Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger/YMMV

• Non Sequitur Scene: At one point Dan and Mei turned to punks, and they suddenly attended gambling joints and assaulted mafias, actually killing them. That stuff was never brought up when they returned to normal, and none of the Zyurangers called them out for it.
• Breakout Character: Burai. He's the main reason anyone remembers this show, and all Sixth Rangers to appear later in the franchise owe their existences to how much the fans loved him.
• Ear Worm: The opening theme.
  • Also, Bandora's Villain Song.
• Evil Is Sexy: Lamie - played straight when in her normal form, but subverted when enlarged by Bandora at which moment she becomes an ugly monster, making Ami Kawai (the actress playing as her) feel pretty embarrassed whenever that happens.
• Fridge Logic: In the final episode, how did Kai survive the Dora Talos exploding long enough to make it back to Bandora Tower?
  • Wait, in the final episode why did the Zyurangers entrust the baby dinosaurs to children?! Yep, no possible way that can go wrong. To be fair, the baby dinosaurs are the last pair of dinosaurs on Earth, and should the eggs they were hatched from be destroyed, then the dinosaurs would be forever extinct from the world.
    • To be both smart AND fair, the baby dinosaurs should've been given to scientists or the authorities.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In its native Japan, Zyuranger is considered to be a merely average Sentai series. It's mostly remembered for introducing the popular Sixth Ranger concept and for being the series stuck following Jetman (see Tough Act to Follow below). In America, on the other hand, it is by far the most well-known and praised Sentai. Three guesses as to why.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Remember at the beginning of episode 6, when Geki gets transported to that strange land by Guardian Beast Tyrannosaurus, and sees the toppled Tokyo Tower? Well, let's all remember a certain travesty that took place in Tokyo years later. It was the earthquake/tsunami.
• It Was His Sled: The final fate of the Dragon Ranger is probably the most commonly pointed out difference between Zyuranger and its American counterpart.
• Moe: Mei. Super cute face provided by Reiko Chiba? Check. High pitched voice? Check. Innocence? Aplenty, so check. Bonus points for being Badass Adorable.
• Nightmare Fuel: Dai Satan and his laugh. Just the idea of a big blue floating head in the sky!
• Newer Than They Think: The tradition of having all the Sentai titles end with the suffix "-ranger" actually began here. The only shows prior to Zyuranger to have the word "-ranger" were Goranger and Turboranger (and even then, the former actually used "Gorenger" on the show). In fact, 9 of the 15 shows prior to Zyuranger actually ended with suffix "-man" (starting from Denziman and all the way to Jetman).
• The Problem with Licensed Games: The Zyuranger game for the Famicom had some weird ideas on how to adapt its source material. For example, one segment involves Daizyuzin facing off against Dragon Caesar in a deadly match of table ping pong.
• So Okay It's Average: The general consensus on this show is that Burai is great, and that's it.
• Special Effect Failure: Happens from time to time, due to having a lower budget than the previous series.
• Tear Jerker: Burai's death.
  • Your Milage May Vary but Kai's death may also qualify.
  • They did get better eventually, but a latter episode when the imitation Zyurangers appear may count. For the first time in Sentai, rather than creating evil imitations for solely fighting the Sentai, this one is used to make Zyurangers look like bad guys, and it shows when a mother slapped Mei right on the face when she's just helping a kid, followed by the people throwing stones to the Zyuranger and driving them away. Hell, to hammer it home, aside of the lamentations of the heroes, we're also given with the second time Mei is visibly crying (the first time is when Burai died). Of course, by the end they came back to life, but before that, it was a pretty powerful scene too.
• Too Cool to Live: Burai. To the point where fans tried to start a letter writing campaign to bring him back. It didn't work.
• Tough Act to Follow: Considering that this season came after the much-acclaimed Choujin Sentai Jetman, it could possibly count.