• BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      13 days ago

      If you saw what looked like a giant ninja mask wearing anthropomorphic turtle stuffed into a trench coat, are you going to say anything?

      The disguise is just a courtesy to let the average human have plausible deniability.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        32·
        13 days ago

        Didn’t April also put them on the news all the time, calling them turtles? 🤔 I think the humans just didn’t care. Why would they? The turtles weren’t the ones robbing stores and beating up random people or throwing the city into Dimension X every week. That was, in fact, a human and a giant sentient brain.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
        9·
        13 days ago

        It’s New York, they could easily go pretty much anywhere without being clocked as anything weird.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          13 days ago

          Isnt there a dude in New York who just runs around wearing a rat mask? I feel like the turtles are slightly more normal, also Vermin Supreme is close enough that at any given time he could theoretically be in New York.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            5·
            13 days ago

            Vermin Supreme is close enough that at any given time he could theoretically be in New York.

            I don’t know whether you’re trying to scare New Yorkers or pique the interest of Schrödinger groupies 🤔

            • JasonDJ
              2·
              12 days ago

              So are the Turtles.

              In fact, the trench coat is the most clothes they usually wear. Just running around with their cloaca flapping in the breeze.

              Fun fact…did you know normal (as in, non-human sized mutant) turtle penises can be as large as 30cm? Could you imagine four nude, teenage, human-sized turtles running around Manhattan with a footlong dick flailing around?

              Probably much larger since the rest of their bodies scale up, and, as teenagers, they are at the peak of their virility.

    • superduperpirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      Not sure if that’s better, worse, or equally mediocre compared to Laszlo Cravensworth turning into Jackie Daytona with a simple toothpick.

      • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
        5·
        13 days ago

        Wait, Jackie Daytona was Laszlo!? I was wondering where he went during that episode. The character just dropped his plot line. It was weird.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    37·
    13 days ago

    Well, the Ninja Turtles were originally an unsubtle Daredevil parody…

    (Is “parody” the right word? I think they were part parody and part homage.)

    • kronisk @lemmy.world
      55·
      13 days ago

      That’s why it’s the “foot” clan. The ninjas in Daredevil were called The Hand.

      Edit: and I just remembered, it’s Master Splinter because “Stick” was Daredevil’s sensei.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        24·
        13 days ago

        They were also mutated by the same ooze as Daredevil, iirc he fell in it and it blinded him, then dripped from there into the sewer and on Splinter and the Turtles.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      14·
      13 days ago

      It was also super violent, so I will forever remain surprised that it became a kids thing.

      But then Nickelodeon decided to give the guy who made the comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac a show and we got Invader Zim, so weirder things have happened.

      • JasonDJ
        3·
        12 days ago

        Patrick Stump (of Fallout Boy, the band that sang “the ribbon on her wrist says do not open before Christmas”) sings the theme song to “Spidey and his Amazing Friends” and “Hot Wheels: Let’s race”. And both those songs kick ass.

        And I must say that the Panic! and Weezer covers on the Frozen 2 OST also kick ass.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    32·
    13 days ago

    What human would like to fly in a Zeppelin looking like a human body part?

    Edit: Ok, makes sense:

    • simple@lemm.ee
      294·
      13 days ago

      Lemmy user try not to bring up capitalism in every thread challenge (LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE!!!)

        • kalleboo@lemmy.world
          8·
          12 days ago

          That marketing copy is just amazing.

          First of all, acknowledging that the blimp is “incredibly wacky”

          Then trying to sell the fact that it doesn’t float, mount or have any powered features as “Just you and good clean fun!”

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
          4·
          13 days ago

          I wanted the Technodrome so bad…

          But this unlocked a memory of my very early 20s. We were having a party at my apartment and somebody got a big TMNT doll out. Like a foot long, don’t remember which turtle. We tied it to a hook in the ceiling of the 2nd floor porch and strapped a bunch of fireworks to it including several rockets duct taped to the back of his shell. My roommate set it off while there were at least 15 people on that porch. Fucking hilarious, it spun around crazy fast exploding shit everywhere.

          Kids- we are lucky nobody got hurt blah blah blah

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        6·
        13 days ago

        So, you’re not wrong, but… these shows were literally designed to sell the toys. They were basically half-hour commercials.

        G.I. Joe, TMNT, Transformers, X-Men, He-Man, Power Rangers, My Little Pony… they were all built on the same model (hey kids! whine at your parents until they buy our plastic dolls action figures!).

          • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
            5·
            12 days ago

            There is an excellent documentary series on Netflix called The Toys That Made Us which covers a lot of these. The Star Wars episode was very interesting, it gives you a look at the wheeler-dealer moneymaking side of the franchise (and some of the early toys are hilariously bad).

            Some of it is kind of cool, and produced some genuinely enjoyable cultural icons… but also a lot of it was very manipulative, and you end up realizing how much of this cultural period was manufactured, packaged and sold to us through TV.