And now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together (and sometimes watch them play softball). It’s Sports On TV: the 15 greatest sports moments of Arrested Development.
Welcome to the most 1990s thing that ever existed.
For anyone who doesn’t know, ‘Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers’ was a live-action television series about teenagers who come together to use recycled Japanese action show footage to sell toys to American kids. It first aired on Fox Kids in 1993 and is still on, jumping from Fox to ABC to Toon Disney to Nickelodeon, changing its name and cast as many times as it needed to remain fresh. The most recent incarnation is ‘Power Rangers Super Samurai,’ but they’ve been Turbo, Zeo, in Space, in a Lost Galaxy and affixed with everything from time travel to dinosaurs and something called ‘jungle fury’.
Today, Sports On TV tackles the show that brought the Power Rangers to the dance — the first three seasons of ‘Mighty Morphin’ — featuring the original cast (mostly), the original bad guys and all the horrible dubbed-in dialogue and grainy footage that made the franchise a 20-year success. Yeah, I can’t figure it out either.
For your morphenomenal pleasures, I present to you my picks for the 20 greatest sports moments in ‘Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers’ history.
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Listen, I don't want any trouble. I don't want any of the Alison (just one 'L') Stokke nastiness, with lawyers and angry parents and journalists with dead-end careers getting pissed at me because a female teenage athlete is attractive (or because of copyright law, whatever).
I just want all you nice people to know about 18-year-old Kirsten Sweetland, a world-class triathlete who last weekend became the youngest Canadian to win a World Cup event with her victory in Richards Bay, South Africa. Congratulations, Kirsten — consider the readers of With Leather among your fans.
In a delightful turn for sports fans who like to follow athletes' activities, Kirsten has an enjoyable blog that allows you to keep track of her travels around the world and her grueling training regimen. I hope she doesn't mind that I've shared some of the photos from her blog below. I think we can all agree that she's slightly more adorable than a box full of golden retriever puppies snuggling with a litter of kittens. And I want to point out that that's not a sexual metaphor. I'm not attracted to her at all in that way. She could ask me to take her on a date to the botanical gardens, and I'd politely decline and tell her she should look for someone closer to her own age. That isn't to say things wouldn't work out for us someday down the road, but… you know what? I'll stop talking now.
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