High Five (Power Rangers)

Infobox Television episode
Title = High Five
Series = Mighty Morphin Power Rangers


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 2
Airdate = Tuesday September 7, 1993
Production = 102
Writer = Steve Kramer
Director = Adrian Carr
Photographer =
Guests = Tom Wyner (Bones (voice))
Episode list = List of Power Rangers episodes
Prev = Day of the Dumpster
Next = Teamwork

"High Five" is the second episode of the first season of the television show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It originally aired on September 7, 1993, and was later released as a VHS tape. It is the first episode of Power Rangers to use the standard monster of the day format, although it has two monsters rather than one.

Plot Summary

After seeing Jason climb a rope at Ernie's Juice Bar, Trini reveals to the other ranger teens that she is terrified of heights. Bulk and Skull show up taunting Jason, though Bulk tries to climb the rope and brings part of the ceiling down. Meanwhile, Billy creates wrist communicators with which the rangers can contact the Command Center and Zordon.

On the moon, Rita decides to trap the rangers in a time warp the same way she did Zordon. Squatt and Baboo send a rigged toy rocket to Earth that activates the time warp. Rita has Finster create the zombie like Bones monster to control the time warp.

The rangers are first alerted to a small group of Putties forming outside of town. Zordon send the teens to defeat them, and they decide to follow Zordon's advice and try to defeat the Putty Patrol without morphing. During the fight, Billy gets chased to the top of a cliff, and Trini must face her fears to go up and save him. She does, and the rangers are able to send the putties running in defeat.

Bones is sent down to draw the rangers out by attacking an amusement park. The rangers morph to confront him but are sucked into the time warp. As they fight Bones, Squatt and Baboo arrive to destroy the toy rocket, which sits in the time warp as the only means of escape. The rangers defeat Bones by throwing his head into a lava pit, and despite the fact that the plan was to trap the rangers in the time warp, Rita decides to send a Giant to Earth to shatter the time warp and attack the rangers on Earth. Jason summons his Tyrannosaurus Dinozord and manages to destroy the Giant.

Back at Ernie's Juice Bar, the rangers and Zordon (via communicator) congratulate Trini on conquering her fears. The episode ends in comidic and fun fashion when Zack, wearing an ape mask, spooked Trini and climbed the rope proving that she overcame her fear of heights.

Cast

Primary cast

*David Fielding as Zordon
*Austin St. John as Jason Lee Scott, Red Power Ranger
*Amy Jo Johnson as Kimberly Hart, Pink Power Ranger
*Walter Jones as Zack Taylor, Black Power Ranger
*Jason Narvy as Eugene “Skull” Skullovitch
*Paul Schrier as Farkas “Bulk” Bulkmeier
*Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan, Yellow Power Ranger
*David Yost as Billy Cranston, Blue Power Ranger

econdary cast

*Michael Sorich as the voice of Squatt
*Kerrigan Mahan as the voice of Goldar
*Dave Mallow as the voice of Baboo
*Romy J. Sharf as Alpha 5
*Richard Horvitz as the voice of Alpha 5
*Richard Genelle as Ernie
*Machiko Soga as Rita Repulsa
*Barbara Goodson as the voice of Rita Repulsa
*Robert Axelrod as the voice of Finster
*Tom Wyner guest starred, doing the voice of Bones.

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/power-rangers/high-five/episode/30620/summary.html TV.com’s episode guide]