Til Death Do Us Part

Til Death Do Us Part is an episode of the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. With Janine away on vacation, the team hires a temporary secretary named Dixie. She is beautiful, secretly a ghost, and useless at office work, but her looks have the Ghostbusters tripping over each other to impress her.¹

Written by Pat Allee and Ben Hurst, the episode first aired on December 2, 1989, as part of the show's fifth season. It runs about fifteen minutes, paired in the DVD release under the number 110B.

Outside the Firehouse, Janine runs down a to-do list for the Ghostbusters before leaving on vacation, including annual Proton Pack maintenance and a morning interview for a temporary secretary. An entity watches from a nearby alley. Slimer weeps as Janine departs in a taxi.

Peter volunteers to run the interviews. The first applicant, an older woman named Mrs. Attelmeyer, demonstrates that she can type 120 words per minute. Egon finds her well qualified and is ready to hire her, but the others pull him aside and talk him out of it. The second applicant, a young Southern belle named Dixie, arrives, and the whole team is instantly smitten.

Dixie cannot find the "D" on the keyboard, but the guys cheerfully point it out for her. While she goes upstairs, Peter, Ray, Winston, and Slimer dress up and bring her flowers. Slimer wins a kiss on the cheek; Peter later earns one with a box of chocolates, then watches her devour the candy like an animal.

That evening Egon is baffled by a garbled message Dixie took, and she vanishes before he can question her. The next morning everyone but Egon votes to keep her on. Dixie then visits Egon's laboratory and hypnotizes him. When Slimer interrupts their kiss, she twists her face into something monstrous to scare him off, then resumes the kiss. The Firehouse rumbles and the sky darkens.

Dixie's two brothers appear and steal two Particle Throwers, declaring it is time for a wedding. Egon asks for one last request, to bake the wedding cake, and slips off to the kitchen. An explosion follows. With the others distracted, Peter hides Slimer under a couch cushion, and the team lays out the apparently dead Egon. Slimer rises from the body and impersonates Egon, a trick he had pulled before in "Slimer, Is That You?" Ghostly guests arrive for the ceremony. "Egon" stalls with a song scraped out on a chalkboard, then hands Dixie a bouquet laced with wolfsbane, melting her face and that of her brother Jim Bob, who catches it. Dixie patches herself up with makeup, but when it comes time to kiss "Egon" she is repulsed by the slime and calls off the wedding. Egon thanks Slimer for the save.

As Peter muses about Egon's effect on secretaries, the alarm sounds. The team and Slimer pile into Ecto-1, only to be stopped by their newest temp, who turns out to be Egon's mother. To his embarrassment she makes them all wear sweaters and hands out thermoses of soup before they leave.

The episode carries production number 201014.² Voice work was recorded on June 14, 1989.² The regular cast included Dave Coulier, Frank Welker, Maurice LaMarche, Buster Jones, and Kath Soucie.

Slimer is shown to be able to blush, which turns his whole body red. Two of Dixie's guests are goblins resembling those associated with Samhain, and the H2 Ghost appears among the wedding guests. The wolfsbane hidden in Dixie's bouquet is a traditional deterrent against werewolves.

The episode is preceded in air-date and DVD order by "Slimer's Curse" and followed by "It's About Time."

Eatock, James & Mangels, Andy (2008). The Real Ghostbusters Complete Collection booklet, p. 34. CPT Holdings, Inc. ↩

Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report, "Til Death Do Us Part" (1989). ↩ ↩²

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