The Turtle Tots stories in this episode are half interesting and half forgettable. As they appear in “Tales of Leo,” they’re perfectly harmless, but good gravy, their juvenile antics are going to get obnoxious in later episodes. I was starting college when this episode aired, so I’ve always been outside of the target demographic, but I just don’t see even elementary schoolers being too enamored with these characters. They got toys and lots of repeat performances. Point is, 4Kids and Playmates f-g LOVED the Turtle Tots for some strange reason. Hell, before they settled on the “Back to the Sewers” theme for season 7, we nearly got a season where the TMNT team up with their toddler counterparts due to time-travel hijinks. This episode introduces the “Turtle Tots,” as they’re sometimes called, and we’re unfortunately going to be seeing them infrequently throughout the series. There’s also a B-plot about Baxter faking DNA evidence to fool the Shredder into thinking the Turtles are dead (and in return, getting full access to the alien technology recovered from the East River near the start of the season). The episode consists of four short stories about Leonardo as a kid and situations he shared with his brothers and Splinter. Still, the themes of the stories are the same, even if this episode doesn’t qualify as a direct adaptation. ![]() If anything, the “will Leo wake up?” plot is taken from the first live-action TMNT movie albeit in that version it was Raphael who was in a coma, not Leo. Leo regained consciousness between issues, so there was never any suspense as to whether he’d survive his injuries or not. 1) #11, which was the issue that showed the Turtles escaping to the farmhouse and recovering from their defeat. “Tales of Leo” isn’t a direct adaptation of TMNT (Vol. It’s unique in that respect and I don’t think the series will do anything quite like this ever again. ![]() While there are some brief moments of fighting and levity in the flashback stories, this is primarily a buffer episode that takes things very slow. This is probably the most dramatic episode of the 4Kids series, forgoing just about any sort of action-adventure sequences to focus more on the mortal peril that Leonardo is in. Meanwhile, the Shredder sends Baxter Stockman to the ruins of the antique shop to find evidence that the Turtles died. Leonardo is still unconscious and the Turtles take turns telling stories to try and bring him back. Escaping the destruction of the Second Time Around shop, the Turtles, Splinter, April and Casey retreat to the Jones family farm in Northampton.
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