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Imagine when TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES was first proposed 'Well, see, we'll have these anthropomorphic turtles who live in the sewer and practice martial arts under a rat named uh, Splinter. The turtles will be named after Renaissance artists and uh, of course they'll love pizza...

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zaratustra's avatar zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social
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apparently the pitch was just one of them drawing a turtle with nunchucks and the other writing "turtle mutant" underneath. and history was born

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CougarSpider's avatar CougarSpider @cougarspider.bsky.social
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The only two countries I see such a hallucinatory drug dream get approved for production are (1) the United States (2) Japan

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Jonathan Reeves's avatar Jonathan Reeves @plunderpress.bsky.social
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It makes a little more sense when you realise a lot of the original pitch is spoofing on Marvel's Daredevil. Admittedly "a little more" is not "perfect" by any metric, but there *is* a method behind the madness.

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