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Written by Vince Jones, who was outraged at how [[Tokusatsu]] programming was watered down into the ''[[Power Rangers]]'' before making it to American airwaves. Ran from 1997-2006, releasing 39 “episodes,” a Christmas special and a crossover “movie” with ''[[Choujin Sentai Jetman]]''. The last two episodes finished were basically revisiting the crossover movie.
Poorly written, ill-conceived and all with only the occasional shred of irony, ''Scanranger'' was a shining example of [[So Bad It's Good]].
The story is archived [http://www.reocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/5514/scanranger.html here], with the writer also posting it on [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/681863/redscanner FF.net] after Geocities went down.
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* [[Broken Aesop]]: The episode after Carmen joins is supposed to be about her learning the value of teamwork. Not only does she do almost everything herself (everybody but Takeshi has been captured and as usual he’s barely around himself), what help she does get is confusing and pointless (why are they pretending Carmen's betraying the team...to save the team?), and the main group has their [[Sixth Ranger]] and a [[Humongous Mecha]] that’s already there sit out the giant battle. Not to mention Vin [[You Just Had to Say It|just had to say they]] could’ve gotten out of their predicament without Carmen’s help.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: [[Backstreet Boys|The Main Street Men]].
** The Stuntmaster robot which is basically a copy of ''Jetman'''s Tetra Boy.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I can't tell you that..Ancient Japanese secret..”
** ”Got caught in rush hour traffic..."
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: To name just one, Playstation games didn't come on cassette.
** The author seems to be one of the people who thought the Toon Makers version of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' was perpetrated by Saban.
** The description of the ''[[Star Trek: The
** At one point Yellowscanner makes up a new attack based on the Kaioken attack from ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. The problem is, rather than something that briefly multiplies his strength, what he creates is a basic chi fireball attack.
** According to this story crocodiles and alligators are only differentiated by where they're found in the wild.
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* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Vixen gets a job teaching at the Scanrangers’ school as Professor Vivian Fox. During the interview the story basically comes out and says it’s a disguise the audience would see through automatically.
** The time Anark Key masquerades as TV pitchman Eric [[Sdrawkcab Name|Meyham]].
* [[Parody Failure]]: One episodes involves the rangers impersonating the characters in a story B.C.’s writing parodying superspy movies such as ''[[James Bond]]'', ''[[XXX]]'' (no points for guessing which ranger’s character came from that one), ''[[Dark Angel]]'', ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' and ''[[Tomb Raider]]''. It's pretty much just lame until you get to Nick’s character, [[Austin Powers|Boston Powered, New England Man of Mystery]].
** It doesn't help that the writer's idea of parody is having Not-Bond take off his tuxedo to reveal a wetsuit instead of the other way around and Not-Lara toting .44s instead of .45s.
* [[Personality Powers]]: The area covered by a character’s Film Energy tends to echo whatever trait makes them unique. Vin’s a man of action, Nick’s super smart, B.C.’s the class clown, Kunio’s an artist, Toni’s a girl, Peter’s a devout Christian, and so on.
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