Bulk and Skull only appear once in the Hot Dog Cart scenario. It leads me to ponder how much Bulk and Skull are influenced by the "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" principle. Of course, the whole point of the principle is that you don't see its effects on camera. When Bulk and Skull mock the statue, a symbol of outdated and narcissistic monumentalism, Bulk says a line, "What's the big deal? It's a pile of concrete." There's a certain impersonation that this line calls to mind, but I can't recall what it would be. Check out the Actor's commentary track for Smallville episode 2-17 "Rosetta" at the scene after the opening where Jonathan Kent asks Clark where he was last night to know the voice. The fact that Bulk and Skull support properly prepared food over a statue shows their altruistic ethics: food means survival, and survival is more important than some artist's ego. Nobody questions why a city would want to replace a statue with a "barbecue pit", or why a bunch of teenagers would put stock into "forest spirits".
Bulk and Skull just want to check out Kimberly's float. For all we know, they are avid float admirers and think Kimberly's done a crackerjack job. On the other hand, Bulk's allergies kick in, and he fails to have the foresight to bring some kind of tissue as a preferential alternative to an unhy
gienic display. I'll say it again: Bulk and Skull are the best of friends.
Bulk and Skull have a thirst for knowledge, and are eager to find out how bugs are helpful to humans in the most straightforward and valid manner: mix bugs with humans! Does Zack know that you CAN'T "fail" an IQ test?
(That was his joke.) Later, we see Bulk and Skull offering a cultural spectacle for the Youth Center: two genuine ninjas showing off their squirrel-like (momonga?) skill. As we can discern from the ninja fight, violence is not the forte of Bulk and Skull, even if they resort to it often, but whe
n you're being smothered by cakes and blunt trauma on nearly a daily basis, you'd be insane not to lash out. Of course, kids in high school are very violent.
The reason I sped up the ninja fight was because these films are hard to time down to ~10 minutes. Power Rangers amounts to well over a d
ecade's worth just in the scenes of violent fighting alone (go ahead and time them for me just to be sure), and I'm pretty sure the scenes of the cast just practicing kung fu may far outweigh them actually making kung fu useful (Japanese cast doesn't count, since they just dubbed the content from th
e original Sentai show). That, and ninjas fighting in high speeds are funny. But not the ninjas that angry, violence-obsessed prepubescent males use as running gags along with the outdated Chuck Norris references we unfortunately may still remember. On a lighter note, squirrels are totally like t
he ninjas of the animal kingdom.
Final comment: I think the network may have been very appealing to an older audience in this episode by showing Austin St. John's and Jason David Frank's shirtless upper torsos. Yowza.
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