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. 

    

EGON AND HIS MOM SAVE THE DAY

Ghostworld

Original Air date September 15, 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 5 of 5)

Summary: Janine and Slimer receive and invitation on behalf of the entire Ghostbusters to attend a new amusement park called Ghostworld.  Ghostworld however is just a plot by an evil ghost named Karro Sans a demonic gatekeeper.   Calling himself Carlo Sands, he plans to take control of New York City by possessing the most important people starting with Ghostbusters.

                Only Janine, Slimer, and Ray except his initial invitation so they get taken over first.   Possessed Ray goes on the job with Peter and Winston and deliberately messes it up.  He then lures them to Ghostworld with the promise of a TV special.  They go down next.

                Egon sees a TV special and knows its bull and despite being sick decides to investigate.  Egon’s mother who has been taking care of her sick son goes with him.  They encounter Janine who doesn’t recognize Egon’s mother.  Egon traps the ghost who was controlling Janine.  Egon then distracts the main ghost in a battle of wits, while Mrs. Spengler and Janine save the three guys and Slimer.  The whole team then takes down the main bad guy.

Okay, all together now!

My Take:  Well its nice see Egon’s mom again, even if I didn’t like her first appearance.  The characterization throughout the episode was great and made it very enjoyable.

                Now for my stray observations:

•  I can’t blame guys who hunt ghosts for a living not wanting to go to a ghost theme park.
•   We can see Egon’s mom’s forceful personality in this episode.
•  This episode reminded me a little of the Sandman episode.  With the Ghostbuster picked off one by one with the final Ghostbuster remaining and unexpected hero.
• How the Hell does a ghost like Slimer get possessed?  And do you fix it? The rest they fixed with a trap they didn’t show how they fixed Slimer. 
•       So Janine is expected to know Egon’s mom on site, they are getting close after the misadventure at the start of the season.
• Despite what Egon says, I think the big bad’s plan was pretty good.

A great episode once again dispelling the theory that the later seasons were lame. 

TWO GODS FIGHTING, AGAIN

Very Beast Friends

Original Air date November 10, 1990      

Writer: Gordon Bressack

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: Two Sumerian gods named Anshar and Kishar are having there once every thousand year battle.  It suddenly occurs to them that their fighting is pointless because they are both immortal.  So they decide to take a mortal for a champion.  At this time the Ghostbusters are sailing on Ray’s new wooden sailboat and are shipwrecked on the gods’ newly created island. Peter and Ray are fighting so much that Anshar and Kishar feel they have found their host bodies.

Glad to have this book on hand.

                 Egon, Winston, and Slimer watch in horror as their friends transform whenever they get angry.  They try their best to calm the two down to prevent their transformations.  When that fails, they come up with their best weapon that they can create on Gilligan’s Island and try to blast them apart.  That doesn’t work but it’s distracts the gods long enough that the day ends.   Each deity is no forced leave their host.  As they go back into hibernation each swears that after the next thousand years he is actually going to win.

What a Ghostbuster can make on Gilligan's Island.

My Take: Hmm..Two gods sworn to destroy each other, stop me if you heard this one before.

                Now for my stray observations:

•        Ray likes to go sailing 19^th century style.
•        Needs to buy a better sail.
•        I started to hum the Gilligan’s Island tune on this episode.
•       If one champion had won, would the other really recognize it? 
•       At least in ended well for the guys.

It was a so-so episode. 

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.