#029: April Fool (S03E11 1989)

TMNT Shellcast was seeing double in the recap of "April Fool" from season 3 episode 11 of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series.

In the television episode, April reports from the Malacurian Embassy on the sale of mining rights for Lydium 90, a rare and powerful crystal. In an effort to re-power the Technodrome, Krang plans to kidnap the Malacurian Princess to ransom the Lydium 90. Shredder kidnaps the wrong person, mistaking April for the Princess. The Turtles eventually rescue April and the unstable Lydium 90 nearly destroys the Technodrome.

Jon kicks things off with Pizza Time! (00:02:41) and his review of garlic pizza. During Turtle Tech: Sushi (00:21:00), Andrew and Jon compete head-to-head to recite popular sushi roll names from Chris' list of ingredients. Later, during Channel 6 Breaking News: Exposé (00:57:29), Jon and Andrew work together to recite stage names from celebrity birth names. Andrew recaps the episode's Turtlisms (01:48:53) and Jon provides a Shellcast Sportbook (01:50:30) update. Shredder's flawless performance moves him back to the #1 spot in the Villain Power Ranking (01:51:49). The Pizza Poll Results (01:57:39) sends the "Chief" back to the Pizza Wheel, which serves up Andrew shredded mozzarella. Chris and Jon axe the first Pizza Poll Question (02:02:01) in favor of "if you had a pet parrot, what would you teach it to say" (02:05:55).

Also featured in this podcast episode are slandering kids (00:03:57), roasted chicken pro tips (00:03:57), Johnny rule bender (00:04:57), pizza holdem (00:05:27), the most disgusting pizza (00:06:48), bottom of the Cheez-It bag (00:09:21), "tupperware" party (00:10:35), orgies (00:10:47), Mohs scale (00:13:51), getting your face El Nino'ed off (00:19:00), glitch in the Matrix (00:19:26), not seeing color (00:26:13), WPI fight song (00:28:25), sexy April and the horny Turtles (00:28:45), definitely not a perm (00:31:39), fact checking Jon (00:32:49), the light of God (00:37:53), fact checking Chris (00:47:33), Power-Ups tease (00:48:12), Vulcan death grip (00:48:12), Rocksteady's murder (00:50:00), the twirtle (00:53:31), Hulk Hogan impressions (01:04:27), fact checking Jon again (01:07:47), Stick Stickly (01:21:08), swole Shredder (01:22:23), stealing the bottom slot (01:28:26), sexual finger scene (01:43:05), fuck face (01:58:44), fuck (02:06:33), chumbawumba (02:07:48), fluid dynamics of nasal congestion (02:10:28), and SDCC 2023 TMNT preview (02:11:57).

Shout out to Dominos (00:06:35), Tantasqua Junior High School (00:14:06), The Sole Proprieter (00:27:11), WPI (00:27:26), sushi samba (00:28:06), Logitech (00:34:55), Lume Cube (00:36:27), Jon (00:38:03), Lenovo [for fucking sucking] (00:38:16), Brooklyn (00:45:35) the Gargoyle (00:45:35), and Sock-o (01:20:48).

Cowabunga!

🐢 Leave a ⁠Turtlecom voicemail⁠. 🐢 Stream TMNT Shellcast on ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, ⁠Apple⁠, ⁠Google⁠, and ⁠Amazon⁠. 🐢 Follow @tmntshellcast on ⁠TikTok⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠. 🐢 Visit ⁠tmntshellcast.com.