Once in a while, you come across some bit of trivia that just blows your mind. For a long time, my go-to bit was to tell people John Laroquette was one of the Klingons in Star Trek III. That even topped him being the narrator in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But I just came across this: Chuck Lorre, creator of Big Bang Theory, Two And A Half Men, and Dharma and Greg co-wrote the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song, and was the original voice of all 4 turtles in the original 5 episode try-out. I checked my CD the Sci-Fi Channel came out of Movie and TV Themes, the volume called "Defenders of Justice" with various superhero theme songs and enough miscellany to fill out the disc. The TMNT TV theme is on it, looked at the credits, and sure enough, he's one of the writers of that theme.
I remember stumbling across the lising for the show in TV Guide, and it was scheduled between Christmas and New Year's. I was so concerned about how it'd do that I did a flyer for my local comic shop to put up. Besides totally underestimating it's popularity, the next funniest thing is that since I did the flyer before the show was out, I assumed that all 4 turtles would wear red masks and pads, not knowing that they would use different colors to differentiate the turtles.