Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Calamity Kimberly Commentary

This is Jason David Frank Tommy the Green Ranger

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and Mike, and joining me is the Super Sentai

guy, Spray to the Bolt Matrix! Hello everybody!

How are you? I'm doing well, yourself? Pretty

good, pretty good. It's nice to have you back

after the Dragon Zords spit you out. Sorry about

that. Yeah, I had to fix something in the gullet

and then he wasn't too happy. Seriously, do you

realize how hard it is to fix a dragonzord while

he's in the middle of battle? So we have Spada

here, and we don't have Scotty this time around.

I think... It's, uh... Scalamity Scotty Day.

Seriously, the email we got from Scotty was pretty

good. Yeah, and we can't even reveal it on air.

It's just that stupid and It's not really a personal

issue with Scotty, but it's one of those things

where it just life happens And it's like oh my

god. I cannot believe that it's like it's face

palm tastic Yeah, and it's nothing Scotty did

it's just situations No, it's just a situation

So Scotty if you're listening we feel for you,

man Yeah, it's like this happened again, and

then this happened again So we are here to do

commentary on calamity Kimberly and people might

be scratching their heads at their iPods like

why are they doing commentary on that episode

well because At age 13. I had a huge crush on

Amy Jo Johnson. It's just a hilarious episode

in general It really is I'm trying to at least

in this first season I don't know how we're gonna

go forward for season two and season three but

that's something we'll talk about once we get

there but for season one I tried to get at least

one episode per the six Rangers and yes I say

six because Tommy is the sixth Ranger because

that way I can use all six colors in the banners

on the post on the website so all right well

you're gonna hear the Mighty Morphin sound effect

and then after that we will get into the commentary

And I need to use the bidet Go go power Rangers

Go go Power Rangers Go go Power Rangers you racially

inexplicable Power Rangers So in all honesty

wasn't this was all formed filmed in California

wasn't it like the original season We know they

moved to New Zealand in later seasons, especially

when Disney took over. Yeah, I Think it was I

mean, they all pretty much have a California

type of lifestyle. And I know that the command...

wasn't it you that said the command center outside

location was in the California desert somewhere?

And I think this is the only time we actually

see one of the Rangers inside their home, other

than Billy's garage. Garage, yeah. I don't know

about you, but I have never fallen out of bed

in the morning I Did once but I was already awake

It was this is gonna sound so stupid Transformers

animated season 3 when shockwave finally revealed

his true colors. I nearly just fell right off

the bed Um, there have been times where you have

that dream where you're falling on a cliff and

you go to, you know, to like wake yourself up,

you know, and you feel like you're falling. And

so I've had that kind of dream before, but yeah,

actively because you're having a bad day falling

out of bed. No. Wait. You're in whatever Seven

years bad luck Oh God it's he's The second there

I thought that was spawn I would not want to

wake up to Baboo outside my window. No. No, that's

cool. I don't think I've seen the clay monsters

like in that form really do anything. Oh, no,

they they in previous episodes, they've done

stuff. OK, I don't remember. I don't remember.

And wait a minute, he was working on. I hate

the way they cut that stuff because he's working

on one model in one shot, and then he's working

on Pudgy Pig in another. And... Kachoo, Kachoo.

It's gonna say that monster that appeared, it's

like, hey look, it's Power Rangers Samurai, 20

years too early. Notice how her binder isn't

wet. Yeah. What they probably did is in the shot

outside before she walked in, they probably just

drenched her in water. Yeah, and her backpack

isn't wet either. Yep. Oh no, the guy I like.

Hey. Like Like for real her binder is not wet

yet. There's mud all over her homework. Yeah.

Oh The inconsistencies of Power Rangers ladies

and gentlemen, oh, oh, okay, let's go You know

they have to be the oh wait janitor mopping the

floor what could possibly go wrong here Oh yes,

that's such an insult. Banana brains. Worst janitor

ever. Slip and slide. Worst slip and slide ever.

Yeah. Man, Megatron's gotta be pissed at Bulk

taking that buckethead. Yeah, poor Bulk. First

he pisses off Tommy, then Megatron, jeez. Yeah,

really. I'm surprised Tommy just doesn't blend

into the forest with all the green he wears.

And technically she's not even really wearing

any pink. There's spots of pink. So basically

it's a granite dress? Yes, and apparently she

can't walk either. How are we? They're in the

middle of a park, yet he's next to a building.

Yeah, it's nuts. Oh, brother. Man, that wind

really blew him over. Hi, man! I'm... Hello,

fish -eye lens! I know, yeah! Fish -eye lens

flare? Wait, JJ Abrams had nothing to do with

this show? Okay, so the building that's the command

center it is called the house of book and it

is it is a futuristically designed building on

the Brandy's barred in campus of American Jewish

University The building has been used in a lot

of different television shows including Power

Rangers Tenacious D in the pick of destiny Marilyn

Manson's dope show a video from the lawnmower

man I said Power Rangers and Star Trek The Next

Generation. Hmm. What is Alpha working on? Oh,

it's a lounge chair, okay. It's a very futuristic

lounge chair. It is a lounge chair from space.

We can see her in wherever she is You know I

gotta say the whole time when she first like

this shot right here where it shows the walls

of the jar reminds me of the garbage chute from

Episode four a new hope oh geez She's stuck in

a sake bottle. I gotta say, I really do love

those fade transitions when they're in the little

morpher, their heads are in the little morpher

things. Oh yeah. And for the 90s, that was pretty

awesome. Yeah, that was an awesome way to transition

from each one. Oh my god, large squat and baboo.

No, that should never happen. He's about to drop

a putty. Stop being a putty -pooper, Spada. Oh!

Demerits. You get demerits for that. Oh! I'm

gonna have the NSA hack you. That was just that

bad. Actually, the NSA agent listening to this

is probably cringing. Wait, that - wait, whoa,

wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That picture

of them falling in the viewing globe, that was

from the Sentai. Those were the characters on

Sentai. Oh god, fivesome, oh god, Power Ranger

fivesome. Now I assume when they're in the suits

and they're doing the aerial stunts that they

are on wires. I don't know. I don't know. Well,

I could tell you the Sentai, well, the folks

over in Japan seem to have nailed the wire art

better than the American versions, but I think

they've got, but now the production companies

are the same, so they're a lot better. Right.

You know, even as a kid, when I saw the, uh...

the Rangers like in it in the scene we just saw

with them in the American version of the outfits

even when I was a kid I knew they didn't look

right I mean look at those necks yeah wait they're

going to you know that actually might be why

don't they just drink her or I don't know take

a firecracker drop it in the bottle and plug

the bottle Or, I mean, just a small firecracker

at that size would take her out. Or a gun! You

mentioned firecracker and it makes me think of

the example of Ronald Quincy from Armageddon.

You put a firecracker in your hand and you close

your fist over and it's gonna burn your hand.

You do it with your open hand and your wife's

gonna be opening your ketchup bottles for the

rest of your life. But yeah, you're right. Why

didn't they just... Explosives don't work that

way, but I'm not going to nitpick. Yeah. Now,

wait a minute. Explosive needles. And they, wait,

their vehicles were in the background there.

Yes, they were. You, uh, whatever, editing. I'm

not going to... I'm going to kill you with this

rake! So I have a question here. Yeah. Samurai

fan man. gets big because of Rita's thing. Rita's

wand, Rita's whatever the hell. The jar gets

big, yet Kimberly remains small? Uh, other dimension.

Secondary dimension with inside the bottle. Damn

it. Or, you know, she could just be normal size

inside the bottle. She's still stuck in the goddamn

bottle. But, my point is, if everything with

Samurai Fan Man got bigger regardless of second

dimension or alternate dimension or whatever

the hell wouldn't she have grown with you know

getting that power infusion but I guess it's

evil powers and we all know how evil powers work

they don't work well with good guys so as we'll

find out well no she's probably still in the

bottle proportionate to the size of the bottle

so she probably got bigger but she's still stuck

in the goddamn bottle being the same size as

she was went comparatively and hey those are

the toys they're blowing up did you see the tyrannosaurus

basically fall flat on its face yeah oh god oh

i should not have eaten applebees i had one too

many taco hells last night ladies and gentlemen

those spicy quesadillas went right through me

alpha do you have any space tomes The dragon

dagger for all your indigestion needs Alright

now since you weren't here for episode 35. What

is your overall? I mean, I know you enjoy it

But like when you first saw a dragon zord in

in green with evil part 5 or your thoughts as

he's coming up out of the water here Mecha Godzilla.

Yes, there must be more Dino Oh a dragon Caesar

or the dragon zord Just it's still to this day,

one of my all time favorite swords ever. I mean,

you had a giant mechanized Godzilla that was

awesome. How much happier could you make a make

a kid who was a guy who grew up on Godzilla?

I mean, seriously. Yeah. Ugh, still one of my

favorite Megazords. I've yet to get a hold of

a Dragonzord. Really? You don't have one? I used

to have one years ago, but I sold it. Because

I was dumb and needed money. No, wait a second

here. He was not holding that when... No, it

just blinked into existence. He just, you know,

he pulled a Beast Wars. He just reached behind

his back and pulled it out of his ass. Cool.

She automorphs, that's interesting. Oh god, she's

from the Dark of the Moon toy line? At least

I didn't do an Animorphs joke. That's true. You

know, the whole time I'm watching the T -Rex

do battle before they morph, or before the Zords

change here, I'm thinking, it's a T -Rex with

tiny arms! I'm thinking of Rex from Toy Story.

But my arms won't reach! You know, to this day,

I still don't know where the hell they're sitting

in those Zords. I mean, it's obviously a cockpit,

but you look at the Zords - Isn't that supposed

to be the heads of each of the animals? I - Yes,

but if you look at the toys or if you look at

any of the things we see here on screen, you

don't really see any of it. I guess it's the

heads? No. But that's kind of a bad place, especially

for the T -Rex. You'd think, yeah. Megazord sequence

has been initiated. You've got mail. Taste my

tail, mother effa! Sparkle sparkle sparkle, sparkle

sparkle. That's a fan firework right there. You

ever notice you never see the dragon sword doing

flips through the air? Yeah. Oh wow, we skipped

the Titanus episode. I completely forgot that

I had to go search for that thing. Eh, it was

just like an RPG side quest. Now, I'm sure...

I don't know, did you guys talk about the New

York... Was it New York Comic Con? Where they

announced the new anniversary Dragon Sword and

Dragon Dagger? No, we didn't. Okay. Well, it's

been hinted that we're going to be getting an

anniversary Titanus as well. Oh, okay. So that

means we're going to get an anniversary Ultra

Sword at some point. Can't remember whose house

is that is that Billy's or is that Trini's I?

Think it's Billy's oh God 90s television How

the hell is he so dirty I Don't know you must

be working on that flying car of his Herbie the

flying bug her be the flying bug Okay, if a TV

does that that's that's seriously problematic

there's nothing funny about that I Mean that's

that that could potentially kill somebody all

the outtakes in the bloopers. I forgot about

that. They just showed the Wow, how much has

this changed with damn? We skipped a number of

episodes between green with evil part 5 to this

and wow did this outro change because this I

don't remember I don't know, maybe this was always

like this, but whatever. Alright, that's gonna

do it for the commentary track. We'll be back

with Final Thoughts and everything else after

this. See where the doctor's been, where he is,

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Allons -y! have it folks calamity Kimberly overall

general thoughts rewatching this now that's not

bad the whole actually the funny thing is the

whole thing with Kimberly is really kind of dumb

but I don't understand what was so calamitous

about it other than she had a really bad day

like it wasn't like it wasn't like she had a

spell cast on her I think there's something that

happens at some point it wasn't like she she

was just Kidnapped and at some point all of the

Rangers are kidnapped But the fight scene I mean

the fight scene was by far like the actual Ranger

and the Megazord fight scenes were by far the

best I mean, they were great fight scenes. Yeah,

they were they were amazing fight scenes I really

enjoy this one. I guess you could say if you

really want to talk about the calamity part with

Kimberly, I guess Her constantly having things

happen to her Like one thing after another after

another after another it really kind of wears

on a person You know kind of like me dealing

with three and a half month old Bank crap that

should have been taken care of two months ago

That's a discussion for another day, but all

right so up next In episode 37, next time when

we reconvene, we start the two -parter, the Green

Kendall. For now, I am TF2 and Mike with... Spade

of the Ball Matrix. May the power protect you.

We need the Power Rangers! Let the power protect

you.