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Icon-mightymorphinThis article is about an episode in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

An Oyster Stew is the sixtieth and final episode of the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Synopsis[]

Zack wants to impress Angela for her birthday with a special present. He plans to take her to dinner, and seeks to get her a pair of pearl earrings. Rita Repulsa makes her own plans to have him give Angela the Pearls of Stillness thereby freezing everyone in sight including the Power Rangers. Only Tommy and Zack remain unaffected. They must work together to destroy the Oysterizer monster to break the spell.

Plot[]

Zack recieves the Dragon Shield

Zack borrows Tommy's Shield

While Zack and Tommy work out at the Juice Bar, the former is concerned because Angela's birthday is coming up, and he wants to do something special. Zack wants to do pearl earrings even though they are out of his budget and takes Kimberly's advice about doing a singing card. Zack wants to take Angela out to a French restaurant and asks Tommy and Kimberly on a double date if Angela goes out with him. Meanwhile, Rita sees this from the Moon Palace and decides to give Zack what he wants. Goldar suggests calling in the Oysterizer and pollute the sea, which Rita agrees to.

The next day, Zack asks Angela out on a birthday date with the promise of a big surprise, and she reluctantly agrees after hearing about the French restaurant. At the Moon Palace. Rita contacts the Oysterizer from the sea, the latter promising to bring her the Pearls of Stillness. Meanwhile, Zack strikes out on buying pear earrings at the jewelry store due to their high expense and wonders what to do. While walking down the park, a mysterious person offers him some pearl earrings at a reasonable price, claiming they belonged to his deceased wife. Zack buys the pearls from the man, but the salesman reverts to a Putty Patroller once he leaves.

On Angela's birthday, Zack takes her out to the local French restaurant with Tommy and Kimberly joining them.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Rangers are confronted by the Putty Patrollers in the park and fight them.

In the Command Center, the alarm goes off on the Oysterizer's presence and Zordon orders Alpha 5 to pinpoint his location. Not only is the Oysterizer capable of destroying ocean life, but his Pearls of Stillness could also render anybody near them still. Zordon contacts Jason and warns him about this. Billy realizes that Zack unknowingly bought the Pearls of Stillness from Rita, and the trio teleport to the restaurant to warn him.

At the restaurant, Bulk and Skull perform a badly sung serenade to Angela, forcing Zack to give her the earrings early. Angela loves them, but Bulk and Skull's antics cause a server to drop a cake onto their table. As Zack and Tommy leave to clean up, Kimberly tells Angela to put the earrings on. Jason and the others arrive and tell Angela to stop, but they are too late. The Pearls of Stillness take effect, and everyone in the restaurant freeze in place. Having returned from the restroom, Zack and Tommy see this and teleport to the Command Center for more information.

Zordon fills Zack and Tommy in about the Oysterizer and how he must be stopped before he can pollute the ocean. The only way to break the stillness spell is to lure the Oysterizer out of the sea and break his pearl. However, Zordon warns them that the Oysterizer will try and draw them into the ocean and into an undersea battle, meaning the Zords would have to be used. Also, Zordon reminds Tommy about his temporary powers and asks if he is up for it. Tommy says he is as he and Zack morph.

The two teleport to the cliffside and split up to cover more ground. Zack gets the Oysterizer out of the ocean but finds himself at the mercy of the monster. The Oysterizer sprays Zack with an acid gel, causing the Black Ranger to suffer painful burns as he calls for Tommy's assistance. Before the Oysterizer can finish Zack off, Tommy arrives and knocks the monster away with the Dragon Dagger. Tommy lends Zack his Dragon Shield to heal the latter from the acid gel and increase his energy. When the Oysterizer attacks again, Tommy takes the blast and is thrown aside. A repowered Zack manages to punch the Oysterizer back into the ocean, believing that it broke the spell.

Indeed, it did as everyone at the restaurant is freed from the spell and the pearl earrings disintegrate. Believing Zack ripped her off, Angela storms out when the former tries to explain himself. Zack tells the others that they must go into the ocean with the Megazord and defeat the Oysterizer and the pearl, something Billy notes will be a first for them. The Rangers head off, morph, and go underwater inside the Megazord. They find the Pearls of Stillness just as a giant Oysterizer arrives. They use the Cranial Laser to destroy the pearls, angering the Oysterizer as he charges at them. The Rangers find out that the Megazord cannot fight well underwater, but thankfully, Tommy gets their distress message and summons the Dragonzord.

The Dragonzord arrives and launches the Oysterizer out of the ocean with its tail. Taking the fight to the surface, the Oysterizer chains up the Dragonzord and sprays acid at it. Thankfully, the Megazord emerges from the ocean and saves the Dragonzord by chopping the chain and removing the acid gel. The Oysterizer gets ganged up by the two fighting machines before the Megazord uses the Power Sword to destroy him.

Back at the Juice Bar, the Rangers see that the Oysterizer did not cause much damage as Trini helps Zack prepare a makeup gift for Angela. Zack said he learned how money could not buy love, and he should have been himself from the start. Using the last bit of cash to buy flowers, he has Bulk and Skull help him with a ballad to Angela. Angela forgives Zack as she was too materialistic, and they share a kiss.

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Errors[]

  • After Zack and Tommy morph, Tommy says "I'm right behind you guys", even though only Zack is with him.
  • Zordon told Zack he needed to destroy the Ecocyte Pearl to break the freeze spell, but knocking Oysterizer into the water accomplished this.
  • In preparing to destroy the Oysterizer, the Megazord performs its "catching the Power Sword" move, despite the fact that it was already holding the Power Sword.
  • In one scene, "Zyuranger" text is clearly visible on Zack's Power Morpher.
  • The Megazord's finisher shows it slashing vertically from the bottom up, but the shot on the monster is done as if it were from top to bottom.
  • Alpha says that the Zords will struggle to function underwater, but the Dragonzord resides in the sea. Jason confirms this later in the episode.
  • Despite being turned into stone, some people are not entirely still.
  • When Jason, Billy, and Trini yell at Angela to not put the pearls on, Jason’s voice cannot be heard.
  • When Bulk and Skull fall and break the table, Bulk lands facing up. But a few seconds later, he somehow has Frog's legs in his mouth.

Notes[]

  • Two scenes were cut from the Zyu2 footage that are visible on Jeff Pruitt's YouTube channel. The first scene is one where the Oysterizer prays to and worships the Pearls of Stillness and the other was Zack scanning for the monster using his helmet, this included a shot from his point-of-view of a 'computerized' display.
    • Another deleted scene from this episode would have shown Zack returning the Dragon Shield to Tommy, with a picture from the scene appearing on merchandise.
  • Released footage from Jeff Pruitt reveals that Tommy was not originally supposed to appear in the episode until after Zack needed his help.
  • The hobo that gave Zack the Pearls of Stillness was played by Timothy Guest, who previously played Monte Conte in the episode Trick or Treat.
  • This is the final appearance of Angela, who would neither be seen nor mentioned again.

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Icon-mightymorphin List of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Episodes
Season 1

0: Day of the Dumpster (pilot) • 1: Day of the Dumpster • 2: High Five • 3: Teamwork • 4: A Pressing Engagement • 5: Different Drum • 6: Food Fight • 7: Big Sisters • 8: I, Eye Guy • 9: For Whom The Bell Trolls • 10: Happy Birthday, Zack • 11: No Clowning Around• 12: Power Ranger Punks • 13: Peace, Love and Woe • 14: Foul Play in the Sky • 15: Dark Warrior • 16: Switching Places • 17-21: Green With Evil • 22: Itsy Bitsy Spider • 23: The Trouble with Shellshock • 24: The Spit Flower • 25: Life's a Masquerade • 26: Gung Ho! • 27: Wheel of Misfortune • 28 & 29: Island of Illusion • 30: The Rockstar • 31: Calamity Kimberly • 32: A Star Is Born • 33: The Yolk's on You! • 34 & 35: The Green Candle • 36: Birds of a Feather • 37: Clean-Up Club • 38: A Bad Reflection on You • 39 & 40: Doomsday • 41: Rita's Seed of Evil • 42: A Pig Surprise • 43: Something Fishy • 44: Lions & Blizzards • 45: Crystal of Nightmares • 46: To Flea or Not to Flee • 47: Reign of the Jellyfish • 48: Plague of the Mantis • 49 & 50: Return of an Old Friend • 51: Grumble Bee • 52: Two Heads are Better than One • 53: Fowl Play • 54: Trick or Treat • 55: Second Chance • 56: On Fins and Needles • 57: Enter… The Lizzinator • 58: Football Season • 59: Mighty Morphin' Mutants • 60: An Oyster Stew

Season 2

1-3: The Mutiny • 4: The Wanna-Be Ranger • 5: Putty on the Brain • 6: Bloom of Doom • 7: The Green Dream • 8: The Power Stealer • 9: The Beetle Invasion • 10: Welcome to Venus Island • 11: The Song of Guitardo • 12 & 13: Green No More • 14: Missing Green • 15: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park • 16: Beauty and the Beast • 17 & 18: White Light • 19: Two for One • 20: Opposites Attract • 21: Zedd's Monster Mash • 22-24: The Ninja Encounter • 25: A Monster of Global Proportions • 26: Zedd Waves • 27 & 28: The Power Transfer • 29: Goldar's Vice-Versa • 30: Mirror of Regret • 31: When is a Ranger Not a Ranger? • 32: Rocky Just Wants to Have Fun • 33: Lights, Camera, Action • 34: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire • 35: Scavenger Hunt • 36: The Great Bookala Escape • 37: Forever Friends • 38: A Reel Fish Story • 39 & 40: Rangers Back in Time • 41-43: The Wedding • 44-46: Return of the Green Ranger • 47: Best Man for the Job • 48 & 49: Storybook Rangers • 50 & 51: Wild West Rangers • 52: Blue Ranger Gone Bad

Season 3 & Alien Rangers

1-3: A Friend in Need • 4-7: Ninja Quest • 8: A Brush with Destiny • 9: Passing the Lantern • 10: Wizard for a Day • 11: Fourth Down and Long • 12 & 13: Stop the Hate Master • 14: Final Face-Off • 15: The Potion Notion • 16: I'm Dreaming of a White Ranger • 17 & 18: A Ranger Catastrophe • 19-21: Changing of the Zords • 22: Follow that Cab! • 23-25: A Different Shade of Pink • 26: Rita's Pita • 27: Another Brick in the Wall • 28: A Chimp in Charge • 29-31: Master Vile and the Metallic Armor • 32: The Sound of Dischordia • 33: Rangers in Reverse • 34 & 35: Alien Rangers of Aquitar • 36: Climb Every Fountain • 37: The Alien Trap • 38: Attack of the 60' Bulk • 39: Water You Thinking? • 40: Along Came a Spider • 41: Sowing the Seas of Evil • 42 & 43: Hogday Afternoon

Movies & Specials

Alpha's Magical ChristmasMighty Morphin Power Rangers: The MoviePower Rangers (2017)Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always

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