Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers
Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers is a television miniseries on MTV UK. The show was a parody of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers", one that also poked fun at the emo stereotype. The series was directed by Chris Phillips and Nick Pittom, who both lived in Essex, England. 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 that was distributed on YouTube, Google Video and Myspace, the show was quickly picked up by MTV UK  in 2006, and made its way to the US MTV. Although a specific release date has yet to be announced, Phillips and Pittom have stated they wish to release a DVD of the show. Cast. Other / notes. Paul Garson was also to feature as a new Ranger named Paul, though this did not pan out. Instead, Krystal Moore replaced him as Mary Jane - the Neo-Chronic Stoner Ranger. Episodes. 2015 Special. 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. Development. Inspiration. The creators have given two versions for how the idea of the show came about. 1) One story suggests that  in November 2004, Chris was upset due to a breakup with his girlfriend. His friend Nick told him to "Quit being emo, you Emo Ranger!" to which Chris replied with "You Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers!" 2) Another version comes from an interview with Chris: "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." However the story came about, using a Sony HDR-HC1 camcorder, Chris and Nick (who work as professional video editors) decided to film a low-budget Power Rangers parody based on the idea. Filming locations. "Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers" was filmed in the same town as the one the producers and actors reside in, Chelmsford. The actual locations  are as follows: Season delays in release. "Emo Rangers" had become infamous for its long-awaited second season, which was announced back around 2006. The production was halted for unknown reasons. This led to many pranksters pretending to have the second season up, but these turned out to be Rick Rolls. Season 2 finally premiered for real on 12 July 2010, about four years after being announced. The first episode, "Weed Better Sober Up" parodied the "Return of the Green Ranger" saga from "Power Rangers", using the StraightxEdge Ranger as a parody of the Mighty Morphin' White Ranger. The new  season has vastly-improved effects, and had six proper episodes as opposed to three. The episodes were also mostly standalone, rather than being like the first season's three episodes and short film. Those were constantly remixed into other episodes, whereas season 2 had some consistency to its edits - further giving the illusion of a proper TV show. Each episode focused on a particular Ranger, usually involving a single fight before the entire team showed up. MTV broadcast. In September 2006, MTV broadcast five episodes and a Christmas Special on MTV UK's MTV2 channel. These episodes were show at  8:30 PM GMT Monday through Thursday. The second season was later broadcast beginning in July–August 2010, with episodes released for broadcast each one day after their equivalents were released on YouTube by the official Emo Rangers Channel. Section::::"Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers: The Video Game". Storm Video Games released an "Emo Rangers" Flash video game, also commonly titled "Go Go Emo Rangers", with permission from Chris and Nick. The game closely mimics the plot to the original 2005 short film. It was published across several online gaming websites across the web, including Newgrounds.