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[[Image:Notthebathroom.jpg|thumb|250px|right|<s>[[Sammy]]</s> Chris crushing the Ghostbusters' car (Ghost Buggy).]] | [[Image:Notthebathroom.jpg|thumb|250px|right|<s>[[Sammy]]</s> Chris crushing the Ghostbusters' car (Ghost Buggy).]] | ||
'''''Ghostbusters''''' was a syndicated television cartoon that ran 65 episodes in late 1986. The show was created by Filmation as a spinoff of its 1970s live-action show ''The Ghost Busters'', capitalizing on the name recognition created by the unrelated 1984 film ''Ghostbusters'' starring Bill Murray. Filmation sued Columbia Pictures in 1985 over the use of the title. In the settlement, Columbia agreed it would not use the title "Ghostbusters" for the cartoon based on the 1984 film, and so Columbia instead used the title ''The Real Ghostbusters'' for its 1986-1991 animated series. Filmation's series is therefore technically the only cartoon officially called ''Ghostbusters'', although it is far more obscure and generally referred to as "Filmation's ''Ghostbusters''" to distinguish it from the series about Peter Venkman, Slimer, and company. [[Christian Weston Chandler]] is among the | '''''Ghostbusters''''' was a syndicated television cartoon that ran 65 episodes in late 1986. The show was created by Filmation as a spinoff of its 1970s live-action show ''The Ghost Busters'', capitalizing on the name recognition created by the unrelated 1984 film ''Ghostbusters'' starring Bill Murray. Filmation sued Columbia Pictures in 1985 over the use of the title. In the settlement, Columbia agreed it would not use the title "Ghostbusters" for the cartoon based on the 1984 film, and so Columbia instead used the title ''The Real Ghostbusters'' for its 1986-1991 animated series. Filmation's series is therefore technically the only cartoon officially called ''Ghostbusters'', although it is far more obscure and generally referred to as "Filmation's ''Ghostbusters''" to distinguish it from the series about Peter Venkman, Slimer, and company. [[Christian Weston Chandler]] is among the minuscule number of people who ever gave a shit about this show. | ||
The ghost hunters on the show lived in a headquarters called Ghost Command, where they would receive missions from a television called Skelevision. When going into action they would enter the Skelevator which would send them through an absurd, Rube Goldberg-esque system that would change their casual dress to safari outfits and then deposit them into their transport, the Ghost Buggy. The "joke" of this sequence is that the team's leader, Jake Kong, Jr., has no difficulty going through the system, while the show's overweight comedy relief, Eddie Spencer, Jr., bounces around awkwardly. This "transformation sequence" was a fixture of the show, and was accompanied by the show's main theme. You can see it yourself | The ghost hunters on the show lived in a headquarters called Ghost Command, where they would receive missions from a television called Skelevision. When going into action they would enter the Skelevator which would send them through an absurd, Rube Goldberg-esque system that would change their casual dress to safari outfits and then deposit them into their transport, the Ghost Buggy. The "joke" of this sequence is that the team's leader, Jake Kong, Jr., has no difficulty going through the system, while the show's overweight comedy relief, Eddie Spencer, Jr., bounces around awkwardly. This "transformation sequence" was a fixture of the show, and was accompanied by the show's main theme. You can see it yourself [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ5KVgnGSIw here]. | ||
==Chris' Plagiarism of the series== | ==Chris' Plagiarism of the series== | ||
Revision as of 07:07, 18 May 2009
Ghostbusters was a syndicated television cartoon that ran 65 episodes in late 1986. The show was created by Filmation as a spinoff of its 1970s live-action show The Ghost Busters, capitalizing on the name recognition created by the unrelated 1984 film Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray. Filmation sued Columbia Pictures in 1985 over the use of the title. In the settlement, Columbia agreed it would not use the title "Ghostbusters" for the cartoon based on the 1984 film, and so Columbia instead used the title The Real Ghostbusters for its 1986-1991 animated series. Filmation's series is therefore technically the only cartoon officially called Ghostbusters, although it is far more obscure and generally referred to as "Filmation's Ghostbusters" to distinguish it from the series about Peter Venkman, Slimer, and company. Christian Weston Chandler is among the minuscule number of people who ever gave a shit about this show.
The ghost hunters on the show lived in a headquarters called Ghost Command, where they would receive missions from a television called Skelevision. When going into action they would enter the Skelevator which would send them through an absurd, Rube Goldberg-esque system that would change their casual dress to safari outfits and then deposit them into their transport, the Ghost Buggy. The "joke" of this sequence is that the team's leader, Jake Kong, Jr., has no difficulty going through the system, while the show's overweight comedy relief, Eddie Spencer, Jr., bounces around awkwardly. This "transformation sequence" was a fixture of the show, and was accompanied by the show's main theme. You can see it yourself here.
Chris' Plagiarism of the series
While working on Sonichu 7 Chris decided to interject a non-sequitur TV reference (in the style of Family Guy) and chose Ghostbusters as the subject. He portrayed himself as a morbidly obese Peter Griffin analogue inexplicably living with Ghost Command, until he mistakes the Skelevator for a restroom and undergoes the transformation sequence, sharing Jake Kong's mannerisms. When he lands in the Ghost Buggy, his Peter Griffin-esque weight causes the car to collapse from the impact, thus enthusing lulz.
This scene makes even less sense to people who only know about the Ghostbusters characters of the 1984 & 1989 Ivan Reitman movies, which is about 99.999999999996% of the human race.
This leads to the assumption that Chris is not aware of the movies starring Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd, or knows fuck all about how pop-culture comedy works.