Bulk and Skull 5

	Duration: 10:50 minutes Upload Time: 2007-10-25 20:06:11
Bulk & Skull have always been Bulk & Skull; it's an identity they're comfortable with. B&S get the opportunity to see each other even more up close & personal than ever before from a deeper level. It's from this epiphany that they learn how independence fuels partnership, appreciating themselves for who they are on such a level. And independence is also an important factor in any relationship, especially friendship. They realize that such a fickle science as neurology might not allow them to simply switch back with another turn in the machine & so must ask its creator for guidance. The Power Rangers are hesitant but ultimately delighted to see B&S beg, because it encourages the submission of the latter two. This is a common phenomenon in our society when others constantly try to make us squirm for their own vie at dominance, at work/school/etc. Skull's immortal Question Mark Hat. It's a hat I myself feel I could use. He also often wears a spiked collar, another accessory I've always wanted to have, but nobody to wear it with. Too bad society unreasonably sees hats as a notorious method for exerting its ill-gotten authority over us. Bulk & Skull are frightened by the random violent, psychopathic episode that Tommy greets them with. Realizing they are up against a raving lunatic who spazzes out with the slightest provocation they flee. Oh boy. This First Green Ranger episode has the funniest scenes in MMPR history. The thin veil of an Americanized Japanese show ("Don't let them know Japan exists!" is the credo of American companies) is stretched & we see the most spastic scenes where the GR just flipping boards the Megazord thingy, bursts in ("You're not allowed in here, even if you come and get him.") & kicks them out. Then he continues to spaz out & attack them mano-a-mano, spazzing out yet again when Red challenges him, only to deliver an IMMEDIATE explodey-thingy to Red's chest ("OW! DAMNIT!"). And of course there's Greenie's trademark "Batch Move" where he attacks with his flying crotch. I never was a regular watcher of this show but it definitely had its fine moments. The spotlight swings back to B&S in the 4th GR ep. B&S yet again exhibit their capability of keeping calm in a crisis. Though, if they were to rush out just when every other suspiciously-old patron of the Youth Center is busy panicking they would only add to the congestion. I love how they play the B&S theme music while everyone's racing out of the YC. B&S may be perceived as lazy, but lazy is often misrepresenting cleverness, like Bulk's quick thinking in boarding the YC bus. You gotta hand it to those Youth Centers; they certainly get their tax dollars' & fund raisers' worth with paranoid, utilitarian & praetorian concern for our stupid young. I wasn't aware Skull knew how to drive a bus. Yet another of the many unusual talents of our duo. For not having had anyone teach him how to drive Skull is remarkably adept at driving a bus, particularly when indiscernible macromorphic creatures are wreaking havoc (The monsters from Rampage, though undermined by Midway's outdated crudeness, would probably do a better job). The guy who taught me how to drive was appalled that I'd never been behind the wheel of a car before he gave me my first actual driving lesson (but I suppose he must've downed his share of mixed margaritas before taking the wheel). Classic lines - Bulk: "I want my mommy!" Skull: "Yeah, I want your mommy!" Just because Squatt & Baboo's names also begin with S & B, I bet anything Bulk & Skull could take 'em. Their monstrous tricks may stall things for a while but I have no doubt Bulk & Skull would ultimately triumph. Squatt & Baboo are the fat blue ogre & blue flying-monkey type thing that work for Rita. Rita is very Wicked Witch of the West-ish. B&S are thankful to have survived & once again show their appreciation for life. Later we see them watching this nonsense on television, still riveted despite having recently lived the experience. Personally I find watching crises on television can desensitize us not because television is always violent & gruesome but because we're looking on it through a screen, which separates us from the situation. Perhaps B&S are appreciating this phenomenon as well. There is sheer brilliance in the moment B&S realize they should be on TV. Perhaps this foreshadows their tragically unaired yet planned sitcom in which Skull inherits a hotel & El Vez the Mexican Elvis costars. Now THAT would be a show I'd follow religiously. Such is the tragic folly of television that it should never exist, much to our misfortune.
Comments
FalconTalon22  2008-01-30 20:39:54 At 6:23 you can sooo tell that Goldar is holding a big hotwheels bus or something. haha this show is so cheap, the main reason i watched it as a kid __________________________________________________
devilluffe  2007-11-15 21:29:23 they should have a sitcom with that theme __________________________________________________
ZaffireWolf  2007-10-25 20:57:45 It'd certainly be different, thus intellectually stimulating. Sadly we've moved onto crapfests like American Idol & gritty, paranoid crime dramas. But I'll still root for you, Bulk & Skull. __________________________________________________
ZaffireWolf  2007-10-25 20:56:54 For a while it almost seemed like B&S were being forgotten in lieu of the Green Ranger. However, they still managed to be included in each part of the story arc & the span of episodes in this particular collection was really a big moment for them. I'd like to leave you with this thought; the reminder of the Bulk & Skull show that could've been: Fawlty Towers starring punks, certainly a character dynamic that has never been best explored in a sitcom environment before. __________________________________________________