My boyfriend likes to say he knows his parents really love him because they listened to the TMNT theme so. often. ;)

*nod* I agree. Even if I don't "understand" it viscerally, I see it so frequently that it's part of the fabric of the culture - to the point that countries have a sport that is "their" sport. (Hockey here, football for Americans, soccer for Italians, baseball in Japan, cricket in a lot of South Asian countries, etc.) It's almost to the level of a cultural marker, where you're an outsider if you DON'T get the local sport.