“Attack of the Big MACC”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode
Season Code:	3
Episode:	30
Original airdate	October 12, 1989
Written by	Francis Moss
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Season List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes: Beneath the Sewers (aka "Beneath These Streets") Turtles on Trial Attack of the 50-Foot Irma The Maltese Hamster Sky Turtles The Old Switcheroo Burne's Blues The Fifth Turtle Enter the Rat King Turtles at the Earth's Core April's Fool Attack of Big MACC The Ninja Sword of Nowhere 20,000 Leaks Under the City Take Me to Your Leader Four Musketurtles Turtles, Turtles Everywhere Cowabunga Shredhead Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers Camera Bugged Green With Jealousy Return of the Fly Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero Mutagen Monster Corporate Raiders from Dimension X Pizza by the Shred Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady Beware the Lotus Blast from the Past Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp Michaelangelo's Birthday Usagi Yojimbo Case of the Hot Kimono Usagi Come Home The Making of Metalhead Leatherhead Meets the Rat King The Turtle Terminator The Great Boldini The Missing Map The Gang's All Here The Grybyx Mr. Ogg Goes to Town Shredderville Bye Bye Fly The Big Rip-Off The Big Break-In The Big Blow Out 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

Attack of Big MACC is an episode from season 3 (1989) of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Synopsis 3 Trivia 4 Errors 5 Vehicles

Characters Edit

• Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
• Michaelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
• Raphael (Rob Paulsen)
• Donatello (Barry Gordon)
• Splinter (Peter Renaday)
• April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
• Shredder (James Avery)
• Krang (Pat Fraley)
• Bebop (Barry Gordon)
• Rocksteady (Cam Clarke)
• Foot Ninja
• Stone Warriors
• Vernon Fenwick (Peter Renaday)
• Burne Thompson (Pat Fraley)
• MACC (Peter Renaday)
• Library Security Guard (Pat Fraley)
• First Tank Operator (James Avery)
• Hotel Owner (Townsend Coleman)

Synopsis Edit

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles watch April O'Neil on TV when she reports live from an army testing laboratory, on the first public showing of a new "Super Laser". Suddenly, a bolt of lightning from an electrical storm overloads the Super Laser's computer. The electrical storm causes the Super Laser's computer to create a strange light, and out comes a big robot. The soldiers fires at big robot, which is not destroyed. Instead, the robot destroy their weapons. The same thing happens when the scientists try to use the Super Laser to destroy the robot.

Meanwhile in the Technodrome, at this point at the series located in the Earth's core, Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady watch the same report, and Krang sends Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady to the surface with a "Docilator", a device that if attached to the Robot's neck will re-program it.

Back at laboratory, the soldiers are shooting upon the robot, and the robot returns the fire. April is still on air when she is captured by the Robot. The TMNT go to the laboratory to find it. The robot fires upon the TMNT, until Michelangelo uses a trick to convince "peace". The robot is a "thinking robot", and as it sees the inhabitants shooting at each other, it senses that it is on Earth. The robot is named "MACC" ("Mobile-Armored Computerized Combatant"). April asks MACC which year it is, and as it answers 2390, she figures out that MACC is from the future and has travelled through time. MACC hates war and violence. Suddenly, Shredder arrives and captures MACC and places the docilator on MACC, re-programming MACC. But before MACC can destroy the TMNT, MACC rips off the docilator and fires upon Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady, causing them to flee to their nearby transport module. April takes the robot to Channel 6 for an interview.

Back at the Technodrome, Krang has invented a "new and improved Docilator," and Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady go back to the surface to capture MACC. After Aprils TV-interview with MACC and a visit at the local library, the TMNT bring MACC back to their sewer lair to meet Splinter. Donatello believes that MACC's time travel screwed up MACC's circuitry, which can cause MACC to explode. MACC overhears the conversation and, not wishing to hurt his friends, leaves the sewer but only to, once again, be caught by Shredder. Shredder immediately slaps the new docilator on MACC.

At Channel 6, Vernon Fenwick tells Burne Thompson and April that a robot is firing upon a police station. April rushes away to cover the story and warn the TMNT.

The TMNT arrive at the police station when they are attacked by MACC. The TMNT are afraid that the device Shredder planted on MACC is dangerous enough to cause MACC to explode, together with the entire New York City.

The TMNT track by searching the clues left behind by MACC. The clues lead them to the basement of a hotel. After destroying some Foot robots, the TMNT find an empty transport module. The TMNT ride down to the Technodrome in the transport module.

In the Technodrome, MACC prepares to lead an army of his "fellow robots" through the time portal. The TMNT arrive but, but are taken prisoner. Krang tell the TMNT about his plan. But the docilator falls from MACC, and MACC attacks Shredder, Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady and the Stone Warriors by firing upon them. During the course of the firefight, the time portal opens and the TMNT convince MACC to return to his own time, before he "blows up". First, MACC doesn't want to go because of all wars and violence, but the TMNT encourage MACC to become a "warrior for peace" in his own era.

TriviaEdit

• No, despite the title, this episode has nothing to do with a hamburger going berserk.
• MACC seems to be based of the S.A.I.N.T. Robots (Strateigic Artifically Intelligent Nucear Transport) from Short Circuit, and MACC calls a TV Camera Number 5, after the main robot from the film.

ErrorsEdit

• When the Turtles greet MACC, Raphael is seen with his sai daggers on the back of his belt instead of the front.

VehiclesEdit

• Turtlevan
• Transport Modules