SEASON 7 SUMMARY

The shortest season of the series, Season 7 consists of only four episodes.  I am not sure why this is the case.  The four episodes weren’t anything special I would say slightly under average.  One episode “Not now, Slimer” was outright terrible.  I would have thought such a short season would mean the writers would try to go out with a bang, they didn’t.  The episodes are inconsistent and not of great quality.  Only the trip to Japan was any good.  It was quite a shame.   

THE END OF AN ERA

20,000 Leagues Under the Street

Original Air date October 5, 1991

Writers: Jules Dennis and Richard Mueller

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 3 of 5)

Summary:  Peter has a nasty dream about bugs.  He hates bugs with a passion.  Unfortunately for him he is fighting an Egyptian God of Insects, Apshia, today.  Janine is shown escorting Winston to a display on ancient Egypt.  Janine is quite the Egyptologist shown to be so obsessed that she thinks she was an Egyptian Princess in your last life. 

Reign of the Bugs

                The ancient insect god comes back and starts making insects big.  The real hard part is the bugphobe Peter finds himself kidnapped by the giant insects.  Janine however remembers that the glass tip of the pyramid is the source of the god’s power and she informs the Ghostbusters and they destroy it.

Janine's unknown passion.

                Egon in the end has to explain to Peter the importance of bugs.

My Take: For the last episode of series it didn’t feel like anything special.  It makes one wonder what the point of the entire final season was.  The 7th season is the smallest of all of them yet it doesn’t seem to serve any purpose. Did they know this was their last episode or was it unexpectedly canceled? 

                Now for my stray observations:

• Since when does Janine have this much interest in academic stuff?
• Why was Janine with Winston and not her boyfriend?  To be fair she does go places with other Ghostbusters, she went to Ghostworld with Ray.  Also there wasn’t any jealousy here.
• Peter, as a scientist, should know of the importance of most insects.

 Out with a whimper.   

THE GHOSTBUSTERS IN JAPAN

Attack of the B-Movie Monsters

Original Air date September 21, 1991

Writers: Jules Dennis and Richard Mueller

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: The Ghostbusters have been summoned to Japan deal with monsters that have been attacking.  The Japanese Government goes all out even giving the Ghostbusters the Ecto-Ichi, a super advanced Ecto-1, to use in Japan.  The Ghostbusters defeat one of the monsters and then run into a young kid who knows of their origins.

Monster

                It turns out Ectoplasm has been leaking in the old studios that produced the monster movies.  This is causing a number of movie monsters to emerge in real life forcing the Ghostbusters to fight them.  The Ghostbusters need extra power to boost their packs so they can destroy the main monster, who looks a lot like Godzilla. So they go to the Japanese electrical tower that looks a lot like the Eiffel Tower.  They lose their new car in the battle but defeat the monsters.

Top Monster

My Take:  It’s a bit ironic that the Ghostbusters original animation team was in Japan.  Yet this episode was made after they were replaced, kind of sad.

                Now for my stray observations:

•       I knew when we saw that kid being picked on in the beginning, he was going to be the hero, sort of obvious.
•       Back in the 1980s there was a fear that Japan was flying miles of head of us technology wise.  Their really nice Ecto car, that was like the Back to the Future Part II DeLorean, was a symbol of that fear.
•       So mix ectoplasm with film and the characters come to life.

A fun little episode.   

MISSING THE MARK

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.

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.  

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. 

PETER’S DAD IS BACK AND RAY IS FOOLISH ENOUGH TO TRUST HIM

The Treasure of Sierra Tamale

Original Air date September 7, 1991

Writers: Jules Dennis and Richard Mueller

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 3 of 5)

Summary:  Peter’s father, Charles, shows up with a money making scheme like always.  None of the Ghostbusters are buying it save Ray; he agrees to go off to an adventure in Mexico hoping to find lost treasure.  When they get there they find a tour guide and head out to the pyramid.

The other Ghostbusters show up when Ray needs them.

                When they get to the pyramid they are attacked by Quoatles.  Ray uses a special pack that Egon gave him.  It’s a trap and proton pack in one, but can only be used a few times.  Ray uses it to trap one Quoatle while being chased by the another one.  Charles and Ray are trapped.  Their guide flees and calls in the Ghostbusters.

All together now!

                The other three Ghostbusters show up free Ray and Charles.  They find the treasure find that they came for and discover that they can’t take it because it belongs to the god Quetzalcoatl.  When they leave the guide was revealed to have been one of the Quoatles that they fought in human form.

My Take: When Peter’s Dad shows up you always know sleazy stuff is going to happen.  This time it is about finding treasure.  It ends about the same.

                Now for my stray observations:

·         Why did Ray fall for Charles’s plans?  Ray is not that dumb.

·         Okay so Ray uses this new special packless particle thrower and trap all in one, gets trapped, and when they freed him he had a traditional proton pack on!

·         Also when the big revel happens at the end why isn’t the Quoatle concerned about his captured fellow?

This was an okay episode but it wasn’t a favorite. 

SEASON 6 SUMMARY

This is it.  This is the season it started to really go downhill.  Season 4 burdened us with a new title, opening, and the dreaded Slimer subseries, but the mainstream series always continued its traditional high quality episodes.  IN Season 6 however, the quality drops in the mainstream episodes as well.

Season 6 starts strong with some decent episodes.  The first three were very good.  I really enjoyed the first episode “Janine You’ve Changed.”  Another great one was “Ghostworld.”  Yet, there are so many places were the season falls off.  Ideas are repeated but never referenced.  The show starts to sink in quality with some episodes being really weak or boring. 

                   The worst part of this season is the writers try to bring in elements from the Slimer subseries.  It was great that they had given up making more episodes of that disaster.  However you shouldn’t sink the mainstream quality with that junk.  In Season 6, we get Professor Dweeb with all his Loony Tune physics and then we also get an episode mocking that very concept. 

                Also the title sequence gets worse.  I don’t know who they had singing the classic song, but it wasn’t as good as Ray Parker.  They did thankfully restore the classic into to the end credits. The next season only had four episodes.  It’s not hard to see why.  

THIS EPISODE WASN’T NEW WHEN THEY AIRED IT!

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.

THE GHOSTBUSTERS DO A WESTERN, AGAIN

The Magnificent Five

Original Air date November 24, 1990

      

Writer: Sean Roche

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: Out in an old western town of Spittoon the townspeople are being harassed by a ghost named Bart the Black.  The townspeople are about the abandon the town but the Mayor offers a reward to someone to take care of the ghosts.  Two men step forward and they have a plan to go off to New York City to recruit the Ghostbusters.  When they arrive in the city they screw up the job the Ghostbusters are currently on.  The two are able to win the Ghostbusters' support by dropping a bag of gold in their laps.

Black Bart and friends!

                When the Ghostbusters get to town they battle Black Bart to a standstill. Egon discovers what Black Bart is after has nothing to do with gold but a power source for ghosts. The power source doesn’t work around humans.  Bart is recruiting an army of ghosts to scare all the locals off.  So in order to stop the power source from becoming active the Ghostbusters train the whole town to resist ghosts.

Improvising.

                Bart shows back up and a final battle takes place between the two sides that results in Bart going into a ghost trap.  The town is grateful but since Egon at one point said “We aren’t here for your gold."  They were paid in hats.

My Take: This was a decent episode, I only wished at one point they had mentioned their previous Western adventure. 

                Now for my stray observations:

·         So is town stuck in the 19^th century of something?

·         Those people on the bus were very convenient. 

·         One moment the locals are looking to leave town the next they don’t want outsiders!  Figure it out people.

·         Oh well Peter, at least you got that bag of gold in the beginning.  I think gold prices back then were $900 an ounce.  The hats are also nice.

A good episode but whenever Black Bart’s name was mentioned all I could think of was the Simpsons character. 

ONE OF THOSE KIND OF CARTOONS

Stay Tooned

Original Air date November 3, 1990

         

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 4 of 5)

Summary: The Ghostbusters are watching TV when Ray asks if it’s okay for him to change the channel the others tell him okay but sarcastically.  Ray doesn’t sense the sarcasm and changes the channel from the Lenny Jason Show (a parody of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show) and eventually landed on the Sammy K. Ferrert show.  An animated show about a cartoon Ferret that degrades his fictional guests, Ray thinks it’s funny and so does Slimer.  The other three Ghostbusters leave in disgust.  When reception gets bad Ray sticks the antenna outside, only to have it get stuck by lighting.  The TV starts to grow large so Ray unplugs it.

Cruel to guests! 

                The next day, Janine on her lunch break plugs in the TV and Sammy K Ferret comes to life.  He plays a number of animated tricks on the Ghostbusters that Ray finds hilarious until the last one before he took off could have killed them.  They try to find Sammy in the city and that proves not to be hard because everything he comes across becomes animated.  During the chase Ray turns into a cartoon pig and Winston a cartoon dog. 

Half of our team are cartoons.

                The Ghostbusters try to lure Sammy into a trap by creating their own comedy show.  The trap works but he again proves immune to capture.  Egon figures out that he is just an ordinary ghost and if they anger him enough he will lose his cartoon shield and be vulnerable to attack.  Egon then turns into a cartoon bird.

Final stand!

When Sammy tries to attack the Lenny Jason Show the Ghostbusters put their plan into action irritating Sammy causing him to revel his true self  allowing the Ghostbusters to catch him.  Everything turns back to normal, some things sooner than others.

My Take: This episode strongly reminded me of the Season 2 episode “Who are you calling Two-Dimensional” where the Ghostbusters also have to deal with a cartoon character come to life.  This, like the previous episode, seemed to want to draw the line between the type of cartoon the Ghostbusters are compared to ones such as Lonny Tunes or Tom and Jerry.  Unfortunately, the message is lost on a season that continues to try and reincorporate elements of the dreaded Slimer subseries into the mainstream TV show.

                Now for my stray observations:

·         Like the creators of South Park I don’t feel there should be a limit to comedy.  In a comedy house prepare to be offended.  Yet I also expect it to be smart and cleaver but Sammy was just dumb.

·         Considering the way he was acting I didn’t feel sorry for Ray when he turned into a pig.

·         Why are they using an antenna?  Don’t they have satellite or cable?

·         Good way to get electrocuted guys. 

A generally decent episode. 

THE VAMPIRE OF GHOSTS

My Left Fang

Original Air date September 29, 1990

Writer: Sean Roche

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 5 of 5)

Summary: The Ghostbusters arrive in a small German town only to find that Slimer the Ghost is more popular than them.  This is the strangest case the Ghostbusters have ever had.  They were being asked by the townspeople not to catch the ghosts but find out what has been happening to their local ghosts.   The Ghostbusters are welcome by all, except their diver Boris.

Need to get a new driver.

                Boris and his co-worker Frau Schweinkiller are to look after the Ghostbusters while they stay at the local castle, but also, it seems, to mislead them.  Then a vampire shows up and chases Slimer but the Ghostbusters were able to force the vampire to retreat.  Upon investigation they discover a community of the missing ghosts who have been stripped of all their slime and therefore powerless.

The German Ecto-1

                The Ghostbusters battle the vampire again and this time he drains Slimer, and he was able to destroy Ray’s garlic and stakes.  Egon notes that vampires fear sunlight but not other forms of light, and concludes that ultraviolet is their weakness.  The rig their packs to blast ultraviolet light and destroy the vampire.   They are able to save the slime the vampire stole and use it to restore Slimer and the local ghosts.

Broken Ghosts

My Take: The Ghostbusters have dealt with vampires before, first a town of them and then a retired one.  This one is a great concept: a vampire of ghosts.  I knew the Count Von Blukenporken was doomed the moment he touched Slimer however.

                Now for my stray observations:

•         I would have never got in the car with Boris.
•        Why didn’t they use this as an opportunity to clean out their Containment Unit?
•        After those traps in the castle I would have found a different place to sleep.
•        Was it Slimer that made the “No” sign change itself?
•        Actually Ray figured out how to alter the packs for artificial sun light the first time they took down a vampire.  Sorry continuity points.

A really good episode one that I remember from childhood. 

MEET LOUIS’S NEPHEW

Busters in Toyland

Original Air date November 17, 1990

Writers: Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley

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:  Louis Tully has a spoiled nephew named Lawrence who they are throwing a birthday party for at the Ghostbusters station.  They day before a clock repairman fixed an old clock at the toy store.  That clock then opened a portal that caused the toys to be possessed.  At his party Lawrence is being a jerk and wants to skip all the parts of the party he finds boring and go straight to the presents.  When he opens the presents, he says he has all of them and throws them down.

Lawrence Tully and the only toys he likes.

                The only present he likes are the toys his uncle got for him and those come to life and take him away.  The Ghostbusters follow and find the clock tower.  It turns out the dimension is hollow of all but illusion and the demon Lothgar is trapped here until someone agrees to take his place.  He almost converts Lawrence until the Ghostbusters come and rescue him.  They escape in the nick of time and Lawrence sees the error of his ways and decides not to be a jerk anymore.

Rescue mission.

My Take: I wasn’t a big fan of this episode.  It focuses on a character I don’t care about with an adventure that was very mundane.

                Now for my stray observations:

·         Why are the Ghostbusters going out of their way for this kid in the start of an episode?  $50 is not that much.

·         Lawrence’s parents must be crap, I feel sorry for Louis for having to grow up with such a brother.

·         Lothgar wanted out of his domain, but really how bad was it?  He had the power to make anything he wanted a reality.  Seems like an easy going place to me.

This one was a snoozer.

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. 

THE GHOSTBUSTERS HAVE THEIR OWN VERISON OF WACKY RACES

Afterlife in the Fast Lane

Original Air date October 20, 1990

Writer: Tony Marino

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 5 of 5)

Summary:  The Ghostbusters are doing a race for charity with each Ghostbuster and Slimer diving a car of his own design, save for Winston who is driving his favorite Ecto-1.  Of course the race gets high jacked by a ghost called the Phantom who has his own agenda .

On your mark, get set, go!

                The Phantom transports the Ghostbusters to his own little world to run a series of games in his creation to test and he hopes destroy the Ghostbusters.  While this is going on Janine and Louis are trying to find a way to bring them back home by randomly going through Egon’s inventions.

Most cars didn't survive!

                The race goes on and each one of the Ghostbusters’ special cars are destroyed leaving only Ecto-1 and barely that.  Janine and Louis finally figure out the right device that opens a portal allowing Ecto-1 to escape through.   The race is declared a tie and all winners’ charities receive equal amounts.

Yeah, Ghostbusters!

My Take:  To be fair I may have been satisfied if the episode focus on the race of the Ghostbusters without any supernatural stuff going on. 

                Now for my stray observations:

• The uniforms remind me of the uniforms the new Ghostbusters will be wearing in the 2016 movie tomorrow. 
• Before the Phantom reveled himself I was going to guess the Player.
• Janine and Louis got lucky with their Russian Roulette game of pick the right device.
• The Phantom should have lost his hand.

A fun little episode. 

THE GHOSTBUSTERS GO ON VACATION AND FORGET HOW TO THINK

Guess What's Coming to Dinner

Original Air date October 27, 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 1 of 5)

Summary:  When the Ghostbusters are on vacation a family of ghosts moves in and redecorates.  They throw out all the Ghostbusters' equipment out because they don’t understand why someone would have so many leaf blowers.

Using a leaf blower!

                When the Ghostbusters get back they get in an argument with the ghost about who owns the place, but there is little the Ghostbusters can do because they left all their equipment at home.  Since the dad ghost told them they threw away their stuff, the Ghostbusters go to the junk yard to find it.  When they get back the Containment Unit is starting to come apart and ghosts are getting out.

When you start letting things out of the Containment Unit.

                After a final confrontation the Ghostbusters finally fix the Containment Unit and the family agrees to leave after Egon saved the ghost boy from having his ghost form turned inside out.  

My Take: How often do the Ghostbusters go on vacation and whether they’re on a farm, in the wilderness, or at Mount Rushmore they end up running into ghosts.  So why would they go somewhere and not bring at least three or four proton packs with them?  I am rolling my eyes the entire episode.       

                Now for my stray observations:

•       Okay ghosts have a system where they sell houses to haunt?  Don’t they do research?  Wouldn’t they know who the Ghostbusters are?
•       People trying to take over someone’s house when they go on vacation is a real life problem.  Don’t read about it unless you want to get mad.
•       Why didn’t the more powerful ghosts make a run for it when the Containment Unit was open?
•        Also a group comes to firehouse takes over the place, nearly destroys the Containment Unit and Ghostbusters let them go?  Why, so they can take over someone else’s house?  These are problem ghosts that you shouldn’t feel bad busting.

One of the bad episodes.

THE GHOSTBUSTERS ARE BACK IN SPACE

Spacebusters

Original Air date September 22, 1990

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 4 of 5)

Summary: Peter and Winston are on the job but Winston keeps messing it up to check his beeper, until Peter gets so frustrated he destroys it.  The next day Winston is accepted to NASA as a civilian adviser.  The Ghostbusters are thrilled for their long time member who gets to return to space.

Happy to see Winston not dead!

                The three Ghostbusters, Slimer, and Janine all watch the space mission from TV only to see one of the astronauts get absorbed by a ghost.  The screen goes blank so the remaining Ghostbusters head to NASA to help Winston.  When their shuttle gets them to the space station they find a bunch of empty space suits but Winston is okay.  The alien has been absorbing the crew and Winston was only saved by the PKE meter.

The ghost from space!

                The Ghostbusters hunt for the ghost and Slimer gets a pet mouse. The Ghostbusters are limited to where they can blast because of the hull.  This limitation allows the ghost to absorb Ray and Egon.  Peter and Winston are informed by Slimer that the creature wants to lower the station down so it will be destroyed in the atmosphere allowing the ghost will escape.  Peter and Winston finally get the ghost in a place where they can blast it.  They force it to release all the people, while Slimer short circuits the system stopping the decline.  The Ghostbusters then to trap the ghost.

Slimer hanging out!

My Take: Well the Ghostbusters second space adventure wasn’t really as good as the first.  The space crew didn’t show us anything, what happened the Star Trek parody people?

Now for my stray observations:

·         I thought it was odd their previous space adventure wasn’t even mentioned.  Winston and Ray were awfully excited for people who had done this before.

·         I honestly thought Slimer was going to eat the mouse before it became his pet.

·         The Ghostbusters can’t be destructive, this time it costs them too.

·         It was actually the moose that saved the day.

·         Yeah it was good Jack Nicholson impersonation.

In space no one can hear you call.