What happened to the pizza?
 

What happened to it?

In the 1987 toon they loved pizza, especially Mikey and that was one of their character traits, but in the Red Sky Season, I never once saw them eat pizza and they barely mention it at all. I just kind of find that weird that one of their most defining traits was all of a sudden gone? I assume that because the series became more serious the writers thought that the Turtles eating pizza and putting crazy toppings on it was silly and left it out.

In the Red Sky Season, they have those masks that always make them look angry. I thought for a while that they looked angry because they didn't have any pizza. I could see why that would make them look cranky. xD

Maybe the Turtles got tired of eating pizza after seven seasons.

The Turtles looking angry in the Red Sky seasons was probably because the writers wanted to give the series a more serous tone at that time. It's odd alright to see the turtles talking one minute in a good mood and looking angry when they stop talking.

I remember while watching the Red Sky seasons it always felt odd when they would make a comment about Pizza or some other silly left overs from the pre-red sky seasons. The episode was being serious and you could get behind it but then you were reminded of the origin of the show and took you out of it.

Maybe the writers just realised they were beating a dead horse?

Cholesterol happened.

popcorn
 

Yeah, and it all ended with popcorn! :)

I think they should have ended the episode by putting popcorn on the pizza. :D

As far as I know there was no pizza in the first place until Fred Wolf came up with it.

Red Sky was an attempt at giving the show a new identity and not just new aesthetics. getting rid of pizza was just another change in order to make the show look more serious.

Serious people don't eat pizza.

Just like Batman doesn't eat nachos. ;)

But...he does eat nachos. D:

Well that version of Batman did. xD

The only time I heard them mention pizza was when the Turtles during a battle fell on top of Raphael, and Raph says "You guys need to lay off the pepperoni!" But really, you can never be too serious for pizza. ;3

You're probably right there, or at least parental advocacy groups becoming mad with power. They wouldn't let Michelangelo be master of the whirling nunchakus, or of the whirling pizzas.

I would think it's because that they were serious but one thing doesn't add up. Remember the 1990 movie? That was way more serious than the red sky seasons and that movie showed their love for pizza.

When the turtles failed to get inside the Hall of Science at the beginning of The Wrath of The Rat King, they dropped April off at a pizza place. It's possible April may have stopped for a pizza even though we don't know for sure.

Maybe the writers were tired of using the same jokes about pizza or perhaps the desire to make a more mature series made them give up things become too expected and parodic.

Moreover since season 7 we see far fewer pizzas, even in Next Mutation.

Ninja Pizza went under and it's the only brand they like. Dijorno's wasn't out yet.

1.Whaaaa really? I only watched the original TMNT cartoon to the alien (opera?) episodes, not after it
2.Maybe due to the fact the last sessions were based on the comics they thought pizza was overused so they removed it? (i renember asking the same question about pizza in the 2003 cartoon, and the owners stated that it was overused)

I'm pretty sure the last few seasons weren't based on the comics....but if I'm wrong please correct me.

They probably stopped having them eat pizza because the joke was tired and old by that point or maybe the writers ran out of unique pizza combination ideas. :P

No, you were right. Their not based on the comics.
Also here's one pizza they haven't used, Pepperoni and Black Olives (my favorite)

Yeah, none of the original cartoon was comic inspired.