Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25614818-20150410170303/@comment-995426-20150413230953

Jadepalacetrainee:

First of all, no puking. It's unsanitary, not to mention kinda rude. And there's nothing even gross here to puke about.

Secondly, where have you been? :) People have been observing this of Mikey and Leatherhead for a long time now, and it has only gotten more blatant since Into Dimension X. This is the same Nickelodeon that ended The Legend of Korra with a canon romantic girlfriend relationship between two female leads.  This is 2015 in the Western World, and these things are G-rated.  And there are already openly gay characters in the IDW comic.

Thirdly, no one's suggesting Mikey is gay&mdash;the technical term is probably closer to bisexual or pansexual. Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have been adding more of these characters discreetly for years. :) We just don't actually label them gay or bisexual or lesbian unless they declare themselves as such or they actually declare someone a same-gender boyfriend or girlfriend (which Mikey and Leatherhead have all but done). These days, we don't even necessarily assume people are straight anymore unless they tell us.