#rottmnt lost episode

[yujateaandpi]

ROTTMNT Lost Episode Pitch: Standardized Stressing

This would take place between season 2 and the movie.

April is 17 now and preparing college applications. 

She’s been too busy to visit the boys in a long time, but when she finally comes over, she is absolutely exhausted. She says she’s having a difficult time juggling all her many extracurriculars (this girl works like, ten part time jobs) with her study schedule

Donatello ENTHUSIASTICALLY offers to help her work out an academic plan— he calls it DISCO or (Donnie’s Ingenious Successful College Operation)

He repeatedly mentions how he’s never been to school (clearly a sore spot) but has long-fantasized the opportunity and has thought about it extensively

He comes up with a militarized schedule/ calendar for April, who takes it up in stride because she’s desperate.

At first, it works! Donnie’s alarms get her awake at the crack of dawn, he deletes all distractions from her phone, he makes a Duolingo-style threatening mascot tutor that keeps her constantly studying and moving from place to place. She starts avoiding Sunita and the boys, cutting out her social life entirely. 

Weeks pass, and the SAT date approaches.

Donnie is somehow MORE stressed than she is, ranting and pacing, getting in way over his head, and talking about making the program more strict

April assures him that he’s doing more than enough already. He says something insensitive about her not caring enough about her education, and they get into a fight.

The next day, April wakes up in a blank room that has nothing but a desk and a chair.

Donnie’s voice over a PA tells her that this is the next stage in DISCO, saying this is where she’ll live for now until the SAT date. Her only objective is to study for hours and occasionally break for meals, which he’ll provide.

April is LIVID and tells him he has no right to keep her like a gerbil in a cage. 

The walls open and lasers open along the wall, giving her a painful shock. He says it’s a necessary precaution to keep her alert. 

April, furious, tries to leave. The Duolingo-style mascot goes aggro and opens fire. 

Homegirl snaps the leg off the desk and uses it as a bat to WRECK the lasers/ room. She goes apeshit with pent-up stress. The destroyed walls fall apart and she finds herself in the middle of the lair garage. 

She slams into Donnie’s lab (who is desperately trying to put up defenses) and smacks him with her bat, yelling at him for going insane and for caring more about his ego than her wellbeing

He tries to argue, but he sees the small burn where the laser got her and falters

As she’s leaving, he grabs her arm and admits that she’s right. He confesses that he has always been extremely jealous that she gets to go to school and that every day he thinks about what more he could do if only he had guided instruction. He was trying to live vicariously through her and acknowledges that.

April tells him that she gets it but that it’s hard enough being a young person at her age, uncertain about her future, and that him reducing her to nothing but her test scores was exactly the opposite of what she needed. 

She tears up as she tells him this and he’s instantly regretful.

He tells her he owes her big time for hurting her and begs for forgiveness, asking if there’s anything he can do to make up for it.

A: *Sigh* “Well I don’t have a ride home after the test.”

D: “Done. Anything else?”

A: “Don’t ever lock me in a box again.”

D: “Deal.” 

The day of the SAT, April steps out of the school building and rounds a corner where Donnie parked the Turtle Tank. 

She hops in and he gives her an enormous congratulations gift basket (that the boys put together). 

Leo gave her his Jupiter Jim comic, Mikey got her her favorite snacks, Raph gave her his favorite nap blanket, and Donnie gives her her phone which he’s outfitted with all her favorite fantasy games and an app he made that gives her one encouraging Donnie message a day (ex. “You got this queen”) 

He asks her tentatively how it went. She says she did her best and it’s out of her hands now

He tells her that he’s always looked up to her and that he has no doubt she did well. 

D: “You’re a smart cookie April O’Neil. And of course I’m sure my patented study system must have—”

A: “Donnie.”

D: “Yeah, yeah.”

As they’re driving away, she asks him why he never considered attending a university in the Hidden City since she’s sure there must be yokai professors out there. 

D: “Huh. That’s actually not a bad idea.”

A: “You never even considered it? I know I say this a lot, but you have a bad habit of not using that big dumb brain of yours.”

D: “I’ll focus on the “big” part of that insult.”

A: *Punches him*

D: “Ow!”

Outro!

#This episode idea plays in my head rent free #I just want an episode where Donnie has to encourage APRIL this time #I wish I was an animator or had time to draw this as a long comic #rottmnt #rottmnt season 3 #rise of the tmnt season 3 #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt lost episode #rise donnie #rise april #save rottmnt #save rise of the tmnt #unpause rottmnt #unpause rise of the tmnt #tmnt 2018 #rottmnt donatello #april o'neil

[allonsos-evil-lair]

Turtletober - Time Yourself + Pumpkins

"I can't wait to see the look on Ethel Crabtree's face when she gets a look at this baby! Pumpkins ahoy!" Based on a whiteboard drawing that Russ Carney did of the cut episode "Gourd Almighty" where the boys sail a giant pumpkin Donnie grew down the Hudson River to get it to a pumpkin contest.

#tmnt #turtletober #tmntober #teenage mutant ninja turtles #Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #saverottmnt #raphael #raph #leo #leonardo #donnie #donatello #mikey #michaelangelo #gourd almighty #rottmnt lost episode #pumpkin #allonsbro

[wormspoodle]

my favorite botony enthusiast and his lab assistant

#this is a reference to one of the lost rottmnt episode #in said episode we find out donnies true passion is botony #and so hed definitely create evil plants #and also mikey is the one who knew abt it (canonically) #raph and leo didn't know acc to the episodes plot #okay im done rambling #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt donatello

[unorthodoxx-page]

Why is this single photo from a lost rottmnt episode where Donnie is trying to enter his pumpkin in a competition because botany is his true passion SO FUNNY TO ME 😂🤣 it’s giving James and The Giant Peach

Note: now I feel like I need to explore the plant aspect of his personality lol

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #tmnt #tmnt donnie #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles movie #rise of the tmnt #james and the giant peach #funny #lost episodes #I’m a simple person #I see stick figures of turtles then I laugh

[sharkylass]

6. Fears.

I WAS REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE- THE SHOW ISN’T GONNA GIVE US AN EXPLANATION? FUCK IT, I’LL MAKE IT MYSELF-

(More versions under cut!)

#Yes he got lost and fell in a pile of mud and that's why he put mud on his face in the episode #Yes that's my headcanon #Yes it took them a while to find him #Yes he gets the most antsy when he's alone in the sewers in particular #Yes the family probably ended up mapping the entire sewer system so that this never happens again #AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME #rottmnt #rottmnttober #rottmntober #rise of the tmnt #Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #tmnt #tmnttober #tmntober

[luxuraii]

Donnie!

I’ve been having fun drawing him lately

He’s just a neat dude to doodle

#rise season 3 #rottmnt #save rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #save rise of the tmnt #unpause rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #unpause rise of the tmnt #rottmnt donatello #rottmnt donnie #this was supposed to be a small doodle then I just kept going and lost track of time #I also had a small moment where I forgor what side the taller goggle lens was on and I was just uh- had a moment. #had to go the the source. then I stayed for a few episodes.

[dysfunctional-doodle]

Ok ok I’m about to prep for a night out and so I made this really really quick - I’ll continue in the morning but I gotta go so enjoy Mikey byeeeee

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt fanart #tmnt #fanart #fan art #tmnt fanart #rottmnt mikey #digital art #based on a lost episode #turtle tots

[wrensbrainrot]

Listen, I love the Rise movie, I love it so much! But! I would happily let the writers of season 3 pretend that the movie doesn't exists, if it meant we'd get the season 3 that was originally planned! Let us see that slow-burn, let us see Raph and Leo co-leading, let us see Leo slowly growing into his new role as leader and Raph letting go! They could potentially rework this if we do get a season 3 taking place after the movie, but it wouldn't be the same and it wouldn't feel right...

#fuck im so sad at what could of been #so many missing episodes and lost plot beats #i know some scrapped episodes can be reworked #but well never have karai training the boys properly #or april and caseys more involved rivalry #im just so bummed #rottmnt #tmnt #leonardo #raphael #rottmnt movie #save rottmnt #rottmnt season 3 #wrentalkssometimes #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #wrensposts

[tmnt-obsessed-ace]

#tmnt 2012 #rottmnt #crossover #tmnt crossover #having thoughts about The episode Battle Nexus: New York #and Lost But Never Found #not saying shit though lmfao

[tmxnt]

That one part in Hidden City's Most Wanted where Splinter and Draxum are in the demon spawn of a little girl's bedroom and the anti-mystic device shatters Draxum's cloaking brooch so the police officer starts frantically comparing the wanted poster to his pathetic crumpled form on the floor and he just slooowly turns his head away as if that will keep him from being recognized: unparalleled comedy

#I haven't seen the episode in a while so I lost my shit watching it again #this show consistently blind sides me with how funny it is #I should be used to it by now but oh my god I love rise so much #rottmnt

[help-i-need-a-cool-username]

I finally figured out why ive never been a big fan of "Draxum mutated more turtles (2) and the turtles actually have two sisters" idea. Its because they just did the "secret sister" idea in the last iteration of this show (Karai in TMNT 2012).

As much as i like the idea of the turtles having a turtle sister, i think the part im so against is that the parental caretakers of these turtles were Big Mama and Draxum himself, aka villains, when they, AGAIN, literally just did that in the last iteration of this show (Shredder raising Karai in TMNT 2012)

#hinacu tmnt #rottmnt #tmnt 2012 #venus de milo #now the idea that Big Mama's assistant JUST so happens to be their sister who Draxum lost back in the day who just so happened to apply to #this job is something i might be able to get behind #i also feel theyd have to bring Piebald back like you cant make a whole episode of their presumay dead sister getting revenge on them #then never mention her again. and then give the turtles a previously unknown sister. and again not mention Piebald

[lava-bite]

Bursts into your room and shouts GOURD

Based off this post from @unorthodoxx-page I didn’t know this episode concept was a thing but I can’t stop thinking about it

#let the boys be silly #rottmnt #save rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja tutles #rise donnie #rise mikey #rise leo #rise raph #save rottmnt #lost episodes

[danzinora-switch]

Raph and Mikey crash a wedding. It goes... well?

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt raphael #rottmnt michelangelo #rottmnt raph #rottmnt mikey #fanfic #fanfiction #mind over matter verse #mau #writing #the lost episodes of season 2 #wedding crashers #wedding crashers references

[oddly-casual]

Nothing tears me up inside more than the fact that Mikey and Raph used to be best friends when they therm were kids, because younger siblings look up to their older ones and wanna be their friend and do everything with them by nature

And then over time wether it was because Raph was holding down Mikey’s wings or Mikey was just growing up trying to prove his independence or both they ended up with this chasm between them and of course they still love each other but they feel like they aren’t as close as they could be

And yet despite that distance Mikey still thinks of his oldest brother when in a pinch and asks Raph to take Barry to the fair with him bc he knows his older brother wouldn’t say no

Like they were best friends and kids who grew up with a deep sense of family and they still love each other but despite that there’s a distance between them that I’m sure they don’t even realize is still there

#rottmnt #i’m grieving no one speak #save rottmnt #rise raph #rise mikey #rise season 3 #like I know there was going to be an episode on it but we can’t see it yet so I’m floundering over this lost potential #sunset duo just make me cry #it’s the ‘we used to be so close’ trope and I didn’t think I’d see it in rise and it was gonna BE THERE #fanfic writers have always come to my aid

[khlegacynexus]

Remember how one of the lost episodes was meant to feature the mythical creature Baba Yaga?

#rottmnt #save rise of the tmnt #rise of the tmnt #mystic prodigy propaganda #unpause rise of the tmnt #unpause rottmnt #rise of tmnt season 3 #rise of the tmnt comic seasons #rise donnatello #rise april #TMNT Dale #lost episodes #sad

[tinyplanetss]

why are so many rise episodes missing from netflix im so confused

#i looked up the episode list and there is a season two but some of those eps are in s1 and then the rest arent? #and also some in the middle??? #i dont even know where to Start w a watch order since theyre two-story style episode titles #i am so lost #talks #rottmnt #im on like ep 18 but now im like. i hope i didnt miss any somewhere in the middle #dont they have a netflix movie? why wouldnt netflix put the full show they produced a movie for??