6. Pretty Much None Of The Plot Would Have Been Possible
The Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Stick shift was indispensable at least three times in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. There was getting away from the fire at the 2nd Time Around shop in April's "Stone-Age van," there was using that even more weathered 1950s truck to get back to the city, and there was Casey Jones using a garbage truck to knock several members of imminent Foot from a building. The lifestyle of the Turtles and their friends clearly requires them to be able to use whatever they can whenever they can, as they never know when the rug will be pulled out from under themor in their case, when the floor will be hacked to pieces. So knowing manual transmission is critical to their success. We may think the possibilities of our lives are different from the Turtles, but are they really? When Donatello ponders the Chevy Nova at the beginning of the movie, he's saying it all.