
And yet the show was a huge hit from the first airing, and started a franchise that remained a phenomenon through the 1990s.
Then Fox executives, announcers and affiliates also didn't have any faith - the last ones were only persuaded to broadcast when Loesch said they could have a cut in merchandise sales.
And You Thought It Would Fail: Haim Saban spent years trying to bring Sentai to the US, only managing to do so when he found a network executive familiar with it in the president of Fox Kids, Margaret Loesch. There're even a few fics that are threesomes of Tommy, Tom, and the White Stranger. Alternate Self Shipping: Tommy Oliver is sometimes paired with his clone/ancestor Tom.
As a result of some Stock Footage Failure (namely the inconsistencies between Billy and his Zyuranger counterpart, Dan, such as martial arts skills and jumping up to grab Bones' head in the same episode as being chased up a cliff), Youtuber Mistare Fusion proposed this question: Do the Ranger powers give the users more confidence as a result of increased physical prowess, or do they actually take over the user's brain and the only real prerequisite for being a Ranger is being able to say "It's Morphin Time" and the name of a prehistoric animal?. Without Billy's technological know-how, the team would often have no strategy whatsoever with which to progress. Is Billy the de facto leader of the Power Rangers? Zordon, while delivering bad news, frequently singles out Billy as the only Ranger who can divine a solution. Tommy, Zordon's paladin, or someone who just wants revenge, and doesn't mind throwing his friends under the bus to do it? Does he divorce himself from the Green Ranger?. Zordon, a wise sage or using teenagers to fight his battles for his own possibly shady means, likely breaking intergalactic law? The 2017 reboot explores the latter idea with its version of Zordon. While there are such a thing as submarine races, the context in which Skull asks is slang for making out and maybe even sex. In "A Bad Reflection on You", Skull asks the Evil!Kimberly if she wants to go see "the submarine races". You will never take the Tengas seriously again if one knew that their name is used as an adult toy in Japan.