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Bet they have to go to the same shoe store as the Rescue Heroes.

Here we go, nearing the end of this article series based on current available TV shows…and this is the most confusing for me. Back when Nickelodeon took over the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise I was curious to see what they did with it. Granted, the 4Kids series kind of spoiled me. I even learned to accept Utrom Shredder because otherwise the show was so good and so faithful to the essence of the source material while doing its own thing, something none of the other shows can boast. Maybe the first movie. It’s something that is dying in modern adaptations, but that’s getting off-topic. When this show aired its first episode…I was not impressed and said so in a review. While I’ve softened on the intro and I’ve heard the story does get good (outside of the Donatello/April/Casey triangle) the first episode just didn’t really do it for me. Even back then I didn’t call it bad, just not something I personally was interested in, and so I went into these intros sight unseen.

This may have proven to be a problem. Trying to figure out these intros was something of a mess. A Turtlepedia entry on the intros mentions eight different sequences. I will not be showing all eight because thankfully this series isn’t about EVERY intro. The international alone would be difficult but what gets me trying to go over these is that there isn’t a lot of differences between them. You’ll have to check the article for the full list of differences between sequences but trying to do them all would feel like going over every object hiding behind the crumbling castle in Dave The Barbarian or each rhyme after “totally insaney” in the Animaniacs intro. It’s not enough. Let’s start with the first one.

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