The BEST episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season 5
Every episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season 5!
Distinctly different from the grim, violent, and dark MIRAGE comics from which the Turtles originated, this version of the franchise has remained the longest running, and most memorable, version of all. Four turtles fall into the sewers and are befriended by Hamato Yoshi a Japanese man sent to New York who was forced to live in the sewers. One day he sees a strange green glow which transforms the four turtles into human-like creatures. Hamato (now Master Splinter) changes into a giant rat from the green glow and teaches the turtles the skills of the ninja as they team up with Channel 6 news reporter April O'Neil to battle against Yoshi's arch enemy Shredder and Krang, an alien warlord from Dimension X.
#2 - Planet of the Turtleoids (2)
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/31/1991
With Herman the Horrible defeated and exposed as two renegade Turtleoid delegates on Shell-Ri-La, the Turtles return to Earth, where they must destroy Shredder's new Technodrome Mark II and then defeat Chrome Dome.
#3 - Leonardo, the Renaissance Turtle
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/9/1991
A mad professor named Mindbender creates a law-enforcement robot named "LEX" to clean up crime in New York, but LEX ultimately starts arresting numerous innocent people for the smallest infraction. With the other Turtles unreachable, Leonardo must discover his own innate skills to stop this rogue robot before he and Mindbender declare themselves dictators of the city.
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#4 - Planet of the Turtleoids (1)
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/31/1991
After clashing with the mutant bull and mole duo Groundchuck and Dirtbag, the Turtles and their new enemies are taken to Shellri-La by an alien 'Turtleoid' named Kerma, where our heroes must help defend his planet from a two-headed dragon named Herman the Horrible.
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#5 - The Turtles and the Hare
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/28/1991
In Krang's latest scheme, Rocksteady and Bebop, dressed as Easter bunnies, are blasting people with a Docilizer Ray and turning them into timid, rabbit-like people. If the ray works, Krang plans on installing it in a microwave transmitting dish and zapping the entire City with it! To stop them, the Turtles must search out a Cyranium Crystal in the Fairy Tale Dimension.
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#6 - Napoleon Bonafrog: Colossus of the Swamps
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/5/1991
While testing an experimental Muta-Shooter invented by Krang, Shredder unexpectedly turns Napoleon Bonafrog into a muscular, monstrous version of himself.
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#7 - Michaelangelo, the Sacred Turtle
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/16/1991
While on a visit to an Egyptian Exhibit, Michaelangelo is mistaken for a Pharaoh named "Amun Turt-El", also known as 'The Sacred Turtle'.
#8 - Michaelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/14/1991
Michaelangelo's strange dreams lead him to seek out Mondo Gecko, a lizard who was caught in the same ooze as the Turtles. Gecko eventually rebels against his boss, Mr. X, and his bombing campaign.
#9 - Welcome Back, Polarisoids
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/16/1991
Frip the Polarisoid arrives back on Earth with his family for a visit, and must ultimately ask the Turtles for help in reclaiming his camera while helping them stop Krang's latest plan to conquer the city.
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#10 - Raphael, Turtle of a Thousand Faces
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/2/1991
Raphael's latest study of disguises leads the Turtles to attempt a rescue when he is mistaken for a mobster named 'Mad Dog McMutt'.
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#11 - Donatello's Badd Time
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/21/1991
Donatello has tricked out the Turtle Van, but while taking it for a test drive, it's stolen from him by a family of robbing hillbillies. Can Donatello get the Van back in time before his brothers find out?
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#12 - Landlord of the Flies
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/12/1991
Baxter Stockman leads a swarm of flies in an attempt to conquer New York and prove his worth to Shredder and Krang so he can become human again.
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#13 - The Ice Creature Cometh
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/19/1991
Bebop and Rocksteady botch another mutagen experiment, resulting in a giant ice creature who Bebop dubs 'Frosty', and Shredder uses this monster to freeze New York solid, preoccupying the Turtles long enough for him to steal thermal explosives needed to melt the Technodrome free from the ice.
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#14 - Muckman Messes Up
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/28/1991
An accident causes two garbagemen to mutate into Muckman and Joe Eyeball. Muckman's slime is found to weaken the Turtles, and Shredder tricks him into working with him.
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#15 - Enter: Mutagen Man
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/21/1991
A delivery boy accidentally falls into Krang's new unstable Mutagen and becomes able to transform into anyone he chooses. Shredder tricks him into helping him launch the Mutagen into space and mutate the world, but this 'Mutagen Man' has other ideas.
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#16 - My Brother, the Bad Guy
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1991
A family secret is revealed when Lieutenant Kazou Saki arrives from Japan to arrest his brother Oroku Saki, who turns out to be the Turtles' greatest enemy. Shredder and Krang send the Technodrome from Dimension X to Earth, but Donatello re-programs it to crash in the Arctic.
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#17 - Michaelangelo Meets Bugman Again
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/28/1991
When the city is hit with a sudden termite infestation, the only superhero who can help--Bugman--is too at peace with himself to aid the Turtles in defeating it.
#18 - Once Upon a Time Machine
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/29/1991
Hokum Hare discovers that Shredder has a 'time train' to travel to the future, where he can become a crimelord of a crime-free era. The Turtles and Hokum grab a ride on the train, arrive in the future to find the elder versions of the Turtles, now retired! Shredder plans to kick older Turtle butt, and the younger Turtles try to whip their older selves into shape before the big confrontation.
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#19 - Leonardo Cuts Loose
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/19/1991
A nerd-turned-muscleman captures three of the Turtles, and a reluctant Leonardo must ask Casey Jones for help in rescuing them.
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#20 - Pirate Radio
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/2/1991
Using a hypnotic microphone and speaker, Shredder takes over a radio station and broadcasts a signal that sends the population of New York City sailing into a dimensional limbo dubbed 'Krang's Chasm'.
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#21 - Donatello's Duplicate
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/12/1991
Tired of fixing everything in the lair, Donatello decides to clone himself so he can work on his other inventions. However, Donatello's clone turns against him and joins the Rat King in an attempt to conquer the city with a rat infestation.
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#22 - Zach and the Alien Invaders
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/9/1991
Zach, the Turtles' young friend, is put into military camp by his parents after making numerous false reports of aliens, only to find two real aliens--Wingnut and Screwloose--brainwashing the cadets to be their army and must call in the Turtles to defeat them.
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