Chicken,
He Clucked
Writer:
J. Michael Straczynski
Director:
Brian Cosgrove
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
5 of 5)
Summary: Cubby, a
New York resident who lives next to a chicken restaurant, is upset having to
deal with the smell of cooked chicken coming into his apartment.
This has caused him to develop an intense hate and phobia towards
chickens.
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| To some the smell of chicken isn't awesome. I call those dumb people. |
At the famous New York Library the
Ghostbusters are checking out books, Peter is getting some picture books while
the others are doing more serious research.
Egon goes to see the librarian about the following titles of Spirit Summonings and Conjurations, Lochmore's Guide to the Lower Regions,
and the latest volume of Who's Who and
What's That. The overly friendly
librarian points to Cubby and says that he has already checked them out. Egon approaches the man who is rumbling on
about chickens and tries to warn him about what those books can actually do.
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| Egon wants to take out certain books, she wants to take out Egon. She has to get in line. |
Later Cubby summons the demon Morganan. Morganan asks Cubby if he is ready to pay the
price for his services and Cubby says he is.
Then to Morganan’s horror, Cubby says what he most desires is to rid the
world of chickens. Morganan tries to
offer him better things like to make him the ruler of France. Finally Morganan bargains to give Cubby the
power to make anything disappear or reappear and Cubby accepts.
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| How to bring about a demon? |
The next day Cubby uses his power
and makes all the chickens in the world disappear. He even makes things that just look like
chickens such as large statue at the chicken restaurant that he hates vanish as
well.
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| The demon doesn't understand Cubby, but no one does. |
At the station, Egon is working on a
math problem that Slimer is being surprisingly helpful when the report comes in
that all the chicken in the world have vanished. It takes Egon no time at all to guess what
has happened. They head down to the
library to get Cubby’s address and the go to pay him a visit. When they get
there Cubby doesn’t like their questions, so he decides to send them where the
chickens went.
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| "I got rid of the chickens and I can get rid of you" |
This sends the Ghostbusters to a
world where they are plugging towards their deaths. Fortunately for them they are saved at the
last second by Morganan. The demon tells
them the reason he did this is he needs their help. His status amongst his demon peers is falling
faster than the Ghostbusters just were and he wants to send them back to stop
Cubby so he can revoke their agreement.
The Ghostbusters agree and they are sent back to New York.
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| Making a deal! |
They decide to build a bunch of
robot chickens to fool Cubby and this works.
Cubby was so shocked to see that the Ghostbusters found their way back
and was horrified to see the chickens.
He then commands all the chickens in the world to go back where they
came from. This has the reverse effect
of what he intended because that just means the chickens have all returned. Morganan stops in and informs Cubby of his
violations and revokes his power.
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| Tricking Cubby! |
Morganan thanked the Ghostbusters
and let them know he was due to visit one of them later and the other Ghostbusters
looked at Peter suspiciously. Later in a
mental hospital, the now instituted Cubby was waiting for his lunch but the nurse
was Morganan and the offering was chicken.
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| "You broke the deal! Actually, you didn't but this episode is ending so HA! |
My Take: This was
both a very fun and silly episode. This
is one of those episodes whose plot I remember from watching as a kid. I just want to point out that l like chicken
very much and would be greatly upset if I were never able to have it
again. All the poor chicken farmers,
Cubby is evil wicked man for whom I felt no sympathy.
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| What's for dinner, Cubby? |
Now for my stray observations:
·
What is it with Egon and secretaries? Is there
something about his super nerdness that attacks any woman who holds a phone?
·
So what did Cubby have to give up anyway? They didn’t specify but I am assuming it is
his soul.
· “You want France?” Did Morganan know Napoleon
the pervious century? Is he responsible
for the French Revolution?
·
So Slimer is good at math? Really complex stuff
even? Egon didn’t even seem surprised
and also didn’t say it was nonsense. After
Slimer wrote it Egon commented on it as if it were the work of a peer. How smart is Slimer?
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| Egon and Slimer have a big secret! |
·
I don’t get how Morganan was able to revoke the
deal. Where did Cubby himself violate
it? He had the power to make things
appear or disappear no restrictions. The
only one who violated any agreement was Morganan
himself. I don’t care Cubby is a dink.
·
Okay what sort of deal is Peter making with this
guy?
Well that was an interesting episode I am glad all the
chickens made it home.
[1]
Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.
I just thought of something: in this episode, Cubby wants to make the chickens disappear, and "Doctor, Doctor" shows that chicken soup is Egon's favourite food!
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