Shredder

[jcowan]

Why do they replace shredder with Lord Dregg in seasons 9 through 10?

[Powder]

James Avery, Shredder's voice actor, was often too busy shooting The Fresh Prince to make voice sessions, & many felt the series had grown stale with Shredder being the main enemy for the bulk of the series.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Because Uncle Phil was too busy eating "pillowy mounds of mashed potatoes- and turtle soup...."

[jcowan]

What is your favorite episode with Shredder as the villion?

[cammy85]

To try and inject new interest in the show since it was competing with Power Rangers at the time.

Season 8 still had Shredder and Krang for half the episodes, one with a generic villain and three with Titanus and HAVOC as a way of testing the water.

Season 9 brought a new main villain, new allies and "new" powers a la Spiderman Season 2. The results were very mixed but got better towards the end.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

One of my personal favorites was Michelangelo's Birthday, where Shredder was not only a threat, but a complete and utter d*ck. He not only tried (and nearly succeeded) to kill off my fave turtle, but he did it with an incredibly heartless and asinine attitude- and in a way that was particularly cruel and gruesome. This particular ep also made Rocksteady and Bebop look like a couple of complete a-holes, too.

[cammy85]

^ I agree! Being taken down by Michaelangelo 9with a little help from Splinter) was very cool to see after all that!!

[Wesley]

What is your favorite episode with Shredder as the villion?

My favourite episode is probably the one in season 8 called "Get Shredder". Shredder was a threat for the first time in years, though he was still easily defeated by the Turtles. He threatened to kill the Channel Six crew and managed to blow up the building anyway. The destruction of Channel Six was the standout moment for me on the show.

[jcowan]

I personally like the episode where shredder recruits sidekicks, Bebop and Rocksteady and they get mutated into the rhino and warthog we know them as

[Wesley]

I also like the episode "Ninja Sword of Nowhere". Shredder is a very competent villain in this episode and portrayed as a serious threat.

[MikeandRaph87]

According to series head writer David Wise, CBS suits wanted to freshen up the series with new characters so an unknown CBS group think basically told wise to create a new human ally, Carter and a new lead villain, Dregg. He took the characters and made them for what we saw them.

As for favorite episodes, Night of The Rogues where Shredder organizes a group of villains to kill the turtles. Second favorite would be Get Shredder, Shredder is able to defy expectations and pull off the badass move of his tenure in the 1987 cartoon by blowing up one of the three main locations of the series. If the censors of the time were like they were for the 2003 cartoon I bet Shredder would have been able to pull off quite a bit more and people should realize that before criticizing him in this series.

[neatoman]

I don't know the real reason (there seems to be several here), but I think it was probably because they felt Shredder, Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady no longer held the interest of viewers.

In my opinion the show was probably long overdue on getting a new villain, the Technodrome gang were defeated in almost every episode for the first seven seasons, they should probably have been replaced (or at least had gotten a minimized role) by season three.

[Wesley]

I heard that Power Rangers were changing their villain at the same time, so that might be another reason why Shredder was replaced with Dregg. Anyway, I think the cartoon probably should have ended after season eight. "Turtle Trek" was a good season finale to end the series on.

[CyberCubed]

Shredder and Krang had been around for 8 seasons, simple.

[Wesley]

According to series head writer David Wise, CBS suits wanted to freshen up the series with new characters so an unknown CBS group think basically told wise to create a new human ally, Carter and a new lead villain, Dregg. He took the characters and made them for what we saw them.

As for favorite episodes, Night of The Rogues where Shredder organizes a group of villains to kill the turtles. Second favorite would be Get Shredder, Shredder is able to defy expectations and pull off the badass move of his tenure in the 1987 cartoon by blowing up one of the three main locations of the series. If the censors of the time were like they were for the 2003 cartoon I bet Shredder would have been able to pull off quite a bit more and people should realize that before criticizing him in this series.

I agree. There was a lot of censorship back then. Shredder saying that the Channel Six crew would be no more was cut from the Irish version of Get Shredder.