Episode 94- Where There's Smoke, There's Fire

Today we learn Aisha has control issues and Skull wants to be a politician. Skull for President!

So we start out proving the point, once again, that Angel Grove has the worst education standards ever. Basic fire safety being taught to high schoolers? Rewards from the fire chief for writing an essay? Are they still in elementary school or something?

Anyway, Aisha wrote the best essay and so she gets appointed fire safety captain for the week. She takes this role VERY seriously. Disturbingly so.

Anyway, the next day she sets up a demonstration on overloading electrical sockets. She and Kim exchange hair tips in the middle of class (all of which made no sense to me, but whatever) and then get on with discussing what to do in the case of an electrical fire. Why she's DEMONSTRATING it, I don't know. Bulk and Skull come in to give a demonstration of their own, having just joined the Future Fire Fighters Club. They brought a Dalmatian puppy with them! Awwwww. In setting up the projection system, however, they overload a socket and start an electrical fire. Aisha unplugs the main power strip and then uses a fire extinguisher, talking about needing a cool, level head and quick thinking.

At the Youth Center/Juice Bar later, Aisha has everybody hanging up fliers. Except Adam and Rocky who are just... not there. Without explanation. I have my own theories on what they do with their alone time. ;) Anyway, Aisha is bossy and has Kim go hang up fliers in the hallway. She hands Tommy a huge stack to go hang up at the mall, the library, and the gas station while he's out on a run. She then goes to inspect Ernie's kitchen for fire hazards. Why she's doing inspections I have NO idea. That's not her job. But she's incredibly bossy about it all.

Meanwhile, in the park, Bulk and Skull are coming up with a bad plan to set a fire and attract the Power Rangers. Skull is kind of afraid of fire and says he'd rather be a politician instead. Skull for President! Bulk blows him off though and they are conveniently in front of a large metal trash can when Zedd's new monster, Flame Head (who looks more like the Headless Horseman), sets fire to it. Both Bulk and Skull freak out and run for the lake.

Y'know, I was going to comment on the lack of evil with this monster since she only set fire to trash cans for a few minutes. But then she set fire to a shrubbery, so it's all good. My only question is, will the rangers need to cut said shrubbery down with a herring? It's possible.

Adam and Rocky joined Tommy for a run in the park. Adam is wearing a shirt that is barely there and Rocky is, once again, wearing black with his red. Somebody must have clued him into Ranger Rule Number 23. They are attacked by putties and make quick work of them (Rocky taking out FIVE at once, because he's awesome), when they smell the fire. They are immediately confronted with Ichabod Crane's nemesis and morph into action. Zordon either doesn't notice or doesn't feel it's important to alert the others. We feel this is all part of his plan to sabotage Tommy and it's just unfortunate that Rocky and Adam were involved. The others find out thanks to a news report, but only after Aisha has handed Ernie a list of potential problems he needs to fix right away.

They go the Command Center and Aisha insists on taking on the fire monster herself while Billy and Kim try to come up with a way to fight it. Billy wants to go fight, but Aisha wields those control issues and is very demanding. She joins the fight and takes out all of the putties on her own, including wiping out the mass attacking Tommy. Zordon pulls them all back to the Command Center where he tells Aisha the lesson she's supposed to have learned, that sometimes extraordinary circumstances happen that are out of our control and we need to rely on the team to help out. I don't think she learned that lesson. Tommy lectures her on there being no "I in team" and I nearly spray soda on my monitor. Pot calling the kettle black much?

They go into the fight as a team and this is where the main fish come in. They link hands and, by their powers combined, create an energy barrier to block the flames. Uh... okay? We figure if they think hard enough they can summon enough fish to put out the fire. From there on out it's very predictable. Monster grows. Zords are summoned. About 10 seconds of fight. Thundersabre drawn. Endgame.

Back at the Youth Center, Aisha apologizes for going on a rampage with the fire safety thing. She learned her lesson about control and responsibility... though all we got out of it was Aisha is apparently not strong enough to take on responsibility. We don't like that theory. Aisha is too awesome for that. (though I fully support her being a very dominant personality... in, uh, many different ways)

Bulk and Skull come in and are bummed because they were kicked out of the junior fire fighters club thingy. Ernie blows them off and then brings out a cake alight with candles for Aisha and all the hard work she did on fire safety. Skull flips out and dumps a pitcher of water on Bulk while Aisha blows out the candles. *le sigh*

List time!
3 fish. It wasn't too bad, but that whole energy barrier thing? Uh... yeah.

Billy speak: None, alas

Covered in food: Skull throws water on Bulk.