Recap
When the rangers participate in a competition to clean up Angel Grove in which the winning team gets a donation to the charity or function of their choice, Elgar attacks Justin and Adam's team with Piranhatron. Unable to morph in front of the kids, Adam fights them unmorphed. He is overpowered, but the Blue Senturion saves the day.
Divatox, after seeing a fly land on the Blue Senturion, causing him to short circuit, sends Shrinkasect to the Youth Center with a detonator inside a can. However, he is hit by the door and drops it. Bulk and Skull, who have decided to show everyone that they're really humans by winning the contest, pick it up to recycle. After they use Lt. Stone's keys and drive off, Shrinkasect changes his plans. When he sees the Blue Senturion helping an old lady cross a street, he turns into a fly and lands on his neck, causing the Blue Senturion to go crazy. Alpha detects the disturbance and sends the rangers, who then see Bulk and Skull driving. Justin goes after the two while the rangers try to restrain the Blue Senturion. They hear a buzzing in his helmet and manage to get Shrinkasect out, but the monster then attacks. After shrinking the Blue Senturion, he then shrinks the rangers!
After stopping Bulk and Skull, Justin goes to meet up with the rangers but instead finds a miniature Blue Senturion. Meanwhile, Elgar brings Divatox a box with the shrunken rangers inside!..
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Episode Notes
During the script phase, an entirely different episode, titled "Rangers in Concert" (written by Colleen White), featuring a cockroach monster named Rockin' Roach, was originally slotted in this episode's place. It would have introduced Michael, an intern at KAGV (who, like the eventual T.J., was African-American), and focused much on Carlos (who then had the last name of Chavez), Ashley (who was then named Missy), and Jenny Hunter (who was then named Ashley). At the end of the episode, Blue Senturion would be fixed, and the full Millennium Message would play for the current Rangers, revealing Michael, Ashley, Missy, and Carlos were to be the next Power Rangers and the ones who save the world from the united villains. Despite the ditching of this script, "Passing the Torch" will seemingly work on the assumption the Rangers did in fact see the full message.
Episode Goofs
When Bulk and Skull leave the Youth Center, the door closes in the background, but when it cuts to Shrinkasect, the door closes again.
When Bulk and Skull leave the Youth Center, the door opens and stays open without Bulk and Skull pushing. However, everyone else opens the door manually, meaning it's not an automatic door.
When Bulk and Skull are driving at first, you can see human hands steering the car.