Jessie: Ghost Bummers is the first episode of Season 3, which aired on the Disney Channel on October 5, 2013. The series follows Jessie Prescott (Debby Ryan), a young woman from a small town who accepts a job as a nanny and moves into a multimillion-dollar penthouse on the Upper West Side with the wealthy Ross family. When Jessie and the kids are excluded from the building Halloween party, they throw their own party, which is interrupted when Emma and Luke become possessed by evil spirits.
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This Halloween-themed episode is a love letter to Ghostbusters, filled with many references. The list below was compiled by Paul Rudoff when the episode first aired in 2013. The timings might include the commercials, as it seems likely the list was made while watching it on the TV broadcast.
- 04m - Building history, Tobin Casternette. Gargoyles are harbingers of doom.
- 07m - Ghost in hallway ala Slimer.
- 12m - Tobin Casternette designed building to be a portal to the spirit world.
- 14m - I am the Doorkeeper. Are you the Codemaster?
- 15m - Ghost in refridgerator.
- 15m - Animals corner guy and girl and possess them ala Louis at Tavern on the Green.
- 16m - I am Zorag the Destroyer.
- 17m - Who You Gonna Call about ghosts?!?
- 17m - Doorkeeper and Codemaster come together to summon demon Zorag.
- 17m - I am the Doorkeeper. I am the Codemaster.
- 18m - The energy force keeping Jessie and company to the wall could be a GB2 ref to when Vigo did the same thing to GBs in museum on the floor.
- 18m - The apartment building even kinda looks like the real-life 55 CPW.
- 22m - Reverse the polarity of ectoplasm to get rid of evil spirits, ala GB1 reverse polarity by crossing the streams and GB2 good slime to combat the bad slime.
- 23m - Prepare for the arrival of Zorak ala Prepare for the coming of Gozer.
- 24m - We spray good goo, ghosts go bye bye - ala GB2's good pink slime.
- 24m - Jessie and company dressed like GBs; final battle on the rooftop.
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