Teenagers With Attitude

Its a full house to talk about two kind of weird ones this week, as Power Rangers seems really confused about what a robot actually is, plus they put a medieval knight into a time travel series and... don't do any time travel? Emily also fills us in on what turn out to be some pretty big differences from the source material this time around (What if Frax was The Joker?!). Plus: Not the first time Rangers have dressed like nerds in a porno, why do we have to have both a battleizer AND a red ranger special vehicle (two toys!), for some reason there just being a regular dragon weirds out Zack, and we talk way too much about Medieval Times (The Restaurant)

This week Power Rangers decides to do another episode where a monster is nice but its much weirder than the Wasp episode from In Space as Eric randomly decides he really, really wants to kill all mutants. Then, an Eric focused episode where we see Eric’s home life and Zack absolutely loses his mind over this jerk having a cute little house with a garden and birds that he dotes on. Plus: Open Dress Shirt

This is kind of a weird one-two this week! Katie stars in an extremely weird time travel episode, and then Wes is an Emotionally Manipulative Baby and Iris gets very mad about it! Also, Ghosts are real!

Eric (the character, not our editor) gets control of the Q-Rex and is leading the Silver Guardians, and that’s fine I guess but we all much prefer the one-off episode this week!Mr. Collins tries to reverse-engineer the power rangers weapons to give to a PMC, a plot that does NOT feel power rangers, and Lucas (The character, not our friend, gosh this season is tough for this) escorts around a little girl and protects her from the most petty monster since Rita Repulsa!

We really get into the section that is just absolutely designed to confuse the hell out of our editor Eric by talking so much about the character, Eric, who this episode becomes the Quantum Ranger, and also gets fully bodied by A REAL T-REX BECAUSE THEY GO BACK TO DINOSAUR TIMES.Plus we just really delve into what exactly IS this dude’s complex. Toxic Gay Pairing? Daddy Issues? All of the above?

Trip gets sad that he isn’t like the other rangers and makes some poor choices, and then Wes’ Dad forms a PMC. The plots this week don’t exactly have equal weight?We also talk about how bad the internet used to be (and of course its perfectly fine now!)

The Rangers get an incredibly cool new Zord that loves to jump around in a very funny future set and kicks a lot of ass! And then Katie gets a spotlight episode and uh… is perhaps asked to handle some acting it was unfair to ask her actress to lift, but you be the judge!

We are joined once again by Fabby as she fills us in on Ultra Man and Dr Who, Emily catches us up on what’s going on in Time Ranger, and Zack tells us about how much he loves when Circuit talks about Jelly Beans and other wacky comedy. Oh plus Jen tries to murder a monster in cold blood but apparently we DONT like that now, and we are filled in on what exactly Frax’s deal is, and… does this season have kind of a lot of plot maybe?

Zack and Matt team up to discuss games they’ve been playing and Devil May Cry, plus the extremely weird combo of a Spider episode and a Ditzy Dana episode back to back!

In a million years I’d never have made the guess that Chad’s Mermaid Girlfriend returns, but here she is, and it turns out she can just grow legs! Plus, maybe Roman Myths are real?Also Jinxer turns into a very weird looking dude and hypnotizes Captain Mitchell and we debate whether its horny or not!

Morgan, Matt, and Lucas join Zack for what almost certainly the least liked Power Rangers Teamup, between the Lost Galaxy Rangers, The Lightspeed Rescue Rangers, and a little girl who is DEFINITELY the main character. Also we talk about Acceptable Reasons For Late Podcasts, why babies are so fragile, and behind the scenes drama!

Iris joins us once again as we get all excited for the “Vypra tricks a mermaid into dating Chad” episode, and listen, its fun! But we simply could not have expected the Egg Heist Episode. But also we DO finally figure out why Chad was selected as a ranger! We’re kind of all over the place in this one, we talk about Warframe, “The Snaggletooth Voice”, the time the Flintstones committed genocide, which head of state we think Macavity assassinated, one of the weirdest single episode characters in power rangers, A Series of Incredible Costumes, and more!

In the first episode we cover today, the inter-villain drama “heats” up while the rangers get frozen. In the second one, Ms. Fairweather is clearly in an incestuous relationship with her brother, and all the rangers gaslight Joel for daring to suggest it. Look there’s a little bit of a wild shift between the two episodes this week ok?

Merry Christmas! We continue our tradition as Luke, Ava, Morgan and Emily join Zack to discuss a movie that bafflingly continues to live in the global consciousness: Goodburger, starring Keenan and Kel. We discuss the two’s mismatched careers and legacy, this movie’s confusing use of Sinbad and Carmen Electra (and Abe Vigoda?!), the disgusting look of Mondo Burgers, and the high and low use of late 90s “random'“ comedy. Also, the “I’m A Dude” Ska cover.

We are joined once again by Matt as we ask him to defend Captain Mitchell. The crew talks about that new game with the furries with big butts and Zack talks about his Thanksgiving Move From Hell before we talk about Carter being stuck in an extremely half-assed Groundhog Day style time loop, and then the rangers are infected with an oddly-specifically anti-wrist affliction that leaves them unable to morph. Thankfully they remembered they can just go to space whenever they want!

It’s a one-two punch of wacky old people this week as it turns out Kelsey’s mean old Grandma turns into a poorly dressed but extremely energetic vigilante, plus Chad’s old Karate Master decides he hates Chad so much he’d rather train a monster. You can PROBABLY guess how that goes, but its still extremely funny.

The Rangers are able to (Barely) stop Queen Bansheera from returning, but Ryan decides to go search for a way to trap her permanently. That’s fine and all, but really what’s important here is that Joel gets completely upstaged in front of Ms. Fairweather by his Billy-Level-Genius cousin. Plus: That’s right its the Omega Megazord, it has an incredibly dumb name but… it’s kind of great?!

The crew talks a lot about Pokemon and Pokemon likes for a while, and then Impus Pokemon evolves into Olympius, so technically that means it was all on topic! All the ranger actors take turns playing the hammiest version of Secret Evil Villain they can muster and then blame Carter for falling for it. And finally, Captain Mitchell and Carter go on a nice picnic date and we all almost decide we finally like Captain Mitchell before he does maybe the creepiest thing he’s done all series!

Simon & Morgan join Zack to discuss Diaboloco almost murdering a demon baby, too many Megazords, an extremely scientific understanding of Solar Panels, and Ryan solving his curse by dropping an ancient Egyptian temple on it.

Lucas joins us to chat about Ryan’s horrible curse, Whether or not Diaboloco just exploded a bunch of children, and Carter executing a demon at point blank range with two guns (don’t worry he deserved it).

We delve into the backstory of Captain Mitchell and his long lost son, Ryan, and get our first American only ranger, our first evil 6th ranger since Tommy, and the worst Secret Safe Management we’ve ever seen on the show! Plus: Where has Ryan been the whole time? What’s the timeline with Diaboloco? And why were the Rangers so extremely willing to just Shoot That Man To Death?

In an incredibly weird move, Power Rangers decides to, in the 8th season, just have a Regular Robber Guy hold up a bus with a Regular Gun, and THEN tries to explain to kids sometimes you make a mistake but that doesn’t make you bad? And then in the next episode they get a new Megazord that isn’t nearly as good as the original Megazord. Look its a weird two episodes!

Matt joins us once again as we FINALLY get our Chad spotlight episode, in which we have perhaps one of the most insane setups we’ve had in forever: A man tries to beat up a power ranger, knowingly, to get laid. We discuss this obviously toxic relationship, Chad’s incredible pre and PR resume, and Matt has an owl based surprise!

Luke joins us to discuss Cyborg Rangers, the surprisingly relevant but incredibly stupidly solved AI/Drone/Robots replacing our heroes, catch Luke up on the stupid stuff that’s happened this season so far, and absolutely hate on this Nerd controlling the Cyborg Rangers. Plus, we answer your questions about the show and celebrate our Anniversary!

The rangers face off against the most dangerous foe yet: a go cart with some wings taped to it!This is, of course, also the week that they forget they have giant robots. The good news is Carter levels up and learns how to shoot a pistol while also driving a motorcycle, so he’s quickly shooting up the ranks of red rangers.

Captain Mitchell is up to his bullshit again ALREADY, the rangers keep a nuclear device in a tackle box, and please stop calling her your little girl! We discuss how Captain Mitchell’s plans are both incredibly irresponsible and ALSO incredibly ineffective!

Join us as we discuss the rangers running an obstacle course, and Carter gets the best time! But wait! Captain Mitchell is here to tell him he did a bad job and not explain!We talk about Captain Mitchell’s management methods, Carter’s make-a-wish service, and what exactly is going on with this weird grocery store in Mariner Bay.

We are joined by our friend Ava to talk about Joel the Sky Cowboy absolutely bombing with a hot scientist. But at least he’s got some incredible signed headshots? Also how did he even get out of the Lightspeed Aqua Base? Plus: The Lemonade that Kills You, and Iris fights Zack’s Wife while Morgan is simply skeptical of her preferences.

We’re here, its time for Operation Lightspeed!We discuss: What the hell is the government budget on this underwater base? What did it do BEFORE the evil demons showed up? What exactly was the criteria for deciding a Fireman and a Rock Climber were better Ranger candidates than soldiers?Plus: Is this horny or not, and, why does Simon want to fight a skeleton SO bad?!?

Our long, long journey through the Lost Galaxy has finally come to an end, friends, and it only took us TWO YEARS, with a multi month strike and scheduling issues, but we DID IT and we thank you for sticking with us!We discuss what we think went wrong with the season, Kendrix’ return, Trakeena’s very, very goopy bug form, what the hell the megazord was doing this whole time, and how the heck Mya didn’t realize she was on Mironoi!We love you and can’t wait to LIGHTSPEED RESCUE

Welp, Trakeena sure did make good on her threat to use suicide bombers in the children’s program, so that’s great! We also discuss the most egregious issue with the whole atmosphere problem thus far in Power Rangers!

We’re back! Zack, Emily and Morgan are joined by Iris as they discuss friend of the show Luke’s wedding, Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, Princess Peach Showtime, and Zack successfully not killing himself with a DIY project. Plus, Trakeena returns and immediately succeeds at destroying most of Terra Venture, Commander Stanton gets to talk on the Jumbo-Tron, and Power Rangers tries to tell us, 7 seasons in, that they DO need atmosphere to breathe, actually, and we just aren’t having it.