Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Season 3, Episode 27: Another Brick in the Wall
Previously in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Rita
Repulsa sent down a monster that caused Tommy to eat much more than he should
have if he wanted to stay healthy. Bulk and Skull were also trying to eat a
bunch of food. Katherine got her first taste of Power Rangers powers as she
worked with the team to stop this monster and keep Tommy from eating himself to
obesity. It was a perfectly fine, fun standalone episode.
This one looks like it could be another. Katherine will
still be getting used to her powers, with the residual effects of Rita’s evil
spell still doing something. Maybe. Who knows, at this point? I couldn’t guess
what this episode is about at all, but I’ll find out pretty soon. I’m going to
watch…
Season 3, Episode 27: Another Brick in the Wall
Katherine recently arrived in Angel Grove. She wanted to
show how much she appreciated the welcoming community by giving back to it.
There was a vacant lot somewhere in the city and she made it her project to get
it fixed up. She gathered a bunch of her peers to help clean up graffiti, plant
flowers, and get rid of the garbage that filled the vacant lot.
Rita Repulsa wanted to prove to Lord Zedd that she and Rito
Revolto could make a good plan. She sent Rito and some Tenga Warriors to the
plot after everyone had left for the day. They were supposed to trash the work
that had been done. Katherine was checking everything over when she saw the
monsters. She and the Power Rangers got their Ninja Powers going to fight off
the monsters. Rita thought it would be the perfect time to zap Katherine back
to evil. She missed and hit the wall instead, creating The Brick Bully.
The Brick Bully had one power. He could turn the Power
Rangers into bricks. He turned Tommy, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha. Billy and
Katherine took them back to the Command Centre. Katherine came up with a plan
to deteriorate the bricks and free her friends with some contained pollution.
While doing that, Billy went back out to fight The Brick Bully one-on-one.
When the rest of the Power Rangers were saved and Billy had
defeated The Brick Bully, everyone went back to the vacant lot. There was a
ceremony where the mayor was going to give Katherine an award for her good
deed. Only, the mayor wasn’t there. Bulk and Skull had been tasked with
protecting the vacant lot and found an old woman with a shovel scoping it out
before the ceremony. They detained her. Lt. Stone told them that she was the
mayor and reprimanded them while the mayor presented her award to Katherine.
The major fights of the episode were the Ninja Powers fight
and the Billy fight. The Ninja Powers stuff was fun enough. Katherine was held
back by the Tenga Warriors from saving her project. She called on her friends.
They showed up. Rita tried to zap Katherine. She hit the wall instead, creating
The Brick Bully. The Power Rangers went to their full powers and were turned to
bricks when they tried to attack. The second fight got more interesting, and
less by-the-books. Billy had to fight the monster while playing very defensive.
The Brick Bully kept trying to zap him into a brick. He had to dodge, duck,
dip, dive, and dodge to avoid being turned. Billy realized that the monster got
its power by eating construction materials, so he took it for a run through the
suburbs, where it slowly weakened. Rita zapped it to large, so Billy fought
one-on-one in his Zord. Watching the Blue Zord be the only one fighting was an
interesting change of pace and made for a fight full of surprises. The Brick
Bully was destroyed without an explosion, too. It fell apart at the end.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers can get weird sometimes.
This episode was one of those times. The monster was a brick wall. That was it.
It was a brick wall. The plan was to have it destroy Angel Grove by eating construction
materials. There was no need to attack people, unless they attacked it. The
monster was only after construction materials that it could eat to stay strong.
Couple that with the fact that it was a Katherine episode where Billy saved the
day by being the one Power Ranger fighting, and you have the recipe for one of
the most strangely written episodes of the third season.
Bulk and Skull got to shine in this episode with their
slapstick humour. Bulk fell into a giant tub of cleaning water. The end credits
were Bulk and Skull getting pranked by Katherine. They ran away from the Tenga
Warriors with one of them pushing the other in a wheelbarrow. It was standard
stuff for the pair, but still funny. Also standard was their basic storyline.
They ran away and told Lt. Stone why they ran away. He still didn’t believe
them about the monsters. How was he still in disbelief? He saw the Tenga
Warriors in previous episodes. He saw what they did. But he still wouldn’t
believe Bulk and Skull when they claimed there were monsters. Maybe he thought
they were lying to get out of work. Except that he saw the destruction that
could only be caused by the creatures. Lt. Stone should know better.
As for the vacant lot stuff, there was a nice montage near
the beginning of the episode as the teenagers of Angel Grove cleaned it up.
There was a song that I’ll call “Gonna Make It Right” that played over the
scene. It sounded like it was by Ron Wasserman, who did most of the songs that
played in the show. It was an upbeat song that wouldn’t have fit into a fight
scene. It didn’t seem like it was credited at all, so consider this a note of
the song’s existence.
There’s not too much more to say about Another Brick in
the Wall. It was a strange episode where the writing didn’t make any sense.
Why would an episode based around Sentai footage where the Blue Ranger defeated
the monster be an episode with the Pink Ranger as the central figure? Why was
the monster a chunk of wall? These are questions that will never be answered.
Let’s move onto the next episode, then. A Chimp in Charge is coming up
soon. I’ll see you then.
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