1. They were the first on-screen turtles whose entire diet consisted of pizza.
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Their mutation probably protected them from the constipation from all that cheese.
2. Cheezus Crust! That's humongous!
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3. They had an appreciation for vintage video games.
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4. As ninjas, their disguises were "flawless."
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5. "What? No way...those guys with the reptilian skin in trench coats were actually giant turtles trained in martial arts? Who would've guessed?"
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6. Like teenagers, they didn't take themselves or their job too seriously.
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7. When they used words like "cowabunga," "radical," and "gnarly," it made us forget that we were watching talking turtles fight crime every week.
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8. They were the typical Californian teenagers everybody wanted to be.
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Except they lived in NYC.
9. They loved cats.
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You can't see it, but off-screen, splinter is stuck halfway through a hole in the wall.
10. You knew you were a true "Turtles" fan when you wore out your VHS tape that you used exclusively for the show.
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11. They had the newest and coolest technology, and knew how to use it.
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At least in the '90s it was pretty new and cool.
12. The amount of times Michaelangelo said "cowabunga" was too damn high.
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Even Bart Simpson has asked him to bring it down a notch.
13. They were more than just a team, they were a band of brothers.
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14. The show actually felt like they had a moral obligation to tell kids this.
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15. Good luck not singing this song to yourself throughout the day.
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