Question about the nunchuck issue?

[MikesPizzaShack]

i was pretty young when i first saw TMNT, so i dont remember alot of the earlier episodes as well. i keep seing ppl talk about the nunchuck issue on the original show...so what is this about? sorry if its a stupid Q but its just bothing me that i dont know.

[Stone Ill]

I think parents, particularly mothers, were bitching about it being to violent and such or something. So they ended up replacing the 'chucks with a grappling hook.

Well, atleast that's what I've gathered through looking in past threads. Maybe someone else could clear this up a bit?

[MikesPizzaShack]

well what episodes did this happen in?

[Stone Ill]

.. Every episode with Nunchucks in them I guess.

[Taloniss]

I think parents, particularly mothers, were bitching about it being to violent and such or something. So they ended up replacing the 'chucks with a grappling hook.

That's pretty much right.

[spikealike]

In the UK they went as far as to cut all nunchuck scenes from the movie, and edit the cartoon so you didn't see them much.

[PizzaPower]

why them damn UK people doing to the TMNT!

[Anarky]

that's kinda sick. I mean, a sword is waay more violent than chucks. why did they only go for the chucks?

Or imagine: a laser gun...

I hate parental control. Lucky me i don't have to care anymore...

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by anarky

that's kinda sick. I mean, a sword is waay more violent than chucks. why did they only go for the chucks?

Or imagine: a laser gun...

I hate parental control. Lucky me i don't have to care anymore...

I think mikey actually used his chucks against enemies and leo didn't (since it would be killing and that would really get the parents screaming )

as for lasers, that (or anything that shot a colorful ray instead of bullets) was what they had to use in old cartoons since it wasn't a real weapon that kids could get their hands on and do evil stuff with. just think about it, old tmnt, x-men, thundercats, he-man and almost every other old cartoon used "ray weapons" just to keep screaming parents quiet

[Anarky]

but leo cut more than one foot soldier in half...

are there any parental issues with the new show btw.?

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by anarky

but leo cut more than one foot soldier in half...

are there any parental issues with the new show btw.?

If I remember right, the only time that the tmnt actually destroyed the foot foldiers were in the first season, I guess the parenal control took care of any future "killing" of those robots,

The only thing I've heard about the new toon is that some parents are bitching about Casey Jones and his lifstyle, but that was mostly the figure they were yelling about

[Anarky]

casey? that guy is harmless, but on a good way. they should put me on TV then they'd have something to yell about.

what kind of mothers are those people who forbid their kids to watch cartoons on TV?

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by anarky

what kind of mothers are those people who forbid their kids to watch cartoons on TV?

the ones that wasn't allowed to watch cartoons when they were kids?

[Albrecht]

my cousins mom is like that but im normally there to shut her up... in a "polite" way of course.

and by the way am i the only one here who thinks a grappling hook is more dangerous than nunchucks.

[Reznorite420]

There was another thread a while back talking about the exact same thing going on here, specifically how it didn't much sense at first that wooden weapons were taken out instead of metal one, but then it got to the argument that gangs used nunchakus in their crimes frequently.

I don't know, I'll have to dig up that old topic if I can find it.

[Kali]

Originally Posted by Reznorite420

but then it got to the argument that gangs used nunchakus in their crimes frequently.

Yeah, that's the biggest reason I've come across. In the UK, and maybe other countries, 'chucks were used by gangs. And so when the cartoon, and movies, were aired there, they were edited. To make things "easier" on the censors, I guess they decided to simply give Mikey another weapon so editing wouldn't have to be done.

[THE-X-FLO]

If I remember right, the only time that the tmnt actually destroyed the foot foldiers were in the first season

That's wrong, Foot Soldiers are being destroyed from the first episode of season 1 to the last episode of season 7.

[Kali]

Originally Posted by THE-X-FLO

That's wrong, Foot Soldiers are being destroyed from the first episode of season 1 to the last episode of season 7.

Yeah, but here's something to think about. Leo sliced one of the foot soldiers in half before they found out they were robots! Now, one could argue that he had realized they were machines after Raph's comment, but one could also say that Leo thought he was fighting a person, and had no qualms about killing one.

[THE-X-FLO]

Originally Posted by kali

but one could also say that Leo thought he was fighting a person, and had no qualms about killing one

I don't think that matches his character, since he never kills someone in the 192 following episodes

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by THE-X-FLO

That's wrong, Foot Soldiers are being destroyed from the first episode of season 1 to the last episode of season 7.

I didn't mean that it was the only time that they fought foot soldiers but I can't remember any episode besides the first where they cuts soldiers in half, knocks off body parts and so on. In other episodes, they just kicked them or did something else to defeat them but no actual de-attaching of body parts.