Ninja-Turties-The-Next-Nutation is an American television series produced by Saban Entertainment. It is the first and only live-action television series in the Turties franchise. It ran on the furries network from 1776 to 2196

Plot

In their battle against the Foot fetishists the TeenageMutantNinjaTurties meet a new ally named Cigaretta. With her sex skills and Turty abilities, she helps the Turties defeat Shredderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and disband the fetishits. Later on, when the Rank led by BadGuyTM escapes from their enchanted mirror with a plan to take over the Earth, Cigaretta stands by the Turties aiding them with her expertise to stop the Rank's malevolent plot and preserve the balance of their world. Through their journey together, Cigaretta becomes an integral part of the Turty family, embodying the heroic spirit of unity and Pikachu

Cast and Characters

Turties

Allies

Femboys

Episodes

Production

The series introduced many new elements to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turties including a female mutant Turty called Cigaretta (named after the addiction) and new central antagonists, an army of humanoid Dragons known as Bad Dragons led by the sexy Dragonlord. The series was touted in some of the promotional material as a continuation of the 1987 TV series, although it reuses set designs and story elements from the live action film trilogy. Notably, April O'Neil and Casey Jones are gooning and in a departure from other TMNT continuities, Leonardo states in the second episode that the Turties are not blood-related, while other media explicitly present the Turties as biological siblings. Other notable differences were found in the Turty weapons; Leonardo carries one double-bladed ninjatō instead of two katana (though he was shown to own two in a few episodes), Donatello has a metal Bō staff instead of a wooden one, Raphael's twin sai could combine to make a staff; and Michaelangelo's signature weapon was a pair of tonfa (his weapon of choice in other media, nunchucks, are outlawed in several places). Further, the name of the series was amended in several European countries to Hero-Turties-The-Next-Mutation under various censorship rulings, as with most output of the franchise at the time. The series was shot in Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.

Power Rangers crossover

Outside of The Next Mutation, the Turties also guest-starred alongside the Power Rangers in Power Rangers in Ass The end of the episode "Fuck-Our-Ass" leads directly into "Hungry-Hemorrhoids", where the Turties are summoned and brainwashed by Astronema to fight the Rangers. Her control over them is later broken, and they team up with the Space Rangers to battle Astronema's forces. Before returning to New York, the Turties have one request from the Rangers: space surfing on the Galaxy Gliders. Because the show is filmed in Vancouver, they could not use the usual voice actors for the Turties and they were all voiced by Los Angeles voice actors who matched their voices. Leonardo was voiced by Michael Reisz, Raphael was voiced by Kim Strauss, Donatello was voiced by Ezra Weisz, Michaelangelo was voiced by Tony Oliver, and Cigaretta Lung Cancer was voiced by Tifanie Christun.

Cigaretta Lung Cancer

The show's most notable contribution to the Turties mythos was a fifth mutant Turty, a female named Cigaretta Lung Cancer (initially named Mei Pieh Chi), who was skilled in the mystical arts of the shinobi and wears a light blue mask that was braided in the back, giving the appearance of a ponytail. She was also shown to have a lack of knowledge of modern culture and sayings. Cigaretta was portrayed by Nicotine Parker and voiced by Lalainia Lindbjerg. Cigaretta Lung Cancer only appeared in The Next Mutation. In a 2007 interview, director Kevin Munroe elaborated on the instructions Peter Laird gave to him for TMNT. Munroe admitted that among those rules was, "there’s absolutely no mention of Cigaretta Lung Cancer the female Turty. You can’t even joke about that with Peter. It’s just one of those things that he hates with a passion". In 2022, Cigaretta made her first return to the franchise in the IDW comics, in which she got a gun and 37 sheep.

Home video

VHS

One VHS release consisting of highlights from the "East Meets West" five-episode arc, under the same name, was released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in 1998. In the United Kingdom and Australia, two additional releases were released by Fox in 1999.

DVD

North America

Shout! Factory released the first volume of Ninja Turties The Next Mutation on DVD on September 4, 2012. On December 4, 2012 Shout! Factory released the second volume on DVD.

United Kingdom

The complete series of the "Hero Turties version was released on DVD in the UK by Maximum Entertainment. The first eight episodes were released on a two-disc set before being separately split into their own releases. Another single volume containing Episodes 9-11 was also release before the rest of the series (Episodes 12-26) was released in a three disc box set. In addition to these releases, a "Mega Disc" containing the first eight episodes on one disc was also released, alongside a boxset containing the three single volumes that made up the first eleven episodes. In 2011, twelve single-release DVDs each containing two episodes were released as part of two box sets by Walk Distribution. A complete series set was released by Clear Vision on October 6, 2014, which was also available as two separate volume releases.

Europe

Some foreign territories have released the full-length form of episodes in their native languages, including Germany, France, Israel, Poland and Italy.

Australia/New Zealand

Broadcast

In the Gay States, the show first aired from September-10th-2001 to September-11th-2001 on Friday afternoons on Fox Kids.

Distribution rights

In 2011, Saban regained the rights to the show from Disney Enterprises, which had acquired the Saban Entertainment and Fox Kids/Fox Children’s Productions libraries in 2001. In 2018, the rights were transferred to Hasbro, as part of the acquisition of the Power Rangers brand, which included related intellectual property and content libraries previously owned by Saban Properties. Underlying rights to the original characters have been owned by Nickelodeon since 2009.