Line #64 ShoutOut/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012


1	* If you listen carefully, both Baxter in "His Name Was Baxter Stockman" and Chris Bradford in "Mousers Attack!" yell "Oh yeah!" when they burst through walls, like a certain anthropomorphized punch bowl is known to do...
2	* In episode 4, when Mikey does his "Secret Kata", one of his moves is the henshin pose of ''Series/KamenRiderV3''. Mikey in general loves doing the famous [[Series/KamenRider Ichigo arm-thrust]].
3	** Also, the Foot-Bots do kiais that sound like the [[Series/KamenRider Shocker]] Combatmen.
4	* Part of Chris Bradford's Death Dragon Kata involved [[Film/TheKarateKid sweeping the leg]], and yes, it's [[CallingYourAttacks actually called out.]]
5	* Xever apparently buys his boots from the same store [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin does]].
6	** Dogpound does the same thing in episode 11.
7	* Not only does Metalhead have a RocketPunch, his HyperspaceArsenal includes a pair of pointy red wings that just scream ''Anime/MazingerZ''.
8	* Creator/JeffreyCombs plays Dr. Falco, a MadScientist who injects himself with a green goo. He's [[ActorAllusion been in this]] [[Film/ReAnimator situation]] [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime before]].
9	* Creator/GilbertGottfried plays Krang Sub-Prime, a hostile alien attempting to wipe out humanity and constantly cackles with an annoying laugh. He's been [[ActorAllusion in this]] [[Characters/MyGymPartnersAMonkey situation before when he played as Ricky Platypus]].
10	* The "Creatures" Magazine that the Turtles read in their downtime is modeled after the now defunct "Famous Monsters of Filmland" Magazine.
11	* Donnie's smoke bombs produce [[ComicBook/XMen a purple cloud of smoke and a loud "BAMF!"]]
12	* In "Panic in the Sewers", [[spoiler:Dogpound]] tells [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} the driver to]] "GetOut" [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} of the tanker]].
13	** Also from "Panic in the Sewers", [[spoiler:The Shredder scratches his claws against a wall as he's walking toward Leonardo in Splinter's nightmare, a method [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] is fond of.]]
14	** The newly mutated [[spoiler:Bradford/Rahzar]] does the exact same thing, except this time, it's not a nightmare.
15	* At the end of "New Girl in Town", when Raph points out that Karai is with the Foot Clan, Leo just smiles and says [[Film/SomeLikeItHot "Nobody's perfect."]]
16	* The sword Karai wants Leo to steal with her used to belong to UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi.
17	* You can briefly hear Pac Man sound effects from the Kraang's computer in "The Alien Agenda".
18	* There are two scenes that call back to [[WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce GO!]], a show that was created by Ciro Nieli.
19	* Shredder has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko loyal Akita named Hachiko]].
20	* Previews for season 2 show a Kraang with [[Manga/AstroBoy "butt cannons"]].
21	* The Technodrome capture pods resemble a familiar tool from [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} another franchise]].
22	* In the online Nickelodeon TMNT game ''Trick or Treat Tussle'', Mikey's Halloween costume is Spongebob.
23	* The end of "The Mutation Situation" features a squirrel turning to the camera to a ScareChord after [[spoiler:drinking Mutagen]], a reference to the "Dramatic Chipmunk" meme.
24	** Also the radar tracking device that Don makes in the episode was once an old UsefulNotes/GameBoy, even making the classic start-up noise when turned on.
25	* In " Invasion of the Squirrelanoids", Splinter tells everyone to "[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo split up and search]] every room" to find the mutant squirrels.
26	-->'''Raph:''' Split up to search in the dark for multiplying mutants. [[LampshadeHanging Could we pick a more cliche way to die?]]"
27	* The entire episode itself is ''very'' clearly a shout out the {{Franchise/Alien}} movies. The squirrels reproduce inside their hosts, they soon grow into huge, black, skeletal monsters, and have a mouth within their mouth. Also in Michelangelo's comic, only one person manages to survive to the end.
28	--->'''Michelangelo:''' [[Film/{{Aliens}} Game over man! Game over!]]
29	* In ''Mutagen Man Unleashed'', a show that Mikey watches, "Super Robo Mecha Force Five Team Five Go", both references ''[[Anime/{{Voltron}} Voltron]]'', and ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'', a show that Ciro Nieli previously worked on.
30	* In ''Target: April O'Neil'', Casey mentions playing hockey against a team from [[Creator/{{Troma}} "Troma Town."]]
31	* By the time they start mentioning "Kraang units of weight", the Kraang RunningGag sounds more and more like the running gag in ''Film/TheDictator.''
32	* It may be coincidence, but the Pulverizer's moves when playing with Donnie's staff have more than a passing resemblance to the Star Wars Kid.
33	* In "The Good The Bad And Casey Jones", Casey's doodle of himself standing victoriously over a beaten Raph is in the style of the original Eastman/Laird comics. Also, Casey's goalie stick has "East-Man" spraypainted on it.
34	* In "Fungus Humungous", Mikey starts jumping on mushrooms and says:
35	-->'''Michelangelo:''' Check it out! [[Franchise/{{Super Mario Bros}} Super Mikey Brothers!]]
36	* In "Metalhead Rewired" Metalhead is plugged into a Krang Computer, he then makes a sound [[Franchise/StarWars just like R2-D2]] when the computer explodes.
37	* In "Mikey Gets Shellacne", Baxter Stockman gets outfitted with what looks like a particular collar from ''Film/SawIII'', except it's equipped with mutagen vials instead of shoutgun shells. The shout out is continued in "The Lonely Mutation of Baxter Stockman" wherein Baxter pretty much acts out like one of Jigsaw's victims desperately trying to remove their mounted trap after Shredder activates the collar. It pretty much goes as much as most Saw traps considering the episode title.
38	* In ''The Invasion Part 1'' the Kraang give a shout out to the ultimate MechaMooks when one yells [[Series/DoctorWho Exterminate! Exterminate!]]
39	* "Within the Woods" contains '''multiple''' references to the second and third ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films: [[spoiler:the mutant's shrine, which resembles Jason's shrine to his mother, the burlap sack the monster tied over its head, the head wound it received from April, and even replacing its sack with a discarded hockey mask. It even used a pitchfork, just like Jason!]]
40	** 'Film/WithinTheWoods' is also the name of the proto-film that Creator/SamRaimi and Creator/BruceCampbell made on their path to creating ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''. The episode also features several shout-outs to that, like tree limbs dragging people off.
41	* Some of Anton Zeck's DanceBattler moves and the sounds he makes reference the [[Music/MichaelJackson The King of Pop]].
42	* In "Vision Quest", Raph (voiced by Sean Austin) finds himself in an underwater cave and complains about the lack of a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheGoonies hidden pirate ship.]]
43	* In "the Pig and the Rhino", when Bebop and Rocksteady search for Leo and Mikey, Bebop calls out "Turtles, come out and play-yay," just like the main villain of ''Film/TheWarriors''. Even more, this takes place in Coney Island, the home turf of the Warriors in the movie.
44	* This [[http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Space_Heroes.png slide]] for ''Space Heroes'' is an extremely obscure one- the logo for WYBS-TV 47 references an actual former TV station in Philadelphia, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKBS-TV_(Philadelphia) WKBS-TV 48]], with the logo modeled after the one they used in the early 70s. The station shut down in 1983 because the company that owned it, Field Communications of Chicago, was selling all their stations (the half-brothers who ran the company, the descendants of Marshall Field, the guy who founded the famous department store, had a feud and couldn't work together) and they couldn't find anyone to buy it.
45	* "The Noxious Avenger" is pretty much a more family-friendly version of Film/TheToxicAvenger, being an average man mutated into a "Monster Hero".
46	* Steranko, the Russian mobster who [[spoiler: eventually mutates into Rocksteady]], is named after ComicBook/NickFury artist Jim Steranko.
47	* Anton Zeck, the thief who stole Shredder's helmet [[spoiler:and later turns into Bebop]], gets his name from comic book artist Mike Zeck.
48	** His name resembles "Anton Drek," the pen-name used by Eastman and Laird's 80s B&W comics peer Don "ComicBook/MegatonMan" Simpson when he was drawing adult comics.
49	* The Chris Bradford action figure Raph is holding at the beginning of "Meet Mondo Gecko" is dressed as the animated-toy version of Chuck Norris.
50	* Leo using dual sabers and grappling guns to take on the giant monster in "Attack of the Mega Shredder" is one for the ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' series.
51	* In "The Creeping Doom", Raph attacks the Creep for an extended period, exhausting himself while the Creep passively takes his blows. Raph then tells the Creep to take his best shot, and gets knocked across the roof in one hit. This is a reference to an OverlyLongGag in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan'', where a boxer attacks Jason to no avail. In that case, he got his head punched off.
52	** Another connection is that Creator/KellyHu (Karai) was one of Jason's victims in that movie.
53	* The dragon that [[spoiler:eats Crognard in the series finale]] is unmistakably [[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983 Tiamat]].
54	* So [[spoiler:right before the Earth is destroyed, a friendly alien let's them "hitch a ride" on a spaceship to escape being killed with the rest of the planet.]] [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Did the dolphins leave ahead of time?]]
55	* The time travel the Turtles, April and Casey experience resembles the 'star gate' sequence in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
56	* April's pose in the yellow suit comes to mind of Film/{{Barbarella}}.
57	* The [[RunningGag traditional]] ShowWithinAShow for Season 4? ''Chris Bradford's 2 Ruff Krew'', a parody of ''WesternAnimation/ChuckNorrisKarateKommandos'' with elements from the Mr. T and Rambo cartoons from the 80's. Bradford also states a "Chris Bradford fact" in [[Website/ChuckNorrisFacts another reference to Norris]].
58	* The missiles of Armaggon's armor are very similar to [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld Torpedo Ted]], the aquatic counterpart of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bullet Bill]].
59	* The beginning of "Arena of Carnage" references ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' and ''Franchise/StreetFighter''- Leonardo jumps into the air while yelling [[CallingYourAttacks "Shoryuken!"]] while Mikey dizzies Rahzar and finishes him off with a [[FinishingMove "Balloonality."]]
60	* April's third outfit is a [[PaletteSwap color-inverted]] version of The Bride's suit from Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/KillBill'', which itself is a ShoutOut to Creator/BruceLee's iconic jumpsuit from ''Film/GameOfDeath''.
61	* Splinter's "drunk" training sequence with the Turtles in "Tale of Tiger Claw" brings to mind Creator/JackieChan's classic ''Film/DrunkenMaster''.
62	* The series finale episode, "Raphael: Mutant Wasteland", has a series of homages to the ''Film/MadMax'' film series, including Raphael quoting ''Fury Road's'' "What a day. What a lovely day" tagline and beginning the episode with a raggedy beard not unlike the one Max began the film with.
63	** The finale shares has a few similarities to ''Film/{{Logan}}'': the aging anti-hero looking after a LittleMissBadass.
64	** Raph sports a LanternJawOfJustice, not unlike another old anti-hero badass from ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''.
65	** While delirious from the heat, Raph begins to recite part of the first Voight-Kampff test from ''Film/BladeRunner'', specifically the part about the "...tortoise on its back, baking in the hot sun..."
66	* In "The Crypt of Dracula", Leonardo wears several protective amulets as part of his monster hunter costume. One of them is the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Elder Sign]].
67	* Rat King's white rat Aristotle is a reference to ''Literature/{{Willard}}''. In the book (and films), the main character has the ability to control rats, and his most prized and loyal one is an albino named Socrates.
68	* In "The Foot Walks Again," the EPF's "1987" vault appropriately contains numerous nods to popular [[TheEighties 80s]] media, including [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy's glove,]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Geordi's visor,]] and [[Franchise/RoboCop RoboCop's]] ''[[Franchise/RoboCop head.]]''
69	* The fifth season opening title scene is a clear nod to Anime/CowboyBebop.
70	* In "Never Say Xever" when the turtles reveal they have Bradford Donnie goes, "[[Series/TheATeam I love it when a change of plan comes together.]]"

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