Having been born during
the arse end of the 80's, I spent my toddling years being shunted
around a variety of
Ninja Turtle-themed childrens' birthday
parties
. Although, don't ask
me what made that franchise so popular at the time. I suppose with
both their mutated green skin and the hardened shell-like tumours on
their back, the Ninja Turtles were simply a great way to prepare us
for the possibility of a nuclear attack. Anyway, a close chum of mine
experienced a similarly green social life at that age with him even
being lucky enough to have an actual cake made for him which featured
one of the titular heroes in its design. The problem was that the
food colouring required to make the cake bright green fucked with his body
and unintentionally turned his shit the same colour. To be fair, if
my cold war theory is correct then nothing is going to prepare a
young child more for the reality of living in a nuclear wasteland
than discovering that they've just shat out a glowing green turd.
Sadly, as much as I'd like to say that that was the biggest
Ninja Turtle related shit to be released into the world, I can't. Not
now that I've seen
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The
Shadows, anyway.