Trivia / Power Rangers Zeo

• California Doubling: As with the previous seasons, the Power Chamber exterior is The House of the Book performance hall and library building at the American Jewish University, Brandeis-Bardin Campus in Simi Valley, California.
• The Cast Showoff: Besides the obvious martial arts, Kat's ballet dancing, and Tanya's singing.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Heather's actress Sarah Brown has said the reason why she stopped acting along with refusing to attend fan conventions relating to Power Rangers and VR Troopers is that co-creator (and then-fiancé) Shuki Levy was physically abusive to her and that Haim Saban and his wife Cheryl were complicit in such a thing. She also pleaded her fans to boycott the Power Rangers franchise, Saban and Levy^note Levy is no longer involved in the franchise, having left after the Disney acquisition of Fox Family and the Fox Kids library, which included this show, while Saban's involvement has been reduced since Hasbro's acquisition of Power Rangers and Saban Brands because of this.
  • Kat's actress Catherine Sutherland has said that she's not a fan of the romance between her character and Tommy.
• Descended Creator: Prince Gasket is voiced by Zeo's story editor, Doug Sloan.
• Edited for Syndication: The "Zeo serial" segments were naturally dropped from reruns of MMPR season 3 and MMAR, but strangely, the teaser that ran before it was kept well into the Jetix era. The two-part premiere also began with a different intro and lacked the flashback to the MMAR finale.
• Hostility on the Set:
  • This is the reported reason why David Yost left the series, having endured years of the production crew making homophobic remarks toward him after it came out he was gay. Ultimately he couldn't take it anymore (fearing that one more comment would drive him to kill himself), walking off set and never coming back, forcing his character to be written out.
  • Continuing from the Mighty Morphin' days, Jason David Frank was still holding on to his beef with Austin St. John by the time the latter returned to the show as the Gold Ranger.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • The original promos leading up to the launch of the season, which aired on FOX on consecutive days, has never been included proper on any home media release. They are notable for not only including otherwise-unused interstitial footage of scientific researchers learning about the Machine Empire, but they detail an alternate (unused) sequence for Rita and Zedd's discovery of said Empire — instead of the finished version (where they go parading around the Moon Palace until Finster informs them of what's coming), Zedd and Rita have a brief argument over who runs the show at the Palace, she's the one to first discover the incoming Empire forces (even ignoring it at first), and the duo has a conversation with Finster before Zedd steadfastly refuses to leave despite knowing what's coming. None of this footage appears in the series proper.
  • The Christmas Episode, "A Season To Remember", is not included in either of the Shout! Factory DVD releases of the series, with no reason given for its exclusion.
• Making Use of the Twin: Or rather triplets, since no special effects were used for the three Treys and were instead played by identical triplets.
• The Other Darrin:
  • The Gold Ranger was voiced by Brad Hawkins, from VR Troopers, for his first few appearances before the DiFilippo triplets were cast as a result of a casting scheme that Shuki Levy wanted to go with. Hawkins still did the voiceover due to the triplets' strong accents making it difficult to understand them.
  • For Billy's sendoff, since David Yost had already walked away from the series, they had an older actor, William Frederick Knight, play him despite said actor not getting down the mannerisms of the character. Also, stock footage of Yost was used while using a dubber that only bore a passing vocal similarity to the original actor, similar to the soundalikes dubbing Jason, Zack, and Trini in the middle of MMPR Season Two. Said dubber was the ADR director Scott Page-Pagter.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: "Scorpion Rain" was alleged to be a series of one-minute shorts broadcast prior to Zeo's final episodes exclusively in Australia, created to better link the events of the finale to Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. It was actually a hoax by Derik Smith and a group of fans known as the "Scorpion Rain Coalition", perpetrated for over three years before it was debunked. Scorpion Rain Coalition member Amit Bhaumik not only became Story Editor of Power Rangers Wild Force, but referenced "Scorpion Rain" in the script of the anniversary episode "Forever Red".
• Prop Recycling: The Starboard Winger had a traditional pilot scarf and rounder eyes.
• Real-Life Relative: Tommy's brother, David Trueheart, is played by Jason David Frank's actual brother, the late Erik Frank.
• Reality Subtext: "Invasion of the Ranger Snatchers" has Rocky getting a job as an extra on a sci-fi film and feeling his talents were squandered. In a 2013 interview, Steve Cardenas admitted that he left Power Rangers because he felt his pay wasn't enough for him to continue playing Rocky.
• What Could Have Been: Enough for its own page
• Word of God:
  • Bhaumik's "Forever Red" retroactively establishing that there was a final, unseen conflict between Rita and Zedd and the Rangers which led to a damaged Serpentera buried on the moon, and Zeo writer Jackie Marchand's "Once A Ranger" revealing Rita was pregnant with Thrax by the events of the season finale.
  • At different times, Bhaumik and Doug Sloan also went on record as saying that the ending to "A Season to Remember" is in-continuity and that Kat and Tommy are married in the future.
  • David Yost said that Billy was never meant to be the Gold Ranger. He speculates that his character was never considered for it due to the producers felt that as a gay man in real life, Yost wasn't worthy of being where he was as a children's superhero which may have also played a part in Billy being removed as a ranger in the beginning.
• You Look Familiar: Heather Thompson's actress, Sarah Brown, had recently come off of Saban's canceled VR Troopers as one of the leads.
  • Traci Bellushi, who played Zarius in Mighty Morphin' Season Three and Masked Rider appeared in an early episode as Jennifer, a crush of Rocky's.

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