Road paved for turtle/sponge showdown

This is a slow news day. How slow? Thanks for asking imaginary person who is always somehow interested in every single thing I'm talking about! It's so slow that I'm going to now give you news about a once popular property that was sold for $60 million to Viacom, the gang who owns Nickelodeon, which has both awesome and terrifying programming for children and then just terrifying programming for toothless adults after 8 pm. THR is reporting that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are now joined with Spongebob Squarepants and other such silly properties. This doesn't change the planned live-action movie in 2012 that's underway but does now include a CGI TV show to premiere about that time and allows the franchise to reach a larger audience, something that makes this guy happy:

Other things that make that guy happy include:

and, sadly:

I hope everyone saw that coming.