Been a while for one of these…my bad. Things have gotten kinda crazy and I got off schedule REALLY bad, but I’m back! I asked my mom for a suggestion this week and she gave me one that was so obvious I can’t believe I didn’t think of it myself!
There was a tv show from my childhood that I ADORED. I watched it every Saturday morning when I woke up and had many of the action figures. I often imagined that I was a character from this tv show. If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’ll give you this video.
Yes, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I saw every episode of the tv show and all three movies.
Now you’ll notice that I said THREE movies and not four. This is because I’m not counting that last, cartoon one…
because, although it DID pick up right where the third REAL movie left off, it’s not part of the trilogy and never will be a real ninja turtles movie in my mind and the mind of many others from my generation.
I loved these four turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello), their trainer (Splinter) and their friends (April O’Neil and Casey Jones). I don’t care how many times I’ve seen the movies (which I own, btw)…I could always watch them again and love them just as much! I even saw a live action stage performance with two of my friends Jared and Quinn when I was in grade school. I was in heaven during it and I came home with a plastic samurai sword (which I later melted on the space heater, lol).
All in all, this tv show/movie was a great chunk of my childhood and I often will still pull the movies out and watch them again…and it’s glorious!
Until next time…God Bless!
-Tyler
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