Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: We Wish You a Turtle Christmas

<p><strong>Day 22:</strong> We unearth a 1994 cash-grab video starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — or at least some version of them — “We Wish You a Turtle Christmas,” a special so low-quality, it happens in a sewer.</p> <h4>On This Episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), blow-dried towhead clearly drumming out of rhythm on a trash can.</li> <li><strong>Shawn Robare</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ShawnRobare">@ShawnRobare</a>), the bodacious brains behind <a href="https://www.brandedinthe80s.com">Branded in the ’80s</a> and co-founder of the <a href="https://cultfilmclub.com">Cult Film Club</a>.</li> <li><strong>Jonathan Zelenak</strong> (<a href="(https://twitter.com/TheSewerDen)">@TheSewerDen</a>), pizza-powered proprietor of <a href="http://www.thesewerden.com/">the Sewer Den</a>.</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>Topics and Tangents</h4> <ol> <li><a href="http://www.thesewerden.com/p/about.html">About the Sewer Den</a>, Jonathan’s massive TMNT collection.</li> <li>Of course we touch on the Turtles’ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrOK63X3ZfQ">Coming Out of Their Shells Tour</a>.</li> <li>The Turtles’ smiles look like they’re from Soundgarden’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg">“Black Hole Sun” music video</a>.</li> <li>Cash-grab video releases like this <a href="http://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/199/tragicartoon-2-the-little-mermaid-no-not-that-one">anime version of “The Little Mermaid”</a> from 1975, which had a not-at-all-coincidental resurgence around 1990.</li> <li>Writer <a href="http://www.tishrabe.com/about-me/">Tish Rabe</a> also produced “Big Bird in China” and “3-2-1 Conact,” created “The Cat in the Hat Learning Library” after Dr. Seuss’s death, and has written over 160 children’s books.</li> <li>Y’all want to watch 43 minutes of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtpuPixEGSk">Ninja Turtles on <em>Oprah</em></a>?</li> <li>That time a warehouse that housed the Rock-afire