This article is about a/an episode in Power Rangers Turbo, the third season in the Zordon Era . |
The Whole Lie is the ninth episode of Power Rangers Turbo.
Synopsis[]
Justin is put under a spell which forces him to always tell lies, causing Piranhatrons to appear in large numbers.
Plot[]
As Tommy drives at the Angel Grove Racing Technologies raceway, Stone hosts a carwash in front of the Youth Center to help keep the Angel Grove High baseball team on the fields. The rest of the Rangers are there helping, while Monkey Bulk and Skull lament their lack of involvement due to their predicament. Suddenly, Porto teleports down and watches the team before planting a detonator into a wash bucket without anyone seeing him. Justin catches Porto and wonders if he is seeing things, only to follow the latter and see that he is not. Porto summons Mouthpiece behind Justin, and the monster fires a beam from his Deception Ray at the Blue Ranger. With their job done, Porto and Mouthpiece teleport away as Kat comes to check on Justin. Justin claims to be okay and did not see Porto, only for some Piranhatrons to teleport and attack the two Rangers. They defeat the Piranhatrons and go back to the carwash.
At Divatox’s sub, the space pirate is pleased that the Deception Ray worked, and Porto reveals that for every lie Justin says, a Piranhatron will appear. This pleases Divatox even more, as the Rangers will be too distracted to defuse the detonator Porto planted.
Back at the carwash, Monkey Bulk and Skull decide to have some fun at Stone’s expense by cutting off the hose and spraying at him, much to everyone’s amusement. However, Justin claims he did not see it, leading to a Piranhatron appearing. Concerned about Justin, Kat sends Justin inside for some juice but has Tanya come with her to watch over him. Kat expresses concern about Justin’s recent lies as she knows he has been honest. Tanya asks Justin if anything unusual happened, but the latter says he saw nothing. As Justin continues to lie, more Piranhatrons teleport to the carwash and scare away everyone. Adam stays behind as the other Rangers arrive to help him.
Justin gets caught by some Piranhatrons but claims he does not need help, leading more to teleport to fight the Rangers. Tanya catches on, figures what's going on and tells Justin not to say another word, with her and the other Rangers coming to the young boy’s help. With the Piranhatrons defeated, Tanya and Kat take Justin to the Power Chamber to see what is going on, while Adam stays behind to keep a lookout for anything out of the ordinary. But Adam is unaware of the detonator inside the wash bucket as it ticks down.
At the Power Chamber, Tanya and Kat explain Justin’s situation to Dimitria, refusing to let the latter speak at the risk of having Piranhatrons inside the base. As Alpha 6 prepares the Turbo Navigator, the alarm goes off at Mouthpiece’s appearance. Tanya contacts Adam and Tommy for help, while Kat tells Justin to stay in the Power Chamber and say nothing.
Adam, Tanya, and Kat morph before confronting Mouthpiece and his squad of Piranhatrons. Alpha 6 contacts Tommy again and tells him about Mouthpiece, the latter teleporting to battle morphed. As Tommy restrains Mouthpiece, the latter fires at the other Rangers with the Deception Ray, making them fall under the same spell Justin is under. The Rangers begin to lie, and more Piranhatrons come to overwhelm them, just as Mouthpiece brings Tommy to his knees.
As Divatox watches the fight, she gleefully tells Mouthpiece to keep the Rangers busy, as they will never get to the detonator in time.
At the Power Chamber, Justin and Alpha watch the fight from the viewing screen with Mouthpiece blasting Tommy with the Deception Ray. Alpha begs Justin to break the spell, but the latter has no idea how. Dimitria asks if Justin could tell a lie that is also the truth, but the latter does not know if he can, as everything he says is a lie. Fortunately, saying that admission causes the spell to disappear from Justin, and he can finally speak the truth. Now that he knows how to save the others, Justin morphs and makes it to the battle.
As Piranhatrons restrain the Rangers, Justin gets his friends to tell a lie that is also true. It works, and they are free from the spell. Justin kicks Mouthpiece aside as Tommy summons the Turbo R.A.M.. Once they reconfigure it into Cannon Mode, they fire at Mouthpiece and overpower the latter’s beam, knocking him aside.
Seeing that Mouthpiece is not doing well, Divatox orders Elgar, who is being tangled by an unknown tentacle creature, to fire the torpedoes. The torpedoes are launched, and Mouthpiece grows.
The Rangers summon the Turbo Zords and form the Turbo Megazord. Mouthpiece fires at the Megazord, but Justin counterattacks with the Turbo Headlight Blaster, weakening the monster. Because the detonator is still out there, the Rangers finish Mouthpiece off with the Turbo Megazord Spinout before returning to the Youth Center.
The Rangers teleport to the Youth Center and search for the detonator. Bulk and Skull try to come to them, believing they can help them return to humans, but they accidentally knock over the buckets and launch the detonator into the air. Fortunately, the detonator lands in a bucket of soap water, and the explosion turns into a stream of water flying out. The Rangers thank the monkeys, still unaware that they are Bulk and Skull.
Back at the sub, Divatox demands to know which one of her minions had the idea of making the Rangers tell lies. As the trio are not keen on telling the truth at the risk of being punished, Divatox is left fuming at another failed plan.
At the Juice Bar, Justin vows never to tell any real lies by free will and promises to tell the truth from now on, making Kat & Tanya proud, as Stone announces they raised enough money to save the baseball team. To celebrate, Stone gives the Rangers each a new juice recipe he made and asks for their honest opinions. The juices taste terrible, and Justin gives his honest opinion to Stone, which the girls agree too. Surprisingly, Stone is not upset and not a bit surprised, for he figured the chimps added bad ingredients behind his back, and he catches them mixing a smoothie without a lid on.
Cast[]
- Jason David Frank as Tommy Oliver (Red Turbo Ranger) (voice and archived footage only)
- Blake Foster as Justin Stewart (Blue Turbo Ranger)
- Johnny Yong Bosch as Adam Park (Green Turbo Ranger)
- Nakia Burrise as Tanya Sloan (Yellow Turbo Ranger)
- Catherine Sutherland as Katherine "Kat" Hillard (Pink Turbo Ranger)
- Paul Schrier as Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier (voice)
- Jason Narvy as Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch (voice)
- Gregg Bullock as Jerome Stone
- Carol Hoyt as Divatox and Dimitria
- Donene Kistler as Alpha 6
- Katerina Luciani as Alpha 6 (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)
- Ezra Weisz as Mouthpiece (voice)
Zords[]
Songs[]
- Here Comes the Power Again
- 5-4-1 (instrumental)
- Enemies Beware (instrumental)
Errors[]
- Dimitria claims that the key to breaking the spell is to tell a lie which is also the truth, but the Rangers broke the spell simply by telling the truth which the spell should have prevented. However, Justin's truth was also a lie as he would normally never lie.
- This one is actually tricky as the truths told were conditional. Because the Rangers were under a spell, the truths that were said were supposed to be lies. The other Rangers' answer of "Never" to Justin's question is a truth since normally they would tell Justin the truth to a question, and a lie because they were under a spell, so they were supposed to never be able to answer with the truth. Essentially, the lies/truths were Paradoxes.
- When the school of Pirahnatron show up at the car wash, Adam and Lieutenant Stone are standing next to each other counting the car wash money. In the next few shots, Adam is now suddenly behind the Luitenant and catches the jar of money he throws.
- The footage of Mouthpiece growing is in the wrong order; Mouthpiece is shown being hit by Divatox's torpedoes then is instantly giant-sized, only to then have shown his face turning red and steam blowing out before growing again.
- The Rangers searched for the detonator at the car wash without the aid of the Turbo Navigator.
- When Kat inserts her key into her Morpher, the key is actually too low to trigger the Turbo Powers.
Notes[]
- Kat says that the monkeys should be detectives. This is is a reference to Bulk and Skull's occupation in Power Rangers Zeo after quitting the Junior Police Force in "Bulk Fiction".
- Tommy does not appear in this episode unmorphed, aside from recycled racing footage from "Shift Into Turbo".
- The instrumental of "5-4-1" is featured in this episode during the Rangers' fight with the Piranhatrons.
- Justin's last name is revealed to be Stewart.
- This episode takes place on the 9th of June 1997, as revealed by the date on Justin's homework.
See Also[]
- Ep. 7: Blue Has No Entry?! - Super Sentai counterpart in Carranger. See comparison page. (fight footage)