Is Ghostbusters 2 really that bad?

[Silvercrest]

I didn't see much of this show, but I thought I remembered Peck showing up once.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Outside of Slimer making a quick cameo appearance in Ghostbusters 2, I've never seen or read anything that's led me to believe that the cartoon takes place in the same continuity as the movies. So I was only considering the movies in my argument.

I wasn't saying that you weren't. I was merely offering an alternative view from the perspective of a fan of the animated series.

Ah, OK.

 

[Trekker4747]

^Well, maybe you can. But as I said, given that RGB depicts a universe where the reality of the supernatural is a pervasive and widely accepted fact, why would any filmmakers in that universe make a Ghostbusters movie which postulated that New Yorkers had stopped believing in ghosts?

Was it a "universally accepted fact"? I mean there's something like 10 million New Yorkers it's possible not all of them believed or had seen a ghost, or even seen/believed the stuff on the news they were seeing about ghosts and these "Ghostbusters." Then once the activity died down Americans, being a fickle lot, simply forgot about it all until stuffed picked up again.

But you'd think that in either universe that since ghosts really exist that there'd be a lot of evidence showing it making it that much more unlikely the Ghostbusters would be written off as frauds. We may really be trying to put a round peg into a square hole here and there's no easy way to make the movies fit perfectly into the cartoon universe.

Hell, for all we know the Ghostbusters movie in the cartoon world was a very different movie and the same could be said for the second movie (if a second movie occurred in the cartoons). What we saw isn't what the cartoons saw. But, again, I don't fully recall the post-GB2 cartoons very much to remember any contradictions. If they're there then I dunno. But the cartoon certainly wanted to establish that after the encounter with Gozer the Ghostbusters went on with business as usual with no repercussions.

 

[Christopher]

Was it a "universally accepted fact"? I mean there's something like 10 million New Yorkers it's possible not all of them believed or had seen a ghost, or even seen/believed the stuff on the news they were seeing about ghosts and these "Ghostbusters." Then once the activity died down Americans, being a fickle lot, simply forgot about it all until stuffed picked up again.

Again, what I'm discussing here is specifically the continuity of the animated series. And yes, within that show's universe, the existence of ghosts was not only universally accepted, but routinely experienced. After all, they made 134 episodes in five years, and many of those episodes depicted multiple hauntings, or events that affected the entire city or beyond (locations ranged from New Orleans to Hollywood to Detroit to Greece to an orbital space station). So in the show's universe, the activity never did "die down."

But you'd think that in either universe that since ghosts really exist that there'd be a lot of evidence showing it making it that much more unlikely the Ghostbusters would be written off as frauds. We may really be trying to put a round peg into a square hole here and there's no easy way to make the movies fit perfectly into the cartoon universe.

Which is my point.

 

[Timby]

I didn't see much of this show, but I thought I remembered Peck showing up once.

Yeah, Peck showed up in an episode where he deemed Slimer a hazard to society and tried to have him destroyed.

 

[Christopher]

Oh yeah, I vaguely remember that now. I haven't gotten to that episode on the DVDs yet.

 

[Unicron]

Edit: Never mind.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I seem to remember a latter episode of "The Real Ghostbusters" where the guys were brought to Japan and given high tech versions of their gear and were considered celebrities. I think Peter even gives a line about wanting to stay there.