Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers

This article is about a/an two-part episode in Power Rangers Turbo, the third season in the Zordon Era .

Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers

Power Rangers Turbo, Episode 5x16, 5x17

Air Date(s)

May 21, 1997 (Part 1)
September 9, 1997 (Part 2)

Production Information

Written by

Shell Danielson

Directed by

Judd Lynn
Koichi Sakamoto

Episode Guide

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Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers is a two-part episode and the sixteenth & seventeenth episodes of Power Rangers Turbo.

Synopsis[]

At a charity clean-up drive, Divatox's latest monster, Shrinkasect, flies into the Blue Senturion's head and makes him go berserk before shrinking him, and then shrinks Tommy, Kat, Adam, and Tanya to the size of bugs, who then get captured by Divatox.

While aboard Divatox's submarine, the four Rangers discover that they will permanently turn into actual insects if they don't return to normal size as soon as possible. So, they try to make their escape, while Justin, the sole unshrunken Ranger, searches all of Angel Grove for both his micro-sized teammates and Bulk & Skull, who are driving a car with a soda can loaded with one of Divatox's detonators.

Plot[]

Part 1[]

Tommy, Kat, Adam, Tanya, Justin and Stone are among those present at the park as Mayor Carrington announces the Beautify Angel Grove scheme: Whichever team picks up the most rubbish wins $500 for the charity or project of their choice. The group split up into various teams supervising children. Divatox observes events and Elgar and Rygog take her declaration that she'll clean their clocks a bit too literally.

The team including Adam and Justin are watched by the chimpified Bulk and Skull. Bulk suggests if they collect the most trash, people will realize they're human. The plan is cut short by Stone dragging them away. Divatox send Elgar with a group of Piranhatrons, knowing the Rangers won't morph in front of the children. Adam has Justin lead the other children into cover behind a dumpster while he tries to battle the monsters unmorphed. Blue Senturion comes to their rescue, driving off Elgar's party.

Divatox tells Porto to make her a stronger drink and takes over from the Piranhatrons arm-wrestling Elgar as she complains that the Rangers' team-up with Blue Senturion makes them too strong. A fly lands on the back of Blue Senturion's head, which sends him into a confused state until Adam brushes it off. This gives Divatox an idea and she has Porto fetch Shrinkasect, who is capable of shrinking down to a fly. She tells him to plant a detonator disguised as a drinks can in Angel Grove, unnoticed by the Rangers.

At the Youth Club, Adam fills in the other Rangers on Elgar's appearance. Bulk and Skull steal Stone's car keys so they can start their trash collecting plan. Stone asks Carlos and Ashley if they've seen the two chimps. Shrinkasect's attempt to get into the Youth Center is foiled when he crashes into a glass door and drops the can. Bulk and Skull collect it as their first piece of rubbish and drive off in Stone's car. Stone buys a little girl's bike and helmet for $50 to chase after them.

Shrinkasect sees the Blue Senturion helping an old lady across the road and flies into his head, causing him to drag her back and forth until they finally reach the other side and she gives him a kick. Alpha and Dimitria observe this and Dimitria suggests contacting the Rangers. The quintet have just left Ashley and Carlos behind at the club when they get Alpha's message and teleport to the park, where the Blue Senturion has gone haywire and is threatening to self-destruct.

Bulk and Skull drive past, having picked up some roadside rubbish. Justin is sent to stop them: He morphs and jumps onto the roof of the car. The other Rangers manage to restrain Blue Senturion and open up his head after Tanya and Adam identify the buzzing noise. Shrinkasect flies out and reverts to normal size. Tommy briefly fights him as they try to get the Blue Senturion to safety. Shrinkasect shrinks a trash can Tommy used as a shield down to about an inch high, then does the same to Blue Senturion. The four Rangers morph as he shrinks other objects but then Elgar and some Piranhatrons join the fray. Shrinkasect manages to shrink the four of them and Elgar raises a boot to crush them...

Bulk pulls over on realizing there's a Power Ranger on the roof. Justin leaves Stone to handle the chimps, unaware there's still a detonator in the back of the car. He returns to the park unmorphed to find it apparently deserved. Blue Senturion attracts his attention and tells him the other Rangers have been captured.

On the sub, Elgar presents Divatox with a box containing the four Rangers. As she declares this their last voyage, the Rangers are apparently unaware they now have fly wings on their backs.

Part 2[]

Divatox taunts the shrunken Rangers, then has Elgar place the box somewhere safe (after he's made a point of shaking it). The Rangers spot their wings and realize they are turning into insects. Adam manages to rip a hole in the side and the Rangers climb down a pearl necklace. They are spotted by the crew but Porto accidentally trips Elgar, and the Rangers take refuge behind a console where he can't reach them. Divatox grabs Tanya with her tongue after sticking it through a grill but Tommy shoots it (Elgar throwing a bucket of water over her doesn't improve her mood). Rygog rips the console away, as Tommy and Kat blast a hole in a pipe and the Rangers slide down it. Divatox has Shrinkasect shrink a group of Piranhatrons and sends them down the pipe after them. The Rangers battle the shrunken Piranhatrons and defeat them.

At the Power Chamber, Justin and Alpha examine the shrunken and now haywire again Blue Senturion. Justin unsuccessfully tries to contact the other Rangers.

Meanwhile, Stone laments his inability to control the chimps. Bulk and Skull take the opportunity to slip away with a rubbish bag, after placing the can detonator inside it.

The four Rangers explore the workings of the sub and find they now have antenna. After an encounter with two eels, they discover their hands have also become pincers. They find their way to Divatox's closet (which she loses a contact lens searching). They grab Elgar's toy car as transport and make their way to the torpedo bay, where they wonder if the torpedoes, which grow monsters to giant size will make them normal size. They manage to pull the launch key and mount two torpedoes as they launch.

Tommy contacts Justin at the Power Chamber and explains the plan. Justin concludes if he gets Blue Senturion to the beach where the torpedoes are about to hit, it might return him to the correct size as well. Alpha reports there's a detonator on the beach: Bulk and Skull are there, collecting rubbish. Justin morphs and heads down there. Divatox notices the launch and then Justin, sending Shrinkasect after him.

The torpedoes strike, with Bulk and Skull watching from the rocks. All five who have been shrunk return to normal size and lose their insect characteristics. A giant-sized Shrinkasect appears and the Rangers form the Turbo Megazord. Shrinkasect throws a net over them but Blue Senturion comes to their aid in the Robo Racer, freeing the Megazord and then blasting Shrinkasect to bits. Divatox takes comfort in the fact she still has the detonator.

Bulk and Skull prepare to start their rubbish collecting again. Justin appears and retrieves the can, which was dropped in the confusion. He throws it away just before it explodes. Bulk and Skull are wreathed in smoke. Justin looks round but can see no sign of them so leaves. Bulk and Skull can be heard concluding that, from feeling their heads, they know they're not chimps anymore...but they are invisible.

Cast[]

Jason David Frank as Tommy Oliver (Red Turbo Ranger) (morphed only in Part 2)
Blake Foster as Justin Stewart (Blue Turbo Ranger)
Johnny Yong Bosch as Adam Park (Green Turbo Ranger) (morphed only in Part 2)
Nakia Burrise as Tanya Sloan (Yellow Turbo Ranger) (morphed only in Part 2)
Catherine Sutherland as Katherine "Kat" Hillard (Pink Turbo Ranger) (morphed only in Part 2)
David Walsh as Blue Senturion (voice)
Roger Velasco as Carlos Vallerte (Part 1 only) (uncredited)
Tracy Lynn Cruz as Ashley Hammond (Part 1 only) (uncredited)
Paul Schrier as Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier (voice)
Jason Narvy as Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch (voice)
Gregg Bullock as Jerome Stone
??? as Mayor Carrington (Part 1 only)
Carol Hoyt as Divatox and Dimitria
Donene Kistler as Alpha 6
Katerina Luciani as Alpha 6 (voice)
David Walsh as Blue Senturion (voice)
Kenny Graceson as Elgar
David Umansky as Elgar (voice)
Ed Neil as Rygog
Lex Lang as Rygog (voice)
Scott Page-Pagter as Porto (voice)
Michael J. Sorich as Shrinkasect (voice)

Zords[]

Songs[]

You're Gone, Piranhatrons

Errors[]

In Part I, when the kids load the truck with trash bags, two of the bags thrown are on the tailgate. But in the next shot, they're now piled on top of the other bags in the bed.
In Part I, Elgar could have revealed the secret identity to Adam and Justin as Power Rangers in the presence of the children, but for some reason he doesn't.
- This has never been a priority for the villains, and in this case, their attack depends on the children not knowing the pair are Power Rangers, forcing them to stay unmorphed to protect their anonymity.
In Part I, in some scenes throughout, the crew's reflection is visible off of Blue Senturion's visor.
In Part I, the Netflix subtitles mistakenly have Justin saying "Melted Plaster Turbo Power" while morphing instead of his usual morphing call.
In Part I, Blue Senturion was back to normal after having Shrinkasect removed from his head. But in Part II, while shrunk, Blue Senturion makes nonsensical comments like he had when he had Shrinkasect in his head.
- This was due to him becoming more bug-like, like the Rangers did while they were shrunk. The buzzing was damaging his systems.
In Part II, when Tommy says "Don't worry guys. We'll get through this." Tanya stunt double's face is visible through her visor.
In Part II, when Piranhatrons retreat the Rangers shift a bit.
In Part II, when the Rangers activate the torpedoes, the camera's color is off, as the Rangers suits are more duller than normal.
- A similar error also happens when Alpha 6 notifies Justin that a detonator is on the beach, where Katherine appears to be more grey than pink on the monitor.
In Part II, when Justin morphs, an object appears in front of him during the sequence
In Part II, when the Rangers and Blue Senturion return to normal, the crew's reflection is visible off their helmets.
In Part II, despite being at the beach, the Megazord battle takes place in the city.
In Part II, the scene when Justin looks back at the now invisible Bulk and Skull, is repeated again when Bulk and Skull realize they're humans and invisible, but is now in slow motion.

Notes[]

Part I of this episode aired the same day as Big Bad Beetleborgs episode 53, Vexor's Last Laugh.
Part II of this episode aired the same day as Beetleborgs Metallix episode 2, Metallix Rising.
During production of Turbo, a completely different episode titled "Rangers in Concert" (written by Coleen White) was originally meant to be the mid-season finale. It would've focused on not only Carlos (whose surname was originally "Chavez") and Ashley (who was originally named "Missy"), but also Lt. Stone's niece Jenny Hunter (from "Cars Attacks", and she was originally named "Ashley"), as well as introduce Tanya's intern at KAGV named Michael (who was a prototype of T.J.), as well as have the current Power Rangers fighting a cockroach monster called the Rockin' Roach. At the end of the episode, the Blue Senturion would have been fixed, and show Tommy, Kat, Adam, and Tanya the full Millennium Message, revealing Michael, Ashley, Carlos, and Missy as the next team and the ones who save the world from the United Alliance of Evil. But this script was scrapped following the departure of Doug Sloan and Ann Austen. However, "Passing the Torch" works on the possibility that the retiring Rangers did see the full Millennium Message. [1]
Tracy Lynn Cruz (Ashley Hammond) and Roger Velasco (Carlos Vallerte) do not appear in Part II of this episode.
Part I contains only one shot of Carranger footage, that of Blue Senturion banging his head against the wall as seen on the Power Chamber's monitor.
This episode is a pun to the 1989 Disney movie, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
Final appearance and acknowledgement of Mayor Carrington.
Bulk & Skull are turned back into humans, but become invisible instead. They'll next appear in "Stitch Witchery".
Justin is the only Turbo Ranger to appear unmorphed in Part II.
In Part II, Divatox says to Elgar, "You know, one of these days Elgar, one of these days, Pow! Right to the Moon!" This is a reference to the character Ralph Kramden's famous catchphrase from the 1955 sitcom The Honeymooners.
The click sounds heard before and after the Blue Senturion's sentences changes after Part II.
This is the second time where Tommy and Kat are shrunk. The first being "A Small Problem" of Power Rangers Zeo.
It shows that the Growth Torpedoes can do more than just enlarged monsters, but also the fumes can undo any transformations.
When the Rangers were tiny, Divatox calls them Mighty Morsel Power Rangers a nod to the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.