The 800th episode of Power Rangers airs Saturday, Oct. Now, say it with me, Rangers: It's morphin' time! And to have been a part of this venerable series-even if for only a minute of air time-is something this nerdy kid-turned-nerdy adult will always cherish. With this milestone, Power Rangers joins the esteemed ranks of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood as the only kids programs to have done so. The Power Rangers franchise has been on the air in one form or another since premiering in 1993, with its latest iteration, Power Rangers Dino Charge, reaching the franchise's 800th episode. My aspirations for on-screen stardom weren't long for this world-the acting bug turned into the writing bug sometime in my sophomore year of high school-but they were outlived by the very show that helped fuel my childhood hunger. (I was an aspiring child actor, after all.)
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Shattered perception of TV heroes notwithstanding, I was left with an episode of TV featuring my scrawny self to take back to school to force my classmates to watch while I feigned embarrassment. Yost wasn't very friendly to me and he smoked cigarettes. The actors who bring to life the characters you so admire and identify with might not always be what you hope they'll be. Pretty girls who play the Pink Ranger will sign autographs for little child actors with a heart, leaving said little child actors to read far too much into said heart. The glue required to attach a fake fish to a child actor's finger so he can shake it in the air and scream as if he's being bitten is gross and doesn't wash off easily. It was in the filming of this brief 40 seconds that I learned a lot of truths about Hollywood: 1. It's a brief 40 seconds wherein I push a sailboat out onto a pond of some kind, twirl my finger in the water, and scream my face off as a hungry swimmer latches on to my finger. My big moment? A flashback scene while Billy explains to Kimberly ( Amy Jo Johnson) how his phobia developed. Rita's monster of the week was fish-related, and it just so happened that Billy had a debilitating fear of fish. The episode, the 43rd in the first season, was called "Something Fishy," and it was Billy's big episode. Level up your rangers, team up with friends, summon the Megazord, and fight your way through levels stylized after classic Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episodes. set of the show I'd rush home to watch every day after school. I don't remember much of my audition, except that I clearly killed because I booked the part and wound up spending a day with my dad on the Santa Clarita, Calif. I was the kid in second grade who would come out of the closet about 12 years later and only had a few friends, who were all girls. John) and Zach's ( Walter Jones) alpha males. Beyond our shared name, I identified with Billy. I was going in to read for Billy, the Blue Ranger ( David Yost), as seen in a flashback, and I was feeling confident. I hadn't had much luck until my agent alerted my mom and I of an audition for my friend and I's favorite new show. As a kid, that meant landing my breakout role on-screen. My passion for pop culture began early and I wanted to be a part of it any way I could. 28, 1993, I was about to turn seven and attempting to jump start a career as a child actor.