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We start off at the Juice Bar, where Kimberly is teaching a dance/aerobics class. OK, I guess I goofed when I said that she taught gymnastics. But considering how much these kids do, would you really be surprised if she did both? Both Billy and Ernie are dancing along with them, despite not being part of the class. Ernie just looks like a goof, but Billy is so bad that he trips and falls onto a cart of towels, sending Billy speeding around the entire room, into the back, back in the main room (now covered in toilet paper for some reason), and finally crashing at the front. Kimberly then gives him the oh-so helpful advice that this is not how you meet girls.
This part is beyond silly. I'm sorry, but my suspension of disbelief can only go so far, and this practically drove a bus right through it. How could Billy fall on the cart with such force that it sends him careening throughout the entire room? Plus, the cart was turning! It stands to reason that he'd go straight and crash into the nearest wall, but the fact that he's able to go in circles through the crowd, into the back where we assume the bathroom is, and back in the main area before he crashes is just ridiculous. Also, how does Billy stay glued onto the cart the whole time? One would think he'd fall off at some point! And finally, what kind of friends are the other Rangers to just sit there and watch this happen instead of getting up and stopping the cart before Billy gets hurt?! THIS would be a better episode to focus on teamwork instead of the one we got!
We briefly move to the moon where Rita goes on about how she hates kid's music today and that they need to get off her damn lawn because she fought in the war so they could...oh, wait, that's not right. But yeah, apparently she hates their music and is going to get them with some music of her own. This does not bode well for the episode's quality.
We cut back to the Juice Bar where Billy is still sore from the incident and Trini, finally, asks if he's OK. Billy then reveals that he can't dance. No, really, brainiac? You mean the fact that you tripped and fell onto a cart while attempting to dance and drove throughout the entire bar didn't give this away?! You really think we couldn't tell that you can't dance when you drove a cart belly-first into the bathroom and came out all while your asshole friends just-
Sorry, already went on this rant. Let's move on.
The group watches the dance class a little more and we see one girl dancing out of step with the rest of the group bump into another girl. The bumpee gets pissed and the girl runs off. Kimberly stops the class and goes to check on her. We discover that the girl in question is deaf and is having trouble fitting in with the rest. Kimberly cheers her up by saying that she is a good dancer and that even people who can hear make mistakes. She then points over to Billy, who is still trying to figure out how to dance and looking like a goof while doing so, causing both girls to laugh. More examples of how to be a great friend, courtesy of the Power Rangers!
We move back to the moon where Rita orders Finster to make a music-themed monster, despite Finster's suggestions of a fire-breathing hedgehog. I imagine the Sonic the Hedgehog games would be a lot easier if he could breathe fire.
We go back to the Bar where Kimberly's dance class resumes, and the bumpee apologizes to the deaf girl, which she accepts. How this exchange works when one is deaf and the other doesn't understand sign language is beyond me. Maybe the deaf girl can read lips. Bulk and Skull walk in and scoff, saying that dancing is easy. Zack challenges him to a dance-off, and you know what that means!
SPARTANS! We're about to STOMP THE YARD!
GOD, that was awful...
Zack, being the amazingly awesometastic dancer he is, shows off. Bulk attempts to emulate, but looks like a goof. Zack schools him again, ending in him doing the splits. Bulk attempts to do the same, and almost splits his crotch, requiring help from Skull to just stand again. Zack does a handstand on the bar table. Bulk dives right over it and crashes. The group then leaves, laughing all the while.
We cut to the moon where Finster reveals his creation, the Gnarly Gnome. The plan is to use his magic accordion to hypnotize a few kids to lure the Rangers in, and when they arrive, he'll hypnotize them so that Rita can control them. OK, not bad, but a bit convoluted and seems to be more petty than clever. The Gnome is sent down to Earth and lands outside the Juice Bar. The deaf girl and the bumpee from earlier leave with a few friends to head to the mall, and the Gnome successfully hypnotizes them, save for the deaf girl, for obvious reasons. He leads them into a cave and drops a net over it, leaving the deaf girl outside.
The girl runs back to the Juice Bar, where she tries to sign to Jason and Ernie, who can't understand her. She gives up and just writes down what she's trying to say (which she probably should've done in the first place), and Jason runs off with her to get the others.
We then cut to the cave where the girls are, and get a pointless segment with the Gnome playing his accordion and getting the girls to dance with the Putties, while Squat and Baboo cook for him. He decides to take a nap, while Squat and Baboo bicker a bit. Rita gets pissed that they're sleeping on the job, and the Gnome suddenly wakes up and disappears, revealing that he can turn invisible. Squat and Baboo prevent him from escaping, so he reappears and the duo run off, leaving him to fight the Rangers.
This. Was. Pointless. The whole dancing bit was dumb, Squat and Baboo cooking served no purpose, other than to show that Squat likes to eat bugs, and the Gnome disappearing doesn't result in anything.
The Rangers arrive and morph after the deaf girl hides. In a rather odd mix-up, Kimberly's Pink Ranger outfit looks grey for a couple of scenes. They beat up the Gnome a bit and form the Power Blaster. Oddly enough, their weapons names have changed, Zack's being the Cosmic Cannon, Kimberly's being the Battle Bow, Trini's the Dino Daggers, and Billy's the Mighty Mace, with Jason retaining his old name. Not that it matters, since they'd go back to the old names after this. They fry the Gnome but Rita brings it back and causes it to grow. Naturally, the Rangers summon the DinoZords and go to form the MegaZord, which lets us see that the Power Crystals come from the Power Coins on the Rangers' Morphers.
They form the tank mode and fire everything at the Gnome, but he shrugs it off and retaliates. So of course they switch to the true form. The MegaZord grabs the Gnome's weapon, which is a rake for some odd reason, but the Gnome retaliates by playing his accordion, causing the group to hallucinate and leave themselves wide open. He manages to get a few hits in on them, but they snap out of it and destroy his accordion. They then summon the Power Sword and finish him off.
They demorph and free the girls, revealing that if the deaf girl (Melissa) didn't go for help, the Rangers would've never arrived and they'd be stuck forever. They thank her and head back to the Juice Bar. Rita, of course, is pissed and blames everyone but herself.
We go back to the Juice Bar where the group is celebrating. Jason attempts to sign to Melissa, but mentions that he needs to work on it when Kimberly says that he told her that his dog smells. Melissa then asks Billy to dance, which he refuses at first, but is dragged down to the dance floor. The two dance awkwardly for a little bit while the group comments on how Melissa is cool and they could learn quite a bit from her. Billy then suddenly busts out some break-dancing moves, impressing everybody and ending the show. Because all he needed was confidence!
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This episode was DUMB. Like, mind-numbingly dumb. The segment with Billy in the cart was ridiculously stupid, the scene in the cave was completely pointless, and the fact that Billy suddenly became a kickass dancer when the concept of getting lucky entered his mind was enough to make anyone headbutt the nearest wall. The Gnarly Gnome was a stupid monster and there really is no point in describing his appearance because you can probably guess what he looks like. He was just so stock and unimaginative that anyone would forget about him within a day. The part that people usually look forward to, the fight scene, was lacking as well. The part where the Rangers fight the Gnome alone was painfully short, and the MegaZord sequence was only slightly longer. Really, the only good thing about this episode was the message behind it, which was to treat people who were considered different as normal people. It's a good message and they handled it much better than previous messages, at least until the end. All in all, this was a terrible episode, not worth anyone's time at all.
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Our stereotypical Gnarly Gnome.
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