 This article is about an episode in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
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For Whom The Bell Trolls is the ninth episode of the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
The dream ending to this episode has become infamous amongst fans for its contrived ending.
Synopsis[]
In a dream, Rita Repulsa casts a spell bringing Trini's doll Mr. Ticklesneezer to life. She then orders him to capture the Rangers for her. He manages to trap Trini, and Billy. Now the other Rangers must find a way to free their friends, and stop Mr. Ticklesneezer's collecting spree, before they too end up a part of his collection.
Plot[]
It's Hobby Week at Angel Grove High. In Miss Appleby's class, the Rangers each present their hobbies. Trini shows off her dolls, including Mr. Ticklesneezer. Jason does a Bo staff demonstration; Zack talks about surfing with his surfboard at hand; Kimberly does a handstand on the teacher's desk; and Billy brings in a miniature volcano set. Bulk and Skull heckle the Rangers' hobbies; even Skull, who normally has a crush on Kimberly, is criticizing her skills. When the kids are dismissed, Bulk and Skull play keep away with Trini's doll but they end up making a mess thanks to Billy's volcano. Billy and Trini laugh.
That night, Trini prepares for bed and puts Mr. Ticklesneezer on her nightstand, turning off the lights.
Rita wants Mr. Ticklesneezer, so Squatt sneaks into Trini's room at night when she's asleep. Using some kind of gadget, Squatt makes Ticklesneezer life sized. The two teleport to Rita's palace. Rita learns that Ticklesneezer magically collects things in Goody Bottles and orders him to capture the Rangers. He's not inherently evil so he's a little reluctant to listen to her.
The next day, Billy helps Trini look for her missing doll. The two, while driving in Trini's car, run into the grown Ticklesneezer. He sucks them into his Goody Bottle, as well as many other objects in the city (including planes and trains). Zordon alerts the other three Rangers to go help their comrades.
The Rangers morph and go to the railyard where Goldar, Baboo, Squatt and the Putties are. Ticklesneezer trips and loses the bottle with Trini and Billy inside. Pink Ranger grabs it, but Goldar knocks it out of her hand and on to the railroad tracks. Pink Ranger manages to save it before the train runs over it. After escaping, Billy and Trini morph.
Rita, in a balcony of some apartment, orders Ticklesneezer to collect the Rangers. He refuses because he doesn't have a bottle. She makes him grow. Ticklesneezer captures the Megazord as a goody, but Red Ranger's summoning of the Mega Sword frees them from the bottle. The Megazord takes a bottle and begins to suck up Rita and her goons, but they teleport away.
The Rangers tell Ticklesneezer to return everything back to its original place. Trini then wakes up and realizes that it was all just a dream. She panics when her doll is not in its place on her nightstand, but is relieved when she finds it on the floor. She states that she really has too much Rita on her mind and falls asleep again, holding her beloved doll.
The next day, as Hobby Week is about to come to an end, Bulk and Skull show their hobby to the class - their flea circus. However, all the fleas escaped and are crawling all over Miss Appleby.
Cast[]
- Austin St. John as Jason Lee Scott (Mighty Morphin Red Ranger)
- Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan (Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger)
- Walter Jones as Zack Taylor (Mighty Morphin Black Ranger)
- Amy Jo Johnson as Kimberly Ann Hart (Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger)
- David Yost as Billy Cranston (Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger)
- Paul Schrier as Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier
- Jason Narvy as Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch
- Royce Herron as Ms. Appleby
- David Fielding as Zordon
- Romy J. Sharf as Alpha 5
- Richard Steven Horvitz as Alpha 5 (voice)
- Machiko Soga as Rita Repulsa
- Barbara Goodson as Rita Repulsa (voice)
- Takashi Sakamoto as Goldar
- Kerrigan Mahan as Goldar (voice) (as Ryan O'Flannigan)
- Takako Iiboshi as Finster
- Robert Axelrod as Finster (voice)
- Minoru Watanabe as Squatt
- Michael J. Sorich as Squatt (voice)
- Hideaki Kusaka as Baboo
- Dave Mallow as Baboo (voice (as Colin Phillips)
- Tom Wyner as Mr. Ticklesneezer (voice)
- Shinsuke Watanabe as unnamed giant boy (stock footage error)
Errors[]
- Outside and inside shots of Trini's bedroom window do not match. The window inside is much bigger than the external ones and the internal one has open curtains although all the ones shown from the outside are closed.
- Judging by Trini's dream she knows the exact layout of Rita's palace interior.
- After the Pink Ranger rescues Billy and Trini from being ran over by the train, her belt is missing in the scene.
- The Megazord's weapon is again called the Mega Sword instead of Power Sword.
- Because Sentai footage was used, one of the objects Ticklesneezer collected was Japan's Tokyo Tower, another one being a bullet train.
Toshio, you're not supposed to be here.
- As the Rangers use one of Ticklesneezer's bottles to suck up Rita and her gang, Toshio from the Zyuranger version of this episode briefly appears due to the footage being improperly edited.
- When Billy and Trini morph, the morphing sequence is in the wrong order, with Trini morphing before Billy.
- Ticklesneezer's voice switches between his dunce voice and what is presumably Tom Wyner's natural speaking voice in his goodie collecting escapades when he first came to Earth.
Notes[]
- The episode title is a play on the title of the John Donne poem For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- This is the first appearance of Squatt in American footage.
- This is the first time that the theme song does not play during a Megazord fight.
- It is revealed that Bulk and Skull's first names are Farkas and Eugene, respectively.
- As originally written by Ronnie Sperling and Jeff Deckman, the episode did not end as a dream. The dream idea was added because the producers did not want to end the episode with Ticklesneezer still around in the "real" world, and to give the events a sense of mysticism. The preceding events are not consistent with the ending.
- This is the first appearance of Miss Appleby, the Rangers' multi-subject teacher who would remain on the show until Turbo's "Alarmed and Dangerous".
- This is the first episode another Ranger commands the morph other than Jason.
- This is the first episode Trini commands the morph. She uses the phrase “let’s kick some Putty!” as Billy and herself morph.
See Also[]
- Ep. 14: Become Small! - Super Sentai counterpart in Zyuranger. See comparison page. (fight footage and story)