Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20160326211319/@comment-995426-20160429225202

So how do you explain, in-universe, Ramona indelicately derailing the far more fascinating phenomenon that was season 1 & 2's conspicuously gay Raphael whose deep and brooding soul delivered us such turbulent and heartwarming feels? :)

I think I can guess the wall-banger of an out-of-universe explanation, but sometimes it's fun to try to explain everything in-universe all the same, just to see what wacky explanations someone can come up with.

I prefer the Space Dandy-esque explanation of multiple parallel universes of Raphaels, which is decidedly more preferable to Raph being somehow lobotomized or fundamentally biologically reconfigured in North Hampton. XD (The Creep could have done that in Within the Woods, but Raph still had his final decent big sister moment in the next episode A Foot Too Long, and his last tender gaydar-tripping Slaph moment just once in Clash of the Mutanimals (and conspicuously nowhere else in the same episode), so the experience hadn't changed him that much yet. Convoluted explanations, please! :D)