Three Men
and an Egon
Original
Air date October
7, 1989
Writer:
Joe S. Landon
Director:
Charles Grosvenor
Main
Cast:
- Dave
Coulier as Peter Venkman
- Frank
Welker as Raymond Stantz
- Maurice
LaMarche as Egon Spengler
- Buster
Jones as Winston Zeddemore
- Kath
Soucie as Janine Melnitz
- Frank
Welker as Slimer
- Rodger
Bumpass as Louis Tully
(Rating
4 of 5)
Summary: The
Ghostbusters are fighting a ghost in a shop with clocks in it and Egon gets
blasted with the ghost and a clock. Egon
seems to be an okay but the ghost gets away.
The Ghostbusters head back thinking everything is fine.
 |
| Okay this isn't good. |
The
next day however Egon has de-aged to a teenager who is now listening to load
music and has invented a anti-pimple machine.
As they day goes on he gets younger and as a small child he invents a
water balloon launcher that he uses to chase away some investors that Louis had invited to
deal with their shrinking finance.
 |
| The Clock Ghost. |
They
need to find the ghost and a clock to reverse the effect before midnight where
Egon will disappear. By the time they
find the ghost however they find that it is aging. They still trust Egon to run
the trap but that backfires as he de-ages to a young baby.
 |
| Now we have a problem. |
The
Ghostbusters now have to deal with the burdens of taking care of a baby, which
includes diaper changing, and trying to find the ghost. At one point still-genius-as-a-baby Egon
builds himself a ladder and crawls onto the Ghostbusters sign. They rescue him but then he is kidnapped by
the ghost. They track the ghost to a
clock tower and are able to undo the damage in the nick of time. Egon is restored and the Ghostbusters have a
tale to tell him. Later it is discover
Egon can still communicate directly with babies.
My Take: Poor
Egon last season he was turned into a giant chicken and now this! How will the guys ever look at him the same
way again? I had a hard time determining
if this was Egon being made young or was Egon just turning into an earlier
version of himself. I would assume it
was the former because he didn’t look for his parents nor ask the Ghostbusters
who they were. Yet, he didn’t seem to
understand who he was and why he was there either.
Now for my stray observations:
·
They actually let Janine have a day off? I guess now that we have Louis she can do that more often.
·
Louis raises a very good issue about money and
investors. I always thought that the
Ghostbusters should sell to someone who can understand the money issues so they
could focus on the ghosts.
·
Last I checked a human who gets hit with a full
proton blast should either die or end up missing some major body parts. Yet Egon just gets stunned before the age
reversal.
·
Why bring child Egon on the Ghostbuster mission?
·
That diaper changing scene if I remember
correctly didn’t a similar scene happen in movie Three Men and Baby. (Whose title this episode is clearly parodying.)
·
Why are you posing for pictures and playing with
the baby when Egon only has until midnight?
·
You’re leaving him with Slimer? To be fair Slimer was okay until it came to
feeding time.
·
Why have Slimer stretch to get Egon? HE CAN FLY!!!!
·
I love that Ray tried to chat with Egon while he
was still hanging on for dear life.
·
When he was turned into a were-chicken, he
wanted to know why he was randomly standing around in only his boxer shorts yet
now, he doesn’t seem to care that he is
in a strange place wearing only a diaper.
·
If Egon doesn’t believe them why don’t they show
him the picture they took?
No comments:
Post a Comment