Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

But predates toy story.

Um, and then probably his biggest commercial success was he was the producer of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 87 through to 96.

Um, And just for JP, he also produced the animated series James Bond Jr. Fabulous.

Yeah.

That's absolutely right.

And it was kind of funny because I could only compare it to like the live action like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, right? Which like Toxic Crusaders was kind of like a ripoff of, I say ripoff in quotes, like to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the cartoon, and then like...

You know, ultimately, I imagine, oh, because it's live action, it's not for kids as much.

Like, surely there's some things that they're going to take artistic liberties with.

I probably butchered that, but there we go.

He's also Liquid Snake in Metal Gear Solid, and he's Leonardo in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series.

Okay, those are pretty cool ones, right? Yeah, and he's just a random paramedic in this.

It's like, that's Leonardo for about five seconds.

Were they ninja? Yeah.

For a long time they were called the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles because they said Ninja was too violent.

So now they're known as, even in the cartoons that are marketed at kids, it's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

I'm assuming that most kids haven't got a clue what a ninja is.

And

then his Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle duvet just goes...

Damn, man.

But yeah, because you never know.

So what about you for number five?

My number five was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I think is a great tune.

Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles.

I

just missed it.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the next one on the list.

Yeah, it didn't speak to me that.

I don't know what cartoon Krang was a part of.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Not in the top five, but part of the list.

Oh, he was one of the two henchmen that

Here we go.

Name two of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

Donatello and Raphael.

What was the name of the storm overnight? Was it Austin or Alexander?

No.

If you grew up in the UK, and certain other parts of Europe as well, you grew up watching a cartoon called teenage mutant hero turtles yes this was due to there being a lot of controversy around ninjas at the time which feels like an absolutely insane thing to say and also the banning of weapons like nunchucks in the uk which meant that any depiction or mention of them would have to be removed so yes we had a specially edited version of the show the theme tune itself was re-recorded to include the word hero instead of ninja as well as that being depicted as the title on screen and any shots of Michelangelo using his nunchucks were edited out with also the word ninja throughout the episode being edited possibly sometimes quite clumsily I would imagine I mean, it does seem mad now, nearly 40 years on, that just the word ninja could be controversial.

I mean, I've said it several times in this podcast already.

So if this were the 80s, we would be banned.