How many 80's movie homages did the original cartoon do?
I can think of a few but I wonder if I'm missing any:
1. The Pizza Monsters are based on the Alien franchise. Both the way they look and how their early forms start off small and tiny and then grow huge. 2. Rex-1 was based on Robocop, an obvious reference of a robot police cop. 3. "Rondo In New York" from Season 4 is based on Rambo/Sylvester Stallone. The movie actor who becomes real jumping out of the cinema. 4. There was a king kong parody in the episode with the giant ape and Donatello gets huge to fight him, the ape even carries April up a building. 5. Many of the mobsters in the original cartoon are based on popular gangster or mob movies. 6. In Season 6 the robot terminator who is sent to kill Kerma resembles the Terminator franchise. 7. Maac the robot from the future in Season 3 is also vaguely based on Terminator. 8. The Neutrinos starmobiles might be based on Back to the Future. 9. There was a lot of Star Wars influence in general with the Technodrome being similar to the Death Star, dimension x aliens, the laser guns, etc. Any others? |
King Kong and many of the big mobster movies aren't from the 80s though.
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Also "Gorgonzilla" is based on Godzilla of course. |
The Turtle Terminator is based off the Terminator.
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Come to think of it the Season 2 plant monster was likely based on, "Little pet shop of horrors."
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You don't scare us, we've seen every episode of Stars Trek!
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I think MACC was more based off of Johnny-5 from Short Circuit. Maybe he was a Johnny-5-Terminator hybrid.
Enter: the Fly was based on The Fly starring Jeff Goldblum, although the mutation made more sense in the movie. The episode titles were often a play on a movie name: "Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers", "It Came From Beneath The Sewers", "Attack of the 50-foot Irma", "Four Turtles and a Baby", etc. Sometimes heavy-handed ("Son of Return of the Fly II" title enforcing the idea that it's a sequel of a sequel of a sequel). The writers were definitely movie buffs. |
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That aside, seems like they enjoyed their 50s and 60s B-movies based on the titles of some eps. |
Also in Season 2 when Shredder uploads that all intelligent computer that takes over all the electric systems in the city, that has to be based on some old movie too, right? I mean there are intelligent AI computers in a lot of sci-fi movies, but I wonder if he's based on one in particular.
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Possibly, I've never seen the movie. Also, "Leonardo cuts loose" the episode with the body builders who get super strong which is also a Casey Jones episode are based on Arnold Schwarzeneggar and other 80's body builders.
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I will confirm the Macc as Johnny-5 one. He even had a similar design and pacifist outlook. Even his original "purpose" as a weapon is obviously based on him.
The starmobiles being based on Back to the Future is a stretch. They were just souped up hotrods for alien teens; probably had more in common with the cars in Grease. That said the kid's toy in Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers was an obvious nod to 2001's monolith. |
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Damn, so many movie references. There's more than I realized.
Also I wonder if "Planet of the Turtles," (the Season 4 ep, not the Turtleoid planet), was based on Planet of the Apes. C'mon, an all-Turtle planet with that name? Seemed like a Planet of the Apes reference. |
There was a parody of Freddy Krueger in one episode.
More non-80s references Casey Jones' voice was based on Dirty Harry. I think he even used the famous "you feel lucky punk?" line at one point if memory serves right. Baxter's computer buddy felt reminiscent of Hal from 2001: A space odyssey. |
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