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@blueminder Power Rangers?
Yeah, no.
@Samizdata No, yeah.
Yeah, no. I still have PTSD from taking my little brother to see the original movie.
@Samizdata I must confess, I dragged my parents to that movie as a kid, and I will pay dearly for it on my karmic ledger.
@Samizdata It also had the greatest line in any movie ever uttered on screen: "What is that odious stench? Smells like... teenagers."
@blueminder I was a teenager once. I did NOT smell.
@Samizdata It was definitely more about the delivery than the statement's accuracy, I do have to say.
@blueminder Like some dude named Ooze should be hygeineshaming.
@Samizdata He probably just smelled the nervous years of puberty on the characters. It has a distinct aroma to an ancient being.
@blueminder Kind of surprised you didn't go for a "Smells like teen spirit" reference.
@Samizdata I want Ivan Ooze nowhere near the anarchist cheerleaders in the music video.
@blueminder :shrug:
I got nothin'.
@blueminder But they neglected to sell action figures of the inexplicably English attractive redhead in the suede bikini, who was obviously only there to keep the Dads from walking out in frustrated boredom.
@Samizdata If you look at the themes of the movie, it was really about the ennui of suburban American life, and how consumerism acts as a false promise to fill that void. Appropriately enough, they also sold action figures about it.