The Real Ghostbusters Episode Guide: "Camping It Up"

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"Camping It Up"

Production #140010
Season 2, Episode 10

Aired: Saturday December 12, 1987
on ABC

Writer: Michael Reaves

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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