Splinter makes a funny in the first TMNT movie by introducing Cowabunga to the Turtles’ vocabulary… and also having a pizza fall on his head; that kinda counts, too.
And then he makes a funny in the second TMNT movie by making the Turtles do ten flips after they make the headlines in a newspaper and gets mentioned in a news report (Go Ninja Go Ninja GO! I made another funny!)
And then in the third movie, he wears a lampshade on his head… just like Elvis in Blue Hawaii. He never called it a funny, so I guess it doesn’t count and that’s why the movie turned out the way that it did.
But then along comes that CGI Turtles movie from a few years back and not once did Splinter make a funny. He didn’t have some silly headwear to put on his head. What the hell, movie? Why would you refuse Maki on one of his final film performances to let him do a Splinter funny? That movie could’ve used more funnies, you know.
Anyway, that was a random thought I had. Here’s hoping there are Splinter funnies in the upcoming movie… though given who’s behind it, I’d imagine the only funnies I’d be getting are fart jokes.
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