Episode 65- Putty on the Brain

So today's episode is one I've watched rather often. It's a good Billy AND Zack episode, and I've always loved it, fish-filled though it is.

We start off with Zack running up to Billy in the school hallway with some sunglasses on. They're 90'slicious, dear readers. Zack has a pair for Billy as well as apparently they are supposed to be the protective eyewear for science class. Okay then...

Zedd sees this little exchange and decides to shake things up amongst the rangers. He puts a spell on the glasses so Billy and Zack will see the others as putties. Goldar tries to throw some logic into the plan and points out that they could just take the glasses off, but Zedd scoffs at the mere thought, seeing as the rangers are "no mere humans", and continues on with his dastardly plan.

So Zack and Billy put on their glasses, in the hallway and not in science class at all, and get zapped by evil red light. Suddenly Tommy, at his locker across the hall, looks like a putty. And comments on how he almost overslept and is late (is he ever anything else?). Kim and Jason come up and also look like putties. Billy and Zack freak out, can't seem to tell the voices are coming from the "putties", and "rescue" Principal Caplan by knocking him down when he walks up. As he's wont to do to students who accidentally knock him over, he gives them detention.

Bulk and Skull are walking down the hall trying to figure out who the power rangers are when Mrs. Applebee corners them. She needs them to feed her pet iguana while she runs off some copies of the test. Why she has let the iguana reach a point of starvation that it must be fed right that minute and couldn't wait for her to finish the copies, I'm not sure, but as she's entrusting the job to Bulk and Skull and insists it must be done, the situation must be pretty dire for the poor iguana. Bulk dumps an entire box of iguana food, which looks suspiciously like Cheerios, into the tank. Skull says he'll grow big and strong, and then he does. Because Lord Zedd has turned him into a monster. And somehow gotten hold of a salamander to cross with iguana with to make the monster. I... got lost a bit there. Bulk and Skull, probably getting used to monsters appearing in front of them now, wait a beat before freakout.

Later, in detention, Bulk and Skull slip on Billy and Zack's sunglasses. They get zapped by evil red light and suddenly see Billy and Zack as putties. They drop the glasses and run out of the room in their second freakout in the span of about five minutes. We're pretty sure the spell wasn't supposed to affect normal humans at all, but maybe that just means Bulk and Skull should have been power rangers.

In the park, Billy and Zack are confused about their sexuality. Zedd has determined that they're going to "finish each other off". Oh show, you and your slashy goodness, you just make it so EASY. Zack figures out that some putties on the playground equipment are not, in fact, their friends and they fight for a bit. The others teleport in and Zack and Billy can't figure out who is ranger and who is putty. They fight anyway. Zack accidentally attacks Trini and only then do they decide maybe, just maybe, they ought to contact Zordon about this little vision problem of theirs.

Zordon tells them of more pressing matters with the Salamander Iguana Monster Thing. Apparently it can breathe fire. The brilliant plan is for Billy to create an ice device to cool it down and this will beat the monster. They apparently forget just what luck Billy has with monster-beating devices.

Tommy says he has to stay behind because he forgot to recharge his powers again and the others wait anxiously to go fight. Billy and Zack go to Billy's awesome garage to build the ice device and it seems to take no time at all. Trini teleports in and tries morphing to see if she still looks like a putty when morphed. She doesn't. She looks "like the yellow ranger" and the only thing I could think of was "only with breasts!". Problem temporarily solved! They have to rush off and fight with the device untested, of course. Why do I sense a "science doesn't work that way" coming up?

So they go fight and somehow Billy and Zack end up separated from the others. They try Billy's ice device but, unsurprisingly, it doesn't work. Why am I not surprised? Billy discovers it's missing an extra computer chip that he just so happens to have on him... somewhere... and he slides it into place. Magically, that solved everything and the device now works. This stalls the Salamander Iguana Monster Thing long enough for the others to... come from wherever they'd been hiding. They blast him with the power weapons and almost destroy him but Zedd makes him grow. We're treated to a really long zord summoning sequence and oh I didn't miss these at all. They pull out the Thunder Sword, which I can only assume is the Power Sword: The Next Generation, because it does the exact same thing as the power sword. It magically saves the day and destroys the monster.

Back at school, the iguana appears in the middle of class. Jason, Kim, and Tommy come running in with the sunglasses in hand. Apparently Alpha was able to use some special energy beam and reverse the spell. And if you buy that as proper science, I have some amazing ocean front property in Arizona I'd love to sell you. It works and Billy and Zack can see their friends as normal again. Meanwhile, Bulk and Skull have discovered the iguana and make adorable iguana faces at him while trying to get him to sniff out the power rangers. The rest of the class runs screaming for some reason.

I'm left wondering why Bulk and Skull don't still see Billy and Zack as putties. After all, they were affected by the spell and never received the counter-spell to negate the evil magic. So shouldn't they still see Billy and Zack as putties? They must have run into some fish interference.

List time:
3 fish. Not too bad, but there were some glaring contradictions.

Billy speak: "The lenses and frames seem especially sturdy. They should be more than adequate to protect our eyes during our lab experiment."

Covered in food: Nobody, but Skull was covered in iguana, and adorably so I might add.