Artwork by Karen Mollett
In addition to my statistical survey, I also used another survey to ask five open-ended questions. One of these was ""Why do you like Rescue Rangers?" I counted up key reasons cited, allowing each reason listed to count for one point, regardless of how many reasons were listed by each person. The reasons cited are as follows:
Reasons for liking Rescue Rangers | Number of times cited |
Characters | 9 |
Action/adventure | 6 |
Chip and Dale fan | 5 |
Gadget | 5 |
Romance | 5 |
Comedy | 4 |
Escape | 4 |
Teamwork/characters get along | 4 |
Writing/stories of the show | 4 |
Mystery | 3 |
Cartoon fan | 2 |
Good triumphs over evil | 2 |
Clean | 2 |
Identify with Chip | 2 |
Heroes are cute/'furry' (anthropomorphic) fan | 2 |
Animation | 2 |
Character interactions | 2 |
Serious potential | 1 |
Realism | 1 |
Sense of belonging | 1 |
Contemporary setting | 1 |
Group dynamics | 1 |
Show takes a positive stance towards engineering/technology | 1 |
The aspects which will be discussed at depth are the characters, Chip and Dale, Gadget, romance, and escape.