Your top moments of the TMNT behaving like Teenagers.

[IndigoErth]

Well, if we want to nitpick, they were initially just called Ninja Turtles, by Eastman, before "teenage" or "mutant" were added by Laird. I mean, okay, it all happened in the span of one evening, but it could technically be argued, if anyone really wanted to, that they were purely Ninja Turtles first before being stuck as teens forever?

I mean the account of how they came up with it really was just a joke and not with any serious intention to start with, including them being teens.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05...lls-for-71700/

“Late in November 1983, Peter Laird and I were sharing a studio (our living room) in Dover, New Hampshire. One work night, in an effort to make Peter laugh, I drew a sketch of this character I called a “Ninja Turtle” and threw it onto Peter’s desk. He did laugh, and did a version of his own — to which I needed to take it one step further, and did a pencil sketch of four different Turtles, each holding a different weapon — and gave it to Peter, who wanted to ink it in — and when he did, he added “Teenage Mutant” to the “Ninja Turtle” part of the logo, and we both fell off our chairs!”