We’ve been over this twice before, so you should all be familiar with the formula by now. We’re right back in the usual position for a TMNT season opener: the Shredder and Krang assess the damage of their latest predicament, the Turtles think they’re gone for good, and then we get the arc for the season established. Meanwhile, a robot called the Pretendocon, disguised as Splinter, goes bananas and the Turtles have to chase it around to fill 22 minutes. Shredder and Krang disguise Bebop and Rocksteady as their human selves and dispatch them to Earth to infiltrate Channel 6 and steal the entire building (for its advanced broadcasting equipment). Once again, the Technodrome is trapped in Dimension X and in a state of disrepair. “Plan 6 from Outer Space” (written by David Wise) We’re getting off to a great start, here. I haven’t even watched the episodes yet and I’m already furious. I’m gonna go through the episodes in the official episode listing order, storyline coherency be damned.
I thought about doing my review in narrative order, but despite all my searching, I couldn’t find a list online that assembled a proper viewing chronology for season 4. So events (such as a volcano erupting and trapping the Technodrome in lava) are referenced before the episodes depicting those events had actually aired. The breaking up of the remaining episodes between syndication and CBS Saturday mornings had its own share of problems, as the distribution of episodes didn’t pay heed to the internal chronology of the show’s storyline. From what I understand, the “European Tour” episodes aired in places like the UK and Japan in proper order with the rest of the season 4 episodes it was just America that got then shunted off to season 7 for whatever stupid reason. The 13 episodes that aired on USA during season 7, for example, take place chronologically after the first syndicated episode of season 4 and constitute what’s known as the “European Tour” episodes (sometimes referred to as a “side season” or a “miniseries”). The 52 episodes of the season 4 story arc actually do include genuine story arcs, which means a vague episode-to-episode continuity.
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