a5c7b9f00b 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 continuing adventures of the staff of the ghost removal service. I was only 2 when "Ghostbusters" came out to theatres. When The Real Ghostbusters aired as a cartoon show I was only 4. However, this cartoon series caught my eye immediately. I loved the revised personalities of the characters and found the cartoon version of Peter Venkman to be funnier than the way Bill Murray portrayed him in both movies. Of course the cartoon version of Peter was funnier because Lorenzo Music, best known to play the voice of Garfield at that time, supplied Peter's voice. I would have to say that I loved the first 3 seasons of the show. However, when the show became older and older I was disgusted with the changes that had been made. Peter was given an ego boost and was very arrogant and full of himself. It also didn't help his personality later on in the show when Dave Coulier (Joey of Full House) supplied Peter's voice since it encouraged the changed personality in the character, which I hated. I loved Peter, which as I'm sure you can now tell that he was my fav character in the show, Winston being my second fav, in the first three seasons even after Music left only because they hadn't completed the personality process of the character yet. Most people will say that in the first 2 seasons you could really feel for the characters and felt like you knew them with the kind of issues the writers address pertaining to each one's personal/private life.<br/><br/>There are so many episodes that I found to be extremely funny that I found myself rolling on the floor with laughter because they were that funny. The animation was great for a cartoon in the mid to late 80's and I loved the little changes they made to the characters with the different colored suits the boys had and Slimer becoming one of the good guys (although Pete still didn't like him all that much when in the presence of the others. He, however, was nice to him every now and than, but would never admit it if anyone were to bring it up). I'm a college student and since many other college students have passed that whole cartoon tv phase of their life a good while back, I am happy to say that this show will never leave me. It may not be the "cool" thing, but I don't care; all I know is that this show was the best show I watched as a little kid and look forward to showing some of those episodes to my own kids when I have a family one day. This used to be shown at 3:30pm on weekdays and I used to get off school at 3:10pm, I got held back after school for bad behaviour once and set a new record getting back home in time to catch The Real Ghostbusters (it was always a great way to finish school, and schedules were such that I had the house to myself). This was one of those cartoon series like Robotech that brought the viewer to its level rather than lowering itself to the viewers level. It had great stories, great characters, it made The Ghostbusters so much more than just the 100 min feature film. Looking at the cartoons today I think the 80's must have been a golden age, todays cartoon landscape is like a desert in comparison. 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.
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