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* SophisticatedAsHell: The Professor.
-->'''The Professor''': May I take this opportunity to encourage you to kick that so-called Garbageman’s ''stinking derrière!''
-->'''The Professor''': May I take this opportunity to encourage you to kick that so-called Garbageman’s ''stinking derrière!''
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* DownInTheDumps: The primary setting for the episode.
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* TheReveal: We find out where the Turtles get all the stuff for their lair without jobs or money: by scrounging at the dump.
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* TrashLanding: When the Garbageman unloads his latest batch of homeless slaves, they go down a long slide into a pile of garbage.
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** Mikey says that if the Garbageman is right that "garbage is power," then he must be {{Franchise/Superman}}.
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* TheBait: Mikey bemoans the fact that he's always the bait.
-->'''Mikey''': ...especially when we're hunting 'shark'!
-->'''Mikey''': ...especially when we're hunting 'shark'!
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* TheBait: RunningGag: Mikey bemoans the fact that he's always the bait.
-->'''Mikey''': ...especially when we're hunting 'shark'!keeps trying — and failing — to come up with a good catchphrase or PreAsskickingOneLiner, and bemoaning how his brothers can actually pull them off.
-->'''Mikey''': ...especially when we're hunting 'shark'!
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* ShoutOut:
** Don starts the episode off by saying "[[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Here's another fine mess we've gotten ourselves into]]."
** When the garbage truck as the "shark" comes to pick up Mikey's "[[{{TheBait}} bait]]," he explicitly calls out the theme from [[{{Film/Jaws}} Jaws]].
** Don starts the episode off by saying "[[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Here's another fine mess we've gotten ourselves into]]."
** When the garbage truck as the "shark" comes to pick up Mikey's "[[{{TheBait}} bait]]," he explicitly calls out the theme from [[{{Film/Jaws}} Jaws]].
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* ChainLinkFence: Two men in the Professor's group escape from the Garbageman by scaling a chain-link fence, while a third is grabbed after climbing halfway up.
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* DramaticShattering: As the Garbageman abducts two homeless men in TheTeaser, there's a closeup of the bottle they had painstakingly salvaged from a trash can falling to the ground and shattering.
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* GasMaskMooks: The thugs at the Garbageman's landfill wear yellow gas masks and carry cattle prods.
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* NewEraSpeech: The Garbageman gives one to the homeless people he has kidnapped to make them his slaves.
-->'''The Garbageman''': Before I brought you to this island, you were nothing but human garbage. No home, no purpose, no value. But now, I have recycled you, given you work sifting through the refuse that this city stupidly squanders to build my fortune. Behold the birth of my empire, invisible to the outside world until it is too late!
-->'''The Garbageman''': Before I brought you to this island, you were nothing but human garbage. No home, no purpose, no value. But now, I have recycled you, given you work sifting through the refuse that this city stupidly squanders to build my fortune. Behold the birth of my empire, invisible to the outside world until it is too late!
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* VillainHasAPoint: After the Garbageman's defeat, the Professor says that the former's NewEraSpeech was correct on one thing; a lot of valuable items are thoughtlessly disposed of by the society.
* VisionaryVillain: The Garbageman wants to force the kidnapped homeless people to build for him an empire out of the trash.
* VisionaryVillain: The Garbageman wants to force the kidnapped homeless people to build for him an empire out of the trash.
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* IChooseToStay: Even after the Garbageman and his soldiers are defeated, the Professor and his fellow vagrants opt to stay on the island, as it has both food and shelter for them.
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* LamePunReaction: Mikey just can't seem to find a good catchphrase in this episode. Even the Garbageman wants to shut him up...
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* NeverFoundTheBody: Following the Garbageman's DisneyVillainDeath, the turtles dive in to look for him and possibly save him, only to find his empty chair and the man himself no where to be seen. Also doubles as a SequelHook, as he returns in a later episode.
* TheBait: Mikey bemoans the fact that he's always thebaitbait.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Following the Garbageman's DisneyVillainDeath, the turtles dive in to look for him and possibly save him, only to find his empty chair and the man himself no where to be seen. Also doubles as a SequelHook, as he returns in a later episode.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Leo assumes that this is how the Garbageman has been able to operate unhindered. A few payoffs to the right people, and as long as he doesn't draw too much attention to himself, his island is off the radar.
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* IslandBase: The Garbageman's home/base of operations is a literal island of garbage in the city harbor. As Leo puts it, he could be up to anything he wants to and no one would notice.
* IslandBase: The Garbageman's home/base of operations is a literal island of garbage in the city harbor. As Leo puts it, he could be up to anything he wants to and no one would notice.
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* DisposableVagrant: The Garbageman is taking homeless people to [[spoiler: work on his island as slaves]] because, as Don points out, most people don't notice, or care if vagrants go missing.
* FatBastard/ FatSlob: the Gabageman is literally a [[BigBad ''big'' bad]]...
* KingOfTheHomeless: The Professor
* LamePunReaction: Mikey just can't seem to find a good catchphrase in this episode. Even the Garbageman wants to shut him up...
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A mysterious garbage truck is abducting homeless people and the Turtles look to find out why.
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