04x31 - The Big Cufflink Caper!

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♪♪ [THEME SONG]

♪ Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles ♪

♪ They're the world's ♪

♪ Most fearsome
fighting team ♪

♪ Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles ♪

♪ They're heroes
in the half shell ♪

♪ And they're green ♪

♪ Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles ♪

♪ When the evil Shredder
attacks ♪

♪ These turtle boys
don't cut him no slack ♪

♪ Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles ♪

♪ Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles ♪

♪ Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles ♪

♪ Heroes in the half shell ♪

♪ Turtle power ♪

[SPLINTER]
Faster, Leonardo.

Higher leaps, Raphael.

Sweeping motions,
Michelangelo.

Yes, now you have
the proper technique.

Man, don't you just
hate spring cleaning?

Wash the windows,
scrub the floors,
save the world.

My entire life is
work, work, work.

Master Splinter,

how come Donatello
gets to cop out on this
housecleaning bit?

Donatello has been excused
to allow him to study

for his upcoming exam in
binary cyberion generators.

[RAPHAEL]
That old excuse again?

Ah, there.
My final exam is completed.

Now to mail it to the
correspondence school.

This is the toughest part of
this correspondence course.

[HORN HONKING]

[CLOCK TICKING]

Hey, give it a rest,
Donatello.

Pacing back and forth
won't get the mail
delivered any sooner.

I can't help it, Raphael.

Today's the day I find out
if I got my degree.

Is this what you've
been waiting for?

I don't believe it!

It's from
Professor Sopho himself.

Who's Professor Sopho?

He's only the head
of the entire university.

He says I've graduated with
the highest grades ever.

Yeah!
Outrageous, dude!

Hey, and listen to this.

I've been invited
to the university

to receive my degree
in person.

Yeah? Well, I hope
you got the right dress
for the occasion.

Dress?

It's addressed
to "Miss Donna Tello."

Whoa, it looks like the
prof's expecting a dudette,

not a dude, dude.

Definitely not a turtle.

Too bad, Donatello.

I guess you'll just
have to forget about
any personal appearances.

Yeah, tough tortillas, bud.

No way. I've worked
too hard for that degree.

I deserve it!

But how could I get it?

How? Hold everything!

I just thought of a way.

And nobody has to know.

Attention, homeowners.

Is your house
burglar-proof?
Take it from me.

Every household needs
the nation's number one
alarm system.

I'd rather use
a number nine frying pan.

Whoa!

Donatello?

Irma, I must talk to you!

Hey, drop in anytime.

I need your help in picking up
my degree at a university.

Why me?

Because they think
I'm a Miss instead of a Mr.

What do you say, huh?

Will you pretend
to be me?

Gee, I don't think so.

But, Irma, you'll love it.
It's on a beautiful lake.

Oh, forget it.
I get seasick.

It's surrounded
by pine trees and flowers.

I've also got allergies.

And the campus is crawling
with eligible men.

What are we waiting for?
Let's get going.

Now, remember. From now on,
your name is Donna Tello.

Donna Tello.

I kind of like that name.

I might even keep it when
this whole thing is over.

[CONDUCTOR]
All out for Sopho University!

That's us, Irma.
I mean, "Donna."

So now what do I do?

You wait for someone
to pick you up.

I'm not that
kind of a girl.

Miss Tello?

[DONATELLO]
Psst, that's you!

Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah!
That's me!

Professor Sopho
has requested

we drive you
to the university.

Ouch!

Did you say "ouch?"

No, no, no, no.
I said "out."

It's so nice to be
out in the country.

Here we are,
dear old Sopho U.

My, what big buildings
you have.

The better to teach
you with, my dear.

Oh, brother.

April O'Neil,
get in here!

You bellowed,
Mr. Thompson?

There's something
mysterious going on

at Bottomless Lake upstate.

Bottomless Lake?

Suddenly, thousands of fish
are overflowing the lake.

I want you to get
up there pronto.

Sounds dangerous, chief.
Maybe I should go along

just in case there's trouble.

Oh, good idea, Vernon.
Good, good, good, good.

Some of those minnows
might be might fierce.

Fierce minnows?

On second thought,

I better stick
around here

and guard
the home front.

Too late, Vernon.

You've made your river bed,
now lie in it.

We're here, Donatello.

It's safe
to come out now.

[GROANS]

Next time I travel
in a trunk,

I'm shipping myself
"first class, fragile,
this end up."

Miss Tello?
It's Professor Sopho.

May I come in?

Just a moment--
I mean, uh...

[high-pitched voice]
Just a moment.

You're on your own.
Please don't blow it.

Welcome, Miss Tello.

I'm honored
to have you here
at my university.

Honored?
Honest?

Oh, yes. It's not often
that I meet someone

with your incredible
scientific knowledge.

[GIGGLES]

I'll bet you say that
to all us unbelievably
brilliant geniuses.

I'm beginning to think
this was a big mistake.

Here's your lunch,
Miss Tello.

We prepared your
favorite dish.

Ta-da!

Pizzas?

It's right here
on your application.

"List your three
favorite foods."

"Pizza, pizza,
and more pizza."

[LAUGHS]

I've had it up to here
with all this housecleaning.

When do we
get to stop?

When the lair
is clean enough for
Master Splinter's liking.

Hey, dudes.

Work's a cinch when you
do it to a cool beat. Ha ha!

Whoa!

Or in this case,
a warm soapy one.

And this is the very
latest version

of a binary hexi-decimal
retrieval transducer.

But of course with your
scientific expertise,

you knew that right away.

Hey, you can't fool
a whiz kid like me

when it comes to
biolateral translucents.

[GROANS]
She blew it.

[LAUGHS]

A sense of humor, too.

I like that in
a brilliant scientist.

Whew.
That was close.

Now, come, my dear.

Let me show you the rest
of the university, hmm?

Hmm. There's something
weird going on here.

Why does a university
need a hexi-decimal
transducer?

Hey, you!
What are you doing here?

Me? Oh. I'm here for
the costume party.

How do you guys like
my turtle outfit?

There's something
fishy about
this reptile.

I say we cook his goose.

[LAUGHS]
You two wimps?
You gotta be joking.

If we're joking, you're
about to die laughing.

Whoever you are,
get ready to say
"bye-bye" in turtle talk.

Do you mind
is I go first?

Oh, be my guest.

All right, wise guy.

Try this on for size.

[CHUCKLES]
I can tell from here
it won't fit.

[VERNON]
Burne was right.

There's so many fish
in this lake,

there's barely any room
for the water.

Vernon, this could be
the scoop of the year.

Start unloading
the equipment.

Here's all the equipment
I'll need.

Fishing equipment.

Vernon! Come back!

We've got a story
to cover!

I've already got the story.

"Heroic newsman catches
record batch of fish.

Film at 11."

Whoa!

Vernon!
Oh, no!

I can't let him out
of my sight for a second!

Aah!

Whoa!

Vernon!
Can I do anything?

I think I need
mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation.

What ever you say, Vernon.

Here.

Wha--wha--

[SPITS]

Whew.
Finally finished
housecleaning.

Until next spring,
that is.

It does the fax Max.

Max has been acting
totally freaked lately.

Yeah, well,
you know what they say,

"The nut doesn't fall
far from the shell."

Have any of you
seen Donatello?

No, Master,
not for hours.

If I know that dude,

he's probably hanging out
at the library.

Actually,
Michelangelo's right.

I am hanging out
at the library.

There's something oh so phony
about Sopho U,

and I intend to find out
what it is.

On these walls
you'll find every book
ever written

on every field of
science known to man.

[IRMA]
Ahem!

And of course...women.

That's more like it.

I assume you've read
Stienman's treatises

on magnetronic
circuitries

of the filamentary
synchronizing
indoctrascope.

Well, actually,
I was waiting for the movie.

Uh-oh.

Whoa!

A turtle saved
by a bunch of fish.

Is that poetic justice
or what?

This whole setup
gets fishier
by the--whoa--minute.

I'm more convinced
than--uhh--ever

that there's something--
whoa--

slippery about
this Sopho guy.

I'm worried, dudes.

Maxwell is acting
totally stressed.

Maybe all those pizza crumbs
are making him hyper.

No possible way.

I always scrape off
the anchovies.

He's headed for
the sewer!

Wait! Max!
Where you going?

Come back!

Quick, Raphael.
We've gotta rescue him.

You mean Michelangelo
or Maxwell?

Michelangelo!
Hang on!

We'll save youuuuuuu!

Well, that's it,
Miss Tello.

You've now seen
the entire university.

So what do you think?

It's so...
I--I just don't know.

What's the word?
So universal.

Speaking of the universe,

I have a rather
earthshaking announcement

to make at this evening's
award ceremony.

And it involves you.

Me? What sort of
announcement?

[LAUGHS]
A genius like yourself
should have already guessed.

Until then, au revoir.

An announcement
that involves me.

I wonder what he could
mean by that.

A giant galvanometric
oscilloscope?

Oh, this baby's
big enough to change

the molecular
vibrations of
the earth's core.

Which explains all those
fish in the lake.

They must have been
attracted

by the high-magnetic
frequency.

But how is Sopho
planning to use it?

I don't believe it!

Sopho is planning to use
the giant oscilloscope

to fling every creature
from the face of the earth

and leave it as bald
as his own head.

I gotta do something
about this.

But first I've gotta find
Irma and warn her.

[BEEP]
Uh-oh.

Oh, great.

A cybernetic
security system.

Ha ha!
Missed me!

Whoa!

Looks like I spoke
too soon.

Whoa!

I gotta get
out of this thing.

But how?

Uhh!

Well, that's one way
of doing it.

Ha! You gotta be
quicker than that
to catch me.

Up here, fella!

Yoo-hoo!

[SIGHS]
Now to find Irma
and warn her.

Fellow scientists,

welcome to Sopho U's
graduation exercises.

I have an announcement
that will change

the entire world
as we know it.

But first, please relax
and enjoy your dinner.

It will probably be
your last meal on earth.

What's that, Professor?

Oh--ahem--
I said...

"Let's all have
a great deal of mirth."

This waiters outfit
wasn't a bad idea.

I might even
pick up a few tips.

There's Irma.

But how can I talk to her
when she's sitting
right next to Sopho?

And why am I talking
to myself?

I know.
I'll write her a note.

"Irma...
Big trouble.
You must leave now!"

Signed...D.

Why, Miss Tello,

you've barely touched
your Sopho soufflé.

On my diet,
soufflé is a definite no-no.

Perhaps a sandwich would
be more to the lady's liking.

That was a note!

You were supposed
to read it, not eat it.

I thought it was sliced
awfully thin.

And that concludes
our report

on the fish-infested
phenomenon of Bottomless Lake.

This is April O'Neil
signing off.

Okay, Vernon,
that's a wrap.

Let's head back.

What's your hurry,
dudette?

We just got here.

The Turtles.

How did you get here?

By way of
the sewer system.

Yeah, we took
the scenic route.

Where's Donatello?

We haven't
the foggiest notion.

I really miss that brainiac.

I'll be he could tell us
what's going on here.

Hey, the important thing is
my little bud Maxwell is okay.

[BURNE]
April! Vernon!

Are you still there
at the lake?

Yes, chief,
What's up?

Professor Sopho has
contacted all the media

that he's about to make
a big, big, big, big
announcement.

And I want you
to cover it.

[APRIL]
That's his university
right there.

Okay, chief.
We're on our way.

Irma, you've got
to get out of here.

This Sopho guy
is a real crackpot.

Crackpot?

A whacko.
A nutcase.

A walking loony bin.

Oh, come on,
Donatello.

All geniuses are
a little eccentric.

Maybe you're just
jealous

that someone has
finally recognized
my superior intellect.

Hey. Whoa. Sopho thinks
you're me, remember?

It was my brain power
that got you here.

Then how come
I've got the feeling

he's going to
offer me a job?

No, Irma!
Wait!

So, it's you again.
The turtle.

I'm warning you.

I may be green,
but I'm also mean.

But now you're bagged
and you're also snagged.

We'll stay here
while you and Vernon

check out this
Professor Sopho story.

That's cool with me and Max.

These eggheads can be drier
than a year-old pizza.

Look, Vernon,
it's Irma.

What's she
doing here?

[VERNON]
I think we're about
to find out.

And now,
fellow scientists,

the announcement you've
all been waiting to hear.

I have selected
Miss Donna Tello,

a woman whose genius
matches my own...

almost...

to be my partner
in a momentous
scientific experiment.

[APPLAUSE]

Why did he call her
"Miss Donna Tello?"

Better question:

Why would he want her
to be his partner?

Together, we will
create achievements

undreamed of by
ordinary mortals.

[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

Irma, what's this
all about?

April, did you
hear the news?

I'll bet when
Burne Thompson hears
about this job offer,

he'll start
to appreciate me.

Professor, this is
my best friend April.

Is it okay if she becomes
a third partner?

Definitely not!

There's only room
for the two of us!

Sorry, April!
I tried!

Where are we going?

I want you to witness
the surprise

I have planned for
the scientific world.

While you and I are
safely ensconced in my
subterranean laboratory,

my galvanometric
oscilloscope

will spin all those
inferior beings

from the face
of the earth!

Then you and I shall
return to the surface
as its supreme rulers!

Oh, boy.

Donatello was right.

You are a nutcase.

Perhaps you'd like the honor
of speeding up the earth.

I'd rather kiss
a water buffalo.

You!
What are you doing?

[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Bye!

Ha ha!
See if I care!

Then I'll rule the world
without you!

And don't bother
trying to shut off
the oscilloscope.

I'm setting it on
permanent spin cycle!

[GRUNTS]
I've got to get free
somehow.

Donatello,
you were right.

I'm not a genius.
I'm a jerk.

Oh, Irma. It's not
the end of the world.

But it will be
if we don't figure out

a way to stop
this oscilloscope.

Whoa!
Righteous light show.

Mother Nature can't decide
whether it's night or day.

This is serious.

Something is speeding up
the earth's rotation.

[YELLING]

April's in there.
We've got to get to her.

This is April O'Neil
with the 6 P.M. News.

Make that 6 A.M. News.

No. Um...
6 P.M. News.

Quick, April.
You've got to get out of here.

We can't leave
without Irma.

She's still in the lab
with Donatello.

Donatello? Here?

So that's where
the dude's been
hanging out.

Uhh!
It's no use, Irma.

I'll never get out
of these chains.

Remember what
Master Splinter taught us.

Never say never.

Leonardo.
Raphael.
Michelangelo.

How did you fellas
get here?

Simple. We just swam
upstream with the rest
of the salmon.

Quick. We've got to get
inside this thing
and turn if off.

Ta-da!

Wish me luck.

Well?
Can you shut it down?

Not without
special tools.

Let me have a look.

Hold on.

Maybe we have
the right tool
after all.

[IRMA]
A hairpin?

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[ALL CHEERING]

Well, what do you know?

I guess I have a head
for science after all.

And Professor Sopho
and his two accomplices

have been arrested
and charged with
world-wide revolution.

You have done well,
my students.

Especially you,
Donatello.

Thanks, Sensei.

I guess I really
earned this degree.

But the best part of all

is that my
finny-little bud Maxwell

is back to normal
again.

Ouch!

Maybe he's not so normal
after all.

Like anything bad attached
to Michelangelo could be normal?

I am your leader!
You are my pet!

You will let go
of my finger!

Sit! Heel! Let go!