Easter Eggs

This page is meant for TMNT references, hidden content - a.k.a. "easter eggs" - and cameos only.

• Easter Eggs (Mirage)
• Easter Eggs (1987 TV series)
• Easter Eggs (Archie)
• Easter Eggs (2003 TV series)
• Easter Eggs (Dreamwave)
• Easter Eggs (IDW)
• Easter Eggs (2012 TV series)
• Easter Eggs (Paramount)
• Easter Eggs (Amazing Adventures)
• Easter Eggs (Rise of the TMNT)
• Easter Eggs (Batman/TMNT)
• Easter Eggs (Batman vs. TMNT)
• Easter Eggs (Last Ronin)
• Easter Eggs (Shredder's Revenge)
• Easter Eggs (Saturday Morning Adventures)
• Easter Eggs (MMPR/TMNT)
• Easter eggs (TMNT vs. Street Fighter)
• Easter Eggs (TMNT: Mutant Mayhem)

Action figures

• NECA Aliens: NECA released a San Diego Comic-Con 2017 exclusive figure of Warrior Alien which was painted yellow, as a deliberate reference to the Pizza Monsters, called Sewer Mutation Warrior Alien.
  

• A figure in Fresh Monkey Fiction's "Eagle Force" subline, Ninja Force, is a character named "Warhol" with a very obvious Ninja Turtle-inspired design to his gear. For bonus points, he's referred to as a Tactical Mission Ninja Trooper.
  

Animation

Alvin and the Chipmunks

• Gremlionis: Alvino and Simoni ("played" by Alvin and Simon) deliver a pizza with extra garlic in a manhole, where Michelangelo from the 1987 TV series was waiting for them, just like in a similar scene from the 1990 film.
  

Animaniacs

• Hooked on a Ceiling: In this episode, four Ninja Turtles pop out during the introduction when the narrator is naming well known figures from the Renaissance. Rob Paulsen (who also voiced Raphael in the 1987 TV series and Yakko in Animaniacs) voiced one of the Turtles in this scene.
  

Back to the Future: The Animated Series

The first and only show in the Back to the Future franchise. The Animated Series aired on CBS along with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and having a couple references to it.

• The Money Tree: Upon receiving fame for his money tree, Jules Brown considered himself to be more popular than those "juvenile martial arts mutations on the half shell.
• A Verne by Any Other Name: Traveling back to the an unspecified point in the 1800s, Verne Brown hopes to convince Jules Verne to change his name. One suggestion he gives is Raphael.

BoJack Horseman

• It's You: The four turtles maintenance workers seen in the sewers are a nod to the Ninja Turtles, which even share the same color coded garnements.
  

Fantastic Four

• Hopelessly Impossible: when the Impossible Man (voiced by Jess Harnell) introduces himself to the Human Torch, he demonstrates his shapeshifting by turning into Donatello.
  

Freakazoid!

• As Lord Bravery, voiced by Jeff Bennett, tries to rescue a man from the sewers, said distressed man complains about Bravery only trying to pull him with a rope instead of going down himself saying "those turtle fellows with bandanas" would have no issues in entering the sewers.

Futurama

• Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles: This episode was titled as a reference to TMNT.

Garfield and Friends

This first cartoon show for Garfield aired on the same CBS of the 1987 TV series and featured some references to TMNT:

• One of the introductory quips of the title screen was "Just think of me as like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Pussycat."
• Speed Trap: Garfield dismisses a questionable police officer with the quote "If this guy's a lawman, then I'm a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle."
• Sound Judgement: Garfield finds a note that the sound effects guy quit the show in favor of doing sword noises on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Hare Force: The show's sub-segment U.S. Acres once had a reworking of The Tortoise and the Hare that at first considered making the tortoise a ninja warrior, before Booker and Sheldon dismiss the concept doubting that anyone "would ever want to watch a show about it".
• Clash of the Titans: This episode had Garfield asking if before returning to his own cartoon he can get pizza on the Ninja Turtles one.

Gravity Falls

• Fight Fighters: In this scene, Dipper says he can’t find the traditional power-ups like "turkey legs" (in many games like Castlevania, Final Fight, etc), "pizza boxes" (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game), or "gold rings" (Sonic the Hedgehog).
  

Inside Job

YOU'RE NOT ON   NICKTOONS   ANYMORE!

Some TMNT stuff really isn't for little kids.

• Buzzkill: The episode opens with a flashback to Reagan's childhood, where she attempted to turn her pet turtles into her own Ninja Turtles. Instead, she gives her turtles cancer by exposing them to radiation. After the flashback, Reagan is shown watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on TV.

MAD

• Super 80's: This was a crossover parody between all the 1980s decade pop culture successes, including the Ninja Turtles, and the science fiction film Super 8. In one scene, one of the original Mirage Turtles makes a cameo alongside Sonny Crockett and Papa Smurf.
  
• TMNTMZTV: This was a crossover parody between the 1987 TV series and the celebrity gossip show TMZ, where Shredder and the Foot Soldiers annoyed the famous celebrities, the Ninja Turtles.
• I Hate My Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: This was a crossover parody between the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 animated TV series and the I Hate My Teenage Daughter sitcom, where the Turtles appear trying to protect their "mother" Annie Watson from a date with Shredder.
• Sanjay and Krang: This was a crossover parody between the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 animated TV series and the Nickelodeon animated series Sanjay and Craig, where Sanjay adopted not a snake, but the evil alien brain Krang.

Muppet Babies

• Sing a Song of Superheroes: This 1990 Muppet Babies episode features Baby Kermit, Baby Fozzie, Baby Animal, Baby Bean, and Baby Rowlf dressed as the Ninja Turtles.

Robot Chicken

YOU'RE NOT ON   NICKTOONS   ANYMORE!

Some TMNT stuff really isn't for little kids.

• Enter the Fat One: A sketch from "S&M Present" features Joey Fatone getting trained by the Turtles from the first three live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.
• Senior Mutant Ninja Turtles: A sketch from "Rodiggiti" depicts the Turtles as the "Senior Mutant Ninja Turtles" in a retirement home, doing such things as playing bingo, eating prune pizza, and wearing adult diapers. An elderly Michelangelo even tried to get up from his wheelchair and hop on a skateboard, only to slip and fall to the ground and get fatal injuries that resulted in his death at the end of the sketch.
• Girl Toys: A sketch from "Moesha Poppins" features Venus de Milo from Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation drowning herself in a toilet after she was kicked out of the Ninja Turtles.
• Nicky Passion: A sketch from "Malcolm X: Fully Loaded" has Shredder among the attendees at Nicky Passion's seminar. Shredder is called out but is interrupted by Skeletor.
• Shell Spin - To the Bone: Both sketches from "Collateral Damage in Gang Turf War" feature Michelangelo spinning on his turtle shell, but has fallen on his back and can't get up.
• Unique Street Sharks: A sketch from "Butchered in Burbank" claims the Street Sharks to be completely different from the Ninja Turtles.
• The Stinkiest Sewer - Sewer Farter Exposed: Both sketches from "Secret of the Booze" feature Muckman looking after April while the Turtles fight Shredder, only for him to make a bad impression on her by farting, and then denying that he did it, blaming it on Krang. It is later revealed that Krang was hiding from April and Muckman, and he really did fart.
• Splinter's Rock Bottom - Shredder and April: A sketch from "Super Guitario Center" has Splinter embarrass the Turtles by eating a rotten apple from a nearby trash can. The latter sketch from the same episode has Shredder and April fall in love with each other a la Romeo and Juliet.
• TMNT Sex Talk: A sketch from "Fridge Smell" features Splinter teaching sex education to the Turtles. Donatello later creates a robot of April when Splinter denies the Turtles the chance to have sex with the real April.
• TMNT Pizza Brutality: A sketch from "Hopefully Salt" has Donatello create a tank that fires pizzas. It's surprisingly effective against Shredder, even going as far as to get a news report.
• Bad Date With Krang: A sketch from "Secret of the Flushed Footlong" features Krang on a blind date with a girl named Courtney.
• April's Report on Town Hall: A sketch from "Gimme That Chocolate Milk" has April reporting at a press conference held by the Mayor of Santa Fe revolving around the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting.
• Pizza Delivery: A sketch from "Your Mouth Is Hanging Off Your Face" has Michelangelo exposing himself to the pizza delivery guy.
• TMNT Straws: A sketch from "Ginger Hill in: Bursting Pipes" has Shredder killing the Turtles with plastic straws.
• Trump and April Cold Open: A sketch from "Fila Ogden in: Maggie's Got a Full Load" features April interviewing Donald Trump, questioning him on his relationship with Shredder.

Samurai Pizza Cats (English dubbed)

• In episode 1 of Samurai Pizza Cats (only in the Saban dubbed version), there was a gag with an elderly robot turtle walking slowly in a robot dragon attack. The Narrator brought up a retirement home for aging ninja turtles, a reference of the future elder Ninja Turtles in retirement seen in one episode from the 1987 TV series.
  • When the old robot turtle loses his shell from being hit by a broken pillar, he ran and shout "Cowabunga!!!".
  • He notably appears in the Samurai Pizza Cats Opening Theme just to take a potshot at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with the quote "They've got more fur than any turtle ever had!" That footage was taken from the first episode.
    

    

    COWABUNGA!!!

Saturday Night Live

• Middle-aged Mutant Ninja Turtles: An animated sketch parodying the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in their middle-age. This sketch was featured in the April 11, 2020 episode of Saturday Night Live At Home.
  

Teen Titans Go!

• Birds: The mutant mocking bird known as Muscle has a purple mohawk, shades and a vest inspired by Bebop's classic look.
  
• Más y Menos: The Turtles appear when Más and Menos take the pizzas from the Titans Tower and leave them to the Turtles. All Turtles were voiced by Greg Cipes, the voice of Beast Boy and also Michelangelo in the 2012 TV series.
  

  
• Real Boy Adventures: After Raven turned Cyborg human again, Beast Boy (voiced by Greg Cipes) named him "Fleshy Guy" and exclaimed he was really good at naming things, as a reference to the Nickelodeon's Michelangelo (who's also voiced by Greg Cipes).
• Truth, Justice and What?: This was a full crossover episode between the Titans and the Turtles, read more about it at its main page.
• Animals, It's Just a Word!: This episode features a muscular mutant rat in a mining outfit with a tattoo on his right shoulder, an obvious homage to the TMNT character Dirtbag.
  
• Garage Sale: A box storing the turtle shells from "Truth, Justice and What?" appears at the Titans' attic.
• Operation Dude Rescue, Part 1: A Ninja Turtles graffiti appears under a bridge, with the Turtles' face featuring thick lips as a reference to the Paramount Turtles' CGI looks.
  

The Adventures of Puss in Boots

• The Brothers: This episode features four teenage humanoid ninja pigs, who are brothers, have distinct personalities from one another, and wear multi-colored masks. As a bonus fact, like the Ninja Turtles, the brothers have three fingers in each hand, while all other pigs in the Shrek franchise have only two. In addition, three of the pigs are voiced by Michelangelo voice actors (Greg Cipes, Mikey Kelley, and Robbie Rist).
  

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3

• Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas - King Koopa transforms four of his Koopalings using one of his wands, then naming them "Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas", as a parody of the extravagant title Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and also being equipped with almost the same weapons as those ninja heroes. They even parody the catchphrase "I Love Being A Turtle!" from their first film, with Big Mouth saying "I love being a Koopa!".
  

The Fairly OddParents!

• Channel Chasers: "Adolescent Genetically Altered Karate Cows" is a parody of the Ninja Turtles as a show visited in "Channel Chasers", after Timmy Turner wished for a magic TV remote that allowed him to travel through television as if the programs were real worlds. The program itself is not actually traveled into, just the ending credits, although three of the titular characters are seen briefly, as well as a robot cow device which may have come from the program itself.
  

The Real Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters series and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles each spoofed the other's team: the latter's episode "Zach and the Alien Invaders" had a named cameo from the "Bugbusters", while The Real Ghostbusters episode "Mean Teen Green Machine" focused on the reptilian team of the same name.

The Simpsons

• The episode titled "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" references TMNT.
• In the episode "Now Museum, Now You Don't", Lisa comes across two pages in a book titled Illustrated History of Western Art; on the left is Leonardo da Vinci, and on the right is "Leonardo da Ninji".
  

Tiny Toon Adventures

• In a few episodes of this series, the TMNT were spoofed by the fictional characters of the hero team 'Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs', whose members were called Picasso, Warhol, Rockwell and Grandma Moses (based on artists Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell and Anna Mary Robertson Moses, parodying the fact that the Ninja Turtles were named after famous Renaissance artists). They even had their own theme song, which mimics the classic theme song for the 1987 TV series. In addition Grandma Moses is voiced by Rob Paulsen and The Iodizer is voiced by Jim Cummings.
  • Mr. Popular's Rules of Cool
  • Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
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Transformers: Robots in Disguise

• More than Meets the Eye - In this episode a wrestler is named "Poughkeepsie Piledriver" same as in "Headlock Prime". Both episodes were written by Steven Melching.

Walter Melon

• New Age Pizza Lovin' Tae Kwon Do Tortoises - This episode is a parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  

  The "Tae Kwon Do Tortoises".

  

  Amelia as reporter "May".

  

  Rat sensei "Master Squinter".

  

  Sneero as Master "Schelper", along warthog "Doo-Wop" and rhinoceros "Stone Cold".

Wreck-It Ralph

• One of the TMNT arcade video games makes a brief cameo.
  

Comics

ALF

• ALF Annual #3: Buy Low--Shell High! - Back in planet Melmac, when Gordon Shumway (a.k.a. ALF) was an orbit guardsman, he met the vigilante-hero team known as the "New Age Melmutant Abstract Turtles", formed by Picasso, Mondrian, Calder, and Pollock (named after Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Alexander Calder, and Jackson Pollock).
  

Arrow

• Oliver Queen, Stephen Amell's character in the Arrowverse TV franchise, appeared improvising his vigilante persona with a hockey mask and armed with a baseball bat in the series' official comics, just like Casey Jones in the Out of the Shadows film, which was played by that same actor.
  

Army of Darkness: 1979

• Ken Haeser's cover for issue three is a homage to "The Turtles' Origin is Told".
  

Back to the Future

• Back to the Future #4 from IDW Publishing includes a story with Emmett Brown's first visit to the year 2015. During the visit, he attended a Hill Valley 1980s Car Expo which has attendees with 80s memorabilia, clothing and costumes. One of which includes a boy in a Michelangelo costume.

Chōsenshi Densetsu

• Dino's Juice Bar has a TMNT arcade game in the background in issue 1.
  

Dennis the Menace

• In the comic episode: "Idol Talk", Dennis just watches TV, while Leonardo is on it.
  

Moo Moo Dah

• There is a brief reference towards TMNT in the last chapter of one of the volumes of the Malaysian Chinese series based off one of the Lunar New Year characters of Malaysian monopoly company Astro, by Malaysian book company Hup Lee. A small team of kappas, which wears bandanas, resembles the Ninja Turtles, with the "Kappa Boss" resembling Leonardo.
  

  

Robin

• Issue # 173 (Vol 2): Girl Trouble - When Tim goes to visit Ives after realizing that Ives has cancer, there is a knock-off Ninja Turtle poster displayed prominently amongst the figurines on the shelf above his desk.
  

Scribblenauts Unmasked: A Crisis of Imagination

• Issue 2 of the DC Comics/Scribblenauts crossover spin-off comic saw the main characters in a sewer. Along with a pair of plumbers that resembled Mario and Luigi, were a rat and four turtles.

Shazam!

• Issue #2: Meet the Captain! Chapter Two - Dan Mora drew a poster that has the Mutant Samurai Lizards on it.
  

Sonic the Hedgehog

• While the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comics were still in print, the Turtles made a cameo appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog #2 miniseries within a panel where Michaelangelo tries to make a guest appearance and help out Sonic's comic book series, only to be told to scram.
  
• Wrong Sewer: While the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comics were still in print, the Turtles made a cameo appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog #10. Seen in the background during Sonic's trek through the sewers, Michaelangelo comments that seems they're in the wrong comic book.
  
• In the regular series of Knuckles the Echidna #3, when Knuckles' home Angel Island is on fire, a naked Michaelangelo can be seen making a cameo amongst the fleeing animals.
• In Sonic Universe #26, when Silver the Hedgehog travels to an alternate timeline, he and the Dark Freedom Fighters are seen using a base that resembles the Turtle Lair.
• Inter-dimensional Jail: Bebop and Rocksteady make a cameo appearance in Sonic Universe #29 as inmates of the inter-dimensional Zone Jail teasing Sonic's evil doppelgänger, Scourge.
  
• Finally in Sonic Boom #3, after Amy loses her Piko Hammer she is seen trying out various other weapons, including a Bō that looked similar to the one wielded by Donatello.

Superman

• In the early 90s, a few issues from Superman-related comics featured Jimmy Olsen portraying on a TV show a hit character named "Turtle Boy", which was an obvious parody to the TMNT and their growing mainstream popularity.
• In one of these instances, he appeared signing autographs for his fans, when mistakenly he autographed for a child by signing "To my favorite pal, Michael Angelo." and the little boy protested that his correct name is "Michelangelo"; this was a nod towards the fact that several fans were still confused since by then the official name spelling for the turtle Michelangelo had not been clarified yet within the franchise's productions, something that would only finally happen near the end of that same decade.
  

  Jimmy Olsen signing autographs as his fictional superhero alter-ego "Turtle Boy".

The Amazing Awang Khenit

• In one of the sub-stories (also known as "The Other Stories") of the comic magazine tie-in of the Malaysian cartoon series, four monsters wearing the bandanas, resembles the Ninja Turtles, trying to rob a bank, but was stopped by the main character, Awang Khenit.
  

  

The Terrifics

• Issue #20: If Me Could Turn Back Time, Part One - When Bizarro alters time, the team lands in the 1990's a pink Michelangelo appears on a TV.
  

Transformers

• In Departure, the Nightbirds are functionally identical to each other, but their accent colors vary between blue, orange, red, and purple, referencing the bandanas of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  

• In Ghost Stories, Krang and a Proton pack can be seen on a trash heap.
  

• In Grimlock the Avenger, Shredder is among a group of monsters attacking Grimlock.
  

Wolverine

• Issue #50 (Vol 2): The Shiva Scenario Part 3: Dreams of Gore, Phase 3 - Jubilee complains about the monotonous task assigned to her aboard the Blackbird and she also protests bored mentioning that even "those turtles have a pizza-warmer in their van".
  

Live-action productions

Arrow

• A Matter of Trust - Artemis asked Wild Dog "what kind of vigilante wears a hockey mask?" and Oliver piped up in defense of this charge. "I think it's cool", a nod to Oliver's actor Stephen Amell's role as Casey Jones in the film Out of the Shadows.

Bones

• Yanks in the U.K., Part 1 - Lance Sweets is telling Angela Montenegro a childhood story. Sweets: "When I was ten, the kid next door had a turtle party wagon. It's an accessory for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures. It's a toy. No? Anyway, I loved that party wagon. I wanted that party wagon. So I climbed the tree outside his bedroom window but the tree had a fungus and his dad was too cheap to hire an arborist so unbeknownst to me, some of the branches were dead".

Boy Meets World

• Boy Meets Girl - When Topanga arrives at the Matthews Family home to visit the "supposedly sick" Cory, she finds one of Cory's Ninja Turtles boxer shorts between the clean clothes he was accommodating and then he immediately threw it away embarrassed.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

• The Fugitive Part 1 - The character Jake Peralta mentions the Ninja Turtles when they are tracking a fugitive in the sewers.
• Your Honor - When Jake suggests to Capt. Holt that he should be more communicative and relaxed with his own mother, he responds sarcastically by questioning if he is supposed to say to her something like "Cowabunga, mom".
• The Golden Child - Jake and Amy talk about the complicate relationship she has with her overachiever brother and so Jake mentions some conflictive brothers he knows about but that always back each other in tough times; she then realizes unamused he was talking about the Ninja Turtles.
• Admiral Peralta - A reference to the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series was made in the episode 10 for Season 7, were Jake, as a TMNT fan, mentions the new reboot with a new take on Splinter and Krang's backstory.

Chicago Med

• Forever Hold Your Peace - This conversation occurs during a scene between Dr. Connor Rhodes and his father, Cornelius Rhodes, on the younger Rhodes' birthday; Cornelius Rhodes: "Well, I will admit, I almost forgot. But Carlotta was cleaning out the attic a few weeks ago and she found your old Ninja Turtle mask..." Dr. Rhodes: "From my seventh birthday?" Cornelius Rhodes: "Yes." Dr. Rhodes: "Wow, yeah. Mom made that Donatello birthday cake from scratch. She planned every detail."

Cobra Kai

• Fire and Ice - Raymond casually mentioned that those staffs that the karate students use during their performance are called "Bō" and that it is the same type of "weapon Donatello used". He is also Raymond's favorite Turtle.
• All In - Demetri called two of Hawk's new Cobra Kai friends as 'Bebop' and 'Rocksteady'.

Dinosaurs

• Robbie's room in the '90s-era sitcom Dinosaurs has a TMNT-inspired poster that reads "Teenage Mutant Ninja Cavemen".
  

Hawaii Five-0

• Ho'ona'ike: While visiting the Medical Examiner during a murder investigation and finding Max Bergman in costume, Lou Grover says, "That's, uh, a real nice costume you got there, doc. My son's going as a ninja turtle. He's twelve."

Power Rangers

• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
  • In the original version of the pilot episode "Day of the Dumpster", Zack Taylor (Black Ranger) expressed his disbelief at the story of Zordon (named Zoltar in the original pilot) by sarcastically claiming to be a Ninja Turtle.
  • In "The Trouble with Shellshock", the turtle monster Shellshock, upon growing comments "Wait'll those teenage mutants see what a full-grown turtle can do!". (Power Rangers: In Space)

Ready Player One

• Among the myriad of character cameos in the film are Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael, appearing in their Out of the Shadows designs.

Supernatural

• Free to Be You and Me - Castiel asks for Dean Winchester's help to hunt for someone. When Dean asks who, Castiel tells him he's looking for the Archangel who killed him, whose name is Raphael. Dean asks, "You were wasted by a Teenage Mutant Ninja angel?"
• All in the Family - Sam and Dean Winchester go to a police station to conduct an interview. The character, Professor Redfield, tells them to call him Donatello and then says "Yeah. I'm named after him." Dean looks slightly confused and replies, "The... Mutant Ninja Turtle?"

The Big Bang Theory

• The Fish Guts Displacement: Sheldon sings the beginning of the main theme song for the 80s cartoon series while listing his favorite theme songs of all time. His friends Leonard, Howard and Raj follow him saying "Turtle Power" at the end. This series was also produced by Chuck Lorre.

The Walking Dead

• Here's Not Here: Morgan's master was named Eastman in homage to the co-creator Kevin Eastman, he also carries a walking stick and lost his family tragically, much like master Splinter. During the episode there can also be seen a shirt with the words "save the terrapins" and turtle pictures hanging on Eastman's walls.
  

Two and a Half Men

• Big Flappy Bastards: The main character, Charlie, tells his nephew, Jake, that the main theme song for the 80s cartoon series was one of his first paid works while he plays its beginning on the piano. This series was also another production by Chuck Lorre.

Young Sheldon

• Quirky Eggheads and Texas Snow Globes: Missy and George were shown watching the 80s cartoon series. There, Missy explains that Leonardo is the turtle wearing blue and, in her on words, the hot one.
• Bible Camp and a Chariot of Love: Missy asks Pastor Jeff is he could sing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme.
• A Musty Crypt and a Stick to Pee On: When creating her character for Dungeons and Dragons, Missy wanted to be a "Ninja Turtle Princess of Power". Even though Sheldon says she cannot be that, she ends up choosing a character that can and ends up transforming into it in a fantasy sequence with the theme song playing in the background

Workaholics

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Roomates: Not only the title but the episode involves the characters hiding in the sewers and comparing themselves to the Turtles. Not only that but when Jhonen Vasquez made his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated short "TMNT: Don VS Raph" he has all these guys voice acting in their chosen Turtle roles.

Music

• Kendrick Lamar has a song titled Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter. It is the first track on his second album, good kid, m.A.A.d city.

Real people

• Ruby Rose: Among actress Ruby Rose's tattoos is one of Leonardo from the 2003 TV series. She has explained that she got a Turtle tattoo because whenever she was scared as a child (from bullies, the monster under the bed, et cetera), she imagined the Turtles there with her as her friends and protectors.^{[citation needed]}
• Vanilla Ice: He has a tattoo on his leg featuring the classic TMNT logo and the Turtles from The Secret of the Ooze poster.

Video games

Among Us: The Airship

• Among Us’ new map, The Airship, released on March 31, 2021 includes a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Easter egg. In the armory you’ll see a lot of guns, but if you walk south, you’ll find a set of weapons of a different variety. There’s a pair of sai, a katana, nunchucks, and a bō staff. The weapons and the colors on them match up with the members of the TMNT – Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo.
  

  

Borderlands 2

• The Rat's Nest: Patricia Tannis has a mission for you to hunt down and kill a 'Splinter Group' of mutants that’ve managed to run amuck. The only way to lure them out of hiding is to get one of Moxxi's pizzas and deliver it to them in their sewer hideout. Their names are Lee, Mick, Ralph and Dan. Sound familiar? The Rat's Nest is reached via a newly-opened floodgate on the lower level of the first "turbine room" in Bloodshot Stronghold. The path exposed provides an alternate route through the Stronghold until the "Satan's Suckhole" area, rejoining the main area through a one-way door. There is also a small puzzle with five lights that spawns Flinter, a rat miniboss, when solved.
  

Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder

• When some enemies are killed (including the Bad Brothers and Death Adder himself), the game plays a voice clip of Raphael yelling "DAMN!" as he is chasing after Casey Jones, from the first motion picture. The series is notorious for stealing its death cries from films.

Minecraft (Mo' Creatures mod)

• The Minecraft game mod, "Mo' Creatures", allows the creation of more types of animals than vanilla Minecraft, including turtles. If the player has four turtles and they are named after the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Leonardo-Blue, Michelangelo-Orange, Donatello-Purple, Raphael-Red), those turtles will gain weapons and masks from the Ninja Turtles.
• If one of these "ninja turtles" are killed, they each have a chance of dropping a certain unique weapon. For example, Raphael will drop a Sai.
• The special skin does not work in the 1.6.4 beta version.
  

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3: V Generation

• When the credits roll, there is a moment where Blanc is on what looks like the SNES version of Neon Night Riders.

Punch Club

• Punch Club features The Sewer Crocs, a parody of the Ninja Turtles. Their master is a racoon, as a parody of Splinter.

Shadow Warrior

• In the last level of Shadow Warrior, there's secret area that can be reached by clicking on one of the walls in the corridor leading to the elevator. When running through the lava a new area will open. In it, there are four dead bodies of turtles with blue, purple, orange and red colored eye bands. Lo Wang also says "Cowabunga!".

Streets of Rage 4

• Graffiti art of a rat with four color-coded turtles (red (behind the box), orange, blue, and purple) appears in the game's sewer stage.
  

Super Mario Bros. 3

• One of the enemies in the game "Rocky Wrench" is referred to as a "Ninja Turtle" in the Nintendo Power Strategy Guide in addition saying "He’s not a mutant or a teenager, but Rocky is a turtle and he does throw ninja throwing wrenches!"

Toxic Crusaders

• The Technodrome's eye can be seen amongst the junk in the Tromaville City Dump.
  

World of Warcraft

• Sewers of Dolanaar: Go down into the sewers of Dolanaar, there you will see a level 80 rat "teaching" four level 1 turtles. There are also green glowing potions around them, representing mutagen Ooze.