1.33 The Yolk's on You!

Episode 33, Season 1

The Yolk’s on You!

Writer: Cheryl Saban

Director: Terence H. Winkless

Episode Summary:

Jason and Tommy approach Principal Caplan and suck up to him by telling him what a great idea his talent show was.  Trini is helping Ernie organize the show by gathering props and making sure the talent is prepared.  As Trini mentions her prop gathering duties Tommy realizes he forgot his and Jason’s belts.  So I suppose they’re doing something karate oriented for this show.

Finster delivers a soliloquy wherein we discover that it’s Rita’s birthday!  He creates his own monster and sends it to Earth to make Rita oh so happy on this day of hers.  We find Tommy playfully kicking leaves in the park when putties attack him and steal his communicator and morpher.  At least this time he was wearing his communicator.

Bulk and Skull are trying to eat eggs on the set of the talent show when we cut away to Finster’s monster, affectionately known as Fang, upset at Squatt and Baboo for eating his beloved Gooney Bird eggs.  The parallelism astounds me.

Rita and her goons keep telling Fang that if he kills the Rangers he can have all the Gooney Bird eggs he wants – and my how he tries.   After Tommy breaks free from his putty captors, he calls on Dragonzord to help the Rangers form Ultrazord and take this mother out.

We conclude with Jason and Tommy doing a synchronized karate routine ending in breaking a board.  Which really holds nothing to Bulk and Skull’s rock song.  The teens laugh and the closing credits roll.

Facts:

-First on-screen – Jason and Tommy

-First line – “Hi, Mr C” - Jason

-Focus – Tommy and Jason

-Last Line – “Kiyah!” – Tommy and Jason

-Angel Grove has a dam

-today is Rita’s birthday

Observations:

I’m a bit sad that I didn’t know it was Rita’s birthday ahead of time.  I didn’t even get her a card.  I would have appreciated more of an effort on her henchmen’s part to actually throw her a party.  That would have been some cute comic relief.

That said, I did not appreciate Fang’s weird horrible pseudo-Mexican accent.  Not to mention he was basically being used by Rita.  This makes him a more tragic monster than her others.  All he wanted was his Gooney Bird eggs and they kept telling him the Rangers stole them. 

Something I put together watching this episode – Bulk and Skull are the comic relief of the teens world.  Baboo and Squatt are the comic relief of the evil monster world.  B&S?  And they both stole someone’s eggs in this episodes?  The symbolism is so literal.

All else aside, I think I’ve seen this episode earlier in the series.  Trini yet again shows she’s highly responsible and really runs the show.   Billy dresses as a gay cowboy.  It’s basically a reiteration of Hobby Week but since Tommy missed that we get to learn that SURPRISE his hobby is karate.