I just updated the links page for this series of Blog Posts. You can view it here if you really need too. I always check it over and go "That's a pretty good list of shows you've discussed here sonny boy!" Then I go "Oh, I need to finish off that "set" or I really should talk about more pre-1980s shows (which will happen)" Then I think I should probably talk about more shows from my home country of Canada and then I realize I have another 202 posts to put on my BIG LIST of THINGS TO DISCUSS for this blog. I hope to unless something amazing in my life happens talk about those things. I want to because it seems fun to do so. Anyway I finished off one "set" when I did the Gummi Bears. No shows left related to the Disney Afternoon will show up on the Final Episode as the only other one left lasted one season and that's material for TV YOU FORGOT ABOUT. Believe you me you forgot about a whopper of a tv show. Anyway I'm going to try to finish up another "set" which is Power Rangers and Power Rangers ripoffs. I've done Mighty Morphin Power Rangers twice and uh VR Troopers. So I got a bunch left to talk about! SO LET'S GO!
I've mentioned DiC a lot here but I don't think I've ever talked about Saban Entertainment. I loved them too. Their little ending logo is stuck in my head alongside the DiC logo, the Nelvana logo and the screaming Pac Man NES game art from Tengen. Saban Entertainment was created by Haim Saban in 1980. It used to compose music for TV shows and TV themes. They worked with DiC and made likre 493249092 theme songs. If you heard music from a TV show in the 1980s there's a good chance it was from SHUKI LEVY, Haim Saban's best pal. I assume. I hope they are. I hear Haim Saban is kind of a jerkasaurus rex. Anyway they found out about Super Sentai or Tokusatsu or whateer it's called in Japan and realized HOLY SHIT WE CAN MAKE LIKE 9420429 CHEAP TV SHOWS OUT OF THIS FOOTAGE. They got in with Power Rangers and it was a fucking HUGE ASS HIT and that made it possible to make VR Troopers, Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad, Big Bad Beetleborgs, Teenager Tattooed Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills, Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (or osmething like that) and Masked Rider. All of that was from memory too. I really need to get laid. They then got sold to Disney and Haim Saban lives in a house made out of solid gold sleeping on a pile of money surrounded by beautiful women.
So who are THE SUPERHUMAN SAMURAI SYBER SQUAD? Well they are Matthew Lawrence one of the 82 LAWRENCE BROTHERS (along with his brother Joey and Andrew they were like ALL OVER THE 1980S AND 1990S). Matthew is the middle brother. He was in Ms. Doubtfire. I didn't really like Ms. Doubtfire. There I HAVE TOLD YOU A SECRET THAT WOULD MAKE PEOPLE HATE ME. Ms. Doubtfire was kind of annoying and I like Robin Williams! He also worked on Boy Meets World and uh did voice acting in Kiki's Delivery Service which is a very whimsical and enjoyable piece of animation. I like it a lot. He was also in a sequel to Angels in the Outfield. It wasn't even the only sequel! ISN'T THAT NICE TO KNOW! The other members of TEAM SAMURAI where the random girl, another boy and one of the characters from Parker Lewis Can't Lose. I should talk about that show as it's the most 1990s thing of all time. They end up having to work together to stop VIRUSes created by TIM CURRY.
Tim Curry, yes that Tim Curry. He is the most delightful thing in this universe. If portnoyd even says a single bad thing about him when he comments on this in a few days time I will go to his house and poop in every single NES game box. He owns like all of them, so I'm gonna have to make a lot of poop. Tim Curry is hilarious, entertaining, delightful and can make just about any line of dialouge work. I literally get 10% happier just seeing him show up in something. It doesn't even have to be for the entire movie, just 5 minutes but man I'm happy to see him. He plays the main bad guy of this series and when they are IN THE REAL WORLD he's helped by some mopey goth loser. in the 1990s goths were dorks but now everyone wants a goth girlfriend. Maybe with time, enough time everything can change adn we can all be happy. I don't know what I'm even going for with these comments so let's just jump off into who wrote the Final Episode.
It's Jymn Magon, from the Adventures of the Gummi Bears! I am glad I get to type his cool ass name again! Jymn helped create this show! With Mark Zaslove, son of animator Alan Zaslove. He worked on shows like Challenge of the Go-Bots, Mighty Max and All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series. Yes that had a 2 season series. Yes, I'll probably talk about it. No It wasn't very good. He was working as a writer up until 2020. 1985 to 2020. Damn good run! I will also Discuss Go-Bots and Mighty Max and am incredibly surprised that I have not done either at all!
I used to watch this on YTV and it was after I'm pretty sure some GIANT LOSER PARENTS WHO HAVE TO BUTT IN TO OTHER PEOPLES BUSINESS and they got Power Rangers off the air! TOO MUCH VIOLENCE (not really) but they never did anything about these ripoffs. Which were the same damn thing with some minor variations! I think that's another reason I hate influencers of today. They butt way too much into other peoples business! STOP THAT! WORRY ABOUT YOU AND YOUR STUPID UGLY KIDS! Bunch of shit. Anyway I liked this show and I liked every other Power Rangers like show EXCEPT FOR ONE. actually two BUT WE WILL GET TO THOSE AND WHY WHEN I GET TO THEM!
The Final Episode was called "Take A Hike" and appeared on our TV screens April 11, 1995. Almost 31 years ago. Insert joke about how my body will turn to dust soon but hopefully after I write about Mighty Max. Hopefully I can last THAT long! Anyway this episode involves THE COOL GUY who is an ATHLETE and ALL THE GIRLS (and probably some boys) WANT TO SNUGGLE WITH. He just wants to do the hike and get back home! However he can't because MATTHEW LAWRENCE ISN'T THERE! He is talking to TOM BOY GIRL.. Also this show has WEIRD GUY. They are the TEAM that SAM LEADS but he is off having fun with Jennifer. The PG kind you dirty bitch! the BLACK GIRL gives everyone some trail mix! this is wild shit!
the weird guy is named LUCKY and I already hate him. He is one of those FORCED WACKY characters. He wears glasses he can't see out of so he doesn't hurt his eyes and his radio gets static which makes TOM BOY GIRL happy because they are there to record sunspots or some shit. I dunno. Personally I'm just waiting for the rubber monsters! Like I did 31 years ago in 1995! We then get some SCIENTIFIC MUMBO JUMBO from TOM BOY GIRL. Then we move over to MALCOLM FRINK the human bad guy who helps KILOKHAN take over the world by destroying electrons with his EVIL RUBBER MONSTERES. Wait did Tim Curry not do this episode becuase wow that's not his voice and whoever is doing that is clearly not caring. The guy playing MALCOLM FRINK is clearly having fun though. I like him. He's a weird evil goth geek. He helps create the look of the monsters and then KILOKHAN brings them to life. This one is going to TAKE ALL THE WORLDS ELECTRICITY because of the SUNSPOTS or whatever the fuck.
THE RUBBER MONSTER is taken to the GRIDWORLD which somehow will EFFECT THE REAL WORLD. I don't know how so don't think too hard about it. Really. COOL ATHLETE MAN and the others just talk about things and make bad jokes. They try to get COOL ATHLETE MAN to do something and be a leader but he's JUST A WHINY BABY about it. I might try to TONE DOWN ON THE CAPS LOCK BUT I DON'T KNOW. They start losing electricty and KILOKHAN shows up on the computer screen and tells them what they will have to do. They want to meet up with Matthew Lawrence but they cannot because nothing works. They are all hoping Cool Athlete Man will take charge and not be a weiner. CAN'T HAVE A GIRL LEADING THE GROUP NOW CAN YOU? sorry maybe last use of caps lock.
She's trying to get him to be SERVO but he's like there's no turning on the computer or a guitar to start it up which I guess happened in other episodes. I dunno. This is honestly kinda boring. Anyway BLACK GIRL talks about WIND POWER and I guess that's what they will use to get into the GRIDWORLD to punch the RUBBER MONSTER out. The get yolonda the black girl to clime a tree to get more wind. You know VR Troopers was goofy but I remember at least not thinking it's Final Episode was BORING AS FUCK. Holy hot hannah. They still wonder about the guitar needed but WEIRD GUY pulls one out and says he was going to JAM OUT WITH THE SUN. Okay I kinda like this goober.
So they need the doohicky that turns MATTHEW LAWRENCE into SERVO so that Cool Athlete Guy can become Servo and go in and fight the Rubber Monster. Cool Athlete Man comes out and finally admits that he doesn't trust himself to be able to do it. SOME BORING HORSESHIT IS TALKED THROUGH and he feels good about being able to do it. Woo. Oh they have a FLASHBACK to Matthew and Cool Athlete Guy becomes Servo! Oh no they can't do it now! I'm pretty sure they realized they had like 7 minutes left and needed another OH NO WHAT WILL HAPPEN commercial break ending. They fix what was wrong. He goes in and fights the Rubber Monster in what seems to be the quickest damn fight in the world. He saves the day, leaves and Yolanda falls out of a tree. She does not see him come out of the Computer and the day is saved.
FINAL THOUGHTS: I decided to watch this because it seemed like it would be a fun piece of 90s cheese that was goofy and charming and I'd think back to the DAYS OF YORE. What I got was a very boring episode that felt very "Oh shit we got 52 episodes to make or Andy Hayward will cut our heads off!" and just came out with this. It didn't annoy me as much as say HANGING WITH MR COOPER but I guess there really was a reason the only thing I remembered about this show was the GREAT title. You gotta give it that much at least!
I definitely still forgot about the last show.
ReplyDeleteHaim Saban is worth like a billion dollars. Not an exaggeration about sleeping on a bed of gold. Off what? POWER RANGERS BULLSHIT. What are we doing wrong with our lives?
Mrs Doubtfire is... ok. I guess this will turn into a mini-review of it AND WATCH AS I MAKE YOUR BLOG EVEN BETTER. I know WOKE FOLKS will be like "this makes fun of trans people" but really, this makes fun of parents who are fucking creepy. Like, this is a sitcom that doesn't exist called DRAG DAD (I stole this from MTV's The State). Robin Williams dresses up as an 80 year old woman to creep on his kids. And then he creeps on his ex. It's really a WACKY 90s MOVIE more than anything, but it's truly in bad taste lol. It's an ok movie overall, because Robin Williams carries the movie and everyone else in it basically spends the entire movie being exasperated in one form or another. I cannot criticize you for not liking it.
The Lawrence brothers were handed out rent free for everything late 80s/early 90s. I want to decline Joey Lawrence for a bank loan and go "WHOA, you got rejected".
The only bad thing I will say about Tim Curry is after his stroke, it was time to retreat from public life. It's... not good. He does cons and he doesn't sign autographs because he literally can't. Honestly, if you could pick 100 celebrities to get a stroke, you would not pick Tim Curry. Probably 250. So it sucks. He is a treasure.
Funny how JMMIN MYGOG shows up again. I bet there is an interesting ORAL HISTORY or FICTIONAL BIOPIC that could be made about the 80s/90s kid TV show hustle. These guys all got around and were probably on call for anyone trying to get into the kid show business.
Too much violence? In Power Rangers? The human rangies never even make contact with any adverseries and the robot fights are foam suits. WAY TO GO CANADA
Ok so I genuinely did read the write up of the episode but if you told me this was literally any of the other Super Sentai shows with white people grafted on, I would believe you. Hell, if you made up a show called CYBER FIGHT ORGANISMS and said that this episode write up was for it, I'd also believe you. You can slot in this white people plot onto any of these shows.
From what I've rewatched of these shows. They seemed to do the best white people plots for Power Rangers. they knew that was the one the kids liked the best. for the ripoffs it wouldn't really amaze me if they had like 150-200 random stock plots that they could jam into any series. The characters are less developed then the Power Rangers were and the Power Rangers were like not amazingly developed.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I'd pick anyone to get a stroke you weirdo.
Did you know that all three of them had their own sitcom in like 1999 or 2000. it failed which showed us that the Day of the Lawrence and thus the PAST was over.
I would watch a fake biopic on a 70s/80s/90s kids tv writer. he or she could start in 1977 with some ruby spears show as a writer and work his or her way up to being the showrunner on some kids show. a really popular one too. I'd watch it.
To be fair, I haven't seen Ms Doubtfire since I was a child. I just thought it was kinda annoying then too.
I at least respect Haim for like hustling for decades to become a billionaire. Yeah it was over the cheapest crap you could make but the man spent like a decade or two having to make music for tv shows. I hear he's a very unfriendly dude but as far as billionaires go I still like him more than Melon Husk.