TEENAGE MUTANT NINGA TURTLE PARODY

Mean Green Teen Machine

Original Air date September 22, 1990

Writer: Jules Dennis

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 4 of 5)

Summary:  A trio of ghosts calling themselves the Mean Green Teen Machine show up to New York to wreak havoc and eat a lots of pizza.  At the firehouse Egon has invented a new machine that will let the Ghostbusters control their dreams and observe them on a monitor screen. 

Setting a trap for the Mean Green Teen Machine

                The Ghostbusters then get called and the spend the afternoon chasing the MGTM team around New York City and even trying to arrange an ambush on them.  They never get the ghost teens but the MGTM team gets one on the Ghostbusters.   That night as the Ghostbusters are choose their dreams using Egon's new invention.  While the Ghostbusters are in dream mode, the Mean Green Teen Machine shows up to enter and take control of the selected dreams.  They chase the Ghostbusters around in their own heads.  Slimer, who is observing the whole thing on the monitor, gets desperate and toys with the device.   This pays off and it allows all the Ghostbusters interact with each other in their dreams.  They have one last battle with the croc kids before catching them in a ghost trap.

Finding the dream machine.

                That day the Ghostbusters decided to all have hamburgers choosing to forgo pizza for now. 

Egon's dreams are boring.

My Take: As a fan of both shows I chose to take this a laugh with as opposed to laugh at type of episode.

Winston's are better.

                Now for my stray observations:

       ·         Peter dreams of being Batman and doing other things.

·         These should be Slimer’s favorite opponents.

·         What’s with the Ghostbusters shouting their own name?

·         I love the ambush they set up.  Remember what happened last time we drilled?

·         Ray as Tarzan, Peter on a game show, Winston as Captain Kirk, and Egon enjoying science. 

·         I thought the ghosts should have been more vulnerable in the Ghostbusters' dreams.

·         Since when does a dream trap equal a real one?

·         I wish they did a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover when these cartoons were both on the air.  

A fun episode but I don’t care if I ever see these villains again.