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In 1992, ''[[Battletoads (Video Game)|Battletoads]]'' was a hot game and the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987]]'' cartoon was still going strong. Given the similarity between the two properties, it stood to reason that a good [[Animated Adaptation]] could give the games better [[Popcultural Osmosis]].
 
Someone must have thought so, because a ''Battletoads'' cartoon series, produced by [[DiC Entertainment]], was launched.
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The pilot was shown on Thanksgiving 1992. It is a prequel to the game, but does not provide the same backstory as the one published in ''Nintendo Power''. It appeared to be based on a very, ''very'' obscure comic adaptation printed in some other gaming magazines at the time, rather than the game itself. In this origin story, Morgan Ziegler, Dave Shar, and George Pie are, rather than computer technicians, three teenage losers from Oxnard, California who are squirted with [[Super Serum]] by Professor T. Bird and turned into the Battletoads. Tasked with defending the Princess from the Dark Queen, they receive the "ancient names of honor": Zitz, Rash and Pimple.
 
It was directed by Kent Butterworth and written by David Wise, who were both major figures in the development of the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987]]'' animated series (Butterworth was a senior animator on almost every episode; Wise was the head writer for the majority of its run, and [[Name's the Same|not to be confused in this context]] with the David Wise who wrote the music for the ''[[Battletoads (Video Game)|Battletoads]]'' games). A natural expectation would be these guys would make a decent ''TMNT''-alike show.
 
The pilot bombed spectacularly: the aborted series is a textbook example of a [[Stillborn Franchise]]: a niche work being rammed into another medium, adaption changes alienating the existing fans, critical panning and a failure to capture a new mainstream audience. No further episodes were broadast and it likely destroyed any chance of a good ''Battletoads'' series ever being made.
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* [[Diner Brawl]]: The first [[Fight Scene]].
* [[Epic Fail]]: Morgan/Zits making a computer monitor explode just by pressing a few keys and Princess Angelica making a jelly doughnut explode by gently pinching it. Though the latter might have been an animation error.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]]: Princess Angelica
* [[Fictional Video Game]]: Any resemblance between "Galaxy Wars" and any [[Real Life]] arcade game is coincidental.
* [[Flying Car]]: Introduced with a ''[[Back to The Future]]'' [[Shout-Out]]: "Where we're going, we don't need tires!"
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