Super Strong Warner Siblings

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 Kids to the Kids WB was because Warner Bros. was sick of Animaniacs playing second banana 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. Scratchansniff 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 wearing thick glasses parodying the Putty Patrol, and the Water Tower parodying the Megazord.
The plot consists of the Warners being depicted as ludicrously generous and intelligent characters who frequently give out bags of money. However, Repulsa sends her ninja warriors (the Putty Patrol) after them, which they easily defeat (in a wacky, kind-of anticlimactic fashion). Later on, a giant beetle of Repulsa's starts destroying the Warner Studios, and the Warners "morph" into their animal forms in their HQ, Scratchansniff's office, and use their Watertower as the "Tower of Power", a giant mech wielding a lightning sword, and the WB crest as a shield. They beat the beetle, but wind up destroying the Warner Bros. Studio lot in the process. The episode ends with a health warning to children about 'playing with giant bugs.'
The irony of this episode is that the 3 member team consisting of a red, blue, and yellow team did not happen in Power Rangers until Power Rangers: Ninja Storm, which was the first Power Ranger show that aired after Disney (Warner Brothers' main rival) acquired the franchise from Saban. Super Sentai has done this motif even before Power Rangers starting with Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan.

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