Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Does a Body/Gender Swap Episode
Added 2025-04-09 02:35:44 +0000 UTC“Switching Places” (October 4, 1993)
If you’re reading this and deciding that Power Rangers is not a sitcom, you’re correct! We’re doing it anyway, and as elder millennials who were just a little too old for MMPR when it originally aired, we’re bringing in a ringer in the form of Sina Grace — artist, writer and bonvivant. whose work in the comics world has included writing for these very teenagers with attitude. In this episode, Billy and Kimberley swap bodies and so David Yost and Amy Jo Johnson have fun imitating each other while also commenting on gender norms… inasmuch as that’s possible in a 20-minute-long TV episode about superheroes who fight giant monsters.
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Comments
There was a 4th(?) season “3rd Rock” where John Lithgow and Kristen Johnston swapped bodies
Christopher Boltz
2025-04-12 14:03:54 +0000 UTCRe. not noticing missing hands. Many, many years ago I was at a art school party and ended up spending most of their time talking to this super cool girl. We talked about her art, she lit my cigarette and we chatted through the night. When it was time to leave I told her it was really nice to meet her and stuck out my hand to shake her hand and it was only then that I realized that she had no hands.
Lobo
2025-04-10 17:04:42 +0000 UTC
