Behold, the Culmination of My Childhood
Monday, March 7, 2011 at 9:44PM If you were ever a young boy, you have imagined something like this:
Believe it or not, this is the Japanese equivalent of Charlie Rose.
Actually, this is the Japanese phenomenon Super Sentai, upon which the much beloved Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was based. Here are five things I always loved about The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:
1. Writers only had to come up with about fifteen minutes of material per episode, because the rest was made up of the same canned sequences being played over and and over again.
Let's face it, it seemed like half of each show was made up of the same "giant robots coming out of a mountain and joining together sequence." Which leads me to...
2. If they were always going to join the robots together to make the Megazord, why didn't they just store them that way to save time?
Seriously, this is the Japanese we're talking about. They're efficiency experts. Toyota can retool their assembly lines to produce entirely different models in ten days or less. There is no way the middle manager in charge of Zord storage didn't get axed during his quarterly 360 degree review. Seriously, go to the gemba on this one. No lean organization would tolerate this.
If you understand any of the references in those last three sentences, you probablly shouldn't be reading this blog. Get back to work.
3. The Pink Ranger unified a generation of young boys in unrequited love in much the same way Princess Leia did two generations before.
Yes, she was a cute girl who knew martial arts, drove a mechanical dinosaur, and wore spandex every...single...day. She was personally responsible for a full decade's worth of sudden-onslaught puberties. For all of these reasons, she was every young boy's dream. However, she then joined the cast of Felicity and immediately became a part of every young man's nightmare. Never before has a young woman's attractiveness jumped the shark in such dramatic fashion, leaving a bloody swath of brutally murdered nerdlust in its wake.
4. They saw no need to include the "g" in "Morphin."
I believe this is self-explanatory.
5. Defying all common sense, the Black Ranger was actually black, and the Yellow Ranger was actually Asian.
Come on. Just...come on.