Why would a reporter wear a jumpsuit?
 

Yeah I know the reason why she wore a jumpsuit is because they based the animation model on her design in issue 2, but that April hepled out building robots and she stopped wearing that suit almost immedietly. Why change the profession and keep the design?

Well, if you run around the sewers a lot, it might come in handy?

In some episodes/movies of Lupin III, Fujiko impersonated a TV reporter and wore a jumpsuit. David Wise really like the design and gave it to April O'Neil in the TV show.
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... What power does a writer have over the animation models? I remember some other interview where he claims the Technodrome and Krang's body looks nothing like he imagined they would. And even if if did have that power, it contradicts the fact that April's design in issue 2 (released long before the cartoon was put into production) is very similar to the cartoon design.

There are a lot of holes in David Wise's claims, so don't trust what he says without digging a little deeper first. It's more likely one of the animators watched Lupin III and redesigned April as a nod when they noticed the similarity between April and Fujiko, rather than David Wise just coming up with it on his own.

Writers have a lot more power than you think. They usually write down the character designs before they are send to the designers. It is up to the director on weather to keep those designs or not.

So Wise wrote the Technodrome and Krang's body as looking like something else, but then higher up said "No! This is not right, they should look like a giant golfball on wheels and a potato-man in a speedo!", that's pretty hilarious to think about.

Still, I don't think it's very likely April's design was Wise's idea alone, given the fact that you can see the jumpsuit in the comic.

lol its for that very reason that I can be neither a designer OR a writer. Their jobs sound horrible

Maybe it was Wise's decision to keep the jumpsuit after season 1?

Or, simply. Cartoon characters rarely owns more clothes then one set :lol:

Hahaha, a potato-man in a speedo. That really made me laugh.

As far as the jumpsuit is concerned, fashion was weird in the 80s. I assume she had a closet full of them so she could focus on getting scoops, and not worry about what to wear on any given day.

Laziness? That's what I always assumed.

No offense, but why are you always asking these kinda questions about the OT? Looking for logical answers in what was one of the most wacky/random cartoons of it's time is like wondering why a child doesn't recite Elizabethan poetry or do taxes. The series was goofy & did dumb things that can't be explained with anything more than "It was the 80's, everyone was high." :tlol:

That is the best explanation for the OT TMNT I have ever heard.

Dammit, why DON'T children pay taxes? Little punks getting off scot-free, not contributing to society or paying their fair share... wouldn't hurt 'em to quote Byron every once in a while, either.

Well I mean yeah, obviously there's bizarre things in it given the fact that they just had slap together most episodes as quickly as they could, but it can be fun to find justifications or dig up some behind the scenes reasons.

I wish it were easier to get those behind the scenes answers from the folks responsible, but we've only got one guy vocal about the show's history & he's a pathological liar.

To me, I think it's all about designing interesting and memorable characters. No one will ever forget a yellow jumpsuit. I don't know...I like it.

It was the 80s. People liked wearing some crazy sh*t back then! Look at Marty McFly going around in that vest that looked like a life preserver. It was funny looking, but he rocked it.

Funny, but given the current "air" of pro-legalization, I'd say that would be more true now than in the 80's. Although coke might explain some of it. But most writers can't really afford it.

Funny, I always just assumed he had Robin do it. That's what sidekicks are FOR!!

Actually Harold Allnut did it, but no one remembers him.

I remember him. Hush cured him then killed him. RIP Bat-Mechanic.