Halloween
II ½
Original
Air date October
31, 1987
Writer:
Richard Mueller
Director:
Charles Grosvenor
Main
Cast:
- Dave
Coulier as Peter Venkman
- Frank
Welker as Raymond Stantz
- Maurice
LaMarche as Egon Spengler
- Arsenio
Hall as Winston Zeddemore
- Kath
Soucie as Janine Melnitz
- Frank
Welker as Slimer
(Rating
5 of 5)
Summary: The
Junior Ghostbusters are out trick-or-treating with Slimer, with the spud
shutting down some houses. They run into
a pair of goblins who Slimer immediately recognizes as goblins but the Junior
Ghostbusters think they’re just kids with good costumes. They track them to the firehouse and follow in after them. The firehouse is dark when they enter it. Larger goblins
appear and the Junior Ghostbusters are scared, but then it turns out it just
the Real Ghostbusters and Janine in costumes playing a joke on them.
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| Junior Ghostbusters playing trick or treat! |
It turns out the Ghostbusters are just having a
large Halloween party with lots of guests and everyone seems to be having a
good time but Slimer notices the goblins again and they are headed to the room
with the Containment Unit. Slimer
informs the Junior Ghostbusters who go down to see the Goblins playing with the
Unit so they leave to get the Ghostbusters.
The Ghostbusters are told but the alarm is already going off and when
they reach the Containment Unit, Pumpkin head (sorry) Samhain has already broken out.
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| The Ecto-Junior |
The
Ghostbusters with Slimer, Janine, and the Junior Ghostbusters all take off in
the Ecto-1 as the firehouse is transformed to the Headquarters of Pumpkin
head Samhain (my bad). The Ghostbusters drop off the Junior
Ghostbusters and tell them to stay put and of course they don’t. They jump into Ecto-Junior and have their own
little adventure chasing goblins and throwing pumpkins.
This lasted until Pump Samhain (sorry) himself captured them.
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| Slimer being sneaky. |
The
Ghostbusters are making plans and Egon already sees a weakness in Pumpkin
head’s (oops)Samhain's set up, but he just needs to find the key stone and Egon could reverse
everything. They send in Slimer with a
mini-camera to do a layout. Slimer finds
both the Keystone and the captured children.
When the Ghostbusters arrive Pum Samhain (my mistake) threatens the children unless
the adults surrender. Slimer however
causes a distraction and draws Pumpkin head’s Samhain's ghost army. The Ghostbuster used they’re large Ecto-1
cannon and their lights to both destroy the keystone and damage Pumpkin
head Samhain. Slimer helped the Juinor
Ghostbusters escape. As Pumpkin head Samhain was sucked back into the Containment Unit the firehouse returned to normal.
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| Last stand for a Pumpkin! |
My Take: Well the
return of one of the all-time bad guys: Pumpkin head Samhain (I keep getting that wrong). This time, instead transforming other places in New York to begin his empire, he creates his fortress from the Ghostbusters own headquarters. Although he is not the first ghost to force them out he was the first one to do it in style.
Now for
my stray observations:
·
Where are the parents of the Junior
Ghostbusters?
·
Having a Halloween episode on Halloween is a
great idea.
·
Halloween is the best time for ghosts and
goblins: no one thinks it is really them.
·
When Slimer saw them mess with the Containment
Unit why is he going to the Junior Ghostbusters with this information?
·
I love Peter’s line when Pumpkin head Samhain asked if
they thought they could contain him forever. “Yes, we thought we could.”
·
Why did only Pumpkin head escape? Was he waiting by the hatch? Somehow coordinated with the outside? What about the powerful ghosts such Ghash,
Wat, the Boogieman? Did Pumpkin head Samhain somehow dispose of them?
·
Hold on! Slimer can make people go intangible by
putting slime on them? Has he always
been able to do this?
This was a great sequel episode and
connection to the first season.
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