Power Ranger Punks
From Power Rangers Universe
 | This article is about a/an episode in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. |
| Code: | 1x13 |
| Title: | Power Ranger Punks |
| Parts: | 1 |
| Index: | 113 |
| Season: | Mighty Morphin 1 |
| Enemy: | Terror Toad |
| Important?: | No |
| Airdate: | September 20, 1993 |
[edit] Summary
The group is playing volleyball outdoors when the Putties appear. Baboo has concocted a potion that he drops in the Rangers' drinks while the Putties act as a diversion. The Putties disappear. Kimberly and Billy drink the tainted drinks. Feeling the effects, they angrily knock the other drinks off the table before Zack, Trini and Jason can have theirs. Billy and Kimberly snap at the others and leave.
Rita Repulsa orders Finster to make her a monster, and the Terror Toad is chosen. Finster refers to the monster as large, hungry and quite mean.
At school the next day, Kim and Billy show up dressed differently. They blow off their peers, and Billy threatens Bulk while Kimberly flirts with Skull. Zordon and Alpha teleport the Rangers to the Command Center. The two affected Rangers are sealed away from the other three. Zordon explains what has happened to Billy and Kimberly, and that they need to find a magical Singing Squash to create an antidote. It's a rare root that can only be found in another dimension. A very hungry Terror Toad hits Earth so the remaining Rangers go to deal with it.
The Rangers have trouble with the Terror Toad especially when they see it is literally always hungry. Terror Toad eats the Yellow Ranger and an image of her helmet appears on its belly. Obviously still hungry it goes after Red Ranger and Black Ranger. Alpha has to get the Singing Squash on its own. In another dimension, Alpha fends off some Putties before getting the root.
The monster eats the Black Ranger, leaving the Red Ranger to fight the increasingly hungry Terror Toad alone. Alpha is able to cure Kimberly and Billy with the antidote. They morph and join Jason. Terror Toad's weakness is its throat. Blue and Pink Ranger cut off the monster's horn. The Terror Toad then uses its tonuge to ensnare and eat the Red Ranger and as it chews Pink Ranger spots its weakpoint. Terror Toad then eats Blue Ranger and Pink Ranger is pushed aside by Baboo. Growing even hungrier Terror Toad is about to eat Pink Ranger but she shoots Terror Toad's throat with arrows and the other four Rangers are freed from the Terror Toad's belly. Pink Ranger then kills the Terror Toad by shooting an arrow straight into its mouth before it can eat them over again. Baboo runs away and Rita gets yet another headache.
Trini and Kimberly are playing volleyball at the Youth Center when Bulk and Skull challenge the gang to an impromptu volleyball game at the Youth Center, but end up getting caught in the net together.
[edit] Notes
- The flashback footage of the Singing Squash shows Mysterious Wizard Barza, the Ranger's mentor, in the original Japanese series Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.
- This episode marked the first time that the main plot of a Super Sentai episode was also used in Power Rangers outside of merely footage requirements (in this case, the plot being the Blue and Pink Rangers being turned into punks with the only cure being a rare herb).
[edit] Errors
- In the dimension where Alpha retrieves the Singing Squash, it's very obvious that the floor is covered in garbage bags.
