MIGHTY MORONIC CHOWDER RANGERS

MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS
1993-1995 FOX

MIGHTY MORONIC CHOWDER RANGERS
Cracked #290, July 1994
w: Greg Grabianski
a: John Severin

Kids series adapted from Japanese series about superhero robot team featuring Jason (Austin St. John), Kimberly (Amy Jo Johnson), Zack (Walter Emanuel Jones), Trini (Thuy Trang), Billy (David Yost), and Tommy (Jason David Frank). Their enemy, Rita (Michako Sago) is from the Japanese show with her voice dubbed into English. The action scenes are from Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, the show in Japan this comes from. With the use of their coins, the are able to transform into the Power Rangers.

Clever. The Asian stereotype of substituting Ls for Rs. Other places stopped using it by the 60s, but Cracked continued into the 90s. The Putties were Rita's army and “Cement Mixer (Put-Ti, Put-Ti)” was a popular song in the 40s.

The theme song (see clip above) went “Go go power rangers”

Almost all afternoon childrens' shows had some kind of built-in public service announcement at the end.

WHEN THE POWER RANGERS' FORMAT SPREADS TO OTHER SHOWS
Cracked #297, March 1995
w: Greg Grabianski
a: John Severin

Dan Rather's rival here is Connie Chung.

Billy and Allison were Andrew Shue and Courtney Thorne-Smith.

This may be the only NYPD Blue parody that didn't mention the show's nudity.

Cover to the Brizilian edition of MAD.

A MAD LOOK AT THE MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS
MAD #333, January 1995
w & a: Sergio Aragones

A couple of these I just don't get. Probably because I shouldn't.