how come tmnt like pizza [Archive] - The Technodrome Forums

Kunoichi_Haruko

03-15-2007, 05:16 AM

I'm thinking it has to do with accessibility. There are plenty of pizza joints in the City; the Turtles would never go hungry. Pie on the other hand... well I don't know how many pies get thrown away, and I'd imagine if the Turtles came across one, it wouldn't be fit to eat (being smashed or mushy, etc).

Also... eating pie all the time might've resulted in some seriously diabetic turtles...:ohwell:

Spawn Guy

03-15-2007, 10:54 AM

Maybe some subconscious association between their Italian names and a food from Italy.

MadPirateBunny

03-15-2007, 10:55 AM

or it could just be that they're teenagers and they can order it without having to go out or make it themselves.

Sewer Bull

03-15-2007, 11:07 AM

Maybe some subconscious association between their Italian names and a food from Italy.

Good they didn't choose spaghetti as their brand food, then.

triplexxx

03-15-2007, 12:15 PM

or it could just be that they're teenagers and they can order it without having to go out or make it themselves.
Actually, they did sometimes make it themselves (hence, all their "unique" recipes) and they also went out; them being teenagers is simply enough reason.

Revan

03-15-2007, 12:16 PM

Was pizza in the original eastman and laird comic? Because my opinion is because it was aimed at children and as a child, I LOVED pizza! Pizza and ice cream are hot with youngsters. Pizza adds to the appeal of the boys.

Buslady

03-15-2007, 01:34 PM

eating all the pizza should have made him turtles with high blood pressure and obsese. They probably ate a salt block's worth of pizza in a year!

Spawn Guy

03-15-2007, 01:40 PM

or it could just be that they're teenagers and they can order it without having to go out or make it themselves.

Mine sounds smarter.

Good they didn't choose spaghetti as their brand food, then.

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Aignatius

03-15-2007, 01:47 PM

In the Mirage story, they didn't eat pizza as a rule. In different stories they ate Chinese food, beef stew, sub sandwiches, pita pocket bread filled with tabouleh, sweet and sour turkey with plenty of veggies... (well, they were planning on eating it but then the Foot broke into their apartment and caught the place on fire)

Rooish

03-15-2007, 01:52 PM

Don't forget sushi! They're Japanese in ancestry; the must eat sushi. :roll:

Buslady

03-15-2007, 02:03 PM

Don't forget sushi! They're Japanese in ancestry; the must eat sushi. :roll:

They are? jee I thought they were Chrysemys Scripta Elegans....Not Maremys Japonica:lol::P:D

sorry couldn't resist....bad me bad me

Rooish

03-15-2007, 02:12 PM

Just out of curiosity, Buslady, how do you know they're Red Ear Sliders? I've never really seen stripes or red ears on the boys ...

And I meant they were of Japanese ancestry by adoption. ;)

Buslady

03-15-2007, 02:19 PM

Just out of curiosity, Buslady, how do you know they're Red Ear Sliders? I've never really seen stripes or red ears on the boys ...

And I meant they were of Japanese ancestry by adoption. ;)

Donnie said he was a red ear slider in one of the Tales issues... :D Really now they're their own species. Chrysemys Scripta Ninjemys hehehe or something silly like that. (Ninjemys is a real name put onto a prehistory horned turtle ancester...they really did name it after TMNT)
Aaannnddd going by the often repeated "Typical Pet Store Turtles" which is the red ear slider, they are.

weredog

03-15-2007, 02:19 PM

eating all the pizza should have made him turtles with high blood pressure and obsese. They probably ate a salt block's worth of pizza in a year!

They get a lot of exercise. Fighting bad guys really melts off the pounds.

Kunoichi_Haruko

03-15-2007, 02:20 PM

Just out of curiosity, Buslady, how do you know they're Red Ear Sliders? I've never really seen stripes or red ears on the boys ...

Don mentions it on page 91 of the Tales of the TMNT Collected Books, Vol. 1.

"I was a red slider once, too... but that was a very long time ago." -- Don.

Haha, Buslady you're right about the blood pressure thing...

And hey, when did they get their hands on tabouleh pita pockets, Aig?

Buslady

03-15-2007, 02:21 PM

hmmm i just realised....them being Scripta they're related toooo MAP TURTLES! ^.^

Okay I will shut up now ..... off to work BYE BYE

Spawn Guy

03-15-2007, 02:22 PM

Online shopping adressed to 1-22 and an 8th.

Rooish

03-15-2007, 03:11 PM

Donnie said he was a red ear slider in one of the Tales issues... :D Really now they're their own species. Chrysemys Scripta Ninjemys hehehe or something silly like that. (Ninjemys is a real name put onto a prehistory horned turtle ancester...they really did name it after TMNT)
Aaannnddd going by the often repeated "Typical Pet Store Turtles" which is the red ear slider, they are.

Woah, I've been told. ;)

Cool that they named a turtle species after our boys, too!

discordiatookie

03-17-2007, 07:27 PM

Online shopping adressed to 1-22 and an 8th.

"Where the heck's 1-22 and an 8th?!"

JohnnyFoxDarko

03-17-2007, 07:37 PM

I know this is ontopic...but offtopic...but...

-everyone loves pizza! :D

Kunoichi_Haruko

03-17-2007, 07:37 PM

"Where the heck's 1-22 and an 8th?!"

"You're standin' on it, dude." :)

Spawn Guy

03-17-2007, 08:01 PM

"Hey! This is a ten! The tabs thirteen!"

Kendamu

03-17-2007, 08:03 PM

"You're two minutes late, dude!"

Spawn Guy

03-17-2007, 08:03 PM

"C'mon, I couldn't find the place!"

Kunoichi_Haruko

03-17-2007, 08:06 PM

"Wise men say, forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."

Spawn Guy

03-17-2007, 08:11 PM

"And I thought I deliver everywhere..."

blue_angel99

03-17-2007, 09:16 PM

In the comics they really liked guzzling beer,( i assume cause no matter where they were, they drank or asked for beer...) of coarse ya can'y put that on a kiddie show so pizza is the next teen fave!

Kendamu

03-17-2007, 09:18 PM

Also, beer and pizza go great together.

blue_angel99

03-17-2007, 10:04 PM

Does it? I guess for me it would have ta be ROOTbeer and pizza.8)

Sage Ninja

03-17-2007, 10:07 PM

In the comics they really liked guzzling beer,( i assume cause no matter where they were, they drank or asked for beer...) of coarse ya can'y put that on a kiddie show so pizza is the next teen fave!

really? That is cool. I can't believe that in the miage comics Splinter let the turtles have alcohol when they where only teenagers. I would have thought that Splinter would be against drunkedness for obvious reasons. Did the turtles drink to the point of drunkness or did they just have a few cold ones just to wash down what they ate?

Kunoichi_Haruko

03-17-2007, 10:12 PM

blue_angel99

03-17-2007, 10:28 PM

really? That is cool. I can't believe that in the miage comics Splinter let the turtles have alcohol when they where only teenagers. I would have thought that Splinter would be against drunkedness for obvious reasons. Did the turtles drink to the point of drunkness or did they just have a few cold ones just to wash down what they ate?

I wondered the same. Splinter never scolded them for drinking (then again when they drank he wasn't around :lol: ) but he does on a couple of occassions ask them to watch their language. My theory is he didn't know. Parents should know better...:roll:

They never drink to the point of being drunk (most of the time cause a fight breaks out and they go into action) except for (ya guessed right)... Raphiel. In the new TMNT comics, A drunk Raph gets ambushed by vampires as he is walking home from an alien bar and is nearly drained of blood. Fortunately, the fugitoid rescues him but the bite transforms him into a huge monster that resemble Gamera Don!

In the older mirage issues, Casey did get wasted once and tried to fight Donny! Of coarse he got his butt kicked!

Spawn Guy

03-17-2007, 10:31 PM

really? That is cool. I can't believe that in the miage comics Splinter let the turtles have alcohol when they where only teenagers. I would have thought that Splinter would be against drunkedness for obvious reasons. Did the turtles drink to the point of drunkness or did they just have a few cold ones just to wash down what they ate?

The firsttime I think they had alchol was during the space arc. They ended up in the bar looking for a way off the planet, and one of them took a sip of something. I think it was Mike. Anyway the results can be seen in one of the Mirage avatars. I think I had that for a while, but then Deadpool conquered all once again.

Anyway, I think that's the one time any of them have been drunk.

Actually tell a lie. There is a back up story where Raph is walking home one night anbsoluetly out of his skull, somehow winds up in a medievil dimension, rescues a princess from being sacrificed, gets knocked unconcious, stripped, trussed up in weird viking gear, then offered up as a replacement sacrfice by the same princess, breaks free, runs for his life, and somehow winds up back in the sewer in front of Leo and Don. After trying to explain where he's been all night, he decides "I guess you had to be there."

And he probably did have a problem with them getting drunk, just not being totally against ocassionaly enjoying one.

blue_angel99

03-17-2007, 10:50 PM

Anyway, I think that's the one time any of them have been drunk.

Actually tell a lie. There is a back up story where Raph is walking home one night anbsoluetly out of his skull, somehow winds up in a medievil dimension, rescues a princess from being sacrificed, gets knocked unconcious, stripped, trussed up in weird viking gear, then offered up as a replacement sacrfice by the same princess, breaks free, runs for his life, and somehow winds up back in the sewer in front of Leo and Don. After trying to explain where he's been all night, he decides "I guess you had to be there."

And he probably did have a problem with them getting drunk, just not being totally against ocassionaly enjoying one.

O yeah! I have that comic book "Shell Shock" .Correction...it was our party dude Mikey who was wasted (The only reason I know cause he's holding his chuck) He is accused of actually attacking and violating a viking princess and is nearly sacrificed in the name of Nexus...but he escapes into a drain pipe and winds up back in the sewer where Don and Leo scold him for being out all night, smellin of beer and attacking them... weird

In the same comic, Splinter helps an alcoholic see the need to get his life in order. He does comment saying," I don't know why people need alcohol.."

Now that I recall, in issue 2 or 3, after Splinter goes missin, April picks them up in her van. After a long car chase, they make it to her place. She asks them if they wanted anyting to drink and Raph is quick to say, "Got any beer?" To my shock she says, "ok thats one beer..." but they all fall asleep from exhaustion before she gets the others orders. What a cool big sister...:o

Sage Ninja

03-17-2007, 11:12 PM

i'm just wondering how the hell the turtles even got ahold of some beer to begin with. I mean i know from personal experience that beer is an aquired taste that you develop over having it a few times. So how exactly was beer even intoduced to them? And even if Splinter did know about them drinking beer, why did he let them have any even if it was just to drink at with their meal, there still just teenagers so I would have thought he would have nipped that in the bud as soon as he found out about it.

Splinter never scolded them for drinking (then again when they drank he wasn't around ) but he does on a couple of occassions ask them to watch their language

oh wow cool sh*t, he has? Are the turtles real potty mouths in the comics? I know that its a bit dumb for me to be so supriced that the turtles guzzel bear and probably cuss, but in every incarnation that i've seen of them the turtles have always been portrayed as these squeaky clean up standing role models that are always moral :roll: So when I hear that they participate in under aged drinking and its alluded to that they get a bit foul mouthed I get all: "really? no sh*t". Have the turtles ever been put in a situation where they have been high as well? Some how mutant turtles high on something sounds like it would be freakin' funny. :lol:

blue_angel99

03-17-2007, 11:25 PM

So when I hear that they participate in under aged drinking and its alluded to that they get a bit foul mouthed I get all: "really? no sh*t". Have the turtles ever been put in a situation where they have been high as well? Some how mutant turtles high on something sounds like it would be freakin' funny. :lol:

In the 4 issue Leonado comic, to help Leo recover from his blindness Splinter gives him a drink called infini-tea. Leo asks him directly if he was giving him drugs but he doesn't answer. Leo drinks it and has visions of him being in feudal japan with a human wife and daughter. he realizes that the reason he hasn't recovered was the guilt he was feeling for killing an innocent homeless man. He discovers the truth that the foot ninja tricked Leo and he didn't kill anyone. he recovers his sight and thanks Splinter.

shellofinsanity

03-18-2007, 12:34 PM

i tihnk its just popular culture in the late 80's and early 90's, everyone ate pizza back then, it also might explain the skateboard and skates they used at times also, they where teenages who did what was popular at the time

Sage Ninja

03-19-2007, 02:36 AM

or why they wore bandannas, since bandannas where a insanely popular during the 80's. Man styles where strange back then, Glad I issed most of the eightes. :ohwell:

Raph's Girl

03-19-2007, 10:05 PM

Did the turtles drink to the point of drunkness or did they just have a few cold ones just to wash down what they ate?

Raph's an alcaholic. In the 1st issue he asked April if he could have a beer (despite being like 15). In volume 4 he was coming from a bar he frequents and was too fraking drunk to fight off some "vampires"...he was bitten which caused the mutagen in his bloodstream to activate and poof became Gameraph.

There was a recent issue of Tales of the TMNT where Raph and Cha Ocho became bar hopping buddies. :lol:

shellofinsanity

03-19-2007, 10:08 PM

or why they wore bandannas, since bandannas where a insanely popular during the 80's. Man styles where strange back then, Glad I issed most of the eightes. :ohwell:

because didnt you know, they are bikers :P

JohnnyFoxDarko

03-19-2007, 10:38 PM

Wow, this is making me wish I had read the comics...
Which, I still can, but can't, because I'm BROKE. :/

Time Mistress

03-19-2007, 11:00 PM

I think Raph went out drinking with Casey a few times in the comics.

Raph's Girl

03-20-2007, 12:08 AM

Donnie said he was a red ear slider in one of the Tales issues... :D Really now they're their own species. Chrysemys Scripta Ninjemys

Close:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjemys

I think Raph went out drinking with Casey a few times in the comics.

Oh yea...there an issue of Tales of the TMNT set right after Splinter's funeral where Casey, Raph and an Utrom (Glurin) got drunk and went on an adventure in an altermate universe where Las Vegas was ruled by these huge bugs. :lol: Apperantly Cranberry juice is like alcahol for Utroms.. Oh and they dragged Donnie along (he was bored)! :lol:

Sage Ninja

03-22-2007, 02:20 PM

Do the turtles use any harsh vulgarity in the Mirage comics or was it more light profanity like Raphael used in the first movie?

Spawn Guy

04-02-2007, 05:27 PM

"Damn" mostly. "Crap" has wondered in there a few times I think. If your looking for the F word, no.

Raph's Girl

04-02-2007, 05:40 PM

I believe I just found out the REAL reason the TMNT like pizza so much.

I am watching a local show and there's this guy talking about all the different types of aphrodesiacs out there. Apperantly in men pizza is an aphrodesiac. Gives a whole new meaning to "Pizza Power" :evilgrin:

Leonardo's_Girl

04-08-2007, 10:59 AM

I guess for them, it's a good energy source, who knows? But, yes, they probably had the idea of it because of kids, and kids like pizza, and kids would be watching the show anyway. Sounds like a good connection source...

weredog

04-08-2007, 11:12 AM

Ninjinister

04-08-2007, 03:35 PM

Pizza is mentioned by one of the Turtles as a baby (presumable Michelangelo), in issue one.

I am watching a local show and there's this guy talking about all the different types of aphrodesiacs out there. Apperantly in men pizza is an aphrodesiac. Gives a whole new meaning to "Pizza Power"

Giggity.

bullet

04-08-2007, 03:45 PM

puaha...giggity. quagmire much?

pizzas...who can not love pizzas really. pizza is something i eat at least once every week. when you're too lazy to cook, a piping hot meal's just a call away. no, seriously. oh and i love cheese :P

Sunshine

04-08-2007, 03:48 PM

Swany

04-08-2007, 05:48 PM

I'd just like to know where they get them delivered to. I mean they live below the subway. How deep is that?

Revan

04-08-2007, 06:18 PM

The fact that they like Pizza doesn't bug me so much as the question of how they get the money to pay for it. I know they have jobs in the new movie, but back in the old toon, where they were all pizza addicts, they didn't seem to have any way of making money to buy said pizza.

People probably drop money into the sewers alot. Either that or they get it free for fighting crime since in the OT, the entire city knew about them. they were on the channel 6 happy hour news all the time and everyone knew the turtles fought crime.:lol:

I remember an episode (can't remember the name) where the boys go shopping for pizza and thwart a hold up in a grocery store. The lady behind the counter then gives them free food for saving the day.

That doesn't seem to be asking too much. Free pizza in exchange for a safer city.

Ninjinister

04-08-2007, 08:12 PM

At least since the uprise of the internet, Donatello can scavenge the sewers for junk parts and whatnot, and sell them on eBay.

Cascadia

04-09-2007, 04:00 PM

Pizza is part of pop culture....it has been around for quite some time.

Coola Yagami

04-09-2007, 09:02 PM

we also have to remember that Splinter was a mutant rat, not a human-turned-rat like the show. Probably not up on pop culture either. So where he's supposed to get the idea that teenagers shouldn't drink? He probably sees it as fine as long as they don't do it in his presence much and get drunk. Most fathers don't raise their sons to be ninjas to avenge their masters' deaths either....

bullet

04-10-2007, 05:55 PM

shouldn't it be apparent to splinter that inebriation is a sign of detriment to health? not that they got drunk, since it's pretty hard to get drunk off beer alone unless you're going by the keg. they only seem to drink beer anyway as far as alcoholic beverages go. except for that once when raph drank some unidentified mix at the bar after the translocation.

what i wonder is where they get the gym equipment. those things are friggin expensive.