Anyone remember the 'Extreme Ghostbusters'?

[LazyReaper]

It was on for a while on WB I think. It was where in the future all the orginal guys had gone and now five teenagers had been hired to stop the new, more powerful ghosts. I can barely remember the show, but I do know that they had to build new guns and that one of the guys was impared and in a wheelchair.

Anyone else remember the show? What exactly happened to it?


-Aximlli-

[Joe Wagner]

From what I can remember the show was syndicated much like RoboCop: Alpha Commando and Mummies Alive!

Unfortunately I don't think I ever got to see a complete episode of the show because by the time I found out about it I believe it had already been pulled from my Fox station. RoboCop is another one that I had been looking forward to but none of my affiliates ever picked up the show. Hopefully we'll see a release of some sort for these shows so that I could finally check them out.

-Joe!

[zimbach]

Originally posted by Aximlli
It was on for a while on WB I think. It was where in the future all the orginal guys had gone and now five teenagers had been hired to stop the new, more powerful ghosts. I can barely remember the show, but I do know that they had to build new guns and that one of the guys was impared and in a wheelchair.

Anyone else remember the show? What exactly happened to it?


-Aximlli-

It was a BKN (Bohbot Kids Network) syndicated release. I think something happened to that group, but I don't know what.

Anyway, as the show starts, Egon Spengler (one of the original Ghostbusters) is back teaching at the university when another outbreak of paranormal activity occurs. He recruits a group of suitably diverse and politically correct graduate students to protect the environment, er, no, to re-establish the Ghostbusters and clean up the town.

I've got the Kylie action figure (the goth chick). There was also Roland (the black guy), Eduardo (the sassy-mouthed Puerto Rican), and the wheelchair jock who dosen't have an action-figure listed on the package so I don't know his name.

[HoloRimmer]

I remember this cartoon a little bit. I never really got into it though. Its just not the same with out the old gang.

[Lindsay]

It was a pretty terrible toon.

Anything that claims to be extreme is usually lame ya know.

[Christopher N. Denner]

I liked it actually.

I know a lot of my friends dismissed it because it wasn't the original series... and at worse thinking if was "PC propaganda", because it featured a guy in a wheelchair and a latino character. Sad, really. But I liked it for what it was. With I got to see more when it was on though. My local UPN channel picked up the BKN line-up, and then some FCC deal made them exclusive to a different part of the state and the channel was replaced with another UPN network. Oh well.

[ninjagirl]

i saw it a few times. it came on at a weird time on , i think scifi, in my area.
it wasn't nearly as bad as i thoght it would be.

[VashTheStampede]

That was the PC ghostbusters.Gostbuster role call: Wheelchair Guy, Women, Black Guy, Latino Guy

[Nickdisk]

i remember it, Nickelodeon UK usually airs it over here

it was good, but not as good as the real ghostbusters IMO

[Christopher N. Denner]

Originally posted by VashTheStampede
That was the PC ghostbusters.Gostbuster role call: Wheelchair Guy, Women, Black Guy, Latino Guy

The point I was making though was... so what? Are all cartoon characters suposed to be white 20/30 something middle-class men? Of course not. So why would people be against it for being diverse? Makes no sense at all.

[CadaverousEyes]

I thought a few of them were all right. Like the one where that horror author's creations came to life (until the ending... yecch), and the other one where that old guy grants people's wishes, but twists them around (having a guy who wants to "get back to his roots" turn into a tree, etc.).

However, the two episodes where the original team reunited were the best ever. Heh, just goes to show you to not mess with success.

[VashTheStampede]

The point I was making though was... so what? Are all cartoon characters suposed to be white 20/30 something middle-class men? Of course not. So why would people be against it for being diverse? Makes no sense at all.

My problem was they went ou of their way to make it diverse to please the PC crowd. I enjoyed the show and had no problem with it except it seemed somehow forced, i don't know. And It makes as much sense as being against it because it is not diverse.

[ZorBrak]

exactly. it was so forced it made me sick. who cares? I care, I do not appreciate one of my favorite series beign used a propaganda tool. I mean no offense, but in reality I truly doubt one of my final candidates for a new team would be a guy who can't even run from the ghosts....sometimes PCness goes too far, way too far and this is an example in it's purest form. It's not about wanting middle class white guys as heroes always, what bothers me is pulling them all out and making unrealistic illogical replacements, John Stuart for example in Justice League, he's much cooler than Kyle Rayner IMO, because John acts more like me, but the thing is they won't even give anyone a backstory on where kyle went, he was a newbie in Superman tas and now poof he's gone, no explanation and every time the JL creative team in confornted on the issue they try to slide away from it to say they want to focus on conte....that's fine focus on the content but don't rip a character out of contuity if you won't give a logical reason for his dissappearance...that's about all I can say on this issue, Diversity doesn't bug me, illogical PC changes in shows do. and case in point GB Xtreme itself was a peice of illogical PCness

[DR. BELCH]

...but I wasn't impressed. Egon was basically an aging mentor to a crew of young, retroactively-diverse upstarts...Janine, Ray, and Winston were nowhere near this thing...Peter appeared once or twice, apparently dragged out of retirement to lend his expertise on sticky cases...and Slimer was totally revoiced and redrawn (he wasn't a prizewinner to start with, I admit, but--yuk.
And no Prof. Dweeb.

[JohnStewart-GL]

I kinda like it. it had potential but never really got off the ground. it had some greats eps especially the one that cameoed the original ghostbusters.Roland was my fave i thought he was pretty cool. and as a reply to Zorbrak's comments i: JL:tas is far from over theres plenty of time for a story on why Kyle isnt in JL.

[Nickdisk]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
...Janine, Ray, and Winston were nowhere near this thing...Peter appeared once or twice, apparently dragged out of retirement to lend his expertise on sticky cases...and Slimer was totally revoiced and redrawn (he wasn't a prizewinner to start with, I admit, but--yuk.

i think all of the 'real ghostbusters' gang was in a two-parter episode as far as i can remember, i think it was for Egons birthday or something

[Lachesis]

I liked it all right. Once you get past the PC business, it's not a bad show, and the voice cast had a lot of my favorites: Maurice LaMarche (Egon), Jason Marsden (Garrett), Tara Strong (Kylie), Alfonso Ribeiro (Roland), and Rino Romano (Eduardo).

I suppose it helps that I don't remember much about the original...

[spyke]

1. Extreme ghostbusters had good stories, but bad animation and art.

2. There is nothing wrong with creating a diverse cast of characters from all walks of life. In fact, that was one of the great things about EGB. America has been making their cartoons racialy diverse for over 20 years now, and I tink the industry is much better for it. Remember, not every kid in america who watches cartoons are white,middle clased,or able to walk.

3. The justice league cartoon, as well as, superman,batman,and batman beyond are not realy part of the same continuity. The writers and producers of the show said so themselves, when this question was asked numerous times in the past.