Bulk and Skull 5

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.

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[ZaffireWolf]

I should make a separate Bulk and Skull series where it's Bulk and Skull except all in double speed.

Why does the Power Rangers show have the strange power of compelling people to use the word "gay" a lot?

[VTwinty]

"The buildings about to fall down" "I,m not finished with my ice cream yet." "Now i,m finished" XD

[ZaffireWolf]

Yes, Bulk and Skull exhibited a very good sense of priorities. They knew that a bowl of ice cream could not possibly hope to withstand the force of the ceiling falling down on it, as research into safer foods has been suspended. Every meal must be enjoyed to its fullest extent in both flavor and experience, and the experience of rampant destruction is certainly an unusual and unique one.

[ZaffireWolf]

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.

[ZaffireWolf]

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.

[ssj008]

Bulk: I want my mommy!

Skull: Yeah i want your mommy!

XD

[sampleton]

B and S are masters of zen concentration. Even if the whole world is crumbling around you, if you can still enjoy your ice cream, you are the better man.

[veggieeater]

I was watching Netflix last night and the part where Tommy warned them to leave Kelly alone and to see the PRICELESS reaction on their faces made me burst with laughter!!!!

[NightwingReborn]

bulk sounds alot chief wiggum when he says scarfin time

[DrClay999]

7:45

"Oh no..."

Worst Dub Ever.... The hell happened, did she only have time for 1 recording?

[DragoDillPepper]

@izlude2 thats what quagmire does. lol

[DragoDillPepper]

B and S also stand for something else. lol is that a pun?

[izlude2]

hahaha she's so asian. too bad she's dead... now i gotta resort to necrophilia....

[ZaffireWolf]

@nonstop581 I think I won't because iphones are pieces of shit. Now fuck you and die. 

[mrrab20]

The funniest parts with Bulk & Skull are usually the ones where they find themselves in the middle of the villians schemes. Thats what made Power Rangers an amazing show cause it mixed all the seriousness and humor at the same time. Next to Squatt & Baboo, those two were just as hilarious

[Galforg]

0:36 HOLY FUCK THAT LOOKS SO GOOD.

[Trackball816]

Eugene Skullovich, the question you asked at 6:42 is one I asked all the way up to my high school graduation. Why DON'T school buses have seat belts, anyway? You'd think it would be common sense! And yet this idiot raises the excellent point!

(Yes, I know that wasn't technically a school bus. Maybe it was in Japan, but...)