Here are the shout-outs made by the multiple seasons of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
- "May the Power protect you" seems to be at least partially inspired by the phrase "May The Force be with you."
- The multicolored teleportation beams of the Power Rangers seem partially or wholly inspired by the transporters of Star Trek fame that can "beam you up" from the ship to the planet and back.
- The Yellow Ranger being a girl and the presence of Alpha-5 are remnants of the original concept of the show when it was still based on Choudenshi Bioman (with their female "Yellow Four" and their gold-armored robot alien caretaker "Peebo").
- Zordon being a disembodied gigantic head trapped inside a time warp was Saban's way of leaning hard on the Oz-like themes of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, with Zordon serving as the Wizard of Oz to Rita Repulsa's Wicked Witch of the West.
- One episode involved a Monster of the Week named Shellshock who was a turtle-creature. When he grew to giant size, he exclaimed, "Just wait until those teenage mutants find out what a full-grown turtle can do!" The reference couldn't have been more obvious.
- In "A Chimp In Charge," as Finster attempts to transform a chimpanzee into the Sinister Simian, he asks "Don't you want to be a big gorilla-like King... what's his name?"
- In "Rangers in Reverse," the natural rotation of the Earth is stopped and then put in reverse, causing time itself to rewind. Where does this sound familiar?
- "Trick or Treat": Skull (dressed in a prisoner costume) has "24601" written on his chest.
- The series-original character with no Super Sentai counterpart, Lord Zedd, looks like a Mortal Kombat character mixed with a Guyver. According to costume designer Danielle Baker, "Lord Zedd was designed by a comic book illustrator who would come in and conceptualize everything for us."
- As Rita Repulsa is being shrunk down by Zedd in "The Mutiny Part I," she exclaims "I'm shrinking! What a planet!" This is an obvious reference to the Wicked Witch of the West's final words in The Wizard of Oz, which was the largest inspiration for Rita when the show began.
- Aside from Rita, the voice and dialogue of the third-season monster Witchblade are shout-outs to the film version of the Wicked Witch of the West. Witchblade's dying words are "I'm falling, falling - what a world!"
- In "The Wedding," Finster is trying to return Rita to normal size with a machine of his. He eventually says "I've never turned it up to eleven before." This increased setting successfully restores Rita to her proper size.
- Goldar shares his name with the North American localization of Ambassador Magma, one of the earliest TV Toku heroes ever.
- In one scene in Season 3, the Rangers (in their Ninja Ranger outfits rather than their Ranger suits) decide to go all Super Sentai, doing a team roll call followed up with a team pose - specifically, the signature pose of Dai Sentai Goggle Five!
- Another one had them doing one of the poses from Kousoku Sentai Turboranger, which had a very similar setup to this show (in terms of "teenagers with attitude" and all).
