Three's A Crowd

Power Rangers: Wild Force, Episode 20

Original Airdate: 6-29-2002

Last Time: Max was forced to come to terms with the regrets of his past so that he could make a better future. This season being what it is, this involved bowling.

On the Animarium, the new Org is set up....it's a Wedding Dress Org. Okay, full-stop! That's the dumbest villain ever, and, having done over 200 of these recaps, I've seen some pretty bad monsters, but a wedding dress-themed monster? Really? What the fuck? Anyway, this leads Danny to start blathering about the nature of love. Fortunately, the monster attacks so I don't have to listen to them anymore.

Now, it just so happens that the Wedding Dress Org's M.O. is to kidnap brides for whatever reason, and so the Rangers are forced to chase him through a wedding chapel. Danny runs into Kendall, Danny's love interest, which leads to Danny losing whatever composue he normally has. That's unfortunate, because the monster uses the opportunity to turn another bride into a mannequin.

Later, the Rangers regroup and Danny starts fantasizing about Kendall. You know, it's a good thing that the Rangers are going up against the worst villain in this franchise's history, because otherwise they'd be totally dead. Anyway, Danny sucks even in his own daydreams and dreamKendall gets kidnapped by the Wedding Dress Org. Danny then makes up an excuse to go see Kendall, but gets cut off by some blonde douche who also has his eyes on Danny's girl. Where this guy came from is unknown, and there's a case to be made that he's actually just a manifestation of Danny's fears and self-doubts....I shall call him Anti-Danny. Anyway, Danny remembers that he was supposed to warn Kendall not to go to set up any weddings, but Anti-Danny offers to give her a ride in his luxury convertible. I'm pretty sure Anti-Danny is a guy, but he might actually just be a very butch lesbian. Danny tries to follow them, but Anti-Danny just speeds off.

At the church, Kendall is setting up while Danny and Anti-Danny compete for her heart. Hijinks ensue as they turn it into a competition. The Wedding Dress Org attacks, and it's Danny time to shine...right up until Kendall manages to get knocked through a pyramid of wine glasses. Kendall and Anti-Danny catch Danny morphing into the Black Ranger...and doesn't that mean that he loses his powers? No....damn it. The other Rangers show and the Wedding Dress Org flees.

Later, the Rangers celebrates before they realize that the kidnapped brides are still missing. Danny makes a friendship bracelet for Kendall in his latest, slightly pathetic, bid to woo her. He heads over to the florist's shop and learns that Kendall is in the hospital. He rushes over and Anti-Danny confronts him. As Anti-Danny is everything that Danny is not, he uses his superior self-confidence and rhetoric to convince Danny that, as the Black Ranger, he cannot have a mate, else she be slain by a vengeful monster, and further, that Danny must focus him mind on the saving of mankind rather than but a tiny member of that race. Ergo, he must step aside and allow Anti-Danny to give her a good life. Anti-Danny then further loads the dice by showing that he has the wealth to be able to give Kendall a diamond bracelet....and then the Wedding Dress Org attacks, driving Anti-Danny's points home. And thus did Anti-Danny lay Danny low on the battlefield of love. Danny surrenders and asks Anti-Danny to give Kendall his friendship bracelet.

Anti-Danny seizes the day and gives Kendall his diamond bracelet, and makes his pitch to Kendall. Apparently he went to Harvard Business School and was smart enough to avoid the dot-com bubble. Unfortunately, Anti-Danny actually stealing Kendall from Danny, while realistic, would be slow-crushingly depressing. Well, soul-crushingly depressing in the abstract. In reality, Danny is so unlikable that his exact opposite isn't any less likable than him, but, well, here we are. Kendall decides to sneak out of the hospital so that she can....I have no idea why, actually.

Danny, of course, has the mental fortitude of an especially weak-willed gerbil, and so gets distracted in his latest fight with the Wedding Dress Org. Kendall apparently knows this, and that was the reason she left the hospital. Merrick gets called in so that he can find the missing brides and tie up any other loose ends. The Rangers then Savage Slash the Wedding Dress Org to death.

Round dos! The Rangers kill it with the Elephant Zord and Merrick takes a good long time looking for the brides....where he realizes that they've been turned into mannequins, which he somehow cures by shooting at them. I'm not actually sure why this plot thread existed, to be honest.

Anyway, it's time to wrap up things up with Danny and Kendall. Kendall explains that she can't go out with him because it would distract him from his Rangering duties. Awesome, so Danny ends up not getting girl after all that. It sucks to be Danny. Show Over!

Next Time: Hey, remember the episode where we learned Max's origin story, and it was so very, very stupid. I bet you think that it would be impossible to come up with anything worse than that. Well, let's just say that you're about to lose that bet....also, your sanity.