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TacoFace
Title: Young Gun II
Joined: Jun 20 2006
Location: Venice, CA
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So, listen up, this girl at work yesterday asked a group of us who while eating lunch if we remembered Samurai Pizza Cats. I said I did, but now I'm thinking I may have just been remembering SWAT KATS. Was it just a Ninja Turtles rip-off like the title and memory lead me to believe?
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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Tebor
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Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
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I remember it being an import of a Japanese show. I don't think I ever watched it, but I remember seeing an ad for it back in an old issue of Disney Insider.
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Valdronius
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It was a remake of the Japanese cartoon Kyatto Ninden Teyandee. And it was a knock off of TMNT when it was americanized, as indicated by the line in the themesong, "They've got more fur than any turtle ever had."
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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I always wondered if the American show followed the Japanese plots or if the show was just recut and redubbed into something new. In particular, I remember an episode where The Big Cheese steals a nuclear potato that plans to use to some nefarious end. I remember thinking, "This can't actually be the original plot of this episode." Of course, back then I didn't know that the Japanese were batshit crazy.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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The biggest change I can remember is that the big Cheese is actually a fox, but because we don't associate rats with nasty, sneaky animals as much as we do big rats, it was a cultural change. The other thing is that Saban's crew didn't have any transcripts, they just had tapes from the show (kinda like how Power Rangers wound up).
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Syd Lexia
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Foxes are considered to be sneaky and clever in western culture too. There's an old fable about a fox and some bird. The bird has a piece of cheese that the fox wants. So the fox flatters the bird and coaxes it to sing for him. When the bird opens her mouth to sing, she drops the cheese and fox eats it. The reason The Big Cheese was made into a rat was because rats and cats are natural enemies, so they thought it would make more sense to have the Cats' main enemy be a rat.
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Valdronius
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Yeah, the storyline was drastically changed when it was brought over. It was basically reduced to one-liners. In the Japanese version, Speedy and Polyester develop a relationship though the course of the series. In America, it sort of spontaneously happens at the end.
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