Things about eighties cartoon series which irk you.

[The Great Saiyaman]

Yeah, with such a title, I figure I'd get the elephant in the room straight away. TMNT got their start as a cartoon series too and for many of us (me included) introduced us to the series.

But eighties cartoon series, as legendary as they are, were stuffed full with mistakes, continuity errors and plot holes.

Take for example Transformers the episode "The Key to vector Sigma" we see Rumble steal cars to make a new team of Decepticons from: the Stunticons. Now Rumble, being one of Soundwave's cassette tapes, is a small Transformer, in fact, there are scenes of Spike Witwhikey fist fighting Rumble and the two of them are or equal height.

Rumble fighting Perceptor, showing to good effect his small stature.

So if Rumble is just as tall as a normal human, then what's the deal of him being bigger than the cars he steals?

And after the Stunticons have been given the ability to transform, they are shown to be much taller than Rumble is.

He could have easily sat down behind the wheel of the cars when they were still cars as he's small enough to do so.

Also in the same episode. How the heck did Soundwave end up in the Cargo area of Ironhide's standing next to Blaster, seriously, how did that happen without anybody noticing it happening, the Autobots KNOW who Soundwave is and what he looks like when transformed.


He-man and the Masters of the universe and the spin off She-ra Princess of Power The main flaw of that series was the fact that Filmation used a LOT of stock footage, many of the scenes were redrawn scenes from earlier episodes all to save the costs of animation. Which is also why He-man and Prince Adam look exactly alike and yet NOBODY figures out they're the same guy?


With She-Ra and Princess Adora, it's different. A Tiara, a different voice and a different eye color really DOES change her appearance enough.

But it only takes the removal of the Tiara...

And yet nobody makes the connection.

So how about something a bit more obscure: here's Ovide Video

And here's the same opening song but in Dutch.

With the latter one, they made an effort to make the lyrics of the song go with the music, something which the American Dub put in no effort whatsoever of doing, the lyrics are cluttered up and rushed in some places.

Now one ought to think that when producing a cartoon, that the people in charge have access to a sound bank. This song from the series The Bluffers shows that that wasn't always the case. Was it really too hard to dub in the sound of a pneumatic hammer, a tank firing its gun or an explosion?

The episode from which that song came was full of examples of not using the actual sound, when the Bluffers wanted to raid the museum and steal the book underneath the dome in the clip (They did so by actually lifting the dome up...) they tripped the alarm off which was one of those alarm bells but there was no effort put in to use the sound of an actual bell ringing.

So was the Fred Wolf TMNT without flaws like that?

...no...

How for example did Lotus Blossom deliver a pizza into the Turtles' lair? How did nobody notice her sneaking in, how did she know where the liar was in the first place?