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Cultural allusions
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- Power Rangers references to real-life people, events, or concepts
101-DOTD
In this
episode and in 104-PrEn, Alpha held what looked like a teddy bear with a
robotic head; in real life, teddy bears were first created in the year
1902, records indicate, and their popularity was primarily (if not
totally) due to President Theodore Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a
tied-up bear cub for sport. (Source: Submitted by ReGenesis)
105-DiDr
Rita alluded to the Pied Piper.
112-HBZk
Ernie said the Power Rangers would do for Angel Grove what Batman had done for Gotham City.
128-IOI1
There was a D.A.R.E. sticker on the wall of the Youth Center's locker hallway. (Source: Submitted by "Josh G.")
205-POTB
Billy had what looked like a picture of Albert Einstein inside his locker at school.
227-PTr1
Zack's full name was Zachary Taylor; the reader will note that in real life, the twelfth president of the United States was named Zachary Taylor.
233-LiCA
When Miss Appleby asked if anyone could remember from Aisha's report who the father of television was, Bulk answered "Captain Kangaroo."
Squatt said Zedd was bigger than Elvis in his stardom.
239-RBT1
Young Bulk had told young Skull that the Boogeyman didn't exist.
244-RGR1
Pondering Miss Appleby's assignment to write about a time period in which he would like to have lived, Billy said he would like to have lived in the thirties and be Albert Einstein's assistant.
248-SBR1
Grumble the Elf alluded to Robin Hood as the Putties stole the toys.
249-SBR2
Grumble made a Dr. Seuss reference.
307-NjQ4
During Bulk and
Skull's training for the Junior Police
Patrol, Skull wondered why they couldn't
have joined the Boy Scouts instead.
323-DSP2
Tommy made an Addams
Family reference when Rita and Rito appeared in the park.
328-Chmp
Referring to a giant gorilla, Finster mentioned "King What's-his-name."
333-RIRv
The bumper on Lt.
Stone's car had a D.A.R.E. sticker on it.
336-CEvF
The bumper on the kids' schoolbus in the simulated past (see "Orb of
Doom") had a D.A.R.E. sticker on it. (Source: Submitted by "Josh G.")
339-WYTh
Young Skull wondered whether the Aquitian Rangers could beat Darth Vader, or a
Klingon, or Dracula.
Young Skull asked the Aquitians if they'd ever met Captain Kirk.
340-ACSp
Trying to think of places that had the
sophisticated equipment necessary to complete his crystal transformer
invention, Billy listed NASA and MIT but said
they were too far away; this was still in the past.
406-Outf
Shawn was nicknamed the
"Sultan of Swat," and Adam acknowledged that it
was Babe Ruth's nickname as well.
415-Sno1
At Angel Grove
Pines to sabotage warning signs, three silver Cogs carried snowboards and wore odd snowboarding
hats bearing the designs of the generic "Gray" type of alien.
437-SOAW
To remove the perfume smell from the model he was with, Skull used a huge barrel of tomato juice, a trick
he'd seen on an old rerun of The Partridge Family.
439-RCGo
Studying Greek mythology, Kat and Tanya decided to do a
ballet about the story of King Midas.
When Bulk and
Skull laughed at Jason and Adam doing ballet for Kat and
Tanya's ballet, Tanya
named Patrick Swayze, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Gene Kelley as masculine
dancers.
448-RTW2
Delphine
said that the Aquitians' Eternal Falls were like the humans' legendary Fountain of Youth.
500-TPRM
While his brain was scrambled, Skull spoke in a Spanish accent, calling himself
Antonio Montana, a reference to Al Pacino's role in the movie Scarface. (Source: Submitted by Derik Smith)
Tanya joked that the Ghost Galleon wasn't the Love Boat; Justin didn't catch the reference.
502-SIT2
Watching the Rangers hunt for a detonator, Divatox
laughed that they couldn't find pointy ears at a Star Trek convention.
505-TrIm
Amused that Visceron had been blown up while fighting
the Rangers, Divatox asked, "Isn't it ironic?"; Elgar replied to the camera, "Oh yeah. Don't you
think, kids?", alluding to the Alanis Morissette song "Ironic."
508-BBFB
Elgar wore Rygog's large torso armor, doing an Elvis
impression; further Elvis allusions were Adam's
distraction of a Piranhatron in 509-WLie, Elgar's
comparison of Griller to Elvis in
513-Cars, and Elgar's
distraction of the Rangers in 533-FIYT.
519-PTT2
Cassie had wanted to be
like Tina Turner rather than T.J.'s dream of being
a Power Ranger.
531-BTTW
Divatox alluded to
Aladdin's three wishes.
604-ShSh
The Earthen teens were surprised to learn that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were real.
616-FDrk
The four teens left the
Megaship without Andros to check out a planet in the Dagobah system for a few hours; in
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the Dagobah system was where
Luke Skywalker was sent by the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi to train with
Yoda.
632-COnC
In the Surf Spot, Carlos was playing a WWF arcade game.
701-QsQ1
The uniforms and gear worn by Terra Venture soldiers were nearly identical to those
featured in the movie Starship Troopers.
724-GrCr
Somewhere between the Milky Way and the Eurolean Galaxy was a large, rapidly moving
meteoroid field which impacted with a planet
with yellow continents and white "oceans," blowing the planet up.
A GSA report gave the coordinates of the meteoroid
field as, "[ten zero] eleven zero zero by zero two from galactic zero,"
in the constellation of Kasterborus; in Doctor Who, this was
actually the location of the planet Gallifrey,
the cradle of the oldest civilization in the galaxy, and the home planet
of the Time Lords and the Doctor himself.
804-REdg
Numerous monster
battles in Mariner Bay would take place in
a storage area of giant metal crates, many of which were clearly labeled
"Hyundai."
805-AMOT
A Coca Cola machine could be seen beside the ice
machine from which Earl refilled
his fuel cell box.
Pilot Episode
The Saban cartoon Samurai Pizza Cats was on TV when the live coverage from the moon broke in. (Source: Brent Crane)
After Alpha and Zoltar had introduced themselves, Zack mockingly said he was a Ninja Turtle.
MMPR fan club video
Asked who her superhero was, Trini chose Wonder Woman, since she was a female
superhero she could identify with.
On the topic of music, Zack mentioned liking Elton John and Billy Joel.
MMPR: The Movie
There was an IBM skyscraper in downtown Angel Grove.
Fred Kelman wore a Nike "Air Jordan" cap.
During his six thousand year imprisonment, Ivan Ooze had been aware of the passage of
history, including the Renaissance, the Black Plague, the Spanish
Inquisition, and the Brady Bunch reunion.
Driving up to his house, Mr. Kelman was listening to
"SenSurround" by They Might Be Giants.
There was a
"Gowings" sign in downtown Angel Grove;
this is actually a clothing store in Australia (Melbourne and Sydney, to be
exact).
"Cultural allusions."
Updated 5/7/05.
Edited by Joe Rovang. Content owned by Disney, used without permission.