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The Real Ghost Busters
S2.E9
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Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?

  • Episode aired Sep 24, 1987
  • TV-Y7
  • 21m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
108
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The Real Ghost Busters (1986)
AnimationActionComedy

The Ghostbusters get called out to investigate strange happenings at the old Walt Fleischer studios, the cartoonist who created Ray's favorite cartoon character, Dopey Dog. They find out the... Read allThe Ghostbusters get called out to investigate strange happenings at the old Walt Fleischer studios, the cartoonist who created Ray's favorite cartoon character, Dopey Dog. They find out the cartoonist, who disappeared 40 years ago, got sucked into a cartoon world where his creat... Read allThe Ghostbusters get called out to investigate strange happenings at the old Walt Fleischer studios, the cartoonist who created Ray's favorite cartoon character, Dopey Dog. They find out the cartoonist, who disappeared 40 years ago, got sucked into a cartoon world where his creations took over, and now they have to get him out.

  • Writers
    • J. Michael Straczynski
    • Dan Aykroyd
    • Harold Ramis
  • Stars
    • Arsenio Hall
    • Maurice LaMarche
    • Lorenzo Music
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    108
    YOUR RATING
    • Writers
      • J. Michael Straczynski
      • Dan Aykroyd
      • Harold Ramis
    • Stars
      • Arsenio Hall
      • Maurice LaMarche
      • Lorenzo Music
    • 1User review
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Arsenio Hall
    Arsenio Hall
    • Winston Zeddemore
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    Maurice LaMarche
    Maurice LaMarche
    • Dr. Egon Spengler
    • (voice)
    • (as Maurice La Marche)
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    Lorenzo Music
    Lorenzo Music
    • Dr. Peter Venkman
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    Laura Summer
    Laura Summer
    • Janine Melnitz
    • (voice)
    Frank Welker
    Frank Welker
    • Dr. Raymond Stantz
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    Nancy Kulp
    Nancy Kulp
    • Ms. Cavendish
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Don Messick
    • Walt Fleischman
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    • Writers
      • J. Michael Straczynski
      • Dan Aykroyd
      • Harold Ramis
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    • Trivia
      The cartoonist Walt Fleischer is named for two real life ones: Walt Disney and Max Fleischer.
    • Goofs
      When the caretaker checks in on Walt and the Ghostbusters returning to the real world, Ray and Peter have each other's hair colors.
    • Quotes

      Peter Venkman: [referring to Ray] Do you have the slightest idea what he's talking about?

      Winston Zeddemore: [shaking his head] Never have, never expect to.

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      GHOSTBUSTERS
      Written by Ray Parker Jr.

      Performed by John Smith

    User reviews1

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    10/10
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    This episode is my tenth favorate of the show and this of course is by one of my favorate writers J Michael Strynski. This I'll admit is a really different territory for the show but then again this show is known to go a lot of strange places. Though what's really strange is their not fighting ghosts , here their dealing with dimentional beings which counts.

    Yeah, it's a wild idea but it was a cool one where the Ghostbusters go into the world of animation, which is funny considering their animated too. The whole episode by it's nature is a love letter to the animation of yesteryear, without cartoon like "Looney Tunes", the Disney shorts, "Popeye", and many others we wouldn't have the animation as well as art we have today.

    We see all of the cleches as well as physics that the Ghostbusters encounter and have to utilize, like seeing them literally pull a lake for Peter to fall into for safety. Though my favorate moment is when their is a forth wall broken when the Ghostbusters look toward the audience.

    The Wenchester Wolf villain is a good villan that you love to hate, he is real sadistic jerk from torturing the poor cartoonist to just playing a lot of dirty tricks on the Ghostbusters that almost kill them, yeah this guy really doesn't want to play nice.

    I even like the protagonist Doopy Dog whom is obviously a homage to "Underdog". Really like the voice sort of a Robin Hood like tone which just sings out chilvary.

    However Ray is the one that really carries out the episode is kinda his episode by it's nature. He is littearlly a die hard fan of animation which I can empathize with because I'm a fan of animation too. And that fandom is the Ghostbusters best weapon for survival, I really love how he points certain things out in animation which is funny because it's all true in most of those cartoons of yesteryear. I also cracked up when he sang out and danced the tune to call out Doopy Dog, it's once again another homage to "Underdog" whenever Polly Purebred was in danger all she had to do was sing the song of distress and he would arrive.

    This episode is colorful fun.

    Rating: 4 stars
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    • Release date
      • September 24, 1987 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures Television
      • DIC Entertainment
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    • Runtime
      21 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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