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View Poll Results: Who's your favourite Channel Six News Member?
Burne Thompson (CEO) 8 25.00%
Vernon Fenwick (Reporter/ Cameraman) 7 21.88%
Irma Langinstein (Secretary) 17 53.13%
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Old 01-21-2016, 09:06 AM   #21
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I'd say Irma. Her obsession with men was over-the-top, but I found her still entertaining to watch. At least it was shown that there was more to her than meets the eye in a few episodes like Combat Land and Shredder Triumphant.

Vernon and Burne were funny as well, but they were mostly one-dimensional. I would have liked if Vernon had kept some of his season one characterisation. The episode Burne's Blues showed what Burne could do instead of being in Channel Six most of the time.
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Old 01-21-2016, 09:24 AM   #22
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When he was staring at Megan Fox's ass, maybe?

Honestly, I'm surprised anybody likes ANY of these three characters. Gah. As a kid, I hated all of them. As an adult, I still hate all of them.
I disliked them at first when I was a kid. But I honestly think they got better as the series went on. Plus, when you're a kid, you just wanna see the Turtles kick some bad guys' ass and will hate any grown up who will stand in their way. I think characters like Irma and Vernon are enjoyed better when you're an adult.

Vernon is a great heel. He's not a villain but he's pretty good at making you want to laugh at his misfortune. . Don't care much for Irma, despite her having some fun moments especially in Donatello's Degree.

As for Burne, I liked his voice and the way he said "gogogogoggo!". Who has never had an asshole boss?
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Old 01-21-2016, 09:33 AM   #23
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I like them all but Irma is my favorite.
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Old 01-21-2016, 09:35 AM   #24
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I'd say Irma. Her obsession with men was over-the-top, but I found her still entertaining to watch. At least it was shown that there was more to her than meets the eye in a few episodes like Combat Land and Shredder Triumphant.

Vernon and Burne were funny as well, but they were mostly one-dimensional. I would have liked if Vernon had kept some of his season one characterisation. The episode Burne's Blues showed what Burne could do instead of being in Channel Six most of the time.
Ye, Vernon was alright in season 1. In Shredder vs. Splintered, he believes in April after requiring some proof for a possible story. But I don't think it was a bad idea to turn him into the narcissistic dickhead in the following season.
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Old 01-21-2016, 09:41 AM   #25
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As for Burne, I liked his voice and the way he said "gogogogoggo!". Who has never had an asshole boss?
I'll give you that. I need to start yelling that at my kids or coworkers or random strangers.

"Go! Gogogogogogo!!!"
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Old 01-21-2016, 12:54 PM   #26
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Vernon was supposed to be the "villain" of the Channel 6 news crew, but he always got what he deserved in that April or the Turtles usually had to save him or he got treated like dirt by villains or such.

The guy is hilarious because he's in a children's cartoon, he's about as anti-feminist as you could possibly get and he only cares for himself. Yet he whimpers around like a coward the first time danger rears its head and April always takes charge when she's with him.

The social norms the original cartoon taught us was glorious.
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Old 01-21-2016, 01:05 PM   #27
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Vernon was supposed to be the "villain" of the Channel 6 news crew, but he always got what he deserved in that April or the Turtles usually had to save him or he got treated like dirt by villains or such.

The guy is hilarious because he's in a children's cartoon, he's about as anti-feminist as you could possibly get and he only cares for himself. Yet he whimpers around like a coward the first time danger rears its head and April always takes charge when she's with him.

The social norms the original cartoon taught us was glorious.
Yeah, Burne might have been the boss, but Vernon was his lackey, the kid who hid behind the big bullies. Those are always the most annoying ones.

A lot of people seemed to think Vernon was gay because of the pink shirt and his voice.
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A lot of people seemed to think Vernon was gay because of the pink shirt and his voice.
Well when they have him doing things like this, maybe:

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Well when they have him doing things like this, maybe:

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I definitely thought he was gay when I was a kid. I associated the color pink and the flamboyant voice to something stereotypically gay. Plus, his seemingly dislike for women(April and Irma) at the beginning of the show. But in later episodes he seemed to fancy women. Like in the Orient Express episode, per example.
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Old 01-21-2016, 02:43 PM   #30
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Could someone please explain to me where the heck Irma's last name comes from? I have never heard it on the show.
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Old 01-21-2016, 03:42 PM   #31
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I'll give you that. I need to start yelling that at my kids or coworkers or random strangers.

"Go! Gogogogogogo!!!"
Now I badly want to hear someone do a decent impression of him in a busy checkout line. (But preferably only in front of me.)
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Old 01-21-2016, 04:35 PM   #32
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I definitely thought he was gay when I was a kid. I associated the color pink and the flamboyant voice to something stereotypically gay. Plus, his seemingly dislike for women(April and Irma) at the beginning of the show. But in later episodes he seemed to fancy women. Like in the Orient Express episode, per example.
Did you watch it in english or dubbed in your language? Vernon's english voice sounds French.
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Old 01-22-2016, 09:11 AM   #33
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I picked Vernon, guy started off annoying but grows on you. I especially like his monologue in Planet of the Turtleloids.
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Did you watch it in english or dubbed in your language? Vernon's english voice sounds French.
English, fortunately. We didn't dub cartoons here at the time the FW series came out. And when it reran from the late 90s to the early-2000s naturally they saw no point in dubbing it.

And yes, he sounds kinda French now that you mention it.

Sadly, the 4kids series was dubbed here as is the Nick one. I saw the former under protest, but then re-watched it and finished it in English on youtube some years ago(had only seen the first couple of seasons on TV).
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Old 01-23-2016, 12:07 AM   #35
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I voted Vernon because he always cracks me up.

I wanted to like Burne Thompson, but they kept going back in forth with his personality, especially in seasons 4 and 5.

As a kid I was fond of Irma, but as a grown up she annoys me! One episode actually begins with her crying at the top of her lungs over some loser she went out with! My God, it's one of the most annoying moments of the show, which ironically happens to be in one of the best episodes - "The Old Switcheroo".
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I'll give you that. I need to start yelling that at my kids or coworkers or random strangers.

"Go! Gogogogogogo!!!"
Truly, the best thing to wait for in an episode that had Burne.
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Old 01-23-2016, 07:54 AM   #37
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I gotta go for Mr Burne Thompson.
I like the team, and Burne just takes the top spot for me. I have to admit that I do use his "gogogogogo" line at the end of most of my lessons to evict the students from my classes.
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Old 01-23-2016, 08:01 AM   #38
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I gotta go for Mr Burne Thompson.
I like the team, and Burne just takes the top spot for me. I have to admit that I do use his "gogogogogo" line at the end of most of my lessons to evict the students from my classes.
Another teacher, eh? I feel the same way with a handful of them. What do you teach?

I felt Burne Thompson had the most potential of the three of them.
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I voted Vernon because he always cracks me up.

I wanted to like Burne Thompson, but they kept going back in forth with his personality, especially in seasons 4 and 5.

As a kid I was fond of Irma, but as a grown up she annoys me! One episode actually begins with her crying at the top of her lungs over some loser she went out with! My God, it's one of the most annoying moments of the show, which ironically happens to be in one of the best episodes - "The Old Switcheroo".
In seasons 4, 5 and 6; the Turtles became too accepted by the city. They could just walk freely into any public building or into a place like Channel Six and not worry about getting a second look. There's even an episode where each of the Turtles gets a job ... although don't get me wrong, ti was a tremendous episode.

And yea, that moment was pretty cringeworthy back then and it still is after all these years.

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I gotta go for Mr Burne Thompson.
I like the team, and Burne just takes the top spot for me. I have to admit that I do use his "gogogogogo" line at the end of most of my lessons to evict the students from my classes.
That is pretty awesome. I wish my voice could match Burne's, but I can't avoid sounding like a death metal vocalist when I say it
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He's black as fu*k. And voiced by Bumper Robinson.

I guess he doesn't qualify as African American to cubed because he doesn't say things like "yessa massa", "sup dawg", "yo", "kill whitey" and "shee-it negro!"
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