Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - S01E32

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Today, we’re exploring the thirty second episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, titled
“A Star is Born”.
We begin this episode in the hallways of Angel Grove High where Kim asks Tommy if he’s
coming to the beach with the rest of them tomorrow.
Turns out Tommy can’t because he’s trying out for a karate commercial… and so is Bulk?
Tommy decides to demonstrate why he sells so many toys by doing karate with Bulk’s
scarf, and they leave.
On the Moon, Rita wants a day off.
Everyday is a day off, Rita.
Goldar says he’ll get rid of the Rangers.
This is gonna suck.
At the beach, the Rangers are all there, and of course, Jason is showing off those manly
arms and practicing karate.
Bulk and Skull are there too, and of course, Bulk is the hairiest teenager to ever live,
but he lets the Rangers know that Tommy sucks a bag of dicks.
Turns out, Bulk wants to get a tan before the audition, but Skull shoots the entire
tanning lotion on him, running out of it, so he just uses mayo… and there’s a god
damn jingle in the background?!
Also, Rita is asleep on the moon.
Anyways, at the audition, Bulk shows up as red as a tomato and sunburnt to all hell,
and he gets called into the audition room.
There, he embarrasses him just like he normally does.
There’s also someone there with a camera?
The producer says they’ve got their man, and Bulk boasts about it to Tommy before leaving.
Back at the beach, the Rangers are playing with a volleyball before Trini sees Scorpina
off screen.
It’s morphin time!
We’re treated to a nice little fight by the water where the Rangers fight the putties
and Scorpina… and then Scorpina introduces her… pet worm?
It spits out silk, and wraps the five in a cocoon.
They can’t even contact Zordon.
Wtf?
The putties then push them off a cliff into the ocean.
Man, these guys suck.
Zordon straight up basically says they’ll be fine until they get in contact with Tommy.
What is Tommy doing?
Auditioning of course!
He also left his communicator in his bag.
Doesn’t matter though, it’s time for a badass Tommy karate demonstration!
Alpha and Zordon can’t get in contact with Tommy while the Rangers go down the river
in a cocoon, complaining that the air is getting thin.
Then, they try their Blade Blasters.
Literally, what have they been doing?
Zordon says they need to be teleported to their zords right away to fight a new monster…?
Apparently his name is Babe Ruthless.
Oh, fuck you.
They do that, and they fight giant Babe Ruthless, Goldar, and Scorpina.
It’s nice to see another week where we get some individual zord fights….
But where the hell is Kim in all this?!
Tommy finally gets down being a dick and gets his communicator out and responds to Zordon,
and he’s informed that the Rangers still suck without him.
He morphs and calls on the Dragonzord, who immediately fires finger lasers at Goldar
and Scorpina.
Seriously, where the fuck is Kimberly.
They form the Dragonzord in Battle Mode, and Jason, hopes in the Dragonzord in Battle Mode,
saying that he’s set his zord to remote?
Oh, there’s Kim, in the back of the cockpit?
Whatever.
They take on the three monsters, and they even use a drill as a shield.
Seriously.
It’s okay though, they then just straight up impale Babe Ruthless.
RIP weird ass monster.
Goldar is back on the Moon somehow saying that there’s more to come.
Turns out Scorpina is in Angel Grove, and Billy decides that means that she’s in human
form again?
What?!
Turns out, he’s right, and she makes her worm grow?
What the fuck is happening!?
They call on their zords AGAIN, and holy shit, this is like a bad dream.
WE ALREADY SAW THIS.
They form the Megazord, and they get put into a cocoon, and Goldar screams about how awesome
he is.
Tommy shows up late again for some reason, and he calls back out the Dragonzord.
Tommy, you really should’ve just followed.
Was he smoking a cigarette or something?!
Whatever, the Dragonzord frees the Megazord via his drill tail, and the Megadragonzord
is formed.
Wow, really trying to sell those toys this time around, huh?
They fire a huge “Z” at the worm, and he dies.
RIP… worm?
Rita is also made that her henchmen sucked while she was asleep, and they all blame each
other.
I hate this episode.
At the Youth Center, the Rangers are watching the news with Ernie about how awesome the
Power Rangers are.
And then, the unthinkable happens.
That one commercial you forgot about was a plot point, and it shows Bulk, saying that
if you don’t take lessons, you’ll look like him, while if you do take lessons, you’ll
look like Tommy.
Did they KNOW they were actually filming the commercial then?
That’s not how auditions work!
Wait, is that how they cast this show?
That would explain Tommy, actually.
This episode was so clearly from two different Japanese episodes, and it’s really… hard
to get through.
Seriously.
I kind of love how badly edited it is though.
There were simpler, more concise solutions to every single issue that Rangers faced in
this episode, but they honestly just had to keep making things harder for them simply
because of how lazy the production was.
It’s kind of amazing.
Will next time make ANY more sense?
Probably not, but until then, may the power protect you!

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