The
Revenge of Murray the Mantis
Writer:
Richard Mueller
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
4 of 5)
Summary: It’s Thanksgiving and the Ghostbusters are
participating in the Thanksgiving Day parade. Downstairs Egon has built this
air tight device attached to the Containment Unit that will allow Egon to
communicate with the ghosts locked inside.
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| Macy's organizer. |
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| Ghostbusters in the parade. |
The
Ghostbusters along with Janine head to the parade and enjoyed being part
of the festivities. Behind the Ecto-1 is
the Murray the Mantis float. Murray the
Mantis is a popular children’s cartoon and Peter tells Ray he thinks cartoons
are dumb after that is explained to him.
The holders have trouble controlling the balloon and they lose it. The
parade organizer asks Peter to shoot it down.
When Peter blasts it, the balloon explodes and inside is an actually
Murray the Mantis who attacks the parade.
The Ecto-1 escapes with the organizer who explains that the balloon was
put together in a former morgue. Ray
explains that would give off a lot of death energy. Studying his PKE meter Egon explains its
power is so incredible they probably won’t fit it into a trap. Winston made a Gozer reference by calling it another Twinkie. Winston insists they
have to get the big guy. The others
agree.
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| The Murray float. |
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| Here he is! |
Back
the firehouse Egon is preparing the Containment Unit for release. Lt. Frump shows up blaming the Ghostbusters
for the whole thing proving he is something of an idiot. As they grab Egon they fail to prevent him
from pulling the switch and out came the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Frump is angry because he remembers the event
from the movie. Peter explains that Egon fixed Stay Puft and he is
better now.
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| Letting the big guy out! |
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| Here he is, fight is on! |
Using
Slimer as their man in between; the green guy communicates with the big guy
the Ghostbusters instructions. A battle
begins between the two heavy hitters.
And its one of the ages: a giant marshmallow vs a giant bug. Normally you would think the bug would have
an edge but that wasn’t the case. Stay
Puft got Murray exactly where they wanted it and the Ghostbusters with Stay
Puft manage to destroy the creature.
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| Bug vs Marshmallow |
As the
Thanksgiving Day Parade resumes the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man takes Murray the
Mantis’s place in the parade.
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| The Marshmallow corner the creature into a trap! |
My Take: Well the episode where we get to see one of
the most famous villains from the film use his abilities for the forces of good
against a giant bug.
Now for
my stray observations:
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Did Ann Lawson, the organizer remind you of
another character from another film who organized that parade?
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Okay so the float was put together in an old
morgue and that is what caused it to turn into a powerful monster. So if that is the case shouldn’t morgues be
these powerful city wreaking monster creation machines? Doesn’t seem very likely for mathematics
alone.
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Lt Frump is as dumb as a piece of wood.
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I am assuming that air tight camber that Egon
designed is what allowed only the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man to be retrieved and
the only ghost to leave. Correct?
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Okay when did Egon, as Peter states, “Fix” Stay
Puft. Don’t get me wrong I love the fact
they turned him into a good guy but last we saw him he was at a ghost
convention and I pointed out then some inconsistencies in his story.
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I did like how Slimer was used to help direct
Stay Puft it was a good use of his character.
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Why did roof tear apart like in the movie, it
didn’t happen the last few times Stay Puft was the able to leave?
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So the Mantis was destroyed. Is that because it wasn’t a real ghost just
effected by ghost energy?
Nevertheless it was a great
episode.
[1]
Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.
I wonder where the 'revenge' part of the title came from. Was "Murray" angry at whoever built the building?
ReplyDeleteThey probably did that because it just sounded cool.
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