#026: The Fifth Turtle (S03E08 1989)

TMNT Shellcast counters takes in "The Fifth Turtle" from season 3 episode 8 of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. In the episode, Donatello's astronomical prowess is interrupted by a midnight grocery trip and a young boy named Zach, who wants to help the Turtles fight crime. Despite some early mishaps, Zach perseveres to help the Turtles defeat Krang and Shredder's plan to re-power the Technodrome using stolen crystals and sunlight from a rare planetary conjunction. Zach is named an ally and honorary member of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Chris hosts the podcast episode this week which features Jon and his chef'd-up anchovy punishment during Pizza Time! (00:03:59). Andrew joins Jon and Chris to debate the Best/Worst Sidekicks (00:40:54). @tmntshellcast on Twitter inspired this iteration of Show & Tell (01:47:35). Andrew recalls the Turtlisms from the episode (01:53:11). Raphael takes the Turtle Van for his first spin (01:35:56), prompting Jon to update listeners on the Shellcast Sportsbook (01:55:09). A passionate (02:15:14) Villain Power Ranking (01:56:11) finds the Punks, Don Turtelli (01:59:44), and Vivaldi Crime Syndicate (02:01:29) moving and shaking, but Shredder remains #1. Chris loses the Pizza Poll (02:16:04), sending him to the Pizza Time! wheel where he earns a pizza punishment of peanut butter & pickle for next episode (02:18:53). Chris wraps up the episode by asking Jon and Andrew "what is the best aroma" during the Pizza Poll Question of the Week (02:21:33). Also featured in this episode are feeling illegal (00:00:54) with active dome lights (00:01:20), not buying anything (00:01:42), moddin' naner bunches (00:02:05), still not buying anything (00:02:30), soda fountain thirds (00:03:03), extra condiments (00:03:18), make-your-own (00:03:27), fortune cookie apps (00:03:45), music too loud for cops (01:51:38), left on red (01:52:09), going 'round twice (01:52:27), the wheel says what Jon says it will (00:07:00), the biggest #PizzaFriday yet (00:07:37), official Pluto podcast stance (00:11:09), Chris was duped (00:13:40), not crying wolf about the Punks (00:14:24), more crystals (00:19:25), Jon HATES ceiling lights (00:27:03), sick-o April (00:35:31), man's best friend (00:41:10), better than Sonic (00:42:27), the ideal sidekick (00:44:03), being so bad you get murdered by the fans (00:50:00), Donkey (00:51:49), Miracle Whip (00:52:50), the best Pokemon episode (00:57:46), moon and earth relations (01:06:10), Splinter's psychological warfare (01:09:01), DQ sucks (01:12:08), the universal enemy of the world (01:15:19), cell phone circle of life (01:16:13), recommended 1.5X playback speed (01:18:41), Cali stickers (01:20:55), chillin' like E.T (01:22:32), Observatory vs Planetarium Round 2 (01:29:48), mnemonics (01:31:00), KOBE! (01:41:30), hearing with the lights off (01:48:19), recycled names (01:51:20), Chris doesn't know what he agreed to (02:02:23), Jon's frazzling (02:06:28), Krang teetering with demotion (02:08:53), king shits (02:12:46), fresh baked cookies (02:22:23), clean linen (02:23:33), cinnamon rolls (02:26:56), not eating for pleasure (02:34:15), two ways to pronounce Elio's (02:34:37), Jon's comfort level next episode (02:40:43), and shout outs to Groomsman Matt (00:07:56), Third Eye Blind (00:21:45), Sean's gaming (00:44:46), and Flynn (01:18:18) while Sewer Surfin' (02:42:12)! Links from this episode: 🐢 Drew Yauch Fragrance Guru: https://www.youtube.com/@dsyauch/videos Cowabunga! 🐢 Leave a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Turtlecom Voicemail⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 🐢 Stream TMNT Shellcast on ⁠Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Google, and Amazon. 🐢 Follow @tmntshellcast on ⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 🐢 Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tmntshellcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.