#tmht paris

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2011 at Take My Hand Paris - 10/05/22

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HE WALKS OVER WITH SUCH PURPOSE 👁️👄👁️

pls ignore my screaming 😌

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luke and cal shaking hands and ash carrying and spinning luke. goodnight

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don’t get me wrong, i luv all the recent stuff! but i really miss eu/uk 5sos. 🥺💔

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What are some of your favourite fanfics?

Unexpected Surprise (Ladybug had Chat Noir's child and they didn't know their identities and he didn't know about the baby and moved away, six years later Adrien comes back to Paris and finds Marinette with a child that looks just like him)

Marinette's Baby (yeah I love pregnancy fics a lot, again Marinette gets pregnant by Chat Noir and still doesn't know who he is, it's a lot about Marinette's difficulties as a single teen mom-to-be and her complicated relationship with Chat Noir) (important note: don't read the Wattpad version because the original author confirmed his fic was copied and posted on Wattpad without his permission and that other person deserves no credit)

Teach Me How To Sing (After Hawk Moth is defeated Gabriel becomes worse and worse towards Adrien, does horrible things to the boy, I know one with the same subject but it's so dark and difficult it nearly made me cry I'm not sure if I should recommend it)

Your Body Is a Nightmare (I'm glad the anon reminded me of this one, it's when Adrien dies and Marinette does magic and she brings him back to life as a zombie, one of my favourite fics ever)

Bedroom Eyes (Adrien and Marinette reveal their identities and hook up and of course Gabriel is garbage as always and it's a very long fic, it has a lot of Love Square development and stuff, and Adrien's family is crazy as always and we learn so much more about them, the fic explores trauma at it's finest)

The first two and the last two are completed, the the third one is still in progress, but these are the three I keep visiting a lot when I have nothing else to read. Important recommendations that I also love reading, I don't want it to look like I'm recommending just because we're friends but I love these also:

Link to page on ao3 by @aanabear2803 I've read some good fics there, a lot of smut too I recommend basically everything by them

Purple Wings of Deception (aged-up Adrienette and other heroes, important for me to tell you it has Felila because I know you ship it too 😉, they and Chloé work together against the heroes)

Retelling of Foxheart (just started but the subject sounds interesting, Marinette is transported into the fictional world of a book as a villain and she knows her character will die in the end and tries to change it)

(I hope I didn't left anything out, if you want the link to that fic similar to Teach Me How To Sing I can send you but it has very graphic scenes of r*pe and violence, I think it's a great fic but I regret reading those parts, it's even harder to read than TMHTS)

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Luke and Ash ❤️

TMHT Paris

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"Return of the Shredder"

Season 2, Episode 1

First US Airdate: November 26, 1988 First UK Airdate (Hero Turtles version): January 3, 1990

Shredder re-emerges from Dimension X with a plan to frame the Turtles.

Turtlethon continues with a look at "Return of the Shredder", the first episode of season 2 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987). A memorable and historic episode in many ways, so apologies in advance if I go on a bit! This one is a story by season one's writers David Wise and Patti Howeth, but with a writing credit for Christy Marx.

"Return of the Shredder" is the first episode to air on the BBC in the UK as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles at the beginning of 1990, opposite Mr Majeika on ITV; The TV scheduling equivalent of being the first jobber to lose to Goldberg.

For most UK kids, this would have been the first piece of Turtles media they'd ever seen. And without any knowledge of S1, it raises a lot of questions. As mentioned in the "Turtle Tracks" recap, things like the comic adaptation and trading cards would do a lot of heavy lifting to fill in the gaps. The other notable thing is there's STILL a lot of ninja content in this episode, and some weapons use. It was largely edited out of the Hero Turtles version but the BBC took it upon themselves to make at least one additional edit.

2021 UPDATE: When I first revisited this episode in January 2020, I only had access to a German dub of the Hero Turtles version for comparison purposes. Since then I’ve been able to acquire multiple English language VHS releases of the TMHT edit of Return of the Shredder, so I’ll discuss the changes made in a separate post.

This episode opens with Michelangelo and Leonardo witnessing a robbery while shopping for groceries. They make short work of the crooks and after making their escape, April interviews the cashier about the incident for the Happy Hour News.

The German dubbers took some interesting liberties when they adapted the above interaction between April and Burne Thompson.

USA version

APRIL: They're heroes, I tell you!

BURNE: Bushwa!

German dub

APRIL: They're heroes, I tell you!

BURNE: BULLSHIT!

This episode includes the first appearance of Burne's girlfriend Tiffany, whose shtick is that she finds turtles disgusting. She considers anyone that defends them a "lousy turtle lover".

(Tiffany definitely went on to become one of those MAGA blondes that has a selfie of themselves in the car wearing giant shades as their userpic)

We then get a scene where the Turtles explain at length their connections to Splinter and Shredder, no doubt much to the relief of anyone watching the Hero Turtles run.

One of the first major turtle mix-ups here, where Raph is depicted talking at length but has Leo's voice. There's a way better one later on in this ep though.

Splinter has a vision that Shredder is about to return. I'd forgotten about this aspect of his character, where he has some vague mystical sixth sense about things and isn't just a wise old man that got turned into a rat. I kinda hate it to be honest.

Krang teleports Shredder to Central Park(?) where he's approached by two knife-wielding muggers, all of which remains intact in Hero Turtles. Why are nunchucks verboten and knives aren't? Your guess is as good as mine...

Shredder sees off the muggers by chopping a branch off a tree that kinda falls in front of them. They're so impressed that they give all THEIR money to HIM and run away.

This isn't even the only time in this episode that he gets people on-board by just wrecking up the place.

At the Slash-For-Cash Dojo, Shredder encounters Smash, voiced by Peter Cullen in sadly his only TMNT '87 appearance.

Ironically, Smash looks nothing like Smash from famous WWF tag team Demolition (Barry Darsow) but kinda does resemble his partner Ax (Bill Eadie).

Persuasion, the Shredder Way:

1) Walk in to someone's place of business and announce you're in charge now

2) When they object, destroy their property

3) Everyone will be so impressed they'll immediately fall in line

London, Tokyo, Paris, Washington. I'm impressed that Channel 6 is apparently so well-connected, considering we typically only ever see about four people working there

Over an unspecified amount of time Shredder turns Smash's useless students into super ninjas. They're all presented with spiffy turtle shell tunics.

WHO MADE THESE? Was Shredder up all night on the sewing machine meticulously crafting turtle outfits for the entire class?

The fake turtles go on a crime spree that mostly involves Smash karate-chopping cash registers and kicking bank vaults while the others watch, making the time Shredder spent training his pupils seem completely worthless. This soon makes the news, and the Turtles end up being blamed.

Shredder breaks into the asylum where Baxter is being held and they escape. They don't take the guy who thinks he's Napoleon with them, and frankly the rest of the series will be a little worse off as a result.

April's Turtlecom has a tiny satellite sticking out of the side of it.

Not a satellite dish, an actual satellite, the kind that orbits the Earth from space.

Donatello what are you doing

I love this scene where the animation just flakes out.  

Raphael = Leonardo

Leonardo = Leonardo

"Something strange has happened, now there are TWO Optimus Primes!"

5.1 billion people on Earth in 1988, and only two of them could teach a person this very nuanced method of kicking a door in.

Bizarrely, these lines of dialogue from Burne and April were sampled in Turtle Rhapsody Remix (from the 1990 TMNT movie soundtrack).

A recurring theme of the series later on will be that Shredder doesn’t know where the Turtle Lair is located, but Baxter just found it six episodes in. I guess they had to relocate after this.  

Our heroes soundly defeat Smash’s minions and grill him for info. He tells them where Shredder is, and they’re on their way.

The whole thing ends with the Turtles tracking down a kidnapped Splinter, some convoluted hi-jinks involving Baxter's rat-catcher and a battering ram, and the bad guys getting away. Pretty standard stuff.

April exposes the Crooked Turtle Gang as imposters. An infuriated Tiffany demands Burnsie debate her in the free marketplace of ideas.

The show ends with the turtles arguing about who April was winking at in her news report, only for her to break reality by responding from within the TV that it was intended for Splinter.

“Return of the Shredder” is a notable outing in a number of ways, particularly given that it ended up being the de facto first episode of Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. Putting that aside, it also expands on some ideas developed in the first season about the media shaping the public perception of the Turtles, something that we’ll see more of in the future (in “Turtles on Trial” next season, for example). The idea of the team being framed for crimes committed by someone else will pop up again even sooner, in “Invasion of the Punk Frogs”.

Sadly, neither Peter Cullen nor Smash will appear in TMNT after this. Other Transformers alumni will appear in guest roles throughout the series though. One character introduced here who will return is Tiffany, who we’ll see again next season.

As I alluded to previously, this episode was heavily edited to bring it in line with the BBC’s broadcast standards, in fact it might actually be the most censored in the entire run. Some of the changes made are downright ridiculous, and I’ll cover them in a future post.

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Calum @ Take My Hand Paris - 10 May 2022

📸: Lola Marek

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LAST NIGHT WAS THE BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE OMFG 

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TMHT Paris

Hello, I'm at home doing absolutly nothing and I'm just sad bc the TMHT is tonight K bye

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WHAT THE FUUUUCKKKK AHHHHH

he lifts him up so easily

pls ignore my screaming 😌

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Luke dropping his mic, Cal losing his shit 😌

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🚨 I NEED HELP REACTING TO SOMETHING🚨

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Full final bow @ Take My Hand Paris - 10 May 2022