15a: Mind Meld
A classic plot of ‘smart character makes other characters smart, regrets it and changes them back’ which was very by the numbers except the brothers weren’t actually doing anything except ignoring Donatello that required them to be turned back and the macguffin was that they were rescuing stolen equipment from the Purple Dragons to… keep for themselves. Ah, the fucking around levels are off the chart in this series. I appreciated these aspects of the episode, but otherwise I think I was more focused on the apple I was eating. Which is a shame because you’d think I’d be more excited about a Donatello episode. I DID like how he kept complimenting everything they were doing instead of them being destructive forces while he was freaking out.
15b: Nothing But Truffle
Todd is confirmed as capybara. Mikey episode. Meat Sweats episode. …were-tree episode?
“You ditched me? I thought you were kidnapped!”
Todd gave me the creeps previously but he was really funny in this episode. And I’m really enjoying a TMNT where I don’t keep going ‘ugh’ at Mikey’s very existence*.
*I don’t like wacky/zany characters. I used to like them well enough, but Pinkie Pie was so awful she retroactively poisoned me on the character type. I can’t even look at Wakko Warner now. And I think I’d use a shoe on the other Pinky.