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Turbo Teen changed my life


No, not really. I thought it was pretty abysmal actually.

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U'll be hard pressed to find people who actually remember it like us, then again, i am genious.

"...insert corny quote here"

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I wonder where I could go to find a copy of an episode or two. I barely remember it but really need to see it again... just once.

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I remember Turbo Teen in bits and pieces, mostly some of the ways he kept changing. I remember once he was in a phone booth that was stuck shut and he got hot cause it was in the day time and then blam, sports car and smashed phone booth.

I also remember he and his friends had to get going to chase the bad guy and someone spilled an icecream sundae on his hood thus rendering him powerless (seems like they had to go find hot cocoa or coffee to get him back in the game).

"They have a grill, it's this grill. Now you have it...it's called America."

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Yes, Pole Position was the game back in the day. (Muffled Voice) Prepare to Qualify. beep beep.

I always loved how in Grand Theft Auto Vice City the name of the strip joint is the Pole Position club.

"They have a grill, it's this grill. Now you have it...it's called America."

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I had no clue they made a Pole Position cartoon. That's right up the with the cartoon with the Rubik's cube and the cartoon about Q*Bert. I will have to do my research on that one.

"They have a grill, it's this grill. Now you have it...it's called America."

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Yeah Q*Bert was a video game first. In the game you had Q*Bert on a large 3-D like triangle thing and he just hopped back and forth on the squares changing their color.

The Rubik's cube cartoon I can barely remember except that it was like Turbo Teen. If Rubik was fixed and all colors lined up he was a little guy who ran around helping the kids in trouble and such...but if he so much as fell over the wrong way he scrambled and couldn't be alive till they fixed him back again. I remember one seen where the kids hands were tied behind his back and he was able to put Rubik together behind the back so that Rubik could untie his hands.

Funny how you think about these things from time to time.

"They have a grill, it's this grill. Now you have it...it's called America."

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Well, since you're so fans of Turbo Teen as I am I leave you a link where you can see some transformation sequences of our common friend Brett Matthews. The direction is:

http://tracker210.tripod.com/turbopics2.html

Enjoy!

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Sorry...seems the links are not working

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lol at mike rotch who decided to come in here and say that shiz rite there. Who in the hell said "Hey, we'll make a cartoon about a boy who can turn into a car. Hey all boys wanna be a car, right?" I'll tell y'all what though. The coolest person ever who did do that was Michael Jackson in moonwalker. I wonder if he watched turbo Teen? You know he had to. B4 u start ragging on Mj. Yeah we know he not the man no more, but damnit, in the 80s he was King!!! Still would be nobody knock him off the throne.........he did that.


Wake up loving everybody. By the time you`re sleep, you`ll know who to hate.

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heck yeah. cbs had a saturday morning line up of atari cartoons called the saturday morning supercade...pole position, q-bert, pac-man, and donkey kong. and i almost think they had a space invaders cartoon as well.

as for rubik the amazing cube, that's possibly one of my earliest memories based on the year it came out 1983, i would have been 3. i remember rubik getting mixed up in a bag of rubik's cubes and the kids had to solve them all to try and find them. menudo had a lot to do with the show too for some reason.

It's ALWAYS about Nathan Grantham's undead satanic zombie powers.

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I tell you what, I feel bad for that kid. I mean, it's going to be hard for him when he hits puberty and wants to spend some time alone with a woman. He'll have to keep his cool, literally before scaring her half to death!

Imagine how it will be when/if he gets married? What kind of marital relations can you have with a man who turns into a car when he's hot?!

I guess if he ever had a teenage son, it would be cool for him. He could brag to his friends about his "classic wheels". He could even show them off, providing his father was hot before bringing the friends over! LOL

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I remember that when people were riding in him (that sounds a lot weirder on here than in my head) and he would change back into a person, he would end up on all fours with the people sitting on his back.
That would be so uncomfortable.

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As cool as the premise of the show was, it left so many things unanswered or really kind of stupid.

Like he would be walking down the road on a hot day, but not change into the car. Why?

The ability to change seemed to not follow the premise unless he really needed to change or something. lol

It also didn't make sense to me from a logical standpoint why they made his transformation that way (getting hot or cold).

I mean really, if the guy was real he could never be married or have children. Think about that. lol

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Okay, this one scarred me for life. I was a bit older when this was on, so I remember it a little better than most you guys.

He turned into a car, only when he got hot. He had no contol over it. When he got hot *BAM* turned into a car.

The second thing (and the disturbing part) was he couldn't drive himself. His sister would hop inside him, grab the stick, and drive him aound. I found this concept creepy...

The show basically revolved around a few stock situations...
the "Teens" (I con't recall the family name) would get caught someplace they were not supposed to be, his siter would get him hot, turn into a car, and drive away laughing. *OR* Some greedy businessman would see this strange sportscar rolling about and want it for himself. They would steal it, yes car-boy would often fall into the hands of strange men, and they would lock the car up in a garage/warehouse or what have you. Sis would arrive to save him, cool him off so that he'd change back into a human, and try to slip away from the bad men. The bad men would pursue , sis would get him hot and they'd drive away to do... something?

This thing still creeps me out years later. the people who thought this up should have had their heads examined. What exactly were they encoraging kids to do? Incest? Kidnapping? Playing in traffic?

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