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Having them act like actual teenagers is a nice idea in itself, since it's literally in the title but it was generally disregarded as a characterization factor in the source material, and the earlier adaptations mostly used a cringy marketing department idea of how teenagers acted.

Making April also a teenager since the Nick era rather than a cool adult friend was a mistake though (not to mention making her a misshapen potato mutant in MM). Hot adult April was a no-brainer point of appeal in the original