"60 Minutes" [Australia]: 'Turtlemania' [1990]
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Looking at the then-new phenomenon of the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, the 1990 movie, and the 'hand-wringing' of child psychologists over the 'effects' of the movie's violence, on the impressionable young minds of all those poor, unsuspecting little kiddies. Yawn!!!
![Perth City "CBD" [Australia] [1990]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/WbDtJXJVEhY/mqdefault.jpg)
I feel bad for anyone who wasn't allowed to watch tmnt growing up. They really missed out. Pretending that I was a ninja as a kid was a lot of fun.
Same, I was pretending I was a turtle, I walk to the beach, dig a hole for my eggs, and then I’m going for a swim.
@@kevintouss7133 you took it to a whole different level
I remember being so jealous of Denny Hanson. He had all the stuff I wanted
I grew up back then and loved tmnt. I remember adults blaming tmnt for all the world's ails. Meanwhile people still love and protect their guns.
Parents should've been happy that the kids were getting exercise.
People should take a chill pill and stop scapegoating innocent things because its easier than parenting.
Nowadays kids just stay inside. I’d rather them outside play fighting
I was in my mid teens by the time the TMNT craze reached Australia. I went to see the movie.
A few years later for my Year 12 Media Studies class for one of our assessment tasks we had to write assignments discussing how the media shapes our behaviour and attitudes. We were given research material by our teacher. There were news articles and opinion pieces about connections between violence in films and television and violence in the real world. Others mentioned how some people formed racial prejudices after seeing shows in which some minorities were depicted as criminals. Another article was
"Don't let prudes kill those turtles"
and written by Simon Townsend who was known as the producer and host of the award winning Simon Townsend's Wonder World. The conclusion of his article said
"Don't worry mums and dads, your turtle-loving kids will turn out just fine, just like you."
Then there was another mention about a psychologist claiming that the turtles were
"psychologically harmful."
One of the things I said was that the ninja turtle pretend play with kids doing karate kicks, etc was really no different to how kids in previous decades would have pretended to be cowboys. Emulating their heroes was just a normal part of growing up for kids.
Hahahahahaha holy fuck! When he's talking about the toy being kinky. 😂😂😂😂
1990: Channel 9 gets butthurt after different network gains the rights to a popular show. This piece of Journalistic excellence is featured in their Sunday night prime time show.
It’s amazing how misinformed and ignorant the mainstream news media still is! Nothing has changed 🤣😂
Interviewer: "Who's the toughest?"
All the kids: "Donatello"
Me: "My life is a lie..."
Man i don't remember if i liked Michelangelo or Raphael. I remember having a Raphael figures
@@VHSValdesHasSpoken As a child, Mikey was my favorite. As I got older, Ralph became my favorite
Because on the toys Donatello is the one one whose lip down and both sides of his teeth showing
At first my Mum was reluctant to let me and my brother see this when this was released almost 30 years ago. But we did see this after all.
Dr. Ridiculous is just that.
What people see and perceive as adults is so much different than what a child sees. When we were kids playing with these things it wasn't because we wanted to hurt peor ourselves, it was because we saw something cool that we wanted to reenact, interact, or play with because it was FUN.
I watched the TMNT movie so many times as a kid and in my more strict family Christian valued household growing up, I was still able to watch with no problem. It's all in how people raise their kids and how those kids decide to let those teachings be absorbed into their lives and what responsibilities they have and how to act on whatever they do.
Everything is with consequence. For generations, people find ways to blame everything on an external parties when the problem lies within the internal part of their lives. Gotta step up and find ways to fix it and ask for help of needed.
He probably sits there defending the second amendment as well
“They want Australia too” They got us. I can’t tell you how phenomenally popular it was here as a child. I cannot think of any childhood fad that was ever as popular here
The turtles played risk and conquered Australia as soon as they could ;)
God these people where nuts, but I want my old TMNT toys back!
I'm not a violent person but this Psychiatrist is making me want to lay him flat. Blaming a toy and a movie for kids hurting themselves while playing. Where did he get his degree? A crackerjack box? When did it become everyone elses responsibility to parent their own kids. Kids play, they get rough some times. Some times seriously. It's human nature. Violence is an underlying facit of human nature. It's presented itself long before there was ever cinema or mass produced toys. I have friends who overworked themselves trying to protect their kids from violent imagery and they still ended up getting into fights or rough housing. Parents, try to raise your kids right and quit trying to dictate the world what they can watch or buy.
In here the biggest controversy was it being nothing but a tv commercial
I guess the term "It's just pretend" makes no difference here
I still have this recorded somewhere on VHS lol. I was 10 back in 1990 and loved the Turtles
I loved watching TMNT when I was a kid back in the early 90's. My parents thought it was a silly extremely farfetched peice of pop culture. Funny enough that there are a bunch of adult jokes that flew over our heads when we were kids. Raphael was my favorite Turtle due to his sarcastic and rough personality. Also I would have told that "psychiatrist for television violence" to put a sock in it.
At least Australia didn’t get that “hero” turtle shit that UK got
UK is fucking lame
JC that psychologist is a bit over dramatic
Guess what everyone this seemingly perfect psychiatrist is now in prison Lmfaooooooo
The parents where never mad lmao Tv at its best, telling you what to think n feel
Nowadays kids have over sexualised music videos. You can not watch one does not feature a woman in a bikini or underwear.
Tom Sawyer used to pick fights with random people and that’s a masterpiece of American literature.
Now kids have to deal with politically correctness
By the way, those kids had an montage to turtle power that they can brag about forever. I think the tv show was trying to make it look like horrendous behavior. Instead, that wouldve been awesome to show my kids when I grew up. :)
The movie is rated PG for a reason. PARENTAL GUIDENCE! It’s up to the parents to teach their kids the difference between fantasy and reality!
And this is why the sequel was a “shell” of the 1st one
They fought because they must, the Teenagers Mutant Ninja Turtles they knew how to control their fighting
Turtlemania!
Imagine, the Beatles, if they were green and had shells!
If they think the cartoon and movie are violent, I guess they never read the original comics!
There was a comic mini series literally called “Body count!” witch had Raphael and Casey gunning down thugs
It's been 30 years since this was released.
The TMNT was indeed what got my parents into Domino's Pizza (or maybe we asked for it as children, I just don't remember). We ordered it every Friday night, then it became every other-other week.
In Australia it didn’t come here for years but everyone who saw ninja turtles as a kid remembered it. Now it’s the biggest pizza restaurant here aside from Pizza Hut
I remember wearing my turtles slippers and eating turtles cereal but I dont remember sniffing my turtle air freshner waiting for the cartoon to come on.
Dr Floyd get life
4:01 an average morning for me
Dr Tom is currently in prison
1990= turtles-bad / cold war=👍
More like doctor ridiculous.
It wasn't a kids comic.it was a great movie. Should of been a 15.cert.and the secret of the ooze Should of been made in the same tone as the 1st.moviie.
You gotta ask, how much distance from realty were any kids who didn't get the whole thing about real life and what they saw on TV, instead of parents or teachers or so called psychoanalysisits would have you believe, not all kids are going to try and climb a wall like Spidey or fly like Superman just cos they have a costume with a cape, and I don't buy the bit about a child in Oz thinking that Turtles from New York are going to be under his street outside his house, that's as unlikely as seeing some youngster who watched E.T. or A.L.F sitting outside in their garden hoping for a Alien to visit. What they going to claim next, a pet shop had to stop selling rabbits because little children thought it was going to talk like Bugs Bunny. Imaginative and creative people should not be held up making fictional stories because some individuals don't work out how to explain to the target audience the nature of the narrative while also pointing out what is real or obviously made up and why it shouldn't be copied due to the dangers involved and just tried to ban it, so it's no longer a problem, just cos they don't want to attempt to explain to a lot of pre teen viewers, so they can play safe, and not be treated as sensation grabbing sponges without any common sense.
Easy times make soft people hard times make tough people!!!
The conspiracy of the evil 📻
The church guy drives me nuts. Apparently because a toy set is called a "torture chamber" that the fun of the toy is the fact that Raph is getting tortured with mutagen poured on him. How did he even interpret that when the point is rescuing as it's a bad thing he's getting tortured. I swear the 90s were the worst when it came to censorship.
That wasn't a "church guy" he was a psychiatrist who's in prison now for trading opioids for sexual* favors
@@TXDogg83 awesome
Ppl and parents are sooo lame its just an movie its not volient
Smh i remember this incident when i was a kid, i never saw the actual news footage but i remember it being talked about. Ultimately lead to that watered down tmnt 2 sequel smh.
that and even though the movie tried to be too dark and gritty like the comics, it was too violent for its own good (to the point where Jim Henson hated it, and Playmates refused to make any toys based on the movie)
@@figment1988 It wasn't that violent.
The first one wasn’t as violent as the original comics. And the second was definitely watered down compared to the first one.
The second movie would have been much better with the same tone as the first.
@@figment1988 damn so thats why no toys were made from that movie back then. Didnt know that.
So child abuse is more acceptable?