April O'Neil, Ushering Us Into Manhood

[Weapon X]

The Show: TMNT introduced us to a giant ninja rat, a man-sized alligator, a clan of feet, a guy who was a brain inside a jar inside another guy, and all other manner of mutated horror we had no way of understanding. But God bless us, we begged our parents to buy it all anyway.

The Object Of Our Misguided Affection: April O’Neil, fiery reporter for Channel 6 news and one of the turtles’ only human friends. She was also one of the only female characters who wasn’t some kind of hideous monster, so that helped.


Perks:

• April’s best guy friends are sewer-dwelling animal men who talk, act, and think like preteen boys. If they challenge you to a fight, you’re ****ed, but as long as you can keep things based on physical appearance or general odor, it’s a lock.

• She’s the only reporter in the world who insists on wearing a low cut yellow jumpsuit at all times. Kinky.

• According to her official bio, her main weakness is “extremely ticklish feet.” Double kinky!

Bummers:

• As a career woman, April is more concerned with getting the story than finding love. You’re in very real danger of becoming a one night stand. Are you ready for that kind of heartbreak?

• She associates closely with mutants, has traveled through the dimensions, and been covered in numerous kinds of ooze. I guess what I’m saying is–use protection.

The Crude, Misinformed Euphemism We Used To Express Our Lust:
“I’d like to bebop her rocksteady!!”

The Internet Fallout:

Scary isn't it?

Thanks to April's scene in "Case Of The Hot Kimono" I developed a foot fetish.

What about everyone else?

And hey this is just supposed to be fun. So as usual, don't take it too seriously.

If April ushered me into manhood, I'd be regularly taking testosterone shots now and gone through some serious cosmetic surgery.

Either way, I personally find April pretty hot. Especially oldschool April. She had one hell of a body and a spicey attitude. Easily the sexiest of all the Aprils.


And although I already posted this image in another thread, I'm posting it again here because it's just that awesome. lol

[Weapon X]

I lost it when I saw that image Ryona, great post.

[Wes]

Guh... whoever drew that picture deserves some kind of award.

[Chrissie Terrapin]

hehe great picture^^

[Hero]

Curvy Yellow jumpsuit April is one of the few things I like about the old toon. *swoooon*

[Drtooth]

(Does that thing where you put your thumb and index finger under your glasses, and rub the bridge of your nose)...

Internet fandom, man... internet fandom.

Still, I'd take April any day over Fifi LaFume. You won't believe the dudes that like her.....

[CyberCubed]

Am I the only one who viewed April as a mother figure?

I was really young when the old toon was airing, so as a kid I never noticed April's "features" and saw her as a mother figure almost. I almost viewed her as an older sister/parent to the Turtles, somehow.

lol.

[Sewer Bull]

That was pretty enjoyable to read, X. I want more!

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Am I the only one who viewed April as a mother figure?

I was really young when the old toon was airing, so as a kid I never noticed April's "features" and saw her as a mother figure almost. I almost viewed her as an older sister/parent to the Turtles, somehow.

lol.

Concurred.

[LeoNerdo]

Well I for one, thank her for doing it.

[Cipher]

Originally Posted by Mino

That was pretty enjoyable to read, X. I want more!

Then go to www.cracked.com, the site Weapon X has shamelessy stolen this article from. See article "10 Female 80s Cartoons That Ushred Us Into Manhood."

Let's hope he just forgot to credit it.

And Ryona's picture is disturbing on numerous levels.

[sdp]

I was also too young to notice April at all. I didn't even notice it when getting back into the turtles again around 2004. It wasn't until around 05 or so when the internet made me realize I was supposed to have the hots for april.
I still don't have it but i guess I do notice now that she was as fanservice as you could get I guess.

Bad thing about that is I now notice all the time when her cleavage line is not drawn and her jumpsuit is way too unzipped. It looks extremely odd and bothers me and before I never noticed.

I wonder why they sometimes drew a cleavage line and sometimes they didn't. Also it seems when they didn't draw it that they actually made the whole opening a lot bigger making it seem more obvious/strange looking.

Originally Posted by Weapon X

Do you have a higher res of this?

[Kendamu]

When I was a kid, I was never all like, "April's the smecks, yo." Maybe I was just a little too young in those early seasons where she occasionally got away with having a bit of cleavage. Though, there's this one image I found somewhere awhile back that I found really funny that kind of pertains to this conversation, but it's 2k3 related.

It's attached.

[Wes]

Originally Posted by Goongasnootch

When I was a kid, I was never all like, "April's the smecks, yo."

For some reason, I read that as, "April's the snacks, yo."

And thus I added a new term to my lexicon! April is totally the snacks.

[Kendamu]

Originally Posted by Wes

For some reason, I read that as, "April's the snacks, yo."

And thus I added a new term to my lexicon! April is totally the snacks.

I'm gonna start using that now... for every hot girl I see.

[tOkKa]

[Sage Ninja]

April gets too much crap for being a high flying reporter. I think her independent attitude is what made her attractive. I'm not a guy but even I can say that OT April is very pretty. Prettier and sexier than all the other animated versions of April, I don't care what any one says. Ot April certainly had the motherly/sisterly caring way about her that gave her that softer edge to her personlity but she was still obviously more of the "interest of attraction" to the turtles in the old series. If they really saw her as more of a sister or mother figure they wouldn't have occassinally been drawn to her her appreance like they did the show. It was probably never officially adressed in the classic series but I'm sure the turtles saw April as the definitive version of what an attractive female should like and probably used her as a refrence to compare other human females to her.

Personaly OT April had a big inpact on how I draw human females, particualrly their figures.






the series really did a good job of trying to draw her nicely and attractively.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Cipher

Then go to www.cracked.com, the site Weapon X has shamelessy stolen this article from. See article "10 Female 80s Cartoons That Ushred Us Into Manhood."

I'm totally shocked that Cleo from Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats is no where on that list. And the inclusion of Smurfette really disturbs me.

Oh hell yeah, Sage. That's what I'm talkin' about. Oldschool April is all kinds of hotness.

hmm... Infact I think I'll change my avatar to one of April...

Originally Posted by tOkKa

Haha! Yes! Good stuff, tOkKa.