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03-08-2017, 06:06 PM | #1 |
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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? |
03-08-2017, 06:09 PM | #2 |
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King Kong and many of the big mobster movies aren't from the 80s though.
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03-08-2017, 06:09 PM | #3 |
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03-08-2017, 06:29 PM | #4 |
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The Turtle Terminator is based off the Terminator.
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03-08-2017, 06:32 PM | #5 |
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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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03-08-2017, 07:54 PM | #6 |
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I don't recall a 1980's King Kong remake though. There was the 2 King Kong films in 1933. Than he dukes it out with Godzilla and has a island escape movie in the 1960's. Than the 1970's remake. After that, we had to wait until 2005 for Peter Jackson to put his print on the film.
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03-08-2017, 11:01 PM | #8 |
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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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Yeah the writers grew up with 50's B-movies so when creating episodes they took from old movies. I thought they did a good job there although the immediate difference between how sci-fi is presented between the FW show and Mirage is FW was based on classical sci-fi while Mirage was based on cyberpunk. Quote:
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That aside, seems like they enjoyed their 50s and 60s B-movies based on the titles of some eps. |
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03-09-2017, 02:36 PM | #11 |
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Only 3 to my knowledge. The original from the 1930s, the 1976 one, and that one with Jack Black. At the time, only the first two would've been out.
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As for others, can't think of any off hand. But I like how AVGN did his TMNT review where he discusses the original toon, and says how a lot of the titles were based off of old 50s/60s B sci-fis. Skip ahead to 8:06 - EDIT: Now that I've rewatched this review, another 80s reference would be Freddy Kruger.
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It came out before Last Action Hero. I just remembered the "Creepy Eddie" one that others mentioned as a Freddy Krueger reference, as well. Incredible Shrinking Turtles was also one, I believe. Or Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo. Both probably nods to Fantastic Journey or other movies from the 50's-70's with people getting shrunk down.
And Baxter's computer "pal" probably WAS based on HAL. What about the Starchild? I seem to remember thinking he was based on something else, but I can't pinpoint it.
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I think April's aunt Agatha was based on Jessica Fletcher.
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03-16-2017, 02:15 PM | #20 |
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They are also 80's franchsies because many of their sequels are during that era.
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