| "Camping It Up"
Production #140010 Season 2, Episode 10 Aired: Saturday December 12, 1987 on ABC Writer: Michael Reaves |
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Synopsis: The Ghostbusters' peaceful camping trip is interrupted by the appearance of a Sasquatch and a rip in the space-time continuum.
Regular Cast Incidentals
- Maurice LaMarche [Bigfoot]
- Kath Soucie [Gopher]
Fun Facts
- The script for this episode can be found on The Real Ghostbusters Scripts page.
- Title Reference: In the "Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms" by Gordon Jarvie, "camp it up" is defined as: "act in a posturing or exaggeratedly effeminate way." The book gives the example: "It was one of those serial comedies about a department store, full of male shop assistants in pin-striped suits camping it up in the most ridiculous fashion." The phrase is "an idiomatic verb phrase from the slang adjective 'camp'".
- The voice actors were recorded on August 5 and 7, 1987. Dave Coulier recorded alone on August 7, 1987.
- Peter watches the television series Moonlighting, starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.
- Ecto-1 drives past a road sign reading "EXIT Q-5" that Michael Reeves wrote into the script as an inside joke regarding the unnecessary changes the Q5 Consulting Group had imposed on the series.
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