Turtle Spotting!

Growing Old

I had a weird Turtle sighting yesterday. Flipping through channels I caught a glimpse of a group of kids, one wearing a Leo mask! The kids were visiting/entertaining elderly people with alzheimers. I checked the TV guide and it was called "Growing Old" and it was on some little tiny local cable channel.
Submitted by Venus

Home Improvement

Al had a pet turtle. The poor turtle had an accident (SNIFF). At the pet doctor, Al told the doctor, what Scooter (the pet turtle) likes: "He only gets the best food. The best salad. And can he get a color TV? He likes to watch NINJA TURTLES!"
Submitted by Turtles-Boy

A Time To Learn

It was about how infants learned to talk and at one point had two five year olds (boy and girl) playing with all four large sized plush TMNT dolls while whispering to each other about something. :) Cute!
The other sighting came near the end of the show with a 3 year old holding a smaller plush Leo and saying "A big Leonardo" to his Dad. :)
Submitted by Dinogrrl

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

Cooper has just fessed up that he wasn't really the one who stopped a recent bank robbery, it was a woman, and he'd been lying and taking all the credit for it.
Some actress on the show: Who was that woman? Cooper: I dunno! She was just like this Mutant Ninja Wonder Chick or something!
Submitted by Lola S. Cubish

Married. . . With Children

I had once saw an ep of "Maried With Children" where Kelly teases Bud about having a Ninja Turtle pillow-
KELLY: "Oh Donatello, your shell is so soft!"
Submitted byRacoono

Get Real

Cameron: Were's a pic of Kenny in the bathtub with his Ninja Turtles doll?
Kenny: It was an action figure.
Meghan: I still remember when Cam melted Michaelangelo in the mircowave.
Cameron: I was testing his super powers.
Submitted by PG

Upwardly Mobile

In the scene, two slightly panic stricken folk had just run into a room, to try to save the other two from impending doom, at the hands, err teeth, of a potentially poisonous fish. Seems the 'pet' that had been purchased was a killer (or so the panicked duo had seen on tv). The four argued about the safety of the fish and the following took place:
But it was on the telly!
So were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Oh yeah. Heh, they were good, weren't they?
Submitted by Raph

In Living Color

I was watching an old skit from the show "In Living Color" and there was a scene with 2 of the guys playing pimpish executives trying to sell afro-versions of classic movies and at the end of the skit, one of the guys said "We also did Teenage Mutant Negro Turtles!"
Submitted by Jeoace

Boogie's Diner

One of the guys there had a bald head. He wanted to go out with his friends and one of them said:
"Hey, it's even hard to get a chick, if everything goes fine, but how does it look, if you come along with a Ninja Turtle!"
Submitted by Turtles-Boy

Teen Angel

In one ep. Steve invites Jordan to go to a wrestling match thingy instead of his angel buddy, Marty. Marty does the whole 'big eye' thing at Steve, who says something similar to:
Steve: Hey man, what's up? I haven't seen you this upset since you found out the Ninja Turtles weren't real...
Marty: I told you NEVER to mention that..!
Submitted by Andrea

Clueless

The two boys (Ya know, the two who are always wearing whacky hats. Shawn and ?) wanted to find a new extreme sport. While they tried to find something, one of them had an accident and crashed with his head against a shelf and a NT-TNM Donatello figure fell down on a toy chute and slided it down!!!
Then they took the Donnie action figure and then they said:
"I've got it! Imagine, that Donatello is real!"
"This wouldn't be the first time."
Subbmitted by Turtles-boy

Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Hillary says to a decorator: "Pea green patio chairs? I don't think so! We're not having a wedding for The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!"
Submitted by Lola S. Cubish

Roseanne

Geeze...the turtles seem to keep popping up in one form or another. Last night Anthony and I were watching Roseanne, and he noticed that DJ's door had a TMNT poster on it. I didn't see it, but he said he thinks it was the movie poster. :) Anyway, then a few mins later in the same episode, guess who should appear but Judith Hoag! Coincidence? I think not! ;)
Submitted by Dawnatello

Jepoardy

At least two ninja turtles questions have been asked on Jeopardy. To see the questions, go to http://www.tmnt.net and go to "Other," then "Jeopardy"...
Submitted by John

"Bernard And The Genie"

Look at for a telemovie named "Bernard And The Genie" - a tale about a newly-sacked art historian who finds a genie (Lenny Henry) in an old lamp.
Towards the end of the story, the two use the Genie's wish-granting powers to thrill the kids visiting Santa's workshop in a department store. One little boy goes in with a turtle doll, and comes out with a live ninja turtle (Leonardo, played by David Forman from the first movie), who does a few ninja moves. (This is also in the movie section, but subbmitted by Raph)
Submitted by Scott

Conan O'Brian

There was a Conan skit in which they watched various satelite programs. One of the channels they watched was the cartoon superheros network.
Conan: Next we're going to watch the Cartoon Superheros Network.
Andy: Oh yeah, they brought out Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a few years back.
Conan: Yeah, yeah. Well, now they're debuting their latest: Heavy Metal Cross Dressing Country Club Hogs.
Thus followed a montage mimicking the TMNT theme song, with pictures of tatooed hogs wearing womens clothing in various country club settings.
There was another skit done on Conan O'Brien of the same type: Embrionic Polka-dotted Rockabilly Fighter Pilots.You can imagine what that one looked like.
Submitted by Me!

Cheers

In one episode (not sure which one) some one says something about Mutant Turtles (they don't actualy say Teenage Mutnt Ninja Turtles). Then Cliff goes and says that most people don't realize that "they" started out as a comic book.
Submitted by Michaelangelo

The other sighting is from the last episode of Cheers. At the very beginning, before the theme song or anything, they're watching that awards show on the TV. The host of the awards show says something like, "And now here is Alistair Cooke and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
Submitted by Michaelangelo

Oh, there was another cheers one, in fact; the epi where Frasier was going to get the bar interested in the great classics. He was explaining a Shakespere play, and when everone seemed bored with it, he said ". . . and four mutated teenage reptiles who fight crime from their sewer lair." Everyone immeadetly became interested and Norm said "Cowabunga!"
Submitted by me!

NBC

Our local NBC station has these short little commercial type things they show every now and then called "The more you know" (not sure if this is done nationally). There's this one about reading, telling kids to read and stuff. And for one of the shots they have of one of the news anchors is of him reading an issure of the TMNT Image series!
Submitted by Michaelangelo

E!

On E! (The Entertainment channel) they used to have a segment in which they would stop people on the street and ask them if anyone ever told them they looked like a celebrity. Then, E! would put in a photo of the celebrity and play sound effects according to if they thought it was a match or not, and they would save the best one for last and play a big gong sound with it. Well, this one woman said people told her she looked like a Ninja Turtle, so they put up a picture of Leonardo from TMNTI and she got the gong sound.
Submitted by Robbette

The Simpsons

I caught sight of a guy on the Simpsons in a crowd scene who was wearing a green shirt and a red eyemask.
Submitted by Robbette

Singled Out

It was round three, where they ask the questions, and Chris Hardwick said :
"Cooler: Power Rangers of Ninja Turtles?"
girl #1: "Ninja Turtles."
girl #2: "Ninja Turtles."
girl #3: "Ninja Turtles."
Chris: "Whatd you say, (whatever his name was)?"
guy: "Ninja Turtles!"
Submitted by Futbalhed

A Made for TV Movie, Sometime. . .

There was a made for TV movie that came out in about '90 or early '91 that starred Markie Post. I think she was in a car accident, and a man and his son who lived on a farm rescued her, and carried her back to their house while she was unconcious. She was lying on the couch, still out cold, and the son leaned over and said "Can we keep her?!" JUST like Mike from TMNT1.
Submitted by Robette

Mystery Science Theater 3000

In one ep, Catalina Caper, this is what we hear:
Creepy Girl:His name is Angelo
Tom Servo:AND he's a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Submitted by Michaelangelo

in another ep, this is the scene:
Joel has a setup of some action figures and Barbie and Ken. The scene revolves around captain Joe, the drunk in the movie they're watching. One of the sction figures is Donatello. This is what is said by Joel, playing Donatello:
"Captain Joe, dude. I loved you. But I'm not going to sit here and watch you cowabungle your life"
Submitted by Michaelangelo

A third episode with a TMNT reference: The name of the movie they watch is Master Ninja 1. I can't quote exactly, but there's a line that sounds something like this:
I haven't been able to get a wink of sleep ever since those @#!$ turtles moved in next door.
Submitted by Michaelangelo

Full House

Joey (Dave Coulier) wore TMNT slippers. He was always "buffing" them on his pajamas.
Submitted by TurtleNinja

In one episode, they were in this restaurant and in the background, hanging on the wall, was a TMNT: The Movie poster. It was one I hadn't seen before...had Splinter on it with the TMNT and April. Don't know if CJ was in it, tho.
Submitted by TurtleNinja

Today, I was watching an ep of "Full House". It was the ep, where the wife of Jessie told him, that she was pregnant.
Well, the whole family was playing "Picture guessing". Jessie's wife, said, that the picture, she was about to draw, would be a movie title.
And here is the Turtle part: Michelle shouted "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".
Submitted by Turtles-Boy

Dinasaurs

There are several references to the TMNT in Dinasaurs. Throughout the series, Robbie has a Teenage Mutant Ninja Caveman poster on the inside of his door. Also, in one episode, Earl buys Baby a Teenage Mutant Ninja Caveman action figure - which Earl calls "A Ninja Mutant thingie Teenage Caveman Ninja thingie."
Submitted by me!

Doogie Howser

In this one episode, Doogie and Vinnie were in an art gallery, and Vinnie was claiming he could interpret the art because of his Italian heritage. He said something like:
Vinnie: Haven't you ever heard of Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo?
Doogie: Vinnie! Those are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Submitted by Robbette

Murphy Brown

Some show on Fox after the Simpsons, sometime. . .

There was a sitcom on Fox in about '90. I think it was on following the Simpsons, and it starred Wendy Jo whats-her-name. She wore a Ninja Turtle costume in one episode. Hmm, anybody can help me be less vague here?
UPDATE: The short-lived sitcom was called "Babes" and it was on Fox after the Simpsons in 90 or 91. In one episode, the main character dressed up as Michaelangelo to entertain a bunch of kids. She even yelled "Cowabunga." :)
Submitted by Venus