The whole plot revolves around Swinton trying to become popular, which is already hilariously painful to watch. He uses this alien tech device to make everyone love him, and surprise surprise, it completely backfires. Seeing a giant brainiac try so hard to be cool while dealing with typical high school drama is just Peak Teen TV, and the dialogue is so wonderfully corny it hurts.

Then enter Gorgon, Nimbar’s total nightmare of a monster for the week. Honestly, the suit looks like it was stitched together from leftover Halloween clearance bins, but that’s literally the charm of this whole show. The fight scenes in this episode are just ridiculous. You have these four Beverly Hills teenagers transformed into “Galactic Sentinels” doing these dramatic, low-budget power ranger poses, kicking air, and yelling their attack moves. It’s so campy you can’t even be mad at how bad the special effects are.

Honestly, the ending is actually kinda sweet in a cheesy, after-school special type of way. Swinton realizes he doesn’t need a weird alien gadget to make people like him and that his real friends who literally fight rubber-suited aliens with him are the only ones who actually matter. It’s super predictable, yeah, but if you’re watching Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters for deep, high-tier plot, you’re doing it wrong. It’s just a fun, nostalgic trip back to when TV didn’t take itself so seriously.