Friday, June 25, 2010

Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers, Part II

Power Rangers Turbo, Episode 17

Original Airdate: 9-9-1997

Last time: Judging by the title, what do you think happened?

Divatox is still taunting the Rangers, who all have tiny little wings on their backs now that they're shrunken. I could not say why that is. She closes up the box with the Rangers in it, as it would be shame to kill a team of Rangers two episodes from retirement. In the box, the Rangers turn on the headlights on their helmets. Elgar shakes the Rangers' box a bit, as would you or I given half a chance. The Rangers notice their new wings. Tommy thinks that this means that Divatox has turned them all into insects. Tommy isn't very smart. Adam tears a hole in the box and the Rangers escape, but they fall off of a pearl necklace they were using to climb to the ground. Credits!

The Rangers continue their escape, aided by the fact that Divatox's goons literally cannot walk without falling down. Elgar loses them behind a control panel. Divatox attempts to capture them with her disturbingly long and dextrous tongue, but can't quite reach them. She does call them the "Mighty Morsel Power Rangers," however, so it isn't a complete loss. She goes in again and manages to get Tanya with her tongue... no, not like that. Anyway, the Rangers fend her off with their blasters. Rygog takes a crack at it, despite being huge and unable to bend over, and the Rangers escape through a pipe. Divatox decides that to beat shrunken Rangers, she needs shrunked Piranhatrons, and calls of Shrinkasect to make it so. I guess she thinks the Piranhatrons are due for a win.

The Shrunken Piranhatrons show up and fight the Rangers, and during the fight scene, a new song plays that consists of nothing but insults directed at the Piranhatrons. Christ, isn't enough that they get beaten up by Justin all the time? The Piranhatrons, utterly demoralized by the background music, retreat.

At the Power Chamber, Alpha 6 is examining the Blue Senturion who is singing an odd song about...something. He's still a bit off from the bug attack last episode. Justin calls for the other Rangers. Apparently no one's even noticed their missing. Dimitria and Alpha 6 don't exactly make for an inspiring command team. Divatox is not pleased at having her tongue blasted, and calls for the shrunken Rangers to be found. The Rangers escape into an air vent.

Down at the beach, Lt. Stone is depressed that his life has slowly descended into an unremitting nightmare. He's especially displeased at ChimpBulk and ChimpSkull who have been at the root of most of his problems, and most recently stole his car. ChimpBulk and ChimpSkull still want to win that contest from last episode to prove their humanity. The grab the bomb, which is shaped like a soda can, and ditch Lt. Stone. He and the Piranhatrons should form a support group.

The Rangers notice that they have all grown attennae, as being shrunk is causing them to turn into insects. I don't exactly know why, but I'm going to guess that it made more sense in the Japanese version of the show, as it often does. A worm monster attacks, and they flee through the suspiciously hallway looking air ducts. The Rangers escape, but now have bug hands. They find themselves in Divatox's closet, and wouldn't you know, she shows up. She accidently drops one of her contact lenses, yes, contact lenses on the floor, but she doesn't find them. The Rangers discover a toy car. Not only a toy car, but one that has controls in the inside of the car that can be used by miniature people to drive it. It's a collector's item. The Rangers drive off with Divatox in hot pursuit.

Divatox implores her goons to not let the Rangers get away. The Rangers get away, but then wreck their mini-mobile. They find themselves in the torpedo room. That gives Tommy an idea. It involves using the torpedoes to make them grow to normal size. Adam manages to turn the launch key and they all climb aboard. The torpedoes launch and Adam does his level best impression of Slim Pickens. Tommy calls into Justin to explain the plan. Justin decides to bring the Blue Senturion to the torpedoes in hopes of making him normal size as well. I think that the moral of this episode is that if you feel self-conscious about being smaller than your peers, you should blow yourself up with a torpedo. Alpha 6 explains that by amazing happenstance, the soda can bomb is going to be at the same location. Dramatic Economy!

Down at the sub, Divatox notices that the torpedoes have been launched, and sends the Shrinkasect to deal with the Rangers. The torpedoes land at the beachc and explode, which kind of makes Tommy's plan to ride explosive weapons seem foolhardy. But the Rangers are fine....and their turning-into-insect problem has been cured! The torpedoes have also caused Shrinkasect to grow, though, so the Rangers call of the ol' Turbo Megazord, and the Robo Racer also shows up. Shrinkasect dies as in a hail of gunfire. But there's still the bomb, Divatox is confident the Rangers won't find it. Divatox is wrong.

ChimpBulk and ChimpSkull are engulfed in fumes from the crashed torpedoes and pass into the pages of history. Bulk and Skull are human again! Hooray! But they're invisible now! Booo! Show Over!

Next Time: Mass Redundancies!

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