Title Screen
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue was a half-hour animated drug prevention special starring many of the popular cartoon characters from American Saturday morning television shows, which was simulcast on April 21, 1990 on all three major American television networks (ABC, NBC, and CBS), most independent stations, as well as cable networks Nickelodeon and USA.
Plot[]
Cory (voice of Lindsay Parker), is worried about her older brother Michael (voice of Jason Marsden) because he's started acting differently. When her piggy bank goes missing, her cartoon tie-in toys (which includes Slimer from The Real Ghostbusters) come to life to help her find it. After discovering it in Michael's room, along with his stash of drugs, the various cartoon characters proceed to band together and take him on a fantasy journey to teach him the risks and consequences a life of drug-use can bring. The villain of the story, besides the drugs, is Smoke (voice of George C. Scott), an anthropomorphic cloud of smoke with a mafioso-like appearance and personality.
Related to Ghostbusters[]
Slimer as seen in Cartoons All-Stars to the Rescue
Slimer appeared in the cartoon towards the beginning. Apparently, this Slimer was based on the third season of The Real Ghostbusters.
Trivia[]
- In the scene where ALF and Michael traverse the Hall of Mirrors, ALF makes a football penalty joke; this is a reference to an earlier scene in the film where Michael and Corey's father mentions having watched a football game earlier.
External Links[]
- Internet Movie Database
- X-Entertainment
- TV Party: Paving The Road With Good Intentions: A 20th Anniversary Look Back
- Entire 30-minute special on YouTube
- Entire 30-minute special on YouTube
- Amazon listing for the VHS
- Amazon listings for the Rental Poster Reproduction
Gallery[]
Promotional[]
Program Framegrabs[]
All images in this section framegrabbed from a Rental VHS by Paul Rudoff from Spook Central for the Ghostbusters Wiki.
