Season 1, Episode 9: For Whom The Bell Trolls

"For Whom The Bell Trolls"
Episode 9
Air Date: September 15, 1993

*GROAN*!!! I HATE episodes that are pointless in the long run, I mean that could be said for A LOT of episodes of this first season of such an iconic kid's show but the whole "it was all dream" trope is one of the most annoying and overused plot devices in modern film/TV making! What was the point of us getting invested in the danger and drama of the episode when Trini just has a nightmare about one of her dolls becoming one of Rita's new monster. Now if it wasn't a dream, it'd be a different story but NOPE!!! About 15 minutes of this episode is big old waste of time...besides one terrible editing moment that couldn't help but LAUGH. OUT. LOUD!!

So it's show and tell week at Angel Grove High and we meet for the first time, in person Mrs. Applebee!! Ok, it's hobby day or week but still feels like a show and tell thing for high school students! Anyway, Trini goes up first and we see she's a doll collector. One of the dolls is named....Tinkle Sneezer and is her favorite among. Apparently, myth had it that he can collect anything he wants by putting it in his bottle....which is a stretch!!! You'll see why. Next is Jason, showing some karate moves, Zack loves surfering (Yes, there are black surfers, BRO!!), Kimberly does a hand stand and Billy shows off his volcano. I just love how through all of this Bulk and Skull are bored; even mocking the teens for how lame their hobbies are. Oh I'm sorry you two nitwits, what is your hobby again besides getting embarrassed and humiliated by people you fail to Bully on a weekly basis. How you guys even credible bullies anyone when you should have been kicked out or so humiliated by how much food appears on your face and how you pants are always getting RIPPED!! God, I HATE these guys!!! Bulk gets some fake lava in the face!!! Good, you SUCK at bullying, that's your hobby you dumba$$!! -_-

Anyway, that night Trini goes to bed after putting her dolls away and Rita gets the idea to make Tinkle Sneezer.....sigh, seriously, the writers couldn't come up with a better name for the doll!? O_o  Squatt sneaks into her room, make him big and alive and they teleport away. Rita threatens him to steal things on Earth with his bottle and away he goes. Also, I have to note that I HATE Goldar's voice in these early episodes like they were trying to figure out how gravely it should or should not be. Ick! Anyway, Billy and Trini drive around Angel Grove looking for her dumb doll (how can they drive if they're freshmen who cares!)  They happen upon Tickle Sneezer, he collects them and now have to be saved by the others! Bulk is idiot and the others finally teleport to the Command Center to get the low down on the situation.  The 3 rangers morph and fight Goldar as well as a squad of Putties protecting the doll man! No need to pointless drama with the train running over Trini and Billy! Kimberly saves them and they escape to morph and help the others!  Rita makes the doll grow and a megazord battle....well, more megazord intervention happens. Gotta love Trini calling the Sabertooth Tiger with so little excitmenet. I love how the rangers get the bottle and try to suck Rita and her henchmen into it but she just blasts them and teleports away. Even funnier??? They forgot to edit out the giant Asian kid next to the megazord!!! HAHAHAHAHA!! So bad, it's  beautiful of WTF was that!??? Anyway, Tinkle Sneezer puts everything back as the dream ends. But as Trini wakes up....naw, it was still a dream, the stupid doll just fell on the floor.

Next day, we FINALLY get to see what Bulk and Skull's hobby is. Learning their real names are Farkus and Eugene....just keep laying on the humiliation writers! Apparently, they like collecting fleas (ECK!) and they have escaped and are crawling all over Miss Applebee. Nice job, idiots! At least someone else got embarrassed this time!

"From Whom The Bell Tolls" is yet another weak episode for the season. Like I said, it all being a dream renders most of it worthless and the action, while decent, is forgettable because of it. How is it that Tinkle Sneezer can't capture the rangers when he loses his bottle??! Ummmm, don't you have multiple bottles dude that you sucked the train, motorcycle, tower and airplane in??!! O_o Oh Boy!!

Final Morph: C-