The Unexplained in TMNT

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by Katie

Did you see the scene in Jay and Silent Bob strike back where they actually DID go there with the Scooby gang? THAT was funny.

Haha oh yeah I own that movie
"Lets sell their livers on the black market and leave them in a hotel room bathtub filled with ice"

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

How did April fit through that storm drain in the first episode? Those things are pretty narrow. She should have been stuck "just like Winnie the Pooh" as Jay would put it.

[Sage Ninja]

LOL I always wondered that my self. But i guess she would have no problem because she is so thin. And maybe she took yoga or something when she was in colloge or something or gymnastics. I mean if you see the episode when she is turned into a mutant cat she became quite the acrobate. Actually this was commented on in X-Entertainments review of the first episode as well. He theorised that April is made up entirely of cartilage .

One thing I always wondered though was when did Shredder replace his foot soldiers with robots and why. He became the ultimate leader of the foot clan after he ousted Yoshi/Splinter and he had complete control over the ninjas, and human beings would have been more loyal and helpful than midless robats. So why did he eventually replace them with robots. When Krang sent him to earth again in season two he could have had command of his foot soldiers because they would thorically would have been loyal to him not Krang. But the soldier bots where Krangs creation. hmmm

[Weapon X]

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

One thing I always wondered though was when did Shredder replace his foot soldiers with robots and why.

He did it to save on medical bills.

Mybe it was because it would be more efficiant and easier.

[Dragnskull]

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

there are so many things that are unexplained in the turtle universe of the old cartoon. Like for instance how is it the turtles can live in the sewer all the time and not be bothered by the smell, or how can they even not get sick by living the sewers ( or April for that matter, she should have a nasty case of something by now)

ever notice what type of creatures can live in a sewer? a turtle would have no problem with this, there immune system can beat a humans anytime...(more on this ina minute)

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

How come April is the only reporter that ever reports anything worth while in the city of Newyork. And how come Vernon seemed somewhat of an assistant and less hostile towards April in the first season and then is her full blown rival in the rest of season. ( My personel theory is that April and Vernon had secret crush on each other and covered it up with being hostile towrads one another)

i agree, april being the only reporter is kinda funny, but i think its even funnyer that shes always able to report on the turtles (with thembeing right htere) and the cameraman never suspects at hing :S

[QUOTE=Sage Ninja]Why where there so many inconsistenceies with Splinters abilties. He could in the space of an episode go from being weak and helpless to being strong and powerful and beat the crap out of any one. He was weak and forever needing saving most of the time and then when it suited him ( presumably) he was very independent and capable.[quote]
i also always find it funny when he can "since things" yet doesnt see otehr stuff coming till its too late

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

What the hell is wrong with Irma. I don't think I need to explain my self . ( Personally I think that she was a lesibian and thats why she could never find mister right). Heaven knows she tryed everything in and outside of her speicious and the oppisite sex is probably the only route she had not tried.

agreed.

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

Are the turtles more human than turtle? the turtles can walk up right and talk and eat people food, they have teeth and finger and thums and toes and seem to enjoy more things that are human than turtle. They seem to be able to sweat, so maybe they are not even cold blooded. They don't seem to like getting wet particualy much and they rather eat pizza than a more turtle diet. Compared to the frog mutants down in Florida who seem to enjoy hanging out in the swamp and eating a fly or to, the turtles are very different from there turtle roots they originated from. Wonder why?

there able to live in a sewer very well, thats nto very humna-ish, but otehr then that ur right

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

Where the heck do the turtles and Splinter get all the furniture and moderen conviences that they have in there home? Like the beds and the funiture and the TV's and ovens and cupboards and refridgerator, if they don't have money? What does Donatello the turtle wonder genius build all this stuff. And more importantly where do they get the electricity to power all this stuff, and the fresh water that they drink and bathe in and the cable. I don't think that they pay for it, so how are they getting all these services. And when the turtles do have money how the hell do they get it! they don't have jobs and I doubt that Splinter lets them steal, and i don't think they just find lying around. ( I have entertained the thought that Donatello prints the TMNT's own money, but I dounbt Splinter would let that slide eighther)

furniture and modern "conviences" can be found from rich ppl throwing otu stuff i guess...i mean they do live ina sewer

donny in one episode says hes "going out to find parts for his inventions" so my guess is he scavenges them just like the furniture theory

electricity can be stolen fairly ez if your next to a power box in the sewer, especially if u have a genious like don on ur side

cable: pfft, ppl dont even pay for cable ne more do they?
the turtles just beat most others to it

[Masked Ninja]

Originally Posted by Weapon X

He did it to save on medical bills.

Mybe it was because it would be more efficiant and easier.

And of course the animators can have Leo and Raph use their weapons!

[Dragnskull]

Originally Posted by Masked Ninja

And of course the animators can have Leo and Raph use their weapons!

thats one thing htat always drove me nuts, in the movies as well as cartoons :S

[Sage Ninja]

Yeah I still remember that first episode whan the turtles where first fighting the foot and Raphael stabs one in the side and figures out that its a robot and he is all like :" Clang...did you say Clang" and then they beat the crap out of them **sigh** some good stuff. I always did find it weird how Leonardo and Raphael had bladed waepons and THE OTHER TWO DIDN'T! And Leonardo used his weapons more often than any of the turtles.

cable: pfft, ppl dont even pay for cable ne more do they?
the turtles just beat most others to it

yeah ypur probably right i have a black box sitting in my clset I'm just to chicken to use it

i agree, april being the only reporter is kinda funny, but i think its even funnyer that shes always able to report on the turtles (with thembeing right htere) and the cameraman never suspects at hing :S

maybe they threatened the guy to keep his mouth shut or they could have use chlorophome (spelled that wrong, the stuff that you in a clothe and put their nose and mouth to nock them out) and he didn't remember after wards.

And wasn't Vernone usually the one behind the camera? I didn't really get that because he was supposed to be a reporter not a camera man.

I always wondered of maybe the foot soldiers where actually sciborgs instead of robots.

[remix17]

They can't be cyborgs, because I believe a cyborg is a human being or another sentient who has the misfortune (or strange desire) to combine their bodies with machinery. Like Cyborg from Teen Titans, or any other part-human, part robot.

Robots, on the other hand, are just pure machines and computer, with no human parts at all.

[Sage Ninja]

oh i don't know, I was theorising on what exactly happened to the human foot clan and when the switch was made from human to robot and why. So I thought, hey maybe they are not robots at all maybe Shredder and Krang just made them into cyborgs to make them more powerful or something. Just a thought.

I always wondered how the turtles ever found clothes to fit them. I mean given there bodies, they must be horriably hard to fit. I mean they are short with short legs and given the size of there shells most have to find a pants with a really wide waist and stretchy shirts. I wonder what size waist they take ?

[Sewer Bull]

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

I always wondered how the turtles ever found clothes to fit them. I mean given there bodies, they must be horriably hard to fit. I mean they are short with short legs and given the size of there shells most have to find a pants with a really wide waist and stretchy shirts. I wonder what size waist they take ?

You are exploring some dangerous fields...

[Sage Ninja]

aww, come on its a fair question. As long as we keep it clean and don't go over board. But seriously the turtles must be really hard to fit. How do they find clothes that fit them propperly. Maybe that is why they prefere to walk around all natural instead of wearing clothes unless they have too.

I mean can you imagine a scene where they are at a clothes store and they are in the fitting room trying to find something thaat fits. Oh I could immagine the hillarity .

I can picture April getting really pissed off at the checking line.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

LOL I always wondered that my self. But i guess she would have no problem because she is so thin. And maybe she took yoga or something when she was in colloge or something or gymnastics.

Still, to go through a narrow storm drain she must have been really thin.

She probably couldn't pull that stunt off after months of hanging out with the pizza loving turtles.

Actually I have the comic adaptation of the first episode and in that when she is squeezing through the storm drain she tells herself "this is a tight squeeze, you must be putting on weight!"

[Sage Ninja]

she was also being chased by a bunch of street thugs that wanted to bash her brains in and she was trying to get away. I bet even you could make your self fit in a narrow space no matter how big you are if your life depended on it.

What really had me going WTFduring this little romp in the sewers before she knocks herself out (and yeah April must be a real wimp to knock her self out by just running into a wall,not even going that fast )

She was saying :this is great! I must be really onto something big if there trying to kill me.

My reaction even as a wee little lass was: ummmm, your getting chased by big burly men with sporting equipment and chains and want to do you bodily harm, and your psyched that this means that your onto something big!

I swear that girl really didn't have her priorities straight **shakes head**