TMNT in TV Guide!

[Roseangelo]

Hey, go out and buy the new TV Guide with Spongebob on the cover and find this inside:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Those Renaissance amphibians - Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello - are back.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which ruled the Saturday-morning airwaves a decade ago, is returning with a slightly harder shell.

The basic premise of the show is unchanged: four very large, very nimble martial-arts warriors live in the sewer system beneath the city. They answer to their sensei, as wise old rat named Splinter. And their arch-enemy is the evil ninja master Shredder.

But TMNT has dropped its old motto: Heroes on the half shell. And the boys are no longer quite as addicted to pizza. The biggest change, though, is a concerted focus on suspense and action. It's like the old show on steroids: gaining muscle mass and losing its sense of humor. The banter between the four isn't as chippy or funny as it used to be. Instead, the cartoon's tint is darker, the villains scarier, and the hardware more impressive. There's no question this is a more exciting series, but I still miss the goofy original. Action heroes are a dime a dozen. But jolly greensters are hard to find.

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Overall not a bad writeup .. although it's too bad this guy is missing all of the great humor.