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Water You Thinking? is the thirty ninth episode of the third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It is also the one hundred and fifty-first of the series as a whole. It is the seventh episode of the Alien Ranger arc.
The 29th Zeo Serial Short aired before a later airing of the episode.
Summary[]
Young Rocky must prove his courage to retrieve his Zeo Sub-Crystal from inside a volcano. Back in Angel Grove, Lord Zedd keeps the Alien Rangers busy with the monster Witchblade.
Plot[]
The Ranger children and Alien Rangers head out to a deserted field in preparation for the beginning of the Zeo Quest. The children are unsure as to how they will find the pieces of the Zeo Crystal, but Delphine tells them to look towards the spirits of their ancestors to find the way. One by one, each child leaps into the portal, and soon only Billy and the Alien Rangers are left. Up above, Lord Zedd prepares to finish off the Alien Rangers by sending down his old friend Witchblade and forming a shield around Earth to block the Battle Borgs from arriving.
Young Rocky arrives in a desert, where a young Mexican boy named Pablo is herding a goat. When asked about crystals, Pablo tells him of a crystal in a volcano above his village, one that nobody has ever been brave enough to claim. Rocky insists that he needs the crystal, and Pablo agrees to show him the way.
In the present, Cestro is getting dehydrated again and needs to get to a source of pure water. As the Command Center cannot get reliable data due to Earth's altered place in time, Billy and Delphine decide to go to the Angel Grove Aquarium and speak with the marine wildlife on where to find some pure water. Bulk and Skull are also going to the aquarium for a detention-mandated school report and are excited to meet their new heroes the Alien Rangers. Down in the tunnels, Goldar and Rito Revolto are still on their mission to plant their bomb beneath the Command Center, but are hopelessly lost and have decided to split up.
After asking a fish for directions, Cestro morphs and teleports to the quarry outside of town where a stream of pure water runs nearby. He is ambushed by Witchblade and made to fight for his life beneath the hot sun. Meanwhile, Rocky and Pablo have reached the volcano. Pablo mentions that his father expects the volcano to erupt soon, but Rocky is not dissuaded and begins his climb alone.
Back in the underground tunnels, Goldar is seen with a box of popcorn and the destruction mechanism. He laments that while Rito continues running around in circles, he will leave a trail of popcorn for himself to find his way back.
After being called by Zordon, Billy tells the other Alien Rangers that Cestro needs help. They morph and relieve their friend from Witchblade's attack. When Zedd and Rita make her grow, the Alien Rangers find that their Battle Borgs are not appearing when summoned. The Shogun Megazord is summoned instead and defeats Witchblade. Zedd and Rita argue over their loss and wonders what is taking Goldar and Rito so long.
In the tunnels, Goldar finds himself at a dead end and heads back using the trail of popcorn he left behind. However, it is all for naught as he finds himself in Rito's presence. Goldar yells at him for eating the popcorn trail and thus they remain lost. Rito apologizes for it, but mentions he was hungry and that was the only food source he could find.
Rocky descends into the volcano and barely manages to pull the Zeo Sub-Crystal out despite the heavy trembling. He comes out to find Pablo and the villagers congratulating him for stabilizing the volcano now that the crystal has been pulled. Realizing that he never asked Pablo's name, Rocky does so and mentions that his grandfather was also named Pablo, and he understands exactly what Delphine was saying about the spirits of his ancestors. As Alpha 5 removes Zedd's shield and Rocky returns to the present with his Sub-Crystal, the Power Rangers have taken their first step towards returning Earth to its normal place in time.
Cast[]
- David Yost as Billy Cranston
- Jason David Frank as Tommy Oliver (credit only)
- Michael R. Gotto as Young Tommy
- Steve Cardenas as Rocky DeSantos (credit only)
- Michael O'Laskey II as Young Rocky
- Johnny Yong Bosch as Adam Park (credit only)
- Matthew Sakimoto as Young Adam
- Karan Ashley as Aisha Campbell (credit only)
- Sicily Sewell as Young Aisha
- Catherine Sutherland as Katherine Hillard (credit only)
- Julia Jordan as Young Kat
- David Bacon as Aurico (Red Aquitar Ranger)
- Rajia Baroudi as Delphine (White Aquitar Ranger)
- Karim Prince as Cestro (Blue Aquitar Ranger)
- Jim Gray as Tideus (Yellow Aquitar Ranger)
- Alan Palmer as Corcus (Black Aquitar Ranger)
- Paul Schrier as Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier (credit only)
- Cody Slaton as Young Bulk
- Jason Narvy as Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch (credit only)
- Ross J. Samya as Young Skull
- David Fielding as Zordon (face)
- Robert L. Manahan as Zordon (voice)
- Donene Kistler as Alpha 5
- Richard Steven Horvitz as Alpha 5 (voice)
- Carla Perez as Rita Repulsa
- Barbara Goodson as Rita Repulsa (voice)
- Ed Neil as Lord Zedd
- Robert Axelrod as Lord Zedd (voice)
- Danny Wayne Stallcup as Goldar
- Kerrigan Mahan as Goldar (voice)
- Bob Papenbrook as Rito Revolto (voice)
- Wendee Lee as Witchblade (voice)
- Fernando J. Mora Jr. as Pablo DeSantos
VHS Release[]
The following scenes were included on the VHS Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest:
- Rocky's Zeo Quest and his return to the Command Center.
- Goldar and Rito's trip through the passages of the Command Center.
Errors[]
- Before the sequence of the Aquitar Rangers merging with the Shogunzords, the Ape Ninjazord's roar is heard.
- When the Aquitar Rangers call for the Shogunzords, they come in the same manner as with the original Power Rangers, and then materialize before the Aquitar Rangers enter their cockpits.
Notes[]
- This episode aired the same day as VR Troopers (Season 2) episode 37, The Ghost of Cross World Forest.
- This is the first time Rocky's last name, DeSantos, is mentioned.
- When Rocky retrieves his fragment of the Zeo Crystal, it glows blue, foreshadowing his upcoming Ranger color change in the next season.
- Bulk recognizes Billy as that old guy from the water park.
- This is the only episode to use the full version of the Giant Beast Generals' summoning scene for the Shogunzords. Because the Beast Generals and Alien Ranger costumes both originate from Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, the Alien Rangers are shown entering the Shogunzords directly, but are not shown in the American-made cockpit sets originally made for the Power Rangers. As the Beast Generals were the transformed Kakurangers themselves rather than piloted Mecha, no Sentai-original footage existed to use either.
See Also[]
- Ep. 17: The Demon Sword and Underwear!! - Super Sentai counterpart in Kakuranger. See comparison page. (fight footage)