Hey everybody, welcome to Teenagers with Attitude, the show where a bunch of grown adults sit around and talk about teenagers in tightly colored clothing fighting monsters, and heavens to Megatroid, we've got a good episode for you this week. Uh... I'm Zach, and joining me, we've got Emily. Oi. We've also got...
I was trying to think of something to say to do with the episode, but I can't think of anything. Okay, that's all right. Morgan? I'm not going to make strictly egg jokes, but I might make some. It would be weird if we didn't make any. We've got Simon. Might make a fruit joke or two with the plot of this first episode here. Yes, yes, good. And then also we have Iris. May I offer you all an egg in this trying time? Yes, excellent. Very good.
You've passed the TWA egg initiation because there's always got to be some eggs sometime. Well, I'm very well aware of that. Weird egg plots. Well, okay, there's that also, yes. Obviously, but... There was the weird eggs in season one of Power Rangers. Yeah, there's always weird egg shit going on. I don't know why. Those eggs were referenced in the Power Rangers beat-em-up game. There was egg stuff happening in Eidolon Disco and Eidolon Ska.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right. I don't even remember the context. I just remember Luke saying, why are eggs there? That's just like a line that sticks out in my mouth. Well, the Power Rangers one, because it's been a long time, but there...
It's honestly as slapdash as Power Rangers is, there was one episode where it literally was like they left in like... one scene of the balkan skull plot and then like forgot to film the rest of it and they just had a bunch of eggs and that's that's like i think the first one where we were just like what the hell what's happening But yeah, and then there was like power eggs at one point. Yeah, the power eggs are collectible in the beat-em-up game.
Magical eggs are one of the basic food groups of magical MacGuffins in fantasy. They are well represented in the Power Rangers franchise.
Well, you go from magical eggs to magical girls. Yeah, that's right. Yes, that's extremely true. That's what would have come out of that egg if it hatched, is just a cute magical girl who would have destroyed the city. Well, now that you've said this, I feel bad about what I... was gonna say but i'm gonna say it anyway uh if someone was like here's some magic eggs i would be like i want to know what deviling these will taste like i need to know then you got some saucy girls that's right uh so
Yeah, so we're excited to have people on, and it's been a little while since Iris has been on, so I wanted to ask you what you've been up to. Oh, gosh. I have been... busy doing stuff for podcasts mostly like we recently started true you've really been podcast busy lately yeah because like we recently started um Eidolon VGM and EDM I am on the EDM crew and we've been recording the past couple weeks.
I've also been on Totally Reprise. You read 5,000 pages of books? Yeah, not only read, but for the current book, because it's so new, there is not a Wikipedia summary. So I have been writing the summary.
myself yeah so we can uh you know more easily cover it on each podcast episode so not only am i reading through all the pages i am also summarizing them damn are y'all done reading it almost uh okay so this this upcoming the recording that we're doing this upcoming like um tuesday will be our final uh stormlight episode
I finished it last night at like 2.30 in the morning. It's one of those books where I was just like, oh no. I think all my co-hosts have finished it before me because, again, I've... I have to also write things. Because you've been busy as hell. Yeah, that too. But yeah, also I've been busy just doing other stuff until the weekend. So yeah, other than that, in my free time, I have been...
Warframing. I've been doing a lot of warframing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We don't have to get too far into it, but you mentioned on Eidolon... that you had tried to pick it up before and didn't know what to do. And that gave me such strong flashback of that exact experience of loading that game up and being like... There's too much stuff and no one's telling me what I should be doing. Yeah, there's like a billion things in Warframe. You just go down the hallway, right?
The thing is, is that there's so many different hallways you can go down. Yeah, that's actually a really, that's a good point because. playing warframe is very simple yeah knowing what you should be doing to like level up your guy is almost impossible unless someone's telling you what you should be doing yeah because like the actual like Individual missions of Warframe, very basic. A lot of them you can finish in like two or three minutes.
um yeah it's like shoot some waves of enemies or just like get to the get to a particular location um and like you can you can speed run a lot of them um but the the main the main thing is like Progression is what can be a little overwhelming because you want to level up your weapons so you gain mastery levels. uh so you can then take mastery exams to like increase your total
like mod cap. And of course each, of course you also want to make sure to get important mods for your weapons and like basically every part of your warframe, like the war, the frame itself. Each individual weapon you have equipped your dog when you get a dog. All of these can have mods equipped to them. Your dog's got slots. Yeah, your dog has slots. Your dog does have slots. Fuck yeah. And your dog also has a weapon slot that itself can then have mods equipped to it.
And like mods end up being one of the main progression things where like you want to get like different mod setups for different types of enemies or missions you'll be doing. And there are some that are just generally useful, like some that are just like. this just does more damage or you just have more shields and you need to grind currency so you can upgrade those fully but you also want to keep like You also want to keep non-upgraded copies around.
because an upgraded mod also costs more to equip. So if you ever switch to a different Warframe, which you're going to want to, because that's the point of the game.
is to just build a bunch of war frames it's like a mech game you're like gonna want to have the i want one heavy one and one light one yeah yeah yeah like whenever you like if you switch to a new frame that you've just built it's It's going to have a much smaller mod capacity starting out because it hasn't been upgraded at all because it doesn't have any experience compared to the frame you've been using for the last three hours.
So you want to make sure you keep an un-upgraded mod so you can actually equip that to it because otherwise all your upgraded mods are not going to be able to fit into that new Warframe. Um, and also you've got like the, the, the daily, like the battle pass that does not cost money. It's just, it's just, it's just there. Yeah. But also. The game is relatively generous. It doesn't. really try to wring money out of you that badly, if I remember correctly. It might...
It might seem like it is at the start because there is a lot of stuff that you can just buy with platinum and like you can get platinum with currency. And also there are just bundles like on the Steam marketplace. that you can buy with real money to get yourself like a bunch of frames and equipment. So like for a new player, it might actually seem like they are trying to get you to spend money just so you can have a bunch of stuff at the start.
Because otherwise you have very little. Right. That's true. Yeah. But I imagine like once you are decent ways into it and have like crafted. a few different weapons and frames like The further you are into it, the less likely it is that you're going to feel pressure to spend money. Right. You're like, well, I've got a couple options. I don't need like, yeah. It's almost like an inverse of what... gotcha games do where like they just fucking just dump new currency on
uh dump a bunch of currency on new players to like get you right to try and keep you yeah yeah and then slows down to a trickle and they're always constantly releasing new things you know at a rate that is not commiserate with the currency you're given and so like older players will be Gotcha games are inverse, where the more you're into it, the more likely you're going to spend money. Warframe feels like you're most likely to spend money in your first few hours. Which I feel like...
That kind of makes sense because it's like it's a free to play game. So it's like, well, but we would like to get like 20 bucks out of you. And then, you know, after that, whatever. Like that's. Yeah. Yeah. I think that game, honestly, I was looking at some stuff from it. For the fact that it's like 15 years old or whatever. Yeah, it was released in 2013. It looks good. It's so old. It's pretty cool. So I'm glad you're getting into it. I love the like...
Free-to-plays. I liked it when I played it. I remember it feeling good. I just couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do. Yeah, that's fair. I'm sort of being like... I'm sort of saying all this as an... like a tongue-in-cheek exaggeration, but I am genuinely having a good time with it. Good, I'm glad. Now that I have an idea of what the hell I'm supposed to do.
Well, cool. That's awesome. Yeah, I like that game's aesthetic a lot also. It just looks neat. The designs, rather, not the graphics. The designs of the frames are really cool. Yeah, it's neat. I like it a lot. I love the aesthetic of the game. Cool. Well, I did also just want to mention real quick because it's just funny to me. I think everybody in the Americas at least has been feeling a little colder than normal last week or two.
But I got some snow and I haven't seen any since 2017. And I was so excited and I was looking outside and I was like, ah, the wonder and majesty of nature. And then... Today I did have to go outside and I almost slipped and ate shit immediately. Oh, no. There is that. But you didn't. I'm real proud of you, buddy. I didn't. Yeah. I didn't do it. Thank you. Yes. It's.
It was that thing that I forgot because I haven't lived somewhere that gets snow in a while, which is that... Oh, it's slippery. Well, it's... But also, like, that stuff that's, like, white out there, it could be... This real powdery stuff that's like easy to kick around. Or it could be basically ice that looks kind of the same until you actually get closer to it.
step on it and it was that second thing unfortunately oh no but um but we were we were all good no no major problems uh which is good because the The entire state has like four salt trucks, but it was not quite bad enough that it was a problem, thankfully. So it just was a nice little, it's always, it happened last time. I love seeing little kids in the neighborhood who've never seen snow before see snow. Yeah. It's just, it's just real sweet.
So I really enjoyed that. And also like all my local friends posting their videos of their animals seeing snow for the first time. that's so cute of course uh the first time that we had snow here uh i brought in like some because chili is an indoor only cat i brought in a tupperware of it uh to see just like what because because when it's coming down she's like there's a whole bunch of big white bugs outside that's crazy like yeah but i you know i cannot imagine a cat
giving a fuck about a Tupperware full of snow. She touched it and then she hissed at it. Yep. She's like, I hate that. Whatever that stuff is sucks. I hate it. Dogs will go crazy and jump in it and dig through it and then immediately get super frozen and regret it and have to be carried back home.
i have seen videos of like main coons or whatever who likes snow but like yes most cats are like no thank you are a lot more like dogs in general i've heard yes that's true they're you know they're big and they're warm and all that stuff so um so with that uh let us talk about power rangers light speed rescue The Great Egg Caper, episode 27. I have to say, I mentioned last time, oh, this has the...
28 is the mermaid episode. I'm excited about that. That episode's fine. We'll have a good time talking about it. Didn't see this coming at all. Didn't know what this was. Egg episode. That's top of the year right there. truly a hell of an episode to come back on for me yes yes yes yes we'll talk about it for sure it it opens it's one of those ones that uses has sort of baffling usage of uh of like sentai footage because the the there's clearly a sentai plot going on that they give
egg service 2 let's call it and then just don't touch on again i i think it might show up again in the galaxy crossover because that looked like they had a really big scary monster to fight and this looks like a really big scary monster so I feel like we'll get to it, but I feel like there's not a lot of resolution with the egg. No. Basically, it opens with... Oh, what's this dude's name again? Olympias and Diabolco. Thank you. Yeah. Olympias is like, hey, I've got...
I've got a magical egg. It's going to hatch into the craziest monster you ever did see. And then there's some Sentai footage of what does look like that. Yes, it's a real scary like shadow monster. It's got like tentacles and stuff. It's like kind of floating. Yes, and destroying the city, and he's like, yep, as soon as this hatches, it's going to destroy everything, and that's going to be great. Also, Diabolico seems to not understand what eggs are.
because he's like that's gonna destroy the power rangers and olympus is like well no there's a thing in it And it's going to come out. And it'll get big. I like how the guy explaining this is Olympius, who was literally a baby who turned into a cocoon who turned into a guy. So he's familiar with this whole process. Yeah, he has been an egg. Diabolico hasn't. Then Vipra is like, you should give it to us. You know how you trust us a lot and we've never tried to fuck you over at all. Uh...
Olympus is like, no, I think I won't do that, actually. I'm gonna trust Jinxer, the weird mosquito guy who's always up to some shifty nonsense with this important egg instead. He... Jinxer does seem like he's loyal to Olympias more so than the other guys. Yeah. Like scene episodes. Loyalty and competence are two things. Jinxer is doing his job. Jinxer is doing his nine to five. Everybody else here is scheming. Yes.
So he gives this egg to Jinxer and we cut to the theme song. And when we come back, we've got Kelsey. inline rollerblading because you need to remember that that's her thing. But she is in her uniform this time, or her, like, coat. Yeah, she is. She's on her way to work, I guess, grabbing her free fruit that the farmer at the market just apparently gives her for free.
When she goes shopping there? I mean, she is a Power Ranger. Yeah, okay. And it's Yellow Fruit, and she's the Yellow Ranger, so come on. But you do have a point, which is that the instigating incident is...
Like, she's like... given free fruit and then a guy takes like a couple apples and she's like he's like he's like loading it into his bag like it's a lot of apples to the point where i'm like see a power ranger must drop everything she's doing to chase down that dangerous criminal and then you're gonna say ha ha ha that's funny this guy is only stealing apples but like wait until i tell you this guy is some kind of evil criminal mastermind
well he's he's not because of the ending but like because like even when i was watching it i'm like like i i was i was figuring that like it wouldn't go into that because it's power readers but i'm like if you're stealing apples
you're doing it because, like, you need to eat. Like, someone needs to eat. Typically, yeah. And he's stealing, like, a lot of them. So, like, but, like, at first, when it doesn't go down, I'm like, I guess he's just doing it for the thrill of the chase because, like, he... He fucking, like, dumps them later. He is gonna roast those apples for sure, yeah.
That's the weird thing is that I thought he was just a frill seeker at this point. Yeah, because like at the start, it is not portrayed as I need these apples for like legitimate reasons. No, it's a dude who looks like a grunge rocker and he's got a skateboard. He would be a Tony Hawk character. Yes, and I'm not saying that you can't have a skateboard if you're poor. That's not what I mean. I just mean this guy does not look like he is...
Like that's why he's taking them. Also, he looks like he's having a great time doing like he fucking. Yes, that's more important. He looks like he's he's like when Kelsey starts chasing him, he's almost like. yeah like this is gonna be a good time uh and and you know they they chase he and apparently this guy should have been the yellow ranger because the whole reason she's the yellow ranger is she's so good at extreme sports but he's like
apparently better than her. He makes a fool of her. I think he is not better than her. I think he is craftier. I will also say, I don't want to say I'm not a skateboard expert. I'm not at all. This man ollies like five feet off the ground and I don't think you can do that. This guy is fucking... Tony Hawk, the third over here. Yeah. Like, he jumps over a box that two guys are lifting, like, from the ground. And it's just pretty wild. But yeah, he eventually at the end of this, yeah, he...
Kind of trips Kelsey off. He grabs a rope on the pier and clotheslines her by using his skateboard to kind of hold the rope with. And then he catches up to a truck that's loaded with empty cardboard boxes. so that he can like crash into them and then he just like dumps all the apples out of his bag to just trip up Kelsey who's trying to roll after him there's
There's already a guy in the truck, and he gets knocked off, and he's holding his arm like it's broken or something, and the other guy points and laughs at him, the thief, who we find out later is a noble thief. He's just pointing and laughing at this dude. That's what kills me about this guy. he's like so excited that he hurts this guy it's like it's a little weird is like at the end cause so
We talked about this last time in Lightspeed Rescue. There's been another episode where there's just like a human criminal, which is very unusual in Power Rangers. And in that episode, they... It was more serious. He had a gun and he'd stolen from a bank and all that stuff. But they were like... He took a bus as hostages. Yeah. Yes, but at the end of the episode, they were like, this guy had reasons for doing this. We were all kind of like a little impressed that they...
even nodded at like, ah, economic reasons for doing that. It was the closest to nuance that Power Rangers ever gestured. And this guy who's told, to be clear, Maybe a dozen apples is treated like on another level of evil compared to the bus hijacker. It's kind of crazy. Well, to be fair, he does escalate his fever. Oh, yeah, he does. Yeah. So then at the end, we'll slightly spoil it, it's going to turn out, oh, he was doing this because he wanted to use the money or whatever he was doing.
was stealing to feed some homeless people and that is not the way that this guy comes across at all in the rest of the episode it's yeah not even he's like Robin Hood but like Robin Hood where he has to deal with the fact that he does it first and foremost for the thrill of it and then like
Like, feeding the poor is, like, an effort to justify his whole deal, I guess. Because he's just a captomaniac, I guess. So this guy... Well, he gives up stealing by the end of it, so we'll see. I don't know if he's a captomaniac, but yeah. But thrill-seeking, again, he is hooting and hollering during this. Yeah. He does lose Kelsey. And then he's hiding behind some bushes and he just happens to be in front of a little fountain where a bunch of batlings...
Uh, and, uh, Jinxer show up, uh, and they're, they're going to. They put this egg in the water because... They mentioned earlier that it had to be in water, yeah. Yes, it has to be hatched in water. Okay, yeah. And now that I'm thinking about it, like... Because this seems like a real dumbass plan, first of all. Like, yeah, keep this egg safe somewhere. I'm gonna go put it down in a public fountain out in the open. And like, I...
It's like a pond. I don't see a fountain, but yeah. Something like that, yeah. And, like, if they follow through on the whole idea that demons can't touch water, like, I would kind of get, yes, putting it there. At this point... I was like, maybe they can't touch salt water. Maybe. Because demons don't like salt. That's a thing with demons, actually. Maybe. Sure. That's not what they said, though. They said demons can't. go in water. Well, I just, I'm just saying.
That is literally why they have an aqua base. It's because demons are not supposed to be able to go in water. And I guess Jinxer doesn't go in the water, but the Batlings seem to have no issue with it. If they said it... If they said something like, if we put it in the water here, then Viper and Diabolico will never be able to touch that egg. I would be like, okay, that's a reason why he's doing this, I guess.
Anyway. I thought it was just because it literally needed to be in water to hatch. Did you say it needs to be underwater? Yeah. I don't know why, because we never fucking see the egg monster. The egg monster is very much... it's like the fireworks factory in the Pucci episode because we saw a preview of it when Olympias was talking about it and that's it because it's going to crack by the end of this episode and nothing is going to come of it. Right.
So this guy's watching them do this and he's like, whoa, that's crazy. And then he trips on his own skateboard. He gets surrounded by them after that. Yeah, sorry. And then Kelsey hears it and... He calls for help, specifically. Skates over to help him. Because even though he's a dirty apple thief, you know, she still doesn't want demons to kill him. Jinxer seems to think he's a spy, and he's like, who sent you?
You know, it's just a dude, like, it's just a guy. But he gets the old Tommy Oliver where they grab him on both arms, so he's powerless. and can't escape while Kelsey fights all the Batlings off. Kelsey does an action morph. It's a cool morph. The action morphs are definitely becoming more common, I feel like.
Yes, they're doing less of the pre-taped morphs and more of them morphing while they're doing something, which is cool. And their whole shield thing where they have to go through a shield really... is good for that you just throw the shield in front of it and then jump through it like you have to jump through it while you're yeah and it's like it's a free special effect you just put a cg shield there and then you cut and you have your morph ranger so yeah yeah
The other Rangers show up. There is a shot where Jinxer raises his glasses and his face is all fucked up. I don't like it. I do not like his eyes. There's a shot that I like where it's still just Kelsey by herself and she goes into Sentai footage to do a single jump kick and then goes back to American footage. This keeps cutting back and forth between Sentai and American. It's pretty funny. say that Jinxer without his glasses looks like Milhouse without his glasses and I don't like it.
I forgot about that. Everything's coming up jinxer. Or he's got tiny little eyes. Yeah. Everything's not coming up jinxer for this episode. Everything goes wrong for jinxer for this episode. Uh, yeah, so he's like, all right, Power Rangers, I'm so mad at you. It turns out my gun is, or my cane is also a gun. And he shoots them, and then...
Uh, the rest of the, the, the battlings come over and tell him something and he's like, what? And then it turns out the egg has been stolen. Uh, and you know, he freaks out, uh, and they all. leave back to the skull cavern um and the power rangers are like why would you steal an egg which sometimes i
I'm like, oh, good job, Lightspeed Rescue Power Rangers. You immediately understood there was an evil plot. And sometimes I'm like... what are you talking about of course it's an evil egg it's just not it's not just like a regular egg but also knowing the guy who stole it Why would you steal that egg? The guy saw a demon egg in the pond, in the park, went, hmm, I'm going to pick this up, and then what?
feed it to the homeless people by the dock? Is he going to make an omelet out of that devil egg? We don't know that much. No, yeah. He says... He's going to sell it. Everybody wants this, so it must be worth a lot of money. I forgot about the ransom scene. There's so much to remember about this episode. Where they all fucking dress up. Oh, yeah. For no reason, yes. It's really good. But yes, I would just guess that our guy here who...
Must have a name, but boy, I sure don't remember it. Just doesn't think things through very well. Artie. It is Artie. You're right. The reason I ask is because Cassie could have sworn she recognized the actor and then tried to look up who he was. And he's just one of those faces, I guess, because he's not anything else you could find. Yeah, um, he, he, uh...
But yeah, I think he just saw a thing and was like, I don't know, I'll just take it. He says right afterwards, a lot of people want this. I can probably sell this for a lot. yeah right but i just mean like i don't think he has he did not he's not like i'll take this to my fence like he's not thinking that far ahead he's just like people want this i will take it like Yeah. The true might of a kill. Yes, exactly. So he's got the egg.
He puts it in his bag. Kelsey finds an apple in the park and goes, haha, two plus three equals this guy stole the egg. And then, yeah. Yes. Jinxer pulls one of the funnier logic leaps I've seen in a while, which is, how am I going to find this egg? I know. All birds can find eggs. Summon bird monster. And then this episode goes legendary.
It's a big-brained plan. Uh-huh. A big bird-brained plan. Uh-huh. Bird-brained plan. More and more than I, because that's the bird's name is Birdbane. Anyway, Birdbane is... Isn't it Bird Brain? No. Is it Bane? I think it is Bane. Yeah, it's Bird Bane. Oh, okay. That makes more sense, I guess. It kind of feels more like a bird brain, though. I mean, that's the joke. That's the joke behind this name, for sure. I guess, yeah. But...
He's apparently the king of all flying demons. Something that he, it is very important that he points out to Jenkser. Well, he's got a tiny crown, so they had to explain why he had a tiny crown, I think, is the idea. It zooms in on the crown, too. What they don't explain is why when Bird Bane shows up, this show becomes a cartoon all of a sudden.
yes yes i was having a fine time with this episode bourbon shows up and for some fucking reason like there's a specific type of like special effect that Power Rangers uses and I know what that is we've watched a lot of them and sometimes they go outside of that for sure but like
His, like, head turns into a cartoon and, like, spins around. It's big, big bulbous eyes. Yeah. And then Jinxer also has cartoon eyes. Jinxer gets, like... cartoon pop out of your head like eyeballs and i was truly wild yeah like it came out of fucking nowhere and i immediately started laughing And then Birdbane starts talking and he sounds like goddamn snaggled puss. And I was just like, what's happening? And I...
I don't know. The episode really takes a turn at this point, I guess. It's really goofy. It's really good. It was already goofy. I have to say that I stopped because I paused. Because I've heard people imitate this voice enough. Yes. and I wanted to know why it sounds this way, and where it comes from. Yeah, I've mentioned this to y'all, but my brain immediately went to, this is the exact voice that Ben Franklin has in Day of the Tentacle, the LucasArts point-and-click adventure game.
Yes, it is. And what's funny is I thought of Snagglepuss because it's a really exaggerated voice. And then I looked it up and it's from fucking... Well, the actor's name is Bert Lahr, L-A-H-R. But it's the dude who played the Cowardly Lion, and I've never put that together. That's what this voice is. It's all the Wizard of Oz reference. Circles around to all of that. He just sounds that way. Yeah.
Like, that's just what that guy sounded like. He wasn't doing... Well, I mean, it's a little exaggerated, obviously, but, like, you can go find some... really upsettingly racist commercials that he was in and he just sounds that way. That's just what he sounds like. You got the, like, Wallace Shawn of his time or the Gilbert Gottfried of his time. Just having... It kind of looks like Wallace Shawn when he's older, too. An intensely cartoonish voice, yeah.
Yeah. And he was a comedian. So like, you know, maybe he was putting it on also, but like it's one of those guys, at least in what I was finding, like where if it is like a voice. I want to say Gilbert Gottfried didn't really talk that way, but... you'd have to comb through hundreds of hours of footage to find him not doing it. Because once you get a persona that works, you're like, well, I'm going to do this. For public speaking, he definitely always put on that voice.
I'm pretty sure Wallace Shawn just naturally sounds like a Looney Tune. Yes, Wallace Shawn is a weird dude. But yeah, so I had to look into it. I needed to know. Now I know. Now you know. It doesn't make it... less like if you don't like this voice it's gonna really bother you fast because he does it so much how could you not like it it's so funny well i i i mean maybe i was interpreting it correctly but i thought
Iris was pretty irritated, baby. Yeah, I... Oh, God, this guy's voice. It's just a lot. Like, it's a lot. It's... It's one of those things where it's like, I've looked into it now. It seems like that's how that guy talked. But you don't have to make a character that talks this way. Like, I get it. And... While we're briefly on this subject, I could, going, like, looking up very briefly some Snagglepuss, like, clips...
I was struck by how much I couldn't tell if it's upsetting now. Like, he's a pink cat who has kind of a lisp. And it's extremely flamboyant. But like... Did you know about the Warner Brothers comics they made? Do they make him gay? Yeah, he is gay in that, but it's also supposed to be really good. It's kind of like how the Flintstones comics were like... The Flintstones comics are so good. Yeah, it's kind of like that. I cried multiple times with the Flintstones comics. That's...
If you don't know about this, they made Flintstones comics where the bedrock civilization is engaged in colonization and genocide against... It's really weird. It's really weird, but it's really well done. It is the modern Stone Age family. The problem is it is today's modern and not like... The 60s or whenever the Flintstones were originally made. Right. So you're saying they did like a weird take on Snagglepuss. I mean, that sounds interesting. I would check it out.
The main complaint I heard was they were, a lot of people were like, you could have literally gotten a furry artist to draw this and it would have been much better because it is like... It is about gay folks in the 70s or something. Yeah, it makes sense for the fit. A better artist would have made that one, I think. Yeah.
share the cover of one of the comics i was just thinking about like because i you know i saw some of that stuff on uh uh TV when I was that's an interesting look for him okay you guys are talking about like the like it's about gay people in the 70s it's probably a really serious subject but this one panel that I just saw like
it just made me laugh because it's like it's like a human man kissing like a dog guy but like it looks really good and there's a guy in the bush taking a picture of them and it just looks really goofy It is definitely one of those things of, I think a better artist would have made it. I forgot he had a fucking cigarette holder. He really, they just did all the things. All right.
Oh, and Sniggle posts like they're drawn to be more realistic-y, but they still don't wear any pants. It's really weird. That is a funny choice. That's a good point. It just looks really not good. That is supposed to be Huckleberry Hound. It says so right there in that panel. I see it now. Yes, the character that Mike said I sound like when I get a little bit drunk, which I still don't know if it's a compliment or not.
but um so so yeah anyway uh to move on there's some cartoon shit that happens it's really wild then they like both bonk heads and fall down and uh Immediately Jinxer is like, good. The joke is that Birdbane is a cuckoo, which is, you know, the funniest bird because of the clocks and everything. So that's the whole... idea, I guess, behind him being a cartoon. He's, I don't know. And he's goofy. He is characterized as goofy. It's not just the voice. It's the action. It is the Sentai footage, too.
He was like that. He was a goofy guy. He's just a goofy guy. If you knew Birdbane, you'd respect it. Speaking of Sentai, we got some hot grocery store Sentai footage of...
of stealing eggs. That's what the... What's it called? The Batlings are just raiding the grocery store for eggs right there, which with the price of eggs, topical... reference humor right there yeah and then they and then they ruin a bunch of them although they're stage eggs and they get and you can see them bounce but they do ruin a couple of real eggs for the shot i was Racking my brain Because yes he's goofy Because he's a cuckoo Because cuckoo clocks are But
Don't cuckoos murder other baby birds or something? They're psychopaths. They steal other birds' nests. I think they... They shove the babies out? No. Don't they steal other nests and raise the babies as their own? Or do they eat the babies? I forget. I thought that was... I thought that was replace the egg with their own eggs. They just kick the other eggs off the nest to shatter on the ground. Yeah, and their babies basically displace the other...
Yeah, that's fucked up. That's not cool. Yeah, okay. Nature is... I mean, it's also horrible. Yeah, it's also fucked up if you give it like, you know, a human morality. It's like, oh, that's not good. But yeah, I was just, it's funny that... we're like, aren't they silly? And then that. Animals have no laws. It's true, they don't, except cats, because Macavity broke all of them. No way. He's broke every human law. I'm sorry. There are no cat laws. Yeah.
That's still one of the funniest lines in a musical because I immediately just am like, okay, so he did kill a king. He did regicide at least once. Then you gotta be like, okay, which king? Yeah, exactly. Sorry to go on topic on this. Did McCavity kill JFK? Yes, he did. 100%. Oh my god. The timeline would line up. What were you saying? Simon, go ahead. Drifting this even further off-topic, but right before we started recording, I watched the first half of Star Trek Section 31, which is...
It's bad. It's really as bad as everyone said it was. And one of the first things that is mentioned... I'm going to get drunk and watch that with a friend tomorrow. One of the first things that is mentioned in the opening, they talk about the mirror universe and they say the mirror universe, the place with the highest...
number of criminals in known history, and that sentence just like sent me spinning because your brain you you are talking about a universe that has more criminals in it than anywhere else and how do you even define that by whose laws anyway Why would it have the same laws like it wouldn't? Because, yeah. It's a universe where humans run a fascist empire, okay? So, did the Emperor declare everyone else in that universe to be a criminal or something? I don't know, anyway.
Yeah. We can't go back to Power Rangers. It's fine. So they steal a bunch of eggs, and then he's like, no batlings, you dumbasses. It's a special egg. He does say, what? You thought I wanted to make an omelet. And I was like, okay, I mean, fair criticism. You maybe should have told them what you wanted the egg for, I guess. He just gathered all the bad thing and said, hey.
get me the egg, and no further context. They just went off to the grocery store. That's what happened there. Yeah, and Jynxer did summon him so he could find the egg, but no, he just asked the Batlings to do it. That's just delegation. That's what any good manager does. Yeah, apparently that supposition that birds wouldn't be able to find eggs was incorrect. The rangers show up and they're like, what's so important about the egg? And Birdbane is like...
I won't tell you, you'll never get it out of me. And then the Rangers are like, actually, we don't care. And then he's like, shit. Well, I will tell you then I'm stupid. I like Kelsey starts up.
like the whole like trick and then she looks back at Chad and gives him like a wink and then Chad's like yeah you don't care they do basically the same gag that Eddie Valiant does in Roger Rabbit whenever he needs a tune to do something he just like uses some cartoon tricks against them and they just like they do that because because because birdbane's a cartoon and that's the joke and they just use reverse psychology on him yeah
Yeah, he does do, again, the eyes bugging out thing in this scene as well. Which the rangers don't react to it at all, which I feel would be really funny if they were just like, what the fuck is that? Yeah. Um, but they, so he does tell them, you know, like, oh, it's gonna kill, destroy.
all of the city, and I'm like, I would have just assumed that. Yeah. I would have just, like, started from there. Like, you don't... But then it goes even crazier because the real villain of the episode, question mark, starts... Doing an airdrop propaganda campaign as part of his plan to sell the egg he stole. Like flyers saying like meet here with this much money at noon or else.
$20,000. So this guy stole the egg, then went to Kinko's, had like 100 flyers printed out, climbed up to the roof of this grocery store and waited for the monsters to get there so that he could drop these flyers. Yeah, and just threw them. Yeah, that's pretty funny. He did know who wanted it. It's the monster and the Power Rangers.
Uh, so he, he's like, all right, I'll just wait there and then I'll throw these. And then, uh, immediately the Rangers shake, chase him. Uh, and, uh, he's like, okay, okay. you got me because he runs down some stairs and then Kelsey jumps over the railing to get in front of him. I also like that these flyers are made of newspaper cut-out letters, but they're photocopies. So he made one ransom letter out of letters he cut out of magazines and stuff.
and then just made dozens of photocopies of that. Anyway. Now, here also, I want to say, I understand that the cuckoo bird is supposed to be a... cartoon that's the joke uh but why that This guy also uses a fun joke from like the 1930s at this point is confusing to me because he's like, all right, here's the egg. And he hands Kelsey a... container and then like comically like sidesteps towards like the railing to get away while she's trying to open it and then it's one of those ones well
I was going to say it's one of those like joke containers that, that were like a spring loaded snake shoots out of it, except I have seen those before and they never fucking did anything like this. They like sort of hop out. This is some high-quality novelty joke shop shit he went shopping. His plan is fucking elaborate. He's going to use a remote-controlled helicopter later, and he's got a jet ski that he's going to use to... sail away with the ransom in a minute?
Where is he getting the money to fund this campaign? This is what I was about to say. If his whole thing is that he wants to feed homeless people, why did you buy a fucking jet ski? Maybe he didn't. Maybe he stole it. No, he got it from selling the apples he stole on top of the ones he stole to feed the homeless. I guess, I don't know. None of this makes sense. This is a guy who... It takes a lot of apples to get a jet skating. Yes, it would take a lot.
I know masters in economics, but it seems like it would take a few apples to do that. I am a master. Well, I'm a master's in business. Let me tell you, you need to sell a lot of apples. So like more than a lot of apples to buy a jet ski. Okay. Yeah, more than four. Now, in this next scene... I think the Power Rangers found out that Lightspeed Rescue has like an undercover budget and they wanted in on that money. They were upset that they hadn't gotten to have any fun costumes yet.
They really could have just shown up in their civvies, and I don't think anyone would have noticed. It's so... They went to Spirit Halloween to just make themselves some costumes for a fun stakeout, because they were bored that day, I guess. And like, it's like, okay, so we've got... Dana is dressed like a punk girl. Carter is the first one we've seen. He's in a suit with flicked back hair and red glasses. Clark Kent, but also his suit is too large. Dana has a full-on electric guitar.
As part of her costume. Yeah. Jane as a punk does look good. She's pulling it off. She's a good costume. Good outfit. Chad has a really funny mustache. Got a hilarious mustache and he's fishing. I love Chad. I was popping off when this happened. I was whooping. I was like, yes, Chad. Because his mustache falls off. It's great. And then the funniest to me, honestly, is. that Joel is dressed as an old lady and it's like a horrible disguise. And then for some fucking reason, like Haley has like...
full prosthetics. She has a full old person mask. It's like, wait, why did you get the good stuff? Like, I don't understand. I do want to just point out that I really appreciate that, like, there is not really a joke of Joel in a dress. The only complaint is the wig is itchy. And I'm like, oh my god, 2000s show. this is the best like representation i have seen he he does like sure i don't know he just played his tits a little bit yeah yes he does that low fucking bar
But also so would I, so it's fine. I mean, yeah, it's just very brief is the other thing. Also, the demons are dressed as ZZ Top for some reason. Yeah, man. They're not just dressed as them. They're like in full-on human disguises. Yeah, well, Birdbane has a fake beard. Birdbane is dressed as a man who is wearing a fake beard specifically. I do like that he turned into a human and then put a fake beard on top of that. Bird Bang looks like someone who was told, like...
You need to go to a business convention, but also you're Amish for some reason in this scenario. And he was like, I don't understand, but okay, sure, let's just do it. And yeah, then the other, his like cronies are just, they honestly kind of look like they're doing bad, like Matrix agent thing, except they also have hats. Yeah. But so they've all showed up. I just, again, I still don't super understand why they're like not.
why they're in disguises they don't say that it's not like it establishes we're gonna go here and dress up it just cuts to the scene and they're all dressed up um and then there's a fucking crazy transition with the clock and I don't know what they were on. I assume they're in disguises so that they can ambush him. Even if there's the one guy with the... Yeah, I guess so. Also... Eric, if you can, they're playing some real slinky heist music here, which is fun.
It's funny because now there's drones and like anyone can get a drone. So for a second I was like, Okay, I mean, kind of over the top, but whatever. And then I remembered that this was made in 2002. 2000 flat, actually. So he has a remote control helicopter. 2000, sorry. That he has tied a... net to and the uh and also a speaker i guess because he's talking through yeah and the the uh egg is in the net and he is like all right i
Drop the money in that trash bin over there. I like that bird brain while transformed into human starts jumping up at it. And I'm like, you're a bird. Fly up to it. Good point. Yeah, that's a good point. I didn't think about that. And so they put the money in the trash can. And then, yes, he's got a jet ski that's got a rope tied to the... the thing to the to the trash can and I guess he's really lucky that the guy like put the lid on real good because he just he didn't have to do that yep
The money could just easily fall into the ocean. And also he's, I guess, he's rigged a net release button on his helicopter remote control because he... presses a button, and it releases the quote-unquote egg, which is just a spray-painted ball, because he's also kept the egg to fuck over everyone in this deal. This guy fucking rules. I love this guy so much. But has replaced it with an explosive?
No, I think, no. No, I think Birdbrain just explodes. Birdbrain's head explodes. It's understandable. Yeah, see why you would think that, Morgan? It's not explosive. It's just that for some reason. The disguise of Birdbane's head blows up, and then the... The monster. This episode's fucking ridiculous. His head just explodes in confusion and rage, I assume. Yeah, yeah. Because he's literally just a cartoon character.
Yeah, it's, you know, Simon, you made a good comparison with Roger Rabbit. Because, like, in that movie, they do cartoon logic, but that's fine because... They're cartoons. Literally, they're drawn. That's actually – we keep saying he's a cartoon and there are like weird special effects that are, you know, like roster – or not a rosterization.
Oh, I forget what this is called. Rotoscoped. Rotoscoped. Thank you. Yes. Like where he's, you know, his head gets big and stuff, but he's still a suit. So like. Yeah. They're doing cartoon gags with him, but it's almost weirder because it's still a rubber suit that's exploding and shooting steam out of its ears, basically, and all that stuff. Also, I just, I love that he rigged the net release button.
when it's fake. Like, why bother? Just to stick it to him, I guess? Didn't even have to let them know that he tricked them with a ball. He just did it for the thrill of it. They have to know they've been tricked. or it's not fun for him. I'm sorry. I missed this the first time. Then the Batlings get in the water and have the most insane animation I've ever seen of them. going underwater and then like popping back up like, uh,
I don't know, like they're Zoras from the Super Nintendo Zelda game. But this does break my theory of the Zelda being in the water, because I'm pretty sure this is the ocean. Yeah. Yes, I think this is. They're at the marina. It's just a weird episode. So that happens. The Rangers...
Birdbane tries to run after the thief. They trip Birdbane, yeah. Yeah, and Carter opens his suitcase that he had as part of his costume, and in it is a red rope that he just tosses on the ground to trip up Birdbane. Don't know how he does that, but he does. Cartoon logic. Yeah, it's this special rope briefcase. And Kelsey runs after the thief while the other rangers fight Birdbane. Yeah, she's running after a jet ski. Just kind of keep that in mind also. But...
I do like that she's wearing her full normal ranger clothes underneath this disguise as she slowly removes it. Like her civilian clothes. Yeah, but they're like a sports outfit with like a... Yeah. Tank top-ish thing. Like a swimsuit top. Which would be easy to have under disguise. I just think it's a funny detail. I don't know. So, the next thing that's crazy about this episode is that...
The demons got $20,000. Yeah. That's real money. Allegedly, because we see a shot of the inside of this suitcase. It's not tightly packed or anything. It's mostly loose bills, and you see that it's like 20s and 1s. Also, it's like paper. It's just like when you see it, it's not real money. But the show is telling you it's real. Artie like throws it into the air in joy while on a boat. So it could like easily. And it's like at this point, I'm like, yeah, no, he's just.
an agent of chaos. This is just Loki. With these dozens of dollars, I can buy so many apples right now. Yay! Toss it into the air. He's going to put it in a big pyramid and set it on fire like in the fucking dark night. He's the Joker at this point. He's wearing green and purple. Yeah. But.
But my point was just that the show is telling you this is real money, and I just want to know where they got it. I mean, I guess they stole it, but yeah. And then he almost gets his head chopped off. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they broke the fourth wall. I thought you were asking how did Tower Rangers, the show, get this money. I was like, that's a silly question. It makes more sense to ask how did these demons get money.
They stole apples and sold them. Of course, yes. That's how most people get money is stealing and selling apples. So the Rangers show up. Oh, sorry. That one showed up to get the money back. Yes, and the badling almost cuts his head off. The angle of slice he has, it would decapitate him. I don't know if they want the money back or if they want the egg at this point, because I don't know why the demons would be interested or have this money, as has been previously stated. It's a good point.
trying to get the money back. It doesn't seem like they would care, really. Yeah, Kelsey saves him from the Batlings. Some good shooting. She shoots some guys. Yeah. Beating that up and shooting some dudes. And then I love how much Kelsey thinks this guy sucks. I think it's really funny. I feel like so often in Power Rangers, they would really make an effort to teach the person a lesson and be like, don't you see that you're hurting people? She's just like...
I hate you. She's like, you're nothing but a common thief. You should be ashamed. And he looks so sad. And at this point, I'm like, wait, why is he sad? Why is he like, yeah, yeah, I am. It's sick. She's like, you're holistically bad because you're a thief. Like, your entire soul is tainted by your sin or whatever. He seems like he loves being a thief so much. I don't understand why he's upset by her. Until later on.
Yeah. The money. And I will say that even as someone who is mostly like, you know, go get your bag or whatever. I'm like, well, no, not by like most definitions. And I want to say like, I. have no idea what the sentai equivalent plot of this is but i will say that the yellow go go five ranger is the cop one so i wouldn't be surprised if this was adapted oh interesting okay
Because Kelsey's acting a lot like a cop in this episode. Right. Because I will remind you that we told you that he is doing this to help homeless people. You don't know that. in the episode and he's so upset when she says this to him. And when, when she leaves, he shouts, you're wrong about me. And I'm like, Based on what evidence? What are you talking about? I mean, based on what we... Okay, yeah. She's upset at him because he stole a few apples originally, but he's gone to such lengths...
To protect his whole egg grift since then. I don't know. Well, I think she's mad at him because she just made his... or he just made her day real hard. Like I think she's more just like, God damn it. Like, yeah. I'm more sympathetic to that. Yeah. Um, so, uh, She gets the money back.
I don't think she even gets the money back. I think she just tells him off and runs to help the other rangers. He doesn't give a shit. Yeah, I guess because he doesn't have the egg on him, I guess, huh? Yeah. Yeah, that's right. No, he must have stashed it somewhere. But they all meet up to just sort of fight Birdbane, even though he has the egg. Rope shenanigans. The third one, this one where Kelsey throws a rope around his beak and then pulls him out.
It's almost like there was like a rope toy that like they needed to sell. It's weird. But it's just a regular ass rope. It's not like Power Rangers branded in any way. So she shows up and he says, hey, little missy, you're really starting to make me molt and you don't want to see that. And I. I don't really know what the joke is. He'd be naked then, I guess. Then Carter pulls out a weapon that maybe he's had before, but I don't remember it. I think it's part of the life bird.
I think. Okay, it's like a big... Something like that, yeah. It's like a gun that has a big claw attached to it. yeah I think that's the wings of the life bird but I could be wrong I just don't remember this at all that's called the rescue bird in this version I forgot it's called the life bird yeah rescue bird um
He tries to fight him with it. Birdbane throws. Which I think is also part of the rescue bird is a freezing thing. They've done the freezing thing before. I remember that. He throws exploding feathers at them. Then... The thief guy runs around the corner and is like, hey, bird brain, which if you're named the character bird Bane, I don't think you can use that as an insult, but whatever, it's fine.
And he's like ha ha looking for this And the bird's like yes I am Please give it to me And he throws the egg Uh And then tells the Power Rangers, get him. So that's his plan. Well, I think he looks up there and he's like, come on, go, what the fuck? Yeah. His plan was, like, throw the egg. Tell the Power Rangers to get him. And to his credit, it works because they just shoot him to death. Yep. One of the things about this season is like, again, it's practical. They're superheroes that...
It makes sense. It's also just weirdly brutal when they shoot people into tiny pieces like a lot. They do that.
And Birdbane does catch the egg before they shoot him. So when they shoot him, it just shatters the egg. And that's it. That's the end of the entire egg plotline. That egg is dead now. I like that. The thief guy's like, oh, yeah, that was awesome. He's like... super pumped about this um uh jinxer shows back up and shoots them with his his actually he shoots the thief yeah with his gun cane um
And then Kelsey runs over and makes sure he's okay. And then Jinxer makes the summons or reconstitutes him big. Yeah. He gets armor at some point. I don't know how that happens. He gets an armored face or helmet thing. He has it. It doesn't show him get it. I thought I missed something when I watched it. I'm like... How did he get that? He just gets it when he's big. He has it when he grows. Also, when they shot him, he turned into a bunch of rocks and crumbled down, and I don't really know...
Why? That's part of his theme? No, that's what I was saying. That's probably something that was lost from the Sentai. When they shoot people, when they kill them the first time in this season, they do that. That's, like, repeated. They go into, like, bits. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah. Which is like weirdly graphic for Power Rangers. Like killing the monster when it's on foot is like, that's how the show works. It's weird that they decided to make it explode into a bunch of pieces.
But yeah, so they summon... I don't remember which Megazord this is. It's the train one. It's a big block of train one that nobody likes. The super train Megazord. I'm bummed out that we're only on season eight and... I just don't, the Megazords are just really running together already. Cause I know. Oh, they've. Yeah. Yep. Cause I know in another 10 seasons, they'll have like eight, eight a season or whatever. But, um, so. Then we get a scene where Olympias is mad at, uh, uh...
Jinxer, and he's just abusing him. Just shooting fireballs at him. It's for comedy, but he is just... Fireballs at his... But specifically setting his minion on fire here. And then, you know, he chases him. And then we get the reveal. That the thief has done this to help homeless people because Kelsey showed up to, I don't know, yell at him. And knew where he was for some reason. Yeah. And she says, that's why you were, you were stealing. And he says, well, I'm not stealing anymore.
I gave all the money to the police. Which is like, fuck off. Don't do that, you asshole. Why'd you do that? You gave that money to the homeless people. That money is from the monsters. Yeah, it was demon money anyway. The cops are just gonna buy SWAT gear and tanks with it. Fuck you. Now, in the hierarchy, is demon money better or worse than blood money? Do we think? When it's from Birdbane, it's fine. He's just a silly guy. Okay, it's fine. He's just a silly guy. All right, that's fine.
So she's like, well, what about your friends? Are they going to be okay? And he's like, oh, yeah, they're fine. Don't worry, because I got a job. Good. He got a job as a grocery helper at the farmer's market, which is going to be enough to feed himself in like at least three... fully grown adults that he's taking care of for some reason my previous statement apples definitely have a different market value in power rangers universe because otherwise this wouldn't make any sense
Although this guy does sell a lot of different vegetables and fruits. As a business major, you can say that. Also, the first thing he does after he helps the guy poop pull down a crate of citrus or whatever, oranges, and he just tosses one at Kelsey, proving once again that, yeah, lemon, that, you know, we can just waste fruit over here. Like, I've reformed myself, but also I'm just gonna throw you a piece of food. Yeah, it's funny, but he's like, I'm not stealing it.
And then immediately just gives her free food. Yep. They're kind of flirty. I'm not going to lie. She's like, oh yeah, maybe later you can show me some moves on your skateboard. It's cute. It's just that it's... Wouldn't put any money on this guy ever showing us. Kelsey already has a girlfriend. Yes, that's right. Earlier on, she's dating the space shuttle pilot, we decided? Yes.
But yeah, it's... I missed that one. She was real flirty with a lady who was basically in Nasada, I guess, or whatever. But... That's it. This episode's really weird. It's just very odd. The plot's weird. The special effects are weird. The choice they made with the bad guy.
being well he's not a bad guy i guess but like this character they just haven't i can't remember them doing anything like this before where there's like a third agent who's like fucking everybody else up it's weird i i yeah um but it's not since not since that guy tried to steal a bus yes not since that guy tried to steal a bus exactly
The guy who tried to steal the bus wasn't fucking over the monsters. He was just doing his own thing. I guess they have had chaos agents, but not like this, really, to my memory. Now... We still have a second episode to do. We still have a second episode, so we're going on to the next one. I don't think we're going to talk about it as much as that last one. Probably not. But what I will say is it does open crazy.
As much as I don't think the episode is this crazy. On the writer's barely disguised fetish, I would say. Yeah, I was going to say, when I saw the mermaid chained up, I was like, wish that was me. I was like, ooh, toxic mermaid. Yes. Yes. But no, unfortunately. I was thinking about, uh, your, uh, great love for, um, oh man, what's that? What's the singer or the, the, uh, fused lady's name in, uh, and, uh, uh, Bonnie.
Yeah, Rabbonio. Yeah, I was thinking about that when I saw this because I knew you were on this episode. But no, it's not that. It's just we just opened on. There's a mermaid who's chained up for some reason. I don't know why. Yeah, right. So, first of all, there's mermaids in the Power Rangers world. Just get this out of the way. Just accept that they exist. Why is she chained? No idea. Never explain. No backstory here. Were there...
For some reason, I have a half memory that there might have been mermaids in the Turbo movie because they're on that like tropical island. I don't think so. Okay. They go on a pirate ship? Yeah, I could be wrong. That's fine. But yeah, there's mermaids, I guess. And she's chained up. And... Vampyra just like mounts the... It's like, hey girl! Yes, literally. Yep, goes up and frees her as part of her plan for this episode, which is...
We're going to get back to it. Vipra's plan is completely fucking insane. It doesn't make any sense. She's like, this girl's death is going to fall in love with Chad. I just know it's going to happen. It's one of those things that I'm going to manipulate her. into giving him a cursed dolphin, which is going to turn into chains, which is going to give me like 30 seconds to jump him and maybe get rid of one Power Ranger. That's the plan. One of the things that like, I...
It worked on me all the time when I was a kid that I, that is just so funny to me now is like the bad guy who their plan would be insane. Make no goddamn sense. And then. The villain would like mug at the camera and be like, yes, all according to what I, what I expected. And I would be like, dang, this guy's so smart. And it worked constantly on me when I was little.
Yeah, it's... Vibra's like, exactly, like, I'll do this. It'll work exactly as according to plan, even though I need a hundred steps in between. Go ahead. The episode doesn't even hint that Vipra is the one that cuts the cable that sends Chad out to fix it in the water. So this is also like a coincidence that he was in the water while the mermaid was also there and that they met and everything. it causes a cable to get fucked up so yep there's also a bit here where loci is like
I can't believe you found her as though they've been looking for this mermaid so that they could spring this incredibly brilliant plan. She's been fucking chained there. by Zeus for her hubris like in 1000 BC and she's been chained to one rock in the ocean all this time and they finally found her for... Maybe the demon chained her up before they got locked away thousands of years ago or whatever? Sure. Maybe. Then why doesn't she recognize them? I don't know. It's been a long time.
Speaking of little kid TV show tropes, we cut to another one, which is people who love littering. It's the best. They love doing it. These guys. Yeah.
These fucking beach bullies that decide, hey, let's throw off our trash in the ocean. And as soon as a guy calls us out for it, we're just going to double down on it. It's one of those things where, like, I feel like if... it had been explained to me no like actually the reason littering is so bad is it's just people who are lazy and they just don't care as opposed to like what i feel like captain planet told us which is like no they love it
It's like their favorite thing to do. They do it on purpose. They go out of their way. They spend energy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's like stealing apples. Exactly. Which is, yeah, Chad.
is on the pier and there is an absolute Chad and is like hey stop that and make fun of him but then he fucking fucking roundhouse kicks the like pillar they're on and they all fall in the water it's so sick he uses this like ranger strength to make the whole thing shake yeah of course she's gonna fall in love with them like how could she not
And this poor mermaid is just hanging out under that pier and grabbing every piece of trash that is thrown into the water and holding it in her hands like she's... She's sad. This character is just completely, I don't know, she's pitiful. She's kind of presented as being purely innocent. I was going to say that the way that this show sometimes pronounces the way Chad makes me think that occasionally characters are just talking to chat.
Like they're just live streaming. Yeah. Hey, Chad. Yeah. They do say Chad. Hey, Chad. Do you want to go swimming? Yeah. Hey, Chad. Yeah. It just made certain lines very funny to me. I'm trying to think of who would be the most likely to be a streamer, and I think it might be Ryan, actually. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. But yes. Well, Joel might be an influencer, but yeah. Oh, yes, but not a video game influencer. He'd be like a lifestyle influencer. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, I...
Didn't know that they had super strength out of the suits in this one, but I guess they do. I take it as he's like a martial arts master and he knows how to kick it. Yeah, kick it just perfectly to do this kind of thing. He learned it from that guy. Remember, we did see his sensei at one point, or Sifu. Yeah, I was going to say, the only other Chad-centric episode I remember is the one that was about him being good at karate.
and this is the first time on episode 28 as far as I'm aware since the first one where we remember that Chad is a like an orca trainer a guy who works in the water and is good in the water and everything. They finally related back to that. I have to say something and this is jumping ahead a couple minutes but I'm going to just say it. We have made fun of their selection of Chad.
so many times because they're like what what do you need for a superhero team uh firemen you need somebody who's really good at climbing rocks you need someone who can fly a plane And you need a medic and you need a guy who can train orcas. And we have made a lot of fun of that. But I have to say, it's still a failing of the show. Because they didn't make it make sense. But like they do have an underwater base. And so actually it makes plenty of sense. Yeah. It's just.
It took them until episode 28 to, like, use that at all. So, yeah. But yes, we'll talk about that in just a minute. But yes. So he is picking up all this trash after he kicks these guys off the pier. No, he's telling them to do it. Like, you better pick it up. And then they'll, like, scare the shit of him so I do it. And then he, like, kind of notices the mermaid. But then Kelsey calls him to come back to the beach because the captain needs them.
and he loses track like the mermaid whose name is marina we're gonna learn is really charmed by him and like she's got a crush on this guy because he like he picked on the bullies even though he loves the ocean and he's and he can kick a fucking pier to knock the whole thing over. I was gonna say, he added three more pieces of trash to the ocean, though. Then he bought him to clean it up.
And also, have you seen him in a wetsuit? It makes a lot of sense. Yeah, he's pretty fine. He's a good looking guy. So... He like when Kelsey calls him, he like looks over to the beach and when he looks back, she's gone. You mentioned it already. I do think it's funny. Which is weird because in a second, she's going to be looking for him and he's going to be gone. So it's like, why did she Batman him if she's the one looking for him? She was shy. She's like, oh my God.
Yeah, that makes sense. Oh, this... Also, a lot of this is very much a ripoff of Disney's Little Mermaid. They play music that is like, the mermaid barely talks in this episode, and that's clearly a reference to the story of the little mermaid losing her voice.
A little bit, but not very much. Not in this first scene anyway. And the music they play whenever she's on screen is as close as you can get to the Disney Little Mermaid music without getting sued by them, I guess. This is also one of those episodes where...
It's 20 minutes long, and so – actually, this is telling me it's 16 – no, no, no, sorry. That's the – yeah, it's 22 minutes long. Time remaining. And they're really just – going like you've seen a mermaid story before you know how this works because they talk twice and then at the end it's like We're from different worlds. We can never be together. You know how this goes. That just means you lack imagination. It's real Cliff Notes. Right, exactly. And also, he lives at an underwater base. Yeah.
Like, it's... He could easily... They could date. They could date easily. I don't know. Yeah, she could come up with a moon pool. Like... Yeah! It's not that hard. If Sequest DSV can have a dolphin crew member... Chad can fuck a good mermaid. Hey, hold on. By property of transitivity. Chad is perhaps one of the easiest possible people for a mermaid to date. Yeah, yes. He's like...
It would never work because you're a superhero who can swim real good. And it's like, wait, hold on. You live underwater for most of your existence. Yes, literally, you do live underwater. Yes, that's a good point. I mean, yeah, he can't breathe water. Okay, but we can figure it out. Come on. She can breathe water. Apparently she can't breathe water either. So we'll get to that.
Yeah, yeah. I guess she's like a dolphin. She's like a dolphin mermaid and not like a fish one. Yeah, which brings us back to Sequest once again. Which I never explained, though. Anyways. So... They leave. The next scene here, we have him like suiting up to go in a wetsuit and they show this like... this model for the Aquabase, and I'm pretty sure this is the model they use to shoot the Aquabase. It's definitely that. It's a really well-made model, like, lit from the inside that, like...
Captain Mitchell uses to illustrate that there was a little rock slide next to it, and one of the cables over there is cut. I really hope that that earthquake didn't damage Titan City. You know Titan City? The domed underwater city that's in this series? Wait, in which season? I forgot that. Well, see, my wife played the N64 Lightspeed Rescue game, and it introduces some lore.
Oh, okay. Wait. That's why we all went question marks in our eyes just now. Because we've never heard of that. Also, the Titanium Ranger is powered by three Titanium Power Coins that came from... Titanium meteorites that came from space, according to the video game. Well, that's nice that deep. It's nice that the N64 game gave something for Ryan to have been doing for these very long stretch of episodes where he doesn't appear at all. I will say I appreciate them.
tie-in games are so like all over the place and i believe that game is horrible it's really bad and i think it might have been based off of like an early draft of the show because again it has so many inconsistencies with that And also they never say any of the Rangers names. It's all like green Ranger, yellow Ranger. And like, that's really funny. It's like, it's like a top down.
like thing where you run around and shoot guys but you don't shoot them you punch and shoot out like these little like fireballs out of your punch even though this is the season where you like use guns more than anything like it's such a bad game it was so bad that's funny but i do like the she played the whole thing
But no, I wouldn't... Sorry. No, go ahead. Yeah, I said I wouldn't worry about that earthquake damaging Titan City because Captain Mitchell gives us a little demonstration. It's like a couple pebbles fell down on the... seafloor, and it was kind of fine. They had boulders, but okay, yeah. He says there was a small rock slide there. It's clear that this isn't threatening them in any way. It just cut off some of their camera feeds. It is very funny how unnecessary it is for him to use this model.
it just makes me think of austin powers where dr evil just insisted on using his little model to show his plan with the big laser and everything same kind of thing it's just like you know We had it on hand, so we might as well use it. I get it. But yeah, so they're asking Chad to swim from the base and fix this communications cable. That's been damaged. And.
I'm so sorry. My fucking Prime video gave out on me, so that's fun. I appreciate that. It's good that I paid money for it when it decided to not work. Well, chat dives into the water in his scuba suit. There you go. He swims over. This is a kind of long scene where not much happens. There is a fun shot where the rangers are leaving the diving area and they pass by the cantina which has windows where you see Chad swimming outside. Yep.
Yeah, they've done some work to make you feel like this is a place, which is nice. Like, I do appreciate that, genuinely. So he's fixing this cable. We see that Marina is watching him. I like that Chad says, first of all, he's wearing a scuba suit. I don't know how he's talking. He has an air hose coming into his mouth. Besides that...
He says it's actually pretty minor, but the cable is fully cut, so I don't know what... Anyway, what wouldn't be a minor issue with a cable other than that, but whatever. He patches it. He seems to put in a length of cable to...
link the two pieces together does a quick fix a job fixes the problem yeah and the mermaid is watching him do this whole thing yes that's pretty much it but yeah uh they they chad swims up to the camera and gives a big thumbs up which is pretty funny uh and then uh we we there's a rock slide again That's right. Yes. Yes. Yes. But he gets rescued by the mermaid. Right. They do land on him. And she rescues him and pulls him out from the rocks. And then we cut to...
Chad – or the rangers are like waiting for him to come up from the pool, the moon pool. And then he like floats mysteriously unconscious to the surface because the – mermaid just kind of shoved him up there but they wake him up he's in med bay and they're like what happened and this is when he
He does, like, have a memory, even though it's fuzzy, of straight up seeing a mermaid, but doesn't say anything because he's like, no. That couldn't have happened, which in Power Rangers, I always think it's funny when somebody's like... No, there can't be mermaids. That's crazy. That's one line too far for the reality of this world right there. Even though he literally met Marina earlier at the beach, but he didn't see her fish.
fishtail obviously he just assumed she was a woman he didn't know yeah um but yeah so uh um at this point uh they are They are like, okay, we'll get some rest. And he is resting. And. Marina comes to visit him at the window. Because he has an underwater window in his room that she can just swim up to. Again, he lives underwater and they can see each other really easily. Proving that she could just visit him whenever and it would be fine. Yeah.
They have a fucking moon pool inside the base. She could just swim up there and poke up her head out and say hi whenever. It would be so little effort and yet too much. Maybe she's just dumping him. Maybe she just doesn't want that. I'm kind of not into the whole leg thing, actually. I appreciate your commitment to the environment and your strong swimming.
skills but besides that you know uh and they do a little moment where they touch glass like on either side you know their hands that whole thing you've seen in movies yes Probably in the shape of water. Yeah, definitely. So then we get a scene between... uh, Vipra and, um, uh, and Marina, that is the centerpiece of Vipra's evil plan, which is just... really funny this is like one of the only times really that the mermaid talks in this episode uh and she's basically like uh viper's like
Hey, what's up? And, like, I guess, you know, she was freed by Vipra, so I suppose she doesn't have any reason to immediately suspect her, but... No, I think the whole thing is she's supposed to be ridiculously innocent. She could not even think that she'd be a bad guy. But also, you know, once again, Little Mermaid, Mermaid's whole thing is getting tricked by a witch, and, you know, this is just them doing their version of that. So...
She's like, well, you look happy. And the mermaid's like, yeah, I met somebody who's fantastic and wonderful and he loves the ocean and he's really strong and can kick good. And then Viper's like, wow, this Chad sounds like he's got a lot of girls going after him then probably because he's such a Chad. Yes. Yeah. The logic is like.
Well, you're going to have to win him over because there's been so many girls going after him. And you should do that by giving him this very not cursed little... I don't know like dolphin bracelet or something yeah yeah um And she's like, cool, that sounds perfect. Yeah, the charm doesn't look cursed. The box looks kind of... It's a seashell box. It looks like a jewelry box.
But it does look like it has, yeah. It's the fact that she's been given that by an evil-looking snake lady is what would tip me off that this is probably a bad idea. But I'm not an innocent mermaid who's been chained to a rock for the last couple decades. whatever right uh so we cut to chad uh
Just on a jet ski in the middle of the ocean. Yeah, second jet ski. Maybe that was the one that Thief stole last time. He just took Chad's. No, because this one's black and the one that the Thief had had trans colors. Alright, fine. Oh, wait, no. No, wait. It's black when Chad's on in the ocean, and then when he comes up on the dock, it has trans colors. What the fuck? They switched Ski-Doo's. Yeah, you're right. They got different Ski-Doo's.
changes whatever it's it morphs yeah i guess colors i also like his tiny tiny tiny binoculars um but yes he uh he pulls up on the dock and then He's just looking for her and then she shows up for some reason. I don't know why she didn't show up when he was looking for her, but okay. Yes. And it's like, oh, hey, I wanted to say thank you. You saved my life. I've been looking everywhere for you.
And I realized I don't know your name. And she's like, it's Marina. And he's like, really? Is that kind of on the nose? Yes, it is.
she's like no it's it's it's normal uh mermaid like it's like my sister's uh bubbles aqua and pearl you know yes yeah totally it's just like my name is feet so or parking lot i guess would be the equivalent of marina uh but yeah all right She's like I have something to give you And she gives him this This little dolphin charm He takes it out of the box And is immediately wrapped In a bunch of magical chains
What if he was like, oh, I mean, this is kind of sudden, but I'm kind of into this. This, again, considering that they are demons, like, just feels like an extremely... elaborate plan. For a weak curse. Chains could have gone way harder on the curse there. It could have turned him into sick or something. Later on, he almost breaks out of him. As far as I could tell, they're also like they magically appear, but they do appear to just be chains. It's not like they're. Yeah. She, you know.
He's like, what? You know, because Viper is like, good job. And Chad's like, you knew. And she's like, no, no, she tricked me. Presumably Chad believes her immediately because he doesn't seem to have any will towards her at all. Yeah. And it's also funny because Viper is about to straight up murder Chad and Marina saves his life by tripping Viper down on the... Doc. And the rest, a couple Batlings and Lokai go over to throw a net onto Marina, but Vipra...
could just get up and stick her fucking sword into Chad's face still at this point. She just doesn't now, because she was foiled. No, she fell down. Yeah, it's too late. Uh, Chad does get double gut punched, uh, by two bad guys at the same time around and the chains come off of him from what they did. Like it just, it doesn't like, we're not good chains. Like, right.
But then they re-chain him up, so, you know. But then he uses his, like, no-chain button later, so it's fine. He has an un-chaining button on his morpher, and it's fine, actually. there's a shot of them throwing the the again this episode is not as goofy but the shot of them they've wrapped this rope around her and There's three parts rope to one part mermaid. It's so much rope. It's a net. Yes, it's a net. And then they attach a...
A one ton weight. A weight that says one ton on it to her because they're going to drown the mermaid, which again, my lore is not like super strong. I mean, they could just tie her into. a net at the bottom of the water but also there at the dock how deep can this water really be the answer is apparently super deep because she there's like three shots of her like sinking down to the bottom of this apparently abyssal depth that is right
under the dock next to the marina. But again, the whole time, I'm just like, she's a mermaid. What's the problem? It's not nice. But yeah, I don't think drowning is a big concern there. In the shot where you then see the weight sinking to the bottom, you can tell that they've literally, it's like white tape that they've just put on it. to form the letters one time. So that we can read it even through the underwater shot of it. Yeah. Yes.
But the things the Battlings forgot is that Chad can absolutely whip ass. They just did forget that part, unfortunately. He's a master at karate and swimming, the two things he actually needs to beat all these guys up and then go free his mermaid. red girlfriend from the net underwater yes uh i just mentioned that because it is like the couple times we get to see chad just do kung fu it's like oh yeah this guy is like
One to one. As much as Carter is good at shooting guys and killing them, Chad has that same amount of... potential damage dealing in his karate he's by far the best melee fighter out of this group and it's always real good to see him fight very fun to watch him and then he leaps He steals one of the battling swords. Yes. Leaps off the dock and swims down and cuts her free. While...
The bad guys commit the classic sin of going like, well, that's long enough. They're definitely dead, for sure. And then... There's like weird like... smoke coming out of the water where where chad went down i have no idea it's supposed to be like air i guess because he's drowning air quotes but it's like smoke yeah i don't know
Anywho, he morphs and breaches. Yep. And I did take note of him saying, what, so you've... used an innocent girl that's so low and then Viper goes, you haven't seen how low I can go and that did make me laugh. And then, you know, orders them to kill him. She's going to booby trap a baby next week. You'll see. Oh, my God. Exploding baby. But, yeah.
Viper is like, do you really think you could take us all on? And I'm like, based on the evidence, yes, clearly. You're not a little buggy, are you? So you've lost all of your power right now. All right.
And then also the rest of the Power Rangers show up, so they're really screwed. Vipra, I forgot she could do this. She does have like the, speaking of Zelda, the like... sword beam thing power that she can do but Chad like hits it out of the air and then like As the projectile explodes around them, they use that to cover the Rangers pulling out their V-Lancers, and then they hit them with the V-Lancer finishing move.
They do miss, but it's enough to like, be like, okay, we need to get the fuck out of here. Right. Yep. Yep. Yep. Uh, and then, uh, Viper says, I know, uh, Now I know the Blue Ranger's weakness, love, and then Lokai is like, I don't know. It seems like once he figured that out, he really beat the crap out of him. It seems like it made him stronger, actually. It really seems like he did.
dove in there, saved their life, and then came back up and, like, really killed all the badlings. Yeah, I just like it. Go ahead. I just imagine the scenario where they keep trying this tactic and Chad just keeps getting like... new partners and every single time he just gets stronger and stronger until he can't be stopped a polyamorous super saiyan yeah yeah yeah
Uh, yes. Uh, it, like, it cracks me up because of Vipra. We've talked about it before. Actress is really like chewing the scenery and she. it's delivered like Vipra has gotten to like a really good line off. And then look, I just like immediately deflates it, which is very funny. Yeah. And then, uh, they run away and we cut to uh a scene where where he's like he's like marina's left and he's like marina where is she and then they have like sunset
They have day for sunset shot. Aggressively orange filter on the rest of the episode. Yeah. Either it's day for sunset or he had to go to Mexico to find her. I don't know. Yeah. just a yellow light filter um uh so she swims up and he's like i'm so sorry you know i'm sorry because uh viper was using you to get to me and now she'll never hurt you again and it's we can be together and i'm like y'all have said two words to each other like
I know, again, I know it's a kid's show. We're convincing it. But... It's Chad, and he's into her because he fucking loves fish. So, like, why not? They are both extremely sexy people, and it would be fine for them to get dirty. That's true. Unfortunately they are from two different worlds and that can never be done now. Sorry. Yeah, yeah.
she literally does say we come from different worlds and I was just like okay and like she was totally trying to date him before so what did she come to this conclusion like fuck off cowards of the show also like when he says i've never met anyone like you and i was like well that is objectively correct i can give him that like yeah and he's never after she leaves kelsey like because that's him he's he's like
I told you I'd know when, when she was the one and she was the one. And it's like, now, now it would have been a little insensitive, but. It would have been really funny if she had said, don't worry, there's plenty of other fish in the sea. Oh, that would have been so good! That's fucking racist.
but yeah i i mean yes it's that's basically it like there's there's oh no he they do that's right because she leaves but but like chad is like pouting on the yeah all the other rangers are just waiting for him in the car to be done to be done being upset basically yes yeah yeah Yeah, and then that's when he says, I know when I find the right girl. And that's the episode. So poor Chad. He got a...
A one episode love interest like the Blue Ranger sometimes does. But yeah, I feel like that's going to be it. We probably won't see Marina again, I would imagine. It's a silly episode. I feel sort of bad for it because I feel like it had some of its thunder stolen, but it's a pretty fun one, two episodes that we...
we got to cover this week. So yeah, they're fun. And then next time we're going to be doing the, uh, uh lost galaxy team up yeah i'm curious how that's gonna go yeah and it and it definitely looks like the monster that they they teased earlier isn't is gonna be in these episodes because it pretty much shows like non-silhouette Got to use that footage since you've got it, I guess. But yeah. So that's going to do it for us.
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