♪♪ [theme]
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ♪
♪ Heroes in a half shell ♪
♪ Turtle power ♪
♪ They're the world's ♪
♪ Most fearsome fighting team ♪
We're really hip.
♪ They're heroes in the half shell ♪
♪ And they're green ♪
Hey, get a grip.
♪ When the evil Shredder attacks ♪
♪ These turtle boys don't cut him no slack ♪
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ♪
♪ Splinter taught them to be ninja teens ♪
He's a radical rat.
♪ Leonardo leads ♪
♪ Donatello does machines ♪
That's a fact, Jack.
♪ Raphael is cool, but rude ♪ Gimme a break.
♪ Michelangelo is a party dude ♪
♪ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ♪
♪ Heroes in a half shell ♪
♪ Turtle power ♪
♪ Because it's fun to be a wombat ♪
♪ A wombat, a wombat ♪
♪ Being a wombat sure is fun ♪
The Pizza Pan Theatre audiences
are the greatest in the world.
This is Willie Wombat saying thank you
and good night.
♪♪ [vaudeville]
Oh, no, not again.
What's the matter with this stupid robot?
Something must be jammed.
[Man] What are you doing?
Take your hands off him!
[gasping] The phantom!
Get him, boys!
[both] Yeah, boss.
[audience screaming]
Stop him!
Blast it, he got away again.
This is the third disturbance this month
at Willie Wombat Pizza Pan Theatre.
Now, pizza and turtles I can understand,
but pizzas and wombats?
I asked owner Rufus Higby
if he knew who the intruder might be.
Uh, uh, no, no, that was, uh, that was no intruder.
It was just a, uh, uh, a publicity stunt.
Yeah, that's it--
a-a publicity stunt.
Now go away.
Man, that guy Higby's story
is as fishy as a sushi bar.
Maybe we should check out this Pizza Pan Theatre.
Yeah, it just might lead us to another baffling mystery.
Or better yet, they might have
some ultra-weird new pizza I haven't tried yet.
Uh, is it just me,
or has this underground river gotten higher?
We used to be able to jump across it.
And we still can, dudes.
Cowabunga!
[all choking]
Okay, so, like,
maybe the river is rising a little.
Ah, there's nothing as invigorating
as tramping around the sewers soaking wet.
Hold on. Do you hear something?
[whirring] Yeah.
It sounds like somebody's using heavy machinery.
[whirring grows louder]
Will you look at that!
[Michelangelo] Who is that weirdo?
[Raphael] It's a cinch he's no sewer repairman.
Okay, fella, just what are you doing?
Whoa, talk about antisocial.
We've got to follow him, come on.
Whoa, that dude knows the sewers
almost as well as we do.
Wrong.
Nobody knows the sewers like we do.
There's a shortcut around that corner.
Let's go.
[thud] [all] Oh, oof!
Well, there used to be a shortcut around that corner.
And I used to have a nice, straight beak. Oh!
Someone bricked up the tunnel.
It must have been that bizarro-looking creepazoid we saw.
[sighing] We've lost him for good now.
Maybe not.
I've got something in the lair that might lead us to him.
Come on.
Whoa, that dude sure is mysterioso.
He's, like...
the Phantom of the Sewers.
Hey, great name, Michelangelo.
Did you think that up all by yourself?
No, dude, it's the name of this episode.
Oh, no.
The underground river is still rising.
[Leonardo] It's almost reached the entrance to our lair.
Guys, if it keeps rising at this rate,
it'll turn this place into an indoor swimming pool.
I'll bet that phantom character
has something to do with this.
But why would the dude be flooding the sewers?
Well, maybe he sells scuba gear part-time.
We can pick up his trail with this tracking device.
[beeping]
[beeping continues]
We must be getting close. Look!
So that's why the river's flooding.
He's opened the flood control valves.
[Donatello] He's using the force of the water
to generate hydroelectric power.
We'll have to find the control wheels
and close off those floodgates.
Uh, dudes? Check it out.
[Donatello] Wow. What is this place?
It looks like a reject
from Better Homes and Catacombs.
It must be the phantom's lair.
They tracked me all the way here.
There's just no privacy in these sewers anymore.
[rustling]
Listen, what was that?
[all] Look out!
Whoa, great balls of fire!
They're finally out of ammo.
Uh-oh. Spoke too soon.
What now?
Jump for it!
Uhh, what more can they do to us?
[Raphael] You had to ask.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Come on, we've got to find that phantom
and get him to turn off those floodgate valves.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Oh, man, I've taken enough baths today
to last me the rest of my life!
Yeah, well, don't look now,
but I think the rest of your life just arrived!
[Leonardo] It's an underground waterfall!
Whoa, chill, dudes.
We've always got this.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Ohh...
Where'd that thing come from anyway?
There are no major waterfalls beneath the city.
It came from there.
When the phantom opened those floodgates
for his hydroelectric power,
he created a giant waterfall.
Guys, look, the floodgate controls.
[Raphael] Well, don't just stand there,
shut 'em down before our lair gets turned into a fish tank!
Now to make sure no one tries to open them again.
[grunting]
There.
Now the phantom won't be able to carry out
his horrible, evil, terrible plans.
Hey, just what the heck are his plans anyway?
We're gonna have to find out.
[Michelangelo] Dudes!
Scope this out.
[Michelangelo] Awesome site, isn't it?
[Leonardo] It looks like the foundation of a building.
Yeah, but what building?
Hey,
that almost looks like an elevator shaft.
And this almost looks like an elevator platform.
And this almost looks like an elevator control.
Dudes, I'd almost say
this thing really was an elevator.
Thank you, Professor Einstein.
[Donatello] What does it lead to?
I'd say we're almost about to find out.
Oh, terrific.
We've come up in the middle of a cartoon show.
No, we must be in Willie Wombat's Pizza Pan Theatre.
Look.
♪ Because it's fun to be a wombat ♪
♪ A wombat, a wombat ♪
♪ Being a wombat sure is fun ♪
Hey, what are you four doing loafing around here?
Get on that stage! No, no, wait.
Who put those ridiculous costumes on you?
[laughing] Turtles walking upright?
It's the dumbest thing I ever saw.
You don't look too bright yourself, fella.
Wha-wha-who-who--
Who programmed you to speak?
No one. We're just quick studies.
Look, we're not robots, okay?
We're the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Yeah, the city's numero uno crime-fighting reptiles.
And we want to know about the phantom.
[chuckling] Phantom? What phantom?
Wha-Wha-- What are you talking about?
This weird dude in a cape we've been tailing through the sewers.
Yeah, his hideout is right below this building.
He's probably the same joker
who's been scaring away your customers.
Uh, there, uh, there is no phantom.
The whole thing is just a, uh, uh, a rumor.
Yeah, heh heh, that's it, a rumor,
concocted by one of my competitors.
But you said the phantom was just a publicity stunt.
Nonsense. When did I ever say such a thing?
Try the 6 o'clock News, on national TV?
I've had enough of you four troublemakers.
Hey, for all I know,
one of you could be the phantom. [chuckling]
Not that there actually is any phantom, of course.
[dog barking in the distance]
Now, stay out, or I'll call the police.
Sheesh, what a grouch.
Yeah, no wonder he has to hire robots.
What do we do now, compadres?
We'll check with April.
She's probably right on top of this story.
[April] You mean, there really is a phantom?
Well, if there isn't,
we've been chasing a sewer worker
who's got a thing for black capes.
I haven't even had a chance to investigate it
because of all those bank robberies last night.
Uh, what bank robberies? Didn't you hear?
40 different banks, all over the city were broken into
by thieves who ripped the vault doors off their hinges.
One robbery like that would be baffling enough,
but 40?
Let's hit the streets and check it out.
[Raphael] "Cityville Bank.
Our vaults have no faults."
[scoffs] How corny. Who cares?
It's one of the few banks that hasn't been robbed yet.
Now be on guard, fellas.
If those robber dudes are strong enough
to rip the door off a bank vault,
just imagine what they could do to our shells.
Ooh, thanks for bringing that up, Michelangelo.
Uh-oh, here they come now.
They've got to be incredibly huge,
brutally strong,
savagely evil.
[Donatello] The robots from the Pizza Pan Theatre?
They're the robbers?
They got to be kiddin'.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Maybe we underestimated these guys.
What a humiliating way to go--
done in by a bunch of cutesy-poo critters!
I can't believe I'm about to be blown to bits
by a wombat!
Aw, no way!
Let's take 'em, green team!
Ugh!
Adorable and lethal.
Now, that's what I call a deadly combination.
Uh-oh.
Thought you'd never get here.
[clanging]
Oof!
Oh, these things are too strong.
We need some heavier artillery, guys.
Got just the thing, muchacho!
I'm taking it to the streets!
Way to go, Michelangelo!
They crumbled like animal crackers!
We did it! The bank is safe.
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
And look there!
[Raphael] Not more adorable law-breakers!
Someone's turned all those Pizza Pan Theatre robots loose.
It must be the same someone who's controlling them.
[TurtleCom beeping] But who?
Guys, it's April.
Wait till you hear this.
And wait till you hear this.
The crooks who robbed all those banks
are the robots from the Pizza Pan Theatre.
Then you'll be interested in this.
Rufus Higby originally had a partner in the Pizza Pan Theatre.
His name was Bogart Flywheel.
He designed all the robots for the theater.
But he had a falling out with Higby three months ago,
and vanished without a trace.
Then this Flywheel guy might be the phantom.
And he's trying to scare away all the customers
to get even with Higby.
And if he designed all the robots,
he must also be the one behind the bank break-ins.
To the sewers!
We've got to stop that dapper
yet demented dude.
[transmitter beeping]
He's in there, all right.
But we don't want his booby traps to get us this time.
Hang on, amigos.
[all] Turtle Power!
All right, phantom, drop that...
lavishly illustrated magazine.
Uh, how can you read while you're running
the biggest crime wave in the city?
Crime wave? What are you talking about?
Oh, well, aren't you Bogart Flywheel?
And didn't you design Willie Wombat
and all those other robots?
That is correct.
Well, what are you doing lurking around in the sewers?
When Rufus Higby cut me out of our partnership,
he paid a visit to my laboratory.
I feel a flashback coming on.
[Raphael] Yeah, I was right.
[Phantom] When I refused to end our partnership,
he attacked me.
I was stronger than Higby, and able to resist.
So he threw some chemical at me.
My face was horribly disfigured,
so I put on this mask and retreated to the sewers
to hide from humanity forever.
Oh, yeah? Then why do you keep going up
to the Pizza Pan Theatre to scare folks?
I don't mean to scare anyone.
But I can't help it, looking like this.
I go up to visit my children.
You mean, there's a Mrs. Phantom?
I'm talking about my robots:
Willie Wombat,
Elmo Elephant,
Cashes Cow.
You know, I'm beginning to think
that Rufus Higby is the one behind all these robberies.
What robberies? You must tell me.
Does it involve my precious robots?
Yeah. Three of them nearly turtle-waxed our shells.
And they've been robbing banks all over the city.
So that's why Higby wanted me out of the way:
so he could use my inventions for his own evil ends.
I've got to stop him,
and you've got to help me.
[chuckles] What a small world.
You know, we were about to ask you to help us.
[Leonardo] We figured the robots must be operated by a remote control.
[Phantom] You were right.
And in all likelihood, it's up in the theater.
No one's here.
And all the robots are gone.
They must all be out robbing banks.
We've got to find the master control before Higby gets back.
[Leonardo] Nothing here.
What about you, Michelangelo?
No luck, either, compadre.
But I did find this really tubuloso coffee machine.
Michelangelo, that's it!
Yes, it's definitely a remote control.
Can you use it to order the robots back here?
I can try.
If all goes well, in a few moments,
they'll be coming through those doors.
Good. Now all we have to worry about is--
Hey, get away from those controls!
Time to pull the plug on this lug!
[Leonardo] Here come the robots.
Ruin a perfectly good master plan, will you?
I'll get you for this! [grunting]
Whoa! Ugh!
The controls are ruined.
I'm not feeling too good myself.
Whoa, those robots are going wacko!
Without the controls, there's nothing to restrain their actions.
[Leonardo] Look out!
[springs boinging]
Not so fast, bozo!
[springs boinging]
The robots! Oh, they're ruined!
[crying] My children,
smashed to pieces!
Yeah. They sure don't build robots like they used to.
Uh-oh. Now what?
The control unit for the robots have damaged.
They're overloading.
They'll explode in a matter of minutes.
If they do, they won't just blow up the theater,
they'll take out a half-mile chunk of the city, too!
We've got to keep that from happening.
But how?
There just might be a way. Come with me.
[Phantom] These support beams are right in the path of the floodgates.
We'll open all the floodgates.
The force of the water should be enough
to knock out the theater's foundations.
It will drop down into the sewers,
and the flood water will squelch the explosion.
Hey, great plan,
but there's one little problem. What's that?
I smashed the floodgate controls earlier, remember?
Well, we've got to get them fixed.
All my stolen money is hidden in the theater.
I got to get it before the whole place blows up.
Hey, guys, we're in luck.
The only thing that's really broken is the main control lever.
Help me get the panel open.
Higby. He's escaped. I mustn't let him get away.
Aha. It's still here!
[Phantom] Higby!
No, it's mine!
There, it's fixed.
Higby and the phantom are gone.
[Michelangelo] I thought it felt kind of lonely in here.
Somebody's got to find them
while I get those floodgates open.
We'll get 'em.
Turn all those cranks, hard!
Now, Higby, you stole my ideas,
you corrupted my inventions,
and you left my face disfigured.
Hey, everybody makes mistakes.
Now you will pay.
[rumbling]
[both screaming]
Sorry to interrupt your fun, guys,
but if we don't get out of here in about five seconds,
we're all gonna be toast.
[both grunting] There.
[Michelangelo] Whoa,
talk about sinking real estate values.
[Leonardo] Well, Mr. Flywheel,
now that Higby's in the hands of the police,
what do you intend to do?
Oh, I suppose I'll just live out the rest of my life
down here in the sewers.
Oh, what Higby did to your face, I mean,
it couldn't have been that bad.
Oh, yes, it is.
Look for yourself.
Yuck! Mondo-hideoso.
[Raphael whistling]
I must admit it's, uh, it's horrible.
Wait a minute.
Just as I thought. It's paint.
[all] What?
Didn't you ever try washing your face?
No. When I looked in the mirror,
I was so horrified that I put the mask on
and vowed never to take it off again.
Hey, a little soap and water, you'll be as good as new.
My friends,
how can I ever repay you?
Just go back to your old life.
Yeah, and leave the sewers to us rockin' reptiles.
Ah, these sewers sure will be quiet,
now that the phantom is gone.
It'll be nice to have some peace and quiet around here again.
[splashing]
Uh, guys, why are we ankle-deep in water again?
Oh, no. I forgot to close the floodgates!
We are going to have a very wet lair
if we don't do something fast. Come on!
Sheesh, and they chew me out
when I leave the bathtub faucet dripping.
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