Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Added 2024-04-21 04:00:05 +0000 UTC🐢 🍕 We're headed to the sewers as we kick off our long awaited Ben-forward commentary series on The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 🍕 🐢
Topics include: Subway fantasies, live smell-o-vision, lil-Griff’s merch empire and Ben Turtle-Casting.
Movie starts at: 29:30
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Did anyone else "A-WOOHOO" at time code 9:22?
Matthew Park
2025-01-17 16:17:39 +0000 UTCSup?
films
2025-01-13 04:29:21 +0000 UTC"What is your relationship to make believe" is such a whimsical Ben quote
Big Charelton
2024-09-28 12:57:40 +0000 UTCPhysical effects require union workers and digital don’t that’s all it is guys
Chuck smash
2024-06-27 20:39:21 +0000 UTCthe police chief extorted the boss after danny was arrested. "You got a son named Danny" to the boss was the threat. Fire April and I'll let your kid go.
TheFuzzyJew
2024-05-16 13:44:14 +0000 UTCJoy!!! Thank you for sharing this. Stoked to relive this.
Blank Check with Griffin & David
2024-05-11 17:27:26 +0000 UTCAlso the creator lived next to my college boyfriend and he had a big dinosaur weathervane on the retrofitted barn where he kept his classic cars.
Mary Everett
2024-05-11 01:02:20 +0000 UTCOh hell yeah, a mention of Dover NH!
Mary Everett
2024-05-11 01:01:33 +0000 UTCThis is one of my all time favorite movies. I can recite it word for word. I have a legit badass tmnt cosplay suit i bust out now and then.
John Blood
2024-05-06 14:37:05 +0000 UTCTruly one of my greatest frustrations in this day and age is the fact that we haven't gotten a really good collector's edition release of this movie on blu ray (or even DVD). I always assume it's because this is a movie intended for kids, so the effort just isn't given to giving it a special release... But then there are plenty of kids movies that I can think of that have great special feature-laden releases; so that doesn't track. Please give us behind-the-scenes featurettes! Filmmaker commentary! Interviews with cast and crew! Please! Nickelodeon I know you're reading the comments on the paid bonus feed for a film podcast! C'mon!!
DJ Nekroman
2024-05-03 16:31:53 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/eHZ6wubEvTk?si=pm5WM3Eb5t2naZik Here's the comic with the audio, I couldn't find just a digitized version of the comic.
Joy Wyr
2024-05-02 21:40:36 +0000 UTCProducer Ben, I had a TMNT cassette comic combo. Here is the tape.. https://youtu.be/kPP8UczZOXI?si=vR81DWtg1sJUbjiN Here's a listing for it on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/394791067881 There was a wrestling story with a bunch of weird aliens and another story that was Leatherhead, the alligator man's origin story.
Joy Wyr
2024-05-02 19:25:34 +0000 UTCSame for me in Overcast as well. Secret of ooze and all previous episodes fine.
Brian Behrend
2024-05-01 20:09:13 +0000 UTCFor whatever reason it says this specific episode is not authorized for me (using Overcast)
Kayin McLeod
2024-05-01 13:46:45 +0000 UTCWhat becomes of the brain when it is so toxic with the misunderstanding of masterful Monsters, Inc.?
Alex
2024-04-27 23:58:51 +0000 UTCThe best part of the turtles' weapons is the weapons reflect each turtles' least strong quality. Donny has a stick, as low tech as it gets. Mikey has nunchucks that require huge discipline. Raph has sai that are better for defense. Leo has katanas, which are better for aggression
Doug Robertson
2024-04-27 08:14:33 +0000 UTCI'm a Raphael to the core.
Tom
2024-04-27 06:52:56 +0000 UTCI thought Ben was referencing the TMNT cassette that I believe was sold at Pizza Hut’s with the hit single “Coming Out of Our Shells.” I feel like they performed this on Orpah? The 90’s were great.
Matty B
2024-04-25 20:02:04 +0000 UTCWould love a trailer reaction from the crew for Trap.
Daniel Buckley
2024-04-25 19:19:38 +0000 UTCTMNT ... my ABSOLUTE ALL TIME FAVS! Covered by my other favs... this rocks!
MonoStereoVideo
2024-04-25 17:59:15 +0000 UTCTMNT Adventures was one of the comics I collected most as a kid
Patrick Mike
2024-04-25 05:21:14 +0000 UTCPart of me wants a 4th movie of this Universe. But more in the style of the first movie than the 2nd and third. Make a gritty sequel.
Rhyann Yadao
2024-04-24 22:49:15 +0000 UTCI always thought that was a nice touch to explain why the Foot Clan was so successful in their criminal enterprise. Also timely that Government officials would rather shut up the news media instead of doing their jobs.
Rhyann Yadao
2024-04-24 19:45:44 +0000 UTC#Ben4Scratch
fartinscorcese
2024-04-24 14:37:02 +0000 UTCIt was awesome. They did another one for the Return of the Shredder story as well. Played those tapes to death as a kid.
Gregory Luzitano
2024-04-24 00:32:37 +0000 UTCAnchovies are good on everything
Mike Ostrov
2024-04-23 17:33:07 +0000 UTCI genuinely think this movie informed most of my knowledge of New York and non-Detroit cities until adulthood. That and the Muppets Take Manhattan.
Billnetherlands
2024-04-23 17:31:05 +0000 UTCI get it, Ben. I remember Dire Straights being disappointing as a teen, because the rest of the album doesn't rock.
Billnetherlands
2024-04-23 17:26:35 +0000 UTCDoes this mean that we can expect a guest appearance from Mrs. Honus, Constance Wu, in the near future??
Gabriel Mathews
2024-04-23 17:07:31 +0000 UTCWhat Ben said about the legacy of comics and properties having so many years behind them is why I think so many people these days turn to anime and manga.
Danielle
2024-04-23 15:37:36 +0000 UTCI feel like I was a Raphael sun, Donatello moon.
Danielle
2024-04-23 14:25:07 +0000 UTCLove the Freaked shout out. One of my favorites
Fred Mercado
2024-04-23 13:55:49 +0000 UTCLove the François Chau shout out! He's great in the Expanse as the series' most compelling villain. He holds his own in scenes with Shohreh Aghdashloo, no easy feat! Only Wes Chatham can really say the same.
Daniel S
2024-04-23 02:18:57 +0000 UTCSame and same. A buddy of mine was just talking about getting the cassette from that tour at his mom's house, I wonder if that's the same tape that came with Ben's comic.
Matt
2024-04-23 01:00:56 +0000 UTCTo the question off the top as to "how did you get into it?" I think the detail that's overlooked is the fact that we used to have appointment television as children. Whether we knew which cartoon was coming on or not, there were certain windows of time in the afternoon when you could pretty reliably count on something animated to pop on the TV. I don't remember the first time I watched TMNT, but I remember the first time my parents asked me, "what are you watching?" and that was the answer, and we had to repeat it several times because they had no grasp of the sentence we had constructed. What's equally remarkable to me is the number of times the same property has been rebooted, remixed, revisited, and relaunched every so many years for a new generation of kids.
Matt Skoufalos
2024-04-22 19:45:36 +0000 UTCWay out where the dandelions groooooow
Matt Skoufalos
2024-04-22 19:40:52 +0000 UTCBen! I had that same comic+cassette tape. It was start of the Archie Comic Turtles books and an adaptation of the cartoons first arc. Someone kindly uploaded the tape onto YT: https://youtu.be/xDx7ghqDiBw?si=3aP9pyS1qMrDdUl3
James Anderson
2024-04-22 18:03:30 +0000 UTCIt’s responsible to miss minor plot beats like that when you’re having your constantly talk during the movie.
James Anderson
2024-04-22 17:57:00 +0000 UTCIt’s incredible how much professional film commentators don’t understand plot lines. April was fired because Chief Stern had arrested Danny and was blackmailing Charles. It’s all on screen and was clear to me as a five year old.
Jackson Thornton
2024-04-22 14:46:45 +0000 UTCI was gonna ask why didn’t y’all wanna add a (1991) to that, but then I realized this really is the only movie to be titled *just* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Tyler Duggan
2024-04-22 13:22:34 +0000 UTCHas no one but me noticed both BLANK CHECK PRESENTS SPECIAL FEATURES drops perfectly into the TMNT theme song cadence and BLANK CHECK WITH GRIFFIN AND DAVID does if you sorta verbally hyphenate Griff's name?
Winson Paine
2024-04-22 13:06:37 +0000 UTCSo glad we're all piling on Hit Record Joe finally, as a society. Edit: Ben I knew Ryan back in Philly in like 2003/2004. It comes as no surprise you might be a Man Man fan.
FiddlersGreenDay
2024-04-22 12:15:49 +0000 UTCI don’t know how other people feel, but I like secret of the ooze a lot more than the first one.
Joshua Ochoa
2024-04-22 05:05:48 +0000 UTC"It's just DAN, now okay?" "DAN!?" *Insert hilarious dad face*
Michael Kolodziej
2024-04-22 03:03:53 +0000 UTCI saw the Turtles in concert on the Coming Out of Their Shells tour in 1990. These characters were EVERYTHING to me as a kid. I also read the novelization of the movie like three times on a flight to Hawaii.
Benjamin Bailey
2024-04-22 02:19:45 +0000 UTCBlank Check TMNT? Regular or Menthol?
Michael Kolodziej
2024-04-22 01:35:10 +0000 UTCYa gotta know how to catch! Ya gotta know how to throw!
Michael Kolodziej
2024-04-22 01:30:54 +0000 UTCIt’s fantastic. Pretty much the whole IDW series is great.
Benjamin Bailey
2024-04-22 01:27:02 +0000 UTCJosh Pais is such a classic NYC character actor, there's a perfect inside joke at the end of YOU HURT MY FEELINGS - when Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michaela Watkins go to see Arian Moayed in a mediocre-looking Off-Broadway play, his co-star is Josh Pais, who is explicitly playing himself.
Keith Bunin
2024-04-22 00:41:33 +0000 UTCIs it even TMNT without the Pizza Hut "Right Field" commercial?
Eric Smythe
2024-04-22 00:32:50 +0000 UTCHearing that ben is friends with Ryan Kattner aka Honus Honus aka the lead singer of Man Man one of my favorite bands of all times has brought me so much joy
Francisco Hernandez
2024-04-21 23:57:21 +0000 UTCSo excited to have a fun excuse to rewatch all the movies. I think the first one is amazing and I wish they’d do a new movie with people in suits again. Just use cg for the faces a little maybe. TURTLE POWER!
Mike Cook
2024-04-21 23:44:02 +0000 UTCThis clip applies more to “Secret of the Ooze,” but Ryan Stanger does a great Raphael https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4GZh6OOIwq/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==
Douglas “Scoop” Reinhardt
2024-04-21 23:27:25 +0000 UTCYall said " The money that never stops flowing" Is what mended their friendship. I believe Eastman sold all of his rights to TMNT before the Nickelodeon sale. He doesn't make anymore money nor did he profit from the humongous sale to Nickelodeon.
Frog Dimples (Jesse)
2024-04-21 23:12:34 +0000 UTCPlease don't mention this movie with Secret of the Ooze.
Michael Kolodziej
2024-04-21 22:55:37 +0000 UTCThere were a dozen ways I thought this episode might have started. How it actually started was not one of the dozen.
John Halski
2024-04-21 21:49:14 +0000 UTCMy poor mom sat through this and Secret of the ooze in the theater with me. A saint!
Jonathan Bryan
2024-04-21 19:16:02 +0000 UTCNote to David to and anyone else who has trouble remembering who is Bill and who is Ted: Bill is BLond. Associate that “bl” sound with Bill and you’ll never again forget who is who. Also, there needs to be a Bill & Ted series in the Patreon, with Freaked thrown in (Keanu is in it!)
Ian
2024-04-21 19:04:22 +0000 UTCThis miniseries is going to be dynamite
Trevor Pyle
2024-04-21 18:45:02 +0000 UTCI was talking about Ninja Turtles a decade ago and one of my friends just impromptu stated with confidence that of course my favorite Turtle was Donatello. I have never felt more seen.
Casey
2024-04-21 18:31:24 +0000 UTCBye Felicia
Cory McCasland
2024-04-21 18:10:45 +0000 UTCApril was fired because she was pushing a crime wave in new York narrative, and her boss was getting pressure from the police chief to silence her
Jess Kaplan
2024-04-21 16:30:16 +0000 UTCOk
racer_rhime
2024-04-21 15:32:32 +0000 UTCI love this Patreon, truly.
Gwendolyn Wind
2024-04-21 15:28:10 +0000 UTCI have forgotten so many things - moments with parents grandparents, funerals births weddings just gone - but could easily recite most lines from the turtle power rap at the end. Here’s to my Trash brain!
Ben Zaretsky
2024-04-21 14:08:21 +0000 UTCYes!! I want to hear ALL about the Merch empire
Joe Glass
2024-04-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTCWhy is Iconography so untouchable now? Just, having recorded opinions about people still in positions of power? I didn't think the show was that controversial, but I'm very much an outsider looking in
A. Scott
2024-04-21 13:57:06 +0000 UTCStart spreadin the ooze
Patrick Mike
2024-04-21 13:09:10 +0000 UTCLet's goo! This is why I pay for the patreon! Can't wait to finish work and vape some weed to this!
mikey GOLDSMITH
2024-04-21 13:06:19 +0000 UTCAny fans of the recent Sophie Campbell run of TMNT here?
LS
2024-04-21 09:21:44 +0000 UTCThey missed a few Easter eggs actors. The killer from the first scream movie is next to Sam Rockwell when Casey is talking to them while holding Splinter. Also the guy who plays Raphael was in the taxi after the Casey jones park fight.
Ancient alien
2024-04-21 08:33:04 +0000 UTCI'm excited for Ben. This seems like it's gonna get him stoked.
N/A Watson
2024-04-21 07:40:11 +0000 UTCGuys, anchovies are not good on pizza. I accidentally reaffirmed this last week.
Matthew Comegys
2024-04-21 06:23:21 +0000 UTCSaving this episode for work on Monday, but god I hope there's a Sam Rockwell sidebar. "Regular or menthol?"
Hangtime
2024-04-21 05:53:25 +0000 UTCPais as Raph can get it. https://images.app.goo.gl/XzKuPEFQd5aYAC869
Andrew Wyslotsky
2024-04-21 05:32:00 +0000 UTCNot to belabor the obvious but if you haven’t checked out Shōgun yet, do it for our Mother Emily Yoshida but also do it to see some shinobi, it is a ninja-friendly zone on Shōgun
Rad Rodge
2024-04-21 05:24:40 +0000 UTCI love how into the TMNT lore Ben is. I fuckin’ love the Turtles.
Anthony Regina
2024-04-21 05:24:26 +0000 UTC“We’re headed to the sewers” that timeless call to arms that we’ve answered again and again
Rad Rodge
2024-04-21 05:10:23 +0000 UTCHell yeah bröther
Rad Rodge
2024-04-21 05:09:46 +0000 UTCYou know things are good when you see a “movie starts at” this long in
Anthony Regina
2024-04-21 04:56:21 +0000 UTC“Movie starts at 29:30” god I love this show
Deren Ney
2024-04-21 04:36:00 +0000 UTCThis ain’t an airport, Dad. No one announces their departure.
Fred Skull
2024-04-21 04:21:51 +0000 UTC"God, I love being a TURTLE!!!!"
Francis Cooke
2024-04-21 04:16:23 +0000 UTCTurtles count it off: 1! 2! 3! 4! Turtles! Mutant chain reaction. (Turtles!) Livin' underground! (Turtles!) Ninjutsu action! (Turtles!) It's a shell of a town! Turtles count it off: (1!) Live by the code of the martial arts... (2!) Never fight unless someone else starts. (3!) Always stick together no matter what... (4!) If all else fails, then it's time to kick butt! I love bein' a.... I love bein' a.... I love bein' a Turtle! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Turtles count it off: 1! 2! 3! 4! Turtles! There's no one better. (Turtles!) Shredder: Watch out for Shredder! (Turtles!) They're like no others! (Turtles!) Those teenage brothers! 1! 2! 3! 4! 1! 2! 3! 4! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! (Turtles! Turtles!)
Agiddysea
2024-04-21 04:11:21 +0000 UTCJoke’s on you, I’m paying for you!! Enjoy your LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION BITCH
Dani Hatch
2024-04-21 04:10:02 +0000 UTCBoles me over with a feather
Michael Haydon
2024-04-21 04:09:27 +0000 UTCPlease keep us all updated on your comings and goings.
Brennan Loptien
2024-04-21 04:08:06 +0000 UTCI’m not paying for dudes in their 30s to talk about how cool Ninja Turtles is. You guys have fun, I’ll be back cod board games.
Justice Boles
2024-04-21 04:06:35 +0000 UTCWise men say, 'Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza.
Tom
2024-04-21 04:06:05 +0000 UTC😭‼️ HELL YEAH!!!!!
Ancient alien
2024-04-21 04:05:39 +0000 UTCI never knew I needed this
Scott Carberry
2024-04-21 04:05:05 +0000 UTCCowabunga! The day is finally here....been waiting for this commentary series.
Tim Huff
2024-04-21 04:04:46 +0000 UTCBlankies In A Halfshell?
Fred Skull
2024-04-21 04:04:32 +0000 UTC
