Nine Morphenomenal Power Rangers Episodes to Watch This Halloween
It's almost Halloween and that means three things are on everyone's mind, costumes, monsters and monster costumes. You could spend your entertainment hours trying to get your fill of all that jazz through conventional methods, but I propose the more efficient alternative of living vicariously through The Power Rangers -- or as I like to call them, mankind's single greatest collective contribution to existence. After all, with their constant costumed monster slaying, they deliver all of the Halloween hotness a human requires. Regardless of whether or not you agree with that line of completely unreasonable reasoning, you should nevertheless take note of this list of essential Power Rangers Halloween episodes to watch from the franchise's various seasons (which are all available to watch instantly on Netflix, by the way) after the jump.
Tommy, Kimberly and Blue Ranger Billy spend their Halloween chaperoning little kids on trick or treating adventures through Angel Grove. The rest of the team is vaguely unaccounted for (although they're supposedly on their way to do the same), which probably means they were cruising to their local Tower Records to buy Korn's debut self-titled debut album. Lord Zedd realizes that it would be awesome to transport the team to a Hell-like dimension, where they would face an army of recycled monsters from previous episodes. He does this with the aid of footsoldiers dressed in horribly insulting Power Rangers costumes featuring prominent "Z" belt buckles. The way the episode is shot would suggest that Tommy was fooled into a trap by taking these kids out to trick-or-treat, but true Power Rangers fans can only conclude that he was merely biding his time in an effort to take the villains on alone and further cement his reputation as a badass. After a bunch of boring stuff that doesn't involve Tommy beating up everyone by himself happens, the Pumpkin Rapper winds up making his squashy return, this time growing to giant size. Unimpressed with his latest batch of raps, the assembled Rangers quickly defeat him again.