TMNT References/Easter Eggs in Pop Culture

[gobo]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

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

Fred Wolf.

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

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?

The one that the entire world knows.

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

[tone-master21]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

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

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

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #243

Trying to get a break as a song writer I find out where Harry Nilsson lives and bring him a box of reel-to-reel tapes of my original songs. He threatens to kill me if I ever come to his house again.

Not funny then, funny now.

While working at Marvel Animation I'm told I don't have what it takes to write for the Muppet Babies. Sadly, it's true.

Not funny then, funny now.

Write French Kissin' in the USA which is covered by Debbie Harry and released as the first single for her debut solo album. It effectively ends her solo career.

Not funny then, funny now.

Co-write theme song for new animated series called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The show is a massive international success. The music publisher tells my partner and I that we will not be paid music royalties for the millions of video games and video cassettes being sold. The reason we are given is that they'd rather not pay us.

Not funny then, still not funny.

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

[masterturk]

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

[Powder]

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.

[Avatar Yuffie]

Final Fantasy V GBA version.

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

[Fugitoid Jones]

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.

[discordiatookie]

...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." He then picks up a Batman comic, "there was a hero you could at least sort of believe in."

[FearlessLeader]

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"

[ssjup81]

How about the Samurai Slugs from Tiny Toons.

[Powder]

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.

[ChetTurtle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7IXiXxENEA

[discordiatookie]

Originally Posted by Powder

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'.

'We came to the mall because my grandson wanted some Ninja Turtle figures,' Popsy whispered, and his breath was like flyblown meat. 'The ones they show on TV. All the children want them. You should have left him alone. you should have left us alone.'

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:

Kevin Eastman gave me somewhere to hide while I was writing part of the story...

And a wee bit further down:

Steve Bissette, Mike Zulli (who was there the day the story began), Rick Veitch and the rest of the Massachusetts mafia gave me support and encouragement.

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

[ToTheNines]

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

[Fugitoid Jones]

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.

[Jester]

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.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader

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.

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..."

[Ashangelo]

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

[Sword Slicin' Leo]

This proves that Uncle Joey IS a child predator all along

[Candy Kappa]

yellow dressed reporter in Scream