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If you’re a millennial, chances are you know the roll call in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song by heart. Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines, Raphael is cool but rude, Michelangelo is a party dude.

That’s the way it goes, but what if Leonardo got to be the party dude too?

Cam Clarke, who voiced Leonardo on the animated series, felt his character was too serious, and was jealous of all the fun his castmates got to have as the goofier turtles. “I wanted to be Michelangelo because I’m from LA, where that voice started, and Leo, pardon the pun, was the straight man of the act,” Cam Clarke says during a TMNT reunion panel at Florida Supercon. “As these clowns were being goofy, doing cartwheels, and all that crazy stuff, I’m just here trying to keep them in line. ‘[Serious Leonardo voice] We’ve got to think of something fast.’ Tightass.”

“I was jealous of all the comedy that they were allowed to mess around with, so I started trying to put Leo into kind of a parody place of the leader hero. At one point the director, Sue Blu, she’s on a break, she goes, ‘Cam, can I talk to you for a sec? What are you doing?’ I went, ‘I’m just trying to make Leonardo a little more fun. A little crazy.’ And she goes, ‘Well don’t. Stop it. You are the leader and tentpole, and these guys are doing loop de-loops around you.’ And it took me a minute or a hundred to get on board with that.”

At least he got to have that cool sword.

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