Not Now,
Slimer!
Original
Air date September 14, 1991
Writers:
Len Janson and Chuck Menville
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 episode begins with Slimer interrupting
all the Ghostbusters and destroying one of Egon’s experiments. Slimer gets yelled at and goes off to
pout. The Ghostbusters get called to a job. When the Ghostbusters get there
they end up fighting a powerful ghost that they have chase around the entire city. It
turns out that this ghost is the very incarnation of the anger of all the
ghosts captured in the Containment Unit.
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| Slimer made a mess! |
Slimer
spends the episode being chased by Dweeb until the big ghost shows up and
drives him away. Slimer and the
Ghostbusters unite to defeat the main super ghost.
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| Super Ghost |
My Take: In an earlier episode the Ghostbusters
encounter the ghost of Sherlock Holmes, who was a fictional character, this was
explained by the concept of beliefs made manifest. In the same nature the Ghostbusters in this
episode encounter a powerful ghost who was brought to life from the anger of
the ghosts captured in the Containment Unit.
Unfortunately instead of focusing on this very interesting concept the
episode wastes half its run time with another encounter with villain Dweeb. Yes, it was that bad.
Now for
my stray observations:
·
When the ghost first attacks the old folks home Peter states how he hates it when ghosts take advantage of old people. But considering ghosts were once people how
do they know a haunting at an old folks home isn’t a welcoming committee?
·
I am assuming that the left over ghost matter is
what made the Ghostbusters not die when they fell from such a height.
This episode was very
disappointing.
