OLD COLLEGE TRY

The Old College Spirit

Original Air date: November 27, 1987^[1]

Writer: John Shirley

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: Fraternity brothers for the Tri Kuppa Bro are getting threatened by the dean for a series of pranks happening around campus.  It has nothing to do with them but rather frat ghosts who are causing the pranks, and they immediately trip the dean.

Peter going to help his fellow frat bros

                At the station a stuck up group of women wanted to present the Ghostbusters an award for ridding the “undesirables” of New York.  This goes well until they see Slimer and the get offended and Peter tells them off.  The Frat bros show up and ask the Ghostbusters help, it turns Peter is frat bro so he agrees. 

Frat Ghosts

                When they get to the frat house, the Ghostbusters find the frat ghosts too hard to handle.  The frat ghosts defeat them with ease and steal their weapons.  Afterwards they go on a reign of terror at the school.  The Ghostbusters with the aid of the dean look into history of the school and find out these are ghosts of dead expelled students.  They come up with a plan to trick the ghosts.  They tell the ghosts that they can graduate if they pass a few classes.  So the ghosts take some fake classes with the Ghostbusters as their instructors and then they are called in to pose for the class picture.  It turns out the camera is a proton gun and there is a trap underneath them.  The ghosts are zapped and trapped and that is that.

Frat Ghosts getting mean

My Take: The college ghosts were losers.  They never should have been able to challenge the Ghostbusters much less disarm them.  I was more offended by that then I was of Casper.

                My stray observations:

·         Who were those ladies that Peter mocked? We’re they supposed to represent somebody? Nevertheless I was glad to see Peter stand up for Slimer, he may not like him at home but he'll defend him against other people.

·         What did the frat ghosts expect to do once they graduated?  Get a job? Impress ghost girls?

·         I did think the trick camera was creative.

The one part of the episode that I found enjoyable.

·         So ghost bros vs PC bros?

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[1] Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.