When the Carrangers finally get around to acting like honest-to-god heroes, a certain theme starts playing: "Accel Changer!" (specifically the second part, starting at 0:38).
Signalman and Sirender's theme song is surprisingly cool, especially during Sirender's first fight: Shirobai Yaro Signalmannote Shirobai = a motorcycle cop's bike, universally painted white in Japan
Victrailer Kyodai-naru Machine (Giant Machine VicTrailer) has a ludicrously heroic theme. Godzilla meets a goddamn force of justice, really.
Dakara Tatakau Carranger (Why Carranger Fights) plays while Red Racer mans (leaders?) up and steals back the stolen RV Robo.
Complete Monster: Reckless Dash Emperor Exhaus is the mastermind of the series' tragedies. Manipulating the Bowzock while disguised as "Fortuneteller Suzogue", Exhaus guided them to destroy planets that stand in the way of his Evil Universal Highway plan killing countless innocents. Exhaus also enslaved the sapient Beagers race and drove all but one extinct from overworking and abuse. Secretly overlooking the events of the series at first, Exhaus takes center stage when he drives Signalman's son and people sick by unleashing a plague of toxic gas on his planet and brainwashes him to believe the Carranger were responsible. Upon this being thwarted, Exhaus outright moves to controlling the Bowzock, torturing and tormenting any members who fail or displease him, and even threatening those who try to defect with death. After the Bowzock decimate the Carrangers base when he seals their powers, Exhaus sets the Baribarian on fire with the remaining Bowzock inside, then sends the planetoid crashing towards Earth, hoping to kill them off and end Earth all in one fell swoop before opting to just blow it up himself. In the final battle after defeating most of the Carrangers' mecha and having them at his mercy, Exhaus decides to take his time finishing them off to savor their hopelessness one last time.
Crosses the Line Twice: In episode 6, Zonnette complains of how QQ Kyutan mistook her drawing of a necklace for a bridge and Gynamo offers her a drink. What is noteworthy of the scene is why Grotch question why they sent a member of their gang to certain death on a mission doomed to fail from the start with Zelmonda telling him not to dwell on it and drink some booze. Overall, it goes from being a rather real reflective scene about a senseless loss of life for a few five seconds before the comedy resumes when everyone just shrugs off the worst implications of the fiasco.
Unlike the three series which came before it, Carranger did not get The Movie. However, when the time came for the adaptation, Power Rangers Turbo was uniquely set up by a movie, which would be imported back to Japan.
The sheer hilarity of the Make My Monster Grow method in this series apparently didn't go unnoticed by TsuburayaProductions. In episode 22 of Ultraman Z, Alien Barossa III instead of using anything alien in nature, enlarge himself by drinking bubble tea. Mind to remind you, both boba/bubble tea and imo-yokan contains significant amount of starch and bubble tea itself can be derived from sweet potato.
Hollywood Pudgy: Youko. A big deal is made in episode 11 about how overweight she is with everyone from PP Rappa, the monster of the week, to news reporters commending on it. When she is shown in a bikini, however, she is very slim (not helped by the fact that Natsumi is shown in a bikini besides her and looks EXACTLY THE SAME).
Mis-blamed: Or rather, Miscredited - as noted on the main page, western fans will often refer to this series as the one that saved Super Sentai. However, toy sales for Carranger (11.8 billion yen) were lower than those of its predecessornote Ohranger's toy sales are some of the highest in the franchise, at 15.9 billion, which is almost as much as Dairanger (7.8 billion) and Kakuranger (8.4 billion)combined, and in terms of viewing numbers, for the majority of its runnote up until around the time the VRV Master debuted, Carranger had even lower ratings that Ohrangernote in fact, the lowest rated episode of Super Sentai in the entire franchise was episode 25 of Carranger (the one with the Zokurangers and White Racer's debut), and it wasn't until the VRV master showed up that the ratings began to increase, and even then, it was only by less than .3; although it's worth noting that, ever since Zyuranger, Sentai ratings had been declining; it wouldn't be until Megaranger that a season would have overall higher ratings than the one before it; interestingly, the 90s season with the highest ratings was Gingaman, despite said show largely being seen as So Okay, It's Average. If one was to label one Sentai series with the title of "Franchise Saviour", then the series that would deserve the title aired 5 years earlier.
Tear Jerker: In a series usually full of parody, there are some shockingly heartbreaking moments in this series.
The first episode opens on a pretty dark note as we watch Dappu's planet be decimated by the Bowzock while he can only watch in horror and remember the death of his mother in the chaos before he is forced to flee as the sole survivor of his planet.
Another of these such moments is in Episode 9, when Zelmoda accidentally kills KK Esu... who is actually Dappu's brainwashed childhood hero, Speed King Max. It's not played for laughs at all, either, and it's heartbreaking to watch Dappu break down over his idol's body.
How about when the Pegasus Garage is destroyed by the Bowzock, and Signalman and Ichitarou are searching through its remains, crying out for the heroes? It's a painful moment that assumes that the Carrangers and Dappu were killed, and that Exhaus won...
Unintentionally Sympathetic: In the Christmas 3-parter, the Carrangers are treated as Jerkasses for not wanting to celebrate Christmas with Dapp, with the intended Aesop being that they shouldn’t neglect him since he’s an orphan. However, Dapp never indicated that he even wanted to spend time at Christmas with them, and the thing they get condemned for is wanting to spend time with their families: a normal Christmas tradition! Not to mention the one telling them this lesson is Dapp’s own father, who refuses to divulge that he’s even alive to his own son, making the latter come off as a Hypocrite.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic: In the same three parter, Dapp. He acts like an Entitled Bastard just because the others have families they want to spend time with instead of going along with his plans he never told them about, and is supposed to be in the right.
Values Dissonance: In episode 19, Kousuke strangling Natsumi upon overacting to her comment of him being oversensitive. It sparks a brief What the Hell, Hero? moment as the others arrive before they continue as if nothing happened.
Win Back the Crowd: While many fans would argue if the series itself saved Sentai (granted, it was Jetman who cleaned up the mess caused by the disastrous TV ratings and toy sales of Fiveman, and Ohranger became a financial smash hit despite suffering from Executive Meddling and Troubled Production due to a real-life incident), they do agree that it played a part in giving Toei another shot in saving the franchise from cancellation, which is later filled in by Megaranger.
Woolseyism: The aliens of this season pronounce Earth ("chikyū) as "chīkyu" (extending the "i" sound instead of the "u" sound). In the Shout Factory DVDs, this is shown in the subtitles by having them say "Earsh".
