 This article is about an episode in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
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Itsy Bitsy Spider is the twenty-third episode of the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Synopsis[]
Zack must overcome his arachnophobia when Rita Repulsa sends her monster Spidertron to attack him.
Plot[]
Trini and Billy are at school trying to get signatures to save the Forest Spirit Statue, which the city council wants to replace with a barbecue pit. According to legend, the statue is said to protect people from harmful insects. Zack mentions his fear of spiders. Bulk and Skull unleash a horde of insects on Trini and Billy's audience, with a spider landing on Zack's shoulder, making him freak out.
That night, Baboo, Squatt and some Putties steal the Forest Spirit Statue from its place in the park.
Billy shows the others his mouse named Jack at school the next day. Bulk and Skull want to play another prank, but the mouse crawls up Skull's leg.
Finster creates Spidertron and plans on hiding it inside a duplicate of the Forest Spirit Statue. Then it will be put back in the park. Along with it are moths made of sleeping powder.
The teens minus Zack go in the woods to find insects to replace the ones lost at the petition rally. Putties attack the four before running away. Elsewhere at Zack's hip hop kido class, the students are put to sleep by the moths. Zack runs to the Forest Spirit Statue. He can tell that it's a fake because rather than flowers in the statue's hair, there are snakes. Zack morphs and blasts the statue into pebbles with his Power Axe in Blaster Mode. From the debris rises Spidertron. Goldar assists the monster in fighting the Black Ranger.
The other four Rangers come to help the Black Ranger, but all five get spun in Spidertron's web. Zack breaks free and fires his Blade Blaster at Spidertron and Goldar. Rita makes the monster grow and the Megazord is summoned. Spidertron immobilizes the Megazord, causing the Rangers to have to disassemble back into their respective Zords. Mastodon Dinozord's icy spray temporarily freezes Spidertron, but it shakes free and blasts the Zords.
Tommy is contacted and he goes to help. Dragonzord Battle Mode is formed and it kills Spidertron by using its Power Staff to tear a massive hole in the monster's middle.
Zack returns to his students, who woke up after Spidertron was destroyed. The city council decides not to destroy the Spirit Statue and declare it a historical landmark. Tommy puts a rubber spider on Zack's shoulder and Zack then panics before realizing that it's fake.
Cast[]
- Austin St. John as Jason Lee Scott (Mighty Morphin Red Ranger)
- Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan (Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger)
- Walter Jones as Zack Taylor (Mighty Morphin Black Ranger)
- Amy Jo Johnson as Kimberly Ann Hart (Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger)
- David Yost as Billy Cranston (Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger)
- Jason Frank as Tommy Oliver (Mighty Morphin Green Ranger)
- Paul Schrier as Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier
- Jason Narvy as Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch
- David Fielding as Zordon
- Romy J. Sharf as Alpha 5
- Richard Steven Horvitz as Alpha 5 (voice)
- Machiko Soga as Rita Repulsa
- Barbara Goodson as Rita Repulsa (voice)
- Takashi Sakamoto as Goldar (Zyuranger Footage)
- Danny Wayne Stallcup as Goldar (American Footage)
- Kerrigan Mahan as Goldar (voice) (as Ryan O'Flannigan)
- Takako Iiboshi as Finster
- Robert Axelrod as Finster (voice)
- Minoru Watanabe as Squatt
- Michael J. Sorich as Squatt (voice)
- Hideaki Kusaka as Baboo
- Dave Mallow as Baboo (voice) (as Colin Phillips)
- Tom Wyner as Spidertron (voice)
Errors[]
- In original footage of Zack pointing the Power Axe at the statue, it is in its regular mode as opposed to the Blaster Mode.
- When the Megazord reverted to the Dinozords, the Pteraodactyl Dinozord disappears from the battle.
- Dragonzord Battle Mode is misnamed Mega Dragonzord.
Notes[]
- Zack suffers from arachnophobia, an extreme or irrational fear of spiders.
- This is the second episode to feature Zack with a solo morph, as he was away from the main group instructing a hip hop kido class.
- Jason commands the morph for Kimberly, Billy, and Trini as they are collecting bugs.
- Tommy morphs solo and shows up only to fight the monster with his Zord rather than in person.
- The shot of Zack dancing around in the intro comes from his dance lesson in this episode.
Billy, Zack, and Trini in Dragonzord Battle Mode cockpit
- This is the only episode where only Zack, Trini, and Billy are seen piloting the Dragonzord Battle Mode. In future episodes, the five main Rangers will be seen piloting it until its final appearance in Doomsday - Part 2.
- The flashback footage of the Rangers getting trapped by Spidertron's webbing and Goldar blasting them while in that webbing was used in "Crystal of Nightmares" as Trini's nightmare.
- The shot of Zack with his class was used for his part in the season 1 intro.
See Also[]
- Ep. 25: The Park Where Demons Dwell - Super Sentai counterpart in Zyuranger. See comparison page. (fight footage)