SLIMER HAS A TWIN

Trading Faces

Original Air date September 16, 1989    

 

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
• Buster Jones as Winston Zeddemore
• Kath Soucie as Janine Melnitz
• Frank Welker as Slimer
• Rodger Bumpass as Louis Tully

(Rating 4 of 5)

Summary: Somewhere in the netherworld a Slimer-like ghost is off stealing candy from a ghost baby.  However that ghost baby had big brothers who decided to pound the Slimer-look-a-like so the little green ghost decided to flee.

Slimer and Louis playing cards.

                At the firehouse Janine just got an antique mirror in a yard sale and shows it to Lewis and Slimer.  What none of them know is that mirror is actually a portal to the netherworld.  Bad Slimer uses the mirror portal to escape from the netherworld to our world.  When Slimer encounters him the bad ghost forces Slimer through the portal, and when Louis walks in on their fight Bad Slimer forces Louis through the portal as well.  Evil Slimer then paints the mirror black, closing the portal, and then throws the mirror in the trash.  Slimer and Louis spend the rest of the episode trying to avoid Bad Slimer’s enemies.

Sent to Ghost world by bad Slimer.

                At the firehouse Peter and Egon notice “Slimer” misbehaving rather forcefully and Louis is missing. Peter checks the security cameras to see when Louis left, he sees everything that had happened and tells Egon.  They then bust the false Slimer and travel to the dump with PKE meters to find the mirror. Peter, Egon, and Janine dig through the trash.  After a short while they find the mirror, open the portal, and rescue Louis and Slimer.  Afterward the mirror is destroyed closing the portal.    

My Take: Slimer having a twin is a great idea.  After all is he a type of ghost?  And if so how many more like him are there?  The Evil Slimer also reminded me a lot of how Slimer was portrayed like in the first film.  There was part of me that thought maybe this was the movie Slimer than I remembered the episode “Citizen Ghost.”

                Now for my stray observations:

• Those security cameras are convenient; especially when only have a fifteen minute episode.  Could have used them in the Copy Cat episode.
• First episode without all four Ghostbusters. 
• Slimer is strong enough to carry a human, food for thought.

A good Slimer episode.