I had an epiphany today that took me back many years to my childhood. The teenage mutant ninja turtles were awesome, besides being a great cartoon, they also had a great line of toys, a video game for the old school Nintendo system (which I could never get past the level where you drive the turtle van around the city), and there were the live action movies.
A quick aside about the movies, I’ve not seen the recent computer generated version, but for my money it doesn’t get much better than the original movie and the sequel TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze. There were others made (i.e.: Turtles in Time, etc) but these movies suffered the same fate as the later movies of the Batman franchise (basically any movie that didn’t have Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne). So the later movies sucked, but let’s face it: Live Action Turtle Movie = Quality Entertainment.
Back to the issue at hand…It would be fair to say that I really like these cartoons, toys, and movies, but only today did I realize a critical flaw in the turtle mythology. Well, perhaps it has nothing to do with the mythology at all and rather their clever jingle. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Heroes in a half shell…Turtle Power.” The problem is that they don’t have a half shell. They have a full shell. There is the hard green domed shaped side of the shell on the back and the yellow flatter shaped side of the shell on the front. No half shell. Why have we’ve been cheated for all these years out of half a shell? We deserve the full shell…not a half one.
6 comments:
thanks for a few good laughs...they were much needed as I am in the midst of the flu-namie
Sarah,
Hope you all get feeling better. This stomach flu is brutal.
Do you think that turtles ever got sick; I mean come on, all that pizza must have turned their stomach once in a while.
but it screws up the jingle... "heroes in a... shell. turtle power?"
i can't believe you wrote an entire blog entry about teenage mutant ninja turtles...
brooke
Perhaps the "half-shell" wasn't so much an issue of form but of function. Surely the capacity of the shells of the turtles couldn't contain their whole bodies. If you see a real turtle (not saying the TMNT aren't real) they're shell is much larger in comparison with their appendages thus being able to contain the whole turtle. With the TMNT their shells might be able to contain only 1/2 their bodies. It is a thought to consider. Perhaps it wasn't a lie, but an issue of perspective.
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