Lights!
Camera! Haunting!
Writer:
Marc Scott Zicree
Director:
Dale Schott
Main
Cast:
- Lorenzo
Music as Peter Venkman
- Frank
Welker as Raymond Stantz
- Maurice
LaMarche as Egon Spengler
- Arsenio
Hall as Winston Zeddemore
- Laura
Summer as Janine Melnitz
- Frank
Welker as Slimer
(Rating
4 of 5)
Summary: The
Ghostbusters are hired as consultants for a movie about a team that catches
ghosts. While they are there, real ghosts
attack the set. As the Ghostbusters leave to retrieve their gear, the producer, named Artie Grendel, sees the
ghosts as having potential and asks the Ghostbusters to spare them. The Ghostbusters ignored him and proceeded to
capture the ghosts. Grendel however
helps three of them get away.
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| Haunting a movie set. |
The
Ghostbusters were fired from the set.
The movie “Horror House” comes out and is really popular even though the
director and most the other actors were fired.
The movie was also made in record time.
Artie Grendel, to show the Ghostbusters there are no hard feelings,
invites them to the MGN studios for a tour.
Ray, who always wanted to go, agrees for the team.
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| Mr. Grendel wants to save. |
When
they get there however they find out that they have walked into a trap. The
Ghostbusters find themselves locked in a jail cell without their equipment. When they get out they find that the payment
the ghosts asked for was to make their own movie called the “the End of the
Ghostbusters.” The ghosts now have the
proton packs on themselves, and they chase the Ghostbusters all across the MGN
studios. The Ghostbusters pass
through multiple movie sets, until they get stuck. They are then almost rescued with a
helicopter from their director and actor friends from earlier. The ghosts shoot it down however and all six
are pinned down again. The ghosts tell
the Ghostbusters that they will let the others go if they surrender. Ray gets them to solemnly promise to not harm
their friends if they surrender. The
ghosts lie and capture them all.
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| Saves these three. |
As they
are about to execute them, Ray using his chin reverses the signals of Egon’s
PKE meter. This summons the ghosts of
the heroes of the MGN movies, who rescue the Ghostbusters and help them capture
the bad ghosts.
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| Payback time! |
My Take: This was
a fun little episode that was made in tribute to the old MGM studios that was torn down
around the time this was episode was produced. Ray seems to represent the fan boy calling out
in each scene what prop was from what movie.
The real fun part however was the ghosts using the ghostbusting
equipment on the Ghostbusters.
Now for
my stray observations:
·
Who’s paying?
When the ghosts show up to the movie set and the Ghostbusters come in to
bust them the producer doesn’t want it done.
Yet, the Ghostbusters do it anyway.
So, who is paying them for that?
Clearly not the studio.
·
I love Peter’s statement when Ray was summoning
the hero ghosts. “How do you know they
are not going to side with the ghosts?” That was a good point Ray had already
been shown to be overly naïve two seconds ago, but for some reason now he is right.
·
Speaking of being too quick the trigger why does
Egon suggest they should bust the hero ghosts as well? We have seen him before make judgements on
what ghost should and should not be captured. Where did his judgement go?
·
Why isn’t Artie Grendel facing attempted murder
charges?
[1]
Listed original air dates for entire syndicated season may not be correct.
