Talk:Storkules in Duckburg!/@comment-11094086-20200107215018

...Soooo, nobody's going to mention how this episode is, essentially, a parody of the first two "Ghostbusters" films?

Characters:
 * Louie is Venkman the con artist.
 * Huey is brainy Egon.
 * Webby is Ray.
 * Storkules is Winston, the "everyman" just looking for a job.
 * Ghosts = Harpies, the supernatural terror du jour.

Plot Details:
 * Louie's principal concern is starting a business and Storkules' primary concern is paying the rent, mirroring the Ghostbusters' very every-day concerns in the first film (starting their business, taking out a [third] mortgage on Ray's home to acquire funding for said business, paying for their headquarters, buying the car, blowing the last of their petty cash on take-out Chinese). In fact, both the first "Ghostbusters" film and this episode are essentially about the problems of beginning a new business in pest control.
 * Louie's first "business idea" is rejected by Scrooge, just like how Peter, Ray, and Egon were rejected by Columbia University.
 * The film "Ghostbusters" and this episode both contain montages of the four protagonists capturing their paranormal pests of choice.
 * Louie has the same drive to expand his business that Peter Venkman does; while Venkman dreams of franchising out the Ghostbusters, Louie wants to branch out into merchandising ("Where the REAL money of the movie is made!"). (Come to think of it, the Ghostbusters end up merchandising their business in the second film...)
 * Both the "Ghostbusters" films have scenes of the four protagonists filming commercials, as Louie, Huey, Webby, and Storkules do in this episode.
 * The closet at Donald's houseboat where Storkules stashes the captured harpies is just as over-crowded as Egon's ghost containment unit in the "Ghostbusters" film, and just as EPA Agent Walter Peck (the human antagonist in "Ghostbusters") unwittingly sets all the ghosts free when he deactivates Egon's containment unit, Donald (the non-paranormal antagonist of this episode, in Storkules' story arc) unwittingly sets the harpies loose by opening the closet.
 * Taming the harpies would mirror the "taming" of the ghost "Slimer", who becomes the Ghostbusters' mascot in the animated series.