Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers

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Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers
Created by	Chris Phillips, Nick Pittom
Starring	Ross Fretten Stephanie Braithwaite Victoria Godby John Penn Luke Markey Fai Burnett Paul Garson Luke Cole Kathryn Alder Laura Bradley Georgina Fox Thanda Mutero Kyle Johnson Chris Peel
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	9
Production
Running time	5 minutes
Original release
Network	MTV UK
Release	2005 (2005) – 2015 (2015)

Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers is a television miniseries on MTV UK. The show was a parody of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, poking fun at the emo stereotype. The series was directed by Chris Phillips and Nick Pittom, who both lived in Essex, England. It was picked up by MTV UK in 2006, and later also appeared on MTV in the United States. A second series began in 2010, followed by a special in 2015.

The creators have cited two conflicting stories for the original idea for the series:

1. One story suggests that in November 2004, Phillips was upset due to a breakup with his girlfriend. Pittom told him to "Quit being emo, you Emo Ranger!" to which Phillips replied with "You Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers!"^[1]
2. Another version comes from an interview with Phillips:

"I was sitting at my computer chatting to a friend, Pat. Pat sent me a picture of him dressed as a ninja leaping across a recording studio, and I said 'you look like an emo ranger'. I sat there for a few minutes and thought 'that sounds kind of funny' and then just heard in my head the term 'Mighty Moshin' Emo Ranger'. The more I thought about the name the more I was convinced there should be a show called Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers, but there wasn't, which was annoying, 'cos I wanted to watch it." ^[2]

The show was filmed on location in the producers' home town of Chelmsford, Essex. Sound design was by Dominic Sinacola, who lived in Southampton. The show's theme song was performed by local Essex post-hardcore band Fei Comodo. Starting out as a fan-film project distributed on YouTube, Google Video and Myspace, the show was picked up by MTV UK in 2006, and later also appeared on MTV in the United States.^[3]

A second season of Emo Rangers was announced in 2006,^{[citation needed]} but was halted for undisclosed reasons. It finally premiered on 12 July 2010. The first episode, "Weed Better Sober Up" parodied the "Return of the Green Ranger" saga from Power Rangers. The second season had improved effects, and six episodes rather than three. The episodes were also mostly standalone.

Phillips and Pittom stated they wished to release a DVD of the show.^[1]

• Ross Fretten as Ross, the Introspective White Emo Ranger.
• Luke Matthew Markey as Luke, the Chaos Mohawk Red Emo Ranger.
• Stef Braithwaite as Stef, the Bleeding Heart Pink Emo Ranger.
• John Penn as John, the original Chronic Stoner Green Emo Ranger, later the StraightxEdge Blue Emo Ranger.
• Vicki Godby (née Symes) as Vicken, the Weeping Tears Yellow Emo Ranger.
• Fai Burnett (née Archer) as Fai, the FashionxCore Purple Emo Ranger.
• Krystal Moore as Mary Jane Greenfield, a new Chronic Stoner Ranger (2015-).
• Luke Cole as Captain Emohead, a floating emo stereotype head of unknown origin. This character is a parody of Zordon.

A final film was made as a series finale in 2015, when it became obvious that there would be no feasible way to bring the cast in long-term to make more episodes nor the feature-length film they initially planned to make. On 20 June 2014 the Emo Rangers Facebook Page announced that they wanted to film a movie using a $5,000,000 budget at Shepperton Studios. No further information was released about that film as of July 2015. The 31 October 2015 release of the anniversary special suggests that MTV dropped Emo Rangers, forcing the cast and crew to improvise on a much smaller budget.

• EmoRangers.com