![]() Then, series regular Steve Cardenas (whose autograph still hangs in my room to this day) decided to leave the show to open up his own karate dojo, prompting Rocky to be written off in the movie and replaced by newcomer Justin – a pre-teen child who gained an adult form when morphed to keep up with the Sentai footage. For starters, several of the elements and plotlines previously established in Zeo were unceremoniously dropped between seasons without explanation (for instance, the show gives no real in-universe reason for the Rangers to abandon the Zeo powers in favor for the far less interesting Turbo ones). This was just the start of the issues plaguing Turbo. Last thing people expect when you advertise a movie with the Rangers zooming around in supercars is them sitting around in a dusty old boat for an hour). For starters, the new season was launched not with a few TV episodes (those came later), but with a theatrical film that only gained a lukewarm response from fans and critics (in their defense, it was pretty boring. Henceforth, Saban decided to pull some drastic changes in the next iteration in an attempt to spice things up – although a great many of these changes would backfire, at least at first. ![]() ![]() That’s right, this week I’m reviewing the 22nd Power Rangers Turbo episode, “Trouble By The Slice.”īut first, some backstory for the season in general, since I don’t think I had the time to cover it before: by the time Power Rangers Zeo had concluded its run at the tail end of 1996, ratings for the series had begun to slide due to increased competition from other shows like Dragonball Z and Pokémon. It’s Pizza Time! Again! Uncanny Fox here, continuing my look at a couple of food-themed Power Rangers episodes with one of the most infamous and bizarre stories in all of the franchise’s nearly three decades of existence… the time the Rangers got baked into a giant pizza. ![]()
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