TMNT mentioned on Cheers TV Show
 

I'm a huge fan of the TV sitcom 'Frasier' and Ive just finished watching the entire dvd collection, that I got for Christmas. Now I've started watching the show 'Cheers'.. which is where Frasier came from of course. Being born in 86, I never saw much of Cheers, as I was too young to appreiciate the comedy.

So Im watching this episode called "I'm Getting My Act Together and Sticking it in Your Face" -- youtube link >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWTCDYvhcIQ. And Frasier begins to mention a Charles Dickens novel, which of course, none of the other characters know what he's talking about. So then he mentions four pizza loving turtles that practice martial arts in the sewer! :D Which Cliff replies in the usual boring way that he does... "Y'know, alot of people dont realise, that was a comic book first!"

I couldn't believe my ears, and just had to post this on the forums! :D

Hopefully someone else is a Frasier/Cheers fan, and will smile as much as I did when I heard it :) lol. The quote is at around 6 minutes in to the linked video above.

I did not know that... I do like it when the four mean green get a mention in whatever show or movie I'm watching... It always brings a smile to my face...

-ms

There was also an episode of Married with Children that mentioned the turtles.

I never knew about that either. For more Frasier sightings, look for his crossover on an ep of Wings. Cliff & Norm showed up in an other one.

I also love when I'm watching a show and hear about them. And I totally saw that Married with Children episode a few weeks ago when Kelly teased Bud about having a Ninja Turtle pillow and said something about Donatello. I took offense because I have a Donatello pillow on my bed....

i didn't know this either , that's awesome.

Ha, that was pretty cool. Cliff reminds me of a guy called Ali down my local. Guess every bar/pub's got one!

The TMNT also got mentioned in the last episode of Cheers, but I believe the line got cut out of the DVD release.

Context? I don't recall.

Was checking out The Oatmeal today and seen the Ninja Turtles mentioned in this comic... It's pretty funny...

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/interview_questions

-ms

Does anybody else remember the Married With Children episode with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles model coffin? It looked like a turtle shell!

And I'm sure everybody has seen the Two and a Half Men episode where they play the theme song to the old cartoon...

Never watched that show, but you can still see a picture of it on the InternetArchive of the late, great NinjaTurtlesNetwork.com:
http://web.archive.org/web/200402082.../Misc/Misc.htm

that's cool

Norrrrrrrm!

At the beginning, when they see Diane at the awards show on the TV. The TV announcer says something like, "Coming up next, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!"

"Hey guys, see when I die, bury me in one of these!" :lol:

I remember seeing that when it originally aired. I wonder if they play it in the reruns?

Here's the 2 and a Half Men clip... I could only find it in German!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKSnt2VxzZE

I hadn't seen that before (can't stand that show), but that surely happened because Chuck Lorre, creator of the show, also wrote the TMNT theme song. There's also a blurb that's been at the end of the credits about how he's never received any royalties from the song (and he's quite bitter about it).

Wow! Did he write the Fred Wolf theme or the 4Kids theme?

Also, do you have a screenshot of the blurb at the end of the credits?

Fred Wolf.

The one that the entire world knows. :P

You can probably find a screen shot if you google hard enough.

I believe this is it I found it on his website:

http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php?p=243

remember an ll cool j track where he's dedicates a whole song to breakfast cereal kinda funny! He says he's as a happy as a kid that saw some mutant ninja turtles...

It's called milky cereal

There were a lot of TMNT references on Full house. Uncle joey had TMNT Pajamas and Leonardo slippers, he used their bubble bath once, I recall Michelle saying she wanted to be one, DJ babysat a boy who role-played with her as Krang & threatened to banish her to dimension X, Becky's nephew Howie slept over in his TMNT PJ's and kept Michelle up all night jumping on the bed with a plastic Sai "I'm Leonardo, the mutant ninja turtle!" (No, you're Donatello, with a sai. Who wrote your lines?), etc. Countless nods to the green dudes. I'm a huuuuuuuge fan of Full House, so every time I see one of those scenarios I get a brief flush of giddy excitement. Lame, but it is what it is.

Final Fantasy V GBA version.

Ghido (a very old talking turtle who defeated ExDeath): You think I sat around seven centuries munching on pizza?

I distinctly remember a TMNT drop on Doogie Howser MD. I don't remember the exact dialogue, cause it was only a short scene I saw as a kid and I wasn't a regular viewer, but I remember Doogie's best friend talking to him about art and says something about the great painters Leonardo, Donatello, Michealangelo and Raphael, to which Doogie replys "Those are the Ninja Turtles." Thought that was cool as a kid.

TMNT references in pop culture...
 

...and other random TMNT appearances!

So I was recently rereading American Gods by Neil Gaiman the other day and got to a page which had previously been folded at the corner. Then I came across "...and so he prowled the liquidation aisles, staring at the things for sale: Boxes of coffee 'for use in airline filters only', Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toys and..." Amused me that I would fold that page over only to completely forget about then rediscover it years later.

Then I was watching a movie last night called Four Lions, by Chris Morris. A quick synopses would be that its a black comedy about a group of rather inept jihad terrorists getting into other sorts of bother. At one point they plan to suicide bomb the London marathon. They go as runners in fancy dress, to hide the bombs they have strapped to themselves. One've the costumes is a Raphael.

So I thought to myself (and did a search, apologies if there is one) that it would be neat to start a thread with all these little TMNT mentions, references, bits and bobs, etc listed as we come across them. So feel free to add any that you may or not have seen!

Another very quick scene was in Doctor Who, 11th Doctor series five, episode 'The Lodger'. Very quickly, on a windowsill in the background is a TMNT figure.

Stephen King's The Stand. Complete and Uncut edition. "He (Bobby Terry) sighed and took another book off the stack. The Ninja Turtles were supposed to be 'heroes on a half-shell.' He threw Raphael, Donatello, and their numbf**k buddies across the store and the comic book they inhabited fluttered down in a tent shape on top of a cash register. It was things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he thought, that made you believe the world was maybe just as well off destroyed." :lol: He then picks up a Batman comic, "there was a hero you could at least sort of believe in."

I think someone at the CW channel rather likes Turtles.

Last season they introduced the angel Raphael to the show Supernatural which lead to an entire episode full of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Angel" jokes.

On the Vampire Diaries the two Salvatore brothers were trying to reason out what kind of new supernatural beings were suddenly in there town earlier in the season. The one to snark the other said that maybe they were "Ninja Turtles"

We had this same thread a few months back and it was really fun seeing what people came across.
Anyone able to find it & merge us over? I'm terrible with the forum search bar.

I knew a thread like this must've been started before, I just can't find it! Oh well.

Here's a coupla others. I knew they were there, I just had to find the books.

Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Short story called 'Popsy'.

Neil Gaiman's Sandman. vol 5, A Game Of You. Has reference to a waiter called Raphael on page 46. Probably nothing by itself, but when you read the afterword:

And a wee bit further down:

Mayhap Gaiman had Turtles on the brain whilst hanging out with these guys!

This one's pretty subtle. But as a turtle fan knowing that Chuck Lorre produced this show, it really stood out lol.

Just 2 quick ones;

In the movie Y Tu Mama Tambien, the female lead and one of the male leads (it's been awhile since I saw this movie so bare with me) are catching up after having been apart for years. The female says something to the affect that the last time she saw him, he was mourning the loss of a Ninja Turtle. The male corrects her and says a Thundercat (it actually could be the reverse, but you get the idea).

The other is in Jingle All The Way. During the Christmas parade, there's a dude dressed up as Leonardo in the parade. The costume looked like one of the MGM attraction costumes from the early 90's.

More a cameo than a reference:
In Loaded Weapon, a National Lampoon parody of the Lethal Weapon movies, Emilio Estevez's character is climbing a ladder out of the sewers (if I remember correctly) and comes up on the Turtles playing Trivial Pursuit from Turtles 1, he even answers the question..."War and Peace"... instead of Donnie.

A couple weeks ago there was another TMNT reference in regards to Raphael. A homeless man whitnessed a murder and heard the murderer call out to Raphael to get HER (that still confuses me) attention. The homeless guy explained to the cops "He called out Raphael. You know...like one of the ninja turtles..."

I recall there always being a few TMNT references in Full House. This was always my favorite though lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Si-OqgHkoA

This proves that Uncle Joey IS a child predator all along

yellow dressed reporter in Scream :P