Toon Binge: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)

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Welcome to the inaugural blog for Toon Binge, a blog that will look at one cartoon from the eighties and nineties and give reviews for every episode. Not deep reviews, more like a basic simple paragraph or two, a rating overall and some other stuff that might be relevant to that particular show. Now, this blog isn't going to start with every episode reviewed already and instead is set to put up new quick reviews for each episode every day (give or take times when I am unable). And to kick things off, we're going back to 1987 with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. One of the first cartoons I became a massive fan of as a young kid.

Based on the 1984 comic by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles follows the exploits of four teenage anthropomorphic mutant turtles, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo who live in the sewers with their sensei, a rat named Splinter. Along with the help of reporter April O'Neil and other characters, the turtles fight crime and defeat plenty of villains including The Shredder, Krang, The Rat King, Baxter Stockman and more. The show became a massive success, not only on television, but in the toy aisle. Not to mention video games, movies and any piece of viable merchandise that you could slap a turtle face on. The show lasted from 1987 all the way to 1996. Ten seasons total, along with 197 episodes. Safe to say this blog will be busy for quite a while.

So, here are the basics I'll cover for each episode review. I'll give my thoughts on the episode, a general rating based mainly on the quality of the show itself. I'll bring up any notable animation errors (and oh boy are there plenty), mention if this is an episode that April gets kidnapped, and mention the many, many weird fetishes that this show created (more on the "for fun" over anything actually gross, obviously). So, let's get this half-shell epic underway.