Speaking as an animator, I can 100% believe these flubs are all entirely due to being overworked. Especially the one where the ape picks up a Michelangelo but leaves behind a Michelangelo. I've done crap like that before. It's so easy to leave a cell in place when moving other cells.
8:14 - props to James for saying this. That's usually the reason these errors happen, the animators tend to be in such a tight schedule that some errors just can't be fixed before the episode is released.
I used to laugh at these "mistakes" when I was a kid and watched this show every Saturday morning in the late 80's, early 90's. Thanks for the trip down memory lane 👍👍
FEVER x DREAM hand drawn animation is more prone for errors. 3D/CGI animation makes it more harder to make mistakes. But I love animation goofs like this
Maybe he just realized that he’s a mutated rat, living with mutated turtles, having to eat weird topping pizza every day...in a sewer! Or he could just not give a rats ass about what’s on TV.
The funniest thing is that in the Italian dub they sometimes adlibbed lines that tried to justify some animation errors. Like, the scene at 1:00 where a blindfolded Michelangelo becomes Donatello? The Italian dub made Raphael say something like "Wear Donatello's belt, the D makes you stronger!"
All of Cinemassacre's stuff is pretty funny, but this takes the cake somehow, might be the surrealism of the mistakes mixed with the goofiness of the turtles and the matter-of-fact commentary from James. That random living skeleton with no explanation is just too funny
Part of it could be we understand things differently as adults than we do as kids so back then some of us may not pick up on everything going on that an older, wiser adult sees such as possible mistakes.
@@johnholliday7042 Nope, I was born mid-80s, I grew up on this version of the show specifically and had a lot of action figures from it and dreamed of someday owning the pizza-shooting van.
4:29 Another weird thing in this one: In the panning shot, April doesn't seem to be a flat TV image. From this angle it looks like she's actually a tiny person sitting in a box. You can even see her head is partly covering the picture of the man next to her! Compare it to the very next shot where we see the TV head-on.
we were a LOT more forgiving as children. especially considering the level of animation quality back then. this show was pretty much in the mid to upper zone of goodness. Even as a kid i could spot the never ending reuse in a show like heman.
Indeed, and chances are, they were probably under a deadline, which would explain mistakes like missing backgrounds and animations as well as coloring errors.
i do know that sometimes with them having to rush recordings they would make mistakes on which turtle had which line or if the actor was out for even a brief period and their wasnt time they would have someone else fill in temporarily
I'm very confused, I didn't see a skeleton in that clip but everyone is talking about it like it was there. I saw the weird tiny bear, but where James said there was a skeleton, I just saw a background plate.
I grew up watching this cartoon and had no idea it had so many flubs and mistakes. Also, I just learned literally yesterday that James Avery (the dad from Fresh Prince) voiced Shredder.
1:21 Yes! That was my favorite error ever of the TMNT series! As a kid, that used to crack me up and it STILL does till this day! Thanks for this video!
The one where Splinter is pissed out of his mind me laugh so hard i love it! Splinter is just sitting there like "lying bitch. Saying she cant pay me meanwhile here she is on the fucking tv...."
As far as number 13 with Splinter looking angry I can think of a some reasons. 1. One of the turtles pissed him off. 2. He was thinking about Shredder as they were watching the news. 3. He probably saw something on TV that offended him. 4. He was probably in deep concentration until he was interrupted.
In the 2012 series, when it shows the 80s turtles jumping down to fight the giant worm, you only hear mikey yell "COWABUNGA!" but all the turtles mouths move. I guess they were paying homage to the classic mistakes from this series.
I remember noticing these all the time as a kid. Most specifically turtles speaking in other turtles' voices. I also never understood why on some of the title cards at the begining of ghe show, you see Raph holding Leo's katanas. I never would have picked up the "real" skeleton at the costume parade though. I remember this kind of stuff happening in the Real Ghostbusters too, but not nearly as much. Stuff like one ghostbuster having another ghostbusters jump suit on. Rarely did the voices get switched if ever. Ecto 1 also got trashed, then was fine again moments later. got Entertaining video.
Of course Leonardo has the most unstable form. It was because Dregg zapped with him plutonium in Season 10. Also, the idea of Shredder immediately cropdusting everyone as soon as he gets in the Turtle Van makes him even more of a troll IMO
i can only imagine how hard it was to keep track as an animator when your 4 main characters are virtually all the same except for some very minor details.
When they were working on the second episode, one person in charge of coloring might have mistakenly thought all the turtles were supposed to wear red bandannas.
I remember sometimes when the turtles blinked their eyelids were the same colour as their mask, and not so much a flub but in the UK a lot of Mikey's scenes with his nunchucks were cut or edited due to nunchucks being deemed too violent for kids TV (oh, but a big sword is ok lol) negativity over ninjas in the British media led to the show getting a name change to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK.
Later in the show they replaced the nunchucks with a rope. It was so confusion as a kid what weapon he have because I had episodes on VHS, in some episodes Mikey have nunchucks and in other he have a rope
@@vfspectrum4652 girls love lots of things boys like. boys just make girls not want to let boys know this, because boys tend to be (not always but enough to make girls wary) really mean.
I honestly thought it was pretty cool when you saw one of the turtles in a diferent coloured mask I used to swap the belts and weapons on my figures all the time.
That was a great choice of Number 1; "The Fourth Musketurtle" is one of my favourite episodes and I still kind of want to cosplay April in that costume. My explanation as a child was that *it was a prop skeleton held up by unseen hands.* It's still creepy as heck, though!
I’m super into nostalgia and recently got into the show 🎬 I remember spotting all of these mistakes and they’re hilarious 🤣🤣 thanks for compiling them all into one video 😎
The one where Splinter is totally pissed for reasons that no one knows is the best. He is just there, angry with the world with some bad ideas in his mind
That show's animation budget was as shoestring as you could get. I've watched MANY cartoons and Super Mario Bros Super Show is easily bottom-10 for cartoons of the era.
I love how you pointed out Shredder squatting and farting, but you didn't mention the fact that Raphael pushed Rocksteady outta the way to save him from the blast zone.
