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{{quote|''Fighting for traffic safety! Gekisou Sentai, Caaaaaaaaaaarranger!''}}
''Gekisō Sentai Carranger'' (Extreme Rush Squadron Carranger) is the twentieth installment in the ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series, airing from 1996 to 1997. It's about a group of [[Idiot Hero|idiot workers]] at Pegasus Garage who use the power of car-shaped constellations to fight a group of [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|idiot aliens]] called "Space Bosozoku Bowzock" (note: "bosozoku" is the Japanese name for biker gangs).
As the twentieth installment of the franchise, it's a [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Super Sentai]]'' and all the tropes it has, while being a full ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series in and of itself.
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* [[Humongous Mecha]]: In addition to the heroes' mechas, there was also Braking, the dragon mecha Ritch Ritchhiker used after [[The Starscream|taking over the Baribarian]]. It notably gave the RV Robo a run for its money, forcing the Carrangers into [[Mid-Season Upgrade|getting new mechs]].
** [[A Mech by Any Other Name]]: The Ranger Vehicles and the VRV<ref>Victory Ranger Vehicle</ref> Machines (which could transform into humanoid forms called "VRV Fighters").
** [[Combining Mecha]]: Notable for having the only [[Super Sentai]] mecha combination to date that is made up entirely of [[Transforming Mecha|transforming robots]]. Also notable is that RV Robo and VRV Robo's limbs are interchangeable, a combination scheme that would later become a staple of Sentai robots in the 00s.
*** Red Vehicle + Green Vehicle + Blue Vehicle + Yellow Vehicle + Pink Vehicle = RV Robo
*** V Fire + V Dump + V Police + V Dozer + V Rescue = VRV Robo
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Signalman's "Daremo tooranai..."<ref>"Nobody's passing...", since he always chooses to set the Kobaan Base up in deserted places</ref>, which even Ichitaro imitates.
* [[Chekhov's Gift]]: The VRV Robo.
* [[Colony Drop]]: Exhaus tries to crash Bowzock's base into the Earth. {{spoiler|This gets stopped by ''Sirender'', of all things.}} It gets reversed on him, but doesn't quite kill him.
* [[Cool Car|Cool Cars]]: The whole point of the show. (In-show as well, since the Ranger Vehicles were based off of the Carrangers' "Dream Car"... models.)
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: VRV Master, with a <s>bit</s> LOT of [[Large Ham]] involved. And while he turns out to have brought them the Victory Ranger Vehicles in VicTrailer, the Carranger's first impression?
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** Gets a funny [[Call Back]] fifteen years later when it's Insarn who falls in love with Kyousuke, in ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]''.
* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Subverted in the very first episode; after Dappu fails to recruit the future Carrangers, he dies at the hands of Bowzock. This motivates them to avenge his death; turns out Dappu faked his death to get them to do so.
* [[Finishing Move]]: Redefined with the RV Robo, which ''doesn't'' use an energy sword-style finisher - the RV Sword is, instead, something of a scaled-up Viblade. RV Robo dashes towards the Bowzock while the sky turns dark, starts spinning like a top, crashes into the Bowzock really-pointy-sword-first, [[Victory Pose|then ends up in an awesome pose]] while the Bowzock explodes behind it.
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: When lined up, the first kana of the heroes' surnames spell JI-DO-U-SHI-YA, as in ''jidōsha'', Japanese for "car".
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]/[[Jerkass]]: Though they usually mean well, the Carrangers are probably the most genuinely unpleasant people to wear the rainbow colored spandex (except maybe [[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger|Captain Marvelous and Luka Millfy...]]). Notable in that they are probably the only Sentai to actually fight against [[Chouriki Sentai Ohranger|another]] in a teamup movie for reasons besides mistaken identity or [[Mind Control]] by a [[Kiss of Death]] from the cyborg Shibolena (they went and kidnapped a magic fairy because they wanted a wish, and the [[Denji Sentai Megaranger|Megarangers]] had to rescue it).
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* [[The Other Darrin]]: Radietta is played by Megumi Hamamatsu in #25 and then replaced with Misaki Sudou from #34 and onward.
* [[Poke the Poodle]]: The villains are a gang with no regard for traffic laws.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Signalman pulled one of this on the Carrangers in Ep 36. {{spoiler|It was actually [[Big Bad|Exhaus]]'s attempt to frame the heroes.}}
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: More of a "...writes the characterization" - apparently Yoshihiro Masujima (Naoki) really was that overly polite during his audition, and Yoshihiro Fukuda (Minoru) really hailed from Osaka, so their characters were rewritten that way.
* [[Rearrange the Song]]: The opening theme was replaced with the rearranged "Full Accel Version" after only 13 episodes.
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** The main villain wants to [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|destroy Earth to make room for a space bypass]].
* [[Slept Through the Apocalypse]]: Dappu would have done this, if not for the timely appearance of VRV Master.
* [[Space Is Noisy]]: One villain's plan to destroy Earth is to levitate the cars into space and make so much noise with them that nearby aliens will attack Earth to stop the noise.
* [[Tagalong Kid]]: Ichitaro to Signalman. He has even stood in for him at the Kobaan Base on occasion.
* [[Team Dad]]: VRV Master leans towards this in contrast to Dappu. (A neat bit of [[Foreshadowing]] too, since he's actually {{spoiler|Dappu's dad - [[Fridge Logic|although just how, exactly, he fit his head inside that helmet is never answered]] }}.)
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* [[Theme Naming]]: The surnames of the Carrangers ('''Ji'''nnai, '''Do'''mon, '''U'''esugi, '''Shi'''nohara and '''Ya'''gami) form the Japanese word ''jidōsha'' ("automobile").
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Natsumi and Youko.
* [[Took a Level
** Also happens to Kyousuke when he finally starts acting like a Red Ranger/Leader
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Imo-youkan for the Bowzocks.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: A hallmark of the series - unless they're actively causing trouble, very few people ever seem to take more than casual notice of the Bowzock. All the more notable when Ritchihiker pulls [[The Starscream]] on Gynamo, and he and Zonnette spend the next few episodes doing varied stuff on Earth (even getting jobs at a pachinko parlor - the same one that VRV Master attends, to boot!).
** Glatch, for example, goes out and buys the Imoyokan himself. This is ''after'' he himself grew to giant size and stumbled about town.
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