In this blog I will be reviewing the Ghostbusters franchise. This will include both of the classic movies and the Real Ghostbusters cartoon series of the late 80s early 90s. I also plan to review the new movie when it comes out this summer. I might review other parts of the franchise as well. This blog does and will contain SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS, and SPOILERS. So if you don't want something spoiled for you don't read about it.
Summary: The
music video consists mostly of Brown singing and dancing to his own song in
floating TV screens across New York City.
The screens cut from Brown to scenes from Ghostbusters II. There are bunch of celebrity appearances from
great ones like Superman actor Christopher Reeve, and blowhards like the Republican nominee for President in 2016, Donald Trump.
My Take: I will be honest I like the song it’s very
catchy, some things fall off for me though.
For one with exception of the little rap at the beginning most of lyrics
don’t seem to have much to do with Ghostbusters. The Ghostbusters song written for the first movie by Ray Parker, Jr. was actually about the Ghostbusters. Most the lyrics seem to be Brown singing to
his girlfriend. It is almost like Brown
most the work this song sitting at his desk and someone called to tell him he
had the Ghostbusters contract so he just added a small rap about the movie's plot to the beginning and called it good. You can watch the video here.
·William T. Deutschendorf and Hank J.
Deutschendorf II as Baby Oscar
·Wilhelm von Homburg as Vigo the Carpathian
·Ivan Reitman as the voice of Slimer
(Rating 5 of 5)
Summary:
(Spoilers! After all it’s a summary.) The movie begins with slime oozing on the
street and Dana Barrett coming back from the store with her baby. When her back is turned the baby’s carriage takes
off by itself almost killing the child.
With such a strange and horrifying experience she decides to once again
turn to the Ghostbusters.
The
Ghostbusters however are going through a hard time as they are now under a court order to stop ghostbusting. In order to pay the bills, Peter becomes a TV
host interviewing people who claim to be physics, Egon is doing psychological
research on people, Ray owns a book store and he and Winston try to make money
off their ghostbusting fame by hosting kids’ birthday parties. When Dana comes to Egon he agrees to both
investigate and not include Peter because of their history. However when Egon was talking to Ray in the
book store Peter was able to figure out what they were doing.
Not just a painting of the big bad!
While
this is all going on Dana has had this new job at the museum restoring
paintings under the directorship of Dr. Janosz Poha. Poha is interested in Dana but she doesn’t
return his affections. They have just
presented their new prize possession: a painting of the sixteenth century
warlord Vigo the Carpathian. However it
is not just a painting of Vigo. The audience sees early on that Vigo himself is in this
painting. At night Vigo speaks to Poha
and recruits him to be his minion on Earth instructing Poha to bring a him a child so he recreate
himself. Poha agrees and also convinces
Vigo that Dana’s baby would be the best and if he got the child he should be allowed
to have the mother.
Very odd job interview!
In
Dana’s apartment Ray and Egon show up and, to Dana’s dismay, are with Peter. The three continue with the investigation of
the apartment and examine Oscar. They go
to the place where his carriage stopped.
They discover the readings are off the chart, so they decide to drill. After a while the cops stop by to ask what
they are doing. Peter gets them to leave
long enough to lower Ray down and discover a river of slime in old
abandoned subway station. The cops also
made a discovery: that these men have no right to be there. The cops promptly arrest the Ghostbusters but not before they knock out the power.
Ray finds a river of Slime!
So the
Egon, Peter, and Ray go to trial with a judge who doesn’t believe in ghosts
and thinks the Ghostbusters are nothing short of ridiculous. The Ghostbusters have Louis Tully as their
lawyer. He isn’t good as a lawyer but
they don’t have a case so didn’t really matter.
At their sentencing the judge goes on tirade about how he doesn’t like
them. The slime the Ghostbusters
collected starts to react and as the judge continues two ghosts of condemned
criminals that the judge had sentenced to death emerge to attack the
courtroom. The first thing they do is attack
the prosecutor and the Ghostbusters use that to blackmail the judge into dismissing their case and lifting the legal injunction.
The Ghostbusters then take care of the two ghosts.
Yeah in world where ghosts are real the death penalty is a bit of risk!
Nothing like having two death row ghosts to blackmail a judge with!
Now
that they Ghostbusters are allowed to operate again business is booming. Lots of ghosts that need to be captured are
flying around. The Ghostbusters are making good money catching them. They are also working on the case that Dana
brought originally. Since she had mentioned
to Peter the creepiness of the painting at the museum where she worked they decide show up to investigate. Poha tries to
stop them but they push him aside. At
one point Ray becomes entranced as they are taking pictures, but it seems to
free himself rather quickly.
Business is booming!
Doesn't want the Ghostbusters near his boss!
During
their ongoing investigation they discover that the slime reacts
to human emotional states. It bubbles and boils when provoked negatively, while
popping and causing objects to dance when positively charged. Changing course to the painting Egon and Ray discover the subway and the river of slime underneath the city in
the photos when observing the them in ultralight.
While trying to determine what they make of this mystery the pictures catch fire and Egon and Ray
discovered they are locked in the room.
Fortunately Winston comes to the rescue with the fire extinguisher.
Playing with Slime!
Peter and Dana go on a date they have Janine and
Louis watch over Oscar. While Peter courts Dana, Egon, Ray, and Winston go to investigate underneath. Despite severed
heads and ghosts trains they find the river of slime. They try to measure it but Winston gets sucked
in, so Ray and Egon jump in after him.
When they get out they nearly kill each other until Egon tells them to
take off their outer clothes. The slime
has been so negatively charged by the people of New York City it infects those
it touches.
The Mayor decides he needs the Ghostbusters after all!
The three
try to go to Peter but the sight of three grown men in long johns covered with
slime just gets all four of them arrested. They try
to talk to the Mayor but he rejects them and his assistant has the Ghostbusters committed. At Peter’s apartment, where Dana and Oscar
were staying after the bathtub tried to eat Oscar, Dana,
Janine, and Louis were watching a movie.
Dana goes to check in on Oscar and finds that he has crawled out the
window—with supernatural assistance but Dana didn’t see that part—and he is
abducted by Poha dressed as Victorian era mother flying through the air with
his new powers given to him by Vigo.
Dana
goes to the museum and after she enters it she finds her baby on an alter about
to be merged with Vigo. She tries to
stop it but can’t. Outside the museum
gets covered with slime and a shell
forms over it.
New recruit!
The
city is then overwhelmed with ghosts with breaks out happening everywhere. The Mayor fires his assistant and releases
the Ghostbusters. They go to the museum
and try to their particle throwers on the shell but nothing happens. The negative energy is still strong. Realizing the people need inspiration they
retreat and go to the Statue of Liberty.
Ray and Winston now with slime-throwers cover the statue’s interior with
positive slime and with music get her to move.
The emergence of the statue causes the people to become euphoric and weakens
the shell.
Taking down the ghost shell!
We all wanted to do this during the movie!
Liberty
smashes the top of the dome interrupting the Vigo merger process allowing Dana to save
Oscar. As they jump down Winston slimes
Poha and things look good until Vigo leaves the painting. Outside Louis shows up in ghostbuster gear,
having been sent by Janine, and tries to battle the shell. Vigo is doing a job defeating the
Ghostbusters but the people of New York start singing for New Year weakening
Vigo. The Ghostbusters get up as Vigo is
forced to get back, he briefly possesses Ray but he is quickly slimed and
blasted. He is forced back into the
painting and is destroyed. The shell outside cracks and goes away and the
city celebrates. Also there is a new
image on the painting.
Vigo takes over Ray!
New image!
My Take: (Spoilers
here too!) Yes, I rated it a five.
Remember it is a five point scale not a one hundred. If I rated on a hundred point scale the
original would have had a ninety-nine where this one would have been an eighty-five. I think this is great
movie. An interesting point about this movie is how it is perceived. In my experience opinions of this movie is
almost dependent on how old you were when it came out. Very similar to the movie Hook, people who were young when it came
out tend to like it where people who were older tend to criticize it more.
The
main criticism of this movie is that it isn’t as good as the first one. I agree with that as I stated on a one
hundred point scale I would rate fourteen points lower. Even as a kid if you asked me which was
better I would say the first one. I
think however that criticism is unfair.
Ghostbusters was one of the all-time classic movies; most films, even one of
its own franchise, won’t equal it. This film deserves to be judged on its own
merits. This also the position I hold to
the movie that is coming out this year.
The
second criticism it gets is one I never really understood and it is “what was
the need for a second Ghostbusters movie?”
My response to that is simply was there a need to for first one? Why do movies need needs? I suppose if a film ends on a cliff hanger
another film is needed but why must this be a prerequisite? As a young kid, at this point with the first film
and the TV series, I had watch a hundred Ghostbusters' adventures. There was always a new one on Saturday
mornings why not have another live action one?
I
remember first seeing the trailer for this in the preview section of some other
movie I was seeing with my family. It’s
telling that I didn’t remember the movie I was seeing that day just the
Ghostbusters trailer. I was so excited
that they were doing another live action Ghostbusters movie. I wasn’t able to see the first one in
theaters because I was only three[1],
but I would be able to see this one.
One
morning I remember my mother calling me into my parents' bedroom
because they had something to tell me.
My father was taking me to see Ghostbusters II! It was a dream come true, I was going to see
the Ghostbusters in the theaters. So
this movie will always be somewhat special to me. As an adult I can more fairly
access the movies strengths and weakness.
They’re things l like still and things that I don’t like as much. I will discuss the things I didn’t like
before the things I do because I finish on a positive note. However, first I want to discuss how the cartoon show
influenced this film. Although the show
and it’s stories are not directly acknowledged the show clearly made an impact.
How The Real
Ghostbusters influenced Ghostbusters
II:
·The fact that there is a Ghostbusters II: With exception to Dan Aykroyd; Ramis, Reitman,
and Murry all saw the first Ghostbusters movie as one shot. The very existence of the cartoon lead to
pressure from the studio to create the new movie.
·Terminology: The first Ghostbusters movie never used the
phrases such as “proton packs.” Where in this movie they use that phrase and others a
number of times.
·Music: Parts of the score in Ghostbusters
II uses is based very closely on the cartoon particularly the creepy ghost
scenes.
·Look of the characters: They had Winston clean shaven and Janine with
longer hair like in the cartoon. They
had different colored uniforms at times. At this rate they might have gone with The
Real Ghostbusters’ color coded uniforms and forced Ramis to dye his hair blonde.
Janine looking more like her Real Ghostbusters self!
This altered image was featured on this review of the same movie on the site Den of Geek!
·The story: The actually story for
Ghostbusters II was clearly inspired by two second season episodes "Beneath These Streets" and "Hard Knight's Day." Now I am saying inspired
not copied. Those are two very different
episodes but parts of each make it into the movie.
·Slimer as a good guy: Since Slimer is
their pet on the cartoon they couldn’t make him one of their catches again,
instead he is driving Louis to the main event.
Slimer is a good ghost!
Okay there are some things in
this movie that I don’t care for. As
much as I like the movie overall these parts could have been improved.
9 year old Jeremy Perron would have loved to have the Ghostbusters at his birthday party!
·The beginning: I didn’t like the start of
the movie that was “oh the poor Ghostbusters” they are out of business nobody
loves them.” That was just dumb. The whole point of a sequel is you don’t have
to learn who all these characters are again.
We already had the origin of the Ghostbusters in the first film; we
don’t need to see them become the Ghostbusters again. Also the party scene probably makes more
sense nowadays then it did then. The
Real Ghostbusters in 1989 was the most popular children’s cartoon out there. The whole "Ghostbusters are out of touch" feel
didn’t relate to the intended audience.
What is up with this? It gets strange when she starts dressing him in Egon's clothes!
·Janine should be in love with Egon and no one
else: Sorry, Louis I like you in the court room scene but the whole babysit
date thing was dumb. These two aren’t
teenagers. Was that supposed to be the
joke? I love the whole Janine is in love
with Egon but Egon is clueless as how to handle it. I heard Ramis overruled this. Harold Ramis was an artistic genius who can
never be equaled and whose loss will forever be a whole in hearts of all who
love film. But even genius can mistakes
and if it was Ramis’s idea then was his mistake. So if there is an afterlife where they review
what you did wrong while you were alive I fully expect this decision to have been mentioned. A better scene would have been a double date
with Egon and Janine with Peter and Dana. Also why is she dressing Louis in Egon’s
clothes and sending him out for? If the
guys need extra gun she should strap on the pack herself she already knows how to use one, unlike Louis.
·This symbol: Okay it is fine for the
movie poster but why is it on their jumpsuits, firehouse, car, and
advertisements? It doesn’t make
sense. The characters are somehow aware
they are in a sequel?
Now let’s get into the stuff that I
love about this movie.
·It was another Ghostbusters movie: That alone made me happy.
I was glad to have them back!
·The courtroom scene: Who doesn’t like
that court room scene?
·Vigo as villain: I thought the main bad
guy filled all the necessary perquisites to being an all-time villain for the
Ghostbusters to fight.
·The Titanic scene: “It’s better late than
never.”
Better late than never!
·The Statue of Liberty: How often since Planet of Apes has the
Statue of Liberty get trashed in various Hollywood films? Well in this movie it
kicks some serious ass!
It's ass kicking time for a symbol of America!
Now for my stray observations:
·Egon should not be allowed to work with humans.
·2016 is this year!
Well, we missed it!
·Okay is the party thing Winston’s only income?
·Did they have to drill a hole in street? Later in the movie they found their way down there just as easy.
·I have a strong suspicion that Peter Venkman is
Oscar’s biological father. I could go on
about this for an hour but don’t want to right now. And by the way Peter
already knows.
·What’s the judge’s real issue?
· "Doe! Ray! Egon!" When I was eight I thought Egon
was correct and they were shouting their names. I didn't hear Peter's "Doe."
·Why go anywhere without their packs? Much less in an underground scary place.
·How weak were these ghosts guarding the slime?
·Why does Vigo want to be a baby?
I would pick an older host!
·When saw this as a kid at the scene where the Ghostbusters were talking about getting a symbol everyone could rally around my father thought they were talking about Santa
Claus.
·Was anyone else afraid the positively charged slime was going to
wash away when Liberty was in the water?
·Okay so how did the painting of the Ghostbusters
end up under Vigo? Ghostbusters III
should have been a time travel story.
Anyway if you have never seen
Ghostbusters II I highly recommend watching it and if you have seen it you
should watch it again.
[1] I
have actually seen the first one in the theater. Years later in throw back Wednesdays at the
local theater.
"Disappointment" is the word that best describes the
fourth season of The Real Ghostbusters. In an attempt to placate to concerns that show
about a team that captures ghost might be a little too scary for younger
audiences ABC renamed the show Slimer!
And the Real Ghostbusters and created Slimer shorts to air with the main
Ghostbusters episodes that would be targeted for the younger audience.
When
the show starts the audience is now treated with a new opening segment where
Janine barely appears but all of Slimer’s supporting cast from his 15-minute
shorts do. The Slimer series caused the
show to alienate the older section of its audience and helped bring down the show's reputation. When people discuss The Real
Ghostbusters series they almost always discuss this change as the downfall. You can see it here starting around 1:10 and here at around 17:70.
To add
insult to injury the fourth season also was significantly shorter than previous
two ABC controlled seasons. They did
this because instead of making new episodes they decided just to re-air some episodes
from Seasons 1 and 2 with voices from the new voice actors Dave Coulier and Kath
Soucie dubbed over for their respective characters.
The
real shame is the reputation of the show suffered because of this season but
of the eight episodes that were produced continued to be of high quality and some of
them such as Flip Side and Poultrygiest were some of my favorite episodes of
the series. I don’t feel that the main
portion of the Season 4 deserves the juvenile reputation that it gets.
In the
end we could say that Season 4 is a lesson that teaches you should always try
to keep studio executives away from content decisions.
In
the fourth season of The Real Ghostbusters a decision was made by ABC executives
in order to ease the younger portion of the audience, for whom the main show might be often
scary, to retitle the show: Slimer! And
the Real Ghostbusters. It would now
be an hour long program that feaure a regular RGB episode along with this sub-series that focused only on
Slimer. This was worst decision made
during the franchise's run and did permanent damage to the way the show was perceived
by the general audience causing ratings to drop.
There is no getting around it the sub-series is outright terrible.
Characters are drawn very differently!
Now I know what you are
thinking, “But Jeremy this made for little kids! Of course you as an adult
don’t like it.” I want to make this known
I hated this when I was seven. At the time I was really put off by the change
in the animation. It didn’t have same
feel as the main show and it bothered me. I should point out at the same age I
was not put off by the Ghostbusters looking different from live action to animation, but everything in Slimer series bothered me. The strange thing is I like Slimer as character and always have. I thought the idea of the Ghostbusters
adopting a pet ghost was great and stated so a numerous occasions on this blog.
Let me clear about this, I know The Real Ghostbusters is a cartoon. But
not all cartoons are the same. There is
huge difference between the classical Batman: The Animated Series and Loony Toons. They are both cartoons. One is an adventure series that takes place in a universe that is close in most respects to the real world and the other is
an outrageous comedy where characters can defy gravity, space, time, and their series
own per-established rules.
The odd part is in the second season
the episode “Who Are You Calling Two-Dimensional” helps distinguish between the
two types of cartoons. In that episode the Ghostbusters were trapped in a cartoon universe and the episode kept showing common animated troupes that were not part The Real
Ghostbusters normally. Our heroes are based on the logic of a self-contained universe, which was basically a universe mostly like ours but with ghosts, where the other cartoons ignore any and all
logic on purpose. The Slimer sub-series goes ingonres they way the RGB universe works and instead is like a cartoon that features Bugs Bunny. It has characters who are supposed to be humans but have Mr.
Fantastic/Plastic Man type powers, can hide behind regular telephone poles, can
fit inside a food container, and regularly survive falls from high distances off the ground.
In the episode “It’s a Jungle Out There” a talking dog sends Slimer flying in terror to Peter for protection,
in his own show Slimer has a friend name Fred who is very human like even
wearing boxer shorts under his fur. We
see this when Fred's fur flies off when being yelled at by the giant dog, Bruzer,
later the little dog catches up with his fur.
Bruzer walks on his hind legs and uses his front ones like arms as if
Rall had returned. His owner is a super
masculine woman who has every security, nurse, and rescue job in New York City.
Slimer's main rival seemed to be a cat named
Manx, who played the Coyote to Slimer’s Road Runner. Manx would often be dropped from great heights, actually be physically flattened, and be caught in explosions. Yet he would always be fine.
I can’t stand the main villain,
Professor Dweeb and his poodle Elizabeth who behaves and acts like a person in
all but speaking ability. Dweeb is a
self-absorbed “scientist” who thinks the Ghostbusters are fakes and Slimer
needs to be caught. Dweeb is well named
but that is it.
Dweeb and Elizabeth
The only character emerging from this
series that I liked was the singing ice cream truck driver Chilly Copper. The idea of Slimer befriending an ice cream
truck driver is something that would be very consistent with the character. Her warm personality would bring a nice
presence to the show.
Dog with a job!
So the main question is this. Is any part of this cartoon salvageable with
main series? The answer is yes but only
in a very disturbing way. All the main
Slimer characters that were created for the subseries are ghosts but they are ghosts who aren’t aware they're dead.
This would explain why they can disappear behind small objects and can
change their overall shape. Not to
mention survive impossible things.
Summary: At a
local construction site there is a strange hole that has appeared in the ground. Most of
the workers want to call in the Ghostbusters but their chief, Edward Zeddemore
wants to the crew to fill it themselves. At the
firehouse it seems that all the Ghostbusters are missing something and as they
continue to look for their lost property the more things go missing. At one point they see Peter’s shoes walking
around by themselves.
Edward Zeddemore tries to seal the hole.
The
Ghostbusters get the call and Egon elects to stay behind to monitor the energy
build up the city has been getting exposed to.
As they head toward the site parts of Ecto-1 start to fly off. When they get there Edward rejects his son's team and tries to close the magic hole by himself. Both he
and his son get sucked in so Peter and Ray (with Slimer) drive Ecto-1 in after
them.
The Collector
Peter
and Ray end up in the dimension of all lost things. Their proton packs aren’t
working in this dimension but they continue to look for Winston.
Winston and his dad are in a jail cell going over their differences and
trying to escape. Things get easier as
most of New York City fills the dimension along with Ghostbusters' firehouse. Egon and
Janine show up with adapters for the proton packs.
Winston learned some tricks from his dad!
They find the castle where the Collector, ruler of the dimension, is hiding out. Slimer sneaks in
and frees Winston and his father. They
all confront the Collector in his throne room and find out that he is looking
for a key. It turns out 10,000 years ago
he fought ghosts like they did and one imprisoned him here. The Collector can't leave but can summon things to him, so he has been gradually swiping things from the world looking for his key. Turns out
Winston and his Dad had the key all along so they give it to him. Now that the Collector has his freedom he returns everything to normal. The
Ghostbusters spend the last moments of the episode looking at their old, but newly found, stuff.
My Take: When Winston Zeddemore was hired in the movie he made it clear that he was just in it for the pay check. He also states in several episodes that he didn’t believe in ghosts before taking the job.
This episode deals with the disappointed relative who thinks their loved
one is making a full of themselves. Like
the episode Cry Uncle, I have a hard time dealing with the skeptical family
members who don’t believe in ghosts. In
the Ghostbusters’ universe ghosts are real.
They are so real that the Ghostbusters have a fairly profitable business
taking care of them. So profitable they can be the victim of corporate espionage. I would rather have
had Winston’s dad Edward be upset that his son didn’t follow in his footsteps
than be upset because of his disbelief.
Now for
my stray observations:
·Okay so this is where all the lost stuff
went? So where is my lost stuff
now? The Collector left.
·10,000 really?
What type of ghost hunter could he have been in the caveman years?
·Slimer and the hot dog stand was a funny scene.
·Slimer can change color? Really?
·So what happened with the Containment Unit when
the firehouse was relocated?
Summary: At a
toxic waste site a strange creature attacks those doing the dumping. While at the firehouse Winston is preparing
Ecto-1 for a classic car show and yells at Slimer for eating in the car. The
call from the city dump is taken and the Ghostbusters head for the job, with
Winston reminding everyone to check their boots. When they get there they both look for the
ghost and try to guilt the workers for having a toxic waste site at the city
dump. They find and battle the ghost but
it escapes by possessing Ecto-1. With
the PKE meter having shorted out the Ghostbusters couldn’t figure where the ghost went.
Car not acting right in the firehouse!
After a
rough ride home Slimer and Winston noticed weird things about Ecto-1 such as it
changing direction of where it was parked.
With another call the Ghostbusters once again head out but the care comes to
life, throws them out, and kidnaps Winston.
When they find him they find Ecto-1 eating Winston’s proton pack and
come to the conclusion the car ate Winston, but then they find him hiding in a
manhole. The possessed Ecto-1 had
electromagnetic field that shields it from proton blasts.
Something is wrong.
When
they finally got back to the station they using their computer and found an old
legend from the Manhattan Indians about an Earth Spirit. The computer also concluded that the Earth Spirit had been corrupted by the
pollution in the toxic waste dump.
Borrowing Janine’s car they went after Ecto-1 again that had now grown in
size and looked scary with the “No” sign losing the bar and showing a free
ghost.
Now it wants to kill us!
They
tracked it to the dump and Winston used a magnet to trap it. With the magnet the car lost its shield and
the Ghostbusters were able to get the Spirit out. The Proton streams actually cleaned the
Spirit and it turned to its original form.
Winston told the guys to stop firing because they weren’t going to trap
it. Winston apologized to the Earth
Spirit for the pollution and said that people need to do better. At the end of the episode Winston and his
fellow Ghostbusters are holding the car show 1st place trophy.
Free!
My Take: If you
grew up in the 1980s you probably remember a big anti-pollution push that often
had Native American themes. You should especially remember this long running commercial.
The problem
I have with this episode is not that I don’t think it is good to care about the environment,
it just like a lot of episodes that try to promote a cause it does a
terrible job. Star Trek is the only series I know that could do both social messages and exciting episodes well. Most the time I feel the story suffers with a writer's a
half-ass attempt to address the issue.
In this case they discuss toxic waste but they never explain what toxic
waste actually is. For example if you are
in the department store and someone knocks over a bucket of paint and it spills,
guess what that is. Many everyday
household items upon disposal become toxic waste. Winston with his car show obsession is
probably responsible for little a bit of toxic waste use himself. The Ghostbusters act with disgust at the very existence of a toxic
waste dump site, but so long as we have toxic waste we are going to need a
place to put it. So what is the
Ghostbusters’ suggestion? How we dispose
of toxic waste is a big deal but to bring up the issue with kids without even
creating a small understanding of the topic is useless. One thing is for sure is you can’t clean it
with a particle thrower.
Now for
stray observations:
·Is it just me or a car you bring to a car
show should not be your main source of business transportation?
·Don’t we bring more than one PKE meter to a job?
·Also maybe PKE scans should be standard when you
get back from a job.
