Episode 110- Wild West Rangers Part 1

Today on Power Rangers, putties are awesome! And people from Texas are very bad at southern accents. *is confused*

So we start out with Tommy giving Kim a cactus as a present. She seems to like it, though I'm not sure why anybody would give a cactus as a present? But I'm not a plant person, and Kim is, so that probably has something to do with it. Anyway, Zedd zaps the cactus away while everybody is looking at it, and yet nobody notices it was magicked away. Kim instead accuses her friends of playing a joke and hiding it from her. They didn't, of course, and then they notice a strange greenish goo on the table where the cactus was sitting. Billy touches it and rubs it between his fingers before deciding they should take it to the Command Center to analyze it. Really, Billy? Discussing this in the middle of the Youth Center? Probably not the best way to maintain those secret identities.

They all go the hallway to teleport away, but Kim, wearing the skimpiest outfit I've seen on anybody outside of pron, manages to get left behind. Her teleporter won't work. She is sucked into some glowy rainbow vortex and deposited into the desert. The others, curious what's happened, discover she's been sucked through a time hole, which is a rip in the fabric of time, and is randomly occurring right in front of the lockers in the hallway of the Youth Center.

Kim gets up and tries to contact Zordon, but can't. One-Eyed Bulk and Doc Skullovitch are nearby, so she hides behind a giant boulder while they try to rob a stagecoach driven by Adam and Rocky. The stagecoach and our dapper drivers are saved by The White Stranger. He chases off One-Eyed Bulk and Doc Skullovitch, who happened to bring the wrong guns to the fight. Kim is spotted and comes out from behind the rock, only to faint at the sight of Tommy as The White Stranger. She freaking FAINTS, people. I raged for awhile.

Can I take a moment to marvel that the Native American is not trying to kill the white people, and the Asian and Latino are not being forced into hard deadly labour? I'm not sure Kim is really in 1880 here.

Anyway, moving on. Nobody comments on Kim's total lack of clothing, even though she'd surely be accused of being a woman of ill repute. They have dragged her back to Ernest's Juice Saloon, where she wakes up and is confronted by Abraham (Adam), Alicia (Aisha), William (Billy), and Rocko (Rocky). She kind of freaks out a little and goes outside to discover it is 1880 Angel Grove. At least with THIS time travel episode, Angel Grove could actually exist in the time period she's been transported to.

Okay, I have to take a minute here. The accents, while I'm sure fun to do (as I believe Karan Ashley is quoted), were really really BAD. I mean, seriously? I expected more from at least Karan, Johnny, and Steve! They're all from TEXAS! For crying out loud, even if you don't have the accent yourself, you're surrounded by southerners with thick southern accents that are relatively easy to imitate! I should know, I lived there for 13 years. :P

Back in the ranger time, Billy has managed to track down Kim. They decide to morph and go through the time hole to rescue her, though if it's unstable and unpredictable, how do they know they'll end up at the same time and place as Kim? Do they have a time machine? Did they realize Skull's garage is a TARDIS? I'm guessing it's more a case of a huge school of fish.

They can't get to the time hole, though, because Zedd has turned Kim's cactus into a monster. It, Goldar, and a bunch of putties are heading to the time hole to go back in time and they have to try and stop them. The rangers intercept them and we wonder why they weren't teleported right to the time hole. We figure Zedd's targeting has some fish in it. The putties strike some hilariously awesome poses and then the cactus shoots the rangers with it's paralyzing spore spikes. Or something.

Oh noes, the rangers are down! Who will save them? THE MIGHTY MORPHIN DALEK RANGERS, of course!

Or not, but it would have been totally awesome, right? The rangers don't intercept and Goldar and the cactus monster DO make it to the Youth Center... where nobody flips out or runs around screaming. They just waltz right in and straight through the time hole. Aisha is sure Kim has already beat the monster otherwise their time would be different, but Billy says it's a paradox and their time won't change until Kim fights the monster. Which is SOOOOO not how time travel works, even in their own continuity. That's not even how it worked the LAST time travel episode!

So back in 1880, Kim, who has identified herself as Calamity Kim, is being held up by One-Eyed Bulk and Doc Skullovitch. Skull gets shocked by her communicator and then Bulk falls in a water trough while Adam and Rocky, I'm sorry, Abraham and Rocko, arrest them. I didn't know they were fine gentlemen of the law, but okay, I'll go with it. Kim decides to tell them what's going on with her. They mostly believe her, though Billy does question if she's having a laugh with them. They are called outside to see some commotion and discover a bunch of putties wreaking havoc on HORSES. That's right, putties on HORSES. Who steal clothes. Because they are AWESOME. OMG you guys, seriously, it's the BEST THING EVER.

Then the cactus guy and Goldar show up and Kim is all concerned. To Be Continued!

List time:
4.5 for time travel not working like that, history not working like that, and absolute utter FAILURE at remaining even the slightest bit consistent with previous episodes.

Billy speak:
"It's a cactal vaciferous(?)" (which I think he totally just made up, but whatever)
"I'm having trouble moving my signal through the time barrier."
"I may have to check the power transformer. We may have to increase the surge to carry the ongoing signal."
"It's a paradox. Our world won't change until Kimberly battles the monster in her time."

Covered in food: Bulk fell in the water trough. Poor Bulk.