No Right Answer: Best Sensei Ever

[JaceArveduin]

Is there a legitimate place to watch any of the TMNT cartoons? All this talk is making me feel nostalgic.

 

[NaramSuen]

Actually Kyle, they saved the village from a typhoon, not a hurricane. Both are tropical cyclones, but hurricanes originate in the Atlantic Ocean while typhoons originate in the Pacific Ocean.

See what I did there, providing guidance and everything.

 

[Oskamunda]

I think that this quandry may better be solved by looking at the students and their feats rather than the master.

Daniel-san learned to paint. Daniel-san learned to wax the car. Daniel-san learned to drive...in the movie AFTER learning how to wax the car. Daniel-san learned the Crane Kick. Daniel-san learned to break a big block of ice. Daniel-san couldn't keep the girl in any of his installments. Daniel-san abandoned his teacher when his own life went a different direction.

The turtles mastered four distinctly different weapons with different tactics for the express purpose of killing their enemies. Whenever they fought, it was to the death. They killed Uroku Saki, the strongest warrior of the strongest ninja clan in modern Japan, after the prolonged battle of wiping out his army. They defeated an army of Mousers while keeping the girl (of a different species, mind you...not a different nationality) alive and safe--oh yeah, the one they managed to keep around for each of their installments, btw--through to another day. They were transported to an alien world after taking on an invasion force of disembodied brains disguised in android-like bodies while trying to search for the mysteries of their mutant origins, where they enjoyed a fiesty glass of Zim-CUK! before being transported off-planet when captured by bipedal Triceratopians...where they dueled one-on-one to-the-death with seasoned gladiators of the same Triceratopian race to an audience of thousands of interstellar beings in an environment with to-them-unbreathable-atmosphere...WHERE THEY EMERGED VICTORIOUS AND WENT ON TO ESCAPE THE ARENA BY TAKING THE TRIKE EMPEROR HOSTAGE. Let's not forget Dr.Honeycutt trapped in...you know what, let's just stop there.

Now you tell me, who's training produced the better students?

 

[neon_samurai]

The System from The Matrix. "(ZAP!) I know what ever I ever wanted to know at all forever done!"

 

[ZexionSephiroth]

"let me just say one thing... I hate Joseph Campbell"

Try Christopher Vogler, he surmised Joseph in a way that better suits story telling. Which I've translated into the language of 'Average Joe' below...

Step 1: Your hero is clueless of the stuff about to go down.
Step 2: Hero finds out a little of what will go down.
Step 3: Hero tries to GTFO before stuff hits fan (optional)
Step 4: Hero meets dude who has a clue. (Sensei)
Step 5-9: Hero goes off with guys he just met to put a cap in the bad guy's... *static*
Step 10: ...And then GTFO of there before he gets himself shot.
Step 11: He Gets shot.
Step 12: He survives, barely; and gets to brag to his mates about how he saved the world and brought back stuff. Tee shirt anyone?

...Now if only I could translate that paragraph back to English...

 

[Kenjitsuka]

I nearly spit out my drink from laughter when Kyle said "He taught Ralph Machio how to paint a fence..."! WOW, the most impressive feat a Sensei can teach, right there

A fair win for Miagi in the end. Good job debating!

 

[Kufaz]

Nyanko Sensei is best sensei!

 

[Danny Clinton]

I agree Yoda is the eh.. man, Also I think he'd take superman. Wow cud you imagine, that would be emotional

 

[Caffeine_Bombed]

George Best was a shameless alcoholic who drank himself to the brink of death, was given a (successful) liver transplant by the NHS, then continued to drink until it killed him. Massive tributes in all the British papers to this "legend".
Pat Morita died the same day and he got 2 sentences towards the back...
I hate this country.