Donatello's Badd Time

	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1991 Season; 1991 ; List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes
	Episodes: "The Turtles and the Hare"; "Once Upon a Time Machine"; "My Brother, the Bad Guy"; "Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko"; "Enter: Mutagen Man"; "Donatello's Badd Time"; "Michelangelo Meets Bugman Again"; "Muckman Messes Up"; "Napoleon Bonafrog: Colossus of the Swamps"; "Raphael Versus the Volcano"; "Landlord of the Flies"; "Donatello's Duplicate"; "The Ice Creature Cometh"; "Leonardo Cuts Loose"; "Pirate Radio"; "Raphael, Turtle of a Thousand Faces"; "Leonardo, the Renaissance Turtle"; "Zach and the Alien Invaders"; "Welcome Back, Polarisoids"; "Michelangelo, the Sacred Turtle"; "Planet of the Turtleoids, Part 1"; "Planet of the Turtleoids, Part 2"; 1987 Season – 1988 Season – 1989 Season – 1990 Season – 1991 Season – 1992 Season – 1992-1993 Vacation in Europe sideseason - 1993 Season – 1994 Season – 1995 Season – 1996 Season

“Donatello's Badd Time”
1987 TV series episode
Season Code:	05
Episode:	06
Original airdate	September 21, 1991
Written by	Susan Stewart-Taggart
Producers:
Episode chronology
"Enter: Mutagen Man"	"Michelangelo Meets Bugman Again"

Donatello's Badd Time is a season 5 episode of the 1987 TV series.

Appearing in Donatello's Badd Time[]

Major characters[]

Minor characters[]

First Woman in Salon (Jennifer Darling)
Second Woman in Salon (Renae Jacobs)
Dr. Kepple (Cam Clarke)

Species[]

Objects and vehicles[]

Badd Hillbilly's Wagon
Channel 6 newsvan
Powersizer
Turtle Van

Locations[]

Kepple Research Laboratory
Turtle Lair

Plot[]

Donatello has finished retooling the Turtle Van and takes it for a test drive. While road testing the Turtle Van with his latest inventions, Donatello encounters a family of hillbillies known as the Badd Family. The Badds are the notorious crime family from the back woods.

The Badd's family pick-up truck has "given up the ghost", so Donatello, acting as a good Samaritan, stops and offers his assistance. The Badds take advantage of Donatello and lock the helpful Turtle in the engine compartment of the truck and then steal the Turtle Van and have fun with the many "contraptions" that Donatello has installed in/on it.

Back at the lair, Donatello is afraid to tell the other Turtles about the theft of the Turtle Van. Don-san pretends to be working on the vehicle while he is actually working on the hillbilly's truck. Meanwhile, the other Turtles are desperate for the use of the van so that they can aid in the capture of the "Heisting Hillbillies".

Meanwhile, April and Irma, who are investigating the Badd Family themselves, do an interview with Dr. Kepple at the Kepple Research Laboratory. Dr. Kepple tells the reporters about his invention the "Powersizer", a device that can provide more energy than the Sun. However, Kepple reveals that the machine could be very destructive if it should fall into the wrong hands. And what powers The Powersizer? A giant diamond of course!

And guess who was watching April and Irma's newscast while driving the Turtle Van? You guessed it -- the Badd Family, who arrive just in time to steal the diamond and the Powersizer while April and Irma are doing their live report. They make April and Irma pose for a picture before they escape.

Meanwhile, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael are walking the city streets in search of the Badd Family. The 3 mutants are grumbling about Donatello's strange behavior when they are almost run down by the Turtle Van.

After April informs them of the theft of the diamond by the Badd family in the Turtle Van, the remaining three Turtles are convinced that Donatello is in "cahoots" with the Badd Family after he lies saying he is driving the Turtle Van. April also warns them that if the Badd Family turns on The Powersizer without calibrating it correctly, it will drain the city of all its power, causing an overload that will mean the end of the city from a destructive power wave!

And of course, the Badds do turn it on when they try to dislodge the diamond from The Powersizer and the City's power begins to drain. The Badds see this as a plus as it will enable them to rob banks without burglar alarms being set off.

Finally, Donatello tracks the Turtle Van and falls victim to his own inventions as he follows the Badd Family all over the City. Fortunately, he came prepared -- he rigged the Badd's pick up truck with some inventions that counteract the ones he invented for the Turtles' van. The turtles catch up with Donatello revealing he lied to them about the Turtle Van.

Dr. Keppel then reveals the powersizer is headed to dangerously overload. It is up to Donatello to figure out how to disable it before the city goes kablooey.

In the end, Donatello and the other Turtles apprehend the Badds when the Turtle Van ejects them into a dumpster and the Powersizer is turned off before the city is destroyed. The turtles celebrate only for another power failure as Michelangelo confesses to blowing a fuse microwaving several pizzas.

Notes and errors[]

First episode where Splinter is voiced by Townsend Coleman rather than Peter Renaday.
This was the last episode in the Japanese TV Tokyo dub of the 1987 TV series. It ends with a roll cast credits, and a preview of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime, which replaced TMNT the following week.
At the beginning of the episode, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael are talking about Donatello (who isn't present). When Leonardo says that he's worried about him, Raphael is suddenly seen with Donatello's colors.
Right after Raphael warns the waiter not to stack glasses the way he does, he trips and falls over a chair that wasn't there before.
When Buford Badd tries to dislodge the diamond by bashing it against a control panel, the purple base holding the diamond suddenly becomes blue.
For the first shot of the Badds watching the report on the Powersizer the picture is actually flipped. This is evident when it cuts back to the same shot at the end of the scene.

Home media releases[]

DVD[]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection