Everybody Loves Shredder – The Ninja Turtles Sitcom (Pilot)
We at The Rubber Chicken have long considered the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon a few edits and a laugh track away from being the perfect sitcom. Even the voice actors openly recognise villains Krang and Shredder as the classic bickering married couple. Now if only somebody would get rid of those pesky turtles, we could finally enjoy TMNT as the romantic adventure-comedy it was clearly destined to be.
We have the technology.
If you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out some of our previous TMNT posts, including an illustrated tribute to Krang, the Turtles’ victory over Global Warming, or a warts-and-all look at their scandallous private lives.
Based on “Plan 6 From Outer Space” (Season 4, Episode 1)
Written by David Wise
Directed by Mike Stuart
Edited by
Tim Morrison
Concept and planning by
Ben K
Tim Morrison
Alastair Craig
“At Home in the Technodrome”
Performed by Fiona Revill
Written by Alastair Craig (with apologies to Fiona Revill)
I cry inside every time you mock me
When the turtles pull our plans apart
You might be a talking brain
But I’ll never stop searching for a heart.
Scheming in the Technodrome
We’re a family bound together
It’s not a house but it feels like home
When Everybody Loves Shredder.
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November 5th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
It’s finally here! Great work with the final edit. It’s amazing how chopping out half the episode and adding obnoxious laughter can completely flip around a show’s perspective.
December 21st, 2009 at 12:21 am
We’re very tempted to do more. Sure, it’s a one-episode joke, but this is so damn watchable. Alternatively, other shows could benefit from the studio audience treatment. The old-school Doctor Who serial “Warriors of the Deep” is full of such closeted comedy moments.
January 15th, 2010 at 2:50 am
[...] of everything. It’s the only reason anyone ever watched the show. Krang and Shredder would bicker like an old married couple, which was usually enough to entertain older generations, but when it came to the kids all they [...]