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[gogmagog]

Of all the random calls from my parents I've ever received - and I've received a lot - the most random is probably the one I just had from my mom.

(J is me, M is my mom.)

J: Hello?
M: Hi sweetie! I have a question.
J: Yeah?
M: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...who is Splinter?
J: ...um, okay, he's the Turtles' mentor.
M: I see.
J: He's a martial artist who got turned into a giant rat by toxic ooze.
M: Ahahaha, I'm a rat...
J: ?
M: Okay, that's all I wanted to know. Talk to you Sunday!
J: ...bye?
*click*

Comments

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

... but I thought he was the pet rat of a martial artist that got soaked in ooze? orz

(Was that just the movie?)

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

I think that may just be the movie; I remember in the cartoon, at least, there were flashbacks and stuff to Splinter being human? I could be wrong, though; I'm long past my TMNT phase (which ended about the time I stopped participating in the Book-It program, lol).

[brandchan.livejournal.com]

I just wikied because I wanted to know and both origins are right. He was a pet rat in the comics and in the cartoon he was a man mutated into a rat.

God, what a nolstagia flashback.