Line #17 Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S6E16TimingIsEverything


1	When Darius Dun and Sh'Okanabo join forces, it can only mean one thing — trouble! Anxious to test out their version of Cody's Time Window, Sh'Okanabo jumps the gun and unleashes a "time storm" on New New York City, opening random portals to points across time — with the Turtles smack in the middle of the chaos!
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4	!!This episode contains examples of:
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6	* BackToTheEarlyInstalment: Leo and Cody end up in the past, outside a downed water tower [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S1E11TheShredderStrikesPart2 that Leo finds familiar]]. Cue the Shredder breaking out. Meanwhile Don and Splinter witness [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S1E3AttackOfTheMousers their origin story]].
7	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Cody says he always wanted to be in the past and see his heroes in action. He gets more than he bargained for when having a front row seat to Leonardo fighting the Shredder.
8	* BigNo: Sh'Okanabo just before his Time Window explodes.
9	* BookDumb: With Leo, Cody, Splinter and Don stuck in different points of time in the past, the only ones who can help them rebuild the Time Window and rescue them are Raph and Mike.
10	-->'''Don:''' It shouldn't take much work to turn Cody's time window into a temporal beacon that can zero in on our gauntlets and maybe… maybe lead us home through a rift.\
11	'''Splinter:''' And you expect Michelangelo and Raphael to do this?\
12	'''Don:''' They're the only ones who didn't fall through a rip in time – I hope.\
13	'''Splinter:''' Be sure to use very small words, my son.
14	* BrickJoke: When the future versions of Mike and Raph appear through a time portal, the present Mike notes that future Raph's head is fatter in the future. Then when they encounter their past selves, Mikey corrects himself and says past Raph's head is fatter.
15	* ChekhovsGun: The old-fashioned letter delivered at the beginning of the episode, that has apparently been in the post office for around one hundred or so years.
16	* DeadpanSnarker:
17	-->'''Shredder:''' Leonardo, you should've run while you had the chance.\
18	'''Leo:''' Right. Guess you're still upset about the whole "dropping a water tower on your head" thing, huh?
19	* DramaticIrony: Cody is left wondering how Sh'Okanabo got the plans for his Time Window, but viewers know that Darius supplied them.
20	* EnemyMine: the Turtles and Sh'Okanabo work together to send the Shredder back to the 21st century.
21	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Splinter's time pun at Mikey's expense prompts this from the other Turtles and Cody.
22	* EveryoneHasStandards: The Turtles and Splinter pass on an opportunity to go home in order to save Cody from Sh'Okanabo and Viral.
23	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: After arriving in the past, Leonardo and Cody hear a water tower fall over and scope out the damage.
24	-->'''Leonardo:''' Looks like that water tower collapsed. Wait... no way!
25	* FailedASpotCheck: From the Shredder's perspective, he fought Leonardo just a few minutes earlier, but he misses the different attire and weapons. He does notice something different about Leo's fighting style, but he doesn't dwell on this.
26	* FiveSecondForeshadowing: As Donatello and Splinter wonder where in time they are, they are nearly run down by a truck with "TCRI" written on the side.
27	* FromBadToWorse: Raph and Mikey see the others disappear through time portals. Then, they get confronted by a very hungry dinosaur.
28	* GoodLuckGesture: A Triceraton gives a thumbs up to a ''Triceratops''.
29	* HellIsThatNoise: After Leonardo smacks around some Foot Ninjas, he and Cody hear a loud growl from underneath the water tower wreckage.
30	-->'''Cody:''' What was that? That didn't sound human.
31	* HopeSpot: After the others make it back to 2105, Cody runs some scans and sees the overall situation is getting worse.
32	* LampshadeHanging: Mikey lampshades that, of course, they weren't going to leave Cody in the clutches of Sh'Okanabo.
33	* LittleNo: Leo a moment before Shredder bursts out from underneath the water tower wreckage.
34	* NeverFoundTheBody: According to Cody, the authorities were unable to find any trace of Sh'Okanabo's ship after searching the chasm. Due to the circumstances of the explosion, Raph doesn't think he's dead, but he suggests he got sent to the end of time.
35	* NotSoAboveItAll: As Mikey makes assorted time puns, he gets knocked out of his chair by Splinter.
36	-->'''Splinter:''' Someone had to do it. It was time.
37	* OhCrap: Donatello over seeing the accident that led to the Turtles mutating. Splinter tells him to just take a deep breath and relax.
38	* PercussiveTherapy: How Raph gets the Time Window to work
39	* PortalToThePast: ''Everywhere.'' Thanks to the resulting time storm, people from every time period in history are showing up in 2105.
40	* PragmaticVillainy: Sh'Okanabo tells Viral to let Cody work in peace. Only when the situation is resolved will they finish off their enemies.
41	* RapidFireNo: Mikey when the others disappear through time portals.
42	* RaisedHandOfSurvival: Leo and Cody see when [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S1E11TheShredderStrikesPart2 the Shredder did this]].
43	* RayOfHopeEnding: The Turtles and Splinter don't get to go home just yet and Cody is left wondering how Sh'Okanabo even got his plans, but Donatello reminds him they've proven the Time Window can work and saved the time and space for everyone.
44	* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Not explicitly stated but heavily implied with the Utrom Shredder. See StableTimeLoop below.
45	* ShoutOut: Four citizens of New New York seem to be [[{{Expy}} expies]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', minus Lisa
46	* SmallRoleBigImpact: The Turtles get knocked into the sewer and mutated because a random civilian accidentally bumped into their new owner when rushing to push a blind man out of the way of the TCRI truck.
47	* SoLastSeason: This episode shows how much the Turtles have improved since their first encounter with the Shredder in season 1. The new skills they have learned over the years and future weapons have made them more than match for their old enemy in their fight before they send the Shredder back to the past.
48	* StableTimeLoop: Three:
49	** The first one is the aforementioned ChekhovsGun, where Donny sends an old fashioned letter to the Turtles with specific instructions to not be sent for a hundred years from that point in time. It contains plans for the time window.
50	** The second one is the time window sequence, where Mikey and Raph tell their past counterparts about said letter in order to get their family back from the past and remind them to give the same message when they get to the point future Mikey and Raph are at.
51	** The final one is not explicitly stated but heavily implied. The time period that Leo was sent to was directly after "The Shredder Strikes, Part 2," as in right after the Utrom Shredder breaks out of the wreckage of the water tower that fell on him. After Leo returns to the future, the Shredder follows him through another portal to the future with some Foot ninja, and proceeds to get his ass kicked while learning of his eventual defeat. It's implied that these events are part of why the Shredder became so ruthless in his hunt for the Turtles from then on, which would cause the events of the following seasons.
52	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Sh'Okanabo dislikes having to keep Darius in the loop on the new Time Window. For his part, Darius clearly doesn't trust his "partner" one bit.
53	* TemptingFate: While trying to deal with the various problems downtown, Mikey asks if it can get any weirder. A time portal immediately opens showing him and Raph their future selves, who have a message for them.
54	* ThisCannotBe: Shredder's very understandable reaction to the increased skill of the Turtles. Back during his first battle with them, they needed their sensei in order to beat him and all of their collective strength. Here, the others (including said sensei) trounce his army while Leo kicks his ass until he and Raph kick him back into his own time period.
55	-->'''Shredder''': "Impossible! You are not this powerful!"
56	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Confronted by the Shredder in the past, Leonardo remarks he really did not miss this.
57	* TimeIsDangerous: Thanks to Sh'Okanabo's time machine going on the fritz, the entire fabric of space and time was almost torn apart because of a time storm.
58	* TimeTravelEpisode
59	* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nPjFRsJGqA Poor Mikey]].
60	* TimeyWimeyBall: Lampshaded repeatedly. Time travel logic can be very confusing.
61	* TheUnreveal: In-universe. Generations of postal workers waited for a hundred years to see Don's letter to the future be delivered. When the day finally comes, they hope to meet the recipient and find out the story, but Serling just shuts the door in their faces.
62	* WhamShot:
63	** The person dropping off the letter at the post office is revealed to have three fingers.
64	** In the past, Leo and Cody come across a collapsed water tower. Leo quickly finds it to be very familiar.
65	* TheWorfEffect: While the Shredder was a highly dangerous opponent to the Turtles back during season one, he stands no chance against them in season six, and it shows. First, Leo easily matches him by himself even while on the defensive in order to protect Cody. Then, when in the future and nothing holding him back, the Shredder gets his ass kicked while his army is almost effortlessly defeated. Raph put it best as to why this happened.
66	--> '''Raphael''': Dude, we put the kabosh on you a long time ago! You're history!
67	* WriteBackToTheFuture: The ChekhovsGun.
68	* WritersCanNotDoMath: This episode makes some big miscalculations with the dates of the events of the show. Don and Splinter witness their past counterparts [[SuperHeroOrigin coming into contact with the ooze that mutated them]], while the post office celebrates its 100th anniversary and then on its 200th anniversary, they deliver the letter to Serling in 2105, making the Turtles' mutation taking place in 2005. Then Leo and Cody [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S1E11TheShredderStrikesPart2 witness the Shredder surviving getting a water tower dropped at him]] and Cody checks the date and his screen reads 1993. This means somehow, the Turtles and Splinter fought the Shredder ''12 years before they mutated!'' While switching around the years (Don and Splinter being stuck in 1993 and Leo and Cody facing the Shredder in 2005) may resolve this issue a little bit, it would still result in some problems, as that would mean (if the Turtles are supposed to be newborn infants when they mutated) that the Turtles were 12 years old instead of being teenagers, as the title of the franchise indicates, in the first season. If the Turtles are supposed to be 15 in the first season, and if that season is supposed to take place in 2003, then the year when they get mutated should be 1988.
69	* YouCantFightFate: Of the YouAlreadyChangedThePast variety. This episode all but states that time is immutable, and that some things are inevitable.
70	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The postal worker accepting the letter has this reaction when he sees it's not to be delivered until 2105.

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