A Ghost
Grows in Brooklyn
Writers:
Mark Edward Edens and Michael Edens
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: The
Ghostbusters are at a routine job at a greenhouse. They cornered the ghost near some geraniums
and blasted it. Little did they know the
ghost was able to allow itself to be absorbed by one of the geraniums. The shop owner was pleased and in addition to
their fee gave the Ghostbusters a free geranium, which as luck would have it
was the haunted one.
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| In the hunt. |
Egon
not knowing what to do with the plant gave it to Janine who seemed to know
quite a bit. Janine takes it as a
romantic gesture from Egon and brings it home to add to her collection of
plants. When she goes to work the next
morning, the plant starts to grow a much accelerated rate. Before the end of morning it’s covering most
of Brooklyn.
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| Here is the ghost. |
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| Now you got him! |
The
Ghostbusters are called in and they confront the plant. They also have a botanist who shows up not
wanting them to damage such a wonderful plant. He wants it to be respected. He keeps with that line until the plant tries
to kill him and then he changes his mind.
The Ghostbusters follow the plant to its source showing a great deal of
athleticism along the way. They find it
in Janine’s apartment and Janine who came home early was understandably
horrified. Egon, recalling his earlier
childhood plant disaster that the told Janine during their discussion, grabs
the firehouse. He uses the firehouse to over water the plant at its base drowning the monster plant for good.
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| Yes this bad. |
The
ghost vacates and then is trapped but Egon and the guys have to endure a verbal
tongue lashing from Janine and promise to pay the damages.
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| Very bad computers back then didn't come with a mouse. And the plant thing. |
My Take: A funny
episode, so Egon finally gives a gift to Janine and look what happens, it
backfires. Well, that will teach you for
acting like a normal human. Next time just be
weird and hard to understand.
Now for
my stray observations:
·
Umm...guys your traps have gauges on them to give you information on the ghosts you catch. The gauge tells you when the trap is full. You used it when you first trapped Slimer and in your nasty adventure. Maybe next time you
should check your trap before you conclude you have the ghost.
·
Why does the ghost entering the
plant make it grow? This is never explained.
·
Egon is a great scientist but he doesn’t know
how to take care of a plant? I know he
is not a botanist but come on.
·
Where does Janine find time to take care of all
those plants? She spends all her time in
the firehouse.
·
Using the particle throwers as hedge clippers.
·
The fickle fan botanist was funny.
·
Boy, the Ghostbusters are very athletic! Scaling wall and all.
·
I think it would take longer to over water and
kill a plant of that size.
A great episode unless you like
plants.
[1]
Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.
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