Baby
Spookums
Original
Air date September
12, 1987
Writers:
Len Janson and Chuck Menville
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
3 of 5)
Summary: During a
rare planetary alignment and a full lunar eclipse a dimensional gate way opens and a little ghost
escapes, later two bigger ghosts coming looking for it.
 |
| Finding Spookums |
The Ghostbusters are doing routine work
busting ghosts. When they got done
Ecto-1 wouldn’t start and when they went to inspect it they find the little
ghost in there. Slimer intervenes before
the guys bust the little one explaining to the Ghostbusters that it was just a
baby. They agree to bring the ghost
home.
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| Janine likes Spookums |
At the
firehouse Janine and guys fall in love with little ghost naming it “Baby
Spookums,” after a nickname Egon’s mother gave him. Little did they know that Spookums's parents
had also come through the dimensional portal and they were not happy.
 |
| Actually everyone likes Spookums |
The
Ghostbusters are later called in to deal with two large ghosts wreaking
havoc. The Ghostbusters fight them
several times at one point they end up suffering friendly fire where one
of their misses blasts Ecto-1. While
back at the firehouse Slimer is being punished for his good deed because
Spookums is causing some trouble and the blame is being directed at Slimer. Slimer starts to play the Peter role in his
own relationship with Spookums.
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| Baby Spookums can get in some trouble |
After
borrowing Janine’s car the Ghostbusters finally catch the two big ghosts. At the station Slimer has yelled at Spookums so firmly that the little ghost runs away. As the
Ghostbusters bring the catch home, Slimer listening to the trap tells the guys
that they have captured the parents of Spookums. They decided to reunite the family but when
they let the ghosts out of the trap Slimer finds that Spookums has run off.
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| Spookums looks to Slimer as a protector! |
They go
on a search and find the missing Spookums. As the eclipse was ending Egon and Winston hold the closing portal open with crowbars allowing the ghost family time to return home.
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| Family Reunion |
My Take: Over all it was a very cute episode. But the thing I think everyone wants to know after watching this episode is the voice changes. For Peter I got the feeling that somehow
Venkman had finally been introduced to some anti-depressants. He is a lot more excitable and happy now. He even seems to have developed a positive
relationship with Slimer. Although that
might just be character development the spud can only save your life so many
times before you get use to him. As
surprising as it might seem I found the change to cause very minimal reaction
from me.
Janine
however was very different. At times I
had hard time even accepting her as the same character. I really feel that even if they had to change
actresses they should still gone with a New York accent. You can argue that Dave Coulier sounds more
like Bill Murray than Lorenzo Music did, and understand the change. With LaMarche sounding very much like Ramis
and Welker doing a close, if higher pitched, Aykroyd wanting a more Murry-like sound makes
sense. But Soucie sounds nothing like
Potts, where Summer was very close.
Now for
my stray observations:
·
Didn’t they learn anything from the last time they took in a cute ghost? Hopefully
they took a few more PKE meter scans this time.
·
Despite the fact that Spookums wasn’t evil and
Victor was they both caused similar problems for Slimer.
·
Are the Spookums actually ghosts or just other
dimensional creatures?
·
Slimer has his own bed? About time!
·
Is Spookums a boy or a girl? It took me awhile to identify the mother and
father.
·
Slimer chasing off Spookums is a familiar theme
in Peter and Slimer’s relationship.
A fun episode and a good start to
the third season.
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