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[[File:crew1.gif|frame|You forgot the [[Trademark Favorite Food|pizza]].]]
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''[[Ear Worm|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!]]''
''[[The Eighties|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!]]''
''[[Turtle Power|Heroes in a half-shell--turtle power!]]'' }}
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One day, Yoshi finds the turtles immersed in pink-colored ooze, which he gets all over himself while trying to clean it off. Soon, he finds the turtles growing to humanoid size, and himself turning into a humanoid rat; the ooze, which had been spilled by Saki in order to kill Yoshi, was a mutagen that would grant an organism traits from the previous organism it had come into physical contact with. Yoshi decides to raise the turtles, name them, and train them in the martial arts.
Eventually, the turtles rescue April O'Neil, a reporter covering a crime wave seemingly committed by ninjas. With her help, they discover that Oroku Saki, now calling himself the Shredder, had taken control of the Foot Clan, and had allied himself with exiled warlord Krang in order to conquer the world. The turtles, naturally, vow to stop him, and obtain a way to restore Hamato
Unlike the comic book that inspired it, the tone of the cartoon was for the most part more akin to a sitcom than an action series. The turtles were more liable to crack wise than act like the ninjas they supposedly were. The main villain group shared a sitcom dynamic, with [[Villain Decay]] setting in almost immediately. Many episodes were [[Strictly Formula]], using whatever stock plots the producers had handy.
After seven seasons, the series was [[
Thirteen years after its end, the series received a brief revival in ''[[Turtles Forever]]'', a crossover between this incarnation of the Turtles and their counterparts from [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
See also: [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] (franchise page), the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Season 8 set up several possibly new enemies and allies for the
▲* [[Aborted Arc]]: Season 8 set up several possibly new enemies and allies for the Turtles -- all of whom were promptly forgotten about in the following season in favor of Dregg and Carter.
** It also ended with the implication that members of H.A.V.O.C. were still on the loose and that April would do something important in the far future, things that were never brought up again in Seasons 9 and 10.
** Although Mona Lisa appeared in just one episode, it was implied her storyline was just beginning.
* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Subverted: Although April's jumpsuit was occasionally left open enough for this trope depending on the artist, her cleavage was usually left undrawn whenever this happened, as seen in her [http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/Perez85/AprilCharacterModel.jpg character] [http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/Perez85/April.png model].<ref>
* [[The Ace]]: Leonardo is a strange mix of this and [[The Generic Guy]].
* [[Action Girl]]: Lotus Blossom.
** April also had her moments of this.
** Also Mona Lisa.
* [[Animation Bump]]: More times than possibly any cartoon in the 80's and 90's. The animation style could go from being horrible to decent to near-anime quality, sometimes ''in a single episode.'' The first two seasons each kept with a single animation studio (Toei for Season 1, and A-1 Productions for Season 2), but the seasons grew much longer starting with Season 3, resulting in animation being farmed out to several different studios
** On top of that, a number of Season 3 episodes and the entire first half of Season 4 was farmed out to Murakami-Wolf-Swenson's studio in Ireland. Some of the episodes ("Turtles in the Jungle" for instance) turned out pretty decent, but most of these outsourced episodes were among the worst-animated in the show's run. Likewise, the "Vacation in Europe" episodes were farmed out to French studio IDDH on a smaller budget than usual, and suffer particularly for it.
* [[A Day in
* [[Adorkable]]: A lot of characters, but Donatello, Mikey, and Irma have the most moments.
** Baxter Stockman. OH. MY. ''GOD''.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Shredder, [[Depending
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: "Not only is he from feudal Japan, but also from another dimension. [[Lampshade Hanging|So, of course, he speaks English.]]"
** Pretty much all Dimension X aliens spoke ''flawless'' English. Some even had ''accents'' to boot!
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* [[Always Need What You Gave Up]]: the episode with the giant squid.
** Also the episode "Case Of The Killer Pizzas".
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Shredder, [[Depending
* [[Anime Hair]]: The Neutrinos take this to ridiculous extremes.
* [[Animesque]]: The first season had a very obvious anime
* [[Animal-Themed Superbeing]]: The Rat King falls under the ''Animal Alias'' type since he has no actual rat powers. Interestingly, most of the characters in this show fall under [[Beast Man]] or [[Animal Superhero]] despite the vast number of [[Animal Motifs]].
** There was also Bug-Man who only showed up in one episode. He was an insect-themed superhero who curiously [[The Incredible Hulk|turned into a powerful superhuman when angered.]] In the episode, he had become a pacifist but since Michelangel needed his help, he tried his best to make him angry so he would turn into his super-powered form.
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Admiration]]: Mostly between Shredder and Krang.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In "New York's Shiniest", Rex-1 saves April from being arrested by security guards. And these are the charges he recites:
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'''Fat guard:''' Put us down, you hunk of tin!
'''Rex-1:''' ...resisting arrest...
'''Thin guard:''' You ain't never get away with this!
'''Rex-1:''' ...and using a double negative. ''(throws them on the wall)'' }}
** This was also used during the end of the episode "The Maltese Hamster".
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* [[Art Evolution]]: For the "Red Sky" seasons.
** Seasons 6 and 7 also have surprisingly improved animation.
* [[Artistic License Engineering]]: In "The Big Zipp Attack", Shredder and co. try to steal the top of a metal spike from the roof of a building. If the spike's top is removed, the entire building will fall over, as the construction of the building is somehow completely dependent on the top of the spike staying in place (even though the spike itself more or less resembles an antenna mast sticking out of a flat rooftop).
* [[Artistic License Physics]]: Mona Lisa explains to Raphael that she was a college student that was going for her '''physics''' major, but in the flashback she is clearly using a '''chemistry''' set.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: The Shredder was killed in the ''first issue'' of the original comic. (Although he came back a few times, including [[It Got Worse|in the form of]] a [[Everything
* [[As You Know]]: Spoofed in the episode "Super Rocksteady and Mighty Bebop":
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'''Krang:''' You don't have to explain it to me; I invented it, remember?
'''Shredder:''' I wasn't explaining it to you... ''(points at the camera)'' I was explaining it to ''[[No Fourth Wall|them]].'' }}
** And again in season 5's "Enter Mutagen Man:"
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'''Shredder:''' I know, I know, you don't have to tell me!
'''Krang:''' I'M NOT! (looks at camera) ''I'm telling the audience''. }}
* [[Atlantis]]: Plays a part in the episodes "The Lost Queen of Atlantis" and "Atlantis Awakes".
* [[Attack of the 50
** Also, Krang's robotic body was able to grow into this until the Ninja Turtles broke the microchip that enabled it to.
** In another episode, a scientist accidentally enlarges a monkey, then enlarges Don to stop him.
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** Inverted by Rocksteady and Bebop. In the first episode of Season 4, Shredder uses a device to temporarily de-mutate them so that they can infiltrate Channel 6, and the two are disgusted at the sight of their original forms.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Casey Jones, a rare male example. It doesn't make him any less intimidating though.
* [[Base
* [[Belly Dancer]]: April and Irma are dressed like this in the episode "Shredderville"
* [[Beneath the Earth]]: The Technodrome in Season 1 and 3.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Kala's pet Grybyx is usually a sweet and docile creature, until you feed it the wrong kind of food.
** Also Irma, considering that she was able to defeat the Rat King after he paid more attention to April than her.
*** Heck, Irma ''easily'' dropped four [[Zerg Rush
** There's also {{spoiler|Donatello}} when he becomes the Dark Turtle.
* [[Big Bad]]: [[Big Bad Duumvirate|Shredder and Krang]] for most of the series, and later Lord Dregg.
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Buffy Shellhammer.
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Technically Bebop is this to Rocksteady, despite their mutations.
* [[
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Rex-1 for April.
* [[Body Swap]]: "The Old Switcheroo", with Splinter and Shredder.
** Subverted in "Cowabunga Shredhead" with Shredder believing himself to be Michaelangelo. The entire episode is a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
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* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: The Shredder proves himself more than a match for the turtles in armed combat, yet on many occasions when confronted he 'escapes', often with the words "another time turtles!" Why another time? Why not now!?
** [[Fridge Brilliance|How else do you think they made so many seasons?]]
* [[Bowdlerise]]: Over in the UK, "ninja" has until more recently been a banned word, so the series (as well as the franchise as a whole) would be known as ''Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles''. Also, all scenes where Mikey wields his signature nunchuks were cut as much as possible due to the weapon being illegal in real-life. By the later seasons, the series would see Mikey using a grappling-hook weapon instead just to get around these kind of problems.
** Recently, though, the first few seasons of ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' were released uncensored on DVD in the UK.
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: April O' Neil, Irma, and Mona Lisa.
** Though April O' Neil is more of a redhead.
* [[Bratty Half
** Also the Polarasoid Kids and the Starchild, initially.
* [[Breakout Character]]: Mikey became a ''hit'' with kids.
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** Donatello's catch phrase was "That was my favorite bo".
** Burne Thompson's was "Go go go go go go".
** Leatherhead's was "I guarantee", bordering on [[Verbal Tic]].
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The last three seasons are a mild example.
* [[Character Development]]: This is done extremely well with [[Lonely Rich Kid]] Buffy Shellhammer, who goes from a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] to a [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] and then to a [[Jerkass Woobie]] all in the course of one half-an-hour episode.
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** He was mostly a quiet man after all.
* [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat]]: The turtles' outfit of choice whenever outside the sewers.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]
* [[Cool Airship]]: The Turtle Blimp.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: April was somewhat like this to the turtles considering she is older than them.
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** Also Shredder's mom, for being able to put him in his place on numerous occasions.
* [[Cool Plane]]: The Turtle Blimp.
* [[Cross
* [[Cut the Juice]]: Second variety; April stops one menace of the week this way.
** Another time, she stops a generator from overloading by pulling the power plug. She stops a GENERATOR by UNPLUGGING it.
* [[Da Editor]]: Burne Thompson, April's boss.
* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The Red Sky Episodes.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Leonardo and Lotus Blossom, and Raphael and Mona Lisa.
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* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Buffy Shellhammer, who ends up being a cross between [[Lonely Rich Kid]] and [[Jerkass Woobie]].
** Also Lotus Blossom.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: After Carter showed up, April was relegated to sitting in her apartment and researching stuff on the internet for all of Season 9 and the first few episodes of Season 10. Fortunately, she started taking a more active role in the final few episodes once Carter was [[Put
* [[Depending
* [[
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: The episode "Bebop and Rocksteady Conquer The Universe" features this.
* [[Double Entendre]]: In the opening theme no less, ''Donatello does Machines.''
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* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Bebop and Rocksteady.
** Also Slash and Leatherhead.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: A relatively mild
** In his 1st few appearances, Krang was undisputed [[Nightmare Fuel]]. His later character design was a lot more cartoony, but still a bit creepy.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: The episode "Shredder's Mom" proves that even Shredder himself is not immune to this trope.
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: Too many times to count.
* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: Michaelangelo for Kala.
** Also Zack for Caitlin.
*** [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|SHE'S NOT MY]] [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|GIRLFRIEND!]]
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Mondo Gecko to Michaelangelo, {{spoiler|at least until his [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
** Also Shredder to Splinter.
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** Also Donatello's duplicate, and the duplicates of the other turtles that he creates.
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]
* [[For Halloween I Am Going
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: April O' Neil.
* [[Fish People]]: Mona Lisa from "Raphael Meets His Match". She's a former human mutated into a half-fish, half-reptile [[Mix and Match Critter]].
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** EVERYBODY on the show as time went on.
* [[Foe Yay]]: April O' Neil and Irma have had moments of this with both Shredder and the Rat King.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Michaelangelo, who has had several pets in the past, including his pigeon Pete and his parrot Ditto.
* [[The Generic Guy]]: Leonardo when compared to his siblings.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Irma, when she becomes [[Memetic Mutation|Super Irma!]]
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* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: The turtles prove this every time they save April.
** [[Heroes Want Redheads|Villains Want Redheads]]: Both Shredder and Rat King have flirted with April (and Irma) on numerous occasions.
* [[Hero
** It was even a plot point of the Red Sky era.
** After Burne got [[Put
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: The turtles, who can frequently be seeing putting around on a blimp. With a giant "Turtles" on it.
** Not to mention the Turtle Van, which was customised with armored plates resembling turtle shells and laser turrets on the roof.
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* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: The Neutrinos.
* [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: Twice: once in "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles" and again in "Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo".
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha]]: The episode "Cyber Turtles" featured this.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: On several occasions.
* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: In "Donatello's Degree", when the other turtles can't locate Don, we get one of these combined with a [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Fourth Wall break]]:
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(Cut to Donatello hanging out of a university window in a completely different town)
'''Don''': Actually, Michelangelo's right. I ''am'' hanging out at the library. }}
* [[Irony]]: Macc, a friendly and peace loving robot from the future is built with some of the most destructive weapons around.
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* [[Lighter and Fluffier]]: Especially in comparison to the original comics, but also the first season compared to most of the ones that followed, and in turn those seasons compared to the "Red Sky" seasons.
** Having said that, the series was ''still'' criticized for being [[Darker and Edgier]] compared to most other animated shows at the time. Considering the restrictions the creators had to work under, it's actually a small miracle that the series didn't end up a total bastardization of the original comics.
*** [[Peter Laird]] said in an [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726081934/http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2009/02/09/interview-peter-laird/ interview] that, faced with the reality of needing to water down his creation for a younger audience, he largely let the show's staff do it for him. This may have been a wise choice on his part, as had he tried to do a more comic-acurate version in the face of the rigid censorship of [[The Eighties]], it quite possibly ''would'' have come off as a total bastardization of the comics. As it was, it came off as an extremely loose adaptation but very entertaining when taken as its own entity.
* [[The Load]]: Vernon Fenwick.
* [[Lolicon]]: A mild example. In "Poor Little Rich Turtle" Michealangelo (who's at least 15-16) has a very large crush on Buffy, who's 11 or 12 at most.
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* [[Masochist's Meal]]: Most of Michaelangelo's choices of pizza topping combos ([[Nausea Fuel|tuna fish, peanut butter and grape jelly, anyone?]])--and yes, it was [[Lampshaded]]. [[Cinemassacre]] later made some of the show's various gross-out combinations [http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/12/gross-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-pizzas-recreated-eaten-video/ and sampled them.]
* [[Masquerade Ball]]: In "April's Fool".
* [[
** A squickier example is the canonically fifty-year-old Burne and his girlfriend Tiffany, who looks ''nineteen''.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: In the first episode of the Red Sky series, Shedder and his minions are pinned down by police as they try to retrive a device they need. Shredder hurls a trashcan which he says are filled with explosives at the cops, causing them to scatter. After they make their escape, Bebop and Rocksteady compliment him on his bluff. The trashcan explodes in the back ground, with Shredder stating, "I never bluff." Much later, Shredder has taken the Channel 6 building hostage, and has to threatened to blow it up if the Turtles don't meet him in a certain amount of time. When they get there, they see that the building is still standing, causing them to assume he was bluffing. What does Shredder have to say? "I '''never''' bluff." What follows is easily the most dramatic moment in the series.
* [[Mecha
* [[Medium Awareness]]: A regular feature of the series.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Rex-1.
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* [[Motive Decay]]: This is explicitly pointed out with Dregg. At first he's just trying to take over the world. By the last episode, the turtles have thwarted his schemes so much that he's driven purely by the desire to kill them. Even his right-hand henchman calls him crazy to his face.
* [[Name's the Same]]: In season eight, there's a villain named Megavolt, who shares the same name as another villainous character named [[Darkwing Duck|Megavolt.]]
** There's also some [[Fridge Brilliance]] in that episode since Megavolt wanted to destroy the D.W.(Dark Water) company out of revenge. D.W. is also the nickname of [[Darkwing Duck]].
** Also Baxter Stockman's Mouser robots have the same name as King Koopa's assistant in [[Super Mario Bros.]].
* [[Nanomachines]]: Lord Dregg's "micro-bots".
* [[Napoleon Delusion]]: A Napoleon wannabe is in the insane asylum with Baxter Stockman in the episode "Return of the Shredder," voiced by [[Peter Cullen]].
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Irma Langenstein.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: ''Technically'' played straight, but starting with the second season characters and monsters (mostly the latter) actually die pretty often.
* [[Ninja]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The Turtles and Shredder quite often stop to address the audience.
* [[Non
* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] with Mona Lisa because she ''was'' human before her mutation.
* [[Number Two for Brains]]: Bebop and Rocksteady. Note they fall under ''both'' [[The Dragon]] and [[Dumb Muscle]].
* [[Off-Model]]: The show fell victim to this quite a bit, especially in later seasons. "The Grybyx" is a good example, and "Mister Ogg Goes To Town" in its entirety qualifies for this.
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* [[Orient Express]]: "Turtles on the [[Orient Express]]"
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Several voice actors would occasionally have replacements during particular episodes:
** Shredder was the biggest example, due to James Avery's [[The Fresh Prince of Bel
** Raphael also had a few different voice actors over the course of the show; Thom Pinto voiced him for a few Season 3 episodes, Hal Rayle filled in for the "Vacation in Europe" episodes, and Michael Gough (no, not [[Batman (
** Donatello and Bebop, who were both usually voiced by Barry Gordon, were also replaced for part of Season 3 (seeing a pattern here?) by Greg Berg.
** Vernon Fenwick was voiced by [[
* [[Out of Order]]: Episodes 3 and 4 were shown the other way around on VHS, so kids who didn't see them when they first aired on TV (stations didn't re-air the earliest episodes often) would often wind up confused about who this [[Buffy-Speak|Baxter Stockman fellow]] was.
** Also, a lot of the episodes on DVD are out of order too.
* [[Palantir Ploy]]
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* [[Pound of Flesh Twist]]: Shredder manages to get away with a rare isotope. Unfortunately for the bad guys, the isotope is unstable under high atmospheric pressures (especially those deep within the Earth), and the sample explodes after the Shredder returns to the Technodrome—parked many miles beneath the Earth's surface.
* [[Powered Armor]]: The turtles don these in the episode "Cyber Turtles".
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Admittedly, it's the most loose of all the Turtles adaptations ([[Fanon Discontinuity|we'll politely ignore]] ''[[Ninja Turtles:
* [[Put
** Though Shredder and Krang would return for a three episode special in the tenth and last season.
** Casey Jones was put on a bus as well.
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* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Vernon. And surprisingly (or [[Laughably Evil|not so surprisingly]]), Shredder in one episode.
** Splinter's kimono looks like pink, or is it some light purple?
* [[Recursive Adaptation]]: The Archie-published ''[[
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The Dark Turtle.
** Also Lord Dregg, who naturally has red glowing eyes.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Antrax and Scumbug in "Night of the Rogues".
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Averted ''hard'' with the main turtles, but played straight with other characters like Slash and Leatherhead.
* [[Retcon]]: The third season finale showed the Technodrome being destroyed as a result of an inadvertent attack by Krang's allies, and then crashing at high-speed into a huge battlestation. The fourth season premiere changed this to the Technodrome being badly damaged in the attack and then having a relatively soft landing on an asteroid.
* [[Retool]]: The "Red Sky" seasons.
* [[Rhino Rampage]]: Rocksteady.
* [[The Rival]]: Vernon for April, [[Depending
* [[Robotic Reveal]]: "Did you just say 'clang'?"
* [[Rushmore Refacement]]: Krang eventually does this.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: In the episode "Shredder's Mom", Shredder's mom was able to trick the turtles into walking right into the Technodrome's trash compactor by taping a paper sign that said "This way to computer room" on the door.
* [[Second Episode Introduction]]: Krang.
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Irma Langenstein.
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** Of course, April is ''always'' hot no matter what. It was just nice to see her in something other than a yellow jumpsuit for a change.
** Irma also has her moments of this.
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Burne, Vernon, and Irma were [[Put
* [[Shoo Out the New Guy]]: Howie (a songwriter and a potential boyfriend for Irma) appeared in two straight episodes and was never heard from again.
* [[Shout
** Also the monsters in the episode "The Case Of The Killer Pizzas" look a lot like another famous [[Alien|movie monster.]]
** The episode "Night Of The Dark Turtle" is an obvious parody of ''[[Batman]]''.
** Rex-1 from the episode "New York's Shiniest" is pretty much a redesigned [[
** One episode had Krang stealing a military robot that looks like ED-209.
** Irma Langenstein doesn't look like Jeanette of The Chipettes by accident... half a season of
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: The villainous Shredder's younger brother Kazuo Saki is actually a cop fighting for justice.
** Also the turtles amongst themselves.
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: This basically sums up Irma in a nutshell.
* [[Snow Means Cold]]: In "Take Me to Your Leader," Shredder and Krang use a Solar Siphon to drain the sun's energy and make the Earth cold. The turtles discover something's amiss when it starts snowing in July.
* [[Soap Within a Show]]: Krang is shown to have a specific fondness for a soap opera of the "Oh John! Oh Marsha!" variety. In fact, that's [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: Constantly used on April.
** Also on Irma every so often.
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* [[Straw Loser]]: Vernon to April.
* [[Surfer Dude]]: Michaelangelo.
* [[Surrounded
* [[Swiss Cheese Security]]: The Technodrome, which the turtles would usually infiltrate with ridiculous ease.
** In one episode the Technodrome has an [[Face Palm|easily opened hatch on it marked "ENTRANCE]]."
* [[Tagalong Kid]]: [[The Scrappy|Zack]], a young kid in a turtle costume and so-called "fifth turtle".
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Constantly, as most of the show's voices were done by a handful of regulars.
** One example that stands out is [[
* [[Teen Genius]]: Donatello.
** Also Zack, the "fifth turtle".
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* [[Three Amigos]]: The Neutrinos.
* [[Title Theme Tune]]
* [[Took a Level
** Also {{spoiler|Donatello}} when he becomes the Dark Turtle.
* [[Totally Radical]]: The turtles, ''especially'' Mikey. The Neutrinos take it [[Up to Eleven]].
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* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Pizza. And how!
* [[Transformation Ray]]: Many.
* [[Two Guys and
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: Is it ever!
* [[Vague Age]]: Irma looks and acts like a young teenager but is apparently old enough to own an apartment and have a steady job.
** And to a lesser extent, Shredder.
** Even more so with Splinter, he sounds and acts like a very old man, but in his human form he can't be above early 40's.
* [[Victory Is Boring]]
* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: The Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady, invariably.
* [[Villain Team-Up]]
* [[Villain
* [[Villainous Crush]]: Strangely enough, Shredder sometimes seems blatantly attracted to [[Hot Scoop|April]] in some episodes. [[Depending
* [[Big "What?"|Wait, What? Whoa]]: In "Burne's Blues", Burne and Vernon spend the entire episode unsuccessfully looking for a news story about the Turtles. Just as soon as the reporters find the Turtles frozen on a factory loading dock, the two get randomly abducted by aliens that look like Elvis.
* [[Wham! Line]]: "I never bluff!" {{spoiler|The line Shredder says before he destroys the Channel 6 news building in the first episode of season eight.}}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The first episode of season eight "Get Shredder" mainly because of the ending {{spoiler|where Shredder destroys the Channel 6 news building.}}
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: Baxter Stockman has an accent. Just..an accent.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: In a later season we learn that {{spoiler|Leonardo}} [[Compressed Vice|is terrified of snakes]].
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* [[The X of Y]]: A few examples; probably the most well-known is the Eye of Zarnov, an alien artefact that formed a [[Story Arc]] for the first half of season two.
* [[Yandere]]: The alien computer Zee for Baxter Stockman.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: This is Shredder's reason for sending Baxter into Dimension X, and sacrificing him so that Bebop and Rocksteady can be sent to help fight against the turtles.
** Dregg does this to his number one man Hi-Tech in the tenth seasons premiere, by launching him into space.
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Baxter Stockman. He looks like a middle-aged man but is implied to be younger than Shredder.
* [[Your Costume Needs Work]]: In "Super Irma," Vernon isn't impressed when the Turtles show up as themselves to the Channel Six Halloween party.
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