Episode No. 311 - Fourth Down and Long

Synopsis

Commentary

High-Lights

• I’ve just gotta say it - this ep featured another great third season zord battle.

• Also, a high-light for me was watching Rocky and Ninjor charge into battle armed with plastic garbage buckets.

Things to Look Out For

• Firstly, an editting error - for the climactic zord battle, all of the Rangers summon their Ninja zords, and we see the stock footage off all of the Ninja zords in Angel Grove. But the Ninja Falcon never arrived for the fight - only the Ninja Megazord and Ninjor fought the monster.

• Secondly, watch closely during the fight scene with the tengas - one of the tengas catches the evil football, but instead of changing into a football, nothing happens to it.

• Lastly, we have the perils of using stock footage - it is snowing very heavily in the mountains which are close to the city, but when we see the zords emerging from Angel Grove, it’s perfectly clear with not a cloud in the sky.

Best Line of the Episode

I just have to give this one to Rita. Listen right at the end when everyone is screaming things at Finster - although Rita moves off screen, she is clearly heard saying, "Your monsters never work!" Let me see, it’s taken Rita this long to figure that one out? Um, okay.