The WORST episodes of The Real Ghostbusters
Every episode of The Real Ghostbusters ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Real Ghostbusters!
The Real Ghostbusters continues where the first movie left off, with the four Ghostbusters facing forces of the supernatural. Helping out the Ghostbusters would be their secretary, Janine Melnitz, and (eventually) Louis Tully. Also joining in would be the green ghost busted at the Sedgewick Hotel in the first movie, which was given the name Slimer.
#1 - Til Death Do Us Part
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/2/1989
With Janine on vacation, a beautiful temporary secretary, Dixie, is hired as a substitute. Dixie, secretly a ghost, is short on office skills, but her beauty has the Ghostbusters falling over themselves to impress her.
#3 - Attack of the B-Movie Monsters
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1991
The Ghostbusters are called to Japan to investigate the sighting of several immense creatures in the Tokyo Bay. A local schoolboy, Kenji, tells the Ghostbusters that the creatures are identical to old Japanese movie monsters of the fifties!
#4 - Future Tense
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1989
After a successful bust the Ghostbusters are given a television set as thanks, but due to a piece of spectral matter that has become lodged within it, the television reveals alarming visions of the future… including the death of the Ghostbusters!
#5 - Hanging By a Thread
Season 2 - Episode 64 - Aired 12/10/1987
A large horde of demons invades the city looking for a pair of scissors once owned by the mythical Three Fates. Now, the Ghostbusters find themselves in the depths of the netherworld, racing to stop the demons from controlling the lifespans of all mankind.
#6 - It's About Time
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/9/1989
The firehouse, by the Mayor's mandate, must be torn down to make way for an urban renewal project. In the midst of their packing, Peter inadvertently short-circuits a Ghost Trap and catapults them all back to the year 1959!
#7 - Spacebusters
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1990
Winston is accepted to the National Space Program as a civilian expert in supernatural phenomena, but during his visit at the space station he comes across a class seven alien ghosts that is sucking the energy and atoms out of his fellow astronauts!
#8 - The Old College Spirit
Season 2 - Episode 55 - Aired 11/27/1987
A group of college students are being hunted by a gang of unruly frat ghosts, but the Ghostbusters find that they must help the phantoms graduate!
#9 - Venk-Man!
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1989
Peter becomes supercharged with extraordinary powers of strength and flight, but his new super powers are not without a price.
#10 - Kitty-Cornered
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/25/1989
A witch's lost black cat is found by Slimer and use its powers to grant all of Slimer's fondest wishes, resulting in chaos at the firehouse.
#11 - Surely You Joust
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/25/1989
An ethereal baby dragon draws the Ghostbusters into a real fairy tale, complete with an evil wizard and a climactic duel pitting ancient wizardry against ghostbusting technology!
#12 - Sea Fright
Season 2 - Episode 42 - Aired 11/10/1987
A ghostly pirate crew invades New York, intent on reclaiming their lost treasure from a museum. The Ghostbusters not only find themselves outnumbered, but on occasion, outwitted by the pirate ghosts!
#13 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost?
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/9/1987
The Ghostbusters are puzzled when the ghost they are trying to capture on their latest bust claims to be the one who called them! Confusion and calamity follows as a real ghost tries to rid his home of fake ghosts!
#14 - A Fright at the Opera
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/26/1987
Attending an opera, Egon and a disinterested Peter are shocked when ghostly Valkyries actually appear and create havoc. The Ghostbusters are soon facing the music... and the Valkyries!
#15 - Standing Room Only
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1988
Peter creates a Ghost Attractor which lures ghosts to the firehouse like a magnet. He believes that it will not only save the Ghostbusters a lot of legwork, but that it will also make them millionaires. Things don't go as planned.
#16 - Partners in Slime
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1989
An overstuffed ghost named Poso wishes to become the ghostfather of all ghosts. He kidnaps Janine and Louis and as ransom for their release, he demands that the Ghostbusters turn over their headquarters and their ghostbusting equipment.
#17 - If I Were a Witch Man
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1989
The Ghostbusters are called to a small, New England village to exorcise a recently escaped ancient witch, Kestrel. Her intent is to exact revenge on various town descendants, including the Spengler family. Undercover in the local all-girls school, Egon is taken possession of by Kestrel!
#18 - Guess What's Coming to Dinner
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1990
While the Ghostbusters are on vacation, a grotesque ghost family moves into the firehouse. The guys return to find their home redecorated, all of their equipment thrown away, and the Containment Unit damaged!
#19 - Transcendental Tourists
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1989
Peter, Winston and Slimer head for Mount Rushmore on a much-anticipated vacation. However, a ghost family on their centennial holiday want the place all to themselves!
#20 - Mean Green Teen Machine
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1990
The Mean Green Teen Machine, three reptilian-like surfing ghosts, catch a wave into New York City in order to satisfy their unquenchable craving for pizza. After a day of battling the three ghosts, the Ghostbusters decide to test Egon's latest machine which can provide any desired dream... or nightmare!
#21 - Transylvanian Homesick Blues
Season 2 - Episode 65 - Aired 12/11/1987
Count Vostok sends four Concorde tickets and requests that the Ghostbusters travel to Boldavia to rid his castle of a ghost. When the Ghostbusters arrive and are unable to locate a mirror, they begin to realize that things are not what they seem.
#22 - The Haunting of Heck House
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1990
In flashback, the Ghostbusters recount their most dangerous exploit: the time they spent the night in Heck House, the most haunted house on the planet, inhabited by thousands of ghosts! For their troubles they are to receive a million dollars apiece, provided they survive the evening until dawn, without their Proton Packs!
#23 - My Left Fang
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1990
The mysterious disappearance of all of the ghosts in a haunted Transylvanian town is threatening their tourism and economy. The Ghostbusters are called in to bring the ghosts back, but they meet an evil Count who wants to stop them.
#24 - Slimer's Curse
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/2/1989
Slimer wins a million dollars in cash on the lottery, but everything Slimer buys with his prize money is cursed!
#25 - Apocalypse... What, Now?
Season 2 - Episode 48 - Aired 11/18/1987
The Canon of St Theophilus, a book missing from an abbey in Greece since the 1860s, turns up at a New York auction and is accidentally purchased by Peter. Unbeknownst to the Ghostbusters, the sealed volume contains within it the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.