Line #9 Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S2E5MikeyGetsShellacne


1	Michelangelo plays with some retro-mutagen, which contracts a dangerous infection that mutates out of control.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* AccidentalMisnaming: Mikey keeps referring to the centrifuge as "centerfudge".
5	* AccidentalTruth: When Mikey first reveals his zits, Donnie examines them and jokes that they're going to spread throughout his body until he basically becomes a giant zit and explodes. When they find out what's causing them and run some tests, it turns out that that's ''exactly'' what's going to happen to Mikey if they don't fix it.
6	* AffectionateGestureToTheNose: Donnie boops Mikey's nose while telling him that [[SkewedPriorities fortunately]], the Shellacne won't prevent him from [[TeamChef making everyone's breakfast]]. [[SarcasmMode Mikey is relieved to hear this.]]
7	* AngerBornOfWorry: The other turtles have reactions like this when they find Mikey in Baxter's lab.
8	* BlackComedy: When going over potential SupervillainLair locations, the turtles mention that a city dump had been turned into a retirement home, and an abandoned nuclear plant into a nursing school. Best not to dwell on that.
9	* BodyHorror: Mikey's zits reach this point right around the time they start ''breaking through his shell.''
10	* ButtMonkey / TheChewToy: Mikey gets this treatment a few times in this episode:
11	** First was when his brothers brush off his pimple problem and instead resort to scaring Mikey into thinking he will turn into one himself, despite NONE of them having ever had pimples due to them all being mutants.
12	** Next was when he went to go get the centrifuge by himself when the brothers ignored his advice outright, ([[DumbassHasAPoint unknown to them that Mikey WAS right about where Stockman was hiding and how to get the centrifuge]]), and then they scold Mikey once they find him for being predictable and reckless with his actions despite none of them listening to him in the first place.
13	** Last was when Donnie tricks him right before the episode's ending so that everyone can get another quick laugh out of themselves.
14	* ChefOfIron: Subverted. Leo, Raph and Donnie try applying their ninja skills to cook breakfast, only to create a haphazard mess in the process.
15	* ContinuityNod:
16	** If you look in the background, you can see that Mutagen Man is still frozen from last episode in Donnie's lab.
17	** This is not the first time that Donatello labeled his stuff, and ''specifically'' indicated to Michelangelo to not mess with it.
18	* DisasterDominoes: Leo, Don and Raph making breakfast. You get the feeling it's not Mikey's skill at it so much as their ''combined suckage at it.''
19	* DumbassHasAPoint: Mikey suggests that Stockman and Dogpound may be hiding at Stockman's old lab, but the other Turtles blow him off, believing it simply doesn't make sense. Mikey goes there on his own, and it turns out Dogpound and Stockman ''were'' hiding there.
20	* EpicFail: Michelangelo ''somehow managed to miss and/or ignore'' the warnings put on the Retro-Mutagen prototype.
21	* ExplosiveLeash: Dogpound and Fishface put one on Baxter, which will cover him in mutagen if detonated.
22	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dogpound and Fishface, as a contingency plan, put a Mutagen bomb on Stockman, with them stating that if he betrays them, they'll make ''him'' a mutant. Dogpound says that he bets that Stockman will become "some sort of lowly bug".
23	* FreezeFrameBonus: The signs on the Retro-Mutagen. One of which is "Mikey, don't eat me".
24	* IdiotHoudini: Not Mikey, since both the turtles and viewers called him out for his actions. It's Donnie who managed to get away with his actions by labeling the failed retro-mutagen "Super Cooled". He could've labeled it more scientifically like "Keep Frozen/Refrigerated" or specify a temperature.
25	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Dogpound and Fishface seek out Stockman to make him develop a cure and return them to their human selves.
26	* MondegreenGag: Mikey constantly mispronounces the word ''centrifuge'' as "center-fudge," despite Donnie correcting him multiple times.
27	* NeverMyFault: Despite the clear labels on it warning of it not to be touched, Mikey blames his brothers for what happens to him after he uses it on himself.
28	** Downplayed later in the episode when Mikey believes that Dogpound took Baxter to his old lair, which his brothers brush off. When Mikey [[WhatTheHellHero chews out his brothers for never believing in him]] (and they ignore him yet again), Mikey goes off to fetch Baxter and the centrifuge for his cure. What's particularly glaring about this example is that after the brothers come to Mikey's aide again, they blatantly point out that they knew Mikey would attempt to go off on his own, yet they don't acknowledge that had they had taken Mikey's words into consideration, he wouldn't have run off to put himself in danger in the first place.
29	* PecFlex: Dogpound does this when he realizes he gets to capture Stockman and fight the turtles at the same time.
30	* RadiationImmuneMutants: Averted. Retro-Mutagen gives Mikey shellacne, and mutagen turns Dogpound into Rahzar.
31	* RiseOfZitboy: Mikey's acne goes to ridiculous levels. He even gets pimples on his ''tongue''.
32	* SinisterScrapingSound: Dogpound drags his claws against the wall after mutating into Rahzar.
33	* TooDumbToLive: Oh, he lives, but Mikey severely pushes this by rubbing a chemical from Donnie's lab on his body thinking it will make him "Super Cool" (misreading the label that said the chemical needed to be "super-cooled") and is covered in warning labels, from multiple "Mr. Yucks" on the front to a plethora of warnings on the back.
34	* TookALevelInBadass: As if Bradford/Dogpound wasn't one enough already to at least qualify, he went through another one with the transformation to the far more powerful Rahzar.
35	* VetinariJobSecurity: PlayedForLaughs. At the start of the episode, Leo, Donnie and Raph try fixing breakfast (a job reserved for Michelangelo), but their attempts at [[ChefOfIron applying "finesse" in making breakfast]] ends in making a big mess.

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