Mikey eats his way free, jumps down Pizza Face’s mouth, defeats the villain by eating through him and lets out a glass shattering burp of satisfaction.So there’s a new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in theaters right now. No, not his giant heart, but his iron stomach. Mikey almost gives up hope, but then he remembers the greatest thing about him.
However, Mikey’s bested by Splinter and becomes stuck to the wall by a covering of pizza vomit. He apologizes to Leo and Donnie as he beats them, but, in a very satisfying moment, savors knocking out Raph. Mikey tries to stop Pizza Face and is forced to fight his brothers. The other Turtles and Splinter arrive and because they’re fellow mutants, Pizza Face vomits pizza onto their faces to make them part of his “Elita” Mozzarella Squad.
His “go ninja go ninja go” victory dance is cut short when he discovers people-sized calzones hanging from the ceiling like cattle. Using the same plan from Shaun of the Dead, Mikey limps and moans his way through the zombie crowd to the pizza place. With all the information he needs, Mikey throws the pie in the freezer, leaving the leftovers to the fate of Ice Cream Kitty. Antonio discovered a canister of mutagen and decided to try it as a topping, mutating him into Pizza the Hutt Pizza Face and giving him the craving to eat human-stuffed calzones. The pie squeals on Antonio as Mikey channels Laurence Olivier and rips off some cheese. The scene plays with the tropes and is probably the most fun the episode has Mikey gets to play a gruff, aviator-wearing Jack Bauer type, but instead of torturing a terrorist, the enemy is a talking pizza. Along with the stereotypical tools like pliers and jumper cables he also has a pizza cutter and a brick oven (with the remains of a less cooperative pizza). He straps one to a chair for a classic swinging light bulb interrogation.
The remaining pizza attacks Mikey, but he manages to subdue the flying pies. Mikey escapes back to the lair only to find that the other turtles and Splinter ignored his warning and ordered more of Antonio’s pizza. They do their best Deadite impersonations (the dripping cheese connecting the top and bottom parts of the mouth is straight out of the Necronomicon) and try to convince him to join them, but when Mikey refuses they attack…by having a large man throw a child à la Colossus and Wolverine’s fastball special. To prove his innocence, Mikey tries to go to Antonio’s, but is attacked by zombies being brain controlled through pizzas covering their heads. Mikey tries to explain that the pizza attacked him, but since it’s a Mikey episode, everyone has to doubt him. When the other turtles return, they blame Mikey for ruining dinner again. Mikey fights back, splattering pizza topping all over the living room. The pizza then flies around and attacks him, trying to force Mikey to eat itself. Mikey tells himself not to eat it and receives the reply of “eat me…” from the pizza. The other turtles are busy when Mikey returns to the lair, leaving him alone with the pizza. The other turtles are justifiably disgusted by this abomination and leave Mikey to eat it on his own. Mikey being Mikey, it goes from being a somewhat traditional looking pie to a terrifying 2d animation of a smelly pie that includes a metal can and the hindquarters of a rat, which CANNOT be kosher in Splinter’s household. No pizza places are picking up the phone (how that didn’t cause city-wide panic, I don’t know), so Michelangelo decides to make his own pie. The fun comes from seeing the comic relief character develop and expand as he creates an antidote to a zombie virus, channels his inner Ripley, and stops an invasion of Deadite-esque flying pizzas voiced by John DiMaggio.īut before the Turtles get to that horror, they have a few others to deal with. Because Mikey’s batting average for the bizarre is so low, when he does hit a run, no one believes him. Most of the time these un-baked conspiracy theories are there for comic relief, but in Mikey-centric episodes, the out-there is firmly here and he’s is the only one that knows the truth. Mikey sees the world differently his mind wanders and comes up with ideas so farfetched that even George Noory wouldn’t believe them. Although Michelangelo-centric plots tend to be repetitive, there’s a certain joy from them.