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Post by kevservo on Apr 3, 2011 2:40:26 GMT -5
Weren't the Real Ghostbusters pretty popular in the time between He-Man and TMNT? Obviously in the fictional Ghostbusters universe this wouldn't be the case, so He-Man's popularity continued to surge straight through to 1989. Either that or Eastman and Laird were crushed by the Marshmallow Man. He-Man kind of just petered out as a phenomenon, that's what I'm trying to say. You have to consider that MOTU became lame VERY RECENTLY prior to the writing of the script which would probably have been '87 or '88 as that franchise thanks to waning toy sales and the complete failure of the movie was passe at this time but had just recently become so and was still in the public consciousness. Also remember that the scene was written by Ramis and Ackroyd, two adults who probably weren't hip to what all the kids were into at the very moment they wrote the scene. Besides, the point of the scene was to show us that the Ghostbusters were so down that those that the ones who continued Ghostbusting were reduced to doing children's birthday parties.
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Apr 3, 2011 7:24:23 GMT -5
What I always wondered as a kid was, where the hell did Winston disappear to when the courtroom scene went to hell? Handling crowd control outside possibly? He wasn't the one drilling holes in the middle of the street.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 3, 2011 7:31:09 GMT -5
It begs the question. If the kids didn't like Ghostbusters, then why did the parents hire two Ghostbusters for the party?
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Post by Bishblast on Apr 3, 2011 8:06:38 GMT -5
Maybe the kids had gotten into he-man via the USA Cartoon Express reruns. Plus. you never know, i was still into transformers and GI Joe in 1991 (of course, that had more to do with picking up a bunch of the marvel comics at yard sales). That's what happened with me... most of those shows were done and over before I could really remember, so the USA Cartoon Express helped me on the slightly oldies.
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Post by kevservo on Apr 3, 2011 8:21:41 GMT -5
What I always wondered as a kid was, where the hell did Winston disappear to when the courtroom scene went to hell? Handling crowd control outside possibly? He wasn't the one drilling holes in the middle of the street. I'm inclined to believe that Winston actually did something in that scene, but it ended up on the cutting room floor.
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