Why didn't CBS allow the show to hit 200 total episodes?
 

Since the original series was canceled it was only roughly 7 eps away from hitting the 200 ep milestone. Why didn't they increase the 8 ep orders to 13 ep seasons toward the end of the show?

It always makes me wonder why we couldn't hit the big 200 when we were so close. I suppose you could include the TMNT anime ova but that was just 2 more eps.

Pretentious question is pretentious.

good question. I dont know.

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real answer, I don't think CBS gave a flying ****

This is pretty much the answer I had in mind.

There's the real answer.

I somehow doubt the producers gave a care at that point either. Technically, Planet Of The Turtleoids wasn't an episode but a TV special. They even whipped up an exclusive gold plate credits template. So, going by that logic, doubling the size of season 10 would have only given them 199 actual eps. :ohwell:

I heard they ran out of paper plates and napkins at the studio

Well truefully TMNT was unfortunate was approaching the end of the line, the red sky from what I heard breathed some new life into it, but never really got a chance to get off the ground bc of the Law being passed and TMNT was not considered a learning cartoon...

Clearly those schmoes at the FCC never saw "Turtle Tips." :twink:

Totally, before Leonardo told me why I needed to turn off the water when I brushed my teeth, I was known to waste 2, 3, sometimes even 10 gallons of water.

But no, really, those tips did help and I did quit wasting water. :tgrin:

Haha, of all the Turtle Tips shorts, this is the only one I remember. The funny thing is that I teach 7th grade, and I'm in New Mexico, where water is a precious commodity. Anyway, in history class I frequently bring up the issue of water conservation, and one day I specifically asked students about their teeth brushing habits. Several of them said they let the water run while they brush. No kidding, it made me want to try to google this Turtle Tips episode to teach them a little something.

That would have been awesome!!!!:D

Oh and hear next time u want to show them, jst come here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04rd_ycv378

So some 15 years down the road, a guy named CyberCubed would have something to gripe about on a Ninja Turtles forum.

Those Turtle Tips totally helped. I totally remember the one about chopping up the soda/beer 6-pack plastic so animals couldn't get caught in them, and the one where they teach us about not leaving the refrigerator door open and wasteing electricity, and the one about properly disposing batteries. Whatever they taught, I took to heart (except the batteries one, I'm guilty of throwing them in the regular trash sometimes).


Oh, and as for CBS not allowing them to go to 200 eps? I'm sure letting the show reach a milestone even-numbered episode wasn't one of their priorities.

Leave it to the government to try and ruin kids' entertainment by giving them school on the weekend.

Don't just blame the government. Blame the stupid parents that thought the TMNT were a bad influence.

Since when do networks care how many episodes a show has? With this logic, they wouldn't cancel any shows that were left open-ended either, and TV would be full of shows nobody watches. They only care about what makes money. By this time, TMNT had pretty much worn out its welcome. Although it would've been funny to see a tv exec say "wait! We can't cancel TMNT! It only has 7 episodes left until the 200 episode milestone!"
Personally I think it ended at a good time. Most of the public had been burned out on TMNT for a few years, and most of the kids who grew up with it were now teenagers who didn't watch cartoons.

Given that CBS was the network that had a chance to give us an animated series for the wonderful comic, "Elfquest", but that kept making demands on Wendy and Richard Pini (EQ's co-creators and de-facto owners) to CHANGE things, storyline and character-wise that wpould have effectively turned what COULD have been one excellent action/adventure/fantasy series in to "Elf-Babies" (the elfin equivalent of "The Muppet-Babies"), and to which Wendy and Richard very naturally said "Thanks, but NO, thanks", that didn't totally surprise me, actually.:trolleye:

Which I totally agree with Vegita-San, The Ninjinister and TerranigmaFreak (and especially Vegita-San) on THEIR assessment of CBS's reasons for not giving us 200 eps of the Classic TMNT series.:twink:

Ah, yes, I remember that one, too. It's funny you mention it because ever since then I've been cutting those plastic pieces into little bits (using scissors, not katanas). I felt bad for the animated seagull that was caught in one!

Awesome! Thanks for posting the link. I will definitely be watching all of 'em again.

No problem and as for the reason why it didn't make 200 eps its bc of the damn Free Masons! Conspiracy I say! The Turtles were gaining too many followers!!!!! We will rise again!!!

If you don't have to pay for your Masons, you can bet your bottom dollar there's something wrong with them.