32 Awesome, Righteous, Bossa Nova Facts About the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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32 Awesome, Righteous, Bossa Nova Facts About the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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We didn’t know which iteration of the turtles was your favorite, so we went ahead and snagged a few facts from throughout their entire timeline. From the black and white comic book days to the Michael Bay movies to whichever of the hundreds of TV shows is the most recent, here’s a glowing green vile of facts to mutate your brain into something that kicks some serious butt!

Teenage Monster Ninja Turtles

CHARACTERS TURNING INTO MONSTERS TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES BECOME TEENAGE MONSTER NINJA TURTLES During the ninth and tenth seasons of the original cartoon series, the TMNT would occasionally turn into Giant Hulking Turtle Monsters (GHTM) due to their unstable mutation, before the show was ultimately canceled. CRACKED.COM

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

October on NETFLIX Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze Tokka and Rahzar replaced Bebop and Rocksteady because of potential licensing issues among the filmmakers, the toy distributor, and the animated show. October 1 CRACKED.COM

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Domino’s or Pizza Hut Pies?

So many tie-ins for Ninja Turtles and PIZZA HUT Cowabunga! - Get our radical debut audio cassette, official Concert Tour Guide and autographed poster for - . TEEMAGE MUTANT MIKAI $399 TURTLES PIZZA TOSSIN RAPM with any excellent pizza purchase. A 11200 retail value. - - Real - Pizza - Hut. Makin' in great! - Audio cassettes. VHS concert movies. Mutagen Ranch dressing. PICAL PIZZA Offer CRACKED.COM But don't tell the Hut -- there's a Pizza Tossin' Raph action figure that spews Dominos pies.

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Pizza Monsters in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

TMNT Cartoons' Worst Villains Pizza Monsters TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TMNT Writer #1: What if we TURTLES made the Turtles fight an Alien Xenomorph mixed with the Cheddar Goblin from Mandy? TMNT Writer #2: Well, that'd be weird since Mandy won't be in theaters until 31 years from now. TMNT Writer #1: Screw it, it's almost lunch time. CRACKED.COM

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Their Offensive Toys

In 1992 we saw our fun loving pal Michelangelo turn into an angry mexican stereotype. In an effort to pack even more racism into the Wacky Wild West line, Playmates included Chief Leo. CRACKED.COM

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures

Sharks Movies & TV Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Armaggon took Raphael's eye. In a future story, Armaggon fights alongside the Shredder and Verminator X against the turtles, resulting in Raphael losing his left eye. Meh, Raph looks cooler in an eye patch anyway. LAIRD 1992- CRACKED.COM BOWN

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The British Government Hated Nunchucks

CRACKED.COM Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The UK hated Michelangelo's nunchucks (also, ninjas). The British government was very strict about violence in children's programming, and not keen on the Turtles being trained in assassination and carrying chain sticks. That's why the show was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles overseas.

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Peter Laird Hated The TMNT Cartoon

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Peter Laird hated the cartoon. The Turtles co-creator didn't care for the constant gags, pizza obsession, and goofery of the villains. Given how the original comic was darker and for grown-up audiences, this isn't surprising. CRACKED.COM

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Live Concerts

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES CRACKEDCO The Coming Out of Their Shells Tour' rocked local civic centers with studded turtle-wear and bitchin' keytar

The Costumes Were A Nightmare

The costumes of 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles almost kept it from getting made. THE IMPROVISATION: The producers couldn't get actors to wear the

Leonardo Didn’t Age Well

CRACKED c COM LEONARDO FROM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES IIl DIDN'T AGE VERY WELL. 16 years after the movie came out, a Leonardo costume was discovere

Archie Comics Appearance

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES HUNG OUT WITH ARCHIE. When Veronica gets kidnapped in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Meet Archie comic, the Turtles sho

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32 Awesome, Righteous, Bossa Nova Facts About the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Easter Eggs

2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brings the comic's creators into the Turtles universe. The Art of Ninjutsu handbook that Splinter finds and that e

Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

TSENANGMUTANT NINJA TURTLES Many people complained about the look of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2014. It could have been SO much worse. R

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