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Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers

UK television program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ1932380 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers is a television miniseries on MTV UK. The show was a parody of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, satirizing the emo stereotype. The series was directed by Chris Phillips and Nick Pittom, both from Essex, England. It was picked up by MTV UK in 2006, and later also appeared on MTV in the United States. A second series began in 2010, followed by a special in 2015.

Production history

The creators have cited two conflicting stories for the original idea for the series:

One story suggests that in November 2004, Phillips was upset due to a breakup with his girlfriend. Pittom told him to "Quit being emo, you Emo Ranger!" to which Phillips replied with "You Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers!"

Another version comes from an interview with Phillips:

"I was sitting at my computer chatting to a friend, Pat. Pat sent me a picture of him dressed as a ninja leaping across a recording studio, and I said 'you look like an emo ranger'. I sat there for a few minutes and thought 'that sounds kind of funny' and then just heard in my head the term 'Mighty Moshin' Emo Ranger'. The more I thought about the name the more I was convinced there should be a show called Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers, but there wasn't, which was annoying, 'cos I wanted to watch it."

The show was filmed on location in the producers' home town of Chelmsford, Essex. Sound design was by Dominic Sinacola, who lived in Southampton.

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The public source identifies “Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers” as uK television program. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mighty, Moshin' and Rangers.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2010, 2015, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mighty, Moshin' and Rangers providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1932380. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2010, 2015 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.