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Calamity Kimberly is the thirty-first episode of the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Synopsis[]
Kimberly suffers through a very unlucky day, only made worse when Samurai Fan Man captures her. His gourd has a slowly collapsing dimension that will make her disappear with it so the Rangers must save her before their teammate is lost forever.
Plot[]
One rainy morning, Kimberly wakes up in the morning and falls out of bed. As she prepares herself for the day, a small earthquake occurs and breaks her mirror, which makes her more upset. Outside, Squatt is reporting to Rita on Kimberly's misery, and she decides to add onto it by having Finster's new Samurai Fan Man sent to Earth.
Kimberly arrives at school soaking wet, as her umbrella broke. Tommy greets her and explains that she has to show Mr. Caplan her pep rally plans in a few minutes. As if looking like a mess isn't bad enough, Kimberly opens her binder to find that her outline paper is covered in mud. Bulk and Skull come over to tease Kimberly, but Tommy tosses Bulk onto the slippery floor and into a fallen over mop bucket.
Tommy decides to walk Kimberly home after school to make her feel better. They are ambushed by Samurai Fan Man, who sucks Kimberly into his giant jar and injures Tommy before disappearing. Inside the jar, Kimberly is trapped in a strange dimension. Zordon summons the other Rangers to the Command Center, where Tommy is healing from his wounds The wise sage warns that the dimension inside the jar will vanish soon, and so will Kimberly if she is not rescued. Jason, Trini, Zack, and Billy morph to meet with Samurai Fan Man, who is also accompanied by Goldar. When the monster tries to suck the other Rangers into his jar, Alpha 5 returns them to the Command Center at the last second.
After taking a moment to regroup, the Rangers return to face Samurai Fan Man and Goldar at the Putty Bowl Restaurant, an outdoor restaurant with Putties as waiters. The two monsters are turned into giants and the Dinozords are summoned, but they can't form the Megazord without Kimberly. They take on Samurai Fan Man and Goldar individually but are all overpowered. Tommy soon wakes up and morphs ready for revenge on Samurai Fan Man. He summons the Dragonzord which allows Billy, Trini, and Zack to join their Dinozords up with it to activate Dragonzord Battle Mode to battle the Fan Man, while Jason's Tyrannosaurus fights Goldar on its own. However, neither of them are able to inflict any major damage.
Dragonzord Battle Mode eventually manages to connect with its Power Staff and strike Samurai Fan Man's jar, freeing Kimberly. The Fan Man then uses his samurai lance to overwhelm the Dragonzord Battle Mode and force it to disengage. After she morphs, she calls in the Pterodactyl Dinozord, and the other Rangers prepare to form the Ultrazord, but apparently the Megazord was attacked before it could complete the process. Though Samurai Fan Man continues to put up a fierce fight against Megazord and Dragonzord, blowing them into a mountain with his fan, it is destroyed by the Ultrazord. Outmatched now that his partner is dead, Goldar teleports away.
At Billy's garage, Kimberly meets the other Rangers to watch the news of their battle and to find some comfort in her friends after such a rotten day. When Kimberly tries to turn up the volume with the remote control, the television blows up and she can't help but laugh with the rest of the Rangers.
Cast[]
- Austin St. John as Jason Lee Scott (Mighty Morphin Red Ranger)
- Yuta Mochizuki as Yamato Tribe Prince Geki (Sentai Footage)
- Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan (Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger)
- Takumi Hashimoto as Dime Tribe Knight Boi (Sentai Footage)
- Walter Jones as Zack Taylor (Mighty Morphin Black Ranger)
- Aohisa Takayasu as Sharma Tribe Knight Goushi (Sentai Footage)
- Amy Jo Johnson as Kimberly Ann Hart (Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger)
- David Yost as Billy Cranston (Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger)
- Hideki Fujiwara as Etoffe Tribe Knight Dan (Sentai Footage)
- Jason Frank as Tommy Oliver (Mighty Morphin Green Ranger)
- Paul Schrier as Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier
- Jason Narvy as Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch
- David Fielding as Zordon
- Romy J. Sharf as Alpha 5
- Richard Steven Horvitz as Alpha 5 (voice) (as Richard Wood)
- Machiko Soga as Rita Repulsa
- Barbara Goodson as Rita Repulsa (voice)
- Takashi Sakamoto as Goldar (Zyuranger Footage)
- Danny Wayne Stallcup as Goldar (American Footage)
- Kerrigan Mahan as Goldar (voice) (as Ryan O'Flannigan)
- Takako Iiboshi as Finster
- Robert Axelrod as Finster (voice)
- Minoru Watanabe as Squatt
- Michael J. Sorich as Squatt (voice)
- Hideaki Kusaka as Baboo
- Dave Mallow as Baboo (voice) (as Colin Phillips)
- Tom Wyner as Samurai Fan Man (voice).
Errors[]
- During the earthquake, the mirror slides off the bed face-down with the handle facing away from Kimberly. When she goes over to pick it up, it is face-up with the handle facing towards her.
- The footage of Rita talking to Finster in the monster lab in the beginning of the episode is from High Five, as the clay figure Finster is sculpting is of Bones.
- Behind the Rangers at the Putty Bowl Café are the Ranger's Battle Bikes, which were never been properly introduced on the show.
- Footage of the unmorphed Zyurangers from Zyuranger can be seen momentarily right after Samurai Fan Man uses his dimensional fan on the Rangers.
- A wheeled platform can be seen under Bulk during the slippery floor stunt.
- When Kimberly says “Oh no, an earthquake!” her lips do not move.
Notes[]
- The flashback footage of Kimberly getting captured by Samurai Fan Man was used in Crystal of Nightmares. However, Tommy's parts in the footage are cut.
- In real life, Amy Jo Johnson and Thuy Trang actually experienced an earthquake on the day that they were to begin filming.
See Also[]
- Ep. 37: A Dinosaur is Born - Super Sentai counterpart in Zyuranger. See comparison page. (fight footage)
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