Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) (season 1)

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The following is a list of quotes from the first season of the 1987 series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Season 1

Turtle Tracks

Michaelangelo: [To April] Well, what do you think?
April: I think you did those robberies. [She makes a break for the exit but is blocked off by Donatello]
Raphael: Ah ah ah ah ah. Wait a minute. Did I miss something here? Ain't you up on current events, lady? We just saved your life.
April: The thieves were ninjas, pal.
Michaelangelo: Yeah, but were they turtles?
April: It doesn't matter. You're still news.
Donatello: No way. You put us on TV and every scientist in town will be after us.
Raphael: And we spent half our lives crawling around the bottom of a glass bowl. And we ain't going back.
Donatello: Which means that you're staying here until we work this out.
Michaelangelo: We're not gonna find anything here.

Enter The Shredder

Shredder: I must congratulate you. [enters to meet the turtles]
Donatello: It's the same guy we fought last night
Shredder: You passed the test with flying colors.
Raphael: Test? What test?
Shredder: Your hairy little friend knows me as Oroku Saki, but you may call me "The Shredder".
Raphael: A kitchen utensil?
Shredder: You would be wise to lose your flippant ways if you wish to join the honorable Foot Clan.
Leonardo: Why should we want to do that?
Shredder: Because it was I who made you what you are today. If not for me, Hamato Yoshi would never have left Japan. I followed him to this country, where I gained my advanced technology, including my rare experimental mutagen. It was I who caused you to mutate into your humanoid form. You owe everything to me! Don't deny your destiny. Join me.
Raphael: Does the phrase "go suck a lemon" hold any meaning to you?

A Thing About Rats

Splinter: What's a matter, April?

[The Turtles have tied up Baxter Stockman]

Michelangelo: You wanna clue us in on what this is?
Baxter: It's the remote control for my mousers.
Leonardo: Do you have any more of these "mousers"?
Baxter: No, but the Shredder has. Hundreds of them.
Leonardo: Where is the Shredder now?
Baxter: I'll never talk.
Raphael: You better. Or else I'm going to get 'Sai-castic'.

[Raphael pulls out his sai and intimidates Baxter.]

Baxter: [He talks in a terrified rapid pace] He's in an old mansion on Green Street near Kent. He's got a master control for all the mousers there.
Raphael: [Sheathes his sai] See? Nothing beats cutting wit.

Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X

[Bebop and Rocksteady are fighting Krang's stone warriors]
Shredder: Stop, stop! STOP!
[Bebop, Rocksteady and Krang's stone warriors stop firing]
Rocksteady: Oh, we was starting to have fun.
Shredder: Shut up! You are Krang's stone warriors are you not?
General Tragg: Yeah. So?
Shredder: There is something I must show you.
General Tragg: We gonna catch those kids.

[The Turtles are battling with the Neutrinos on their star mobiles. Donatello is getting his shell scraped during the scuffle]

Donatello: Hey, cut it out. You're ruining my finish.
April: You got 'em! Who are they? Let's interrogate them!
Michelangelo: It's okay April, they're cool.
Dask: Cool? Daddio, we are frozen!

[April is reading "The Hare and the Tortoise" to Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello, who are in their beds]

April: And as he crossed the finish line, the tortoise realised that slow and steady does won the race, for he had beaten the hare.
Raphael: I love that story.
Michelangelo: Read it again, April.
April: But I've read it five times.
Donatello: Just once more. Ahhh [falls asleep]]
April: [steps away and chuckles as Leonardo comes in cleaning his katana] Just a bunch of sleepyheads.
Leonardo: They'll need their rest. Because tomorrow, we're going to find The Shredder and finish him. [sheathes his katana]

Shredder & Splintered

Krang: Now, wretched reptiles, you will face... the wrath of Krang!
Michelangelo: Wasn't that the name of a movie?
Leonardo: I don't believe I saw it.
Raphael: And I don't believe I'm seeing this!
Michaelangelo: Uh-oh. It's that Retro Mutant Thing-of-a-bob.
Donatello: He's gonna use it to turn us into ordinary turtles
Raphael: Well, gang, it looks like it's back to the ol' pet store for us.
Shredder: No, far from it. Tonight I dine on turtle soup.
Shredder: What the devil happened? Where the devil are we? Dimension X? No!
Krang: At last, I can conquer my home dimension.
Shredder: But I don't want to conquer this place! I want to conquer Earth!
Krang: In Dimension X, I am absolute master. You will do my bidding from now on.
Shredder: The Shredder takes orders from no one!
Krang: We shall see, Oroku Saki.

Voice Cast


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  CREATORS     Kevin Eastman · Peter Laird  
  COMICS     Mirage comic series  (1984–2010) · Tales  (1987–2010) · Adventures  (1988–1995) · Mighty Mutanimals  (1991 spin-off) · Daily comic strip  (1990–1997) · Dreamwave comics
  series  (2003) · IDW comic series  (2011–present)  
  TELEVISION     Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue  (1990) · Turtles Forever  (2009)  
  SERIES     1987–1996 series ( | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10) · Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend  (1996) · Next Mutation  (1997–1998) · 2003–2010 series (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7) · 2012–2017 series (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5) · 2018–2020 series (1 | 2) · Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  (2024-present)    
  FILMS     LIVE-ACTION     Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  (1990) · II: The Secret of the Ooze  (1991) · III: Turtles in Time  (1993) · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  (2014) · Out of the Shadows  (2016)
  ANIMATION     TMNT  (2007) · Turtles Forever  (2009) · Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  (2019) · Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie  (2022) · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem  (2023)  
  FAN-MADE     Casey Jones  (2011)  
  DOCUMENTARY     Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  (2014)  
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  SEE ALSO     Leonardo da Vinci · Donatello · Michelangelo · Raphael · Last words in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles media  
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