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"Rage" is the 35th episode of Extreme Ghostbusters, first aired December 1, 1997. With the Firehouse tented for termites and closed for 48 hours, Egon Spengler and Slimer move in with Eduardo Rivera while the team tries to contain a spreading Troll problem. It was directed by Frank Squillace and written by Thomas Pugsley and Greg Klein, with animation by Koko Enterprise Company, Ltd.
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A car ignores warning signs and drives onto a condemned bridge. One of the two young men inside recites a local legend about a bridge monster: "Cross the bridge and cross the creature. Cross the creature and double its wrath." A Troll manifests beneath the span, pounces on the car, and the bridge buckles. The car and the creature drop into the river, the bridge collapses behind the boys as they flee, and the Troll rises out of the water.
At the Firehouse, an exterminator tells Janine Melnitz the building has to be tented for 48 hours and fully evacuated. The exterminator asks if there is anything unusual he should know about; Egon lists low-level ectoplasm, transdimensional spirit matter, and assorted demonic tissues, and Garrett helpfully adds "the usual stuff." Janine first offers Egon a place to stay, then rescinds the offer on remembering Slimer has to come along. Kylie Griffin's cat Pagan dislikes ghosts, Roland Jackson's house has no spare bed, and Garrett Miller is already hosting half a dozen wheelchair basketball players for the state championships. When Eduardo arrives and boasts that he lives alone, Egon and Slimer end up at his place.
Eduardo regrets it almost immediately. Egon is cultivating mold samples in the shower, and Slimer raids the kitchen. Across the city, a Troll watches a Chicken Shack from a rooftop, then steals the daily special and splits into two when the cook threatens it with a frying pan. The Trolls spot a postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge, knock over a boiling pot, and start a kitchen fire before escaping, one out the back door and one up the ventilation shaft.
A woman and a boy come to Eduardo's door. The woman is his sister-in-law Beth, the boy her son, and Eduardo is sharply protective of keeping his living situation private. He orders Egon and Slimer not to move; Eduardo then reaches for his jacket and finds Slimer hiding inside. Egon, oblivious, steps outside and is introduced as a guest, and Beth invites him to dinner. The team works the Chicken Shack call, where Kylie confirms the creature is ectoplasmic. Hostile police arrive, and the lead officer tells Garrett he does not take orders from the Ghostbusters. Eduardo and Kylie chase a Troll into an attic full of old costumes from the shop next door and trap one of them.
Hooked up to Egon's laptop, the captured creature is identified as a Troll, a type that fiercely defends its home and replicates when it feels negative emotions, and that normally nests under bridges. Egon's overloaded equipment sparks an electrical fire, and the hostile cop, drawn by the smoke, rams the door open. He turns out to be Carl, Eduardo's brother, who reminds Eduardo that dinner is at 8 instead of 7:30.
At the Rivera dinner the tension between Eduardo and Carl is plain. Carl, like their late father, is a police officer and resents the Ghostbusters. Egon nearly reveals that Eduardo is one of them before Eduardo cuts him off. Slimer, hidden under the table, quietly eats Eduardo's chicken.
The Trolls reach the Brooklyn Bridge and multiply after a run-in with some punks. Slimer's late-night raid on the Rivera refrigerator brings the team out on a call next door, exposing Eduardo's secret to Beth. Carl and his son Kevin come down to find Eduardo dressed as a Ghostbuster. Kevin, who idolizes the team, slips into Eduardo's apartment, accidentally releases the trapped Troll, grabs a uniform and a Trap, and follows the creature toward the bridge.
On the bridge, dozens of Trolls overwhelm the responding police. Kylie estimates around 50 of them and warns there could be hundreds within minutes. Roland reconfigures the proton packs to magnetize the Trolls and force them to fuse back together. Carl reluctantly asks the Ghostbusters for help. Eduardo charges forward but in the chaos accidentally shoots at three police officers before getting his bearings. He frees Kevin from the Troll holding him, Kevin produces the Trap he brought and captures one Troll, the team reverses the packs' energy flow, and the remaining Trolls merge into a single creature, which Kylie traps. Kevin and Carl are reunited, and Eduardo declares he is proud to be a Ghostbuster and will not hide it anymore. Afterward, Egon and Slimer move out, leaving Eduardo covered in slime and looking forward to clean clothes again.
"Rage" was directed by Frank Squillace and written by Thomas Pugsley and Greg Klein, with animation by Koko Enterprise Company, Ltd. It first aired December 1, 1997, between A Temporary Insanity and Heart of Darkness.
The regular voice cast included Tara Charendoff as Kylie, Maurice LaMarche as Egon, Jason Marsden as Garrett, Pat Musick, Alfonso Ribeiro as Roland, Rino Romano as Eduardo, and Billy West as Slimer. Guest voices included Pamela Brull, Joey Dedio, Thomas Dekker, Tony Plana, and Robbie Rist, whose name is misspelled as "Robbie Reist" in the credits.
Eduardo's wall calendar is set to September, and its layout matches September 1997. This episode is where his family learns he is a Ghostbuster, after he had kept the job hidden from them. He does not actually live alone: his apartment is Carl's guest room. The Rivera family lives at 11148, near the Brooklyn Bridge.
The script works in a few pop-culture nods. Garrett name-drops MTV's "The Real World" while prodding the cook for information, Eduardo recognizes the word "Troll" as the big-haired dolls, one of the punks under the bridge taunts the Trolls as "Sleepy and Dopey" (two of the dwarfs from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"), and Kevin invokes the Ghostbusters' "Who ya gonna call?" line.
The Trolls converging on the Brooklyn Bridge echoes the The Real Ghostbusters episode "Troll Bridge," in which Trolls cause a similar situation at the Queensboro Bridge. Kylie's amusement at Egon's pajamas mirrors a running gag with Roland in "Till Death Do Us Start."
