When Rocksteady and Bebop screw up Shredder and Krang's plan of installing Krang's mind-controlling Mesmerizer over Manhattan, the duo are replaced with two lethally strong robotic duplicates to to take care of the Turtles while Shredder finishes the mutant's handiwork. However, the Mesmerizer has been damaged due to Rocksteady and Bebop's first failed attempt at installing it, leading it to have some interesting side effects on the population of New York.
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- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- The episode starts as Shredder points out to Krang that unlike him, mutants are immune to its mind control, resulting in this conversation:Krang: You don't have to explain it to me! I invented it, remember?!
Shredder: I wasn't explaining it you! (points at the audience) I was explaining it to them! - Shortly after waking up from being hypnotized by the Mesmerizer, Irma looks directly at the audience and asks what happened, and if they met any cute guys.
- When the Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop start knocking the Turtles off the Channel 6 news building, Michelangeo looks directly at the audience and asks "Is this suspenseful or what?" right before they all fall off.
- The episode starts as Shredder points out to Krang that unlike him, mutants are immune to its mind control, resulting in this conversation:
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Shredder complains that the Mesmerizer makes its victims act like children, not slaves, Krang insists that only a complete idiot would make it work like that. As soon as the words leave his mouth, he realizes that Bebop and Rocksteady are responsible, and catches their attention by angrily yelling their names.
- I Take Offense to That Last One: Burne sees a hole on the roof, and blames the turtles, referring to them as slimy reptiles. Donatello's response:Donatello: Hey, I deny that insinuation. Turtles are not slimy.
- Manchild: Everyone in New York becomes this at first due to the effects of the damaged Mesmerizer.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Bebop and Rocksteady manage this twice in the same episode. First they damage the Mesmerizer, and don't bring it up. So when Shredder does manage to install it, it makes everyone it effects act like children, then later dogs and monkeys instead of mind controlling them. Krang gives them a chance to redeem themselves by telling them to bring up the disk that has the Mesmerizer's plans so it can be fixed. Instead they bring up the one that has the plans for their robot copies, allowing the turtles to control them when they get it.
- Robot Me: Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady are robots designed in the original Bebop and Rocksteady's image made to replace them. Krang and Shredder call them "Super Mutants", but they're definitely robots.
- The Worf Effect: Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop display their badassness by wiping the floor with their original counterparts in short order.
