PIZZA PIT

01PLOT

An all-female rock band mutated by Oozesquitoes - DIGG - is beginning to devise a devastating plan that literally runs several pizza restaurants in New York into the ground. But the plan begins to slip apart as the Turtles conduct a culinary tour that night to quench their cravings for the New York Pizza Week, witnessing two pizzerias (Donatello's and Michelangelo's haunts) suddenly come to an end disappear into a huge pit of earth.

Donatello and Michelangelo are personally hit by the disappearance of their favorite food places, but Leonardo and Raphael leave things cold at first. That changes when the Turtles want to switch to Leonardo's favorite restaurant instead, but there they meet the three members of DIGG, who immediately dig their way to escape through the ground. The fierce Turtles follow Ground Hog and Honey Badger and try to challenge them, but fail because of their underground abilities. Then they come across Prairie Dog, who has just moved a support column with a battery of loudspeakers, to bring them to collapse with a clenched sound attack. They come too late to stop Prairie Dog from putting the loudspeakers into operation, and so another beloved pizzeria sinks into the ground.

Since Donatello has worked out a conspiracy theory out of these events, that the unknown attackers have a dislike for them and pizzas, they rush to the last remaining pizzeria (Raphael's favorite restaurant) and evacuate first the visitors and staff. Afterwards, they catch DIGG as they prepare their last sabotage, and the battle ensues. But during the fight, Donatello learns from Prairie Dog that the collapse of the pizzeria is just a coincidental collateral damage to their original plan to dump a concert hall into the ground. The underground support pillars of the hall that DIGG blew up were just standing directly where the pizzerias were located. DIGG has started sinking the hall.

With their explanation, DIGG first encounters extremely little understanding in Leonardo, Donatello and Michelangelo; but Raphael manages to save the situation for everyone involved with a (for him) brilliant idea. Thus, the pizzeria chefs concerned - who all "coincidentally" also belong to the same family - open a new, jointly operated restaurant in which DIGG can fulfill its dream as a regular entertainer. And so the Turtles now enjoy their much-anticipated pizza - until one of Donatello's conspiracy theories about a pizzasaurus is unexpectedly realized.

02OBJECTS, VEHICLES & PLACES

03SCREEN GRABS

4 frames. Auto-matched screencaps via Fancaps.net.

04TRIVIA

• !Dig Dug / Mr. Do! homage.
• _Dig Dug / Mr. Do!_ homage.
• This episode, along with "The Purple Jacket", was leaked early on iTunes on December 7th, 2018, and was posted on Nick.com one day later.
• Pictures of the 2012 Ninja Turtles, the Mirage Ninja Turtles and the 1987 Ninja Turtles can be seen on Donnie's conspiracy board with writing claiming them to be alternate dimensional counterparts.
• In this episode there are some popular culture references:
• Honey Badger's introduction is an allusion to the English band Iron Maiden.
• Groundhog's introduction is an allusion to the American band Nirvana; specifically the cover of their album _Nevermind_.
• Prairie Dog's introduction might be an allusion to _Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow_, though the font does not match.
• The chase between Raph, Mikey, and Groundhog is a reference to two extremely similar arcade games from 1982: _Dig Dug_ and _Mr. Do!_
• A brief scene of conflicts between Mikey and Groundhog is a reference to _Whac-A-Mole_.

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