Enter the Fly Review

Episode twelve of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series was entitled Enter the Fly. In this episode, Baxter Stockman has outlived his usefulness to the Shredder and turns right into a hideous mutant fly in an experiment that tries to kill him. Stockman vowed to get revenge.. This episode first aired in syndication on November 12th 1988.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Episode 12 Enter: The Fly Review. 
 

Enter the Fly with a scene that would be cut out should it have aired today. Our two villains, Shredder and Baxter Stockman, worked at the World Trade Center Building. Their objective was an experiment but the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles popped up and botched everything. Shredder and Baxter managed to get away. 

Shredder is incensed at Stockman's bumbling. So much so he's desperate enough to ask for Bebop and Rocksteady back. Desperate times often call for desperate measures. Krang agreed to send the two goons back in exchange for a body to make the transference stable. Stockman was elected and sent through the portal. 

Stockman pled for his life. Krang was rather cold. Then he dragged off Stockman to his fate where he was to be disintegrated alive. The TMNT was rather darker in the first couple of season. Not as dark as the Mirage Comic books which predated them, but it was still rather dark and grim. Stockman is dragged off as Krang plotted his demise. 

Before this sadistic action could occur, a fly joined Stockman. As those who watched the Horror Movie called the Fly know, this lead to a cross mutation of human and fly DNA. Baxter Stockman assumed his more common form for this cartoon, that of a giant mutant fly. He stormed out of the Technodrome and returned to Earth. Brutal and disturbing scene there, as Stockman's mutation was one of the more messed up fates in this show. Stockman would continue to get it throughout the show. 

April received a plant. She thought it was for the Turtles. She's kind of trustworthy for a news reporter. Splinter recognized the plant right away and threw it. Not before the damage is done and April blacked out. She hovered a inch from death from this Doku Plant. Splinter told the Turtles the only antidote can be gathered from the Gazai Plan. 

Coincidental enough, the only Gazai Plan in the Western Hemisphere is in the city. Raphael was the one that found the Plant Nusery, I found that rather amusing. Leonardo made a cents joke and the Turtles encountered the fly. Which confused them and who would not be confused in a fly attacked them.

Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady continue their plants but encountered Baxter the Fly. Baxter attacked them but Shredder managed to convince Stockman that they're on the same side. Stockman's brain has already been burned to mush. Then again he was an absent minded scientist a bit to begin with. By his final appearance in Season Seven, he will have really went past the point of no return with intelligence.

Stockman had one last invention, the Knucklehead. It was the perfect weapon and also another toy for Playmates to pawn on us. The Turtles battle Shredder, Bebop, Rocksteady, and Stockman. In the battle, the Gazai Plant flew right into the hands of Shredder. Later, Shredder challenged the Turtles to a four on four fight. He claimed the fight will be fair, but everyone who watched this knew this would not be on the level.

Nefarious plans are in the works. There was a laser device that would zap the Turtles a half of second out of time and render them out of sync. Bebop, Rocksteady, Shredder, and Stockman do battle but Splinter showed up in the Turtle Van. He can wield lasers and drive. A rat of many talents was Master Splinter.

Stockman got blasted right out of sync with the rest of time. The villains beat a hasty retreat. An intense ending to the episode and naturally, April is cured at the end. So all is well in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as the day is saved. 

Enter the Fly merited a 8/10 rating. This episode can be legally watched on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 2 DVD.