Man VS. Sewer

**"Man VS. Sewer"** is the thirty-seventh episode (Episode 21A) of *Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*. It first aired on October 19th, 2019.

## Characters

* Donatello (Josh Brener)
* Leonardo (Ben Schwartz)
* Michelangelo (Brandon Mychal Smith)
* Raphael (Omar Benson Miller)
* Sando Brothers
	+ Ben (Paul Scheer)
	+ Carl (Jason Mantzoukas)

## Plot

The turtles meet in the sewer to go tubing. Raphael is anxious because he is first to arrive and the others are late. Leonardo, Donatello and Michelangelo arrive shortly to see him panicing, and Leo comments on how he's only been on his own for five minutes. He says Donatello should have called him, but Donatello just says that he's 'on vacation' and doesn't feel obliged to be useful in any way.

Still, they brought colored tubes, and Raphael took a tire off the Turtle Tank. After Mikey shouts a little sense into Raph as 'Dr. Delicate Touch', Donatello advises his brothers to always take a left turn to stay on the lazy river. While doing their "Midnight Pass" play with Lace Face the football, Raphael and his brothers become separated when Raphael accidentally takes a right turn leaping for the ball.

Leonardo tells Michelangelo and Donatello that they need to find Raphael immediately, because he becomes savage when he is alone. Donatello dryly reminds Leonardo that he is on vacation, but agrees that they should look for Raphael.

Meanwhile, Raphael has lost Lace Face and and his tube Tire. He panics and causes some damage to the sewer. From above, the Sando brothers Ben and Carl see Raphael walking through the sewers along and decide to scare him out of his shell and eat him. They disguise themselves as sewer monsters and tell Raphael he will live forever in their bellies, alone. Raphael can't handle the idea of being alone forever, and turns into Savage Raph. Savage Raph attacks the Sando brothers and chases them through the sewer.

Meanwhile, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo are looking for Raphael. They find Raph's tire that was below. Leo Donnie asks Leo if he could jump first but Leo knew it was a bad idea. Mikey tells that they can't freak out. However, the bridge begisn to collapse and they fall into a pit of sludge. Then they find Raph alone. Savage Raph is barbecuing the Sando brothers on a ledge beside the pit. He mistakes his brothers for more sludge monsters and attacks. At Leonardo's suggestion, Michelangelo tricks Savage Raph into opening a flood gate, which washes the sludge (and the Sando Brothers) away. However, Savage Raph still believes his brothers are sewer monsters. Then Leonardo finds Lace Face. Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Donatello start the "Midnight Pass", play, and Savage Raph leaps to catch the ball, turning back into Raphael.

Raph asks if he got weird again, to which Mikey confirms that he did. The four of them decide to go home and try tubing again tomorrow. The last scene shows Donnie going to the garage, where he discovers that Raph has taken the Turtle Tank's three remaining tires. Infuriated, he shouts Raph's name, and the episode ends.

## Trivia

* The title of the episode is a nod to Discovery Channel's *Man vs. Wild*.
* This episode, along with "The Mutant Menace", was leaked early online.
* This episode marks the final appearance of Ben Sando and of the Sando Brothers as a duo. Carl Sando's final appearance would be in "Battle Nexus: New York".
* Donnie's fourth-wall-breaking joke about Leo "sell[ing] the least action figures" is a nod to Leo traditionally being the least popular Turtle in the *TMNT* franchise, despite his position on the team.
* The irrational fear of being alone is called "Isolophobia", but is also known as "Eremophobia", "Monophobia", and "Autophobia".

## Transcript

* Man VS. Sewer/Transcript

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