We open this episode and it appears as if Billy has cloned himself. No, wait, he’s just helping some kid with science who also happens to be wearing overalls. The fact that I didn’t wear overalls in 1993 (or ever) is really making me rethink my status of being a self-proclaimed nerd.
Moving on, this episode is kind of fun but predictable and, well, it just gives you that go-home happy feel. Billy’s little friend- let’s call him Billy Jr,- has entered a science fair and they do so because Billy Jr. has designed a virtual reality rollercoaster.
This is the first part of the episode that got me stumped. We have all of the Power Rangers wearing the virtual reality glasses and freaking out scared because they’re riding a simulated rollercoaster. Kimberley was the worst of the over actors here, but really, they fight the bad guys and do things that are probably ten times as scary, yet this make believe scares them? I’m trying not to dwell on this too hard.
So we enter the science fair and there is a guy there I guess is the principal, I don’t know I wasn’t really paying attention, and he says that they have ten minutes to enter their science stuff or they will not be allowed to enter. I understand being a stickler to the rules and all, but are you telling me that if someone is thirty seconds late but developed a cure for cancer you wouldn’t let them in the science fair? Come on, man. Rules are rules, but science really has no rules that cannot be changed when needed.
Then we enter Spike and Bulk. I’m going to try and explain this situation as best I can to you without seeming like I’m taking sides, and then I’m going to take sides. When Spike and Bulk enter, they obviously call names, and then they take some kind of vacuum looking gun from one of the “geeks” and Bulk tells Spike to use it. Spike points it at Bulk’s pants, which proceed to disappear, and Bulk is left humiliated in front of everyone at the science fair because he is standing there in his underwear.
First off, on a side note in some ways, if this kid (Who doesn’t seem to have a name) invented something that can take the pants off of Bulk, but not his shoes, underwear, skin, etc., then this technology could be harvested and probably could cure cancer amongst most everything else. Billy Jr. only developed and freaking video game. Why isn’t this kid with the disappear-gun going to work for NASA?
And so, after this part leaves you without logic, Bulk and Skull are forced into a “makeover machine” by the female Rangers, and then proceed to come out dressed in drag. Now some could say that the initial prank backfiring was punishment enough, but no, everyone else wanted to see them take it one step even further. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask of you, who are the true bullies?
As predicted by NO ONE, Billy Jr. gets blamed for all of this (Justice?) and disqualified from the science fair by the guy who wouldn’t let anyone in late. Billy Jr., Billy and the other Rangers shouldn’t really care because that disappear gun kid should win and that makeover machine is going to be bought up by some fashion person somewhere I can’t reference because I don’t get fashion.
This unfortunate turn of events causes Billy Jr. to run away and no joke he is met by a giant eyeball which sucks him up and puts him in one of those spinning things they use to test astronauts. Eventually, the Power Rangers are told by Zordon where the Eye Guy is, they go fight him, form a Megazord and eventually defeat him by crushing his original eye because that’s his one weakness. It’s kind of like the Death Star in that way.
When everyone returns to the science fair, they see everyone else having fun with the rollercoaster game and the mean guy gives Billy Jr. first prize. And the kid with no name throws away his disappear gun, gives up science and we all are still suffering for it.
I also watched the time in this episode for some reason, and out of the twenty minutes they spent about twelve of them in school, which seems odd since they then went back to school at the end too. I mean, are we in this for the Saved by the Bell aspect or Megazords?
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