following the original film, the television series "the real ghostbusters" brought stay puft back; in fact joe medjuck, the executive producer of the show, states that stay puft was in the first script they received from dan aykroyd on the series. in the episode titled, "mr. sandman, dream me a dream", a spectral sandman creates versions of anything which a person is dreaming of – in this way a new version of stay puft is created – however, whatever is created disappears when the person awakens. in the episode "dedcon 1", stay puft appears as a guest of honor at a ghost convention. after another episode, "cry uncle", he is accidentally freed from the ghostbusters' containment system and later recaptured. he reappears in episode 65, "the revenge of murray the mantis", where he is "released" from the ghostbusters' containment unit to help defeat a giant mantis too powerful for the ghostbusters to fight on their own. stay puft is controlled with the help of slimer (a green blob-like creature). after defeating the mantis, stay puft floats behind the ghostbusters in a parade. he later helps them again in the episode "sticky business" number 85, when the president of the stay puft marshmallow company asks the ghostbusters if he can use their large stay puft in a television commercial. once again slimer goes into the containment unit to bring stay puft out. an episode explains that egon took a sample of the marshmallow ectoplasm and positively charged it, thus creating a friendly version of the stay puft marshmallow man that would assist the ghostbusters when needed. when questioned by a policeman in the series about the abrupt personality change, peter replied that stay puft was "all better now". the character was voiced by john stocker, and later by frank welker in this series.