It reminds me of the distractibles podcast episode devils advocate. Wade argued for not putting shopping carts back and was goofy about it. Wade argued for putting them back and gave an argument that he clearly had to make before in his life.
I love how they progressively became more and more enamored with Slimer to the point where I can _totally_ understand why the Ghost Busters kept him around.
Slimer was barely even in the first movie. I've always found it funny that he's like the mascot of the series when he has what's essentially a brief cameo in the first movie.
Slimer is canonically the Ghost of John Bellushi. And I believe he's a ghost race traitor that helped the busters capture other ghosts so he could keep hanging out.
I wish they made just one episode where they exclusively talked about one topic, it's so great when they get into those rambling tangents, even if it was just 35-40 minutes long
@@thebenjcrew calling it the "war ON grandpa" instead of the "war WITH grandpa" blatantly ignores grandpa's involvement in the war and frankly, i will not stand for it.
Justice Moore bustin bustin bustin bustin a dark green, translucent... man, I can not think of a single word that doesn't make this end just fucking awfully.
Oh my god yes. I actually listened again after a while, forgetting why I liked this one so much, and then it got to that bit. I laugh-cried through 3 tissues.
_According to Feig, who created a backstory with Ghostbusters co-writer Katie Dippold, Slimer was a gangster executed for killing a waiter who screwed up his order. Slimer started his afterlife as a more traditional ghoul, but was disfigured when the Ghostbusters were called to the restaurant he was haunting._ _"When the Ghostbusters come in, they haven’t quite tested their equipment yet, so they haven't got the levels right," Feig says. "The proton beams are too hot, so it blows his legs off. Then it turns him green. He starts to distort, and so he becomes Slimer. Then he escaped out into the world."_
So the ghostbusters didn’t sharpen their figurative headsman’s axes enough and horrifically disfigured a spirit for eternity? Kinda botched that one huh Bill Murray?
@@biddyfox Mostly it's just the fact that the 2016 movie is a reboot and so anything established by that movie or its writers doesn't run true to what was written for the original films.
I just realized how terrible the ghost busters were, literally people are getting a second chance at life at the ghost busters roll up and IMPRISON THEM FOREVER
i'm pretty sure in the first movie they confirm that ghosts are just the negative energy left behind by deaths and that's why they can suck em up. like they're not the full entire person reincarnated just weird goopy anger wearing that person's face. and slimers are the weakest ghosts because they don't have faces to wear
Tht is a really good premise for a ghostbusters movie, where they always arrive to capture the ghosts but rather than shooting them they just talk to them and solve their problems, like waking up the invisible man. Conflict could be they are constantly in debt because they sent capturing anything, but they don't want to stick em in a box for all eternity for a misunderstanding
Okay, I kinda feel bad for knowing this, BUT: the cartoon explained this. The Ghostbusters keep Slimer around because he helped them fight a bunch of leftover Gozer marshmallow bits that were possessing their old jumpsuits. Now the Ghostbusters feed him, and in exchange he lets them run experiments on him. Also, he is absolutely a narc for the Ghostbusters.
This totally happened in a Ghostbuster comic. One of the ghostbusters (I'm pretty sure it was Egon) died and went to the ghost zone and met a whole bunch of ghosts.
this is one of the most mbmbam-y mbmbam bits ever lmao. i love that even when it seems like theyre done, theyve run out of things to say about slimer, like at 11:22, nope! turns out there's even more things to say. and it's all gold, start to finish. the oooonly thing that makes this bit not quite the perfect way to introduce someone to mbmbam is that it ends with the prank house bit, which is a callback to a question earlier on in the episode, so it doesnt land as well out of context lol. i mean its still funny, but yeah lol. otherwise this really is the perfect introductory bit
I really want to compile all the persona references Griffin makes on the show, like the midnight channel one from this episode, but that seems like a monumental task considering how many episodes there are now :')
Well, Slimer didn’t just escape. Walter Peck had the engineer turn the power grid off and all the ghosts were let loose. The real question is, “why didn’t they re-bust Slimer?”
Actually, it was explained in the Video Game that he's basically the embodyment of (presumably glutenous) emotions caused by a cult that worshiped Gozer in the Sedgewick Hotel
I know they were doing this for a bit, but the nerd in me feels obligated to point out that slimers general "level 1 ghosthood" is why the ghostbusters kept him around, so they could study a ghost that is the least dangerous to keep around
I feel like Slimer's just their arrested-development 20-something stepchild that just hangs around instantly shitting our all their food and smoking fat, stinky blunts
The most plausible theory is that Egon is the one who advocates for Slimer, he says he is the first on a ghost rehabilitation project, but actually, he is the one who gets him weed, his dark green secret.
Slimer was only ever part of the team in the animated series. In the movies he was an antagonist and was put in containment in the first film. He only escapes because of Peck in the second film. In GB The Video Game, they keep him in a display designed to keep spirits trapped, only for him to escape. He is aggressive and dangerous. The game explains some of Slimer's backstory.
Ok, since ghosts are apparently supposed to be as smart as they were alive, I've decided Slimer is the ghost of a child who starved to death and didnt know english. It explains why hes such a glutton now and can barely communicate
Hopefully you see this, but it's actually explained in the Ghostbusters video game (considered primary canon, basically it's officially the closest we'll likely get to a direct sequel to GB II), Slimer was never a person, rather the culmination of all the glutenous emotions of a cult worshiping Gozer in the Sedgewick Hotel
I think I got it. The only ghosts that they bust are ones that they get called to bust, right? So maybe there's a bunch of chill ghosts hanging out too, if the ghosts are cool then people go "Nah, I'm good, no bustin' required"
Fun fact, it was actually explained by the Video Game that Slimer is actually the culmination of emotions caused by a Cult of Gozer in the Sedgewick Hotel
Griffin and Justin are thinking about this for the first time but Travis seems to have thought about this for decades
It reminds me of the distractibles podcast episode devils advocate. Wade argued for not putting shopping carts back and was goofy about it. Wade argued for putting them back and gave an argument that he clearly had to make before in his life.
I love how they progressively became more and more enamored with Slimer to the point where I can _totally_ understand why the Ghost Busters kept him around.
Ditto really went on a journey here.
"Is it Slimer /milk/?"
"Is he the Devil?"
This is the greatest moment in the history of recorded sound.
Sorry to to disagree but that honor indisputably goes to the Torsey bit.
Slimer was barely even in the first movie. I've always found it funny that he's like the mascot of the series when he has what's essentially a brief cameo in the first movie.
I honestly can't remember, but was he big right after the first movie or was it because of the cartoon and merchandising?
He's their first capture though. It's like your first Pokemon.
Slimer is canonically the Ghost of John Bellushi. And I believe he's a ghost race traitor that helped the busters capture other ghosts so he could keep hanging out.
Wade the Wilson *"ghost race traitor"*
>Ghost race traitor
Top zozzle
He's an Uncle Ghost.
Ghost race traitor. Into the codex with you.
@@AceAttorny uncle casper.
'Slimer's the devil?' has the same energy as 'My butt's a vagina?'
I wish they made just one episode where they exclusively talked about one topic, it's so great when they get into those rambling tangents, even if it was just 35-40 minutes long
The war on grandpa
@@thebenjcrew calling it the "war ON grandpa" instead of the "war WITH grandpa" blatantly ignores grandpa's involvement in the war and frankly, i will not stand for it.
the way griffin says slimer milk makes me fucking sob
Griffin: "It's his fetish"
Bustin makes me feel good!
Justice Moore bustin bustin bustin bustin a dark green, translucent...
man, I can not think of a single word that doesn't make this end just fucking awfully.
Pr0gram McSynth ....ghost
If there's something strange sleeping in your bed. . . lemme tell you something
God, the Prank House portion of this is still the segment out of all episodes of MBMBaM that has broken me the most. So good y'all, so good
+Aujury T. I will never get over "And it's during Burn Notice"
It only airs on the televisions seen IN Burn Notice
Oh my god yes. I actually listened again after a while, forgetting why I liked this one so much, and then it got to that bit. I laugh-cried through 3 tissues.
_According to Feig, who created a backstory with Ghostbusters co-writer Katie Dippold, Slimer was a gangster executed for killing a waiter who screwed up his order. Slimer started his afterlife as a more traditional ghoul, but was disfigured when the Ghostbusters were called to the restaurant he was haunting._
_"When the Ghostbusters come in, they haven’t quite tested their equipment yet, so they haven't got the levels right," Feig says. "The proton beams are too hot, so it blows his legs off. Then it turns him green. He starts to distort, and so he becomes Slimer. Then he escaped out into the world."_
Jesus Christ
So the ghostbusters didn’t sharpen their figurative headsman’s axes enough and horrifically disfigured a spirit for eternity? Kinda botched that one huh Bill Murray?
This is terrible Ghostbusters 2016 canon, disregard it everyone.
Amstrad oh my god is there like ghostbusters canon discourse i'm missing
@@biddyfox Mostly it's just the fact that the 2016 movie is a reboot and so anything established by that movie or its writers doesn't run true to what was written for the original films.
I just realized how terrible the ghost busters were, literally people are getting a second chance at life at the ghost busters roll up and IMPRISON THEM FOREVER
Baron11704
I'm pretty sure the Real Ghostbusters cartoon confirmed they were basically banishing the ghosts to Literal Hell, too.
Just like real prison!
i'm pretty sure in the first movie they confirm that ghosts are just the negative energy left behind by deaths and that's why they can suck em up. like they're not the full entire person reincarnated just weird goopy anger wearing that person's face. and slimers are the weakest ghosts because they don't have faces to wear
4:18 "it's SLIMER and he's there to watch you FUCK!!" is the best sentence i've heard all day
Tht is a really good premise for a ghostbusters movie, where they always arrive to capture the ghosts but rather than shooting them they just talk to them and solve their problems, like waking up the invisible man. Conflict could be they are constantly in debt because they sent capturing anything, but they don't want to stick em in a box for all eternity for a misunderstanding
deadbeat. you should watch deadbeat if this is what you want.
you just described The Medium, and like 4 other shows. congratulations on figuring out how to remove all style from ghostbusters with just 1 change
Okay, I kinda feel bad for knowing this, BUT: the cartoon explained this. The Ghostbusters keep Slimer around because he helped them fight a bunch of leftover Gozer marshmallow bits that were possessing their old jumpsuits. Now the Ghostbusters feed him, and in exchange he lets them run experiments on him. Also, he is absolutely a narc for the Ghostbusters.
the more i listen to this, the more i pick up and the more everything kinda ties together. this will forever be their best bit ever
"He's just gonna slime around." Best out of context sentence of the year award there
I think mad Travis may be more amusing than mad Griffin.
props to griffin for predicting the level of thought that went into every joke in Ghostbusters 2016
This totally happened in a Ghostbuster comic. One of the ghostbusters (I'm pretty sure it was Egon) died and went to the ghost zone and met a whole bunch of ghosts.
this is one of the most mbmbam-y mbmbam bits ever lmao. i love that even when it seems like theyre done, theyve run out of things to say about slimer, like at 11:22, nope! turns out there's even more things to say. and it's all gold, start to finish. the oooonly thing that makes this bit not quite the perfect way to introduce someone to mbmbam is that it ends with the prank house bit, which is a callback to a question earlier on in the episode, so it doesnt land as well out of context lol. i mean its still funny, but yeah lol. otherwise this really is the perfect introductory bit
griffin's noise @ 2:46 also "doon't it always seem to go"
Breanna W Joni Mitchell!!!
Yes epic :D !
I always thought Slimer's deal was that they couldn't contain him.
GoldKnightProduction
Like Pikachu.
Just gotta say, that is an adorable picture!
Happy 6 years to the video that convinced me to listen to mbmbam
"He's an invisible man, not a ghost" Idk why, but that kills me
I really want to compile all the persona references Griffin makes on the show, like the midnight channel one from this episode, but that seems like a monumental task considering how many episodes there are now :')
Well, Slimer didn’t just escape. Walter Peck had the engineer turn the power grid off and all the ghosts were let loose. The real question is, “why didn’t they re-bust Slimer?”
i just realized. slimer is basically the 80s equivalent of a minion.
what.
Dem bad post op
Dem that's a bit of a stretch, they didn't make an entire film about slimer. They didn't make an entire film about slimer right
Dem yeah... but there was one slimer, and he had like 2-5 minutes of screen time
Mike Fortier true but then he became one of the most well known character, a hit with the kids and on almost all of the marketing
What I guess is a testament (???) to Slimer is that all of these potential explanations are equally believable
Actually, it was explained in the Video Game that he's basically the embodyment of (presumably glutenous) emotions caused by a cult that worshiped Gozer in the Sedgewick Hotel
I'm glad Ghostbusters: Afterlife addressed this question 💗
well now someone needs to animate this with the real ghostbusters
all i took from this bit was "slimer is a class traitor"
I listened to this episode at work yesterday and I was literally in tears from having to hold back my laughter while stocking the deli meats
they've just described the plot of mob psycho 100
I know they were doing this for a bit, but the nerd in me feels obligated to point out that slimers general "level 1 ghosthood" is why the ghostbusters kept him around, so they could study a ghost that is the least dangerous to keep around
I did not realize this bit was SIXTEEN MINUTES LONG
did someone grasp his teats firmly
And also softly
I feel like Slimer's just their arrested-development 20-something stepchild that just hangs around instantly shitting our all their food and smoking fat, stinky blunts
The most plausible theory is that Egon is the one who advocates for Slimer, he says he is the first on a ghost rehabilitation project, but actually, he is the one who gets him weed, his dark green secret.
Slimer was only ever part of the team in the animated series. In the movies he was an antagonist and was put in containment in the first film. He only escapes because of Peck in the second film.
In GB The Video Game, they keep him in a display designed to keep spirits trapped, only for him to escape. He is aggressive and dangerous. The game explains some of Slimer's backstory.
Ok, since ghosts are apparently supposed to be as smart as they were alive, I've decided Slimer is the ghost of a child who starved to death and didnt know english. It explains why hes such a glutton now and can barely communicate
Hopefully you see this, but it's actually explained in the Ghostbusters video game (considered primary canon, basically it's officially the closest we'll likely get to a direct sequel to GB II), Slimer was never a person, rather the culmination of all the glutenous emotions of a cult worshiping Gozer in the Sedgewick Hotel
@@heliveruscalion9124 that is so fucking wild
@@wommiez i know right
I love how they didn’t answer the question but goddamn I’m glad they didn’t
I think I got it.
The only ghosts that they bust are ones that they get called to bust, right? So maybe there's a bunch of chill ghosts hanging out too, if the ghosts are cool then people go "Nah, I'm good, no bustin' required"
Reverse ghostbusters where they adopt ghosts
That's pokemon
Them talking about Slimer smoking weed is peak sibling conversation
Travis's voice sounds like slimer's from the real ghostbusters. It's uncanny.
So, bustin' makes HIM feel good? It all makes sense.
16:37 what a good persona 4 reference holy shit
We now know the answer to this question
i never knew slimer had a bad bad nasty scat kink
i had to dislike this comment.
Well question asker... It happens
My favorite thing is them talking about Burn Notice
maybe the ghostbusters are slimers parents. just a thought
Realized this was just answered in Ghostbusters Afterlife
My favorite goof
Slimer milk!
6:41
Nice Rent Reference.
Egon is the new slimer
Slimer is the ghost of Paul Blart.
That's impossible. Paul Blart cannot die.
Slimer listened to this. He wants to slime you
Is this leading up to the Slimer explanation being that he’s a dead Ghostbuster and that’s why he has special privileges?
Fun fact, it was actually explained by the Video Game that Slimer is actually the culmination of emotions caused by a Cult of Gozer in the Sedgewick Hotel
13:56 Slimer is a brat sub confirmed
6:42
Is that a JoJo's reference?
1:19 I'm actually in the process of getting a rat
13:05 just making myself a timestamp dont mind me
The Ghostbusters maintain the ghost of a mental impaired child as a pet.
isn't Ashton Kutcher married to Mila Kunis?
Yes, that is the part of this narrative I am taking umbrage with
I wonder if Slimer will be female in the upcoming reboot. Peeps will revolt!
rsmalec So you think Slimer is male? I'll need some documentation on that.
slimer is slimer
I love that lesbian slimer...
Someone out there is super into that idea.