How About That Thing?

As you’ve read over my psychotic ramblings that qualify as a recap of season 3 of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, you probably find yourself wondering: whatever happened to Bulk and Skull in all of this? Because as dumb as they are, let’s face it, Power Rangers wouldn’t be NEARLY as fondly remembered if it weren’t for good old Farkas Bulkmeier and Eugene Skullovitch.

No, seriously, those are their actual names. I can’t believe I forgot that until looking over this season!

Indeed, the journey of Bulk and Skull has been a memorable one. In season 1, they were basically the school bullies who got owned at every turn by the cosmos. In season 2, they come to the conclusion that unmasking the power rangers will bring them fame and fortune, so they spend the entire time trying to unmask said power rangers. Suffice to say, results were so disastrous, they decided to abandon this quest entirely by the time Zedd and Rita got married.

So what did they do in season 3, you ask? Well… They became cops.

I kid you not. This is literally the direction they went with Bulk and Skull in season 3. Two of the biggest punks in high school abandon their punkish ways, and become two of Angel Grove’s finest. That’s like waking up, and finding out that that asshole you knew in sixth grade became the quarterback for The Kansas City Chiefs. Sure, it might have been that late 2000s era when Carl Peterson was coaching the team into the dirt, and 4-12 was the average, but it’s still The Chiefs, damn it!

So yeah, Bulk and Skull are cops. And now, they have a boss.

This is Lieutenant Stone. Throughout season 3, he’s Bulk and Skull’s superior. He gives them their jobs for the episode, stupidity ensues, MAYBE there’s some overlap with this week’s monster attack, and at the end of the day, Stone yells at them for being brick stupid.

I’d hesitate to call Lieutenant Stone the Moe to their Larry and Curly. Stone, for the most part, is a fairly competent human being. His only downfall is that he has to work with these two dumbasses.

Truth be told, I never really had an opinion on Bulk and Skull as police. They were comedy reliefs before, they were comedy reliefs now, and they’d continue to be comedy reliefs all the way up until the last episode of Power Rangers in Space. The only difference between them in the very beginning, and them as officers of the law is that as officers of the law, the comedy is more of a “god bless them, they’re trying so hard not to fuck this up” sort of shtick. Meanwhile, in season 1 and 2, they were just generic bullies with a surprisingly catchy theme song who basically got everything they deserved. It’s actually kind of refreshing… Until they backtracked.

As I explained in the Master Vile article, Master Vile unleashed the dreaded Orb of Doom on Earth. This caused time to skip backwards, and turn everybody into children. Including Bulk and Skull. And because everything went backwards, Bulk and Skull became their old bully selves again. In a way, it was kind of like going back to square one.

Now it’s true that they didn’t decide to become police officers until sometime around high school. Kid Bulk and Kid Skull were… Oh, I’d say about eight or nine, maybe even ten tops. So it makes sense that they’d revert back to the old ways. It’s still kind of a bummer. Though cudos to the two kids they got to play Kid Bulk and Kid Skull.

The two of them would actually continue the police officer shtick well into Zeo… Only to leave the force when Lieutenant Stone decides to become a private investigator. But that’s a story for a different time.