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- The continuing adventures of the staff of the ghost removal service.
- Animated cartoon series that followed the hit movie. Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddemore, Egon Spengler, and Ray Stantz are still hunting ghosts, but now with the friendly assistance of Slimer, who is no longer out to slime the good guys.
- The Real Ghostbusters took rather blandly written, live-action movie characters and made them real. I liked the cartoon characters better as a kid and I still like them better now, nearly 20 years later. The original voice cast was excellent and the animation was probably the best out there at the time. Shuki Levy's musical score was awesome, both his own, original music and his pumped-up version of Ray Parker, Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" theme. I wish I could find a copy of the score. The music actually enhanced the series, set a mood. Most cartoon music these days is just there, just noise. Some of the earlier episodes ("Do Not Open" springs to mind) were absolutely fantastic, instant classics. I never minded the lack of an ongoing storyline; I've always liked the new adventure every week format.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Most of the original creative staff left, including Lorenzo Music, Arsenio Hall, and Laura Summers, three of the major voice talents. The new team tried hard but couldn't capture the magic. The Real Ghostbusters entered a downward slide into shoddy animation and poor scripting until it finally died, all but forgotten.<br/><br/>Here's hoping Kid Rhino or someone else will come out with the first season or two on DVD!
- The first two seasons feature the late Lorenzo Music (RIP) as the voice of Peter Venkman (Lorenzo is perhaps best remembered as the voice of Garfield and the drunk doorman on Rhoda), while Winston Zeddemore was voiced by Arsenio Hall (who beat out Ernie Hudson, the live action Winston, who auditioned to reprise his part - the only actor from the films to do so), Frank Welker voiced Ray Stantz, Maurice LaMarche (better known perhaps as the Brain from "Pinky & The Brain" and also known for his dead on impression of Orson Welles) as Egon Spengler, and Laura Summer as Janine Melnitz. Under the command of J. Michael Stracyznski (can never get his name right) and featuring the talents of others such as Michael Reaves and Richard Mueller, the first 2 seasons featured many episodes based on classic myths, urban legends, H.P. Lovecraft and even an episode where the Ghostbusters were consulting a movie based on their life story. It was brilliant & beautiful, even if the animation quality did yo-yo wildly from pitch perfect to down right weak (as was the case with many beloved 80s cartoons). In short, it was good times. The characters personalities were mostly the same as their film counterparts except and differed mostly in physical appearances due to copyright issues, but this was relatively minor. Peter's womanizing was toned down somewhat (had to be done, there were kids watching, but he was still quick to approach beautiful women), Ray's passion for his work became more child like, Janine's romantic attraction to Egon became more pronounced and, perhaps the most controversial move of all, Slimer defected from evil ghost to good ghost and lived with the Ghostbusters ostensibly as their "experiment" but acted more like a pet. All in all, it was good times with off-beat humor and outlandish end of the world adventures.<br/><br/>And then it all came crumbling down. As season 3 approached, the network executives handling the show felt the show needed to be tweaked even though it had absurdly successful ratings. They brought in "consultants" and tried to "knock the edges off" as as RGB writer J. Michael Stracyznski (of Babylon 5) put it. The suits and their consultants wanted to soften Janine's personality, make her more of a mother figure to the guys instead of a sassy, sarcastic career girl and also demanded changes to her character design (she went through at least 5; this later became the basis for the "Janine, You've Changed" episode, one of the last written by J.M.S.). Additionally, they wanted to play up Slimer, who was allegedly popular with kids after being Snarfized (in reference to Snarf, the obnoxious sidekick of Lion-O on Thundercats), so the show started featuring way too much Slimer, to the point that it became "Slimer & The Real Ghostbusters" alternating between kid friendly Slimer adventures and standard episodes about the Ghostbusters. Most of the creative staff disliked these demands and left. Voice actors were changed as well, with Kath Soucie replacing Laura Summer as Janine, Buster Jones replacing Arsenio Hall as Winston and, perhaps the most controversial of all, Dave Coulier of FULL HOUSE fame replacing Lorenzo Music as Peter Venkman.<br/><br/>It has been alleged that the reason Coulier replaced Music was because Bill Murray (the live action Venkman) had complained about his character sounding like Garfield instead of like himself (oh the irony), so Coulier, a gifted voice impersonator, was hired to replace Music and told to give the cartoon Peter a voice similar to Murray's, and the result was that Coulier's Venkman sounded like Murray's Nick the Lounge Singer character from SNL (although why Murray would care what his cartoon counterpart sounds like in the first place is anyone's guess). Coulier is often pointed to by fans as the guy who ruined Peter, since during the Coulier-era Peter became noticeably more arrogant and full of himself (even when compared to the first 2 seasons). While I admit Lorenzo Music was the superior Venkman, I feel that it is not completely fair to blame Coulier entirely for this, as Peter's preferred personality did not change right away when Coulier came on board. The decline in quality of the writing didn't do Coulier any favors, as Coulier would have to suffer through many bad episodes, some of which were so bad that even Lorenzo Music could not have saved them, such as "VENK-MAN". Peter was never exactly the 'sensitive male' among the Ghostbusters, but in later episodes the writers seem hellbent on making him look as stupid and foolish as possible. Like Homer Simpson of THE SIMPSONS, Peter was reduced to an insert-random-joke-here kind of character and, though Dave had his moments, Venkman never fully recovered. Considering how poor the writing became (along with the decline in animation), Coulier didn't stand a chance.<br/><br/>Similarly, Kath Soucie, herself a gifted voice actress, would also suffer as Janine, since she was not really allowed to play the Janine fans knew & loved.<br/><br/>Considering all the off camera problems, it's amazing this show lasted as long as it did. But in the end, network stupidity caught up with them, and the Ghostbusters phenomenon faded from the public view in the early 1990s. Oh yes, it was a sad & tragic end for the beloved Ghostbusters. In the late 90s, a sequel series, "Extreme Ghostbusters" was produced, but it failed to reignite the Ghostbusters renaissance. Because of this, I can only award the series 8 stars out of 10, because the first two seasons were just that good to garner 8 out of 10. Oh, to think what could have been had the suits just left well enough alone. As a Ghostbusters fan, I'm still hoping that one day the entire series (yes, the ENTIRE series) will get the DVD treatment it deserves so that we can all enjoy the brilliance of the early years - and learn from the mistakes of the later years.
- In the early promo artwork for the series, the Peter Venkman character was drawn to look more like Bill Murray and Egon Spengler was drawn to look more like Harold Ramis. But the animators changed the look of Peter, and changed Egon's hair color from brown to blonde, in order to avoid lawsuits for using the actors' likenesses without permission. As for Ray Stanz and Winston Zeddemore, their characters were never drawn to resemble Dan Aykroyd or Ernie Hudson, respectively. According to Maurice LaMarche, who voiced Egon Spengler, Bill Murray, who played Peter Venkman in the live action films, had complained, or at the very least, curiously asked, the show's producers why Peter "sounded like Garfield" instead of like him. This was because Peter was originally voiced by the late Lorenzo Music, who was also the voice of Garfield, a role that Murray himself would later play, coincidentally using the same voice he used while playing Peter. Whether or not Murray pushed to have the voice changed is unclear, but Music was replaced by Dave Coulier of "Full House" fame, and to be fair a gifted voice impersonator in his own right (as his impersonations of Popeye the Sailor and Bullwinkle the Moose testify), Coulier was instructed to give Peter a voice similar to that of Bill Murray. Janine was originally voiced by Laura Summer, but starting in the third season Summer was replaced by Kath Soucie, which is when her character's look changed for the first time. According to the third season series bible, Summer's voice was deemed "too whiney" and so the role was recast. And according to J. Michael Stracyznski, the show's original story editor, the network decided to take the advice of consultants to change Janine from a feisty, sardonic, N.Y. secretary to a "mother figure" for the Ghostbusters, which also entailed changing the style of her glasses from triangular to round, as the consultants seriously believed that the pointy glasses would scare children. This was also part of a push to make the series more "kid friendly". Strazcyznski and the other original writers disliked these demands for change and many of them left the show as a result. The initial redesign of Janine had long hair, which was later replaced with a design that was meant to evoke Annie Pott's haircut in the second Ghostbusters film, and ultimately two more designs that gave Janine shorter, curlier hair. Ultimately, the changes proved unpopular and the network asked Strazcysnki to come back, which he couldn't do as he had other commitments, but he agreed to write a few episodes for them on the grounds that he be allowed to write it as he saw fit and not as censors and consultants wanted. Strazcysnki decided to explain why Janine's voice, appearance and personality changed so much in an episode titled "Janine, You've Changed", in which it was revealed that Janine had fallen victim to a demon posing as a kind of "fairy godmother" called a Makeoverus Lotsabucks (the name a deliberate yet playful swipe at the network), which fed off a person's vanity and changed the victim's appearance as the victim instructed, promising that it would improve them, when in reality it would ultimately turn them into another Makeoverus Lotsabucks. Janine's personal reason for being victimized by the Lotsabucks was that she wanted to "improve" her appearance until she found a look that would attract Egon Spengler, to whom she had long harbored a romantic infatuation but with whom she'd had trouble actually engaging in a relationship due to his somewhat stilted emotional range. What Janine didn't know was that the Lotsabucks had been using her magic to externally blind Egon and the other Ghostbusters to the changes in her appearance, making Janine more dependent on the Lotsabucks. Ultimately Egon was able to save Janine by admitting that he loved her as well. a5c7b9f00b
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