Egon's
Ghost
Writer:
Michael Reaves
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 doing battle with a creature from a different dimension named Arzun. They have a weapon to banish Arzun back to
his dimension called the destabilizer, Egon uses it on Arzun and there is an
explosion. Arzun is gone and so is
Egon. It appears Egon has been killed.
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| Janine is not happy without Egon being real. |
The
brokenhearted Ghostbusters go back to the firehouse to break the news to
Janine, however while they are doing so they here Egon’s voice. Egon is here but he is a ghost, sort of. Egon’s body is out of phase making him for
all practical purposes a ghost but he is still alive. The problem is he is deteriorating and should
within 24 hours disintegrate completely.
The Ghostbusters discover that they could build a restabilizer to save
him but it would over $78,000. That’s
money they don’t have.
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| Time running out for Egon the Ghost! |
To
solve the problem they decide to work real hard and do a lot of Ghostbusting in
one day. They work lots of jobs and earn
$80,000 in one evening. They buy their
supplies, build their device, and use it to save Egon. But there is a problem: Egon disappears. It turns out he was able to stabilize but
instead of being stuck in two phases Earth and the Netherworld he fully went to
the Netherworld.
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| The Ghostbusters find out they need $80,000. That's okay they just resolve to work hard. |
With
some insistence from Janine, Ray designs a device that will allow the
Ghostbusters to travel to the Netherworld for an hour and able them to bring
back four people but no more. They do
this and travel to the Netherworld. They
reverse the PKE meter to search for Egon’s bio signals and follow the path to
Egon. Along the way however they run
into a Terror Dog similar to Zulu or Vinz Clortho. The PKE meter is destroyed, but they do find
help from Heironymus an Englishman trapped in the Netherworld since 1690. He told them that Egon was the prisoner of
Tolay the ally of Arzun.
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| Egon's alive but a prisoner. |
Heironymus’s
request is that they take him with them back to Earth, since their device will
only allow four to travel with them this may create a problem. Heironymus however is inspired by the
Ghostbusters friendship and relieves them of that promise. The grateful Ghostbusters give him a proton
pack to make his life in Netherworld easier and then they transport home.
My Take: When I first saw this episode as a kid I totally missed the fact that Egon’s ghost wasn't really a ghost but just Egon
being out of phase with reality. (I
thought his body had transported to another dimension so only his ‘ghost self’
was left.) This was one of the episodes that I remembered until my adult years,
with my misinterpretation of what happened to Egon. I immediately thought of this episode after
the death of Harold Ramis in early 2014.
One of the Ghostbusters was now a ghost for real.
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| Harold Ramis Tribute Page |
Now for
my stray observations:
·
They made almost $80,000 in one afternoon, by
just working really really hard?!? Why are these are guys ever broke? If $80,000 is a hard working good day than bad
day might be what $30,000? Yes but they might have some high expenses but
someone needs to take a look at their books they should always be solvent.
·
How long did it take them to get the parts? Maybe if they should have just got them on credit and earned all
that money after they saved Egon.
·
I loved all the scenes with Janine in this
episode.
·
Did Egon’s time as Slimer give him any aid in
this episode? He seemed to be able to access
his ghost abilities pretty quick.
·
What would happen if a Ghostbuster did die and
became a ghost? Would he stay on as
helpful ghost like Slimer or would they be working to get him to the next
plane?
·
That was very familiar looking dog, related to
Zuul and Vinz Clortho perhaps?
·
When explaining to Heironymus the modern world
after being told he was from England I think I would have gone over the history
of England from that point to the present before talking about inventions. “Well William and Mary were never able to have
a kid, and none of Anne’s lived so Parliament had to reach out to the German
Electorate of Hannover to find their new King. And that German royal family is still there.”
·
I didn’t see the problem at the end. Okay so you can only bring back four guys, go
back to the firehouse and rework the device come back and grab Heironymus. You can still give him the proton pack so he
can hold off the demons until then.
·
I hope the same magic that prevents aging also
keeps proton packs fully charged.
A great episode.
[1]
Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.
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