The Ghostbusters and Slimer are on a job, when Slimer is asked to search in an alley. He finds a smelly, slug-like monster who offers him a bite of a sandwich, before swiping it away. He then clobbers Slimer with trash can lids and throws him up the alley like a frisbee.
Slimer and the guys regroup, then he points them in the direction of the villain, who's called the Sleaze. The Ghostbusters aim their proton packs at him, but he claims he gives up. When they decide not to shoot him, however, he throws trash at them, so they trap him.
After locking him in the containment unit, Slimer teases the Sleaze with a sandwich the same way he did to him before. Ray warns Slimer not to tease the Sleaze, but gets interrupted by the alarm ringing before he can tell him why. Slimer nods at Ray's warning, but after Ray leaves, blows a raspberry at the Sleaze. Then, he eats the sandwich, causing the Sleaze to roar. This scares Slimer, so he flies back... and accidentally shuts off the containment unit.
The Sleaze escapes, but luckily, Slimer turns it back on before other ghosts can escape. Slimer meets the Sleaze on the roof, but the Sleaze gets away. Slimer, feeling very guilty about having disobeyed Ray, flies off with a net to catch the Sleaze.
He runs into three kids and tells them what's going on. The kids agree to help, and one of them even has a PKE meter. The boy with the PKE meter tracks the Sleaze to the city dump, and Slimer lures him out of a pipe. Then, the kids launch plungers at them, but the Sleaze throws one back and escapes.
Slimer gets an idea to catch the Sleaze, and he and the kids trash up a diner. The Sleaze smells the trash and is drawn to it, then the kids and Slimer act as waitstaff and serve him some disgusting gunk the PKE meter boy made. Then, they wheel out a pot of that gunk, the Sleaze jumps into it, and they put the lid on the pot and sit on it. However, the Sleaze escapes again.
The Sleaze annoys some random citizens, then Slimer disguises himself as a woman to attract the Sleaze. He asks him out, so Slimer leads the Sleaze to the firehouse, which is disguised as a club. The kids disguise themselves as workers at the club and Slimer and the Sleaze dance, then they lure him to the containment unit and knock him up.
The Ghostbusters return, so the kids put the club paraphernalia away.
This short provides examples of
- Attractive Bent-Gender: Invoked. Slimer deliberately disguises himself as a woman with the intent of attracting the Sleaze.
- Batman Gambit: Slimer and the kids' plan relies on the knowledge that the Sleaze will jump into the pot of gunk.
- Blowing a Raspberry: Slimer blows a raspberry after the Sleaze is trapped and again when he's in the containment unit.
- Circling Birdies: Slimer sees stars when the Sleaze spins him around.
- Crazy-Prepared: One of the kids happens to be carrying a PKE meter around with him.
- Crocodile Tears: The Sleaze pretends to cry as part of his fake surrender.
- Disguised in Drag: Slimer disguises himself as a woman to attract the Sleaze.
- Dramatic Irony: At the end, Peter says to Slimer and the kids that they don't know how easy they have it not having to chase ghosts around, not knowing that this time they did have to do just that.
- Ectoplasm:
- When Slimer kisses the kids, he gets slime on them, much to their disgust.
- When the Sleaze claims his spoon is too clean, Slimer gets ectoplasm on it.
- Evil Smells Bad: The Sleaze is a mean, petty ghost who has a foul stench.
- Extreme Omnivore: The Sleaze eats things like old shoes and fishbones.
- Flies Equals Evil: When we first see the Sleaze, we see flies buzzing around him.
- Green and Mean: The Sleaze is brownish-green and rudely offers Slimer a sandwich only to swipe it away.
- Green Is Gross: The Sleaze is a stinky, trash-can-dwelling monster that's a brownish-green colour.
- Idiot Ball: All of the Ghostbusters (even Egon) fall immediately for the Sleaze's fake surrender.
- Inevitably Broken Rule: Ray warns Slimer not to tease the Sleaze, but he does it anyway.
- Inflating Body Gag: The Sleaze leaves by inflating himself like a balloon and blowing himself away.
- I Surrender, Suckers: The Sleaze tells the Ghostbusters not to shoot him and claims he gives up, but then when they lower their guard, he throws garbage at them.
- Kid Hero: The trio of kids help Slimer catch the Sleaze.
- Lost Food Grievance: The Sleaze flies into a rage just because Slimer swiped the sandwich away from him and ate it.
- Loud Gulp: Slimer gulps when Peter tells him to search an alley.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After the Sleaze escapes, Slimer remembers Ray telling him not to tease him and babbles sadly.
- Ocular Gushers: When Slimer cries about the Sleaze running away, his tears spray out sideways.
- Oh, Crap!: Slimer looks scared and says, "Oh no!" when he shuts the containment unit off.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The monster is called the Sleaze.
- The Pig-Pen: The Sleaze hangs out in areas where there is trash. Exploited when Slimer and the kids bait him with trash.
- Platonic Kissing: Slimer kisses the kids' faces when they agree to help him.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Sleaze is a mean ghost with red eyes.
- Rhyming Title: Don't Tease the Sleaze.
- Sanity Ball: Ray of all characters ends up being the voice of reason, since he was the one who said not to tease the Sleaze.
- Scooby Stack: At one point the kids peer around a corner, stacked on top of one another.
- Silent Whisper: We don't hear what Slimer whispers to the kids.
- Slapstick: Slimer accidentally bowls Egon over.
- Smelly Feet Gag: The Sleaze gets the kids and Slimer to let go of the pot lid by making them recoil with his foot odour.
- Spell My Name with a "The": The villain is called the Sleaze.
- Title Drop: Ray says, "Slimer, don't tease the Sleaze, it might—-" only to get interrupted by the bell.
- Unexpected Kindness: Subverted. Slimer fears the Sleaze will attack him, but instead he offers him a bite of his sandwich. However, he then snatches it away and hits him with trash can lids (however, even though that's mean, it's still not as bad as what Slimer feared).
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Slimer accidentally opens the containment unit.
- Visible Odor: The Sleaze's stench is illustrated as a green gas with a hand sticking out, then later the smell of the yucky mixture is illustrated as a green gas.
- Wild Take: Slimer's eyes bug out when he first sees the Sleaze.
- Wolf Whistle: The Sleaze wolf-whistles when he sees Slimer in disguise as a woman.
- You Need a Breath Mint: Slimer melts and says, "Pee-yew!" about the Sleaze's breath.
