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                           Gourmet Night presents...

                          Power People Lost In Space

                      "Cartoon Rangers In Shock, Part 1"

[The Jerk Spot.  The Rangers are all sitting at their usual tables.  It looks 
like a normal day.  Big fat hairy deal.]

Chris:  ...so then _I_ said...

Ashley:  CHRIS!  We were all there!

Chris:  I just like to feel good about myself.

Adelle (arriving):  What can I get you?

Chris:  Prozac.

Andros:  Just bring us our usuals.

Adelle:  Coming right up.  (leaves)

Andros:  It's so great to have a usual.

Cassie:  What is your usual, anyway?

Andros:  I have NOO idea.  And I sincerely doubt it's the same thing twice.

Chris:  Then it's not a usual.

Andros:  It's not?

TJ:  It's going against everything a usual is supposed to be.

Andros:  Aw, man.  Well, what's your usual?

Chris:  It's all the same thing.  There's only one item on the menu.

Andros:  Oh.  What is it?

Chris:  I don't really remember.

---

[The Dorky Fortress...]

Astronemesis:  Those Rangers are pretty sure of themselves, aren't they?

Aktroms:  I wouldn't know.  _I_ never get to spy on them.

Hedgecliptor:  Silence, fool!

Astronemesis:  Well, I have an idea that will change the tides of the battle.  
The Rangers may have beaten me in the real world, but they can't possibly 
survive the ANIMATED world!

Aktroms:  Um... wut?

Astronemesis:  Observe the new monster!

[The new monster, animated by the Cartoon department of False Kids,
Animanitrack, enters.]

Animitrack:  I am ready to do your bidding, my saucy superior.

Astronemesis:  Good.  Now ZAP Angular Grove!

[The monster does just that.  Everything starts to shift around and then glows 
bright white...]

...
..
.

[In the Jerk Spot, the Rangers' scene continues.  However, something is amiss.  
Andros is a red cartoon fox with a bushy tail, TJ is a beaver with a flat tail 
and buck teeth, Carlos is a skunk with a white stripe down his back, Chris is 
puppy with big eyes and doggy ears, Cassie is a sleek black cat, and Ashley is 
a gorgeous vixen (no kidding).]

Fox Andros:  What the heck was that?

Puppy Chris:  Aw, we're cartoons!

Andros:  What's a carrtoon?

Skunky Carlos:  I don't get why I had to be a skunk.

Beaver TJ:  Cause you're a real stinker.

[Adelle arrives.  She is a giant walrus in a dress (now literally).]

Chris:  Oh god...

Adelle:  Here are your orders.

Andros:  We didn't order rraw salmon.

Adelle:  Eat it up!

[The Rangers bob their heads into the platter and suck the fish into their 
mouths, then shake them in their mouths until Adelle leaves.]

Chris:  Pitoowie!  That was disgusting.

Andros:  I suggest we get back to the ship and check it out.

[The Rangers all leave the Jerk Spot.]

---

[The Cartoon Gastro Bigship, which is a Bigship-shaped balloon.  In the 
infirmary, a cartoon Beta (now a giant teddy bear with an odd head) is 
scanning the Rangers.]

Teddy Beta:  Increadible.  Even all your organic DNA has turned into 
animacellulite and technicolour.

Andros:  What?

Beta:  You're all cartoons.  Definitely.

Andros:  Who keeps sitting on my tail?

Cassie:  Sorry.

Chris:  Ashley, you... kinda make a cute vixen.

Ashley:  Oh shut up.

Beta:  It looks like the entire planet (and it's surroundings) were turned 
into cartoons.  You must be the only ones who are aware of the changes.

Andros:  Rrr.. can we do anything about it?

Beta:  It looks like the work of a monster, but I can't track it down.

Andros:  We'll be on the brridge.  Come on gu--

All:  CARLOS!!

[The hallway, which is unusually oversized.]

Andros:  We can't act against this monsterr until he makes a move, which means 
we'rre gonna haveto lay low.

Cassie:  meow  How long would that take?

Andros:  It may be days.  And stop licking yourrself, it's sick.

Cassie:  It's the way cats bathe.

---

[Angular Grove.  A certain old dinosaur (literally) is looking through the 
telescope, then backs up.  It's the Cartoon professor Incompitent!]

Cartoon Incompitent:  Boys boys!

[A pig (Hulk) and a mouse (Dull) turn around.]

Incompitent:  Take a look at this, boys.

Mouse Dull (looking into the telescope):  Professor, that's a promotional 
billboard.

Incompitent:  Billboard?  Perhaps to the untrianed eye!

Pig Hulk:  Do you guys notice anything different about us?

Incompitent:  Different?  What do you mean different?

Hulk:  I dunno.  Maybe it was just in my head.

[If that's possible.]

Hulk:  Hey!

[Sorry.]

Incompitent:  I sense aliens are approaching us!

[Four certain animated kids sidle into the scene.]

Stan:  Hello.  Who are you?

Incompitent:  Aha!

Kids:  Auugh!

[Stan leaps into Kyle's arms.  Kenny pulls up his hood strings.]

Incompitent:  It's the feared aliens!

Kyle:  Aliens?  We're just kids, dude!

Incompitent:  Kids?  Perhaps to the untrained eye!

Stan:  I think we'd know if we were kids or aliens, dude.

Kenny:  Mmmm mm mmmmm mm mmm.

Incompitent:  Boys!  Let's get these guys ready for our OPERATION!

Stan/Kyle:  Operation?

Cartman:  Oh no, don't look at me!

---

[The Cartoon Dorky Fortress.  Astronemesis is also a vixen now, Aktroms is a 
wolf, and Hedgecliptor is a bush-man.  The monster is the same, since he was a 
cartoon from the beginning.]

Vixen Astronemesis:  Excellent.  All the world (and it's surroundings) are now 
cartoons!  And I might add this place is looking up.

[In the corner, a ground of Cartoon Pompoms are talking.]

Cartoon Pompom #1:  I eel tupi aza artoon.

Cartoon Pompom #2:  orenot ee oly wun.

Astronemesis:  Pompoms:

Cartoon Pompoms:  Ezaam.

Astronemesis:  Go to earth and find the Rangers!

---

[Angular Grove.  The Jerk Spot.]

Chris:  Gr.... hiss....

Cassie:  Hissss....

Andros:  Will you two stop that?  You'rre making a scene of yourrselves.

Ashley:  Don't yell at the dog... he's just a puppy.  He's a good boy 
yeshe'sha gooodboy (kisses the top of Chris' head)  Oh my god I kissed Chris!  
Augh!

Cassie:  I can't believe it.  I tried going to the bathroom earlier, and I 
couldn't.  I had to find a sandbox.  Do you know what that's like?  It's 
embarrassing.

Chris:  Well as long as no one saw you you're in the clear.

Cassie:  You see, that's where we have a bit of a problem.

[They all shudder.]

Chris:  Thank you, that is NOT an image I wanted in my head.

Ashley:  How are we going to keep fighting off evil?

TJ: She's got a point.  We all have tails and everything.  Animals were never 
meant to be Rangers.

Andros:  Then why did they have animal POWERS?

TJ:  Oh yeah.

Carlos:  I still don't see why I had to be the skunk.

Andros:  I think I can explain it... (comms beep)  Oh, look at the time.  
Pompom attack.

[The Toon Rangers all dash outside and see a large squad of Pompoms.]

Andros:  Fight!

[Andros flips over and spins, allowing his tail to knock off several Pompoms.]

Andros:  I learrned that in "Macchio Cousins III".

[Cassie slinks past a group of Pompoms, then lashes out wioth a hand and 
breaks into their circuit boards, causing them to short cicruit.]

Cassie:  Me-wow.

[TJ and Ashley both flip over at the smae time, then Ashley lands on and leaps 
off TJ's beaver tail, using it as a springboard.  She manages to leap up and 
land on several more Pompoms.]

TJ:  Ten points!

[Pretty soon all of the Pompoms have been chased off.]

Andros:  That actually went betterr.

Chris:  Boy, I feel more animated than ever.

Ashley:  Chris, that is the WORST pun you could possibly make at a time like 
this.

Chris:  I know.  It took me forever to think of it.

Carlos:  Boy, I like to call this 'using our tails'.

Cassie:  That really wasn't funny either.

Andros:  Come on guys, let's head back to the ship...

---

[The Incompitent Van.  The South Park kiddies are all tied onto the 
examination tables.  Incompitent, Hulk, and Dull are all dressed in comical 
doctor's uniforms.]

Stan:  Dude, this is pretty [deet] stuff right here.

Incompitent:  Nowww too begin the incisions!  (sharpens his tool)

Kyle:  You're going to be careful, aren't you?

Incompitent:  Of course!  If I touch the edges the nose will light up.

Cartman:  Oh man!

Incompitent:  I think the hooded one is hiding something!

[Incompitent tries to make an incision and the nose lights up loudly, then 
blows off in an explosion.]

Stan:  Oh my god, they killed Kenny.

Incompitent:  I guess the lot of you aren't aliens.

Kyle:  We told you!

Incompitent:  I guess you guys are free to go.

Stan:  You're going to hear from our attornies here.

---

[The Bigship.]

Cassie:  You were going to tell us about why we're the animals we are?

Andros:  Yeah.  I'm the fox because I'm the most brrash and cool-looking.

Chris:  Oh brother.

Andros:  TJ is the beaverr because they'rre both hard working and... well, 
brrown-coloured.

TJ:  Give me a break.

Andros:  Carrlos is a skunk because he's a stinkerr.

Carlos:  Oh come on!

Andros:  Chris is the dog because they both are lazy and like to lie around 
all day.

Chris:  Is that so?

Andros:  Cassie is a cat because she's sleek and purrrs a lot.

Cassie:  meow.

Andros:  Yeah yeah, and Ashley is a vixen because... well, she honestly is.

Ashley:  Thanks a lot.  I'd like to think I'm a bit smarter than a fox.

Chris:  You know, in this situation, that could actually be true.

Andros:  Hey!

Chris:  And I think I can explain Beta.  He's cuddly and harmless.

Beta:  Hey.  I could take you all on RIGHT NOW!

Chris:  I'm sure you can.

DECO:  How come I'm not an animal?

Andros:  Because you're a starrship.  And now you look like a giant balloon.

DECO:  Does this animation make me look fat?

Chris:  hehe, good one.

Cassie:  Here's a question that I might have wanted to ask earlier: can we 
morph?

Andros:  Not until I temporrarrily update the uniforms to conforrm to our 
animacellulite technicolourr bodies.

Ashley:  Will that take long?

Andros:  No, all it involves is cutting a hole for the tail and in Carrlos' 
case painting a long white line down the back.

Carlos:  That's cool.  Hey!!

Andros:  DECO, can you alterr the costumes to those specifications?

DECO:  Me?  I do everything around here.  Why can't you?

Andros:  I neverr learned how to sew, and if I ask the girls to do it they'll 
call me a chauvanist fox.

Ashley:  That's not true?

Andros:  Will you stitch the uniforms?

Aahley:  Hell no!

Andros:  Then why-- oh, forrget it!  Look, I'll do it.  But it's not going to 
be my fault if the hole climbs up the back or something!  (storms off)

Chris:  I don't see what his problem is.

Cassie:  His uniform is probably just messing with his hair.

Chris:  Hey, we're all animals.  I suggest we strip!

Ashley:  Shut up.

---

[Andros' personal chambre.  He is hunched over a stitching machine.]

Andros:  I can't believe I kept making those mistakes.  Grr, I hate stitching.  
And I think some of my hand hairrs arre gone.

[Andros lies back on his cot.  His mind suddenly comes up with the usual 
flashback, except this time Karona is a funky-haired pony.]

Andros:  Ohh man...

DECO:  Do you require water, Andros?

Andros:  Surre.

[Andros takes a bowl out of his personal, hidden Synthetron and dabs water on 
his forehead.]

Andros:  This is drriving me crazy.  I though that-- HEY, the costumes DO 
conforrm automatically!  I don't even need to be doing this!  Why didn't you 
tell me?

DECO:  We needed to fill up some space.

Andros:  Aw forrget it.

---

[The Dorky Fortress...]

Astronemesis:  So... the first phase of my plan is complete.

Aktroms:  Exactly what WAS the first phase?

Hedgecliptor:  Everything that has happened until now.

Aktroms:  That was my guess, I just wanted to make sure.

Astronemesis:  Prepare for the destruction of the Power People.  Prepare for
phase two!

Aktroms (grumbles):  I sure hope all this fuss is worth it.

                              to be continued...

                              executive producers
                                 CHRIS NEUMANN
                             JEAN-CHRISTOPHE KARIM

Vixen Ashley:  OK Andros, it's really     | Voice of Andros
simple.  You start by putting the cloth   |  Christopher Hkayman Islands Lee
under here, then...                       |
                                          | Voice of TJ
Fox Andros:  How do you know how to do    |  Shellfish Ward
this?                                     |
                                          | Voice of Carlos
Ashley:  I used to be in the fashion      |  Roger Tobasco
business.  My jackets made the evening    |
news.                                     | Voice of Chris
                                          |  Guy Inomnate
[Ashley turns a MegaTV on.]               |
                                          | Voice of Cassie
Trout Reporter:  ...so if you see any of  |  Patricia Ya Man
these ugly jackets, avert your eyes and   |
burn the jackets immendaintly.            | Voice of Ashley
                                          |  Tracy Lynt Crud
[Ashley turns the MegaTV off.]            |
                                          | Voice of Hulk
Ashley:  Well, I never said it was a      |  Paul Frier
successful run...                         |
                                          | Voice of Dull
Andros:  By the way, Chris was right.     |  Jason Marvy
You DO make a cute vixen.                 |
                                          | Based on "Power Rangers in Space"
Ashley:  ANDROS...  this is a cartoon...  | created by Saban.
                                          |
Andros:  Well, that's all for this time.  | Animated by Chris Neumann and
                                          | GN Animation studios.
                                          |
                                          | Protected under the fair-use
                                          | parody laws laid down by the
                                          | first amendment.
                                          |
                                          | (c) 1998 Gourmet Night
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