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1After fainting from their initial encounter, April O'Neil wakes up in the Turtles' lair. It is here April learns of the Turtles' origin, and when they all agree that Baxter Stockman and his rampaging Mousers must be stopped.
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3''First appearance of Hun''
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5!!This episode provides examples of:
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7* AnotherStoryForAnotherTime: Splinter tells April about how he and the Turtles were mutated, but when she asks him how did they learned martial arts, he responds with, "That is a story for another time."
8* BridalCarry: As April and the turtles are leaving Stockman's lab before it's destroyed, Donatello carries April out like this so she'll be able to escape safely with them. Earlier in the ColdOpen, Michelangelo carried an unconscious April this way.
9* ContinuitySnarl: In the previous episode, Mike said "Can I keep her?" In the ColdOpen of this episode, he says "Can ''we'' keep her?" instead.
10** Of course, that's probably just how Mikey remembered it.
11* CutTheJuice: Ultimately subverted -- as April explains to the Turtles, the only way that she could truly stop the mouser robots was by activating an "overload" sequences, which leads to the destruction of the Stocktronics-lab and company building.
12* {{Foreshadowing}}: Saki warns Stockman that the price of failure will be quite extreme. While losing his left eye was extreme enough, come the end of next season, [[{{Understatement}} "extreme"]] won't even [[BrainInAJar begin to cover it]].
13* FreakOut: April the first time she wakes up and sees the Turtles and Master Splinter.
14* ItHasBeenAnHonor: After the turtles and April are surrounded by mousers Raph says this:
15-->'''Raph:''' This is it. It's been fun, guys.
16-->'''Mike:''' Even me, Raph?
17-->'''Raph:''' Even you, Mikey. '''Specially'' you.
18* IWarnedYou: Before Stockman's dragged off, the Shredder reminds him that was warned about the price for failure.
19* {{Metamorphosis}}: This episode reveals how the Turtles and Splinter met and were mutated.
20* MythologyGag:
21** Master Splinter only tells April about how he and the Turtles mutated, leaving out the story of how they learned martial arts, like in [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 the 1990 Live-Action movie]].
22** The part of the {{flashback}} where the Turtles are shown training under Splinter is done in a way that makes their masks look red in color, similar to [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the original Mirage comics]].
23** The Turtles' first spoken word is "Splinter" like in the comics.
24** The baby Turtles are seen eating [[TrademarkFavoriteFood pizza]] and [[TotallyRadical the way they talk]] is similar to their [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 1987 series counterparts]].
25--->'''Baby Mike:''' Awesome!\
26'''Baby Raph:''' ''(Shoves Mike)'' Mine! Ha-ha!\
27'''Baby Don:''' ''(Leaps on Raph's shoulders)'' Pizza dude!\
28'''Baby Mike:''' COWABUNGA!
29* OhCrap: Stockman when bumping into Hun while trying to escape.
30* OriginsEpisode: Part of the episode is Splinter telling April of how he and his sons became more than ordinary turtles and a rat.
31* ThePowerOfTrust: When Splinter analyzes April as she swears to keep their secret --
32-->'''Splinter''': ''(gazes into April's eyes)'' I believe you.
33-->'''Leo''': Is this another lesson, Master Splinter? How to sense the truth?
34-->'''Splinter''': No, it's called trusting your gut.
35* ReactiveContinuousScream: As a [[MythologyGag reference]] to [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 the live-action movie]], when April wakes up in the Turtles' lair and sees them for the first time, she starts screaming and Mike screams back.
36-->'''Mike:''' Please don't do that. I almost jumped out of my shell!
37* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Mike gets tired of April waking up, screaming at the sight of the Turtles and Splinter and {{fainting}}. So he decides to kick back and listen to music, letting his brothers and father deal with her and he doesn't come back until she has accepted that they are real.
38* ShoutOut: Mikey's opening narration quotes [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]].
39-->"A very wise frog once said, 'It's not easy being green.' But believe me, he didn't know the half of it."
40* StealthHiBye: After April hacks the cameras she turns around to wish the turtles luck...only to realize that they already left. Lampshaded by April.
41-->'''April:''' Hey, these guys are good.
42* SuddenlySpeaking: During the flashback, Splinter recalls being amazed when the Turtles actually began talking.
43* ThatWasNotADream: April tries so hard to invoke AllJustADream after waking up from her first encounter with the Turtles. She almost succeeds, but she passes out after seeing Splinter.
44* ThisCannotBe: Stockman's mutter of "impossible" when the Turtles bypass his lasers and destroying them.
45* TranquilFury: After the gang come up with a plan to stop Stockman, an impatient Raph asks if they can just go stop him already.
46-->'''''Please?'''''
47* WhatTheHellAreYou: Stockman, regarding on the Turtles.
48-->'''Stockman''': What are you?!
49-->'''April''': They're with me!
50* YouHaveFailedMe: Stockman suffers the first of his many, many painful punishments at the hands of the Shredder. [[spoiler:He loses his left eye in this episode.]]
51* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: Once April realizes that she isn't really dreaming, Splinter is (justifiably) worried that April will expose the existence of himself and his sons--while April assures Splinter that (with or without him and his sons being mutants) she really won't tell anyone about them, she also argues that (more likely than not) no one would believe her if she did tell them. Mikey and even Leo both agree that April's got a point in what she's saying.

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