Team Carnival

Power Rangers: Wild Force, Episode 30

Original Airdate: 9-21-2002

Last Time: The music.....the horrible, horrible music....

Max, being a typical urban youth, is dribbling a basketball through the local farmer's market. He happens upon Kite stealing some food....wait, didn't I have to do this episode during Lightspeed Rescue? Is this going to end up with the Rangers wearing ridiculous disguises as the local boardwalk? Max is displeased with the young godling.

Back at the evil lair of unspectacular nicknames, Toxica is wearing an apron and has made some more food for Mandilok out of machinery. Jindrax tries to serve a rusty muffler, but is rebuffed. Jindrax feels depressed at his basic uselessness....until he decides to find his brother and form a new team...a better team....a carnival team.

On the Animarium, the Rangers are wondering how the hell Animus came back to life. Shayla claims to have seen Animus get destroyed, despite the fact that I'll relatively sure that the flashback that was shown was originally from Merrick's point of view. The Rangers wonder where Animus is and Max and Kite wander in to answer that question.

Down at the local carnival, Jindrax meets his brother Juggalo to re-form Team Carnival.

Meanwhile, Taylor is barely able to conceal her hatred for Kite, and is the only one concerned about having a random boy be privy to all of the Rangers' secrets. Cole decides that it's time to find Kite's parents, because that process worked out so well for Cole. This somehow leads to Taylor being forced to babysit Max and Kite as they look for Kite's parents. Of course, Max and Kite basically being completely immature, this leads to the three of them going to the carnival....as do Jindrax and Juggalo, who suggests that they put on some disguises....despite being at the only place that the two of them actually don't need to put on a disguise to blend in.

Anyway, Taylor gets forced onto a roller coaster, and we all learn that Taylor is afraid of those rides....despite having been an Air Force fighter pilot. Seems like being afraid of heights and high G-factors would negatively impact your flying career. Jindrax and Juggalo have dressed up as mascots, and Jindrax is ready to throw a knife directly in Taylor's back....as usual, he fucks it up.

Kite and Max ask Taylor how she can be afraid of roller coasters but not jets, and it turns out that it's the loss of control that upsets Taylor. Yeah, that sounds about right. Jindrax's hunt of Taylor continues, but he manages to repeatedly miss her with his knives, and Jindrax decides to give up and just kill Max and Kite instead.

This plan works a bit better, as Jindrax traps Kite on the roller coaster with some Putrids as Jindrax and Juggalo introduce themselves and the concept of Team Carnival. The clowns then manage to actually hurt Taylor and Max with their juggling of knives. Their success is short-lived as Taylor and Max turn the tables on them by switching weapons...which somehow makes the Rangers more effective.

Jindrax then reveals that he's already captured Kite, and the Rangers immediately surrender. Juggalo then messes them up for a bit. The other Rangers show up and Jindrax releases some Putrids in a last-ditch effort to prevent his imminent defeat. Taylor and Max free Kite and the end draws near as the Rangers hand out some new power weapons based on their auxillary zords. The new weapons join together to form the Turbo Blaster, which kills Juggalo in a single blast. Jindrax is forced to make Juggalo grow in order to give him a bit more life. The Rangers respond with the Wild Force Megazord Classic. It quickly becomes clear that Juggalo is about to get killed again, and Toxica shows up to get her staff back, as Jindrax had apparently stolen it earlier.

Jindrax, preferring not to see his brother murdered, has stolen some of the growing seeds and intends to use them in order to help his brother, or at least die trying. Toxica tells him that if he dies when he's giant, then he's permanently dead. Team Carnival briefly outnumbers the megazord, but then Merrick shows up with his megazord and kills Juggalo. So...die trying it is. Jindrax shrinks back to normal size inadvertently, and thus gets to live. Apparently the magic seeds aren't very good...or the writers didn't want to kill one of the more likeable characters this season.

Later, Jindrax is depressed because his brother was just murdered in front of him. Toxica shows up to cheer him up....which works surprisingly well seeing as his only family is irrevocably dead.

The Rangers celebrate and Kite is there too. The boy sees Merrick and realizes that he met the Wolf Ranger a long time ago. Merrick furrows his brow as someone finally starts to figure out who the hell Kite really is.....but such revelations are for next time. Show Over!

Next Time: Such revelations!