5 out of 5

Five words, one for each star: Ice Cream Kitty Muisc Video.  Is the actual song that great?  No, it’s pretty dang generic, but the video – besides some slightly hinky looking instrument-to-action timing – is hilarious, implementing the best of the oddball types of humor the CGI Nick Turtles crew have used.  When the Beat It dance off occurs, I admittedly lost my shit.  Where’d my shit go?  Instead of caring, I will watch I.C.K. again.

Would I pay full price just for this video?  Darn tootin’, mama.

Thankfully, there’s also some great episodes: The two part feature, which is appreciably clipped together as one long episode.  The Fred Wolf-era Turtles are again crossed with our current Turtles world – a joke I totally agree was too much fun to do only once – only this time, the gag is further extended to the other characters, and the eps have fun matching current Rocksteady and Bebop against the cartoonier versions of the boys, letting them actually win for once.  There’s also plenty of expected ragging on the differences between the unoverses, and I’m totally game for that.  The final showdown is particularly hilarious in the way it builds on those differences.

It does prove to be an argument for weekly TV versus all-in-one-go viewing, as the gag wears a bit thin at points during an hour-long episode, but viewed in its halves, it’s phenomenal.

Also included is the Kevin Eastman-scripted Lone Wolf pastiche, Lone Rat And Cubs, which has Splinter recounting a baby turtles story in which future things are portended, baby turtles get pushed around in a grocery cart and are cute, and we are shown how/why the boys were gifted their individual weapons.  I’m not a big fan of Kev’s comic writing, but this episode suggests TV might be the perfect outlet for his punchy (of dialogue and action) and pulpy writing style.

I.k.c. for the win, y’all.