I thought for sure the TMNT slipped in would be the playboy fanservice they slipped into one of the episodes of the new toon (where they are all posing sexily on the roof)
XD Yeah, I'm thinking the only reason Cracked picked this episode in particular was because it was the only one banned from being aired. They tend to go for the more obvious targets like that for some reason. *shrug*
IKR? It was pretty obvious to me how "oh wut the shit" inappropriate that might have seemed to the parents who watch the show with their kids (because the parents are who matter here; not really the kids).
I think the only reason that episode was even banned to begin with was because FOX had just come under new management in that department, and they started taking a closer look at what 4kids was doing with the show. They were horrified by the idea of zombie!Baxter and pulled it, and would have been equally horrified by the previous eps they'd done -- including Shredder's beheading. I'm pretty sure the new management was also responsible for the "true" 5th season being booted in favor of the craptastic Fast Forward series (no offense to the clones. ^_^ I like the clones).
That was an incredibly fucked up episode :3 too bad they never made the Hun/Garbageman conjoined twins epi, or else we'd have two incredibly fucked up episodes to talk about. XDD
XD I am quite saddened by the fact that they didn't get to make that episode. That would have been a total mindfuck-type plot that I think we all would have really enjoyed. Being the awesome fans we are and all. ^_^
I agree. I'm also pretty sure the only reason the episode was pulled was because of FOX's new management team. They started taking a closer look at what the 4kids department was doing. Of course, by the time they got there, Shredder's beheading and other racey episodes had already been aired. They saw the storyboards of what they creators had planned for the 4th season and hated it. They pulled the zombie!Baxter ep and cancelled another, but allowed the rest of the series to be aired because of the work that had already been done on the remaining eps (they would have lost a lot of money had they cancelled the rest of the series outright -- and you know how FOX feels about their money). I'm thinking they were also responsible for the 5th Season being put off in favor of the Fast Forward reboot of the series -- you notice how much cleaner everything seems in that season. It's like the "carnival of horror" that had since plagued the characters for the previous 2-3 seasons had never happened
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I think the only reason that episode was even banned to begin with was because FOX had just come under new management in that department, and they started taking a closer look at what 4kids was doing with the show. They were horrified by the idea of zombie!Baxter and pulled it, and would have been equally horrified by the previous eps they'd done -- including Shredder's beheading. I'm pretty sure the new management was also responsible for the "true" 5th season being booted in favor of the craptastic Fast Forward series (no offense to the clones. ^_^ I like the clones).
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