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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cast recall the odd feeling around the cartoon’s “Red Sky" seasons
The cast of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon discuss the darker energy surrounding the “Red Sky seasons”
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The 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon felt like a nonstop party, but it wasn’t all fun and games. By 1994 kids were gravitating to darker and more serious cartoons such as X-Men and Batman: The Animated Series. The turtles needed to evolve, so the show reinvited itself in season 8.
The retool got rid of much of the show’s humor, made the villains more menacing, and used a more gritty animation style. Fans nicknamed this era the Red Sky seasons, thanks to the sky’s reddish appearance.
“It was kind of weird,” Michaelangelo actor Townsend Coleman says during a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spotlight panel at C2E2 2022. “As I recall it was around [season 8] or so. It’s like the writers just really chopped it up and took it in a whole different direction, and it felt different, at least to me in the studio.”
“It was a very different energy. They introduced new characters. I think they kind of wanted to take it in a slightly darker direction. I don’t remember much about it other than sitting in the studio going, man, this kind of doesn’t feel the same as it used to.”
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