Does the "White Power Ranger" seem like an odd title?
from TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 23:45
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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 23:47 next collapse

Only when taken out of context.

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 23:50 collapse

Context is: “Hey honey, the clown cancelled for little Bobby’s 4th birthday, do you want me to call the White Power Ranger to replace them?”

Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca on 05 Jul 00:06 collapse

Makes sense still. There are several colors of Power Rangers, and they are always referred to as the [Color] Power Ranger.

Does this sound off to you?

Hey honey, the clown cancelled for little Bobby’s 4th birthday, do you want me to call the Blue Power Ranger to replace them?

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 00:16 collapse

To which the wife responds with “what are you? A KREE LOVER?! I fucking knew it, you thought I really believed Yon-Rogg was just a close friend at work?!”

whimsy@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 23:53 next collapse

(white) (power ranger), not (white power) (ranger)

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 01:01 collapse

I’m 41. Which means I was a kid when the original came out.

In all my years of knowing of the power rangers, I’ve never once thought of it as (white power)(ranger).

I did however go from thinking Rita Repulsa was grotesque as a kid, to thinking “Damn, she’s kinda hott!” as an adult. Plus she has that stick that makes her monster grow.

…I think every guy would find that usrful.

blindbunny@lemmy.ml on 05 Jul 01:32 next collapse

This comment is why I’m on lemmy

grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works on 05 Jul 02:08 next collapse

tfw no evil moon milf gf

SpikesOtherDog@ani.social on 05 Jul 02:25 next collapse

I just went and had a looksie. Not nearly as repulsive in pics as I remember. I think attitude might be half of it.

devolution@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 06:57 next collapse

Dumps like a truck, truck, truck, horns like what, what, what…

bizarroland@fedia.io on 05 Jul 07:10 next collapse

I saw a movie that had the actress that played Rita Repulsa in it as the mail order bride of a random side character who would occasionally sneak away to the bar across the street from their house and shoot ping pong balls out of her pussy.

It's not really relevant to this conversation, but every single time Rita Repulsa is mentioned in some thread somewhere, I always go back to seeing the ping-pong balls flying from between her legs.

I think it was the movie about drag queens going across Australia.

toynbee@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 07:12 next collapse

They really should have included that storyline in Power Rangers, TBH.

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today on 05 Jul 08:47 collapse

This sounds like a perfect movie for the “Terrible Movies Night” my friends and I have every once in a while where we emulate MST3K!

Do you know the name? I really don’t want “Rita Repulsa pussy ping pong balls” in my search history…

lunasandwich@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 09:03 next collapse

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 09:57 collapse

I really don’t want “Rita Repulsa pussy ping pong balls” in my search history…

I really want “Rita Repulsa pussy ping pong balls” in your search history…

qarbone@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 08:18 collapse

The internet proves again, that you will always be able to find someone who shares your (degenerate) opinion.

If Rita wanted this monster to grow, all she had to do was back that dumpy up.

burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 00:00 next collapse

its his job title, not necessarily his ideology

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 00:13 next collapse

Are you saying he lives 2 lives where one may be ashamed of the other?

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 05 Jul 03:08 collapse

I mean, they made the Asian girl the yellow ranger, the “Native American” (not sure if the actor actually is but the character was) the Red Ranger, the black guy the Black Ranger, with Basic White People as gender-defaults Pink and Blue.

The White Power Ranger might be innocent but the producers knew what they were doing. He’s even more powerful than the others put together…

CerineArkweaver@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Jul 03:37 collapse

To be fair, Walter Jones (Zack) was given a choice of which color to be. After thinking that there was no way in hell they would let him be Red, he chose Black so he could be a Black superhero/role model.

Thuy was also the second one cast for the Yellow ranger after the original quit when she saw how shitty they were getting paid (which would eventually lead to Austin, Walter, and Thuy quitting in the second season when contract negotiations fell through)

MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works on 05 Jul 00:04 next collapse

Relevant Key and Peele sketch

Manalith@midwest.social on 05 Jul 12:05 collapse
scytale@lemmy.zip on 05 Jul 00:13 next collapse

I grew up calling them “<color> ranger”. I don’t think anyone, at least in my part of the world at the time, called each member in full as a power ranger; only as a group.

dohpaz42@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 01:26 next collapse

Same and I’m from the southeast us.

HenryDorsett@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 01:28 next collapse

Southern US.

I was kid at the time it originally aired in America.

I agree, its <Color> Ranger, or as a group, The Power Rangers.

TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 06:43 next collapse

Northwest US, same.

hddsx@lemmy.ca on 05 Jul 14:08 collapse

If you don’t add the power I have no context that you’re talking about power rangers

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 17:38 collapse

They must be talking about that red Ford Ranger right there

ohulancutash@feddit.uk on 05 Jul 00:20 next collapse

Only if you expect the pink power ranger to go mincing about throwing glitter grenades.

Iheartcheese@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 00:50 next collapse

I mean…I didn’t till you said that

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 01:03 next collapse

Amy Jo Johnson can do WHATEVER she wants! Every boys childhood crush!

Zier@fedia.io on 05 Jul 04:02 next collapse

Are you talking about me again? [slips on glitter, drops grenade]

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 Jul 10:47 collapse

goodness no, we can’t show warcrimes on tv

dickalan@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 00:51 next collapse

Only if you’re a racist piece of shit which it looks like you might be for even posing this question

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 05 Jul 03:10 collapse

Said it above, but get a clue:

I mean, they made the Asian girl the yellow ranger, the “Native American” (not sure if the actor actually is but the character was) the Red Ranger, the black guy the Black Ranger, with Basic White People as gender-defaults Pink and Blue.

The White Power Ranger might be innocent but the producers knew what they were doing. He’s even more powerful than the others put together.

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 03:58 next collapse

It really depends where you put that small pause.

Its like saying spider-man without the hyphen.

<img alt="1000027048" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d190d600-6eef-4e5d-83f6-40c811fa9825.jpeg">

magnetichuman@fedia.io on 05 Jul 19:46 collapse

Spidermәn

grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 05:17 next collapse

Wasn’t the white power ranger the green power ranger first, or am I misremembering the story (it’s been a while, sorry)?

toynbee@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 07:11 collapse

He was.

I remember only because at the time they were advertising that the green power ranger would be getting a power upgrade and I said to my older brother that I bet he would become the white power ranger (not being aware of the connotations at the time, nor anything else other than the kid’s show).

He said that wasn’t possible. How would they display the trademark white diamonds, he asked? It still boggles my mind that that was his only reasoning.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 05:48 next collapse

Yeah it’s like, “Srsly, you don’t hear it?”

devolution@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 06:56 next collapse

Guy, there’s the Black Power Ranger and the Yellow Power Ranger, with a black guy and an Asian girl respectively.

They knew.

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 07:16 collapse

Thats what I’m saying!

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ConstantPain@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 14:27 collapse

“The malice is in the eye of the beholder.”

Nuance and context is in short supply these days.

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world on 05 Jul 17:42 collapse

One time a coworker was randomly talking about something sexual so I said “that’s racy of you” she screams “DON’T CALL ME RACIST!”. I said “that’s not what racy means” she replied with “I DON’T CARE!” and stormed off