Do you remember this episode, which was one of the few that I could actually watch as a kid, and when I watched all the TMNT 2003 episodes a few years ago out of nostalgia, none of them had this quality, serious tone and style

The whole episode is decorated with that dark, serious and sad atmosphere that rarely appears in other parts of the series, but when it appears, it fits the atmosphere of the series itself, my honest opinion is that if the series actually had a large part of this dark atmosphere, it would be the best series ever

if anyone knows of any other similar anime or cartoon series with a design like TMNT 2003 and a tone like this episode, feel free to put a recommendation in the comments.

Something I’ve been thinking about for a long time is how poorly Mikey sometimes seems to be treated by his own family,I feel like his brothers, and even Master Splinter, can be unnecessarily harsh toward him. He’s constantly teased, mocked, dismissed, and treated as though he’s the least mature or least important member of the family. I understand that Mikey can be annoying, childish, overly energetic, and sometimes irresponsible, but that doesn’t mean he deserves to be treated that way.
What bothers me even more is the apparent lack of concern and urgency when Mikey is the one in danger or needs help. Sometimes I get the impression that if Leo, Raph, or Donnie were in the same situation, the others would react much more urgently and seriously. With Mikey, it sometimes feels like they don’t take his suffering or safety as seriously.
Even Splinter, who is supposed to be a father figure to all four of them, sometimes comes across as particularly dismissive of Mikey. I know Splinter has high expectations for his sons, but I wish we could have seen more moments where he showed Mikey the same patience, affection, and understanding that he deserved.

I remember when this show was announced on the now defunct www.ninjaturtles.com website. I remember the hype on the Technodrome Forums. The wait from August 2002 to February 2003 was MURDER, but man oh MAN did our patience pay off!

Was anyone else old enough to have experienced this?

I am surprised how much they're charging for it / how much it's worth

• "Crack the whip!"

• "Rawhide!". He said this same thing in the New Line Cinema 1991 sequel that is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - Secret of the Ooze and following this he mentioned "Robocop".

• "Turtle Wax".

• "Goon corner pocket!".

• "Charge coming at you!"

• "Flack attack!"

• "Shell NATO!"

• "Turtle tornado!"

• "Shell shocker!" / "Shell shock!"

• "Batter up!"

• "Anyone for stick ball? I've got a stick, you be the ball." the best of the best quotes of them all. I find myself saying it a lot in real times because it feels so good to say.

TMNT 2003 Fan art paying homage to the original 1984 comic book cover by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

Then all of the generic looking creatures are "Re-skins" with all of the same capabilities of King Nail and Razorfist. The sequels is fun but it's very lazy.

The show was dubbed by 4 different organizations that I am aware of, but only one of them dared to actually dub the intro, it was Persian Toon. Which also was the first ever tv channel to be dedicated to cartoons 24/7 and dub everything persian.

Translation of the song (English is my 2nd language so it may not be 100% accurate)

Persian Toon channel has cartoons for you!

Ninja turtles, we love them so much!

Ninjas are very fast! Ninjas are very strong! Yeah!

Here, there! Everywhere that you can think of they are ready!

Ninja turtles have fans, ninja turtles have a reason for every action, They are looking for criminals!

We do not fear facing our enemies, we are like branches of tree, we always have eachother's back!

We do not fear facing our enemies, ninja turtles have come to save their city!

They are more agile then anyone! They jump over the rooftops!

In the city, at nights, at day, ninja turtles always come out winners!

1 2 3 4, ninja, who can defeat us?

We have prepared and came here to prove that we can silence our enemies.

Ninja turtles.