#024: The Old Switcheroo (S03E06 1989)

TMNT Shellcast swaps takes on "The Old Switcheroo" from season 3 episode 6 of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. In the episode, Donatello's pizza-making invention malfunctions, injuring Leonardo and leading to a confrontation with Shredder. During the battle, Shredder and Splinter's minds are accidentally switched, causing chaos as Splinter and Shredder struggle to maintain each other's identity. Eventually, the Turtles and Splinter devise a plan to lure Shredder back to Cybertech Labs and restore the correct minds to their respective bodies.

Chris goes full pizza-ception with bagel bites atop his cheese pizza during Pizza Time! (00:01:40). Andrew pits Jon and Chris in a four round head-to-head Player Select: Mind Transfer Hosts (00:28:17) before pairing them together during a ten-question Buy or Sell: Sesquipedalian Invention Names (01:13:38). Chris tackles all of the Turtlisms (01:58:11) mentioned throughout the episode and Shredder perseveres to maintain the #1 spot on the Villain Power Ranking (02:00:47). The controversial TikTok Poll Results (02:11:15) ends in a tie, forcing Andrew and Jon to compete in a spin-off where Andrew loses and spins Mentos as his Pizza Time! (02:22:06) punishment for next episode. To conclude the podcast episode, Chris and Jon share their answers to TikTok Poll Question (02:24:35): What is the best letter of the alphabet?

Also mentioned in this episode are molten lava (00:03:39), highest of highs and lowest of lows (00:07:02), experimental 'za (00:07:48), slumming it up in the comments (00:10:20), the body is just a vessel (00:27:27), high profile escort (00:39:52), THanks (00:42:41), Jon reclaiming time (00:44:07), butterfly and bee (00:46:16), what really happened with JFK and RFK (00:47:21), high brow western music (00:52:57), booze hound (00:54:07), Chris can't say biopic (00:55:19), RIP Chadwick (01:03:27), soccer rules (01:05:03), killing cats (01:06:59), not urethral (01:21:38), AMFs (01:22:11), lost in the sauce (01:23:02), a fancy name for an air fryer (01:29:12), smelling a fart (01:29:52), wrong coordinates for the North Pole (01:42:10), cheese level 100 (01:46:51), Jon is good with directions (01:49:15), a bunch of thy's (02:06:05), letting the gods decide (02:19:31), sometimes the bad guys win (02:20:59), an O with a dick (02:28:07), Chris's revelation about X (02:31:02), and a baby turtle (02:33:59).

Mentioned during the episode:

• Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon & Yoko Ono: https://open.spotify.com/track/27RYrbL6S02LNVhDWVl38b?si=21da6191f09640ff

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