Angel Grove High has a big football game against Stone Canyon coming up. The stress leads one of the team members, a teen named Allen, to begin falling behind in his grades thanks to reading incomprehension. Rocky offers to help him out, and sets out to introduce Allen to his Uncle Joe Haley, famous Quarterback who also suffered from similar problems in school. But before he can do so, Rita and Zedd's aptly-timed Centiback monster appears and proceeds to turn people, including Allen, Uncle Joe, and Joe's "police escorts" Bulk and Skull, into footballs! Can Rocky led the Rangers in a successful scrimage against Centiback and the Tengas?
Tropes:
- Cassandra Truth: When Bulk and Skull tell Lieutenant Stone that the reason they weren't at the football stadium was because Centiback turned them into footballs, Stone retorted "What do you take me for, a numbskull?" It's Angel Grove, Lieutenant. What do you think?
- Dramatic Irony: Lieutenant Stone chews out Bulk and Skull for supposedly abandoning their assignment to watch over Joe, refusing to believe their explanation that they were attacked by a monster. Even sadder is the fact that Bulk and Skull actually stuck to their duty and genuinely tried to protect Joe.
- Gretzky Has the Ball: Ninjor just can't seem to get any sports terms right.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: Bulk and Skull's reaction, seeing a monster coming towards them.
- Taking the Bullet: Uncle Joe intercepts a monster-football that was meant for Rocky.
- Very Special Episode: While not as preachy or melodramatic as other examples of this trope, this episode does bring awareness of dyslexia among kids, and teaches them that having it or any other disability doesn't necessarily mean they can't achieve their dreams, just that it might require a bit more effort to make them happen.
