Cavalcade of Awesome

Okay, so the last two episodes of The Real Ghostbusters I talked about (Take Two, Citizen Ghost) were super meta and attempted to deal with some issues of canon pertaining to the cartoons and the movie.  They were fun and interesting episodes.

Now, let’s take a look at a later episode that isn’t all “canon-y” and is just a cool episode that I had heard about but never seen.

Season 4 Episode 2 – Flip Side.  I forget where I first heard of this episode.  I thought it was over on Shawn’s website when he was doing animation cels for Halloween several years ago.  I could have sworn he had a Peoplebusters animation cel. The Peoplebusters are the ghost world version of the Ghostbusters.  It was such an awesome concept that I’ve been wanting to watch the episode in which they were introduced for years.  But I couldn’t find the animation cel on Shawn’s site, so maybe it was in the comments of an unrelated episode of the show.  I’m not sure.

This particular episode is during one of the later seasons where they changed the show name to Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters.

In this episode the guys are taken via a dimensional storm to an alternate New York called Boo York, aka The Big Pumpkin.  It’s a flip universe populated by ghosts.

The guys go to their headquarters to figure out what’s going on and see things are very different. I love that the Peoplebusters sign has Egon in the cross bar.

The guys walk into the building and they run into this universe’s version of themselves…The Peoplebusters!  Yes!  Ghosts who hunt people!  I’ve always loved the idea of antagonists that are the reverse of the protagonists.  Sherlock Holmes/Moriarty.  Flash/Reverse Flash.  Ghostbusters/Peoplebusters.  I love it.

Since the Ghostbusters are humans in the ghost world, they seem to have all the abilities that ghosts do in our world. The very first of which is, they can fly.  The guys spend the episode learning about being people in a ghost world all while being chased by the Peoplebusters.

Here’s the containment unit the Peoplebusters use. It’s a giant awesome metal skull that “eats” the humans.

This is the Peoplebuster’s Ecto-1. And I think it’s kind of badass.  The Ghostbusters really need to take notes on this one.  It’s like a Mad Max vehicle raped a Batmobile.

Not only is this a very good episode, the visual design of the alternate Boo York is superb.  I highly recommend watching this episode if you haven’t.

Also, check out the blog Countdown to Halloween for more Halloween-y, bloggy AWESOMEness.

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