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So many people talk about Jeanette from Alvin and The Chipmunks, and Irma from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles looking so much alike, some even saying they're like "long-lost twins".Surely they're exaggerating, aren't they?
Hmm... maybe not...
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Irma looks like a combination of Jeanette and Jenny Foxworth from Oliver and Company
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And this is why I get mixed feelings with shipping Irma with Dave X[ !!
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Hey, it's less creepy than the fact that Dave and Brittany have been shipped in the past.
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WhatΒ ? WhyΒ ? I know we're all fee to ship who ever we want but Brittany's like what? 7 or 8 years old? And not to mention Dave is more of a father figure to her and the rest of the Chipmunks so...why shippers? Than again I shouldn't b too phased outΒ by thisΒ ...after all this is the same planet here folks would ship Elsa and Anna. Don't even get me started on Dipper and MableΒ .
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and also shipping Lincoln loud and his sisters too
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...I should not be surprised by that...
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This is partly why I don't ship anymore. That, and some people are so dead-set into their ships that Ship-to-Ship Combat ensues, and frankly, it gets so ridiculous at times that it's just kind of killed the fun and joy of shipping in general.
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I can see where you're coming from. But the ship vs. ship could be fun if both parties know not to take them too seriously βΊοΈπ. And I love shipping as long as it doesn't involve pedophilia or any wrong thing like that.
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Hmm... You know, we were never given the Chipettes' parentage, as they were 'orphaned' at an early age... and Irma DOES have a history of falling for the wrong men.... okay, I just managed to disturb myself. Pass the brainsoap?
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I'll go you one better, borrow my electric brain scrubber...
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I always think of Irma as coming first cartoon wise, but then, Jeanette's appearance was made a long time before the 80's wasn't it?
IMHO Jeanette's hair bun is more classic looking... Irma has a like too much in common with the secretary in The Real Ghostbusters....
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Well, the concept of a Chipette was conceived in like the late 70s/early 80s or so when Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice Karman wanted to create a female character to do girly songs. Enter: Charlene the Chipette, who was pretty much a prototype version of Brittany.
Then came to new cartoon series in 1983, and The Chipettes (Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor) are introduced, in hopes of giving little girls watching the show characters they can relate to.
As mentioned previously, I think the cartoon version of TMNT with Irma didn't come around until 1987, so I guess Jeanette did come first, but to me (being born AFTER that time), they feel like they came around the same time to me, lol.
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Yeah, always noticed this similarity. Great drawing by the way! 
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Lol, yeah, you take one look at Jeanette, and you just wanna take her home with you and cuddle her.
... Like when you cradle a baby and stuff... I don't mean like, never mind...
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Lol! I get what you mean.
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Well I'm glad you do, because anytime I mention that to other people, they're like "Dude wants to sleep with a cartoon chipmunk..."
I'm not THAT perverted, lol.
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Really...
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My good mn, those people are IDIOTS. There is NOTHING at all alike between these two. Absolutely nothing. They are completely different.
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Yep.
Clearly.
NOTHING.
*Ker-Slap*
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I don't know... brown hair pulled back in buns (sort of), large pink glasses, the baggy blue turtleneck sweaters, the purple skirts, they're both considered klutzes...
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Hmm... Maybe... NAAAAAAAAH.
(How very subtle i am.)
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Now what would be funny if another cartoon had a bratty character who had light brown hair in a pony tail, a pink outfit, yellow scarf, and yellow leg warmers; while yet another cartoon had a motherly blonde with pigtails, and a greenish "school girl" outfit!
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There should be one somewhere.
And if their isn't, im making one up for the shizz and giggles XD
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There is defiantly some simularities for sure
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Makes me wonder too if Ross and Janice were ever aware of this, and if so, I wonder if they ever thought about suing?
You can bet your bottom dollar if something like this happened these days, there'd be a BIG FAT LAWSUIT about it!
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Actually no, Even though the characters do appear simular, Ross and Janice won't be able to sue them. The reason for this is because Jeanette is a Chipette and Irma is a human. That and they have different names (not even simular names at that).
I now this because I had a situation when I sent an idea for a cool character on the TMNT show back in the early 90's and got a reply that they weren't looking for new ideas then in the next season I saw a character that looked like mine, but was a different species and same name (my character was a female turtle named Mona Lisa...they did a female lizard named Mona Lisa). I couldn't sue them because it was a different species. This I know because I asked around.
It sucks but that is how the business is run. Actually I wasn't too upset over the whole thing because the character was only a test and I only sent it as a suggestion. I was not expecting to get anything out of it.
Anyway, take care.
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Ah.
Well, that's kind of cool in a way, I think.
But yeah, I get what you're saying. Still, knowing how touchy and territorial people are these days, it wouldn't surprise me if somebody did try to file a lawsuit over something like this.
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It's easier to press charges if their creations are being posted on YouTube or even sold without their permission....not because someone, erm, borrowed an idea and made a few changes and possibly the name of their so-called original.
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That makes sense.
Believe it or not though, several years ago The Jim Henson Company actually sued the creators of another educational children's series because their puppet characters look "too muppety". Odd, considering MOST puppets made for television and movies are going to look muppety, lol.
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