Thread:Trigger009/@comment-995426-20150818230934/@comment-995426-20150818233535

Oh, just OCD. When my edits are reverted, I want the understanding of the circumstances to be crystal clear. :)

I've actually wondered for a while about how to handle this, because this series has been using "ninja" as a play on "n___a" heavily since the very first episode, from will.i.am's TMNT theme song ("everything he can to get his ninjas through") to casual dialogue ("my ninjas", "yo, ninja", etc.). But "ninja please" is even more conspicuous because of the humorous memetic use of the African American Vernacular English phrases "n___a please" and "b_tch please" in other media (The Boondocks, etc.) as a sassy dismissal.

The show's extensive use of this G-rated alternative to "n___a" seems to warrant some kind of mainstream mention, since it's not just some passing mature reference in an episode, but literally heard in every episode (at least in the theme song). It's possible I'm just a bit too urban or cosmopolitan to be ignorant of it in the first place, but it seems unlikely to me that ordinary people don't notice the reference. There's getting the proverbial crap past the radar, and then there's putting the proverbial crap in front of the radar where everyone can recognize it.