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Episode Review: The Real Ghostbusters- It’s a Jungle Out There

This was quite an interesting episode, despite a few plotholes here and there.

Over at a shipyard, some people are unloading a crate from a ship during a storm.  A woman that the Ghostbusters Wiki refers to as Professor Joanna Barnes is overseeing things, instructing the workmen to be careful, as the crate contains a 3000 year old statue.  Of course, seconds after she says this, a bolt of lightning just happens to sever the crane cable holding the crate up, resulting in the crate falling and breaking open.  Professor Barns and the foreman both rush over and are relieved to find that the stature appears to be undamaged.  But none of them notice the smoke pouring out from the statue, with the smoke solidifying into an animal-like demon.  This demon is apparently called Ral, though there’s never a scene where we’re informed about that.  At least, not really.  I’ll explain that a little later.

Anyway, it then cuts to the Firehouse, where the Ghostbusters and Janine are watching a movie that’s apparently supposed to be a Lassie film.  As the movie comes to a close, they all start talking about how there’s nothing more wholesome than the bond between a boy and his dog.  The conversation then shifts to Peter talking about how nice it would be if they had a dog around the Firehouse.  Slimer, who was trying to eat a large sandwich nearby, doesn’t seem pleased by this, and I can’t blame him.  After all, isn’t Slimer basically the Ghostbuster’s pet ‘dog?’ While this conversation is going on, a random dog just happens to be passing by the Firehouse, ducking down in the archway over the main door to seek shelter from the rain.  As the dog huddles down, a cloud of smoke that was obviously meant to be Ral passed by and engulfed the dog.  As the smoke clears, the dog begins scratching at the door. Janine instructs Slimer to see who is at the door, as she has to answer the phone.  And the Ghostbusters who were sitting on the couch briefly disappear with no explanation.  When Slimer pokes his head outside, he sees the dog and quickly lets him in.  Slimer calls Janine (who must have forgotten all about the phone call) and the Ghostbusters (who have reappeared as quickly as they’d disappeared) downstairs.  They immediately fall in love with the dog and, noticing that the dog doesn’t have a collar, decide to keep him on the spot, calling him Barkley.

For some reason, the Ghostbusters give Slimer the task of feeding Barkley.  No offense to Slimer, but that doesn’t strike me as the best idea as I don’t think Slimer knows the first thing about what foods were safe for dog consumption.  And this is kinda proven when Slimer mixes up a bowl of random stuff.  But then, much to Slimer’s shock, Barkley stands up on his hind legs, picking up the dog bowl in his front paws.  He then walks over to the nearby trash can in a humanlike manner to throw out the dinner Slimer gave him.  To top it all off, Barkley even starts yelling at Slimer in clear English as he helps himself to Slimer’s sandwich.  Understandably, this freaks Slimer out, and he hides under the covers of Peter’s bed.  Upon realizing that Slimer is scared of Barkely, Peter tries to assure Slimer that the dog isn’t something to be scared of, and suggests that Slimer go with him to see for himself.  Slimer agrees to this, apparently not thinking to mention that he heard Barkley speaking.  Though it doesn’t matter really, because Barkley starts talking to Peter as well, reacting angrily when Peter tried to get him to perform typical dog tricks like ‘beg’ and ‘fetch my slippers.’  Like with Slimer, this sends Peter running into the sleeping quarters to hide under the covers.  Egon, Ray and Winston all are skeptical when Peter tries to tell them what Barkley did. Until Barkly appears in the doorway, with a Proton Pack strapped to his back.  Barkley proceeds to threaten the Ghostbusters before making a break for it, commandeering the Ecto-1 and driving off, ignoring Janine’s yells for him to stop.

As you might imagine, everyone is understandably confused by what just happened.  To further mystify things, Janine shows them her pet goldfish, which she must have just gotten for this episode.  Like with Barkley, they are acting aggressively towards them, with one of the goldfish brandishing a miniature harpoon at them.  (Don’t ask me where the goldfish got a miniature harpoon, or a fish-sized pair of swimming goggles.)  Shortly afterwards, the Ghostbusters get a call about some sort of disturbance at the city zoo.  Since the Ecto-1 is still missing, the Ghostbusters decide to hail a cab.  Only for them to discover the cab is being driven by a gorilla. They quickly realize all the cars and other motorized vehicles around them are also being driven by animals. There’s even a rhino directing traffic. Obviously, something really strange is going on.  Fortunately, that’s when Winston spots the Ecto-1 parked nearby, where Barkley must have abandoned it.  They do their best to sneak out of the cab and make it over to the Ecto-1 without being seen by the anthropomorphized animals, but they’re quickly spotted.  Still, they manage to make it into the Ecto-1 just in time and speed off.

Upon reaching the zoo, the Ghostbusters feel it’s much too quiet.  Upon checking his PKE Meter, Egon realizes there’s a particularly high reading, enough to power a small city.  At that moment, the Ghostbusters are all ambushed by a large group of animals, who manages to strip them of their gear before locking them up inside an empty animal enclosure.  That’s when Ral makes his grand entrance.  He goes off on this whole spiel about how humans tricked and imprisoned him within the stone statue thousands of years ago, and he’s been awaiting his chance to seek vengeance on mankind for that insult.  To achieve that, he’s created an army of anthropomorphized animals to take over the city.  With that, Ral leads his animal army off to do just that.  Yeah, this is Ral’s ultimate plan.  Not the most probable evil plot, but whatever.

Fortunately, Slimer had managed to slip away when the Ghostbusters got captured and fetched Janine, who pulls up to the zoo just as Ral and the animals are marching out to lay siege on the city.  (Which explains why the Ghostbusters took a cab and didn’t borrow her car.)  After evading being spotted, Janine and Slimer quickly locate the Ghostbusters, and Janie unlocks the cage door upon finding the keys (somehow).  Upon being freed, Peter states he has a plan to stop Ral.  His plan seems to involve tricking the animals into following in the Ecto-1 (by having Slimer wear Winston’s uniform and Janine wearing Egon’s uniform while having dummies posing as Ray and Peter in the backseat).  When the animal army chases after the Ecto-1 and the ‘imposters,’ the actual Ghostbusters come out of hiding, with Ray and Winston in the Ecto-2 and Peter and Egon now wearing what appear to be some rocket-powered roller skates that Egon had just invented.  They do their best to shoot Ral with their Proton Streams, but Ral proves to be too fast and agile for them because of his animal reflexes. Just when things are looking dire (with the animal army catching up to Janine and Slimer and getting ready to attack them), Egon gets the brilliant idea to use Ral’s animal senses against him, by instructing Ray to tune the Ecto-2’s loudspeaker to a high frequency, thereby turning it into an improvised dog whistle.  The high-pitched sound ends up incapacitating Ral long enough for the Ghostbusters to trap him.  With Ral trapped in a Ghost Trap, his control on the animals is broken, and they all wander off before laying a hand on Janine and Slimer.  And Janine happily cries out that the guys must have stopped Ral. Which, to my knowledge, is the first time they referred to the demon by name within the episode.  So there’s no explanation as to how Janine figured out Ral’s name.  Did Ral tell the Ghostbusters his name during his monologue and I missed it?

As Janine and Slimer breathe a sigh of relief, they spot Barkley across the street.  Slimer happily starts to make his way over to the dog, only for Barkley to run right past him, right into the arms of a little girl who happily embraces him.  It turns out that the dog actually belongs to the little girl, and that his real name is Sydney.  The little girl thanks Janine and Slimer for finding her lost dog.

As the episode ends, the Ghostbusters talk about how they’ll miss having a dog around, though they are glad Sydney was reunited with his owner.  That’s when Janine comes in, saying that she got them a new puppy. She then calls in the puppy, who announces that his name is Buster.  Upon hearing the puppy speak, the Ghostbusters all freak out and run out of the room.  And Janine starts to laugh, calling after them that Buster was just a battery-operated toy.  Gotta say, Janine.  That was bordering on mean.

Yeah, I got some questions about this episode.  First of all, what exactly was Ral trying to do?  I know he said he was going to lead the animals under his control to take over the city, but was that really it?  And why exactly was he imprisoned in the statue in the first place?  Also, may I ask where all the people in the city got to when the anthropomorphized animals were roaming around?  Were they all hiding inside?  I just have so many unanswered questions.

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animation study 👀

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mindhunter studies ... had a good time studying this scene and show overall! did this with RGB sliders only .. no color picking :0. great practice!

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‘start up’: week-by-week playback

here is a week-by-week playback of events from ‘start up’ and my unfiltered feelings. hope you enjoy! if you want to see somewhat cohesive thoughts on ‘start up’ check out my official review. here :) 

*spoiler alert*

ep 1

ladies and gents it’s going to be a good one. i loved being able to see this backstory to lay all the groundwork for the future of the drama.

his story is devastating as a young individual unable to make his way into the world and then making a way to find it isn’t how he expected and lost a real thing he had with the relationship with the her grandmother. but the redemption when he goes to see her again.

her family becoming broken. her sister severing the relationship and chalking it up to being ‘oh i made the better choice’. and her father dying while getting her chicken and trying to get an investment to not let his daughter go hungry and to bring his family together.

to him making up a character that got her through hard times. and then trying to find him again. this is going to be great. and i know i’m going to be devastated bc she fell in love with the other man to begin with, and now she will see this new person.

soooooo much happened and i’m clearly not ready.

ep 2

why? why do we lie? we know nothing good will come of it. if anything this jipyeong is who she loves. but why lie? literally you can own up to it and start over boo.

disappointed in our sweet grandma for lying to dalmi for so long.

her sister is awful. and so is this ‘mother’.

this man just wanted to start up his start up but he was like nah don’t want to help you even though i need you. feel in love with the girl in the letters and showed up bc of the goodness of his heart. hope he doesn’t get lost in the fantasy of it.

their business, samsan tech, is going to be wild and great and he missed his opportunity.

ep 3

her mother saying she is the same as her dad not having a plan is so wack, and makes me want her to slap her.

aren’t you curious? why aren’t you asking why i am like this? because that is my concept the quiet good looking type. i can’t with him hahaha

i love that he asked about the music box. i wish it was really him that wrote the letters, because this will be heartbreaking when she finds out.

‘it wouldn’t be bad to sail off without a map even if we got lost, if it’s with you.’

this kid, dosan, is too funny.

i cannot believe her ‘father’ just throw her under the bus and had her oppa takes over the Korean branch of her company that she formed.

dang it. girl quits her job because he started his own company

they got first place. is that enough inkling for you?!?!?

they both like her. but only one of them will admit his feelings so he will win in the end. i’m so excited to see all of their relationships develop.

the cringe level of the edit of her winning her award. i cannot even. they’re charming everyone loves it.

ep 4

him learning how to be a hot shot ceo. i can’t. the placemats he is struggling.

his friend breaking the 3rd wall and telling us how dosan drives away all the ladies in university.

poor guy the only things she likes about him aren’t him at all but jipyeong.

she is going to be their ceo isn’t she. bc he said that he can’t be ceo. she’d kill it. what a queen.

yes boo! there it is we know who you’re going to pick. bc she wants them to recruit you not the other way around.

ep 5

this was a stellar episode. from both teams using the same data set and coming up with wildly different ideas to samsan tech almost crashing down. but setting a fire to dosan to do better and be more ambitious. i’m so excited.

our girl killed her presentation yes queen. you got this. the fact that the boys created a whole new software. these folks would be crazy to not invest.

this alex guy really believes in them i’m excited to see if there will be rivalry between the two hot shot ceo’s

the fact that her grandma doesn’t regret not sending her to college but rather regrets not meeting him earlier to support and encourage him made me cry.

ep 6

this was a great episode. so much happened in the development of their little company. disorder and disagreements led to stronger relations within the company.

i love how she picked the mentor. like yup i know alex is the biggest deal since slice bread but you’re our homie.

the fact that dosan was ready to come clean about the letters but overheard the grandmother get a sad report from the doctors and wanted to protect her and her granddaughter. so sad.

ep 7

i really need more than a second male lead for this man. i can’t stand the way he looks at her. he loves her and is trying so hard to shut off his heart to her.

i love the bickering between the two male leads. like seriously hilarious.

i love the sweet relationship that nam dosan will now have with her grandmother. and i love the idea concept he had for their business. a beautiful heart behind the machine.

dosan standing up for her and standing against this horrible man out to exploit their talent.  

this ending scene i can’t. they’re cute too. and precious.

he kept the plant and is going to give it nutrients to keep it well. please do the same with your relationship with her honey.

ep 8

i really love jipyeong and need them together.

i cannot with their ceo step dad. like isn’t this too much.

i want the boss lady at sandbox to know that dalmi is the sandbox girl!!!

ep 9

the wind turned into a heavy storm that destroyed his self esteem. he feels himself falling apart bc of his secret.

she was attacked!

‘i made a wrong turn and stumbled upon fireworks’ nam dosan.

he brought them to the beach after reading that review of wanting to see more beauty that the world has to offer. i need him to own up to his feelings and make a move.

don’t lie bro we know you like dalmi. and of course it’s raining. bc that’s how it is.

we still get a scene with them running through the rain the chul-san and yong-san.

my heart is crumbling into a million pieces. jipyeong’s there and dosan isn’t. what are we going to do. this ain’t the moment of revelation we wanted.

ep 10

jipyeong is so great. 10 out of 10.

i don’t know what it is but i really am not about dosan’s character for some reason. i really just want jipyeong to be honest from the start and he could have ended up with her.

my heart. our dalmi.

‘i wanted to be the person you wanted. but it was too hard to bear.’

‘the person i want. i don’t know who that is.’

is the sibling of the member that died in their group?

do-san can’t leave his boys!!

‘does my dream have to be success. can’t it be a person?’

he just confesses to liking her while he was mixing their noodles. i can’t with him. love that he’s finally being honest. now it’s all up to dalmi.

everyone encouraging her before she has to promote their company. she did this. she is the ceo. she’s got this.

what the even?!? jipyeong was the one that was harsh to him. and it led his brother to commit suicide. oh no. and now they’re in the elevator together what’s going to happen?!?!

now she has two plan b?!? one from the investor and one from dosan and the big tech company.

they both confessed to the nice lady at the bar. hahaha i love these epilogue moments.

ep 11

yong-san’s brother story is so sad.

his dad standing up for the present he desperately wants to keep. and being the bridge for innovation.

their software worked on alex’s scheme!!!

and they won demo day.

oh no but alex isn’t as great as we thought he was...

chul-san and sa-ha are dating. i cannot even. this is the best!!!

they’re such a good team. brainstorming after their win. they cannot disband them.

i thought our man was going to get to them

in time to stop them from signing. but he didn’t.

ep 12

bro. alex is awful i hate this man.

the moments between. hjp and mrs. choi you are brilliant and heart breaking. i really want them to continue to grow into a better person and end up with dalmi.

why y’all got to fight why is dosan doing this. bro you’re not getting any brownie points by being like this dude.

i really love this side story with chulsan and saha. they’re cute. well we can share the vanilla latte. cute!!!!  

chulsan made her a video of numbers to help her fall asleep. he’s too cute i want her to admit that she likes him. ahhhhhhhhh

the fact that they ended up going and we’ll have a three year gap errrrks me. like our boy jhp is going to finally start making moves and dosan is going to run in and save the day. like bro you’re a mess.

i hope they were able to save the app for her grandmother.

her applying to her sisters company i’m excited.

ep 13

lolol they used his cousin for the commercial and injae looks sooo cute. frozen inspired.

i love how she had /iced vanilla latte lover’ as chul-san’s contact name and the vlogs!!!

hjp our man saved her from the insurance guy.

now they all play go stop together!!!!

she tucked him in and he gets to stay

youngsil calling him out to just swing the bat and don’t hesitate or he’ll lose. is this foreshadowing our man losing dalmi?!?

they finally got to eat at the bbq restaurant that was below their original building

frick my life. why is his timing always wack.

at least chulson and saha can sail.

the whole gang is back together!

it was the twins that hacked it wasn’t it?!?

he stopped him. come on baby.

ep 14

i love his man listening to her cry. hiding her because she didn’t want her staff to see. and telling her to chill until she is ready. i love this man.

that’s right honey. don’t answer that phone move on.

their little photoshoot was faboulous, them as RGB

yes queen. she went to confront her family. and be like boo you thought i didn’t chance. honey you’re in for it.

her mother wanting to pay back her mother-in-law for raising her daughter in her steed.

dosan turned her down her offer to be their AI specialists at her company.

i love that his father saved the baseball.

me finally accepting my ship won’t sail when their girl walked 5 hours in the woods to get to dosan.

yong-san apologizing for saying that jhp killed his brother. they both are apologizing.

they all end up joining her company!!!!

ep 15

their self driving car passed the test. they’re too cute in their celebration.

she doesn’t want to lose her team again if they lose their bid.

sa ha is finally falling for chulsan. he’s so precious. him being like oh wait you’re asking me out.

of course it would be this trip getting stuck in an elevator together.

sailing off without a map. never will regret it. -dosan

injae absolved her adoption after seeing her grandmother.

he tired to out so all their memories with that one thing alone his big hands. hahah oh do san.

my hjp finally let go. he took his losses and kept the money tree and letters. it isn’t enough honey boo.

stop feeling inferior to me. work on your self esteem and look at dalmi again. then you’ll know who she really likes. with those hands alone, you beat our memories. -hjp

because it’s you. you’re the reason. that’s it. -dalmi on liking dosan

i really don’t like them together. but whatever i shall not have my way in this. it’s fine hjp is mine.

i love the sisters together. they’re precious talking about the sandbox girl.

is this article going to frick up their bid?!? but it was his hackers that did it the twins!!!

is hjp going to save the day?!?

ep 16

dalmi and dosan are a dream team. and they just served that reporter one great tell all.

i still can’t process bc i love hjp.

i feel like it hit mrs. choi when they were all talking dosan and dalmi when are finally saw dosan after a few years that her good boy would feel alone. TT

‘don’t become any lonelier jipyeong...’ their relationship makes me cry. i love that

i can’t everyone saying what they’ll do if they win. PROPOSE. say who their boyfriend is?!?!

i’m excited to see this start up to connect orphanages with a sponsor to help them in that transition. it’s a perfect fit for him. ‘i like your voice’, because it sounds like young-sil the voice of the app/help device. he’s going to personally invest and help them with their business plan. and then sponser kids!!! he is seriously a dream.

chulsan and saha are too cute. i love that she introduced him as her boyfriend. he was not expecting that. she finally found someone who she’s been looking for!

was that their goodbye? he isn’t the dosan from the letters? huh?

in jae is such a queen serving those papers to her dad at the q and a session, that no one showed up to. 

them all crying in their old rooftop office. they’re such dorks i love them

his father took the sign to replace it with the one from the math competition.

dalmi and injae’s relationship is too precious.

he’s going to invest in their company. and dosan accepted hjp’s investment.

i want to change the world. follow your dream.

i liked this one.

i wonder if they won.......oh the epilogue!!!

they got married. and they kept the baseball. chul-san and saha revealed they were a couple. chul-san shaved his hair! i loved that we saw it all though pictures on their desk!! that was a creative way to fit everything in!

shareholders meeting!!! the gang taking over the world!

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Episode Review- The Real Ghostbusters: The Boogeyman is Back

Well, this is quite the landmark episode.  Not only do we have the return of an old advisory, but it’s also the first appearance of new recurring characters.  Although, that second part is probably not something to be pleased about.

We open with the Ghostbusters battling a ghost atop the Twin Towers.  (Because, in case you’ve forgotten, this show aired long before 9/11.) I do give the episode some credit because the ghost they’re fighting does have an interesting design.  Anyway, this particular ghost ends up putting up a pretty good fight, countering the Ghostbusters’ attempts to trap them by firing off laser beams from their eye.  In a shocking turn of events, one of the ghost’s attacks knocks Egon off the side of the building, and for a brief moment, the episode actually makes us think that Egon seemingly fell to his death.  Of course, the show isn’t about to go THAT dark.  Conveniently, Winston happened to be piloting the Ecto-2 and managed to catch Egon as he fell.  Before much longer, the Ghostbusters are able to successfully trap the ghost they’re fighting.  With the job done, Winston, Peter and Ray (as well as Slimer, who tagged along on this case), all express their relief that Egon is okay.  Egon, on the other hand, insists he wasn’t the least bit shaken by his near-death experience.  Though I can’t help but notice that his voice seemed a bit more wooden than usual.

Later on, the Ghostbusters are back at the Firehouse, getting ready to go to bed.  Once again, the Ghostbusters start bringing up the fact that Egon nearly died that evening, and remarking how brave he was about the whole ordeal.  Which seemed a bit insensitive to me.  Did they consider the possibility that Egon might not want to be reminded about what nearly happened?  Either way, Egon once again insists that he wasn’t the least bit shaken after his almost fatal fall.  However, as the others fall asleep, we get our first real indication that Egon isn’t as stoic about things as he was pretending to be.  In fact, he’s having difficulty falling asleep, with his mind constantly going back to what nearly happened to him.  To try and calm his nerves, Egon decides to head downstairs to make himself a mug of hot chocolate and watch a movie.  Unfortunately, the movie he selects ends up being a particularly grim movie about vampires, which obviously doesn’t help matters. (Incidentally, I found myself relating to Egon here.  I remember this one time I woke up from a nightmare.  I turned on the TV to try and calm down and was immediately greeted by the image of the Blue Man Group.  Not exactly the sort of image you want to see when you’re trying to get back to sleep after a bad dream.)  

Still, Egon manages to make it to the end of the movie.  Though he’s seemingly even more shaken up than before.  Regardless, he forces himself to go back to bed, telling himself he’s not scared and that he’s brave, like the others said.  (Someone should really tell him that bravery isn’t the absence of fear.)  Despite Egon’s attempts at giving himself a pep talk, it’s clear that he actually is scared.  It then cuts to that other dimension, where the Boogieman has been trapped since Egon’s Ghost Bomb sealed him away, way back in The Boogieman Cometh.  But it seems that the intensity of Egon’s fear is enough to break through the seal that’s kept the Boogieman trapped.  Which grants the Boogieman the chance to escape once again, emerging through the closet portal that opened up within the Firehouse.

Yeah, I have questions about this.  You’re telling me that nobody else has felt intense fear during that span of time since we last saw the Boogieman?  We’re really supposed to believe that the fear Egon is feeling right now is more intense and potent than anybody else on Earth has experienced?  Seems a bit much to swallow, but for the sake of the plot, we just have to accept it.

Anyway, when the Ghostbusters see that the Boogieman is roaming free again, they’re quick to grab their Proton Packs and open fire.  The Boogieman jumps out of the window, and the Ghostbusters all run outside to pursue him.  But despite their best efforts, the Boogieman manages to elude them by taking advantage of the lingering fear Egon is still feeling.  The Ghostbusters announce that they have to find the Boogieman quickly, because as long as he’s loose in the city, the children are all in danger. Especially, as Winston states, the Junior Ghostbusters.

Oh, who are the Junior Ghostbusters?  That’s a good question, because this is the very first time they’re referenced in the show, despite the Ghostbusters acting like they’ve known them for a while. From what I can gather from this episode, the Junior Ghostbusters are three kids, Donald, Jason and Catherine, who are the sole members of some Ghostbusters fanclub.  Only they’re in close enough contact with the actual Ghostbusters to have their phone number, and Jason was even given his own PKE Meter from Egon.

At the current time, the three kids are apparently having a sleepover at Jason’s house, with Donald in the middle of telling the other two a scary story involving a monster going after a boy.  Donald’s thrilling story is cut off when Catherine and Jason beg him to stop. They insist they’re not scared, but that it’s getting late, and Jason’s mother had said that she wouldn’t allow them to have any more sleepovers if they didn’t get a full night’s sleep.  At that moment, the bedside table lamp starts to flicker and dies, and the PKE Meter that Jason got from Egon activates.   This is because the Boogieman is coming closer.  Which is driven home when we see the Boogieman frightening a little puppy that was sitting atop the roof of a high-rise somewhere.  Which begs the question as to what horrible pet owner put that puppy out onto the roof in the first place.  And no, I refuse to accept the explanation that it’s the same as putting the dog outside in the backyard for the night.  What if the puppy got too close to the edge?  Please explain to me how this doesn’t count as animal neglect.

Anyway, Jason determines that the PKE Meter is displaying negative readings, and he decides to call up Egon to ask him about it.  Jason’s phone call comes right as Egon was admitting to his teammates how it was his fault the Boogieman was loose, and reminding them that the Boogieman wasn’t actually a ghost, so their equipment will not have much effect on him. When Jason tells Egon that his PKE Meter was showing a valance reading of minus nine, Egon realizes that it means the Boogieman is very close to them.  He instructs the kids to get out of the house and wait outside for them to arrive.  Of course, the Junior Ghostbusters don’t get the chance to do anything, because the Boogieman bursts through the bedroom door like the Kool-Aid Man, blocking their escape.  (And I’m wondering why Jason’s mother didn’t seem to respond to the sound of the door breaking open, because we never see her make an appearance.)

Thankfully, the Ghostbusters arrive at Jason’s apartment before the Boogieman can actually do anything to the kids.  But the Boogieman gets away again by roaring at them before once again jumping out of the window.  After checking up on the kids, the Ghostbusters decide to head back to the Firehouse to come up with a plan.  And then they just leave the Junior Ghostbusters behind, not bothering to think about what might happen if the Boogieman came back after they left. Remember how, in the last episode with the Boogieman, Winston volunteered to stand guard over Megan and Kenny Carter while Peter, Egon and Ray worked on solving the problem?  Yeah, apparently they’re not bothering to do that this time.  Sure, Donald, Jason and Catherine appear to be a bit older then Megan and Kenny were. But the point still stands.

Meanwhile, the Boogieman has found his way to a closed amusement park called the Big Apple Amusement Park, which he magically transforms into a nightmarish amusement park, announcing that it’s the ‘perfect place for fear to grow and thrive.’  Of course, the Big Apple Amusement Park doesn’t actually exist.  Which begs the question as to why the show writers didn’t just have the Boogieman lay claim to Coney Island. Seriously, why go through the trouble of making up a fictional amusement park for your story when there’s a very famous amusement park right there in one of New York City’s neighborhoods?  Were the show writers worried about getting a copyright strike or something?

Back at the Firehouse, Egon has managed to modify one of the Proton Throwers into an Atomic Destabilizer, which can convert solid matter into its ethereal counterpart.  (Strangely, Peter, Winston and Janine seem to be clueless on what this means until Ray comments on the matter, though I didn’t think Egon’s explanation was hard to understand.  Maybe the show writers felt they needed to spell it out for the youngest viewers.)  Armed with the Atomic Destabilizer, the Ghostbusters head back out to track down the Boogieman, with Slimer once again tagging along (after a strange moment where Slimer briefly pretends to box with an unseen opponent until Slimer’s shadow inexplicitly gains sentience and punches Slimer.  Seriously, what was that?)

The Ghostbusters eventually track down the Boogieman to the amusement part he’d laid claim to.  But just when they locate the Boogieman, he uses his powers to transform a nearby rollercoaster train into this flying dragonlike creature, which quickly snatches up the Ghostbusters and drags them through a gateway in the shape of a face, after two clown mannequins strip them of their Proton Packs.  As a result, the Ghostbusters are effectivly captured, with no way to fight back.  This leaves Slimer alone to freak out and essentially run off.  However, it’s here that Slimer’s presence does serve a bit of a purpose, as he’s able to go and get help.  Although, he doesn’t go to Janine, who we have seen is fully capable of coming to the Ghostbusters’ rescue.  (See Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster.)  Instead, he goes right to the Junior Ghostbusters. Because having the kid characters come to the rescue of the adults doesn’t send a problematic message at all.

Regardless, Slimer leads the Junior Ghostbusters to the Boogieman’s amusement park, where they find the discarded Proton Packs.  Donald, Catherine and Jason are easily able to pick three of them up, with Slimer taking the fourth one, (aren’t the Proton Packs supposed to be heavy?) and manage to carry them through the same face-shaped gateway the Ghostbusters were dragged through. One has to ask why the Boogieman left the gateway open in the first place, but I suppose it could be argued that he didn’t expect the Ghostbusters to have any sort of backup. Either way, they manage to locate the Ghostbusters just as they’re being cornered by the Boogieman and his minions.  (Because the Boogieman has minions now.)  Upon seeing the kids, the Boogieman turns his attention onto them.  But as the Boogieman approaches them menacingly, Egon manages to overcome his fears and breaks out of the ropes that had been wrapped around him, charging forward to come to the aid of the kids.  Jason slides Egon the Proton Pack that had the Atomic Destabilizer attached to it (which was a pretty lucky chance when you think about it, since the Junior Ghostbusters hadn’t been present when Egon was discussing what it did), which enables Egon to effectivly trap the Boogieman and his minions in the Ghost Traps the Junior Ghostbusters tossed out.  With the Boogieman captured, the other Ghostbusters are also freed from their binds.  And the episode ends with Catherine asking Egon if he was scared, and Egon announcing that he was, and that he’s okay with admitting it this time.

Well, I admit the episode had potential with the return of the Boogieman.  And I suppose it was somewhat fitting that Egon was the reason why the Boogieman got loose again, considering their personal history that went back to when Egon was a little boy.  Even though I still raise an eyebrow at the implication that only Egon’s fear was intense enough to break through the seal that was keeping the Boogieman trapped inside his realm.  However, maybe this episode was trying to send a subtle moral about how dangerous it could be to not admit it when you’re scared.  Though if that’s what they were going for, I have to say that the Teen Titans episode Fear Itself managed to present that moral far more effectivly.  (If you haven’t watched that particular episode, you really should.)  As for the introduction of the Junior Ghostbusters? As I’ve already said, I find it questionable how the episode had these kid characters being the ones to come to the Ghostbusters’ rescue, as it does send a potentially problematic message about putting kids into dangerous situations.  It’s also a bit strange how the show introduced Donald, Catherine and Jason in the way they did, with them already knowing and being on such familiar terms with the actual Ghostbusters.  Of course, I am aware that the inclusion of the Junior Ghostbusters was one of the additions that the consultant team Q5 deemed necessary when the network started to interfere with the show.  Because they seemed to think that kids needed to see kid characters in their shows. But even so, one has to ask why they didn’t just bring back some of the kid characters they’d already introduced in past episodes.  For instance, Kenny Fenderman from the episode Masquerade.  If the network and Q5 wanted to introduce a team of Junior Ghostbusters, why didn’t they bring Kenny and his friends back?  After all, that previous episode had Peter humoring Kenny by naming him a member of the Ghostbusters Auxiliary.  Not to mention how it had already been established that Kenny was a huge Ghostbusters fanboy, to the point where he even made his own cosplay jumpsuit.  So not having Kenny included among the Junior Ghostbusters is a huge missed opportunity.  

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