So, how much time has passed in the show?

[Unworthy tinker]

I've been wondering this for a while, because no way everything has happened in less than a year.

I assume it's been one or two years, but I guess it can be debunked by Mikey saying he's (still) fifteen in The Croaking and the fact that they went sixteen years back in the last episode.

So, how long do y'all think it's been?

[ssjup81]

Based on what Casey says in the Invasion, at least a year.

[CyberCubed]

I'm guessing its going to be one of those shows where the characters don't actually age even if time passes. Its going to be like Simpsons or Pokemon, where the entire main cast remains the same age throughout many seasons.

Remember they would have to show April graduate High School and make her look visibly older if the characters age, and I doubt they will change her CG model.

[ToTheNines]

I used to have it broken down, but it's basically been a year and a half.

[neatoman]

There are certainly some discrepancies. The turtles claim to be 15 at the start of the series, Casey claimed the Technodrome attacked "last year" at the end of season 2 yet for some reason Mikey still claims to be 15 in the frog episode. Granted, that could be explained by Mikey being an idiot, but it certainly doesn't explain how the latest episode can take place 16 years in the past.

Eh whatever, I guess the series runs on the same weird kind of time scale as the Marvel Universe in which 2015 is somehow 15 years after 1961 and yet 1945 was 70 years ago like in real life.

[Mew]

About a year.

[Unworthy tinker]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I'm guessing its going to be one of those shows where the characters don't actually age even if time passes. Its going to be like Simpsons or Pokemon, where the entire main cast remains the same age throughout many seasons.

Remember they would have to show April graduate High School and make her look visibly older if the characters age, and I doubt they will change her CG model.

True, true. I retract my statement/question. Plus it is a cartoon, so thinking on it I guess this thread was pointless because it's a cartoon. A cartoon with plot amnesia at that.

[Ninturtle]

There's no way to tell. Casey says the invasion happened last year yet Mikey says they're 15 in the croaking so it can't be a full year since the show started but It should be a few months. There's no way to tell how many months though.

[TurFlytle]

Originally Posted by Ninturtle

There's no way to tell. Casey says the invasion happened last year yet Mikey says they're 15 in the croaking so it can't be a full year since the show started but It should be a few months. There's no way to tell how many months though.

Well, the Invasion seems to take place during winter, so it must be sometime during last year. (any season besides winter)

[IndigoErth]

I don't even know anymore. Their seasons change yet time does not otherwise exist in their world.

Unless they're traveling to the past - the hell?? The Kraang must have somehow froze time back in 2012 at the start of the show.

[victory_angel]

I had the invasion pegged to be around early October or November. People largely decorate for Christmas and Halloween. Halloween decorations are usually understated, and depending on what a person does for decor it goes up about a day at the very latest, and that's just a pumpkin and cobwebs or something. Some of the more elaborate ones such as haunted house decorate months in advance such as late June early august. One of the plotlines what wasn't used for the North Hampton story line was that a Trick-or-Treator showing up and not leaving.

[Metalwolf]

Originally Posted by victory_angel

I had the invasion pegged to be around early October or November. People largely decorate for Christmas and Halloween. Halloween decorations are usually understated, and depending on what a person does for decor it goes up about a day at the very latest, and that's just a pumpkin and cobwebs or something. Some of the more elaborate ones such as haunted house decorate months in advance such as late June early august. One of the plotlines what wasn't used for the North Hampton story line was that a Trick-or-Treator showing up and not leaving.

I'd likely say November, most likely. There was a brief period of flurries during the invasion, and it's not usual to get that in October unless it's been a cool summer.

[CyberCubed]

Trust me, nobody is going to age in the show. They won't make April and Casey look like adults, let alone change the Turtles CG models.

Its going to be exactly like Simpsons and Pokemon where the cast never ages despite time passing.

[Metalwolf]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Trust me, nobody is going to age in the show. They won't make April and Casey look like adults, let alone change the Turtles CG models.

Its going to be exactly like Simpsons and Pokemon where the cast never ages despite time passing.

Not necessarily. Clone Wars didn't have the characters age for a couple of seasons, and then showed an older model cast the next season after those. If they want to have it on for any number of seasons (unless there is a planned ending at season 5) then they might consider aging them. It might sell extra toys like the Turtles/April/Karai/Casey as adults and aged characters like Splinter and aged versions of other adult characters.

Edit: I actually think the show takes place a little in the future. I remember there used to be a picture of Kirby's cellphone or something that had May 9th? as the send date but with the 'wrong' day for any present or recently past year. I think it was the day and date that actually coincided correctly for the year 2016.

[Unworthy tinker]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Trust me, nobody is going to age in the show. They won't make April and Casey look like adults, let alone change the Turtles CG models.

Its going to be exactly like Simpsons and Pokemon where the cast never ages despite time passing.

Well, they don't exactly have to look older. Heck, at the beginning of Adventure time Finn was twelve. Now he's seventeen and still looks exactly the same. They could still just simply say everyone is older and have it implied, but no one actually shows it physically.

[Redworld96]

Guys, I asked as an anonymous to Peter di Cicco (a writer of the show) about this discussion, and this is what answered me:

Spoiler:

(Sorry for the BIG misspelling of the fourth line, I just realized now xD)

[IndigoErth]

Very interesting. Addition mistake. lol Well... for a bunch of home schoolers, in the time that we've known them I guess it's true that we've never seen Splinter teaching them anything other than fighting skills. Clearly Donnie picked up on the math at some point, as for the other three who knows where they stand on that. lol

[victory_angel]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Very interesting. Addition mistake. lol Well... for a bunch of home schoolers, in the time that we've known them I guess it's true that we've never seen Splinter teaching them anything other than fighting skills. Clearly Donnie picked up on the math at some point, as for the other three who knows where they stand on that. lol

Most home schooling primmer's that I have seen only go to sixth grade.

Odds are Splinter has taught the Turtles what he could in general education.
So reading,
writing,
Basic sums (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division)
Japanese as a second language.
basic triage

And anything else would be probably be personal interest which they would have to learn on their own.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Simpsons

It will not be such a big deal. Simpsons runs for at least 25 years or so and technology improves, but the characters don't age. This series will probably just be around for circa 4-6 years.

[yellowmario27]

When Casey says the invasion was "last year" it doesn't have to mean it happened a year ago
It could simply mean it happened at say in December 2012 and now it's March 2013

that's how I saw it anyways