Random Turtle Facts!
 

The title says it all: Post a random Turtle fact!

This fact comes from a "well duh" place. I've never been able to pronounce the last name of the guy who does Leo's voice for the 2k3 series, but the other day I was looking at Raph/Rutger's autographs and noticed that he asked "Do you know what my last name means?" and I remember thinking, what a silly question...of course not. Then, as part of my "research" for a project oldmanwinters and I are working on, I was watching the first season of the 2k3 series and I took the time to actually read his name...Michael Sinterniklaas... Sinter Niklaas....Saint Nicolas. Dude's last name is Santa Claus!!

EDIT: Other odd tidbit, his zodiac sign....Leo!

Barry Gordon, voice of Donatello in the 1987 TMNT cartoon, recorded the original version of (I'm Gettin') Nuttin' for Christmas when he was 7 years old. It reached #6 on the charts.

Sing it Donnie!

*claps* Jester, this is brilliant! :D Can't wait to see what else you dig up.

Patti Howeth contributed NOTHING to the TMNT cartoons, despite her writer's credit on the first six episodes!

Six? She gets a credit on Return of the Shredder too?
EDIT: Well I'll be dipped. IMDB is your friend. She also has credits on Chip and Dale, as a one off voice.

IIRC, she helped come up with the inital story outlines for those first few episodes with her then-husband David Wise.

In 1999, Cam Clarke, Leonardo from the OT, released Inside Out, a romantic / adult contemporary cover album. It had a peculiar twist: Clarke subtly modified certain lyrics to sing under his own perspective as a gay man.

So I pulled this almost directly from Wikipedia...so what!!
Here's the IMBD post:

In 1999, (Cam Clarke) released his album "Inside Out." The album contains various love songs by various artists including James Taylor and Carly Simon reworked and performed in gay perspective.

Roger Ebert was at one point addicted to the TMNT video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It also seems to have colored his review of the films, but that's opinion more than fact.

In the original movie, you can sooo see some sort of wire sticking out of Leonardo's costume when he romps over the Turtles game-board! You know, the part where he's like "I don't think...I know!"

Most awesome celebrity admission ever!

In 1989, Cam Clarke voiced a character named Beebop on "The California Raisins Show".

California Raisins! I remember them! Haha

Actor Sam Rockwell never had a scene with any of the Ninja Turtles in the original movie.

Heck, I forgot Rockwell was even in TMNT. "Check out the east warehouse on Lairdman island." Wasn't there supposed to be a scene in the movie where he gets slashed by Saki...it's supposedly why he's holding his arm during the scene where Shredder "knights" new Foot soldiers

Turtles lack opposable thumbs.






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*looks at which forum this is in, then reads the other posts in the thread*

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Oh! Despite my recollections, Mikey's name was never misspelled on-screen in the original 'toon except for the title of the ep, "MICHALANGELO, THE SACRED TURTLE".

Raphael - Raphael wears the red bandana and is the darkest of the four turtles. He can be short-tempered and anti-social and loves rap and punk music.

The four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are all named after famous Renaissance artists. Michaelangelo should have been spelled "Michelangelo" but neither of the writers had a spell checker when they first created the comic.

For some reason I laughed.

The strange substance that gave the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles their special powers is supposed to be the same substance that gave the superhero, Daredevil, his special powers.

source = http://www.kidzworld.com/article/561...-tv-show-facts

Edit:
The name "Splinter" is a parody on Daredevil's mentor, a man known as "Stick." The Foot, a clan of evil ninja who became the Turtles' arch-enemies, is a parody of the Hand, who were themselves a mysterious and deadly ninja clan in the pages of Daredevil.

Mirage Raphael keeps a teddy bear when he sleeps. Which is kinda weird because OT Raphael sleeps with his weapons.

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Huh.

I like the irony in that you just said.

Krang was banished from Dimension X for war crimes and he lost his body in the transfer to earth , leaving him as a brain with a face.