How does TMNT survive?
 

In the old toon, tmnt basically lived on pizza and nobody really bothered if four giant turtles walked in to a pizza place and ordered some.

But in the new toon and in the comics, everyone freaks out when they show themselves so what does they eat?
Yes, they could order take away food and solve it like they did in the first movie but where does they get the cash to pay for it?

Has this matter ever been explained or are we supposed to know that mutant turtles live on the air they breathe?

They get food and money from April and Casey.... hehe

But they don't even have jobs. :-?

Dude I don't know.

I've only seen Mikey eat his beloved chips hehe

they find money on the sreet,or they take some money from the badguys

I bet you'd be surprised how much money people drop into grates and on the street and such.

And I'm sure that Casey and April help them out now, but before when they had to fend for themselves, I assume that Splinter (and when they got older, the TMNT) looked through dumpsters to find edibles.

But as far as I know, they've almost never benn up on street level before the start of each series, then, no money from badguys

Is splinter a millionaire maybe? :P

In things change they gave all that money back, so they don't steal it. We only see them on saturdays, maybe they work during the week. :goofygri:

They don't eat much anyway, so I suppose what little money they have, they save; and what food they find they save. Maybe Don makes money from the 'Net, heh. And all the punks they beat up must have something in their wallets, I mean, you wudn't feel too guitly stealing from a crook, lol

You're right about that. They do take money from people they beat up, which is justified in a way. And yet - they'd never show that on TV, because that would be "wrong". Although I think it would be quite hilarious if they did show TMNT reaching into unconscious people's pockets and taking their wallets. But then you'd get all the flustered parents and the rabid PTA, bitching about it.

Yeah but still. The net wasn't exactly around in -84 (not as we know it) and (correct me if I'm wrong) Isn't the new start of each series sort of the first real things they do on surface level? The first movie made that pretty clear and the two toons seems to follow the same example. Sure they could look through the garbage that people throw away but that doesn't seem like something they would do, despite the whole "living in a sewer" deal

It's very simple they find car parts or old radios at the dump and cash them in for so spare change. And there's alot of lost money to find in streets of N.Y.

Royalties from all the merchandise with there face on it.

Peter Laird pays them to use their names in comics and TV.

It's just like in Kevin Smith movies where they pay Jay and Silent Bob.

'Tis how I see it, kinda like Blade.

they break payphones and eat foot soldiers.

:tlol: :tlol: :tlol: :tanime:

Don has a paypal account, duh. :lol:

Don is a scraper on E-Bay!

Well, in the old show the TMNT wore disguises, but the basic problem is still there. How do they get the money to pay the pizzeria?

They find money, every penny counts. maybe once in awhile they'd find a larger bill like the $10 Mikey had in movie 1. Maybe they had like a family money pot, whatever one finds it goes into it for a special dinner treat?
April or Casey may give them a few bucks. They could even order meals and take it down to their home? There's really so many ways they survived.

But before human help,
Probably they foraged trash cans for wasted food, maybe raided grocery store trash bins-they toss out stuff that is still edible but just not fresh.

The don't eat much??? Hell Mikey's got an endless gut! he's always eating...which is pretty accurate with turtles. turtles EAT LIKE PIGS!