General "Did you Know?"s

[gamemaster1991]

Did you know that the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles seires had an entire season lost for years? During the production of the 5th season, the team was working on a 13 episode arc called the Ninja Tribunal arc. 4kids (best show idea workers since the guys who canceled Firefly) wanted to increase interest in the series and bumped Fast Forward to the 5th season spot. After the scheduling change was made, Mirage and its partners decided to finish the shelved season to release on DVD as "The Lost Episodes." 4Kids later made an agreement with Comcast in 2006 to show the lost episodes on demand, but Comcast only aired the first 5. 4Kids even canceled the release of the Lost Episodes DVD. They later aired the season in Feb 2008 and released the DVD on May 2008.

Even though the season was relesed to the public, one episode (Nightmares Recycled) was never finished. It was to be the last appearance of the Garbageman and would have Hun battle him, reviling that they were conjoined twins that were surgically separated by a back-alley surgeon with the Garbageman being discarded as 'garbage.' The episode was seen as really dark and controversial for a children's show and was shelved in the early stages of production.

Here are some production notes from Peter Larird:
February 11, 2005: comments Ep. 110 ("Nightmares Recycled") first draft
February 26, 2005: comments on Ep. 110 ("Nightmares Recycled") third draft