SEASON 5 SUMMARY

          

               So Season 5 of The Real Ghostbusters was different in many ways from the earlier seasons.  It was longer than any of the other ABC seasons with a total of 21 episodes.  They were in this season still using the one hour format from the rebranding to Slimer! And The Real Ghostbusters in the previous season.  Instead of Slimer shorts they wisely chose to simply have bonus 15-mintue extra episodes.

                One of the things I have learned from this series over all is you can do a lot of storytelling in a twenty-five minutes.  This season really shows what you can do with only fifteen minutes.   However season does have a lot of ups and downs.  There are some episodes that I could recall from childhood such as “It’s about Time” and “Venk-Man.”  There are also some lows such as “Slimer’s Curse” and “Til Death do us Part” that were terrible.  Then there is the “Halloween Door” which honestly I didn’t know what to think.

              They chose to stay with the opening theme from the previous season with exception to the Halloween special that had its own intro that you can see in the video above.  Also in these videos is the only musical numbers the Ghostbusters have ever done.  At least I don’t remember any others.

                Season 5 ranks as an overall positive for me.  The addition of Louis Tully as a continuing character is a huge plus.  If only he could be more persuasive with the Ghostbusters about their regular financial situation.  But maybe they wouldn’t be the Ghostbusters if they knew how to handle money.          

GHOSTBUSTERS DEALING WITH ANOTHER GHOST ON A TRAIN

Slimer Streak

Original Air date December 16, 1989

Writers: Pamela Hickey and Dennys McCoy

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 5 of 5)

Summary: Winston is playing with his train set and trying to get Slimer to keep it clean.  Then the call came in, and the guys head out.  When they arrive at the Madison Square Garden they find that it is gone and the old Penn Station is standing.  As they go in they find a train.  They enter through the caboose and find a ghost who identifies himself as The Player.  The Player wants to challenge the Ghostbusters, who try to use their packs to no effect.  The Player says that he has games planned for them and if they fail they would be trapped in the ghost world for eternity.

This wasn't here before.

                The first challenge was a game of tag against a creature born to play it.  They fooled that creature by playing tag amongst themselves until the creature asked to join and was tagged.  The second was a giant pinball machine Winston was able to win this one with an assist from Slimer.  The third was a slot machine.  They all tried and failed time was running out.  Then Peter guessed from a phrase The Player used that Slimer was the answer.  This was correct.

The Player's challenge

                They Player swore he would return but he did leave and everything returned to normal. 

  

Heading to the Ghostworld before Slimer saved the day!

My Take:  As a season final this wasn’t bad.  The Player was arguably the most powerful villain they have ever faced.  His abilities reminded me of Star Trek’s Q or Superman’s Mr. Mxyzptlk as a seemingly all-powerful being who just wants to play with the heroes.

Now for my stray observations:

·         Now I thought it was established that Peter was the train enthusiast not Winston.

·         Some ghosts their packs aren’t effective but that was the first time that happened.

·         I noticed Slimer didn’t try to eat Winston’s train.

·         This character deserves a longer story arc.

This episode was a great introduction to a new villain and a great way to end the season. 

PETER BECOMES A SUPER-HERO

Venk-Man!

Original Air date November 18, 1989

Writer: Richard Mueller

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 5 of 5)

Summary: Egon is testing some equipment out on Slimer while Peter is off working out trying to get a beach body.  While both projects are going on an accident with the exercise equipment flings Peter through the air to land on Egon’s experiment.  As a result Peter is blasted with the strange energy from the equipment.  Peter feels okay at first, then weird, then he hulks out growing more massive and turns into a super human.  Peter at first is just happy to have a killer beach body but soon learns he can fly!

You have a choice you can either work hard or get your to build a device that turns you into a superhero!

                The Ghostbusters get a call and Peter uses his super-strength and invulnerability to catch the ghost revealing his superpowers to the world.  He starts calling himself "Venk-man" and makes himself a superhero suit.  The rest of the Ghostbusters talk him into taking Slimer as his sidekick and they battle crime as Venk-man and Super-Spud.  Peter and Slimer have a really good superhero career going with all the fame that comes with it.  However all of that ends when Peter’s powers fade mid-mission, as Egon said they would.  The Ghostbusters rescue their comrade and Peter apologizes for being a jerk who got drunk with power.  The team forgives him.

My Review:  So this episode explores the group dynamics of when one member of your group goes on to transform into a superhero.  While there are many things can occur under these circumstances I think the episode misses the giant elephant in the room.  That elephant is the question: what is more important someone turning into a superhero or someone inventing a device that can turn another person into a super hero?

                Now for my stray observations:

·         Slimer again proving himself useful by volunteering for their tests.

·         Peter getting his powers was very similar to the show my Secret Identity that was on air at the same time.

·         Why wasn’t there adventure with Captain Steel mentioned in this episode?

·         I thought Ray was a little out of character not getting excited about the whole Super hero concept.

·         Slimer is very strong but not strong enough to carry weakened Peter.

·         Why didn’t Peter try to get blasted again after his powers faded?  Why not Ray?  Why not anyone who found out?

·         How many people knew how Venk-man got his powers?

·         Super-spud.

A real fun episode even if it left a lot of plot threads. 

SLIMER FORGETS TRAPS AREN’T TOYS

Loose Screws

Original Air date November 25, 1989

Writers: Pat Allee and Ben Hurst

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: Slimer is playing “Ghostbusters” with a self-made toy proton pack.  Then he finds a real trap.  He plays with the trap and breaks it.  He tried to fix it and seems to, but there is a missing screw.  Then the alarm rings and Slimer brings the broken trap when Peter orders him to.  Slimer doesn’t let the guys know it is missing a screw.  When busting a ghost they order Slimer to throw the trap.

Slimer playing ghostbuster

Need to fix the broken trap.

                As the Ghostbusters drive home the trap is leaking and the ghost siphons off pieces of itself to animate several objects such as stop signs and parking meters.  As they get home the trap does more damage turning all of Janine’s items on her desk against her.  The worst part is the Containment Unit gets affected and starts spitting out ghosts.  Egon alters a particle thrower to restore the Containment Unit normal.

Too late! Job to do.

And now the Containment Unit is alive.

                When the threat eliminated Slimer is made to vow that he will never play with the ghostbuster equipment again.  Then they all the all clean the station as a family.

Cleaning time, Slimer's reward.

My Take: A nice small episode involving everyone’s favorite green ghost.  Considering the Ghostbusters tend to treat Slimer like he is a kid maybe they should have spoken one of their own for leaving a trap just lying around. 

                Now for my stray observations:

•        Don’t the traps come with gauges?  They should have been able to tell something was wrong.
•        Gee, these little ghosts get a lot more powerful when they are split into pieces.
•        Why wasn’t the Ecto-1 possessed again?
•        Well the Ghostbusters were very destructive this week, I bet they don't tell the city who is responsible.
•       Okay how does the part of a little ghost take control of the entire Containment Unit that is there for the purpose of containing ghosts?  There are a lot more powerful ghosts on the inside.

Poor little Slimer, all you wanted to do was play Ghostbusters! 

IF ALL YOUR ASSISTANTS FAIL YOU SHOULD CATCH THE GHOSTBUSTERS YOURSELF

Revenge of the Ghostmaster

Original Air date December 9, 1989

Writer: Richard Mueller

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 5 of 5)

Summary: The Ghostmaster General arrives on Earth and assaults some punks.  Then he turns his attention to the Ghostbusters.  The next morning Slimer wakes up to discover he overslept because his alarm clock isn’t working.  He goes into the bathroom to discover nothing is working either, although it does work when he leaves.  He wakes the Ghostbusters and they discover the same thing.  Egon and Winston check on the Containment Unit and it stops working when they enter the room and starts again when they leave.  Peter discovers that he stops traffic when he is outside and not in a good way.  The only thing that works is the TV where the Ghostmaster General threatens the Ghostbusters with lifetime enslavement and then melts the TV.

The Ghostmaster General standing right where they want him.

                The Ghostbusters retreat from the firehouse and go to a bike shop where they get skates and bikes.  Winston and Peter take off on stakes to distract the Ghostmaster from Egon and Ray.  Egon and Ray go to the library where they discover that the Ghostmaster is a class 11 and too powerful for a trap. However Slimer spied on the Ghostmaster and found out his power is being drained by the methods used to create the energy draining shield around the Ghostbusters.  Their manpower drops in half when Peter and Winston are caught by the Ghostmaster’s magic bubbles (I can’t think of anything else to call them).

Measured out.

                As the Ghostmaster General approached Egon, Egon demanded he stop. Amused, the General complied.  Ray and Slimer then started a roll gulberg device that opened a trap and captured the Ghostmaster General.  With the spell broken the Ghostbusters could use power again, until it was shut off because Peter didn’t pay the bill. 

Clever Ghostbusters

 My Take: Well the Ghostmaster General was a decent villain but after so many failures from his subordinates I can’t blame him for wanting to do the work himself.  Yet in the end he joined his soldiers in the Containment Unit.

                Now for my stray observations:

·         Those magic balls reminded me of the one his final solider, Nurgot, showed up with the last time they encountered the Ghostbusters.  Did the Ghostmaster General give him that ball?  After all GG seems to have a lot of them.

·         The powerless situation was amusing.  I shared Slimer’s concern I don’t like it when my alarm clock doesn’t work either. 

·         I love Peter’s line about since their packs don’t work he wanted to know why they’re they lugging it around.

·         I don’t skate tried it once and sprained my ankle.

·         Not only was the Ghostmaster weakening but he was also going blind, he couldn’t tell if one of his magic balls was green. Can’t you change colors Slimer?

·         We’re lucky the magic balls shut down the dampening field.

·         When the episode started and I was wondering how they were going to bathe, I thought of turning on the water and standing outside the room for a few minutes while the tub filled.  I am glad in the final battle Ghostmaster General they did something similar.    

A good episode but I was disappointed that the series as a whole didn’t’ give the Ghostmaster General more attention.  I thought a ghost leader was an interesting concept. 

SLIMER KIDNAPPED BY GHOSTS

The Ransom of Greenspud

Original Air date December 23, 1989

Writer: Stan Phillips

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: A trio of ugly ghosts invades the firehouse to try to free their boss, Spiderlegs.  They fail but they kidnap Slimer and leave a ransom note demanding her release.  The Ghostbusters have to air a song on the radio as the sign they complied.  In the crooks’ layer, Slimer is flying circles around them.  The Ghostbusters broadcast the song and use sound waves to track Slimer.  They show up bust the ghosts and go home.

Spiderlegs reminds me of the old Superman villain 

My Take: A fun short little episode.  Slimer had been taken by humans before and lured by other ghosts but this is the first time he was held hostage.  Slimer’s standing with other ghosts can’t be too good and there should be an episode about that.

                Now for my stray observations:

·         I am glad that the ghosts who tried to open the Containment Unit failed, it should be more secure.

·         The porthole on the Containment Unit is stupid.

·         Spider legs remind me of the old Superman villain the Spider Lady.

Not much more to say.

THE GHOSTBUSTERS DO THEIR OWN VERSION OF “BACK TO THE FUTURE”

It's About Time

Original Air date October 28, 1989

Writers: Len Janson, 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 5 of 5)

Summary: The Ghostbusters are heading back from a job and Ray is feeling it for 1950s greaser culture and the 1950s overall.  Ray was been born in 1959 so he missed what he feels is America’s greatest decade.  Egon objected to this pointing out that each decade has its own challenges.  When they get to the firehouse Janine is crying.  The city of New York is tearing down the neighborhood and they have to move. 

Where's the Containment Unit?

                As the Ghostbusters are preparing to evacuate the Containment Unit into traps, Peter starts to toy with one and as a result they all get sucked in and pushed out.  When they look around the Containment Unit is gone.  The alarm goes off and it sounds different, as the Ghostbusters go upstairs they find a team of firemen going to a job.  A black and white TV set identifies the date as April 10, 1959. 

The 1950s

                The Ghostbusters leave the firehouse and Ray tries to get his hair done over greaser style.  However news reports show that Manhattan has been overrun by ghosts.  Egon reasons that they are responsible.  They disguise themselves as firemen and go to Company 93 who are currently in their firehouse and join them on their mission.  They throw the trap in vortex and return home.  When they get back Janine tells them that the station was the home of the famous Company 93 that stop a ghost invasion, therefore the firehouse was declared a national monument.

This 50s ghost problem might be more our fault. 

  My Take: This is a great episode.  I have always loved time travel stories and this one was a lot of fun.  It’s scary that in three short years we will as far away from this episode’s current time as it is from the time they traveled to.  We already past Back to the Future Part II last year.

                Now for my stray observations:

•       I love that Egon called Ray out for his blind love of the 1950s; I wish someone had brought up segregation.
•       Ray is one year younger than my parents.
•       The Ghostbusters really need to get a lawyer and not a night school one like Louis, Eminent Domain exists but they need to give a reasonable deadline, not tomorrow.  Also considering they have a Containment Unit why don’t they just remind the Mayor what happened last time they tried to shut them down.
•       Play with a ghost trap connected to a Containment Unit and you have a time machine, but ghosts will follow you.  So that is how time travel works in the Ghostbusters universe.
•       Last I checked humans can’t be sucked into a trap.
•       The firehouse seen in the Ghostbusters One and Two, is actually still a firehouse.
•       Since when does water stop ghosts?
•       Okay so having a fire team that rescued the city thirty years ago from ghosts gets the firehouse declared a national monument but the Ghostbusters who first saved the city five years ago and multiple times since from much nastier ghosts doesn’t?

 Despite its flaws it is still an episode favorite.   

THE GHOSTBUSTERS ACT LIKE SEXIST JERKS AND PAY FOR IT

Til Death Do Us Part

Original Air date September 30, 1989   

                  

Writers: Pat Allee and Ben Hurst

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 1 of 5)

Summary: To the shock of all viewers Janine is actually granted a vacation!  The Ghostbusters are interviewing temporary replacements.  The first applicant is an older and not very attractive woman named Mrs. Attelmeyer.  Winston, Ray, and Peter acted like the woman had a contagious disease so Egon got to interview her. 

The kind of girl you like until you find out she is already dead.

                Egon was getting ready to hire her when he was then pulled aside by the other Ghostbusters and vetoed.  They insisted he hire the other applicant.  A beautiful woman named Dixie who all the Ghostbusters, except Egon, immediately fall for.  The woman is so incompetent she can’t find “D” on the computer.  The rest of the guys go out of their way to try to impress her but it seems she has eyes only for Egon.  It becomes immediately clear to the viewer that Dixie is a ghost. 

The Ghostbusters after victory.

                She corners Egon and kisses him; this causes her brother ghosts, who come off as southern “Bubbas” to show up and announce they have to be married.  They steal the packs so they Ghostbusters can’t resist.  Since Dixie is a ghost that means Egon must become one too.  Egon agrees so long as he gets his last request to bake his own wedding cake.  There is an explosion and Egon “dies” and Slimer emerges, impersonating his ghost.  Slimer then simply annoys Dixie and her brothers to the point they get frustrated and leave. 

My Take:  I don’t identify as a feminist.  It’s not that I don’t support equal rights I do.  I just don’t like labels that are political and lead people guess my position on issues before I have a chance to explain them.  I also find the label overly broad in scope.  For example when you have people from Sarah Palin to Jill Stein both calling themselves feminists despite having nothing in common in political thought, to me the label loses something.  I am also the person who rolls my eyes when I hear, “Game of Thrones is sexist in how it treats women!”  All I want to yell is “Do even watch the show?”

                 Nevertheless, I was so disgusted by the way the Ghostbusters were acting in the beginning of this episode that I can't ignore it.  It wasn’t just because they wanted to higher the attractive unqualified woman over the qualified unattractive one. It was how they were treating her as if she had some sort disease that they might catch.  I was like “what is their goddamn problem?” Now I will acknowledge that Mrs. Attelmeyer did have some traits where there could be legitimate objections to hiring her.  For example her tendency to bark orders at Egon, even though he was the one interviewing her.  I can see why a business might hire a less qualified person who can get along with their fellow employees over a more qualified person who personality might be a problem.  However they make clear the reason they want Egon to hire Dixie is so they can all try to date her.  This is also very inconsistent with the way these characters have been portrayed around women that age in the past.

                To be fair the episode does show that their behavior was wrong and they did pay for it when it turned out the new hire was a ghost looking to kill Egon, but from that point the episode got worse.  I am sorry those pathetic “Bubba” ghosts should not have troubled the Ghostbusters so much.  In addition this is the second episode in row where the Ghostbusters don’t bust the ghost, instead they just trick or bribe them in order to leave.  What is up with that?  You are supposed to be the Ghostbusters maybe you should act like it?

    

                Now for my stray observations:

•       Janine actually gets a vacation?  I thought she wasn’t allowed to leave.
•       Notice they fell apart without her.
•       Why were they Ghostbusters concerned with the particle throwers being aimed at them? They weren’t connected to any packs.

  

  Egon's mom!

•       Egon’s mother isn’t acting like the mother described by Egon in Ghostbusters II, the one who didn’t believe in toys.  She also looks too much like him.  With have seen through past episodes that Egon greatly resembles his father’s family’s ancestors.  So why does he resemble his mother so much?  Is this an inter-Spengler marriage?  I knew they were closeted Targaryens.

So much wrong with this episode.  

BRIBING AN EVIL GHOST

Slimer's Curse

Original Air date September 23, 1989    

                 

Writer: Richard Mueller

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 1 of 5)

Summary: An armored truck loses its way in a rain storm and hits the grave of old Jonathan Tightly a crazy millionaire, who we later learn from Winston, wanted to take all his money with him when he died.  A ghost creeps out and inhabits one of their chests.

Slimer is generous with the Ghostbusters.

                At this point the Ghostbusters are at the firehouse and Slimer is nervously awaiting the results on the lottery ticket Ray bought for him.  The Ghostbusters tell him to cool it as they head out on a job but when they get back they discover that Slimer has won.  Slimer starts using his money to buy lots of pizza and gifts for the Ghostbusters.  The only problem is everything he buys goes bad.  Pizza turns nasty, clothes fall apart, cars blow up.  To make matters worse they get all sorts of calls from all over town in places that Slimer has shopped.

That look you get when you realize your winnings our cursed.

                It turns out Slimer’s cash is haunted.  Poor Slimer is devastated.  Winston says they can’t destroy it because destroying currency that’s illegal.  They resolve to track the problem to the source.  Using the PKE meter and the armored truck’s record they find the grave of Tightly.  Tightly’s ghost emerges from the money and attacks the Ghostbusters.  Tightly manages to override Peter’s pack and the Ghostbusters decides this ghost is too tough for them and bribe him with Slimer’s money to go away.  Tightly is satisfied all the hauntings stop. 

My Take:  Okay where to start.  I am thinking this was supposed to have been part of the Slimer subseries considering how bad it was.  Okay, so Slimer can win the lottery?  Ghosts are allowed to legally own property?  Do they have to pay income taxes?  Can they sue or be sued? Can they register to vote? Can they hold public office?   Can they serve on a jury? Can a lawyer representing the ghosts in the Containment Unit file a Writ of Habeas Corpus?

                This is also not how the lottery works.  They don’t drive to the winner’s house to tell them, you have sign and turn your ticket in.  They also don’t give you cash on the spot they send a check after a small waiting period and back in the 1980s I don’t think there was a lump sum option.  Not to mention the high taxes on it. 

                Worst part about the episode was at the end when they are fighting the ghost of Tightly, whom I am sorry was not that impressive, they just give in when he overloads Peter’s pack.  The other three should have fired or at least thrown a trap out.  Instead they decide to bribe the ghost to go away with the rest of Slimer’s money.  And why did they have to do this? Because in life Tightly wanted to take it with him but when he died the government took it in unpaid taxes.  So the Ghostbusters bribe a ghost who was both a miser and a tax cheat with enough money to cover 180 ghostbusting gigs.  How weak was that?  “Oh, he over loaded Peter’s pack so let’s surrender.”

                

               Now for my stray observations:

•              Someone should have told Slimer to put it in a bank.
•       Also considering the way Slimer was going through money they should have had Louis give some basic monetary advice.  Where was Louis?
•       This episode makes it clear why the Ghostbusters are broke all the time: they clearly don’t know how to handle money despite what Louis says.
•       I am assuming the ending was as it was because they didn’t want to change the series by making Slimer rich.  The way he was going though money that wasn’t  going to be a problem.

The episode is bad all around. 

LOOK WE FOUND ANOTHER WITCH

Kitty-Cornered

Original Air date October 14, 1989

                            

Writers: Pamela Hickey and Dennys McCoy

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 3 of 5)

Summary: A witch who is flying over New York decides to play a prank on a police helicopter and loses her cat, Twinkie.  The cat lands on Slimer who is getting a pizza delivery.  Slimer fights with the cat over the pizza and nearly wreaks one of Egon’s experiments.  This causes Egon to yell at Slimer.  Slimer, while holding the cat told Egon that he was sorry and all of a sudden the damage was magically undone.  Egon concluded that the cat was a witch’s familiar and Slimer, as a ghost, could make wishes with it.

Slimer finds a magic cat.

                They decide to keep the cat away from Slimer so not to disrupt reality.  The cat however decided it preferred to sleep on Slimer’s stomach while he was napping.  This causes Slimer’s dreams to become reality.  Egon, Ray, and Lewis have to fight through an army of talking food, a transformer, and Christmas Carolers with Santa Claus.  The Witch comes and joins them and they work together to get her cat.  When they do all is returned to normal and Slimer wakes up.  Before they leave he gets one more wish, a giant sandwich. 

This is what happens if Slimer gets wishes.

My Take:  I think the Ghostbusters should have made Slimer grant some reasonable wishes.  It would be nice if the Ghostbusters didn’t have to worry about money all the time.  Louis had the right idea.

                Now for my stray observations:

• The talking food was funny.  
• How dumb was that witch?  You drop your cat?  Don’t you have magic spells to prevent that?
• I am assuming magic is what allowed the cat to survive the fall.
•      Why didn’t Egon have the experiment under glass the first time?

              Maybe they should call on this witch for help in the future she seems nice, unlike the last one.

LOOK WE FOUND ANOTHER DRAGON

Surely You Joust

Original Air date November 11, 1989   

                   

Writer: Tony Marino

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: Ray is reading Slimer some fairy tales but needs to cut one story short in order to go to bed.  Slimer doesn’t want story time to be over so he takes the book down the Containment room for a quiet space to read.  However a small dragon shows up and asks Slimer for help against two Ogres.  The Ogres show up and try to take the dragon but Slimer and the dragon escape to the ground floor.  Janine sees the Ogres and wakes the Ghostbusters who then show up and attack with their proton packs.  The Ogres capture Janine and escape with her. 

Armor to steal!

                The dragon explains that she is from the Realm of Fantasy and her enemy Orlox , a wizard, who needs a dragon’s heart to become invincible.  They decide to go to the Realm of Fantasy, whose gateway was in the subway.  When they enter the Ghostbusters find that Orlox has offered Janine’s hand in marriage to whoever brings the dragon to him.  The Ghostbusters steal knights’ armor and confront Orlox.  They battle the wizard ultimately trapping him.    

Rescue mission!

                The Realm of Fantasy is restored and the Ghostbusters go back home through the subway. 

My Take: So the Ghostbusters have found another dragon!  Since this dragon is the last in the Realm of Fantasy maybe Egon can wake his own dragon and send it to live in the Realm of Fantasy.  That way they can be both safely out of the way and mate to get more dragons.  Egon can call on them if he needs help or his cousins in Westeros do.

                Now for my stray observations:

·         Those poor subway riders.

·         Offering Janine’s hand in marriage.  A good thing the Ghostbusters didn’t bring it up because Janine would be happy to marry Egon.

Slimer needs to stop sneaking books with fairy tales off to the containment unit room.