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| Episode 23 |
Fraternity ghosts are haunting Peter’s old college and it’s
up to the Real Ghostbusters to take them to school. Pranks, jokes and typical college behavior
abound in a ghostly sort of way that is.
At the end of the school day do the Real Ghostbusters wish they had cut
class or do they send the spirits away on permanent detention? It’s a first for John Shirley so let’s see
what he’s got.
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| Who do you hate most? |
It all starts at the college when three guys, a jock, prep
and nerd get framed by a ghost for kicking the dean down a few steps of stairs
outside a building. The guys try to
blame it on a ghost but the dean isn’t buying it and has had nearly enough of
their apparent foolishness. I can
understand the dean here and wondering if the ghost excuse is the best they can
come up with for their behavior. The
nerd student kills the scene a bit with his line, “
We need the Ghostbusters.”
It’s obvious you do but the delivery is so cheesy, I didn’t care much
for it. We can assume you call them
without it.
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| Can't deny his memories. |
At the firehouse a woman’s club of some sort, it’s rather
irrelevant, is trying to give an award to the Ghostbusters. Slimer shows up and scares them off with some
rather weak dialogue from Peter. The
college boys show up at the same time and get trampled by the women running
away. It’s not a very good start and
unfortunately the animation is lacking too.
The frat boys explain to Peter they have ghosts haunting them but Peter
turns them away thinking it’s an initiation gag. The prep kid sings a brief motto of the
fraternity gaining Peter’s immediate interest.
He goes on to add that Peter is a legend for the time he ran his
underwear up a flagpole while still wearing them. Needless to say Peter accepts the case. Peter what if it was still a gag, how would
you know?
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| Ghostbuster burrito anyone? |
As they arrive at the college Winston says, “
10 to 1 we find a bunch of college kids in
sheets.” It doesn’t seem like he’s
very interested in this case but I’d be skeptical of it too, frat boys. They go ahead and go inside as Egon claims
there is nothing here. Do you have the
PKE meter on Egon? He has it out but the
ghosts wrap them up in a rug, perhaps the PKE meter needs a tune-up? As they get spun around by several frat
ghosts, which have some cool designs, Ray asks if it was Peter who said this
job would be easy. Peter says, “
Hearsay Ray, it’ll never stand up in a
court of law.” Do you think your comment
will go that far? It’s not even a funny
remark, boo! They decide to split up to
find all the frat ghosts, which should work out well, things always do whenever
a team of any sort splits up.
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| They ain't afraid of no Winston! |
Winston is walking around without a PKE meter but they don’t
seem to be working right now anyway so it doesn’t matter. He finds them and the ghosts claim they’ll
surrender so he walks slowly talking into his walkie talkie informing his
team. Why not pull out your thrower and
zap them into a trap? That’s a good way
to surrender to but Winston falls down a trap door instead. Odd place for one of those I’d say. He lands in a tomb of haunting bed sheets and
is later found outside being tossed about in them. How long did it take to find him I can’t say,
but its still daylight. After nearly
blasting poor Winston to bits the guys must chase after the ghosts heading for
the main campus. Hopefully things will
pick up because so far it’s been a rough day at school.
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| Finish them! |
The lead frat ghost has a neat power as he shoots a ray from
his finger to a goldfish swimming in a fountain outside a common area. The goldfish grows to enormous size and looks
quite terrifying! The prep kid runs to
the scene and shouts, “
What’s going on?” The lead frat ghost grabs him up and says, “
Why not get a really close look?” I like it, I hate the living frat boys but
rather admire the twisted nature of the dead ones, this could be a turning
point. “
How about a good old fashioned goldfish swallowing contest?” Then the lead frat ghost drops the prep to be
eaten alive! The other two, the jock and
nerd also get eaten as the lead frat ghost adds, “
Three students not bad, how about some more.” He doesn’t know when to quit but I’m not
complaining so far. As the Ghostbusters
finally catch up Peter says, “
Look at
that thing, its big enough to give Jonah a bad case of déjà vu.” At least a joke gets through this time. The guys blast the crap out of the goldfish
and it vaporizes but somehow the three college guys survive, boo again! Kill them off I say, they don’t return to the
series after this episode and it would provide the Ghostbusters with more
incentive to capture the ghosts. They can
always claim the ghosts killed the student’s right?
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| Nearly outsmarted by frat ghosts. |
Later in the cafeteria Ray uses the PKE meter to success as
they again catch up to the ghosts.
Instead of blasting the ghosts though they get disarmed. I mean the guys seem to be gun shy at all the
wrong times so far. The lead frat ghost
then transforms into a more gruesome ghost than before and says, “
We’re going to initiate you into the
fraternity of the dead!” This guy
doesn’t waste much time and the Ghostbusters are in quite a bit of trouble,
they are really off their game in this one.
As a kid this scene spooked me a bit, it’s rather well done. Peter has one lame trick left up his still
alive sleeve as he shouts that there are girls somewhere nearby. The guys make a mad dash and run off all the
while giving the lead frat ghost a fun new idea. He decides to raid the girl’s dorm, nice one
Peter. That ghost may be dead but he
could still go for some well mischief we’ll say. As the guys reach safety Peter suggests
brushing up on some history to find out who these ghosts were in life. He also states that the dorm used to be a
fraternity mentioned by the prep kid but didn’t Peter know that at the
beginning of the episode? I thought he
went to this college, it seemed that way.
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| 50 years ago. |
They discover the lead frat ghost to be Edwin Spalding. He and his old pals were a rowdy bunch of
guys back in their old fraternity but got caught stealing the final exams test
answers thus getting the boot. They
vowed to get even and chose now. Peter
claimed it happened when the new fraternity took over their old building. I suppose we can let that slide as reason
enough for this one. The guys still don’t
have their packs and I have no clue what happened to them. I guess the frat ghosts destroyed or hid
them. Ray uses the PKE meter to track
them at the girls dorm as one of the frat ghosts asks the girls if he can try
on their cloths. Peter eventually
engineers a scheme to allow the ghosts to graduate and it catches their
interests. It seems they want to;
perhaps it’s their weakness in death since they were deprived of it in life.
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| Be careful what you study Egon, it may eat you! |
Peter gets cold feet about teaching some crash courses when
Winston reminds him, “
Anyway the whole
thing was your idea.” “
Right and that’s where you failed me
Winston you should have told me it was stupid.” I love Peter’s character so honest about his
own faults. He stumbles upon a brief
lecture and sends the ghosts onto the next course. I like the effect of the ghosts fading
downward to the next floor. Egon is
teaching biology and has a mushroom for study.
He drones on and on about them when Edwin gets bored and uses another
neat supernatural trick. His eyes glow
red as the mushroom comes to life and startles Egon. They quickly pass the class by way of Ray to
avoid things from getting out of hand.
Peter then gets another shot at teaching when Edwin demands a senior
obstacle course before graduation. It’s
not very entertaining until Edwin travels around inside the sprinkler
system. He pops his ugly little head out
of a sprinkler to see the women from the beginning of the episode trying to
hand out another award, she claims to be a chairwoman. “
You
look more like a sofa woman to me.”
It’s crude but it fits his character perfectly.
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| Containment diploma. |
In the end the guys lure the frat ghosts to the auditorium
for a class photo. Ray has rigged up a
device to the camera that functions like a thrower or it is one. It’s not explained at all so I’m assuming he
built one. They had one trap left and
caught all the ghosts in it but shouldn’t they have to get that trap into the
containment unit post haste? They had to
back in Episode 4 when they caught all those ghosts absorbed into that big
one. Anyway we get deprived of the theme
music which this episode sorely needed to boost it a bit; at least for the
scene it would have been used. Peter
pulls a prank on the dean to conclude the episode. I suppose it would be possible for Peter’s
ghost to be of the frat variety in the afterlife. I’d say this episode had its ups and downs but
it manages to stay middle of the road for me.
Rating: 4.5 of 10
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