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Post by Prime Good on Oct 8, 2007 11:16:25 GMT -5
It's pretty imple.
I've often noticed that the "animated" counterpart of Jack Kong Sr. and Eddie Spenser Sr. are portrayed as being MUCH YOUNGER (and slightly different) than the original "live action" counterparts (played by Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch). On the other hand, since it has been estabilished that TRACY THE GORILLA in 'Ghostbusters' is the only recurring "link" to the live action series... "he" has not only changed clothes and attitude, but somehow retained young appearance and vitality, when "he" could have been dead or at least very very old.
My theory is: the three original 'Ghost Busters' (including TRACY) were involved into an "accident" in which they were rejuvenated by a mystical force. Indeed, they must have lived a considerable amount of weird adventures and - given the fact they retired from the business in 1978 or so - it's legit to conjecture that they met incredible entities bearing the power to make their biological ages regress.
At the time 'The Ghost Busters' show was released (1975), Tucker was 56 and Storch was 52. In the cartoon, their "animated" counterparts are in their early or mid forties.
Final verdict: it's the SAME continuity ----> one and only timeline. But the Original 'Ghost Busters', by the time their sons took the mantle and became themselves 'Ghostbusters' (in 1986), had become younger by effect of a mystical force they must have encountered during their final adventures in the late seventies.
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Post by Zack on Oct 8, 2007 22:59:03 GMT -5
I wonder if there was a likeness thing making them look like Tucker and Storch. Maybe they didn't wanna make the guys dads look too decrepit either? Old guys in cartoons, I think it'd be a bit harder to make them look heroic too. That idea works as well!
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Post by Prime Good on Oct 9, 2007 2:15:05 GMT -5
I wonder if there was a likeness thing making them look like Tucker and Storch. Maybe they didn't wanna make the guys dads look too decrepit either? The "animated" Eddie Spenser Sr. looks closer to the "live" counterpart (Storch) than Jack Kong Sr., that's for sure.
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Post by nix on Apr 10, 2008 10:36:47 GMT -5
Well, except for the red hair, and the pink hat, yes.
Oh, by the way...that's got to be one powerful entity who can rejuvenate Kong and Spenser, Sr. to the point where Kong can lift (and throw!) a railroad tie with one hand!!!
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Post by Prime Good on Apr 17, 2008 15:54:19 GMT -5
Oh, by the way...that's got to be one powerful entity who can rejuvenate Kong and Spenser, Sr. to the point where Kong can lift (and throw!) a railroad tie with one hand!!! Why not? So they were also granted physical enhancement... ultra-smooth! What episode did that happen by the way?
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Post by nix on Apr 18, 2008 9:19:16 GMT -5
The first episode, "I'll Be a Son of a Ghostbuster", in the mines when they found Scared Stiff. P.S. Just thought I'd mention to you, Prime, that I've already got Zack signed up for Episode Three, "No Pharoah At All" on the Discontinuity Guide Project. Would you like to sign up for an episode, if you have time?
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Post by Prime Good on Apr 18, 2008 12:08:06 GMT -5
Nix, I would like to do that, but I haven't got the DVDs yet (I live in Italy). Then, I don't like "goofs" so much, I'm rather interested in the trivias. I'm just glad you're having fun, however.
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Post by Zack on Apr 20, 2008 22:55:34 GMT -5
I might sign up to do some soon but right now I'm in pain from a partially impacted wisdom tooth. After having one pulled a few weeks ago!
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Post by nix on Apr 21, 2008 8:53:45 GMT -5
Oh, no! I hope you feel better, Zack. Hey, take it from me: it'll do you good to get that thing checked out as soon as you possibly can. I had to leave mine until some of them came out, but there was just one little "tooth-scary" (ba-doom-chi!) that stayed impacted. I'm still getting the damage repaired. Don't worry about me, though, because my wisdom teeth never caused me any pain. Which was odd, because I was totally prepared to be in agony... Still, I hope you get well.
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trogdor
Kong's Apprentice
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Post by trogdor on Sept 6, 2008 22:39:57 GMT -5
Well, except for the red hair, and the pink hat, yes. Oh, by the way...that's got to be one powerful entity who can rejuvenate Kong and Spenser, Sr. to the point where Kong can lift (and throw!) a railroad tie with one hand!!! Well....maybe when Mr. Kong got rejuvenated, he figured, "Well, I got me this younger, fitter body....I better take damned well care of it this time." And he took up weight lifting.
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Post by Prime Good on Sept 7, 2008 7:48:49 GMT -5
Well, except for the red hair, and the pink hat, yes. Oh, by the way...that's got to be one powerful entity who can rejuvenate Kong and Spenser, Sr. to the point where Kong can lift (and throw!) a railroad tie with one hand!!! Well....maybe when Mr. Kong got rejuvenated, he figured, "Well, I got me this younger, fitter body....I better take damned well care of it this time." And he took up weight lifting. Well, good theory.
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trogdor
Kong's Apprentice
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Post by trogdor on Sept 14, 2008 15:49:46 GMT -5
Well....maybe when Mr. Kong got rejuvenated, he figured, "Well, I got me this younger, fitter body....I better take d**ned well care of it this time." And he took up weight lifting. Well, good theory. Sometimes the most simple answers are the most likely ones .
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Post by nix on Sept 17, 2008 9:49:26 GMT -5
Sometimes the most simple answers are the most likely ones . You speak the truth of Occam's Razor, my man.
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Post by Prime Good on Feb 2, 2009 7:13:25 GMT -5
I now have a MUCH BETTER theory, very sci-fi oriented, suitable for the FGB universe. I think at the end of their final battle with the ghostly forces (circa 1983), ZERO brought the three Ghost Busters in his future to rejuvenate them by clonation: more specifically, "mental/spiritual" implant into new (cloned) bodies. God, I like this theory, it fits.
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Post by nix on Feb 3, 2009 11:16:16 GMT -5
Rather disturbing shades of Rei Ayanami there...
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