It's amazing the OT got away with some things

[TurtleFan2012]

They had a pregnant woman in the episode where Mikey is delivering pizza for Shredder and an interacial couple(if you look closely) in an episode about that tourist alien with the camera. You couldn't show that type of stuff in most older cartoons.

Are there other things? I am still surprised they had a preggo woman lol.

[LotusBlossom]

Social values were already beginning to shift somewhat by the late 80's, but you make a valid point.

I also vaguely remember seeing an interracial couple (or couples) in an episode or two. BTW, did the Polarisoid do a "double take"? Or seem really angry?

I bet when it aired in the deep south, the pair were recolored (to make a better "match").

[CyberCubed]

What about that black woman doctor in the episode Michaelangelo has a pet pigeon?

[ZariusTwo]

Or the Prostitute joke in "Donatello's Degree"?

[LotusBlossom]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

What about that black woman doctor in the episode Michaelangelo has a pet pigeon?

Ugh, I hated that funking grunch! She was a zoo veterinarian, and yet was, like, constantly putting animals down and saying how dumb they were. I mean, she was scientifically correct, but still ...

[CyberCubed]

Also both Irma and Vernon were sexually suggestive at times. Just think about how often Vernon sexually harassed April or how many times Irma tried to hit on someone.

[marcelangelo]

I remember rewatching my old favourite show for the first time in over 10 to 15 years some years ago and being really amused about how often in the german synch the turtles and other characters wuld curse out loudhahahah
michelangelo for example says **** a few times, raphael tells the turtle terminator that the terminators father is an alcoholic and his mother a bitch...
many things like that...saying **** or ****ing **** if you translate it for real
good old turtles used to use a lot of slang, too, but not always common slang, but inventing new pictures and figures of speech as the went along, that was some of the most fun stuff to me in the showthey were so cool characters that they're still loveable and orginal even after all these years
by the way, today I received lsm box number 4and the fun goes on

[LotusBlossom]

Curiously enough, sexual harassment is one of the few issues ("LGBT concerns" being another) that current cartoon creators are actually more cognizant of than their predecessors were. Particularly in comparison to any episodes which aired prior to the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Originally Posted by TurtleFan2012

They had a pregnant woman in the episode where Mikey is delivering pizza for Shredder and an interacial couple(if you look closely) in an episode about that tourist alien with the camera. You couldn't show that type of stuff in most older cartoons.

Are there other things? I am still surprised they had a preggo woman lol.

Why not? It was already the late 1980's, and in the episode "Turtles, Turtles Everywhere", they did have a mother turtle lay her eggs in a hole on a beach. (At the same time, local TV news showed a real life mother turtle doing the same thing.)

The interracial couple was hardly hidden; they were featured in the foreground as they witnessed a manhole cover knocked out of place by a stream of water with Michelangelo on top.

[LotusBlossom]

Sorry for posting so much in this topic! I'm cleaning my room and am thus quite bored. (Plus at least my posts are relatively short ... and readable.)

Anyways, I always found it quite odd how Leonardo "killed" that giant Venus Flytrappy monster in such a graphic/grisly/gory fashion (even if it was only a vegetable). Plus Michelangelo was dressed up as a plant woman at the time (adding a disturbing layer of homoeroticism to the murder).

Also, I feel uniquely qualifed to comment here because my boyfriend is black. Seriously. I date him so that if anyone accuses me of being a racist, I can go, "Oh, really?! Is that so?! Well, perhaps you'd like to meet my boyfriend! My BLACK boyfriend!"

[KirkyMonster]

Sooooo you date him for insurance reasons if you're accused of being racist???

[cryan]

I will say Mona Lisa.I mean a nude(please don't ban me)female salamander?I was about 14 when this episode first aired in 1990 and thought "am I old enough to watch this"?

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Or the Prostitute joke in "Donatello's Degree"?

What did he/someone say say? Can't recall.

[ngroove]

Originally Posted by cryan

I will say Mona Lisa.I mean a nude(please don't ban me)female salamander?I was about 14 when this episode first aired in 1990 and thought "am I old enough to watch this"?

She's then a cartoon animal - Seeing Mona without pants, is just as Donald Duck without pants...amusing, an episode of Looney Tunes Show pointed out some indecency on Porky Pig's pants-lessness, which led to him wearing pants hahahaha!

Aside from "ninja" bandanas, belts, and bands, and the occassional disguise when walking in the surface, the Turtles are quite sans-clothes aswell; although shells might be considered somewhat wear, as it covers, armors, even fashions them, even though all turtles naturally has shells anyways.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Swedenfan 1982

What did he/someone say say? Can't recall.

Irma: Now what do I do?

Donatello: You wait for someone to pick you up

Irma: I'm not that kind of girl

[cryan]

Accaully I ment during the flashback.The fact that she was human and she wore a dress when the sub's engine room flooded,then the water receded and the dress was gone.

Originally Posted by ngroove

She's then a cartoon animal - Seeing Mona without pants, is just as Donald Duck without pants...amusing, an episode of Looney Tunes Show pointed out some indecency on Porky Pig's pants-lessness, which led to him wearing pants hahahaha!

Aside from "ninja" bandanas, belts, and bands, and the occassional disguise when walking in the surface, the Turtles are quite sans-clothes aswell; although shells might be considered somewhat wear, as it covers, armors, even fashions them, even though all turtles naturally has shells anyways.

[Icebot]

I always thought the school bus that was about to fall off the bridge in Superhero For A Day was too scary for a cartoon.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by LotusBlossom

I date him so that if anyone accuses me of being a racist, I can go, "Oh, really?! Is that so?! Well, perhaps you'd like to meet my boyfriend! My BLACK boyfriend!"

He must be pretty pissed that that's the only reason you date him. The whole scenario sounds just a few shades removed from, you know, the blowhard who sits there going, "No, I'm not a racist! I totally have a black friend! I swear!"

[TurtleTitan97]

I remember in "A Thing About Rats", Shredder sent some Foot Soliders to kill Stockman after he helped Shredder build the Mousers. The first time I watched that episode I was suprised to think they allowed that.

[LotusBlossom]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

He must be pretty pissed that that's the only reason you date him. The whole scenario sounds just a few shades removed from, you know, the blowhard who sits there going, "No, I'm not a racist! I totally have a black friend! I swear!"

Well, fortunately he doesn't know I'm on this forum. Besides, that's really not the only reason, anyway ... I also do it to horrify my mother.