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| Episode: | 24 |
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| Title: | Boo! |
| Original Air Date: | March 7, 1996 |
| Guest Stars: | Bill Nye, Michael Norman |
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| :WAITING | |
| (Opening theme & titles) | |
| Space Ghost: | (invisos in to set) Greetings! It's me, Space Ghost! Please say hello to my band, Zorak and the Original Way Outs! |
| (Way Outs play Space Ghost to the desk) | |
| Space Ghost: | (invisos to desk) My first guest is both an author and an expert on the supernatural and hereafter! Ghost expert Michael Norman! |
| (Screen lowers with Michael) | |
| Space Ghost: | Greetings, Michael! |
| Michael Norman: | Well, thanks, nice, nice being here, I think. |
| Space Ghost: | You think!? |
| Michael Norman: | I hope. |
| Space Ghost: | You hope? |
| Michael Norman: | I'm sure. |
| Space Ghost: | You're sure... Okay, Michael Norman, what make you a ghost expert? |
| Michael Norman: | I'm a ghost writer. Written books, "Haunted America", "Historic Haunted America", maybe you can help me write "Haunted Universe". |
| Space Ghost: | I'm probably too busy with my show, but thank you for the offer. |
| Michael Norman: | You can be my research assistant. |
| Space Ghost: | Too busy, I said. |
| Michael Norman: | Okay. |
| Space Ghost: | Hey Mike, why don't you write a book about me? |
| Michael Norman: | Absolutely, absolutely. Uh, we'll have a whole chapter, on, on, on, on space ghosts. |
| Space Ghost: | I don't want a chapter, son, I want a book! |
| Michael Norman: | Okay. |
| Space Ghost: | You can call it "Portrait of Space Ghost as a Young Man". (laughs) Ahhh! |
| Michael Norman: | I'm looking for, uh, a good research assistant, somebody who could, you know, help me, and identify those places in the universe that, uh, might have some ghost stories. |
| Space Ghost: | Look, Mike, I'm not going to be your assistant. I host my own talk show! |
| Michael Norman: | I'll give you credit, you know, in the bibliography, I'll even put you on the... |
| Space Ghost: | Mike, tell the universe what you know about ghosts. |
| Michael Norman: | The, uh, the ghosts of Halloween are nothing like ghosts in real life. |
| Space Ghost: | You don't say! |
| Michael Norman: | Ghosts exist in a, in a plane or in a time, uh, that is, when they lived, in other words, they don't exist on the same level, on the same plane that we do. |
| Space Ghost: | Meaning ghosts are wiser and more sophisticated than certain other beings, of course. |
| Zorak: | Geek! |
| Moltar: | Loser! |
| Michael Norman: | (laughs) |
| Space Ghost: | So, uh... who are you again? |
| Michael Norman: | Say the question again? |
| Space Ghost: | So, you are... |
| Michael Norman: | I'm Michael Norman... |
| Space Ghost: | Okay, Michael Norman! |
| Michael Norman: | (laughs) |
| Space Ghost: | (laughs) Okay, Mr. Expert! Explain to the universe how it's okay that my existence defies all known laws of physics! |
| Michael Norman: | I think you'd have to explain that to me, because you're the first ghost I've ever met. |
| Space Ghost: | I'm the first ghost you've ever met? I thought you were the expert! |
| Michael Norman: | I've not seen a ghost up until today, so, uh, I suppose this is my, my scariest encounter, but it's been very benign, and a very nice encounter, uh, if, if I might say so. |
| Space Ghost: | Of course you may, Mr. Expert! |
| Michael Norman: | How long have you been a ghost? |
| Space Ghost: | Me? (pause) Oh, thirty-odd years, give or take. |
| Michael Norman: | What caused you to be a ghost? |
| Space Ghost: | Um... an accident. |
| Michael Norman: | Oh. I'm sorry. |
| Space Ghost: | Oh, that's okay. It was a long time ago, I'm much better... since, the accident (voice echoes) |
| Michael Norman: | Uh, what kind of an accident? |
| Space Ghost: | Oh, you know. Farming. |
| Michael Norman: | A farming accident. What happened in the farming accident? |
| Space Ghost: | Mmmm, we were farming, things got out of hand... it all happened so fast. It was horrible. |
| Michael Norman: | Okay. Uh, and, and, and now... |
| Space Ghost: | (emotionally distraught) I'm sorry... it's difficult for me... I'm, I'm sure you understand |
| Michael Norman: | And somehow that caused you to be... to become a ghost. |
| Space Ghost: | (normal voice) You know what? It was fishing. |
| Michael Norman: | It was fishing. |
| Space Ghost: | A fishing accident. |
| Michael Norman: | You're not sure how you became a ghost, are you really a ghost, are you sort of making this up as you go along? |
| Zorak: | (stifles a laugh) |
| Space Ghost: | I... uhh... what, you think I'm lying? |
| Michael Norman: | Do you require oxygen? |
| Space Ghost: | Um... no. |
| Michael Norman: | Well, then, I suppose you're not a living thing. |
| Space Ghost: | Um... Oh! I mean, yes! I do! I do require oxygen! |
| Michael Norman: | (sighs) |
| Space Ghost: | Um, I mean, no I don't? |
| :INTERRUPT FEED | |
| :START FEED | |
| Moltar: | (in control room, watching a horse rearing up) Wilburrr... |
| Michael Norman: | What, what kind of, of plane are you on? |
| Space Ghost: | Uhhhmmm... |
| Michael Norman: | What kind of, of level are you... |
| Space Ghost: | I'm sorry, I don't understand the... |
| Michael Norman: | Are you in the same dimension that I'm in, or are you in a different dimension? |
| Space Ghost: | Um, both. |
| Michael Norman: | You're in both, how, how do you manage that? |
| Space Ghost: | Uh, I'm sorry, I meant the first one. |
| Michael Norman: | Okay. |
| Space Ghost: | That's it, yup, the first one. (aside) Hey, Moltar, this guy is trouble, why did you book him? |
| Moltar: | Eh, you booked him yourself! |
| Space Ghost: | I did? |
| Moltar: | Yeah, you wanted him to write a book about you. |
| Space Ghost: | Oh yeah. |
| Zorak: | You could always just blast him. |
| Space Ghost: | Oh, now Zorak... |
| Zorak: | Blast him! Blast him! |
| Space Ghost: | Michael, why all the probing questions? I hope you're not planning one of those silly "tell all" books that will make me look bad and... |
| Michael Norman: | Uh, when, when you're a ghost, do you, um, did you scare, I mean, are people scared when they meet you? |
| Zorak: | Blast him! |
| Space Ghost: | Who, me? |
| Zorak: | Blast him! |
| Space Ghost: | Who wants to know? |
| Zorak: | Blast him! |
| Space Ghost: | You? |
| Zorak: | Blast him! |
| Space Ghost: | Uh, what was the question again? |
| Zorak: | Blast him! Blast him! |
| Space Ghost: | Do you mind, Zorak? I'm trying to do an interview here! |
| Zorak: | Blast him! Blast him! Blast him! Blast him! Blast him! |
| Space Ghost: | Now, Zorak, violence is not the answer... |
| Zorak: | Blast him! Blast him! Blast him! Blast him! Blblbl... Aiieeegg!! (Space Ghost blasts Zorak) |
| Space Ghost: | Hey Mike, when Zorak dies, will he become a ghost? |
| Michael Norman: | Well, is he a "praying" mantis, first of all? |
| Space Ghost: | Sometimes. |
| Michael Norman: | Okay. Well, if he's a praying mantis, then perhaps he has prepared himself for death. |
| Zorak: | (crisped) Bring it on! |
| Space Ghost: | He's in his own little world, Mike. Not like you and me. You and me, Mike. Nice guys! That's what we are. The same good stock. |
| Michael Norman: | I would, I would want to know, uh, what it's like being a ghost. |
| Space Ghost: | Uh, what is what like? |
| Michael Norman: | Is it lonely? |
| Space Ghost: | Actually, I'm the only ghost on Ghost Planet. |
| Michael Norman: | Oh, okay. |
| Space Ghost: | (I think...) |
| Michael Norman: | Would you like to go searching for ghosts, in, in other parts of the universe? |
| Space Ghost: | Oh, I've tried, I've tried. |
| Michael Norman: | Uh, how, how would you do that? Would you, uh, uh, advertise somehow, or talk to your friends? |
| Space Ghost: | Well, I would probably take out an ad in the paper. (clears throat) "SMSG, 30, clean-shaven, seeks a like-minded SFSG who enjoys long walks underwater, Mexican fiestas, drives through hyperspace, and quiet evenings at home." |
| Michael Norman: | Hmmm... |
| Space Ghost: | And if that didn't work, I'd still have my sleek Phantom Cruiser. |
| Michael Norman: | Okay, alright. And, and, how, how, how would the, the cruiser help? They would see that, and know that you're driving it, and then... |
| Space Ghost: | And then they would associate me with the cool ride! |
| Michael Norman: | So there are ghost babes out there? |
| Space Ghost: | (laughs) Sure! For the pickin'. Beefy guy like me! |
| Michael Norman: | Well, thirty years, when you're very masculine, you know, if you haven't found a space babe, can be, uh, can be a tough time. |
| Space Ghost: | Well, I have my talk show, y'know. My hobbies. |
| Michael Norman: | What does a ghost do to pass his time in, in the universe? |
| Space Ghost: | Oh, not much. You know, interview people... |
| Michael Norman: | Interview people, and so forth... |
| Space Ghost: | Yeah, and interview people. |
| Michael Norman: | You still consider yourself male, or... |
| Space Ghost: | Or what? |
| Zorak: | (laughs) |
| Space Ghost: | Or what!? |
| Moltar: | (laughs) |
| Space Ghost: | Or what!? |
| Michael Norman: | (laughs) |
| Space Ghost: | Okay, Michael Norman, what's so funny? |
| Michael Norman: | I'm sorry. |
| Space Ghost: | Tell me what you said. |
| Michael Norman: | Well, you said you were masculine, very masculine, so I'm sure thirty years has been a long time, I'm sure. |
| Space Ghost: | Look, Mr. Expert, I don't need you comin' on my show and makin' me feel stupid! I get enough of that from my staff! |
| Zorak: | Yeah! That's our job! |
| Moltar: | Yeah, back off! |
| Michael Norman: | I'm not scared of you. |
| Space Ghost: | You're not, eh? Well, maybe this will scare you, Mr. Expert! Boo! Booooo!! Woooooooo!! (blasts Michael off screen) |
| Zorak: | Alright! |
| Space Ghost: | Moltar, find me another expert! One that likes me this time, okay? |
| Moltar: | (throws lever four times, showing a blond-haired woman, a Bill Clinton impersonator, a long-haired youth, and finally, Bill Nye) I, uh, please welcome your next guest, science guy Bill Nye. |
| Space Ghost: | Okay, please welcome my next guest, science guy Bill Nye. |
| Bill Nye: | It's great to be here. |
| Space Ghost: | It's great to have you here. |
| Bill Nye: | Yeah! |
| Space Ghost: | Yeah! |
| Bill Nye: | Oh yeah. (takes a deep breath) Yeah, yeah. |
| Space Ghost: | Science guy, I'd like for you to explain to our young viewers why they should believe in ghosts... |
| Bill Nye: | Okay... |
| Space Ghost: | ... and that it's okay that I'm able to transcend all laws of physics, and appear on television. |
| Bill Nye: | You must be part of science that we don't understand yet, that's what I figure... |
| Space Ghost: | (with red flashing "AUDIO SCRATCH TRACK" at top of screen, counters at bottom of screen, and Bill Clinton voice) You hear that, Zorak? Keep talkin', Bill. |
| Bill Nye: | You're from stuff that's too complicated for us at our level, right now, to get. |
| Space Ghost: | You know what, Bill? Perhaps I am. (smile sparkles) |
| (Credits roll) | |
| Space Ghost: | (laughs) Ahhh... |
| GUEST STARS Michael Norman Bill Nye |
| WRITERS Matt Harrigan Dave Willis |
| EDITORS Bill Wilner (inverted) Tom Roche |
| MUSIC Sonny Sharrock Eddie Horst |
| MUSICIANS Sonny Sharrock Lance Carter Eddie Horst Alfrieda Gerald |
| VOICES George Lowe C. Martin Croker Bill Wilner |
| DESIGN COMPANY DESIGNefx |
| ANIMATION DIRECTOR C. Martin Croker |
| SOUND DESIGN Roy Clements |
| PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Kaili Rubin |
| PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Gus Jordan |
| TALENT ASSISTANT Robin Agranoff |
| SPECIAL THANKS Hanna-Barbera John Kukla Tim Roche |
| ORIGINAL SPACE GHOST DESIGN Alex Toth |
| ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Dave Willis |
| PRODUCER Matt Harrigan |
| PRODUCER Keith Crofford |
| PRODUCER Michael Lazzo |
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Animated Characters TM & © 1966 Hanna Barbera Productions, Inc.
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