🎄 Cowabunga! In nearly 40 years of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series, 2004’s “The Christmas Aliens” is somehow their only animated Christmas episode.
Anthony Strand, Shawn Robare, and Jaime Hood join the ride as we follow Michelangelo and a kitty named Klunk on a Christmas Eve car chase to save a truckload of stolen Little Orphan Alien dolls meant for a group of little orphan human Earthlings, all while Splinter makes a sewer full of guests wait for Mikey to arrive before they eat.
At press time, “The Christmas Aliens” is available on Paramount+.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
Read the original 1985 comic on Mirage Studios’ old, preserved website.
Our episode on “We Wish You a Turtle Christmas.”
The Lost and Unused Theme Songs of the 2003 series.
Bruce Wayne’s long dining room table.
Similar chase scenes in “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Speed.”
Terence Archie (Silver Sentry) as Apollo Creed in “Rocky: The Musical.”
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📼 Commercials:
Happy Honda Days: Ninja Turtles, featuring the original 1980s voice cast (2018).
WIZARDS The Podcast Guide to Comics.
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“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “The Christmas Aliens” © 2004 4Kids Entertainment, Inc., and Mirage Licensing, Inc.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.
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