Eric the Red | |
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Appeared in | The Ghost Busters episode"The Vikings Have Landed" |
Played by | Jim Backus |
Eric the Red appeared in the episode The Vikings Have Landed.
The ghosts of Vikings Eric the Red and Brunhilda returned to the land of the living to prove that they discovered the content of America a thousand years before Lothar the Hun. They took their residence in the old castle.
Mistaking Tracy the Gorilla for Lothar, they demanded to have his banner (actually Tracy's knitting) to plant it in the ground and prove their claim on the land.
The Ghost Busters caught up with the ghostly Normans in the cemetery nearby the old castle. When Eric proclaimed that it would be wrong for a viking to be dematerialized on land, Tracy brought their rowing boat out from the castle to appease them.
Physical Description[]
Eric was easilly confused and rather forgetful. He wore a large, horned helmet and various furst to brave the norse weather.