I’m sure you know the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but do you know the Street Sharks? Listen, this show was a 1990s fever dream. First off, instead of being mutated turtles, they are just regular dudes who were injected with shark DNA and turned into shark people. Like, look at this. Their transformation is truly cursed.

The main characters are Ripster (a great white shark), Streex (a tiger shark), Jab (a hammerhead), and Slammu (a whale shark). To get around, they go swimming through concrete while Jaws-themed music plays in the background.

Instead of April O’Neil, the Street Sharks partner up with Lena Mack, a scientist and former university student, and Bends, a tech genius who provides them with a secret base under an ice rink. The base is not the sewers, but it might as well be.

Interestingly, the Street Sharks hate pizza, and they prefer eating burgers and shakes. I can only guess this was to make fun of the Ninja Turtles because who the heck hates pizza?

The bad guy is a literal mad scientist named Dr. Paradigm, who creates the Street Sharks and wants to turn the whole world into mutants who are loyal to him. He has a bunch of genetically engineered sea creature minions, such as a swordfish, a lobster, and even a squid named Killamari.

But not all of his creations are loyal. When he injects one guy with orca DNA and uses mind-control serum on him, the orca guy initially fights for his cause until he sweats out the serum and becomes an ally for the Street Sharks.

In his hubris, Dr. Paradigm accidentally injects himself with piranha DNA and turns into a piranha-faced monstrosity whenever he gets angry. This earns him the nickname Dr. Piranoid.

At the end of the show, he gets turned into this iguana thing and teams up with alien raptors. I’m not kidding. Apparently, in the final season they introduced a team of talking, crime-fighting alien dinosaurs, whom were featured in a spinoff series called Extreme Dinosaurs.

I grew up watching Street Sharks, and I started rewatching the first season recently. For now, all the Street Sharks episodes are all available for free on YouTube, so you might want to check them out after watching this!