TMNT cartoon discrepencies

[darthsmozers]

Hi all,
I'm sitting here watching a few episodes of TMNT, namely the episodes in the teens (13-19), such as Return of the Technodrome, Cat Woman from Channel 6, etc.

Anyways, I've noticed tons of mistakes, such as wrong mask colors, wrong voices, missing wrist bands, etc. Are these editing mistakes, poor quality, carelessness, or something else? Just wondering if you all know what I'm talking about.

[That Matt Guy]

I imagine most of them were just overlooked mistakes. The animators were probably rushing through and trying to get the cartoons finished, and just got careless with the colors.

[Karpo_007]

Yeah the show is a classic for those errors.

[Jephael]

Did you know they also reuse the same animation in some scenes? If you watch the episode "Rhino-Man", it's really easy to notice when they do that.

[Karpo_007]

No I didn't ever notice that...

[That Matt Guy]

Did you ever notice that in a lot of scenes, the Turtles aren't carrying any weapons, but the weapons magically appear in their hands seconds later?

[Karpo_007]

That is nothing unusual in that cartoon...

[That Matt Guy]

That is nothing unusual in that cartoon...

Yeah. But it always bugged me, even when I was a kid.

[Jephael]

yeah, it was almost as if their shells somehow concealed em.

[Karpo_007]

Well they belts had infite storage capacity too.

[That Matt Guy]

yeah, it was almost as if their shells somehow concealed em.

Maybe they really did have "storage shells" like the figures. :lol:

[darthsmozers]

And there were those stoage shell figures :D

Some scenes the turles look about a foot shorter than april, with huge heads, and sometimes they look the size of full-grown men. Heh.

oh, I just watched one where Krang is an ugly ugly dark pink, yuck!

Edit: Matthew, you beat me to it!! :evil:

:D

[That Matt Guy]

oh, I just watched one where Krang is an ugly ugly dark pink, yuck!

Krang was always changing sizes and colors. :lol:

Edit: Matthew, you beat me to it!! :evil:
:D

:D :D :D

[Jephael]

Normally Krang was abruptly the size of a football, but in his first appearance, he was friggin' huge!

[darthsmozers]

Haha I just watched the beginning of "The Ol Switcharoo", and as Don's pizza machine is about to explode, the guys hide under the table, leaving Splinter by himself! The thing explodes, then Splinter enters from another room hahah!!

[That Matt Guy]

Normally Krang was abruptly the size of a football, but in his first appearance, he was friggin' huge!

It seems like in Casey Jones Outlaw Hero, Krang changed size like 5 times.

[raphael90]

Krang was cool on his first appearance.

SHREDDER: "That's quite a brain you've got there Krang!"

KRANG "Of course it is! It's all I've got! *burp*"

:lol:

As for the mistakes that really bugged me, I don't like it when they put the wrong voice to the wrong Turtle. Like on "Killer Pizzas", Leo pushed Shredder out of the way of the monster. Shredder yells at him but when Leo speaks, he's wearing red bands instead of blue. :P

[xZAOx]

i always liked how, lets say, donatello broke his staff on something, then a minute later its back to its good ole self! hehe

[Deathknight]

One of my favorite errors is in the later seasons they'd show Mikey twirling his chucks and then they'd show him again but this time he'd be using his grapling hook.

[Kali]

One of my favorite errors is in the later seasons they'd show Mikey twirling his chucks and then they'd show him again but this time he'd be using his grapling hook.
o.O Man, those over-reacting parents move fast!

[darthsmozers]

parents? i heard they had mike's weapon changed..anyone care to fill me in? lol

[Karpo_007]

Well it got cencored, Nunhcukus were too violent so they changed it to grapling hook...

[darthsmozers]

so nunchuks were deemed more violent than swords and sais? LOL

[That Matt Guy]

I think a grapling hook is worse than nunchuks. You could bash someones skull in with a grapling hook.

[Kali]

I think a grapling hook is worse than nunchuks. You could bash someones skull in with a grapling hook.
You could do the same with a nunchuck.

[That Matt Guy]

A grapling hook is made of metal, and I guess a nunchuk is made of wood. Which would hurt worse if you took a blow to the head?

[Kali]

There are metal nunchuks. It would also depend on how fast they were moving, and whether you got hit by one of the hooks of the grappling hook.

[That Matt Guy]

There are metal nunchuks. It would also depend on how fast they were moving, and whether you got hit by one of the hooks of the grappling hook.

If you got hit the head with a solid metal grapling hook you would either die or be put into a coma and eventually die. It wouldn't matter about the hooks. I guess the same thing would apply to metal nunchuks if they were wielded with a great amount of force.

[Kali]

Not necessarily. People have survived worse than that. Easily.

[darthsmozers]

Hmm, just seems odd blades and drills and rockets and lasers weren't banned, but simple nunchuks were? How desperate...

[That Matt Guy]

Maybe you should look at what a real grappling hook looks like: http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/images/TourPictures/14_DDay%20equip_lge.jpg

More than likely if someone smashed that into your head, you would die.

[raphael90]

Nunchucks violent? Give me a break! :x

Don't these people have anything better to do than complain about this stuff? Man... :roll:

[Deathknight]

They were considered too violent in the UK I know that... but I really hate parents who whine about everything. I mean, can't they just get a life.

[Karpo_007]

Well thst show was changed in states, So someone did think they weren't suitable for kids cartoon. Well I don't think we have to worry about anything like that happening again.

[Kali]

Maybe you should look at what a real grappling hook looks like: http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/images/TourPictures/14_DDay%20equip_lge.jpg

More than likely if someone smashed that into your head, you would die.
Well, yeah, if that hit you in the head! But ninja grappling and climbing hooks are much smaller, lighter, and often collapsible.

With the nunchuk issue. When you think about it, nunchuks are probably the most dangerous weapon because they are so unpredictable and hard to control. Beginners learning the weapon get a lot of bruises before even beginning to master it. So kids trying to copy the moves, even with a pair or socks, could easily hit themselves in the eye or break something. I'm not saying the other weapons aren't dangerous, all weapons are dangerous.

[Reznorite420]

Maybe you should look at what a real grappling hook looks like: http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/images/TourPictures/14_DDay%20equip_lge.jpgAfter one look at that I have one thing to say...






























OUCH!

[Jephael]

Nunchucks violent? Give me a break! :x

Don't these people have anything better to do than complain about this stuff? Man... :roll:

Hey I remember people in middle school warning us kids not to go around carrying nunchucks as opposed to knives.

[That Matt Guy]

Hey I remember people in middle school warning us kids not to go around carrying nunchucks as opposed to knives.

Why?

[Jephael]

It was in their weopens policy. Kids couldn't even wear chains on their pants.

[That Matt Guy]

My school had that chain thing, but I already thought people who had those looked like idiots.

[Deathknight]

My middle school banned chains, but my highschool (who is 100 times more physco about security) hasn't banned them. Stupid losers, they actually make us take a survey every year and it asks questions like "How many times have you brought a knife to school this year?" And I'm like what kid would actually answer this honestly? Do they really think we're that stupid?

[Straight-Edge]

I'm pretty sure the reason the nunchucks were targeted by parents is because, at the time, Mike was the kid-favorite turtle. He was the one most people related to, and he was the surfer-talk bonehead that became the general assumption of what all the turtles were.

Also, no parents were giving their kids swords and sais to play with, but lots of kids could get their hands on on something like nunchucks... if you're imitating something at home that parents dont approve of, they're going to complain.

[Donatello02]

I remember the episode about Rex the robot cop, and Shredder makes evil duplicates by the thousands to do his bidding, but in the final battle, Rex only takes out like three of'em and somehow I guess that's the end of Shredder's massive army, cuz the next scene it's April in his apartment and then the end. WTF.

[Kameko]

Also, no parents were giving their kids swords and sais to play with, but lots of kids could get their hands on on something like nunchucks...

:nod: I came real close to making my own set of nunchucks for Halloween this year, ( :thyper: Yeah, that's just what I need.... :P ) but stupid walmart never had the right size dowels in. :flaming: