>>150718224
Yes

>>150718224
27 writers, 86 episodes is roughly 3 an episode. Seems fine. It's not like it had a complicated, in-depth plot that needed consistent writers.

>>150718258
>couldn't use the same writers for multiple episodes
it wasn't rocket science.

>>150718224
>>150718258
the first season has 65 eps, the second has 21

it's to do with the WGA crediting rules (as they were in the 1980s, probably not that different to today)

Gately is credited elsewhere (as Heathcliff created by) as is Chalopin (with Bianchi) for creating Cats & Co. and so not credited here because they did a different kind of writing work

the entire writer's room (in fact not people all working together at once, just everybody who worked on the season) are credited here, including Lorre and Swayze who are also credited elsewhere for developing the show with Chalopin

some of these people will have written entire episodes, some will have worked on character passes, continuity passes, or just contributed additional lines or concepts to the script that require a credit (like the transforming car, etc etc)

to put this into some perspective - because god knows /co/ doesn't fucking understand how anything actually gets made or why 2D animation fell out of favor - this show had 57 storyboard artists across the first season, compared to 27 writers - but they're just drawing little comic strips right lolololol

for the second season that drops to 8 writers and 11 storyboarders

in the case of writers, rather than teams of 3 (which is more common now as a way of keeping costs down, rather than bulking them up, since you only pay as much for the team as an individual) it's more likely that unsolicited scripts were submitted (another practice which has died out) and extensively rewritten, requiring two or more credits; this show doesn't separate "story" from "script" credits, so there's no real way to know who did what and when

>>150718588
>because god knows /co/ doesn't fucking understand how anything actually gets made
Same goes for pretty much every board and its subject, outside of maybe the smarks on /pw/ and all of /x/ which doesn't understand anything, but everything there is made up anyways.

>>150718224
huh Chuck Lorre was one of the writers, that's crazy. then again he wrote the 80s TMNT theme song.