Official episode discussion: Rise of the Turtles, Part 1 and 2

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by HeatGuts

liked how ralp kept his personality but why is don missing a tooth and mikey being for stupid than usual instead of funny?

Don has a missing tooth to give him some personality, the same way C-3PO has a silver leg in Star War IV.

Mikey's kind of been considered the stupid one for a while since 4Kids made him an egoistic idiot. I think Nickelodeon sort of expanded on that idea and made him annoying AND somewhat dumb.