Michaelangelo's surfer dialect

[Drtooth]

In any event if Michaelangelo's surfer dialect started to fade in later season it could have been just a result of the actor(s) just settling into the role

I'm Pretty sure that Mikey, allong with Leo, was the only turtle that didn't have an alternate voice. In fact, didn't Townsend Coleman actually do some of the replacement voices for Krang and Shredder at one point?

I'd say, the fading effects of the surfer dude lingo may have been due to the fading interrest by the writers. In certain episodes, they seem to be accentuating his stupidity instead of his dudeness.

I have never met a surfer here in SoCal who talked like OT Mike.....I grew up on the beach. It's all stereotype. Most folks even think if yer from SoCal, you talk like a valley girl...they don't talk like that! They talk like little spoiled .....*insert inappropriate words*....

I dunno how surfers talk nowadays but back in the 80s...it was all media, not real life. Yeah we said dude, rad, bitchin'...but we didn't sound like Mikey.

We call that a stereotype. A few well publicised surfers may have talked like that, but that doesn't mean they all did.

When Did Mikey as surfer get started? Was it the old mirage comics?

It was definately the cartoon. Same time they decided to make Raph a sacrastic goofball. It was clearly to "spice up" the character. Much like making Donny a technogeek.