. Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop explode. However the Shredder manages to grab the Mesmerizer. With the distraction, Donatello notices the amulet protecting him from the Mesmerizer's influence and quickly manages to swipe it off of him. Now no longer protected, Shredder falls victim to the Mesmerizer, forcing Bebop and Rocksteady to try to bring it back by climbing up Channel 6's tower after him, since Shredder now believes himself to be an ape. Ultimately, their combined weight is too much for the tower to handle and both Shredder and the mutants plunge off the building's rooftop and onto a Pizza Stand, much to the Turtles' horror. Fortunately, the Mesmerizer is also destroyed by the fall.

With Shredder's latest plot stopped, The Turtles, April and Irma celebrate by eating pizza. When they see Vernon acting like a monkey, they worry if they failed to disable to Mesmerizer. April laughs saying Vernon has made a joke with himself to treat the damaged office like a playground, and all is well.

02CAST & APPEARANCES

03OBJECTS, VEHICLES & PLACES

04SCREEN GRABS

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

05MEMORABLE QUOTES

Shredder: But what choice do I have? Only mutants are immune to the Mesmerizer's beam! Humans like myself can't be near it when they set it off!

Krang: You don't have to explain it to me, I _invented_ it, remember?

Shredder: I wasn't explaining it to _you_...._(turns to camera and points)_ ....I was explaining it to them.

06TRIVIA

• While the episode is titled _Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady_, the clones are called Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop.
• When Krang introduces the robotic versions of Bebop and Rocksteady, the German subtitles refer to Super Bebop as "Wonder-Bebop".

07HOME MEDIA

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