Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - S01E27

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Today, we’re exploring the twenty seventh episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, titled
“Wheel of Misfortune”.
We start this episode in a classroom at Angel Grove High where the ranger teens are apart
of a really terrible rendition of Rumpelstiltskin.
Kimberly is playing the part of the miller’s daughter, Jason is the king, Bulk is Rumpelstiltskin
himself while the other rangers and Skull are all stagehands of some sort.
Of course, Bulk doesn’t care about acting, so he goofs off in front of Principal Caplan,
and then, he uses the spinning wheel a lot, and it ends up getting stuck, which is bad
because it’s apparently Kimberly’s grandma’s antique spinning wheel.
Kimberly loses her goddamn MIND over this, and she starts SCREAMING at Bulk, and Caplan
tells everyone to just vacate the classroom before anything else gets broken.
What’s creepier?
Rita has been watching this and decides that she needs that spinning wheel for her own.
Why?!
Kim goes to the Juice Bar to vent to Ernie about how the spinning wheel is stuck, and
how much her life totally sucks now.
Doesn’t matter, Goldar and some Putties teleport into the classroom and just yoink
the spinning wheel.
Back at the juice bar, Tommy tells Kimberly that he’ll help see if they can fix it,
and when they get to the classroom, it’s g-g-gone!
They then go back to the Youth Center, and they’re asking random people if they’ve
seen the spinning wheel.
First of all, what?
Second of all, no, no one has seen your dumbass spinning wheel.
Tommy approaches Bulk and Skull about the wheel, and they don’t take him seriously
at all, and even when he gets mad at them, they make a valid point: what the hell would
they want with a broken spinning wheel?
Surprise, Rita has turned it into a monster...ish.
She has made it into a spinning wheel with spikes.
That’s it.
At the Youth Center, Kim sits and pouts, and a nice little moment happens where the four
other rangers come and sit around her and mimic her until she notices and laughs.
Tommy walks through the park evidently having given up on asking people if they’ve seen
an antique spinning wheel when he’s jumped by putties, and he somehow left his communicator
in his bag.
Dude, it mimics a wristwatch for a damn reason.
The other five rangers come to the Command Center where Zordon tells them what’s going
on with both Tommy and the spinning wheel, which has been turned into the Wheel of Misfortune
because fuck you.
It’s time to morph and go do battle with Goldar and Scorpina.
There’s a nice little fight between the villains and heroes before Rita just makes
her henchpeople grow.
The Rangers call out the Dinozords and before they form the Megazord, Goldar just tosses
a giant ass rope on the T-Rex Zord, and then he shoots it with lasers.
What a weird day for everyone.
Meanwhile, Tommy is now tied to a tree by the Putties.
He pretends to be feeling sick, and the Putties come close enough that he somehow frees himself
from the situation, and the Putties disappear into the ether.
He calls Zordon, who tells him to go help the others right away because Jason is just
stuck in a rope while the other four are apparently just watching.
Zordon tells him that they need to bring all the Zordons together with Titanus to form
the Ultra Zord, and buy our merchandise.
Tommy morphs to the scene, and he summons the Dragonzord, and he helps free the T-Rex
Zord, but here comes the Wheel of Misfortune!
Seriously, how is this the focus of this episode?
The Megazord gets formed despite Zordon saying to like not do just that, but whatever, we
get some more giant monster action before they come together, and they form the Ultra
Zord with Titanus, and they… destroy a spinning wheel.
Tight.
Goldar and Scorpina fuck off and disappear.
The Rangers show up at the classroom, and ta-da, the spinning wheel is back, and it’s
totally functional now!
Man, imagine if Rita had turned it evil, and it was still stuck?
Oh well, time for the cringest play of all time, which is conducted in the Youth Center.
Long story short, Bulk comes out, keeps calling Kimberly “fair babe”, and rips his pants
in front of everyone, and then Kimberly just straight up says “The end”, and it’s
over?
What the hell kind of play was this?!
This episode isn’t the best showing for the Ultrazord debut.
Like at all.
The “monster” is laughable, though it is nice to see Goldar and Scorpina again.
I feel like a lot of this middle season has been really Kimberly focused when it comes
to the plot-of-the-week, and any time they have a blank slate episode that they could’ve
given to someone underdeveloped, like Trini, they just chose Kimberly every time.
It’s a shame, but at least Amy Jo Johnson can handle it.
Next time, we enter a two-parter, but the real question is, what will happen to validate
its existence as one?
Until then, may the power protect you!

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