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Post by nixfgbfan on Nov 22, 2019 11:18:53 GMT -5
Noooooooooo...You think?
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Post by nixfgbfan on May 24, 2019 9:56:38 GMT -5
I'd have to watch "Great Ghost Gorilla" again. It's been a while, and the Discontinuity Guide needs an update.
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Post by nixfgbfan on May 2, 2019 15:59:08 GMT -5
I've done it! (Well, announced it a couple of years too late...)[/p]
I've connected the Ghostbusters movies and The Real Ghostbusters cartoon show in one elegant move.
The year is 1985 (About...Does March sound good?). The "Ghostbusters" company proves to be something of a dead end, because, when they sent Gozer back to her plane, they sent all of New York's ghosts with her. By March of the following year, after the "Ghost Fever" hysteria had died down, the city and the Busters' clients were able to take a running tab of the damage they caused.
The total caused several computers to explode in protest. The only possible thing for the city to do was to put a restraining order on the guys. "NO GHOSTBUSTING!"
However, nothing in the order said that they couldn't sell their exploits for money. And that's just what they did!
The guys paid a visit to Filmation Studios (yes, I'm going somewhere with this), where they inked a deal for Ghostbusters: The New Adventures. Ray and Egon locked themselves in a hotel room and compiled a lengthy manuscript detailing what the company does, the equipment it uses, and the types of creatures and things they'd faced up to that point.
Much to their chagrin, the writing staff took heed to about only 20% of their efforts at realism. In fact, Peter actually said, up front, "OK, we operate out of an old firehouse, we catch ghosts with proton packs, tool around in an ambulance...Other than that, go nuts." The one thing all three--all four parties--agreed upon as a hard condition was that Winston be as emphasized as Peter, Egon, and Winston.
For a time, things were good. Really, really good. The show was in the top five on the airwaves and on the toy shelves. Alas, the good times never last, and Ghostbusters fell victim to Filmation's "65-episodes-and-the-truth" policy. In an effort to keep the money rolling in, Peter suggested revamping the show. He enlisted the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Company, now desperate for some good PR, to give their mascot equal time. Thus was born The Ghostbusters / Stay-Puft Hour.
Things were good, but not quite as good as before. In fact, the show became The Stay-Puft / Ghostbusters Hour. (The formatting gag alone took me about five minutes.)
In fact, the 'Busters then lost their half-hour halfway through the show's run, and it became simply The Stay-Puft Show, which later incorporated Filmation's other hit, Murray the Mantis and Friends.
And then the Ghostbusters' money ran out in 1989.
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Post by nixfgbfan on Apr 22, 2019 12:31:30 GMT -5
I think I got about half of that. It's worth developing further...not entirely sure about the "end of mythology" idea. I don't think mythology ever DIES; it just takes on different forms as the years go by.
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Post by nixfgbfan on Apr 15, 2019 11:02:45 GMT -5
My own head-canon is that Zero gave Tracy advanced strength and intelligence in the far future. There's one reason why it's useful to have an animal on a Ghostbusting team: Being a gorilla, Tracy can see through magical glamours that the human Ghostbusters might fall for (as Spenser did when an ugly witch turned herself into a hawt babe).
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Post by nixfgbfan on Apr 12, 2019 11:57:18 GMT -5
enoch: You didn't miss out on much. As I recall, it was a title page (I MAY still have this somewhere!) and the Discontinuity Guide entries for the first two episodes. Must get around to finishing the Guide one of these days...
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Post by nixfgbfan on Oct 2, 2018 1:22:59 GMT -5
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Post by nixfgbfan on Sept 14, 2018 17:14:41 GMT -5
unseenunsealerRegarding Scared Stiff... I hit the same quandary when I was coming up with ideas for my FGB movie treatment. I decided that he'd be like B.E.N. from "Treasure Planet"--a robotic castaway on some asteroid, and Long John Scarechrome picked him up as pirate booty and imbued him with a soul. Scared Stiff gets his name because he usually remotely hijacks spaceships' computers, but is utterly useless in any sort of combat.
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Post by nixfgbfan on Sept 14, 2018 17:03:45 GMT -5
Moving on:
...So, Ghost Command was already a part of the Ghost Busters story. One can only assume that they'd have upgraded from the cramped office space in their first episode.
The artwork indicates a more conventional "ghost of the week" runaround than what FGB became, maybe a little more "open" than the "go to the haunted castle" restrictions of the live-action series.
I can only assume that He-Man, and Alan Oppenheimer's turn as Skeletor, resulted in the creation of Prime Evil and his Usual Gang of Idiots. He-Man probably also inspired FGB's time- and space-faring adventures; She-Ra inspired Jessica and Futura.
At a stretch, I'd wager that the talking appliances would be a part of this show--they're pretty much an extension of the live-action show's gags.
The Ghostbusters movie, of course, inspired FGB's uniforms and PROBABLY the expanded arsenal.
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Post by nixfgbfan on Aug 30, 2018 22:44:20 GMT -5
Further thoughts:
Interesting to see Kong at a halfway point between live-action and what we ultimately saw in the FGB animated series. Also interesting that Spenser gets a slightly more heroic look than Storch had.
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Post by nixfgbfan on Aug 30, 2018 22:32:39 GMT -5
That would be nice but petition never worked. "there actually isn't much point for a DVD release, considering that the entire series is readily and freely available on YouTube, Hulu, and many other streaming platforms." The fact to have a cartoon illegaly broadcast on streaming platforms doesn't mean that it will not be release on DVD again. Actually, FGB has an official, legal channel.
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Post by nixfgbfan on Jun 28, 2018 11:10:08 GMT -5
I think I have a solution to the Who-blues. Since this is "the year of the new Doctor," I'll start re-running the Summerfest again.
It gives me an opportunity to remember where I came from!
- Day of the Daleks
- The Three Doctors
- The Five Doctors
- Pyramids of Mars
- City of Death
- Earthshock
- The Twin Dilemma
- Ghost Light
- The Curse of Fenric
- Survival
Plus an assortment of New Series episodes.
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Post by nixfgbfan on Jun 28, 2018 0:18:00 GMT -5
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Post by nixfgbfan on Jun 28, 2018 0:17:13 GMT -5
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Post by nixfgbfan on Jun 28, 2018 0:14:42 GMT -5
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