The WORST episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Every episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
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.
#1 - Night of the Rogues
Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/23/1993
In an attempt to finally defeat the Turtles once and for all, Shredder assembles Leatherhead, Tempestra, Scumbug, Chrome Dome, Antrax, The Rat King and Slash to form a team that proves too much for the Turtles to handle on their own.
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#2 - H.A.V.O.C. in the Streets!
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1994
Titanus & his H.A.V.O.C. organization are back, and this time they are planning to build a Sky Platform so that they can retrieve a lost Flux Transformer from a military base. The Turtles rescue a resident of Dimension X, named Gargon, held captive by Krang on Earth, who agrees to help track down Shredder & Krang.
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#3 - Elementary, My Dear Turtle
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/29/1993
After experiencing a time-slip with an atomic clock, the Turtles find themselves in 1890, where they meet the famous detective Sherlock Holmes & his assistant, Dr. Watson, hot on the trail of Professor Moriarty, who has stolen the atomic clock with intentions to rule the future. The Turtles must retrieve the atomic clock before Moriarty uses it to change history & proclaim himself Emperor of the World.
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#5 - Split-Second
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1995
A new foe appears in the form of the time-obsessed Chronos, who has thrown the city into chaos, due to all clocks malfunctioning. Can the Turtles, April O'Neil & Carter stop him before it is too late?
#7 - Dregg of the Earth
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1995
Hi-tech is leading a group of technogangsters on a break-in at a Government Lab. The object of their quest? A proton accelerator, but the Turtles and Carter are there waiting for them. The Turtles are ticked off at Carter because, once again, he didn't play like a team member. Carter is angered by their criticism and takes off on his motorcycle. Back at the lair, while Leonardo is unable to locate the Dreggnaught with their tracking equipment, Donatello continues to express concern about the results of his testing of the unstable mutagen. Out of the blue, April contacts them to let them know that Dregg has landed on Earth and is preparing a press conference. The Turtles rush to meet April at the Park, where they hear Dregg announce his friendly intentions and offers the world his molecular converter, a device that will take pollution down to zero.
#10 - Zach and the Alien Invaders
Season 5 - Episode 17 - 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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#11 - 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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#12 - State of Shock
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1994
A band of ninja, led by a mysterious villain named Megavolt, are stealing electronic equipment from power plants all over the city, and the Turtles are being blamed for the crimes. The Turtles must find a way to defeat Megavolt & clear their names before it is too late.
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#15 - Were-Rats from Channel 6
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/29/1990
After many failed attempts from his rodent subjects to find food, the Rat King learns of an abandoned canister of mutagen lost in the sewers and claims it for himself. Then, he kidnaps Irma and Vernon and uses the mutagen to transform them into his mutant slaves, for the sole purpose of raiding food warehouses. It is later discovered that the mutations are unstable and can only be active if the Rat King plays his hypnotic flute.
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#16 - April Gets in Dutch
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/27/1993
The Turtles and April are in Amsterdam. April is covering the showing of the world-famed Duchess Diamond. Krang wants the diamond, a flawless stone, to focus the rays on his Laser Dimension Blade, which will cut through the dimensions and bring the Technodrome to Earth. Krang sends Shredder and the mutants to retrieve it, but they're foiled by a low-rent diamond thief, Spats Sparkle. There's a smelly battle at a cheese warehouse and a climactic chase at an abandoned windmill.
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#17 - Ring of Fire
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/20/1993
The Turtles & Splinter arrive in Lisbon, Portugal, just in time for the annual Running of the Bulls. Meanwhile, Shredder & the mutants will use Krang's new heat ray magnifier to burn the city to ashes using the power of the Sun unless the Turtles can stop them.
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#18 - The Legend of Koji
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/2/1993
Shredder uses a time machine to travel back to Ancient Japan in the year 1583. He plans to defeat Hamato Koji, the man who founded the Foot Clan, and Splinter's great ancestor, for if Hamato Koji is defeated, then Master Splinter would never have been born and the Turtles would forever remain ordinary turtles.
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#19 - Turtles to the Second Power
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1996
After re-energizing the present-day Turtles, the Turtles of the past have only 3 hours to get back to their time, or they will all cease to exist. Meanwhile, during the 15 hours it took to re-energize the Turtles, the remainder of Dregg's invasion fleet has been completed and has been unleashed on the city and now the Turtles and Carter have to stop Dregg, Krang, and Shredder.
#20 - Michaelangelo Meets Bugman
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/20/1990
Michaelangelo meets his favourite comic book hero after he saves a weakened Brick Bradley in the sewers, and then he and Bugman take on the evil Electrozapper together.
#24 - 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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#25 - Michaelangelo Meets Bugman Again
Season 5 - Episode 8 - 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.