Super Strong Warner Siblings
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Super Strong Warner Siblings was an episode of the animated series Animaniacs. It was one of the first episodes in Animaniacs' 3rd season (its first season on Kids' WB). It is a parody of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and to greater extent Super Sentai, one of Japan's main four tokusatsu, which was introduced to the American Audience in the 90s. This episode is made more interesting considering that one of the main reasons that Animaniacs moved from the FOX Network to the WB was because Warner Bros. was sick of Animaniacs playing second fiddle to the Power Rangers.
It has Wakko parodying the Red Anteater Ranger, Yakko parodying the Blue Blowfish Ranger, Dot parodying the Yellow Platypus Ranger (with the Pink Ranger skirt), Dr. Scratchnsniff parodying Zordon, Rita Repulsa parodying herself, a green alien parodying Finster, a pig with Mordant's appearance and Goldar's voice and personality, a Scottish coyote parodying Baboo, warriors parodying the Putty Patrollers and the Water Tower parodying the Megazord.
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- Sharp-Eyed viewers might notice that "Rita's" voice does not quite match her lip-sync and she (more obviously) suffers from "Speed Racer" Dialog. This is reference to the fact that Rita Repulsa's footage in Power Rangers was taken from the Japanese footage of Kyouryuu Sentai ZyuRanger and dubbed over.
- Tress MacNeille (who does the voice of Dot) was the voice of "Rita." Interestingly enough, many mistaken her for Barbara Goodson, another popular animation voice actress, who did the voice of Rita Repulsa (as well as several other PR characters, including Somnibot).
- The 3 member Red, Blue, and Yellow motif would eventually be used in Power Rangers: Ninja Storm & Power Rangers: Dino Thunder. Ironically, those two incarnations were the first two Power Rangers series to be "adapted" by Disney, Warner Bros main rival. In Super Sentai, this motif was already used starting with Sun Vulcan, which was part of the Marvel collaboration Super Sentai. The most recent series to use this motif is Gekiranger.
