Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Seasons 1–10)

Watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) online on iFILM — the animated series that ran from 1987 to 1996 and turned four sewer-dwelling reptiles into one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of the late twentieth century. The show launched a franchise spanning toys, films and multiple reboots, but the original cartoon remains the one fans argue over.

Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael were ordinary turtles until a chemical spill in the sewers of New York transformed them into human-sized, pizza-obsessed ninjas trained by Master Splinter, a mutant rat who learned ninjutsu from a Japanese martial arts master. Above ground, the warlord Shredder — working with alien invader Krang from Dimension X — is planning various things that are generally bad for the city. Reporter April O'Neil is the only person topside who knows who to call.

The writing team leaned hard into comedy, pop-culture references and the inherent absurdity of the premise — which is exactly why it lasted a decade. Stream all seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) online on iFILM.