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Ghostfacers In Supernatural and the Spin-Off Web Videos Ghostfacers
Ghostfacers in Supernatural and the Spin-Off Web Videos Ghostfacers
- We face the nightmare, we face the dread!Ghost! Ghostfacers!We face the faceless—WE FACE THE DEAD!
Harry Spengler and Ed Zeddmore started a website on paranormal activity and filmed their own investigations of haunted sites and other paranormal activity. This lead to their own reality television series and web series featuring their friends.
- Affectionate Parody: Of Ghost Hunters.
- All Men Are Perverts: Ed, Harry, and Spruce mutually agree to fire the absurdly overqualifiednote intern Dave so they can hire Ambyr.
- Breaking the Fellowship: By the start of "#THINMAN", Maggie and Spruce have left the group in order to lead normal lives. Harry was on the way to doing the same thing, about to take a job with his fiancée's father. Ed stopped him by making up the Monster of the Week. Harry's anger when he finds out causes him to leave the Ghostfacers.
- Confession Cam: In their titular episode, since they're filming a reality show.
- A Day in the Limelight/Lower-Deck Episode: The aptly-titled "Ghostfacers".
- Large Ham/Purple Prose: Ed and Harry in particular. Their dialogues and narrations are 95% cheesy quips, clichés, and overdone descriptions more befitting the goofy mystery flicks they're a parody of than the grittiness of the actual setting.
- The Load: Sam, Dean, and Castiel have this reaction to them: On realizing these are the people depicted in the Prophet Chuck's book:
- Castiel: [looks to Heaven] Really? Seriously?!
- No Fourth Wall: Not out-of-universe, but the characters on the Show Within a Show "Ghostfacers" talk to their audience a lot.
- Occult Detective: Unlike hunters, they're content to merely investigate hauntings and collect evidence of the supernatural.
- Paranormal Investigation: Their specialty, although they're almost totally incompetent at it.
- Reality Show: Parody of reality television.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Consider Sam and Dean to be "amateurs".
- Show Within a Show: "Ghostfacers" itself.
- Spin-Off: Which can be watched at http://www.ghostfacers.com.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Constantly. They're convinced that they're the plucky soon-to-be-stars of the world of celebrity ghost hunters and that Sam and Dean are a couple of jerks getting in the way of their spotlight.
Harry Spengler
Harry Spengler (Travis Wester)
- "What would Buffy do? But Ed, she's stronger than me."
- Foil: With his friend Ed for the Winchester brothers. Surprisingly Played for Drama in the episode "#thinman".
- Manchild: He was apparently growing out of this sometime before the events of "#thinman", having gotten engaged and found a steady, well-paying job, only for him to lose both after regressing to his childish obsession with being a ghost hunter.
- Shout-Out: His last name is a reference to the character Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters.
Ed Zeddemore
Ed Zeddemore (A.J. Buckley)
- "This is our ticket to the big time. Fame, money, sex... with girls."
- Ambiguously Bi: Considers "sex... with girls" one of the appeals of fame and spends most of the spinoff series blatantly hitting on Ambyr, but also never clarifies whether or not his Love Confession to Corbett was sincere. "#thinman" also suggests that he might be in love with Harry, given that he responded to Harry's engagement by faking an urban legend so Harry would spend all his time with Ed again and ruin his relationship with his fiancée.
- Basement-Dweller: Still lives with his parents as an adult and spends all his time pursuing his dreams of being a ghost hunter instead of getting a real job. This is Played for Laughs in his early appearances when he was in his mid-twenties at the oldest, but takes a turn for the tragic when "#thinman" shows us that he still hasn't matured over half a decade later even as the rest of his friends have grown up.
- Foil: With his friend Harry for the Winchester brothers. Played for Drama in the episode "#thinman".
- Manchild: Played for Drama in "#thinman". He couldn't accept that the rest of the Ghostfacers were moving on to other, more stable careers and hobbies, so he made up an urban legend to manipulate Harry into staying with him, which quickly turned into a Snowball Lie that destroys their friendship.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: He has this attitude regarding Maggie and Harry.
- Redheads Are Uncool: Ginger and painfully dorky.
- Shout-Out: His last name is a reference to the character Winston Zeddemore from Ghostbusters.
- Stoners Are Funny: Ed gets the giggles from smoking pot in "Hell House".
Maggie Zeddemore
Maggie Zeddemore (Brittany Ishibashi)
- Deadpan Snarker: Seems to be the snarkiest of the group.
- Happily Adopted: She's adopted (which Ed has no problem pointing out that she's not his biological sister).
- Only Sane Man: Seems to be this among the group.
- Put on a Bus: Abandons the Ghostfacers for a normal life.
- Shout-Out: Her family name is a reference to the character Winston Zeddemore from Ghostbusters.
- The Smurfette Principle: The Only female member of the group.
Kenneth Warren Spruce
Alan J. Corbett
Alan J. Corbett (Dustin Milligan)
The Ghostfacers' intern who has a crush on Ed.- We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed by the Monster of the Week in his debut episode.
Dave
Dave (Jake Bern)
The intern who replaces Corbett.- We Hardly Knew Ye: Even more so than Corbett, as he gets fired in his first scene so the Ghostfacers can hire Ambyr instead.
Ambyr
Ambyr (Mircea Monroe)
The intern after Dave.- Beauty to Beast: Downplayed, but she receives extensive facial scarring from her encounter with Janet Meyers.
- Brainless Beauty: Hired entirely for her looks, and quickly proves to be extremely dumb.
- Kindhearted Simpleton: She's stupid, but she's very affable and genuinely likes the nerdy, awkward Ghostfacers.
