The new Ninja Turtle's movie is out this Friday, and
whatever your opinion may be of this whole reboot in general,
a lot of you guys liked our last TMNT episode of Things You Didn't Know.
So it's time for a Part 2, after all, the best things in life come in pairs,
just like tasty turtle hoots. >> That's correct.
>> I see.
>> Here are seven
more things you didn't know about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, probably.
(Sound) We've already covered some of
the changes that were made when the Ninja Turtles comic was adapted for
the animated series in Part 1.
But you probably didn't know that changing the turtles' bandana colors and giving
them a somewhat unhealthy enthusiasm for pizza weren't the only tweaks.
For example, in the new movies April O'Neill is a news reporter, and
that is consistent with the cartoon.
In the comics, April was actually an assistant to a scientist
in a lab.
>> Radical! >> Yeah!
(Laugh) >> Totally tubular dude.
>> On top of that, the whole surfer dude,
cowabunga thing was another element that originated in the TV show,
not the comics. >> How come you're not shouting
cowabunga? >> Well, to be honest I'm getting kind of
bored with it. >> So really,
the 80s cartoon revamped the Turtles' mythology in major ways that have carried
over to this day in all of the different adaptations that have come since.
You might think the creators would be salty about their creations
being altered in so many ways.
But in reality, they're probably just laughing all the way to the bank,
the salty bank.
(Sound) The tweaks done to the turtles for TV and
movie adaptations here in the U.S.
were actually kind of minor compared to changes that were made in other countries.
The cartoon series was considered too violent in a lot of international markets,
and that led to significant censorship.
Just the word ninja caused concern, so
many countries actually re-titled the show Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.
And there were even some versions of the show where Michelangelo's nunchucks were
swapped out for grappling hooks.
Not sure why nunchucks were considered more objectionable than swords or sai, but
whatever.
And take the Japanese version of the cartoon,
where the turtles could super mutate into some kind of weird half-turtle half-bro
dude, jock hybrid. >> Super Mutation!
>> I mean, if that doesn't give
you night terrors, I don´t know what will.
(Sound) >> Now you face
the Shredder. >> The Shredder?
(Laugh) >> Maybe I´ll add hardwares for
making coleslaw. >> Shredder is probably as iconic
as the Ninja Turtles themselves, but
most people don´t know the inspiration behind him.
Supposedly, co-creator Kevin Eastman was drying dishes one night and
came across a big cheese grater.
He then imagined a character with weapons on his arm just like the cheese grater,
and even called the character The Grater and
Grateman before coming up with Shredder.
Which, thank God, they did, because that is a way better name for
a villain than Grateman.
(Sound) >> Hey Donny,
looks like this one's suffering from shell shock.
(Laugh) >> Too derivative.
>> Let's talk about this street fight
sequence from the first Ninja Turtles movie.
If you've ever thought that the set somehow looked kind of familiar,
you were on to something.
The fake street they're on was originally part of a massive New York set
that was used in 1986's Big Trouble in Little China.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just repurposed the set for
scenes like the street fight as well as this part when they're on the rooftops.
Now I'm kind of wishing that someone would make a Big Trouble in Ninja Turtles
crossover movie.
Hollywood, make that happen,
it'll be the best worst thing since Alien Versus Predator.
(Sound) >> Pizza dude's got 30 seconds.
>> Mm-hm.
>> You probably remember this part from
the first movie with the Domino's delivery guy.
And we actually have a thing about the guy playing that guy in our Part 1 episode,
so be sure to check that out.
Anyway, what you probably didn't know is even though the Turtles ordered Domino's
in the movie,
Pizza Hut was the brand to arrange a $20 million campaign to promote the movie.
(Music)
Remember that's $20 million in the late 80s early 90s money, so
it's an even bigger deal than it sounds like today.
There were all sorts of Pizza Hut Ninja Turtles commercials, print ads, coupons,
you name it.
So it's a bit of a (Bleep) you that the Turtles never even eat Pizza Hut
in the movie.
I would say it's just because they have good taste, but
that's definitely not true since they still eat Domino's.
(Sound) You probably didn't realize
that Sam Rockwell was part of Shredder's gang, but,
yeah, that's totally Sam Rockwell, right there.
Anyway, that's not what this thing is about,
listen to what he says right here. >> Go check out the East Warehouse over
Lairdman Island.
That line was a wink and a nod to the Ninja Turtles creators,
East Warehouse refers to Kevin Eastman and Lairdman Island is for Peter Laird.
So yeah, now you know that, last thing!
(Sound) The Ninja Turtles are all named after
Renaissance artists, but you probably don't know why.
The truth is Eastman and Laird had wanted to give the turtles Japanese or
at least Japanese sounding names.
The problem was they just couldn't come up with names that sounded authentically
Japanese.
So when that idea didn't work out, they went with the Renaissance route, although,
they managed to (Bleep) that up too.
Michelangelo's name was misspelled as Michaelangelo in the very first issue of
the comic and it was never corrected until 2001.
Seriously, it´s even wrong in the older movie's credits,
Michaelangelo, right there.
But once you've waited that long to correct something, it sort of seems worse
even to do it at that point, I mean, just own your wrongness, dude.
(Laugh) >> Mikey, was that you?
>> Let us know if you're going to see
the new Ninja Turtles movie this weekend or if you're just going to stay home and
masturbate while you listen to ninja rap on a loop.
(Music)
Those are the only two plausible possibilities of what you'll be doing with
your weekend.
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