History YMMV / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003

** Some instances of human-Turtle ShipTease come across as this as Peter Laird was strictly against any human-Turtle romance and forbade most moments like this from appearing in the show, but some instances ended up slipping through the cracks, like Don briefly blushing when April thinks about giving him a SmoochOfVictory in the Triceraton invasion arc and Raph awkwardly asking Joi Reynard in season 5. For the most part, April acts more as a [[LikeBrotherAndSister big sister to the Turtles, especially Don]] and is only attracted to Casey and Joi, like the other Acolytes are OutOfFocus. Laird's blogs reveal there were a few instances of writers attempting to insert ShipTease moments between certain Turtles and human characters, but he made them change into more platonic moments, if really necessary, or otherwise he had them remove such moments completely.

** April and Donnie receive a lot more attention than [[OfficialCouple April and Casey]] do. This has lessened however, due to the negative reception of the canon Apriltello ship from the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 series]], to the point that most people now prefer the more platonic, [[LikeBrotherAndSister sibling like]] relationship Don and April had in this show and in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''.
** Leonardo and Karai also get this. Despite there not being all that much ShipTease between the two and Karai ending up with Dr. Chaplin by the end of the fifth season, a lot of fans prefer to ship the two of them due to their similar sense of honor and personalities.