Deja Boo
Original
Air date October 13, 1990
Writers:
Michael Reaves,Chuck Menville, Richard Mueller, 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: The loser Dweeb captures Slimer using one of
his devices. He then uses a machine to
look into Slimer’s brain. This causes
him (and the audience) to watch old Ghostbusters episodes. At the end Slimer captures Dweeb in his own
device.
My Take: In the
classic Star Trek episode “the Menagerie” Mr. Spock kidnaps the former
Captain of the Enterprise, Christopher Pike, who had been hurt worse than
Christopher Reeve was in real life.
During his court-martial Mr. Spock showed a video that was actually the
pilot episode “The Cage.” This was done by the writers to put the events of the unaired pilot
into the mainstream continuity of the series.
This however is a clip episode, a popular device in the 80s and
90s. These were usually at the end of a season to remind the view of all the great episodes that they had that
season. These could on occasion be
rewarding, showing continuity throughout the series. Also in the era before ondemand if you forgot to tape something then you were out of luck to summer reruns. A clip episode could catch you up on important events.
This however was in poor quality. First,
it involved that loser Dweeb from the horrible Slimer subseries. Any episode with Dweeb is usually a wasted
episode. The second is every one of these
episodes were from Season 3. That was
three seasons ago. It’s almost like an
admission that they have run out of ideas, since many episodes in this season were repeated concepts. This was a bad way to close out a weak
season.
