Play Them
Ragtime Boos
Writers:
Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
Director:
Dale Schott
Main
Cast:
- Lorenzo
Music as Peter Venkman
- Frank
Welker as Raymond Stantz
- Maurice
LaMarche as Egon Spengler
- Arsenio
Hall as Winston Zeddemore
- Laura
Summer as Janine Melnitz
- Frank
Welker as Slimer
(Rating
3 of 5)
Summary: The
Ghostbusters are driving to New Orleans to attend the International
Para-Psychological Expo at Tulane University, which Peter would rather skip to
go to Mardi Gras. When they get there
they discover that their hotel is in horrendous run down condition. Peter looks at Ray’s brochure and finds that
it was published in 1925, which puts it sixty-two years out of date at the time
of the show. Peter is about to have a meltdown until he meets the hotel
manager. The manager is the beautiful
Marie Cuttie, whose pretty looks allow Peter to forgive her for having such a
crappy hotel.
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| Their hotel |
That night as the Ghostbusters are sleeping Ray gets possessed and wonders out of
the hotel; fortunately his friends see him and follow. Outside a ghost with a trombone is playing
“The Saints Come Marching In.” While he
is playing many people who from town who are just as possessed as Ray gather around and they all
start dancing. Peter thinks it looks
like fun and joins in anyway. While this is happening everyone's clothes and the buildings in the town start to transform into 1940s
style. Marie shows up with ritual
powder which she uses to make the ghosts vanish.
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| But when you have a pretty face who cares if you can't do your job. She wasn't really good at getting rid of the ghosts either. |
Marie
explains that she is a Voodoo priestess who has been fighting a ghost name Malachi. Malachi was an old jazz musician whose ghost
wants to restore the past. He uses the
power of music and magic to do this. His
actions can have serious consequences however, as Egon points out, if the time
line continues to be disrupted time itself might unravel.
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| Because they always like to sleep together, being a Ghostbuster is one eternal childhood sleep over. |
Normally
this would not be a huge problem. Because the Ghostbusters are here and they
can just catch him. Except they left
their equipment at home so they have to call Janine and have her express mail it for overnight delivery. While the
Ghostbusters wait time keeps coming apart they find themselves in the Civil
War, then the go from a Civil War battle to being drooped in water because they’re in prehistory and there
is no land in Louisiana in this era.
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| That moment you realize you left all your stuff at home. |
It
turns out there packs get sent to Hawai’i so they try to make one and it fails
miserably. So instead they decide to
something else. Egon decides to fight
fire with fire or music with music, and alters some instruments to have
anti-distribution vibrations. When
Winston points out that they don’t have any musically talent, Egon counters that the instruments would work as programmed they just have to hold them and push
buttons. Kind of like modern guitar hero. The Ghostbusters battle it out with rock n’ roll to challenge the Jazz ghosts. Despite their clothes
changing from time period to time period the Ghostbusters prevail and Malachi
defeated. Peter tries to catch Mardi
Gras missing out on a free trip to Hawai’i.
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| Yeah,, things are getting bad. |
My Take: This
episode was okay. It was different in
the sense that we saw the Ghostbusters take care of a problem in manner
different from the norm.
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| Time altered Ray in battle mode. |
Now for my stray observations:
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The Ghostbusters should learn to wear their seat belts.
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1925 broacher, really Ray?
·
Why does Marie suck so much when it comes to
taking care of her hotel? Is it because
she is too busy fighting Malachi? If so then bad excuse. The Ghostbusters fight ghosts all the time, live in an old firehouse, and they still find time to make sure their HQ doesn’t look like
crap.
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No gear, really? Normally they put packs on even if they’re just going for a walk.
You mean to tell me they drive Ecto-1 all the way from New York in order
to attend a big conference on the study of the supernatural and they don’t
bring their Ghostbusters stuff with them?
Ray once took his just to show off in his home town, yet they are going
to meet like minds to exchange thoughts and they leave their stuff at home?
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Why is it so hard for them to build a proton
pack, don’t they do it all the time?
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| I thought you guys were good at building these things. |
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You want me to believe that Malachi in his entire life
and over 40+ years as a ghost and never learned a second song? I mean do you really want to play “The
Saints…” forever? He does.
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| "I am musical ghost, but I only know one song!" |
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I bet Peter will find a way to blame Slimer for
the missed trip to Hawai’i.
An okay episode, but doesn’t get
beyond that.
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Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.
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