Episode 5 - A Different Drum

Introduction

So, in our first (and only, for now) Double Feature Review, I will be looking at the 5th and 6th episodes of Mighty Morphin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2cx3O_EXjY

The Episode

So, our episode begins (oh dear God, not again...) in the Juice Bar, where Kimberly is teaching a dance class. Billy, being the unlucky nerd he is, quite literally rolls into the class, causing a bit of havoc. Kimberly's deaf friend Melissa, meanwhile, is having a bit of trouble because of her disability. Kimberly encourages her to keep trying as our pal Zack challenges Bulk to a dance contest. Bulk ends up getting served.

Rita, of course, hates the music, so she creates the Gnarly Gnome, a twisted version of the Pied Piper that looks like a demented version of Honeydew from the YOGSCAST (because of this, the Gnome will now be referred to as Mountaindew from now on), in order to get rid of the Rangers. Now, I'd just like to point out that in the original Zyuranger footage, Mountaindew was created to EAT CHILDREN'S SOULS. I'M NOT JOKING ABOUT THIS ONE. LOOK IT UP. Rita sends Mountaindew down to Earth, where he lures the teens of the Juice Bar to a cave...

...except for the Rangers, and especially Melissa due to her Chekhov's Disability. Melissa gets the Rangers to help, and after the usual battle, Mountaindew is destroyed, and Melissa teaches Billy how to dance.

My Opinion

The major reason that I want to give this episode a perfect 10 is because it teaches a valuable lesson: disabled people are no different than we are. This rings true, especially from my experiences with the disabled. All too often are disabled people coddled like young children/infants, which is all right in some cases, but not all right in others, to the point where I view it as abuse in the latter case. If you ask ANY disabled person who tries to prove their worth and is deliberately suppressed, they will tell you that special education was outright HELL for them. This episode shows that disabled people can, and should, be treated as normal.

Final Score:

10/10

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Episode 6 - Food Fight

Introduction

...IT'S CHEKHOV'S GUN TIME!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0bTKc0CaRw

The Episode

The episode begins in the Juice Bar (...OH MY GOD NOT AGAIN!), where the Rangers are holding a Cultural Food Festival in order to raise money for playground equipment, because charity. Bulk and Skull, being the jerks they are, decide to turn it into a food fight. Mr. Caplan blames the Rangers, because EVERYONE NEEDS A SCAPEGOAT!

Rita, meanwhile, is not feeling too well...which might not seem like a problem, until Squatt and Baboo show her the food festival. Rita tells Finster to make a pig monster so that ALL the food on Earth can be eaten. Finster tells her he has one made, but it isn't his best work. Nonetheless, he brings it to life anyway.

Zordon tells the Rangers the situation: if the pig isn't stopped, he will eat Earth's food supply within 48 hours. The Rangers battle him...and then Ol' Piggy eats their Power Weapons. With the Rangers seemingly defeated, Pudgy Pig moves on to the Food Festival, where he eats everything...everything except the spicy foods. After finding this out, the Rangers slip some spice into food for the pig, who eats it, then coughs up the Power Weapons. The Rangers blow him up, and all is saved...but not yet. They still have to fix the damage done to the Food Festival, which Mr. Caplan now apologizes for. In order to get the last 20 bucks they need, the team gives Mr. Caplan a sandwich that Alpha prepared...which was originally made to defeat Pudgy Pig. He says, after a large swig of water, that it's "a little hot, but not bad". Then they all laugh.

My Opinion

Like the previous episode, I'm tempted to give this one a perfect score, specifically for its Chekhov's Gun that Pudgy Pig is weak to spicy foods. But rather, I'd like to discuss the flaws this one has:

• First of all, this plot wouldn't have happened if Squatt and Baboo hadn't been such idiots. If they had just given Rita ONE day off from conquering the world, this whole stink wouldn't have happened
  

• Why didn't Rita ask Finster if Pudgy Pig had any weaknesses/flaws? I can excuse this one as Rita's mind being a bit messed up from her cold, but still...
• Mr. Caplan...would Jason and his friends really have caused the food fight? I mean, they were doing this thing for charity. FREAKIN' CHARITY.
  

Final Score

4/10