Little Reminders
 

Is there anything in your daily life that brings TMNT to mind in some way? Something a bit less general than eating pizza for dinner.

I'll give you an example of mine, my back deck has this one particular board, when you step on it, the thing flies into the air just like in Shell & Crossbones from Turtles In Time. Any time I mistakenly step on the spot where it's triggered, I have a laugh as I think about that level. :trazz:

I always end up being indirectly reminded of TMNT throughout the day. I know a kid in my school named Leonardo, so there's that.

I used to have a coworker named Rafael and his voice sounded a lot like the Raphael in the 2003 TMNT cartoon so he reminds me of him.

My second son's name is Michael, he is called Mikey for short, he even has Michelangelo's personality

Yeah, usually when my mom says something profound or wise, I tell her, "You sound just like Splinter." I told her the other day when Dad was being nasty that she should carry a cane like Splinter and whack him with it whenever he gets out of line.

Well, October is pizza month, so I'll be thinking of them even more! Whenever someone uses techno in a sentence, I always think of the technodrome. I have a cane, so I think of Splinter quite a bit when using it. I think of the 87 show when someone brings up rutabagas. I'll have to come back to this.

My turtle tank is in the bathroom, so they of course remind me of the TMNT. Especially now that I have four turtles (funnily enough none of them are named after The Turtles). There's also a lot of concrete mini tunnels where water can run under roads which reminds me of Ninja Turtles, I walk past a couple of them when walking my dog.

Not sure if this counts, but most days my wife or I will say to each other "That okay witch' you!?" Like Raph from the first movie. Example: "I was going to make spaghetti for dinner, that okay witch' you?" Then the other one has to reply "Yeah" and then somebody says "Sock it to me baby!"

i play card games, so when there's something that reminds of TMNT...

i find it super fun

http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/T.G._Rush_Rhino


I also play a Ninja Deck in yu-gi-oh, that involves transforming into like a dragon (a la season 5).

http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ninjits...Transformation

Usually, when I step on a manhole cover, I think of the TMNT being there underground.

Every once in a while I'll see a combination of two of their colors like orange and blue and think "Mikey and Leo".

I used to go to an allergist in elementary school, he was a Rafael/Raphael too. I don't remember his last name, I was so in awe that he shared the name of a TMNT that I just called him Dr. Raphael, which he was fine with. :trazz:

Hell yeah, I'm always mindlessly quoting stuff too, especially Raph from film 1. Like when I finish something tasty "I do hope there's more a'dem! Ah, GOOD." There are so many good lines in there that keep coming back to me, but I reference pretty much every version at one point or another. It's hard not to.

I can't tell you how many times I called out to them through storm drains in my youth. I lived in NY, I thought I had a good chance of getting a reply! :tlol: I remember after seeing the first film, I was convinced they were real.

I see TMNT-related stuff at least two or three times a week when I go to the store, and certain songs always make me think of one(or more) of them. My hubby also does a lot of "cartoon voices" in casual conversations, and recently started adding the little "mahp mahp" thing from that creature in Dimension X from the Nick series to his repertoire. He also imitates Krang and sometimes Bebop from the OT as well, too, so there's that.

At my grandmother's house there is a drain and opening to the sewer system in her area. I always want to go in there and look for turtles
Been doing that since I was little

I think we at one point had a thread asking if anyone's ever been in the sewer. :tlol:

I actually have, & some of them can be pretty damn rad, if you're into urban exploring, anyway. I wanna do one of the sewer system tours they offer in NYC, some of the areas they show off are a lot like the secondary home from 4kids, & the train station home from SOTO is based on a real one that looks just like it.

Ive explored drain pipes and such in my area. There is a bridge over a small creek on my daily route that is really cool. It is all brick underneath the road and has a kind of "dungeon entrance" look to it. It it big enough to walk undar too. Ive done things like that in other places too, like around spillways and pipes for drainage tunnels in my hometown where I grew up.

When I play Mario games or look at artwork of Mario characters, koopas particularly, I can't help but think of a possible crossover story involving the Turtles and them.

I'm a teacher and one of my students this year has the first name Michael and his middle name is Angelo :tlol:

What age is this kid? Elementary school, I assume?

Never had an urge to go to nyc til now
Sewer tour here I come
I hope they are tolerant of my questioning of where the real lair is

Incredibly rad

Speaking of which, the location of the Turtles' third lair in the 4Kids series is based off of Belvedere Castle in Central Park. Michele Ivy wrote a neat article about it. There is even a Turtle pond!

A new manager at work has, at morning meeting, taken to occasionally referring to the still-somewhat-new store manager our "fearless leader." Said it again this morning and the guy was appropriately wearing a Leo shade of blue polo this time. Heh.

My wife's name is Angela Michelle, which is kinda a female and flipped version of the above.

Back in 2010 I was in a production of "A Chorus Line", playing the role of Mike. During my song/dance number ("I Can Do That"), the receiver pack to my body mic flew out from my costume and started swinging around with me as I was doing turns, causing the other characters on stage to back away from me so that they wouldn't get taken out.

After I had found out what had happened (I didn't even realize it at the time), I immediately thought of Michelangelo knocking out the robbers with the yo-yo from Secret of the Ooze, specifically the "Around the world!" *bonk-bonk-bonk!* part. :tlol:

Does it count if my password at work that I use to login to various stuff is Turtles related? Though it has to be reset ever few months, but I keep making a new Turtles one.

An old classmate said 87 Raphael was his favourite ninja turtle, as he saw a bit of himself in him at times. Looking back at school, he did sound a bit like him.

Every time I cut up a 6-pack soda holder before tossing it... just because of that old "Turtle Tips" PSA.

I use the name Mikey sometimes and it's also the name of one of my characters, so I think of Michelangelo when it's used, he's always been a favourite of mine.

I also sometimes like to do voice impressions of bebop, rocksteady, krang and shredder, so that's another reminder of tmnt in my life.

There was a storm warning weather post recently where part of the diagram looked like a ninja turtle face, so a lot of my pals ended up sending me the photo of it,

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FX4dc4-U...g&name=900x900

Hah, funny... it's an honor to have been part of the Great Weather Ninja's left cheek. lol

in the social media post for the great weather ninja :tsmile: some people were responding with edits, so I made my edit into Michelangelo's face, because the great weather ninja's expression reminded me of the ninja turtle ice cream pops

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FX9ov_VX...png&name=small