Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Reboot Replaces “Cowabunga” with What?

I honestly clicked on the link to this story because I thought you might be lying. QUIT DESTROYING MY CHILDHOOD, CARTOON EXECUTIVES.

It’s just a freaking catchphrase, can everyone calm down? Early reviews for the show are extremely positive and they didn’t give a shit about some stupid catchphrase change! So stop crying you babies.

ok….cowabunga is as much a part of turtle lore as pizza is i believe it has been a part of every variation of the turtles period….IT NEEDS TO STAY!!!!!! its not about catchphrases now…this is a matter of honor

Yet another car-toon reboot
Yet another car-toon reboot
Yet another car-toon reboot
(Recycling the 80′s… cartoon updates!)

It feels like this is getting quite obscene
(…another car-toon reboot)
But execs say, “Hey it’ll make us green!”
(…backs for a car-toon reboot)

…okay, okay, I’ll stop there.

I don’t know, while this one looks indeed bad, i kind of like the recent Thundercats reboot and Scooby Doo Mystey Inc.

I agree with Tom. Personally, I’m more interested in them getting characters right than I am a catchphrase. It looks good so far. I’ll wait on freaking out until I see the thing.

No…. TMNT was “cowabunga”, period. It’s not 80s-dated. It’s not terrible. It was Ninja Turtles.

Well, it was already sh*t before, now it’s fermenting even worse…

I dunno. You get the basics all screwed up, it’s not looking promising.

Indeed. I probably will give it a chance, but i’m not that optimistic.

Wait…Booyakasha was actually a thing people said at one point? It just sounds like random noise strung together into a word.

Is “cowabunga” really a basic, though? I believe the original comic it’s based on didn’t even include a catchphrase. Should we be throwing around the word “basic” that easily?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Doesn’t it mean ‘death to the white man’? Or was that just an urban myth spread around English secondary schools in the early 00s?

You had me rolling my eyes every time you played down them ditching cowabunga… until you brought out bangarang. Now your my hero.

That sounds like a word that would ONLY sound good coming out of Greg Cipe’s mouth.

And this is news because I guess it’s cool these days to pretend our childhoods are being raped when reboots aren’t 100% like the original thing we remember. It’s a meaningless, silly catchphrase, and rumor has it it’s being introduced as an intentionally bad one so that “cowabunga” can be written into the show to replace it anyway. And for the record I think both catchphrases are stupid.

Seriously? Isn’t Ali G quite a bit out of date for the sort of kids this is aimed at?

… Yep, Wikipedia says Ali G was on TV from 1996 to 2002. Sooo… a decade-old catch-phrase. Cowabunga may be out of date, but at least it’s old enough to be funny for it. Booyakasha is recent enough to make kids cringe at how old it is.

“I’m honestly less appalled about them ditching it in the first place than I am about them going with booyakasha instead.”

Agreed

…Meh.

Booyakasha sounds dumb to me, but Cowabunga wasn’t exactly an un-dumb thing to say itself. The catch phrase wasn’t what made me love turtles. I loved the turtles for the butt kicking, the characters, and occasionally the story. I’ve fallen in love with multiple incarnations of TMNT over the years: the first cartoon, the first movie, the Archie comics series, the original Eastman and Laird comics series, the 2001 cartoon…

I’ve also fallen in hate with a couple of incarnations, too. But it took a lot more than a catch phrase to drive me away.

Still on the fence with the new one. The animation style and those weird uber-cartoony emotes are going to take getting used to, and hearing 1980s RAPHAEL coming out of Donatello’s mouth is breaking my brain. But from what I can see, they have the characters down. We’ll see what the story’s like. They can yell boom-shaka-laka for all I care.

…Meh.

Booyakasha sounds dumb to me, but Cowabunga wasn’t exactly an un-dumb thing to say itself. The catch phrase wasn’t what made me love turtles. I loved the turtles for the butt kicking, the characters, and occasionally the story. I’ve fallen in love with multiple incarnations of TMNT over the years: the first cartoon, the first movie, the Archie comics series, the original Eastman and Laird comics series, the 2001 cartoon…

I’ve also fallen in hate with a couple of incarnations, too. But it took a lot more than a catch phrase to drive me away.

Still on the fence with the new one. The animation style and those weird uber-cartoony emotes are going to take getting used to, and hearing 1980s RAPHAEL coming out of Donatello’s mouth is breaking my brain. But from what I can see, they have the characters down. We’ll see what the story’s like. They can yell boom-shaka-laka for all I care.

I dunno I think your being a little too hard on something that hasn’t premiered yet. I’m still excited for this. I know it won’t be the same from my childhood but it shouldn’t be cause its for a different generation. And I still have the old series I can watch anytime I want =)

Yeah, to me, “basic” is stuff like Leonardo is the serious one, Mike is the goofball, Don is the smart one, Raph is the wiseass and/or hardass, Splinter is the wise old mentor/father figure. The catchphrases are superficial. Mike could say cowabunga, booyakasha, or mushaboom mushaboom; so long as he says it in a goofy, MIKEY-ish way, in the context of a decent plot, it’ll be fine.

I’m not sure what to think of the STYLE of the show yet; not loving the animation direction at the moment. But the personalities are clearly recognizable.

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reboot? They’ve never gone away since the mid 80′s.

Remember that one CGI tootsie roll pop commercial from the 90s where Mr. Firebreathing Dragon and Mr. Cybernetic Endoskeleton just up and blatantly stole the kid’s candy without even attempting to answer the “How many licks does it take to get to the center?” question like Mr. Turtle and Mr. Owl did in the 70s? All the while telling themselves “We bad!”

This is kind of like that.

BUT EVERYONE KNOWS COWABUNGA!

exactly!! People need to stop maiking such a bigass deal out of things and start paying more attention to Mikey’s cuteness, awesomeness, and…Mikey-ness!!!!!!!!!!!! geez!

I know right?

I like the catchphrase. One of the positive elements about TMNT 2012 is that it’s NOT TRYING to be all those other series, it’s its own show that stands on its own feet. It’s very grounded in the world as the youth sees it today; your generations had your TMNT, now this one has theirs. And quite frankly, it’s a delightful show; I enjoy it a lot. The catchphrase issue is just character development; that’s how I see it, anyway. How many kids do you hear saying “cowabunga” these days? Very few, if any. Most of them think it sounds ridiculous. “Booyakasha” is less mainstream, not as many people have heard as they have the former, so kids are more receptive to it. That lame association with 1980′s happy fun-time censorship television isn’t there. I happen to think it suits the new Mikey quite well. If you love the old show so much, watch THAT. Don’t nitpick at this one.

i actually think its works, i grew up with them as a child. and i absolutely love this remake. Mikey is still my favorite of the boys. Im sure they will attempt many more random catch phrase so chillax!!! :F