OH NO, PLEASE NO

The Slob

Original Air date October 6, 1990

Writers: Pamela Hickey and Dennys McCoy

Director: Raymond Jafelice

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 2 of 5)

Summary: It’s a heat wave and a garbage strike so it’s hot and everything smells.  Dweeb, Slimer’s archenemies from his own sub-series attacks the firehouse trying to capture Slimer. After the Ghostbusters chase him off Dweeb runs into Glob, a ghost and the older brother of a captured ghost named Sleez who was the main villain in the Slimer episode “Don’t Tease the Sleeze.”  The two resolve to team up.

Glob

                The next day Glob attacks the Ghostbusters and captures Slimer while the Dweeb breaks Sleeze out of the Containment Unit.  When the brothers unite Sleeze expresses his desire to keep Slimer and the two brothers turn on Dweeb.  They also revel a power that allows them combine into one superghost called Slob.  They are now too powerful for the Ghostbusters to catch.  

Sleez

                The Ghostbusters team up with Dweeb and trick the brother ghosts into separating and captured the brothers.  Now both disgusting ghosts are in the Containment Unit.

The Brothers vs Dweeb, cheer for the meteor 

My Take: Rolling my eyes during this episode.  There really should have been an established rule that anything that starts in the Slimer sub-series stays there with all its characters, Loony Toon physics, and Containment Unit peep holes, so that it never effects mainstream continuity.  Write the whole thing off as Slimer’s dream.  Actually, the Slimver sub-series never should have happened anyway.  So I was less than pleased to have not one but two characters from there trying to follow up one of the Slimer episodes.  I know the reason they stuck the entire Slimer subseries for the last two DVDs, they didn’t want people to quit watching after volume 4. Although that decision clearly created continuity issues.

                Now for my stray observations:

·         The one thing that would have saved this episode for me is for Dweeb and his dog Elizabeth to have been revealed as ghosts and placed in the Containment Unit with the other two.  How else do you explain Dweeb’s shrunken head and ability to fit into a bird cage?

·         Too bad Janine was on vacation she could have walked around the office in her bikini again.

·         I’m sorry but neither Sleeze, Glob, nor Slob should be giving the Ghostbusters that much of a hard time.

·         I wonder if that sugar trick would really work?

Boo! Hiss! Anything to do with the Slimer sub-series.