This show was easy for kids like us to relate to. If we weren't playing street hockey, we'd be riding our skateboards, surfing, etc. This is one of the shows that I grew up with, and even before it came on, my friends and I did all the same things that the kids did in Rocket Power. I think to like this show, you might have needed to be the kind of kid who's in the show. It's not terribly deep or anything like that just a bunch of kids and their adventures. Not that peoples' opinions don't count, but there's a place for this kind of show. They had a couple good ones like Avatar, but it was all downhill from there in my opinion. In short, it was probably one of the last decent shows Nick made before becoming a Disney clone. One of the episodes I will always remember is the hurricane one. About bettering yourself and making friends and "practice makes perfect" and the good old morals a kid's show should have. (Except we sucked at sports and didn't have a dad who ran a fast-food joint.) Yeah, most of the episodes revolved around sports, but they were good plots. It reminds me of the times I used to spend with my friends. The plot: Yeah, so some of the episodes were corny. He's always giving the kids advice with his (in)famous "Ancient Hawaiian Sayings". Tito: Sort of the "mother" figure of the show. Raymundo: The dad we all wish we could be. Low self-confidence, always trying to be as good as his friends. Not much of a help in a crisis, but he delivers most of the shows one-liners. Most of the time, she's the one who organizes a strategy to deal with Otto's screw-ups. Most of the time, he is the cause of the problems the kids have to face. Big ego, with supreme confidence in all his abilities. I'm not saying the show was a masterpiece, but it was a lot better than they're making it out to be. I must take issue with some of the reviews here. I was always jealous of their talent and wished I could be as good as they were on skateboards or surfboards. Then of course, as a child, you find the sports they do to be amazing. Sam's wimpyness, Reggie's smart Aleck attitude, and Twister's inability to say anything remotely smart were all factors in showing how no one is perfect. Mainly Otto with his cocky personality but all of them had something disagreeable. Even the main characters weren't likable a lot of the time. I felt it was almost more gritty (or as much as it could be) for a kid's show. Sure, they played the sports ridiculously well so i'm not saying that was realistic, but Twister had a mean brother, Reggie and Otto didn't have a mother, and Sam was made fun of for his intelligence. This one was slightly more realistic in that sense. Other shows always showed the kids at school with two parents and good grades. I think what I liked this one the most out of the 90's shows was because it was somewhat on its own. I would pick watching an episode of this for the fifth time than a Hey Arnold for the first time (although I did enjoy that show too). Every day I would flip through channels and if I saw this show was on, nothing else mattered. Whenever I look up old 90's shows on youtube, I always seem to find each one mention Rocket Power and it brings back some great memories.
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