GHOSTBUSTERS VS FAIRYTALES

Once Upon a Slime

Original Air date October 10, 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 5 of 5)

Summary:  Ray is reading Slimer time bedstories out of a book of fairy tales.  Slimer, like many kids, wants Ray to keep reading even after Ray has read more than enough.  Slimer is also upset when Ray says they have to return the book back to library tomorrow.  Slimer not wanting to give up the Fairy Tales book goes and hides it under a machine that Egon and Winston are working on.  We later learn this machine is being built to stabilize unstable ghost signatures.  It works a little too well.

Slimer tries to hide book.

                The next day the Ghostbusters get a call that says a forest has sprung up in the middle of downtown.  The Ghostbusters head down with Slimer and enter the dark forest.  They come to a gingerbread house that is straight out of Hansel and Gretel.  Slimer losses his mind and starts to consume the house but it comes to life and attacks.  The Ghostbusters fight back and their proton beams destroy the house and forest very easily.

I remember this from Mortal Kombat II

                The Ghostbusters are cheered.  As they try to go home the Ecto-1 is stolen from them, by a mysterious red skinned dwarf.  Slimer figures out he is Rumpelstiltskin and tells Ray.  After Ray says his name, Rumpelstiltskin disappears.  After a running white rabbit and card soldiers passed them as they went back to fire house to find Little Bo Peep and her Sheep.  Scared Slimer quickly takes the book the library and throws it on the shelf.

Nice house!

Not so nice!

                After a bean stock grows in the middle of the city and giant eaten pieces of fruit and vegetables come crashing down.  Slimer then confessed and explained that he put book under the machine.  Egon says he can reverse what happened but he needs the book so he, Ray, and Slimer go back to the library too look for it.  Peter and Winston take the Ecto-2 and fly up the bean stock.  They are blasted with giant kid’s squirt gun and captured.  The giant kid bring them to giant dad who is about to eat them. They try to defend themselves with their proton packs only to discover that they have shorted out.

He is late!

She found her sheep.

                At this point Egon has reversed the machine's energies.  The giant disappears and Peter and Winston manage to get Ecto-2 started again before the giants’ world disappeared as well.

Where it all started: this mess and the Ghostbusters in general.

                Slimer now having enough with fairy tales is looking at a magazine with Ray that the other Ghostbusters think is an adult magazine, but it was just a magazine featuring food.

All I can think is the "off with your head song!"

My Take: This is one of those episodes that the Ghostbusters have actually caused their own problem.  They should just stick to trapping ghost because whenever they build something else trouble always happens.

About to eat Peter and Winston.

·         The scene with Egon messing up the tools was out of character.

·         The gingerbread house doesn’t stand a chance against Slimer.

·         Poor Rumpelstiltskin now everybody knows your name what good are you.

·         Good thing that evil card Queen didn’t show up with her soldiers.

·         Little Bow Peep’s sheep may have left a mess. Good thing it all disappeared.

·         When Slimer first went back to the library I was like “that’s not how you return a book!” I am glad that was addressed.

·         Uh…water doesn’t effect proton streams guys your packs should just work.  They can’t get water logged trust me on this. I will chalk it up to the strange stuff the giant world was made of.

·         So now we have a machine that will bring fictional stuff to life.  Ray has a point.  Why not a write a story how the bank wants to put one dollar for every person who lives in New York City in your bank account.  The mind stretches to imagine what you could do with this.  Bet we never see it again.

A very good episode and call out to the classical fairy tales.