Fly guy was all but eradicated from my memory until trawling wiki history. The gag works because his genius is the only thing keeping him alive. If he were just a hired thug, he'd be long since dead and completely unable to construct another shell for himself.
As I had said before, growing up with something usually has little bearing on how I evaluate things now. The rotund doctor turned human fly is just too farciful for me to take seriously.
Another thing I liked about the '80s series is the news crew. If there's one complaint I have for the new series is the total lack of peers for April. It's like she existed in a vacuum consisting of her uncle, parents and Baxter Stockman prior to her run-in with the Turtles and Casey. And she acts way to worldy to possibly be a shut-in. She obviously went to college and the like, where are her friends from there? Not that I want a full shift in focus, I'd just like to know that April has a life outside of computer programming, antiques and Turtles.
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