# Power Rangers: this is still on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156 "2005-12-11T19:08:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/1 "2005-12-11T19:08:47Z")
I was watching Toon Disney (I’m trying to rebuild my 90s Fox-era Spider-man collection) and saw a commercial for Power Rangers: S.P.D. I remember seeing the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in the early 90s and how stupid it looked (IMHO, of course). I was stunned to see that it’s still around (albeit in different costumes). I did a quick Googling and found that there have been nearly [SIX HUNDRED EPISODES](http://www.rangercentral.com/main-episodes.htm) produced! There was also a commercial indicating a new series (Mystic) that would be broadcast in January. Did the later incarnations get any better? Or was it pretty much the same thing over and over? ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/2 "2005-12-11T19:27:11Z")
Not only is it still on, but its’ still selling like hotcakes (probably correlated). I worked at a toy store over the summer and the kiddies ate that crap up. Oh well. I loved it at their age too. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/3 "2005-12-11T19:41:49Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Did the later incarnations get any better? Or was it pretty much the same thing over and over? Same formula, different…I hesitate to say “actors.” And no, they never got any better. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/4 "2005-12-12T00:33:10Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I did a quick Googling and found that there have been nearly [SIX HUNDRED EPISODES](http://www.rangercentral.com/main-episodes.htm) produced! Yeah, but the last eight seasons haven’t been nearly as good as the first eight. Frankly, the show has started re-using ideas. I think the low point was when the Yellow Ranger turned out not to be the Yellow Ranger at all. The _real_ Yellow Ranger had been held prisoner by the aliens for years. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/5 "2005-12-12T00:50:36Z")
As the father of children who were in primary school in the Nineties, I would just like to express my undying hatred for all things Power Ranger, as well as their idiot Irish cousins, the Spastic Knights of Tir-na-Nogh. Both featured a contempt for the viewer so profound as to be offensive and even a little frightening. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/6 "2005-12-12T01:27:15Z")
However, the Power Rangers DID make an important contribution to society: [Amy Jo Johnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Jo_Johnson) ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/7 "2005-12-12T02:04:53Z")
The pink Power Ranger used to be quite the looker. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/8 "2005-12-12T02:21:28Z")
And one of the Yellow Rangers, [Cerina Vincent](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898597/), went on to fame as the naked girl from [Not Another Teen Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277371/). ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/9 "2005-12-12T03:35:17Z")
> [@BabaBooey](#): > > The pink Power Ranger used to be quite the looker. See actually has a cd called, “The Trans-American Treatment.” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/10 "2005-12-12T04:03:43Z")
One of the Red Rangers turned up on Jerry Hall’s reality show, “Kept,” as one of her whore wannabes. He was cut after performing a vulgar strip in front of Jerry and her society friends. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/11 "2005-12-12T04:24:08Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > See actually has a cd called, “The Trans-American Treatment.” She seems to have shifted from an acting career to a music career over the years (after shifting initially from a gymnastics career to an acting career). Saw her in a movie called “Perfect Body” about a bulemic gymnast (we watched it for my high school Health Class) Saw a marathon of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder or whatever it’s called (it was honestly the best thing on when I was seperated from my internet access) and they had some interesting plot stuff in the show, such as their science teacher being none other than Tommy Oliver, the original Green/White Ranger. (The Principal of the high school was the main villian’s lead henchwoman in disguise, I don’t recall if she knew what the Power Rangers secret identities were.) ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/12 "2005-12-12T05:08:35Z")
Power Rangers originally came on when I was seven years old, so of course I loved it. I stopped watching it when I was eight. I remember being so excited about the new White Ranger. My friends and I speculated a lot over who it would be, and our guess was who it turned out to be. I stopped watching a few months after that. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/13 "2005-12-12T05:12:01Z")
The Power Rangers are a big hit at my house. I am well aquained with the Power Rangers: Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder and SPD. We are eagerly awaiting Mystic Force (starting Feb 2006). > [@Raguleader](#): > > (The Principal of the high school was the main villian’s lead henchwoman in disguise, I don’t recall if she knew what the Power Rangers secret identities were.) Well she didn’t at first, but she began to suspect Dr. Oliver. Of course Mesogog knew, but I don’t why he never told Elsa. In the end it turns out she a really nice person who was put in a trance by Mesogog and finally comes out of it. Of course, I know way too much about the Power Rangers for a 36 year old woman…but I have a 7 year old son. Gotta say so far, Dino Thunder is my favorite. But that’s because Jason David Frank (Tommy Oliver) is pretty darn good looking. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-rangers-this-is-still-on/335156/14 "2005-12-12T14:41:23Z")
The epiphany the producers had after the first cast asked for money was to do a new version every season in a new setting with mostly characters. I haven’t watched since they axed Trini, but a pal of mine has seen almost every episode (he’s in the kids TV biz), and he says that the establishment of the one-season rule has helped the show because they can have a story arc over the whole season with a definite ending, instead of just continuing day to day adventures with no end in sight. –Cliffy