The Power Rangers On Acid - The Big Bad Beetleborgs - Everything You Didn't Know | SYFY WIRE
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2020
- Big Bad Beetleborgs looks like a typical kids action show but it’s actually a modern day monster sitcom that’s more like a sequel to The Munsters. Yeah…it’s time to revisit Saban’s Big Bad Beetleborgs.
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for the longest time i wasn't sure if this had actually existed or just some weird dream i had. No one would talk about it but i remembered it very vividly. Today i can finally rest easy knowing i was not the only one that knew this was real.
Ikr
You can test at ease, knowing that someone actually made this and that it wasn't a nightmare fever dream.
The_Nightmare Arellano um... google it?
Same thing for me lol I thought it didnt exist until I accidentally found it a few years ago lol
Honestly i felt the same way. For a whilei thought it was some kind of Mandela effect
All I remember from this show:
-Girl cracking her hands before doing some crazy shit.
-Blue Jay Leno
Lol she super strong
All I remember from that show is the girl drinking a potion and turning into a monster obsessed with being "bad to the bone".
@@kartunland yo i remember that!
Man I always wondered why this show stopped when I was a kid. Loved it so much. Never knew they ran out of material to pull from.
Such a blast of ancient memories. I had action figures of these guys but remember no actual episodes, only small things that happened in them. Glad to know it wasn't just some fever dream.
Kinda disappointed you guys didn’t mention how they used beetleborgs costumes years later for villains in the Forever Red episode of Power Rangers Wild Force
I know right?
I Thought I was the only one who noticed
i remember beetleborgs
Sprocket grows to be Gasket divorced his Cousin and found a comic and rebuild
the borgs and killed him
I remember this too 💪
I remembered as a kid loving this show also mad cuz it didn't have an ending to it , it just stop coming on lol
It wasn't a proper finale, but it at least saw the villains getting fed up and quitting.
@@UJEvans they became baristas
Lol you right...I never remember the ending either
Probably because the first 2 seasons took stock footage from the Japanese tokusatsu series, "Metal Heroes: B Fighter," and "Metal Heroes: B Fighter Kabuto," and the Metal Heroes series after that, "B Robo Kabutack was considered too lighthearted to be adapted.
Right in the last episode, les was tired of being mistreated by the crustaceans, so he left and promised to find a way to send them back to being art, the kids got a boost in power by obtaining boron along with roboborg, so it seemed the borgs kids were ready for one final battle, but no. Wish they went all out to make a proper finale, but I guess power rangers were more important at that time
I totally forgot about this show!
Still one of the best themes ever, if you sing it to someone that never saw the show they think you've lost it.
I swear this show inspired Saban to add a kid to Power Rangers in the form of Justin in PR Turbo. Which was the wrong move. Kids hated the fact that another squeaker got to be a ranger and not them. Beetleborgs was appealing because the main protagonists were closer to our age as oppose to people in their early 20's.
I actually liked Justin as a kid, for the same reason I liked Beetleborgs.
@@GayLPer same with me I know a few other people that didn’t like Justin because back then when Justin came on Power Rangers I was excited about it because I was like hey I get to be a parrot or now you know that’s what I thought on my mind and I had some friends I thought the same thing that gave us hope that we could be Power Rangers yeah but I get some kids probably didn’t like it
Yup. And Justin was the first and only tween to be in PR Turbo. That’s the type of kid he was.
And Beetleborgs has tweens as main protagonists. Love both shows and the original Japanese shows they’re based on. Super Sentai and Juukou B-Fighter
This was my show back in the day on Fox kids.
Me too
Same
Same here
The good old days... sigh...
Hell yeah. In the age of "Rock the Dragon" theme from DBZ.
I was so young when I watched this show I repressed the memories of it so far back in my brain that I did not remember how insane it was!
Power Rangers on Acid = Beetleborgs
Power Rangers on Steroids = Kamen Rider
Power Rangers on Ecstacy = Tattooed Teenaged Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills
And Knights of Tir na Nog = Power Ranger medival LARP
@@SangerZonvolt and power rangers for grown ups = Garo
Ughh Vegeta, just what are we in for......Oh *%&$^@@$&%^!
Man I love DBZA, still kinda lowkey pissed we wont get anymore but I will thoroughly enjoy what we were given :)
R rated Power rangers = Garo
Power Ranger on Heroin = ?
Everything You Didn’t Know: Xiaolin Showdown
THAT
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SHIT!
Yes!
Nice
BLAKE DA GREAT
Yes
If only because when I was younger me and my ex at the time cosplayed as Jack Spicer and Wuya and everyone loved that shit cause we owned it
She was a huge TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) I heard she's a Nazi now or at least dating one.
Raymundo's redemption arc was good tbh
Fact: for the _Power Rangers_ 10th anniversary special, “Forever Red”, that aired as part of Wild Force, General Venjix (no, not the Venjix Virus - he debuted 7 years later) and the Machine Empire survivors had their suits recycled from Beetleborgs and their Japanese counterpart shows. Venjix’s suit was taken from Shadowborg, Gerrok’s was from Green Hunterborg, Tezzla’s was from Ladyborg (minus the antennae), Steelon’s was from Dragonborg (minus the dragonfly wing emblem on the helmet), and Automon’s was a hodgepodge of the body of Lightningborg and the head of Fireborg.
To Piggyback off your post.
In one of the later episodes Bulk and Skull were shown reading a Beetleborg comic book.
So the Beetleborg franchise is fictitious in the Power Ranger's universe, however despite the Beetleborg characters being fictitious there were generals of the Machine Empire who looked almost exactly like them?
Try and wrap your head around that one guys lol
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Octacle I remember that too, thank you for explaining for everyone.
@@HyperTomoose Well, remember that the Beetleborg franchise is fictitious in the Beetleborg universe too!
As a 90s kid I legit couldn’t remember this show... that is until the theme song started playing LOL and then it all started coming back. The Genie Jay Leno guy, the weird monster mash people haha. Thanks for reviving my lost memories!!
Oh man this takes me back, I would watch Goosebumps and Beetleborgs comes on afterwards.
Finally someone acknowledges Tattoo Teenate Alien Fighters exist 😂. We need a "everything you didn't know..." about this
Very underrated TV show!
From Beverly Hills!😎✊👍
@@kphillips6102-It was terrible but I'm glad you remembered the show. Lol.
Team four star
Check out Orange Ranger Videos, hes reviewed the first 20 episodes
Tattooed teenage alien fighters from beverly hillls is Gohans favorite show in DBZ abridged...lol now i know what it is..
No shit? Man, that show is unbelievable with how many jokes they fit in. DBZ Abridged for life!
I watched that in the 90's. Came on the USA channel at like 6:30 AM.
I use to watch it when there was absolutely nothing else on lol
Same lol
I NEVER watched that one. I was born in 89 so must've aired a little before I could rmember any TV. Power Rangers were def the jam though
So no one is gonna talk about how he just glazed over jo’s actor change??
I remember that episode, and I like that they actually had an in-universe reason for it. It was a stupid reason, but it was a reason. Most shows would just change the actor and hope no one would notice.
This used to be my show back in the day
So....I'm the only one who's always thought Flabber looked like Jay Leno?
Not the only one
Kevin Smith no your not
There was a segment from when Jay Leno hosted The Tonight Show that fans send him items and pics that "look like him" and someone sent him a Flabber doll in its package.
Everyone says that. They call him that IN the video. If you search the internet enough there's a clip where someone sent Leno a picture of Flabber on his show.
Lol Jay was aware of it too. In one of those "weird print" skits he compared himself to his TV doppelganger and promised us that it wasn't him.
I personally loved BBBB, that theme song was just to catchy.
That's the only thing I remember
@@sadsworth4605 i just remember the character designs.
my dude, can we get some love for Mummies Alive? that show was so patently ridiculous it has etched itself into my brain 2 decades later.
My best friend and I watched that show like it was the most popular show on the planet.
I forgot all about that show. I loved it when I was younger.
IM SO LATE BUT I DONT CARE
MUMMIES FUCKING ALIVE MY DUDES
Mummies Alive is one of those shows you forget all about until someone mentions it. Then you're reliving the glory days like they were yesterday.
Is that the one with pharaohs in anime style kicking butt!?
The figures were so badass, it’s a shame the show didn’t hold up.
The problem was they ran out of useable footage from the two seasons they were adapting, “Juko B-Fighter” and it’s sequel “B-Fighter Kabuto”. And since Kamen Rider wasn’t back yet, there were no bug themed heroes to keep the show going.
To continue, Saban would have had to make the show with completely American footage. Which is where “Mystic Knights” came in, to do exactly that.
I love the Beetleborgs kids who become their comic book heroes how cool is that?
The show was okay. I kinda couldn't gey in ro it like i did power rangers but i did get to see some episodes! I did like super human samurai. Not many people did lol
I'm from Los Angeles and all the kids (myself included) would talk about this show all the time and watch all the episodes on TV back then.
Even got the McDonald's toys.
@@Shahaneh im from LA and no one would talk about them. Most of the kids wouldn't even talk about the power rangers! What part of LA are you from?
@@lyndafall8818 well, i grew up in Santa Monica.
Maybe thats it.
Will Rogers Elementary School and John Adams Middle School for me.
@@Shahaneh ah I see. echo park for me. Near downtown LA! We had the gangster kids lol.
Flabber was a mix between Ronald McDonald, Elvis and the genie. Just remember how cheesy it was. Even as a kid I thought it was kinda lame
And Jay Leno
That show was my child tv show and I still watch it at the age 34. It brings a lot of good memories. Love the old school tv shows back in the day.
Same except it’s one of my fav childhood shows and I’m 31.
Years later Beetleborgs were in an episode of Power Rangers called Forever Red. They were part of the guest Villains for that episode
The toys were really cool back then. I'm glad I grew up in a generation that had a physical element to my childhood. I know children aren't completely digital, but apps are taking over at a younger and younger age.
As a parent, I DARE YOU to tell that to my living room... ;)
lol kids still have toys dude
Yeah, but its still a fight to keep them off the screens after age 8 or so.
Mystic Knights needs to come back seriously, reboot this now!!
True..and that was really one of the few shows that never had prior show from japan.
I wish that could happen but it won't.
Mystic knights was the shit
FYAHH WITHIN ME!!!
AIR ABOVE ME!!
WATER AROUND ME!!!
EARTH BENEATH ME!!
FOREST BEFORE ME!!!
I SUMMON PYRE, THE FIRE DRAGON OF DARE!!
I remember it all!!!
BRUH! i fuckin loved mystic knights!!! that and that cheesy young hercules show have a special place in my kid life...
I honestly thought I was the only one that remembered this show. I would always mention it and nooo one could remember it!!!!
I remember how obsessed I was with finding the White Borg toy! Damn the nostalgia!
The monsters were the best part of the show, always loved how they were trying to eat the kids any chance they got.
Then the Beetleborgs turned evil... joined the Machine Empire... and then they were killed off by the Red Rangers in Wild Force.
That is a really dark way to end the Beetleborg series.
The episode of power rangers titled "Forever Red" took place during the season Power Rangers Wild Force.
Did they literally use the exact looking suits? Or like a parody suit that was similar so ppl assumed it was beetleborgs
So the power rangers murdered children... wow
thaB00gym4n they were the same it was pretty blatant
The Beetleborg Armors that were used in Forever Red were the Shadow Borg, the Green Hunter Borg, Dragonborg, Ladyborg and the combination of Fireborg and Lightningborg.
My favorite thing about this series was how they disregarded the transformation sequence of the beetleborg robots. I remember an episode where the villains attack the beetleborgs in the middle of the transformation and they blow up the robots lol. That was insane to me cause every other show like power rangers, you just see the megazords transforming and everyone waits for it to finish.
I had a toy and it was the beetle borgs base.
But none of the actual people to go with it, so I used little army men.
My Uncle happened to be friends with the actor who played Flabber. I still have signed toys and a cast pic sitting in my attic somewhere lol. I've never actually met anyone that has seen this
Awesome
Cool. I loved Beetleborgs. Shame they ran out of episodes to adapt. The show really wasn't bad.
One of my favorite shows when I was younger. I was 7ish when this came out. I had a couple of the toys myself.
I wished they could've done a spin off with just the house monsters
How big was his chin really?🤔
5:37 Beetleborgs is mostly Power Rangers meets Goosebumps and Scooby-Doo
I have not heard that "Big Bad Beetleborgs" song in over 20 years and now listening to it again I don't want to hear it for another 20 years.
Check out “Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles” it was a cg animated series that was written like a Band of Brothers but was on kid’s programming
Stranger still when you consider that the original novel "Starship Troopers" was heavily based around facist ideology. A heavy military industrial complex, citizenship based on loyalty to the state or military servitude, etc etc.
I watched almost ever episode when growing... Wow, quarantine nostalgia...
Right there with ya lol. Samurai pizza cats is up next.
they had it on netflix at one point but i never watched it all the way through
@@rc59191 Pizza cats was cool they remind me of these characters from Dragon Ball...
@@kcmark1 probably wouldn't be as entertained by it as someone who haved watched it growing up; But, its fun to watch cartoons and anime from the good ol days
@@kakashi3k ya and I love that old school anime art design.
I'm glad someone acknowledged this show!!
Sometimes when I take mushrooms I randomly tap into memories that were long lost. And today's epiphany: "what ever happend to beatle borgs?"
UA-cam did not disappoint; I remember having the green and blue action figures. 22 years I had this memory barried in the deepest part of my brain. I miss being a kid in the 90s!
I realized how their helmets visors look so much like Mandalorians.
I’m telling my kids Beetleborgs were the Avengers.
much original
Why not? Baby geniuses 2 actually practically was...
The Avengers existed before the Beetleborgs
I'm telling my kids wildforce Forever Red was Endgame
Yo kids finna cuss you out
Everything You Didn’t Know: Swat Cats
They need to do that. Also show how dark the show was. It's some stuff they can touch on.
Swat cats was awesome! Loved that show.👍👊
@@justinsanders2705 I love it too.
shsram awesome
That show was the stuff when I was a kid
I did not realize how batshit this show was. Although I do remember every single scene shown here, except have no recollection of the white beetleborg strangely.
It's funny, the only episodes I do vividly remember of that show were the Shadowborg Arc. As an inpressional kid, seeing an outsider not only get accepted into the tight knit group of protagonists, but also single-handedly save all of them, only to be depowered and quickly forgotten about for his efforts legitimately messed me up.
I rented all the bettleborg like a 100 times from blockbuster as a kid. I even remember when they were bad guys in power rangers shit was crazy duuude but their costumes were so fuckin cool as a kid way cooler than power rangers.
So, when does something stop being a “ripoff” or “copycat” and start just being part of a new genre or subgenre?
When there are about 15 of them and they were made by people who loved the original at least 10 years before
Power rangers wasn't new. It was a long running Japanese show. They married clips of the show with American actors.
Adam Hoffman hell ya with music too
In the final episodes of Power Rangers in Space they used monster costumes from Beetleborgs
It wasnt the power rangers in space series. I'm pretty sure it was the power rangers jungle fury series, bc it was during that series where they had the episode with the 10 red rangers teaming up, going up against the forgotten generals of the machine empire who were trying to unearth Lord Zedd's ultimate Zord, Serpentera for their purposes, and they were the ones who looked like the beetleborgs. The battle part of the episode just took part on the moon and in the moons gravity.
Damn throw back
Michael DeFeo it was power ranger wild force
@@michaeldefeo1439 things heating up in the power rangers fandom
@@michaeldefeo1439 it wasn't Jungle Fury it was Wild Force
you took me back in time with this one,I felt old and young at the same time
I use to think it was Jay Leno playing that flabber character 😂😂😂
I remember watching Big Bad Beetleborgs when I was a kid, still remember the iconic theme song to the intro. Plus flabber looks like Jay Leno and Beetlejuice had a baby together.
Superhuman Samurai Syber- Squad : " Am I a joke to you " ?
Thank you!!!!! I’m not the only one who thought that!!!!
I loved that show. It didn't take itself too seriously.
SSSS. GRIDMAN
I love servo
I remember thinking that character was the same as ultraman as a kid.
So glad y'all did this. I've been missing this show for YEARS.
I really loved Beetleborgs as a kid. Totally forgot about it until last year when I discovered it was on netflix. I binged the entire series within a few weeks xD Still fun to watch. I really like Horribelle. She was (in my eyes) a decent bad guy. And her motto "If you want something done right, have a woman do it" xD she was awesome. So sad they stopped after 2 seasons.
What also made me like Beetleborgs more than Power Rangers or VR Troopers was because it had monsters in it. I was the type of kid that read all the goosebumps books, so having a show with monsters in it, even if it was for cheap slap stick comedy, just added an extra element that appealed to what I liked.
Everything You Didn't Know: ZOIDS.
NOW!!
"most original copycat show"
How... True
Oxymoron!
I loved this show as a kid. I still have my Beetleborg action figure that I got from a Fox Kids Magazine contest from back then. 😂
I definitely was a weird kid. I loved this show
I loved and still love this show to this day. As much as Power Rangers.
Imagine if Steve Urkel appeared as a guest star in the show
Typhus was the green dude with Noxic and Jara. The red dude at the end of s1 and the rest of s2 is Nukus. The leader of Noxic, Typhus, and Jara is Vexor
This deadass was one of my favorite shows as a kid and it didn’t even come out when I was alive my parents had both seasons on tape and I would watch both all day
Holy shit! I remember this one! You opened up a whole part of my childhood I've forgotten about!
My brother loved this show. I didn't like it too much. But I loved Power Rangers, Masked Ryder, VR Troopers, and Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad.
Cool
Same here and it was amazing
Oh my God! I remember watching Big Bad Beetleborgs in VHS as a kid. Wow. Talk about 90's throw backs. This is awesome!
I’m glad it’s on Netflix
I single handedly destroyed our local blockbusters copy of the beetleborgs VHS tape.
A favorite throwback! Happy Thursday 🎉
@@mexicannightmare9759 it is? I'll check it out
Kyle Adrien yeah bro both seasons
The theme song is hella catchy. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I instantly remembered it even though I haven't thought about this show in literal decades
"Frankie don't cry! You're only gonna be wurst!" I died 😂
After all these years, I at last know why this show didn't continue. I always loved it as a kid.
Season two was great.
It’s just a shame Masked Rider didn’t take off like Power Rangers did. It’d be cool to see Kamen Rider Build over here.
darkecofreak23 to be fair masked riders Americanization didn’t go great
Any Kamen Rider being "Saban-ed" with Western Actors would be hot trash, especially cause Saban is hot trash itself anyway. Like, imagine a random Western actor replacing Masahiro Inoue as Decade? That's just not Decade.
I tried to watch masked rider recently and... it doesn't hold up as well as early power rangers and beetleborgs
Go seek out Kamen Rider Dragon Knight my dude
They still make American versions but they never take off
I saw a random commercial about beetles and comic books and this shown pops up in my mind after over 20 years of not being in my head.
I remember this show recently and it’s actually on Netflix. I did remember how absolutely crazy of show it was but honestly it was good for the reuses scenes and budget they had. I always honestly thought Flabber was Jay Leno actually too though. 😂
So it wasn’t just a fever dream I had as a kid.
That's hella funny shit you can barely remember where it feels like it's a dream or never happened
The Beetleborgs IP was locked behind a long forgotten door in my mind that just got kicked down like a firefighter was trying to rescue a screaming baby
Oh my gosh. I remember this. I saw like one or two episodes back in the day and was always confused about the monsters. I mean, I'm glad this existed, it's so weird but cool.
Im pretty sure im the only one in my class who knew what the beetle borgs were. It was the summer of 1999...an 8 year old me was the only one in his class...possibly school who knew who the beetle borgs were. I was... And still remain to this very day....the most awesome person... Who ever lived. Thank you! Thank you very much🤘
Thank you so much for this video! This was one of my favorite shows as a kid in the 90s. I had forgotten so many of the characters, it was great to see them again.
That chase music always gets stuck in my head
Finally i found the show i would talk about so much..as years went by id forget it more and more..i want this show!!! All episodes
I really liked this show as a Kid, the fact they were kids and not teens was way more relatable than with power rangers. Besides that BBB was also sillier and funnier than power rangers. To this day I still have a notebook from the Beetleborgs I bought for my first year of school. Good times!
Everything you didn't know: Big O
Yeeeeeeees!
I liked when they got the 4th kid temporarily. 😂. He kept flipping out because Flabber wouldn’t leave him alone.
I loved this show as a kid. Now, with Netflix, I introduced it to my kids and they love it too.
I have never forgotten this! This was a huge part of my childhood!
Glad they acknowledged the mistake in the pinned comment
Everything You Didn’t Know: Digimon
What about shows like The Zeta Project, Monster Rancher, Voltron, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, Beast Wars, and alot more like that.
@@devenforteau1147 beast wars/machines yes
I agree I'm a huge Digimon fan well at least the first two seasons
@@DanBarnett0727 I agree on that one. The first season of Digimon always the best.
@@devenforteau1147 did you know that pokemon did a crossover with digimon and mewtwo goes on a rampage and kills Blackwargreymon
Wow this is one of those things I completely forgotten about until it was brought up. Thanks for this blast from the past lol. I think I started watching this because I liked mighty Morphin power rangers probably flipping channels and saw this and thought it was mmpr. Wow can't believe I remember the song
I liked the dichotomy of horror and/or dark themes matched up against kids who beat evil doers. For lasting only two seasons, it did well at balancing the scales.
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When you showed Vexor, it was an image of Nukus, the villain of season 2, BettleBorgs Metallix
And he showed Vexor as Typhus. It triggered me. I was hoping I wasn't the only one to catch that.
@@slimwolf935 same
I loved this show as a kid! It was such goofy fun. And the theme song was really catchy.
Pretty good comedic value bro you actually funny not cheesy ! I fw you lol !
Watch BBBB growing up. Loved it. Thanks for the nostalgia shot 👏👏👏
Hey SYFI Wire can you do an episode of everything you didn't know about Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
Tir Na Nog is a name from irish folklore its pretty weird to hear it outside that context
Lmao dude this show is a legend!
Thanks for reminding me how insane the nineties were.
You got the names of the villians wrong.
"Typhus" is actually Vexor
"Vexor" is actually Nukus
I thought that felt wrong but it's been so long since I've watched the show I figured I misremembered it.
Yes I can’t believe I got so mad over that. Nukus was my favorite villain!
RIGHT?! Nukus is the main villain of season TWO! This guy spent all this time to make an elaborate video on the Beetleborgs, yet couldn't even get the names of the villains straight????
That's not all he got wrong actually... He says the Shadowborg was Season One's ending arc, but it wasn't: at the end of that arc, Blue Stinger got the Mega Blue Beetleborg mode, which was his powerup for the remainder of the season, and the season only really ends after Nukus shows up, necessitating the power change in first place. Also, "season 2 is where it got sitcom"? Nope, the whole show was ALWAYS sitcom XD In fact, the whole "Lost comic" storyline from Season 2 is the show trying to do a myth arc. He also didn't mention how they created original american-only costumes for Season 2's power up mode.
@@capitaokaede you should make a Big bad beetleborgs video
The biggest thing that stuck with me, even to this day, was when they switched actresses for the little girl like it was no big deal.
This show is up on Netflix I have found what I'm watching during quarantine
As a kids I love this show. No as an adult I still would love to watch this again.
Beetle borgs was based off the armored hero series in japan. It was considered the last show. I cant remember the titles name however. Fun to look up.
Juukou B-Fighter and B-Fighter Kabuto
The “Metal Heroes” franchise continued for two more seasons, but we don’t like to talk about those...