Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost is an episode of the television series The Real Ghostbusters. It first aired October 13, 1987.
Plot[]
During a routine ghostbust in the city, the Ghostbusters take down a bunch of ghosts at a restaurant, where a young couple are talking about getting rid of a ghost in their own mansion. The man, named John, suggests that they hire the guys for the job, but the woman, Olivia, refuses.
Winston Zeddemore gives John one of their business cards before they go. At the mansion, when the pair try to scare the ghost of Olivia's Uncle Horace away, John loses the card that Winston gave him, and Horace himself uses it to call the Ghostbusters to scare away the other two ghosts so that he can find what he lost.
Another ghost (that escaped from the restaurant the guys were busting) causes trouble in the mansion. When the Ghostbusters arrive, they mistakenly try to bust Horace, who is unaware of the fact that he has now become a ghost. After convincing the guys not to bust him, Egon's PKE meter detects the other ghost, and the guys go after him, only to find that it has taken Olivia hostage. Egon uses a Tarzanesque move to rescue Olivia as the Ghostbusters trap the rogue spook.
Horace, now reunited with Olivia, finally remembers that it was his niece he was searching for. Finally able to say good-bye, Horace passes on peacefully, and both John and Olivia thank the Ghostbusters for their help.
| The Real Ghostbusters TV series | ||
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| Season 1 | Ghosts R Us • Killerwatt • Mr. Roger's Neighborhood • Slimer, Come Home • Troll Bridge • The Boogieman Cometh • Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream • When Halloween Was Forever • Look Homeward, Ray • Take Two • Citizen Ghost • Janine's Genie • Xmas Marks the Spot | |
| Season 2 | Knock, Knock • Station Identification • Play Them Ragtime Boos • Sea Fright • The Spirit of Aunt Lois • Cry Uncle • Adventures in Slime and Space • Night Game • Venkman's Ghost Repellers • The Old College Spirit • Ain't NASA-Sarily So • Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional? • A Fright at the Opera • Doctor, Doctor • Ghost Busted • Beneath These Streets • Boo-Dunit • Chicken, He Clucked • Ragnarok and Roll • Don't Forget the Motor City • Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie? • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost • Hanging By a Thread • You Can't Take It With You • No One Comes to Lupusville • Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin • The Man Who Never Reached Home • The Collect Call of Cthulhu • Bustman's Holiday • The Headless Motorcyclist • The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic • Egon on the Rampage • Lights! Camera! Haunting! • The Bird of Kildarby • Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster • Apocalypse—What, Now? • Lost and Foundry • Hard Knight's Day • Cold Cash and Hot Water • The Scaring of the Green • They Call me MISTER Slimer • Last Train to Oblivion • Masquerade • Janine's Day Off • The Ghostbusters in Paris • The Devil in the Deep • Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral • Ghostbuster of the Year • Deadcon I • The Cabinet of Calamari • A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn • The Revenge of Murray the Mantis • Rollerghoster • I Am the City • Moaning Stones • The Long, Long, Long, Etc. Goodbye • Buster the Ghost • The Devil to Pay • Slimer, Is That You? • Egon's Ghost • Captain Steel Saves the Day • Victor the Happy Ghost • Egon's Dragon • Dairy Farm • The Hole in the Wall Gang | |
| Season 3 | Baby Spookums • It's a Jungle Out There • The Boogeyman Is Back • Once Upon a Slime • The Two Faces of Slimer • Sticky Business • Halloween II 1/2 • Loathe Thy Neighbor • The Grundel • Big Trouble With Little Slimer • The Copycat • Camping It Up • Transylvanian Homesick Blues | |
| Season 4 (Now titled "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters") | The Joke's on Ray • Flip Side • Poultrygeist • Standing Room Only • Robo-Buster • Short Stuff • Follow That Hearse • The Brooklyn Triangle | |
| Season 5 (Now titled "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters") | Transcendental Tourists • Something's Going Around • Trading Faces • Elementar My Dear Winston • Slimer's Curse • Partners in Slime • Til Death Do Us Part • Three Men and an Egon • Kitty-Cornered • If I Were a Witch Man • It's About Time • The Halloween Door • Jailbusters • Surely You Joust • Future Tense • Venk-Man! • Loose Screws • The Ghostbusters! Live from Al Capone's Tomb! • Revenge of the Ghostmaster • Slimer Streak • The Ransom of Greenspud | |
| Season 6 (Now titled "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters") | Janine, You've Changed • You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks • The Haunting of Heck House • Ghost World • Mean Green Teen Machine • Spacebusters • My Left Fang • Russian About • The Slob • Deja Boo • Afterlife in the Fast Lane • Guess What's Coming for Dinner • Stay Tooned • Very Best Friends • Busters in Toyland • The Magnificent Five | |
| Season 7 (Now titled "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters") | The Treaure of Sierra Tamale • Not Now, Slimer! • Attack of the B-Movie Monsters • 20,000 Leagues Under the Street | |
| Slimer! sub-series | Slimer for Hire • Cruisin' for a Bruisin • Nothing to Sneeze At • A Mouse in the House • Cash or Slime • Doctor Dweeb, I Presume • Quickslimer Messenger Service • Pigeon-Cooped • Go-Pher It • Scareface • Sticky Fingers • Don't Tease the Sleaze • Room at the Top • Tea But Not Sympathy • Special Delivery • Out with Grout • Dr. Strangedog • The Dirty Half-Dozen • Movie Madness • Slimer's Silly Symphony • Little Green Sliming Hood • Monkey See, Monkey Don't • Beach Blanket Bruiser • Class Clown • Dog Days • Up Close and Too Personal • Sweet Revenge • Rainy Day Slimer • Slimer & the Beanstalk • Space Case • Show Dog Showdown • The Not-So-Great Outdoors • Unidentified Sliming Object | |