Adventures
in Slime and Space
Writer:
David Gerrold
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
2 of 5)
Summary: The
episode begins with an explosion at the firehouse as a result of Egon’s
experiment to successful build a plasmic strainer, a device designed to
disintegrate ghosts so they don’t have to contain them anymore. Slimer then gets in a fight with Peter and
accidentally flies into the plasmic strainer while they are testing it.
He doesn’t disintegrate but he does destabilize and every time he hits
something he splits into two smaller Slimers. As
Slimer keeps multiplying the Ghostbusters try to catch them but just end up
dividing them more.
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| Egon and his immoral machine! |
With
the Slimers doubling every couple of seconds they quickly overwhelm the city sliming
everything. The city is covered pedestrians are falling down, cars are crashing, and people are getting hurt. The
Ghostbusters have to reluctantly tell the Mayor of New York how badly they
screwed up. As you can imagine the Mayor is not pleased.
 |
| Lots of Slimers! |
They
come up with a way to reverse what has happened by altering the plasmic strainer to reverse and
capturing one of the little Slimers to send through it. The little
Slimer turns blue and starts absorbing all the other Slimers. However since each of the little Slimers
gained mass as they ate, the new blue Slimer became a giant.
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| This is stupid, you have ghost traps. |
Reporting
the change to the Mayor, the Ghostbusters were helpless as Janine was captured by
the evil Slimer and he took her to the Empire State Building. The Ghostbusters borrow four helicopters from
the Mayor’s office and attached Proton guns to them. They are able to burn of the excess mass and
restore Slimer to his awesome self.
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| We're all together again! We're here! We're here! |
My Take: Often
episodes begin with the Ghostbusters sitting around their firehouse wondering
if they are going to go out of business because they caught all the ghosts. When I see this I start thinking “aren’t new
ghosts being made all the time, especially in New York?” I also wonder “where does their money
go?” They charge a lot of their services
they must have licensing fees from their movie so why should ever be close to
bankruptcy? After this episode perhaps I
should ask if they ever going to be solvent, just imagine the lawsuits. Maybe the Mayor’s office covered it up for
them. Mayor Lenny Clotch has been a known backer of the Ghostbusters and maybe he
just told people the Ghostbusters saved them from another other dimensional
threat.
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| Bad Slimer! |
I
always rag on the Ghostbusters for being so destructive on their missions, but
at least they are reacting to something and have been called in to help. This the first time I saw them actually cause
mass amounts of damage and have it be completely their fault. That creep who nearly charged Aunt Lois doesn’t look so bad now. What’s really
bothersome about it is the fact of why it happened. It happened because Egon’s was trying to commit
a type of genocide. There have been fans of this series who have called into question the morality of what the Ghostbusters do. Going around kidnapping
ghosts some of whose only crime was to annoy someone with money and phone. Personally if the Ghostbusters were real I
don’t think that would be so controversial due to the fact there wouldn’t be a
public consensus on what the ghosts were.
Yet, containing them is one thing destroying them is another especially
when they know enough about them to know they have emotions similar to
humans. I never felt bad about the
Containment Unit it’s a very humane trap it the ghosts are given their own
little dimension to live in, where they can roam freely within it but they
can’t bother human civilization. Trying to make Egon a mass murder of ghosts
cost the episode big in the points department.
I like to think they would have only used it on truly evil ghosts who
hurt people, but still it’s a part of the series that is best forgotten in an
episode written mostly for humor.
Some of my stray observations:
· ·
Why did they keep trying to catch the little
Slimers with a net when they have ghost traps?
·
Egon had previously stated he didn’t have a pilot’s license, yet the Mayor allows them all to fly in helicopters.
[1]
Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.
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