Biker Mice From Mars.

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This was a fun Sci-fi comedy series that has a big cult following and was originally dismissed by some as a rip-off of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. No, it's very different from Ninja Turtles as it's more like those Howard The Duck comics.
 
I loved BMFM as a kid. Nowadays when i look back at it, it feels to me like one of those shows that were kinda like a mixture between the old kind of action cartoon of the 60's-80's (simple storylines, not very much actuall drama or sense of danger, clean cuts between the good guys and bad guys) and the new kind of action cartoon that have been on since the early 90's (some humor aimed more towards adults than children, less repetative stories than in older action cartoons). It's outdated, but still fun to watch (sadly, i just cant say the same for the original TMNT).
 
I wouldn't call Biker Mice From Mars a ripoff of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, per se, however, BMfM definitely owes some credit to TMNT as it's one of several human sized anthro shows/products that came in the wake of TMNT's success (See also, Street Sharks, Battletoads, Snailiens and Adolecent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters).

I've heard some people say that Biker Mice from Mars was boring, but the fact of the matter is that I've never watched the show long enough to get bored. Based on what little I've seen of BMfM, it just struck me as being a fairly standard "alien mutant anthros in human" world scenario. The key difference was that one of the Biker Mice apparently had a potential romantic thing going on with a human woman, which quite frankly, strikes me as being both implausible and a just a wee bit on the creepy side. I mean, how badly have men worked you over when a 6 foot tall alien mouse seems like a good prospect to you?
 
How is it like Howard the Duck comics?

I would only see this because it was on early in the morning after I had been up all night. The main thing I remember from this, and something I kinda liked, was that once the Biker Mice sang "Do Your Ears Hang Low?" The thing is, that song has a much bawdier version, one that makes more sense with the lyrics by far, called "Do Your Balls Hang Low?" It was a funny thing to see in a kid's cartoon, even though I know the G-rated version is often sung by kids.
 
Another key difference between BMFM and TMNT is that BMFM was obviously intended to be entirely for teh lulz. TMNT on the other hand was really first and foremost meant as an action cartoon (although one that was solely aimed at children, considering that the action was so lame and predictable that nobody over the age of 12 could possibly get caught up in it).
 
Well the way i think it's like Howard The Duck comics is that both feature anthropomorphic alien beings from other worlds like ours as they end up in the eastern part of the US and become heroes as they even fall in love with other women not of their kind.

Well BlackStarr, i mean Charene is a babe and any guy weither human or extraterrestrial would fall for her. Vinnie is always hitting on her you know as much as Eliza and Goliath have this interspecies monster and human relationship including Demona and Macbeth.

Even Futurama's Leela who is a creature babe has been dating humans over the years, nothing wrong with aliens or monsters going out with humans. Oh i forget to mention that M'ress in Star Trek animated who is a felinoid from another planet has a crush on Scotty and been dating Sulu in the ST comics.
 
OK, Mcready; we get it. :shrug: I respect that you like inter-species relationships, so please respect that I don't share your enthusiasm for them. Just because we're on a message board together doesn't mean that we all have to like the same things. Let's just agree to disagree on this, M'kay?

BTW, it's Blackstar, not "BlackStarr". I'm not Marshall Bravestarr (obscure TV show reference).
 
You understand that when you say "like the Howard the Duck comics" most people would not think "interspecies sex," right? Most people would think cynical social satire.
 
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