Who's
Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost
Writers:
Lydia Marano and Arthur Byron Cover
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
5 of 5)
Summary: The
Ghostbusters are engaged in a common job at restaurant. Dealing with some annoying but not much
threatening ghosts, the Ghostbusters do their job while the patrons of the
restaurant look on. Two of the patrons
are John and Olivia, John is clearly whipped while Olivia makes all the
decisions while belittling her spouse’s suggestions whenever they're made. While the Ghostbusters are doing their job
John asks Olivia if they should consider hiring the “Ghost Smashers” to help
them with their “Uncle Horace problem.”
Olivia rejects this idea saying that it’s a family matter and that they
don’t need their help to rid them of their ghost. John, without his wife’s knowledge, asks and
receives from Winston the Ghostbusters’ business card just in case his wife
changes her mind. Little did the couple
know, one of the ghosts the Ghostbusters were fighting got away and snuck into their car in order to join them when they get home.
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| "You see the Ghostbusters who are destroying this restaurant, would you like to bring them to our house?" |
At the
Stewart mansion, the ghost of Uncle Horace is very confused he has forgotten
something but he isn’t sure what it is.
He thinks his house is haunted and he is afraid of ghosts but he doesn’t
know he is one. Oliva and John are aware of his ghost fear so they dress as
ghosts as a method of scaring Uncle Horace away. Uncle Horace is scared but he comes across
the Ghostbusters’ business card that was dropped by John and decided to call
them to help him with the mansion’s ghost problem. Janine gets the call and as soon as the
Ghostbusters pull in and she sends them back out.
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| "No, I have a better plan!" |
When
they get to the mansion they find Uncle Horace and begin to bust him. As a result Uncle Horace begins to cry and
scream in pain, asking why they are doing this to him. It becomes apparent to the Ghostbusters that
he doesn’t know he is a ghost. They discover through conversation that he was the one who called them. This concerns them and they decide not to
trap him. They decide instead to help
Uncle Horace pass on since it would rude to bust their employer. However the PKE meter also tells them there
is another ghost so Peter and Winston go looking.
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| At least there plan is working better then Uncle Horace's plan. |
At this
point Olivia and John are still dressed as ghosts trying to scare Uncle Horace
away. The split up and John runs into
the Ghostbusters. He explains to them
about Uncle Horace and they can’t sell the mansion so long as he is here. Olivia runs into the other ghost and is being
harassed by it. Her screams attract the
Ghostbusters and Uncle Horace. The
Ghostbusters battle, the ghost and with some Tarzan tricks from Egon, rescue
Olivia and captured the ghost. Uncle
Horace realized what he wanted so badly now.
He just wanted to say good-bye to his wonderful niece and he did then
passed on.
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| The look a Ghostbuster gets when he discovers that it was the ghost who actually called him. |
My Take: This is a very interesting episode it
answers one of the major questions about the Ghostbusters. Do they capture all ghosts or just certain
ghosts? They clearly don’t mind
Slimer. Their general rule seems to be
they capture ghosts who harm people. (And to be clear they capture ghost who both harm people whose victims are now willing to pay thousands of dollars to get rid of
them.) Uncle Horace is harming his
family by making it impossible to sell their house but he was just confused not
doing on purpose. Their desire is to
help him not bust him is interesting. Once again they’re acting more like Jennifer Love Hewitt’s the Ghost Whisperer more
than the Ghostbusters.
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| Okay now what do we do. It;s time to Ghost Whisper it! |
Now for
my stray observations:
·
The damn destructive Ghostbusters. It's no wonder Olivia didn't want to call them.
·
No rest for the Ghostbusters, it must hard being
on call 24/7. At least they get to rest a lot more than their receptionist.
·
When they discover Uncle Horace doesn't knows he is a
ghost and that he was the one who called made for a funny scene. The funny part was according to them this has happened before.
·
I was really touched by Uncle Horace wanting to
say good-bye to his little niece, I have a little one year old niece and I would be want to say good-bye if I was a
ghost.
A great episode to check out I
highly recommend it.
[1]
Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.
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