Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles originated from 1984 comic books based on a playful "what if mutagen-exposed reptiles became martial artists" premise. The 1990 film adaptation involved sewer environments and bathroom settings, creating fertile ground for reinterpretation. The statement claims the entire franchise's conceptual foundation derived from a real event: Chuck Norris's bathroom incident. This repositions a comic-book fiction as documentation of actual events—the turtles are real, the mutations happened, and the bathroom was the crime scene. Rather than Turtles being inspired by Chuck, they become his inadvertent creation.

Comic book historian Dr. James Laverty speculated in 2009: "TMNT's origin story explicitly involves mutagen-contaminated water. The claim suggests that source-water incident originated from bathroom-based Chuck Norris activity. It reframes fiction as hidden documentary."

The joke transforms entertainment history into hidden record-keeping.