Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Join Nickelodeon, Act as Beacon for Network's Fallen Reptiles
The oft-revived Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, which is already set for a 2012 film revamp, is joining forces with Nickelodeon, the fearsome network that brought us almost 70 sewer-dwelling seasons of All That. The new CGI series will also premiere in 2012, which gives Nickelodeon more than enough time to incorporate three of its forgotten reptilian charms.
Clarissa Darling's Alligator Elvis: Jettisoned after just one season, the sinister pet of Clarissa Explains It All is an easy fit for TMNT heroics. I anticipate a move out of the wading pool and into a co-producer role at Channel 6 News. Perhaps we will even glimpse the forked tongue of a CGI-animated Judith Hoag.
Slime: Following the demise of You Can't Do That on Television, Nick's use of slime waned (apart from Summer Sanders's Mao-like reign). Bringing back slime as a foe for the humanoids could mean we actually learn The Secret of the Ooze, which has long been rumored to involve the comic acting of Alanis Morissette.
Famous Galapagos Tortoise Linda Ellerbee: Once upon a time, children closed out their weekends with reportage from a slow-moving, half-shelled matriarch named Linda Ellerbee. I swear. Actually, they didn't. Kids claimed to watch Nick News but were actually just waiting around for the sexually charged overalls of Nickelodeon's Roundhouse. I was there. Anyway, Linda Ellerbee's post as anchor of Nick News is missed by someone, and her trustworthiness is best exhumed in the form of an catchphrase-spewing mutant. Cowabunga, Fourth Estate.
Ninja Turtles Move to Nickelodeon [Variety]
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...with Linda Ellerbee as SHREDDER
Actually, some kids did (do) watch Nick News. And some grew up to work at Nickelodeon, or The New York Times or online, and some grew up to run for office — and get elected, and some grew up to make tons of money and some grew up to help change the world. And, of course, some never grew up.
But (after 19 years and counting) our show still goes on (and still plays on Sunday nights). And I still get to meet and listen to some really cool kids. You can learn a lot from people younger than you. sometimes you can even learn from people older than you.
May you too be so lucky one day.
Sincerely yours,
Slow-moving, half-shelled matriarch/shredder,
Linda Ellerbee
I hope that's really YOU Linda.
"Shredder" is the Turtle's wise mentor...typecasting in your case
COWABUNGA DUDES!!!!
Yep. It's me. Or, to be correct, "It is I." But that sounds totally dorky, even for an old broad.
Shredder is a "wise mentor?" In that case, it's probably a mistake, where I'm concerned.
Linda
I didn't read these comments in full until a half hour ago. Oh man. I am ignoring the criticism and already reflecting on my Nick News-tinged salad days.
There was an episode one time where Linda (meaning you, and I'm convinced at this point that it's really you) claimed to live on the same street as the Cosbys. That rocked my loins. I didn't even understand that "TV world" interacted with "the real world" (let alone Ellerbee Manor) until then. There was also a time in the mid- '90s when a short-lived show called "U to U" tried to democratize Nick News's environmental consciousness with an odious Sunday afternoon time-slot. What was that about? It may have been Nick's first foray into full-on internet utilization too, as I remember they accepted "emails," which just baffled me in the heartland. I wondered at age 9 if you thought "U to U" was an encroachment upon Nick News's turf. I remember the entire theme song.
As for resembling and moving like strange animalia, I am often compared to Sam the Eagle (of Muppet fame). I can answer more of the five W's about him later, if you like. Lastly: You have the big orange couch. I know it.
An exercise in product-placement so blatant it makes the last Transformer outing seem subtle by comparison.
A lot of movies now a days have to make sense. Did classic science fiction/action films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Godzilla have to make sense to be good? No they didn't.