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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers S2E6 Bloom of Doom

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The Youth Center hosts a sign-up session for various after-school clubs. Predictably, each of the Ranger teens has their own club. Kim's gardening club proves unpopular, getting no one to sign up. Lord Zedd puts Kim under a spell, causing her to become violently jealous of Trini for having a successful club. He then sends down the Bloom Of Doom, but can Kim overcome her bitterness, alien-inflicted and otherwise, to work together to defeat it?

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  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kimberly to ZORDON of all people! When he contacts her, she switches from being a grump to faux-pleasant and even says her morphing call with a smile!. Justified, as she was under Zedd's jealousy spell which made her mean to everyone else.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Kimberly's delivery becomes considerably snarkier than usual after being pricked by the cactus.
  • Food as Bribe: Bulk and Skull had to do this to get club members.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Even before Zedd's influence kicked in, Kim was showing signs upon seeing how popular Trini's club had become.
  • Hypocrite: Bulk and Skull give Kimberly a hard time about not having anyone interested in her club, when they had to bribe people to join their club.
  • Irony: After Kimberly mocks their club under Zedd's influence, Skull remarks she couldn't be a Power Ranger with such an attitude.
  • Jerkass to One: Subverted; Trini is the main victim of Kim's jealousy, but she also gets on Tommy and Bulk and Skull's cases too. The only one she acts pleasantly towards is Zordon when he contacts her and even then, it's clear that the spell is making her sarcastic to even him; we can see her getting very impatient waiting for Zordon to finish his end of the conversation, only getting slightly better when he sends her a pink ribbon weapon to fight the monster, as it means that Trini won't have it herself.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • Bulk and Skull mock Kimberly for not having anyone in her club.
    • Bloom of Doom mocks a trapped Kimberly on driving all her friends away with her jealousy. However, Trini soon proves her wrong.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • Ernie is sympathetic towards Kimberly when she feels down about not having anyone interested in her club, and after she lashes out at her friends, he gives Tommy a flower to cheer her up.
    • Trini, when Kimberly (under Zedd's jealousy spell) lashes out at her for hogging all people to her volleyball club, the former offers to invite her members to join Kimberly's club as well. Not that it makes Kimberly to feel better.
    • Mr. Caplan reveals to Kimberly that no one showed to her club due to him accidentally putting the outside sign in the wrong direction.
  • Replaced with Replica: Zedd sends one of his Z-Putties in disguise to replace Kimberly's cactus with one laced with his jealousy potion to increase her envy towards Trini. It works.
  • Sarcasm Mode: Kimberly, under Zedd's jealousy potion, sarcastically thanks Trini for hogging all people to her volleyball club, thus not leaving anyone for her gardening club. Also, when she's contacted by Zordon, she answers him with a sarcastically nice tone.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: During the battle with the Z-Putties, Kimberly blocks the arm of an attacking opponent and twists it. Then she starts kicking its chest directly aiming at the Z emblem. The scene cuts to other Rangers fighting for a few seconds before going back to Kimberly still kicking the putty while twisting its arm and making him jumping back and slowly rotating. As there are an additional 5 blows to the chest, we can imagine that many more have been delivered off screen. As usually a single hit suffice to disintegrate these mooks, the prolonged series of kicks on target spells like a massive overkill. It is also quite hilarious to see the monster unable to react but stuck in a sort of ballet until the "Z" symbol on its chest glows and its body disintegrates.
  • True Companions: Trini arrives to the Bloom Of Doom's dimension to rescue Kimberly after learning of her being under Zedd's jealousy spell.

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