Quotes

Various quotes I love from the different TMNT verses with Donatello or about Donatello…

Raphael: SHREDDER!
Donatello: Ah! Thanks, Raph, I may never have the hiccups again! - (TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze)

Donatello: [talking about Raphael] Why couldn’t you have sent him away to train…
Master Splinter: Donatello this home has become like an empty shell. Each of your brothers have strengths and weaknesses. You must learn to be strong when they are weak, for if you cannot learn this than our family, is lost. (TMNT 2007)

Donatello: [on the phone with a tech support customer] No sir, I’m not playing hard to get. I’m telling you, its not that kind of phone line! (TMNT 2007)

Mirage Leonardo: Alright, let’s go stop your Shredder. You’re saying he’s using a “Technodrome”?
Donatello 1987: Yep, but don’t worry. We’ve created a sophisticated device that will be able to track the Technodrome, no matter where…
Mirage Leonardo: Is that it?
[Mirage Leonardo points to the Technodrome in the distance blasting away at the city]
Donatello 2003: Yep, that would be it.
Mirage Leonardo: It’s been doing that all night. huh, now let’s go do something about it. (Turtles Forever)

Donatello: You’re a claustrophobic.
Casey Jones: You want a fist in the mouth? I’ve never even looked at another guy! (TMNT 1990)

Donatello: Here’s another fine mess we’ve gotten ourselves into. (TMNT 2003)

Donatello: I don’t know what happened to you guys, but the Turtles I knew believed that nothing was ever hopeless. Please. We can do this. (TMNT 2003)

Donatello: Did I do all that? I always was an overachiever. (TMNT 2003)

Splinter: Donatello, your Battle Shell is a marvel of engineering. A true testament to your incredible mechanical skills. And I never want to see it in our home again. (TMNT 2003)

Raphael: Poor Donny.
Michelangelo: What are going to do Leo?
Leonardo: Do? This is Donatello. This is our brother. We’re going to hunt down a cure for him no matter what it takes. No matter what it takes. (TMNT 2003)

Michelangelo: [as they climb tunnel walls] Donatello, you sure this is getting us anywhere?
Donatello: Of course - every tunnel leads somewhere.
Raphael: You picked a heck of a time to become a philosopher. (TMNT 1987)

Michaelangelo: April sure was mad.
Donatello: Ah well, you know women.
Raphael: No we don’t. She’s the first one we ever met. (TMNT 1987)

Raphael: All right, Donnie. Put down the staff and no one gets hurt.
Donatello: Uh, you said that last time, Raph, then you hurt me.
Raphael: Yeah, But less than I would have.
Donatello: Yeah, right.
Donatello: [Raphael attacks Donatello]
Donatello: Wah! Ah! Should’ve dropped the staff?
Raphael: Should’ve dropped the staff. (TMNT 2012)

Donatello: What are his symptoms?
Michelangelo: He keeps telling me I’m the smartest guy he knows.
Donatello: Okay, okay, he’s delusional. (TMNT 2012)

Donatello: See that humongous dish?
Irma: Why thank you Donatello!
Donatello: Not you, Irma. I mean that satellite dish.
Irma: Hmph! It’s just like a man to choose TV over me! (TMNT 1987)

[Donatello has just distracted a security camera at TCRI with a pigeon finger puppet.]
Michelangelo: I don’t know what’s scarier: the fact that that worked, or that Don carries around a pigeon puppet. (TMNT 2003)

Michelangelo: I heard his [Nightwatcher’s] bike, turns into a plane, or like, a jet pack. Don, you’re so smart, how come we don’t have jet packs?
Donatello: Yeah, that’s good Mikey, except I don’t even trust you with a drivers license. Have you seen the way this guy behaves– (TMNT 2007)

Michelangelo: This is why we need jetpacks.
Donatello: (panicking) Okay, any more bright ideas?
Michelangelo: How ‘bout this?
Donatello: (Look at each other. Pause. Both scream in terror) (TMNT 2007)

Donatello: [viewing news footage of Rocksteady and Bebop engaging in reckless vandalism] I wonder why those two are having such a temper tantrum.
Raphael: [with his usual sarcasm] Maybe they passed by a mirror and saw what they look like. (TMNT 1987)

Donatello: Yee haw! Ninja cowboy! (TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze)

Donatello: How am I supposed to fight advanced alien technology with a stupid stick!? (TMNT 2012)

[hurling insults in alphabetical order]
Casey Jones: Not even close, Zip Neck. Professor and Mary Anne. Happily ever after.
Donatello: No way, Atomic Mouth, Gilligan was her main man. They’d be married and have six kids by now.
Casey Jones: Gilligan was a geek, Barfaroni!
Donatello: You’re the geek, Camel Breath!
Casey Jones: Dome head.
Donatello: Elf lips!
[Casey finishes fixing the engine]
Casey Jones: Okay let’s give this a try, funkoid!
Donatello: Here it goes… What are we on?
Casey Jones: Uh, G.
Donatello: Here it goes, gak face!
Casey Jones: I’m ready, hose brain! (TMNT 1990)