Fred Wolf crossovers and continuity thread

[Metalwolf]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Yeah I realise the ratings for the Nickelodeon channel has been dropping dramatically over the past decade and this show was just but one of the shows suffering. Bad ratings are still bad ratings though...

The funny thing about the crossovers is that the mid season 2 cameo were the second highest rated episodes of that season, the one crossover where the FW turtles had cameos that could have easily been edited out. When it came to the actual crossovers the one is season 4 had really mediocre ratings and the ones in season 5 did worse.

Just a little ratings trivia, the highpoint was Vengeance is Mine and the lowpoint was When Worlds Collide. The Mad Max arc and the classic monsters arc might have done worse as there aren't any official rating released.

So it is probably showing that the crossovers had limited power to draw in viewers. That's kind of interesting. I think it probably also accounts for the box office failure of the OOTS movie, as it looked they'd began to bank a little too hard on FW being 'enough' to make fans wanna see it.

I wonder if the ViM episode good ratings is a sign that people want stuff like that, not goofy crossovers or a cheap gimmick. Stuff were the baddies are scarily and competently good at what they are doing and the heroes could be believed to be in danger, A.K.A good writing.

It would be interesting to see what the Monsters or Mad Max episodes' ratings were. I imagine the Mad Max stuff would be seen as hardcore 'downer' episodes, so probably pretty low and maybe not as well liked.