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On a hot day, the Ghostbusters are frustrated with both the heat and the flies that they're failing to kill. They're also bored, since they haven't had a call all week. Meanwhile, Professor Dweeb is driving around the city trying to hunt ghosts with his new invention. Elizabeth is with him, still just as semi-anthropomorphic as she was in the "Slimer" shorts.

He parks outside the firehouse with him and Elizabeth in disguise, then a portal opens in the sky, out of which falls a monster. The monster appreciates some trash, then knocks on the firehouse door. Slimer lets him in, and Dweeb enters disguised as a vacuum cleaner salesman. The Ghostbusters are fooled, but Slimer isn't, then Dweeb tries to suck him up. He sucks up other stuff too, then Peter throws a chair, which blocks the machine, then it sucks up Janine's desk, which pins him to the wall. The machine then sucks the desk up completely, followed by Dweeb's head, who stumbles out of the firehouse.

He gets his head unstuck, then Elizabeth pops out and both of them are grabbed by the monster. He reveals that he's also a ghost and offers to help Dweeb catch Slimer in exchange for freeing the Sleaze (from the "Slimer" short "Don't Tease the Sleaze"), who he reveals to be his brother.

The Ghostbusters and Slimer clean up, and then they get a call, which turns out to be Dweeb and the big ghost lying. The Ghostbusters and Slimer arrive at their destination, a dirty, abandoned area that was abandoned due to the garbage disposal workers going on strike. There, they meet the big ghost, who they try to fire at but they miss and he spits trash bags at them.

Dweeb and Elizabeth go to the containment unit and bait the Sleaze using a rotten sub. Then, Dweeb removes the Sleaze using an invention. Back at the abandoned area, the Ghostbusters are still failing to bust the big ghost, who they note is similar to the Sleaze, and who then kidnaps Slimer. Egon then sees a light flashing in the Ecto-1, which he explains means there's a breach in the containment unit.

Egon and Ray head home while the others look for Slimer, then Egon checks the unit and determines that one ghost was freed. They determine that this is the Sleaze, and his brother is the Glob. They go into Ecto-2 and inform Peter and Winston, and then everyone agrees to meet up at the dump, where Dweeb and Elizabeth are. Dweeb gives the Glob the Sleaze, and Glob gives Dweeb Slimer. The Sleaze grabs Slimer and he and Dweeb have a tug-of-war over him, ending on the ghost brothers locking Dweeb and Elizabeth in a giant birdcage.

Peter and Winston arrive, then the ghostly brothers merge into one ghost, the Slob. They zap him, but then he flies away and brings furniture to life. The Sleaze separates himself from the Glob and then grabs Slimer again, but then Ray and Egon arrive. They attack, but Sleaze crashes the Ecto-2 with a bowling ball.

Then, Winston gets a call revealing that the Slob is attacking Manhattan, so they set off. Meanwhile, Dweeb and Elizabeth have escaped and are driving off to try to catch Slimer again. Egon and Ray, in a plane, determine that the Slob may be immune to proton streams, but the Sleaze and Glob can be trapped individually.

The Ghostbusters force Dweeb to help them by tricking Sleaze into thinking he's caught Slimer. This allows Ray and Egon to trap Glob and Peter and Winston to trap Sleaze. Dweeb then shakes Slimer's hand with a robot arm, that entangles him, then Slimer puts him on a garbage truck.

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* AbandonedArea: Dweeb sends the Ghostbusters on a wild goose chase to an area that was abandoned due to the cleaners going on strike and is thus very dirty.
* AmusingInjuries: Elizabeth bites Dweeb multiple times.
* AnimateInanimateObject: The Slob brings a bunch of furniture to life.
* BatmanGambit: Dweeb pretends he's caught Slimer, knowing that Sleaze would try to grab him back.
* TheBigRottenApple: Downplayed -- Glob says, "Nothing like New York in the summer!" referring to the smell of the trash, tying into the "New York is grimy" stereotype.
* BlindMistake:
** Egon falls over after his glasses are stolen.
** Dweeb falls over when he can't see due to the machine being on his head.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Dweeb says, "Heel, Elizabeth", she bites his heel.
* ContinuityNod: Peter calls Slimer by his "spud" nickname from the movie.
* {{Cyclops}}: Glob has one eye on a stalk.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Peter calls the Sleaze "garbage-head" to his face.
* DistressedDude: Slimer gets kidnapped.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Dweeb apparently finds yogurt "disgusting".
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Dweeb swerves all over the place when trying to deal with the angry Elizabeth.
* EdibleAmmunition: The Slob throws fruit at the Ghostbusters.
* FaintInShock: Elizabeth passes out in fear of Glob.
* FreudianSlip: Due to Glob having bad breath, Dweeb accidentally says, "hook, line, and ''stinker''" instead of "sinker".
* FriendToBugs: Slimer actually cheers when the Ghostbusters fail to kill the flies.
* FusionDance: The Slob is an amalgamation of the Glob and the Sleaze.
* HeatWave: The opening shows the Ghostbusters and Slimer struggling to deal with a hot day.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Dweeb gets tangled in his own robot arms at the end.
* IdiotBall: Slimer alone recognises Dweeb in his disguise. Not even ''Egon'', who's usually the smartest and most observant, recognises him.
* InsultBackfire: Dweeb calls Glob repulsive, but Glob sincerely replies, "Thanks, Dweeb".
* {{Irony}}: The character who ends up getting rid of Dweeb is Slimer, who he's always trying to catch.
* MeaningfulName: Glob has a slovenly appearance and likes trash.
* NoSell: While the Sleaze and Glob can be trapped individually, the Slob can't.
* PaperThinDisguise: Dweeb "disguises" Elizabeth by putting a wig on her.
* ThePigPen: Glob likes hanging around where there's trash.
* {{Pun}}:
** Peter says, "Have a seat, Dweeb!" when throwing the chair into the vacuum cleaner.
** Dweeb says that being a scientist "stinks" due to having to deal with garbage and stinky ghosts.
* SayMyName: Slimer yells, "Ray! Egon!" when they get buried under trash.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: The Sleaze and the Glob are brothers and they have, as Egon puts it, a "mutual affection for garbage".
* ShoutOut: Peter, when sulking about the heat, hopes that the visitor is WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman.
* {{Slapstick}}:
** Elizabeth gets sucked into the machine by accident.
** Dweeb ends up sucking up Janine's desk, which pins him to the wall.
* SpeakInUnison:
** When Dweeb advertises his "vacuum cleaner", the Ghostbusters say at once, "We don't want any!".
** When Peter says, "That's not a vacuum cleaner salesman; that's Dweeb!", Ray, Egon, and Winston say, "Dweeb?!" in unison.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Sleaze's brother has a "the" name too -- The Glob.
* TemptingFate: Egon says that only a fool would go ghost hunting in that heat... and then Dweeb is revealed to be attempting to hunt ghosts.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: The main theme plays when the brothers get trapped.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: When the Ghostbusters call Dweeb "Dweeb", he says, "''Professor'' Dweeb to you!".
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Winston says a quiet "Uh-oh" when Glob inhales the trash bags.
* ToiletHumour: One of the items the Slob brings to life is a toilet.
* VisibleOdor: The smell of the trash and Glob's breath is illustrated as a smoke-like gas.
* WeaponsThatSuck: Dweeb's machine is intended to suck ghosts up.
* YouNeedABreathMint:
** Dweeb says, "Holy halitosis!" after smelling the Slob's bad breath.
** When the Slob doesn't hit the Ghostbusters, Peter says, "Your aim is as bad as your breath, odour-head!".
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