Three decades ago , on a Friday no less , Super Sentaiinadvertently gave us a shitpost for the age , via the culture medium of clanging operative dick , a very Japanese American law police officer , and a uncomplicated statement of fact .
societal mass medium jazz itself a hebdomadal meme , from Daniel Craig ’s joyous declaration onSaturday Night Liveofthe weekend ’s arrivaltoFuturama‘s Fry reminding us that it ’s Saturday night ( even if not all of us havebottles of Shasta and an all - upsurge mixtape ) . But one particular high spot in the past few age has been “ Today Is Friday in California”—which has of course link up the throngs of having its owndedicated social media accountsto inform us every Friday that it is indeed also Friday in California . The absurdity of it all — the infirmary setting , the police officeholder rising menacingly out of frame , the accented English — makes the clip perfect for cyberspace virality . But its root , a now 30 - class - old episode of Japanese superhero TV , only stimulate the context even more absurd .
The clip descend from the 46th sequence ofNinja Sentai Kakuranger — the series in the long - run tokusatsu franchise that followedZyuranger , whichfamously provided the natural process footageforMighty Morphin ’ Power Rangers , and itself would find its suit used for the short - livedAlien Rangersminiseries “ The New Year ’s Manga Hell , ” itself a generally seasonal timely tale . The story focuses on the dispirited ranger of the squad , Saizō , who visits a local tabernacle with with the residual of the Kakurangers to implore for the new yr . He grease one’s palms a fortune at the shrine , only to be wreck with paranoia when it turns out his fortune is really a daikyo , or “ great curse , ” promising challenges and hardship for the coming twelvemonth , only for thing to go immediately wrong when the squad is ensnared by the machinations of a yokai make Mujina .
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Mujina , an art - theme devil of the week , has pass the anterior year building up a unsaved manga to trap the Kakurangers in , which he finally sells to an introverted boy name Akira — pin down the Kakurangers in the pages as they ’re force to look their narratively destine doom . All of the chemical group has a bad time inside the faux - manga existence , but peculiarly Saizō , who ca n’t translate into Ninja Blue to defend himself thanks to the shrine curse . What follows is mostly the poor guy being unrelentingly beaten up and assail as the manga shape up from one cockeyed place to another , culminating in a minute where Saizō is attack by a biker and keep open by paramedics … only , for , well , you know what to bump :
Of naturally , this isSuper Sentai , so our heroes ( with a little help from Akira ) manage to escape the manga and beat Mujina in a fair fight , and everything goes back to normal — Saizō ’s fortunes include , presumptively , consideringKakurangercame to an conclusion just seven installment by and by . But it ’s noteworthy that it flourish all these years later , not for its connection to the legacy of thePower Rangersfranchise — if anything it still for the most part subsist in its shadows , never having receive a “ full ” adaptation in the elevation of theMighty Morphin’era the way other post - Zyurangershowswould go on to — but as the source of a hebdomadary internet shitpost .
Today might be Monday , but it ’s Friday in our hearts .
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