No One
Comes to Lupusville
Writer:
J. Michael Straczynski
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: It’s
late at night and Janine is playing cards with Slimer. However Janine caught Slimer cheating and he
took off. Janine started to chase him
when she stepped outside she found they had a visitor. A man named Gregor was looking to hire the
Ghostbusters services for his hometown of Lupusville.
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| Gregor, so really couldn't tell just by looking at him. |
The
next day the Ghostbusters head out to Lupusville. When they get there that evening they found the
townspeople a little strange, old fashioned, and not very talkative, with the
exception of one creepy little girl named Leda.
Gregor shows up and invites the Ghostbusters into his home. Inside he reveals that his town has been
under the threat of vampires who seek to drive them out. At first the team tries to politely refuse pointing
out to Gregor that their specialty is ghosts not vampires. However they start to sing a different tune
when Gregor offers them a chest full of gold.
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| All the girls like Egon, even the weird ones. |
With
that the Ghostbusters are off hunting vampires.
Shortly into the hunt Egon reveals with the PKE meter that the vampires
have them surrounded. The bats around
them transformed into vampires and attacked.
Egon, who had been one of the only Ghostbusters who expressed interest
in this vampire job for an opportunity to test their equipment on the undead,
learned with the rest that the particle streams were no good battling the
creatures. One vampire managed to
activate the overload switch on Egon’s proton pack. He gets it off and there is an
explosion.
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| That moment you realize you're surrounded by vampire's and you equipment is designed to fight ghosts. |
Ray and
Peter wake up and the other two are nowhere to be found. They are now the prisoners of the
vampires. The lead vampire informs them
that Gregor and his followers are vampires like
them, but they are heretics who want to live like humans. Gregor's vampires stole the town from the real residents, They give the two Ghostbusters the option of
helping them in order to save their friends who were the prisoners of Gregor.
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| And here are the vampires. |
Back in
Lupusville, Egon and Winston wake up in a cell with Gregor over them. At first Gregor acts concerned but turns
hostile when the Ghostbusters figure out he is a vampire when they see he has
no reflection. When Gregor leaves Leda,
the creepy girl, shows up and offers to help.
Egon asks her if she can get the spare pack in the car. She confirms she can, and Ego then asks if
she knew what happened to the real townspeople.
Leda said she can lead the Ghostbusters to them.
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| Not to be confused with these vampires. |
Peter
is doubtful that whoever wins will let them leave but Ray is being helpful and
finds a way to alter his particle thrower so that shoots out the same spectrum
as sunlight. The lead vampire is
impressed but warns them not to use it on any of their side. Meanwhile, Egon and Winston have found the
townspeople locked in and underground dungeon.
The townspeople ask if it’s a full moon outside and when Winston
confirms that it is they ask just to be free so they can do their part.
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| Look, the locals were all werewolves. |
Outside
the Battle of the Vampires is happening.
Ray’s weapon is proving quite useful against Gregor’s vampires. Then the original townspeople come out. They reveal that the vampires were attracted
to their town because of how isolated it was, it turns out there was a reason
for that because as soon as they came in contact with the full moon they
transformed into werewolves.
The
remaining vampires unified and started fighting the werewolves. Ray wanted to stay and see who wins but Egon thought
now would be a good time to get the out of there. When asked why he reminded them about how a
vampire biting someone makes them a vampire and a werewolf biting someone turns
them into a werewolf. What happens when
a werewolf and a vampire bite each other?
Ray would probably love to find out but the rest thinks it best to move
on. On the way home they see a dam,
realizing vampires can’t travel over water they destroy it flooding the
place. They leave and Leda joins them riding
on the back.
My Take: This is
a great episode it’s very creative and fun.
After all, if ghosts exist in this world why not vampires and
werewolves? Although I would prefer a
more modern interpretation after all with mathematics if being bitten is the
only thing that changes you than vampires or werewolves should overpopulate the world in a
matter of weeks. Nevertheless the idea
of a vampire or werewolf town makes some sense.
Now for my stray observations:
·
Does Janine ever sleep? She is there all the time. The Ghostbusters are up snoozing away and
Janine is manning that phone and passing the time playing poker with Slimer. When she says she wants to form a union, who
would she form one with? She is the only
support staff.
·
Egon sends Leda to get the “spare” pack. But there are lots of packs in that car. Good, it’s great that they are working on
that. In the second half of season 1 I
was very concerned.
·
I love the scenes between Egon and Winston. Egon is so weird and it’s nice to see one of
his teammates react to it. There entire
interaction was full of great character moments that Straczynski is great at.
·
The vampire vs. werewolf fight: was it
necessary? One group of vampires wanted
the town the others don’t. The anti-town
vampires were winning so why the need to fight the residents?
A great episode all around it was entertaining
from beginning to end.
[1]
Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.
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