Deadliners

"Deadliners" (a pun on the term "deadline") is the fifth episode of The Real Ghostbusters spin-off, Extreme Ghostbusters. In a filthy, dark room, a diner worker named Jimmy is strapped to an operating table by alien-looking restraints. As Jimmy struggles to break free, three mutilated, freakish creatures enter the room, wheeling a cart covered in surgical instruments. Surrounding the increasingly panicking Jimmy, the creatures refer to him, more ... more

"Deadliners" (a pun on the term "deadline") is the fifth episode of The Real Ghostbusters spin-off, Extreme Ghostbusters. In a filthy, dark room, a diner worker named Jimmy is strapped to an operating table by alien-looking restraints. As Jimmy struggles to break free, three mutilated, freakish creatures enter the room, wheeling a cart covered in surgical instruments. Surrounding the increasingly panicking Jimmy, the creatures refer to him, more specifically, his flesh, as "a blank canvas". Grabbing an instrument resembling a warped bone, the leader of the creatures, an obese being with a saw imbedded in its head, begins "the procedure" on Jimmy, who is left screaming. In the fire station, Eduardo and Slimer are watching a news report on J.N. Kline, a horror novelist on par with Stephen King who writes "gore fests" for children; when Kylie begins to complain about how J.N.'s books have no basis in reality, Eduardo promptly hides the book he was looking through under a couch cushion,... less