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Extreme Ghostbusters is an animated television series and a follow-up to the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. It is a part of the Ghostbusters Animated Timeline Canon. The series originally aired in the fall of 1997, and features a team of younger university-level Ghostbusters who are led by veteran Ghostbuster Egon Spengler. The series only ran 40 episodes, but brought many new fans to the Ghostbusters Franchise.

Plot[]

Years after the events of The Real Ghostbusters, life in New York has quieted down, and the Ghostbusters retired. Egon Spengler was the only Ghostbuster who still lived at the Firehouse. Egon got a new job teaching at a university, but his course was plagued with low enrollment. After seeing the paranormal events spike after years of no activity, Egon was forced to recruit a new team of Ghostbusters. The new Extreme Ghostbusters team were: Eduardo Rivera, Garrett Miller, Kylie Griffin, and Roland Jackson, all agreed to work for their teacher. Egon trained them on how the equipment worked and how to use it to battle the new ghosts that plagued New York. This new crew battled seemingly more powerful ghosts. However, Egon had aged since his Ghostbuster days, and only occasionally went on missions with the Extreme Ghostbusters following their initial training; Egon's role was more akin the "chief" of the new Ghostbusters. Other characters from the original series included Janine Melnitz, who had come out of retirement to once again handle administrative details for the Extreme Ghostbusters, as well as Slimer. However, Slimer performed less field work and now seemed to be more of Egon's pet.

Season Guide & Episode Guide[]

Main Characters[]

  • Kylie Griffin (voiced by Tara Charendoff) had a great knowledge of the paranormal and is an expert on the occult. Unlike the other Ghostbusters, she uses a custom proton pistol and carries the ghost trap on her back.
  • Garrett Miller (voiced by Jason Marsden) was sports nut of the group and possessed great athletic abilities. He was born disabled and was in a wheelchair.
  • Slimer (voiced by Billy West) was the "pet-like" inherited from the original team and often speaks in unintelligible gibberish.

For the full list of characters go Here.

Equipment[]

Vehicles[]

Locations[]

Recurring Themes[]

One notable recurring theme is that whenever a ghost has done something, when they are trapped or destroyed, everything they did is undone. Here are some examples:

  • The demon Gu Mo steals people's bones, but after he is trapped, his victims have their bones back.
  • Lotan destroys all technology in his presence. After he is destroyed, all technology he damaged works again.
  • The Vampire Clowns ate a lot of people and transformed Eduardo into one of them. After all of them were captured, Eduardo returned to normal and all of their devoured victims reappeared.

Another recurring theme is the romantic interest that a number of the main characters have for each other.

Such as Eduardo and fellow ghostbuster Kylie's ongoing love-hate relationship, where throughout the series they constantly have bickering sometimes heated arguments with each other but have also been shown to be the most concerned for each other. For example Eduardo is often the most distressed when something happens to Kylie, often being the one who saves her from life threatening situations and their occasional subconscious flirtations with each other.

Another example is Janine's near obsessive affection for Egon, with Janine often making advances on him in vain as Egon is often completely oblivious to Janine's feelings for him and even to his own feelings for her.

Development[]

Trend Masters drove the creation of a new animated series.[1] The dynamic among the new team was influenced by "The Breakfast Club."[2] When the concept of Extreme Ghostbusters was still in its formative stage around 1996, Fil Barlow's initial design of Egon had him as an ambassador to the ghost realm who was trying to stop an impending war on the other side with demons and ghosts. "Hell" was considered a bad idea for a children's show and was changed to a war between ghosts and ghouls. Egon spoke on behalf of humans at Ghost Councils. Barlow liked the idea of the new team entering an abandoned Firehouse and Egon appearing out of thin air in his ambassador garb murmuring in an ancient ghost language. He had spent so long on the other side he was barely able to speak English.[3][4] In the early design process, the tech expert was a character named Julia.[5] The character was named Julia. Barlow made 17 concept drawings and faxed them from his Australian studio to Richard Raynis in Los Angeles. Concept 14 had Julia with a chest piece device. The character shifted from Julia to Roland. Barlow kept the dreadlocks but it was too hip for Raynis' vision of the character. The dreadlocks changed to corn rows then to the final conservative haircut.[6] Barlow felt that the show had too many male characters so he pushed for more than one female in the cast, and pitched Lucy. Raynis really wanted a male character in a wheelchair, but Barlow sent Lucy in leg braces (or calipers). He drew the crutches so they could be used for sucking up ghosts and her head would be at the correct eye-line for the other characters to play off and making it easier for the directors to work with. The calipers were rejected and Raynis still wanted a wheelchair.[7] Barlow submitted Lucy in a wheelchair next.[8] Raynis encouraged Barlow to draw a "jock in a wheelchair."[9] Barlow simply changed the gung-ho Lucy design into a male and Lucas was created.[10] Again, Barlow attempted to get Lucas in calipers during early design because Barlow felt crutches were easier to draw than a wheel chair but was over ruled.[11] Raynis worked with the writers and directors on developing Lucas's personality and chose the voice actor, Jason Marsden himself. Again, Barlow attempted incorporate calipers during early design because he felt crutches were easier to draw than a wheel chair. Ultimately, the final design had him in a wheel chair.

Before the show was pitched to a network, Barlow did an initial sketch with three female characters, Lucy, a Goth, and a "troubled" third that Raynis rejected because it coincidentally was a close representation of a family member of his. Raynis liked the Goth and wanted to develop her some more. Raynis wanted her to be diminutive.[12] At some point after Roland and Lucas came the original concept design of Kylie. Her costume was rejected but later became one of her civilian outfits on the show.[13] She also was armed with a suction weapon designed by Matthew Brady, on artist on Barlow's team. The weapon was later used as a design for the Proton Packs in the Trendmasters Extreme Ghostbusters Classics: Action Figures. In 1996, Barlow prepared Kylie's main model pack while still in Australia, including expressions to assist the animators.[14] At first, there was resistance from the Sony storyboard artists when they first had to work with Kylie but by the end of the season she was accepted.[15]

In early drafts for the show, Janine Melnitz was a history teacher at a local college and mentored the new Ghostbusters team, comprised of her four young students: Kylie, a girl genius with a knowledge of the occult; Eduardo, a slacker who dreamed of running in the Olympics and had a serious crush on Kylie; Lucas, a wheelchair-bound young athlete with a hair-trigger temper; and Roland, a clumsy but good-hearted "gentle-giant" who is a whiz with machinery. Egon helped with refurbishing the equipment. In addition to Slimer serving as the comic relief, there was originally going to be a new pet goblin of the Ghostbusters named Gnat.[16] Lucas was changed to Garrett, Eduardo's aspirations were dropped, Egon became the professor and main mentor, and Gnat was excised completely. The series was always only going to be 40 episodes.[17] There was a delay in getting Ray Parker, Jr.'s approval to use the "Ghostbusters" song. The crew finally got the okay 30 hours before the first mix was due.[18] The voice cast recorded in the evenings to accommodate Alfonso Ribeiro and Jason Marsden because they were also working on sitcoms during the day at the time.[19] Billy West was offered the role of Slimer but was lied to. He was told Frank Welker did not want to reprise the role. It might have been an issue about money.[20] Laura Summer was asked to audition for the role of Janine and was told she got it but the role went to Pat Musick instead.[21] Rino Romano auditioned for Eduardo but did not get the role. Two child actors were subsequently cast. One was 16 years old. Those in charge weren't happy and Romano got a call back two weeks later. It was between him and another actor. He did not get the role. A week or two later, Romano was brought back in again but for a paid audition in which he would record with the cast. Romano sat next to Jason Marsden who did a spit take and thought he was a previous actor previously cast because they looked alike. Romano finally was cast as Eduardo.[22][23]

Home Video Releases[]

VHS[]

In 1998, three VHS volumes of the show were released by Columbia TriStar Home Video, all of which are now out of print. The episodes included on the VHS volumes were:

DVD[]

Comcast On-Demand[]

Comcast customers were able to view the show from July 2009 to July 2012 in the kid's section of the Kabillions video on demand "channel". Oddly, it was listed under the name "Ghostbusters Dark". [24]

Online Viewing[]

Hulu[]

The series was added to Hulu starting March 1, 2016.[25][26] All 40 episodes are available to paid subscribers in both English and Spanish (listed separately as Extreme Ghostbusters en Español).[27][28] The series left Hulu on March 1, 2021.

Crackle[]

On July 4, 2016, the series was added to Crackle.[29]

Ghostbusters YouTube[]

On February 3, 2021, it was announced the official Ghostbusters YouTube will post episodes on their channel on Wednesdays, starting on February 10, 2021 with "Darkness at Noon, Part 1".[30]

On May 30, 2021, it was announced all episodes on YouTube would be removed, implying episodes will only be available for a limited time.[31]

Merchandise[]

Toys[]

Video Games[]

Comics[]

IDW Comics[]

The Extreme Ghostbusters reside in Dimension 68-E separate from The Real Ghostbusters of 68-R. [32] After an inexplicable cessation of supernatural activity, the Real Ghostbusters split up and went their separate ways, leaving only Egon Spengler to tend to the containment unit. Eventually returning to teaching for several years, Egon was leading a small class on paranormal studies when ghosts returned to New York in a big way. Egon recruited his students -- Eduardo Rivera, Kylie Griffin, Garrett Miler, and Roland Jackson -- as the newest iteration of the Ghostbusters. (And since they were his only students, the only ones even remotely prepared to step into the shoes of the original team!) Under Egon and Janine's guidance, the Extreme Ghostbusters faced and defeated some very serious threats but he doesn't give out extra credit for saving the world. [33]

Ghash haunted the Bronx Zoo one night. After he appeared in the Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit in the southwest section of the zoo, the Extreme Ghostbusters arrived to deal with him. Garrett Miller grandstanded the others and engaged Ghash alone. Ghash blocked the single Proton Stream. He was alarmed by something and flew away. Soon after, Proteus crossed over into their dimension in search of The Real Ghostbusters. The Extreme Ghostbusters blasted him but it had no affect on him. He pulled Garrett Miller's proton stream and examined him up close. Proteus knew he hadn't found his quarry. He teleported back to the Erie to formulate a new plan.

The Extreme Ghostbusters and Prime Ghostbusters later met during the latter's study of the multiverse with their Interspatial Teleportation Unit. Egon Spengler, of the prime dimension, succumbed to hay fever and sneezed while he opened a portal to Dimension 68-R and instead opened a portal a few degrees off the proper vibrational frequency. He met the Egon Spengler of 68-E and his team of Extreme Ghostbusters. They agreed to collaborate on a paper about the science of pure luck as a result. The Ghostbusters realized 68-E was like an alternate future to 68-R. Egon 68-E even shared many but not all of the same memories and experiences of his 68-R counterpart. They saw it as a fascinating opportunity to study the potential of timeline divergence more directly. But they also noticed Egon 68-E resembled Roger Baugh, an ex-boyfriend of their Janine Melnitz. It was decided it would be for the best if they didn't introduce the two to each other. The two teams encountered a Class 7 together. Egon Spengler later recruited them to help trapping all of Connla's Army on Liberty Island. Soon after, the Extreme Ghostbusters were one of teams that came back to help recapture several entities missing from the Containment Unit. Back in their home dimension, the Extreme Ghostbusters dealt with the ghost of Nervous Nelly, an animal rights extremist, who liberated the animals of Central Park by tricking ghosts into possessing them for a second life.

Trivia[]

References in IDW Comics[]


  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #1:
    • On Page 21, a photo of the Firehouse utilizes the design from Extreme Ghostbusters.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #3:
    • On Page 8, the Megatrap is based on Trendmasters Deluxe Extreme Ghostbusters line's Kylie Griffin's deluxe Ghost Trap.
    • On Page 9, below Ray's elbow is the Ghost Beacon from "Darkness at Noon, Part 1".
    • On Page 19, Winston has an Extreme Ghostbusters-era Proton Pack strapped on, with a signature Proton Cannister in view.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #5:
    • On Page 9, Celine and Bess from "Witchy Woman" are in the crowd.
    • On Page 12, "Pagan Rituals and Ceremonies" from "Casting the Runes" is also outside Ray's Occult. A version of Kylie Griffin and Pagan makes their debut in the comic. The Orb of Moldova from "The Unseen" is on the book shelf to left of Ray. The magic talisman from "The Crawler" on the book shelf to left of Ray. "Bestiary" from "The Sphinx" can be seen by Kylie.
    • On Page 16, another book in the stack is "Magic of the Runes" from "Casting the Runes".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #6:
    • On Page 1, the book Kylie looks at is Powers of Darkness is from "Witchy Woman".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #8:
    • On Page 10, Roger Baugh is visually based on the Extreme Ghostbusters design of Egon Spengler.
    • On Page 12, one can references "Grease" which featured a Gremlin.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #9:
    • On Cover B, on Ecto's hood is the Gremlin from "Grease".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #11:
    • On Page 2, Winston uses an Extreme Ghostbusters version of the P.K.E. Meter.
    • On Page 10, Kylie is wearing the outfit her animated counterpart wore in the majority of the "Darkness at Noon" two parter.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #12:
    • Cover B features Kylie Griffin. An Ecto-Clone from "Back in the Saddle, Part 1" is in the first "E", Crainiac, of the Vathek, from "Deadliners" is in the "A", Piper from "The Pied Piper of Manhattan" is in the first "T", Luko from The Infernal Machine" is in the "L", and below "SEATTLE" in the post card is S.I.D.N.E.E. from "Back in the Saddle, Part 2".
    • On Page 14, one of the storefronts references Persefineathious from "Mole People".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #13:
    • Cover B is an homage to a scene from the title sequence of Extreme Ghostbusters.
    • On Page 7, Roger teaches at City College of New York - the basis of the fictional college Egon taught at in Extreme Ghostbusters.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #14:
    • On Page 10, Egon points out Roger Baugh's similarities, who indeed shares similarities with Egon - he is based on the Extreme Ghostbusters version of Egon.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #15:
    • On Page 13, the trigger Peter uses is visually based on the one used by Egon for the Ecto-Garbage Truck in "Back in the Saddle, Part 2".
  • In Mars Attacks The Real Ghostbusters:
    • On Page 9, Ray asks about the Jersey Devil. The Extreme Ghostbusters encountered it in "The Jersey Devil Made Me Do It".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #1:
    • On Page 19, to the right of Wise is a copy of Spengler's Spirit Guide but with the font of Pagan Rituals & Ceremonies from "Casting the Runes".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #2:
    • On Page 18, on Cleese's shelf is The Dragon's Eyes statue from "Eyes of a Dragon". On Janine's computer is a message for Kylie to call her Great Grandma Rose.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #3:
    • On Page 2, on top of the side cabinet is the Ectoplasmic Frequency Monitor from "Grundelesque". In front of the side cabinet is the Ghost Vacuum from "Sonic Youth".
    • On Page 3, the box behind Janine and the ghost contains Pagan Rituals & Ceremonies from "Casting the Runes".
    • On Page 5, Kylie uses the Extreme Ghostbusters-era P.K.E. Meter.
    • On Page 9, the Molta ad above Caste is from "Darkness at Noon, Part 1". Behind the Father Duffy statue is an ad for the Sceptre of Donar from "Bird of Prey".
    • On Page 11, near Janine is Bright Wave High Tech Industries and The LB-7 from "Heart of Darkness".
    • On Page 14, on the vacuum ad is the Donkey ghost from "Sonic Youth".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #5:
    • On Page 1, sitting behind Ray is Chip Hanson from the "Witchy Woman". In that episode, he also first appeared in a coffee shop.
    • On Page 7, Kylie once again uses a P.K.E. Meter based on the one from Extreme Ghostbusters. One of the advertisements references Bright Wave High Tech Industries from "Heart of Darkness".
    • On Page 15, on top of a book shelf is the Leprechaun's Pot from "The Luck of the Irish". On a shelf is a copy of J.N. Kline's Gore Series from "Deadliners". On the shelf is one of the Vocal Pattern Emulators from "Sonic Youth". On the shelf behind Roger is the fragment of the Blarney Stone from "The Luck of the Irish".
    • On Page 16, the ornate rod leaning against the shelf is the staff from Fil Barlow's Extreme Ghostbusters Egon concept art.
    • On Page 17, the P.K. Frequency Scanner from "Dog Days" is on the shelf by the Slime Scooper.
    • On Page 19, Mrs. Hardenbauer from "The Ghostmakers" changes her mind about getting on the elevator. By Egon is a directory that references Piper's Music, a nod to Piper from "The Pied Piper of Manhattan".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #6:
    • On Cover A, there are several easter eggs connected to Janine: to the left of the whale is the Li'l Earth postcard from "A Temporary Insanity" and below the roses is a paper with the Scorpio, Janine's astrological sign, revealed in "The Crawler".
    • On Page 12, Fenris has a cameo. A version of him appeared in "Slimer's Sacrifice".
    • On Page 19, in the lower right corner of the last panel, on the board, is a photo of Surt taken from art done by Tristan Jones.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #10:
    • On Page 1, Carl Rivera from "Rage" appears in panel 2 on the right.
    • On Page 7, the IDW version of Eduardo Rivera is to the right of Ray.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #11:
    • On Page 6, a page shows Luko from "The Infernal Machine" as he is depicted as an angel in "Principia Mathematica", another page shows Sphinx as seen in a page of the Bestiary in "The Sphinx", and another page shows Kahlil as seen in a page of Pagan Rituals & Ceremonies in "Casting the Runes".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #12:
    • On Page 1, one of the wanted posters features the talisman thieves from "The Crawler". In the fourth panel, the side of the binder is marked "G1027" like the file Agents Jack Stone and Harry Gannan filed at the end of "Grease".
    • On Page 9, amid the Times Square ads and displays, on the left side are Bruno's Pawn Shop from "Casting the Runes" and the Molta ad is from "Darkness at Noon, Part 1". In the center (Times Tower) is the Maum ad from "Darkness at Noon" Part 1".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #13:
    • On Page 15, in the refrigerator is Ravana Pickles, a nod to Ravana from "Glutton for Punishment".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #14:
    • On Page 3, Roland Jackson is a guest.
    • On Page 4, on the table by Egon is Kylie's Journal from "Ghost Apocalyptic Future".
    • On Page 5, crossing the street is Mr. O'Toole from "The Luck of the Irish". In the background, there is an advertisement for a new mocha drink. It has the image of the Leprechaun from "The Luck of the Irish". The drink is named after the Leprechaun's weapon of choice, the Shillelagh.
    • On Page 14, floating around is Roland Jackson's Mustang.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #15:
    • On Page 8, on the book shelf are: On the top shelf, Magic of the Runes from "Casting the Runes" and on the middle shelf, Galileo and his Studies of Medieval Poltergeist from "Casting the Runes", Pagan Rituals & Ceremonies from "Casting the Runes", Bestiary from "The Sphinx". Kylie refers to Eduardo by his nickname "Eddie".
    • On Page 15, the Ecto-5 is visually inspired by the Ghost Blastin Buster Bike toy from the Figures and Vehicles set of the Trendmaster Extreme Ghostbusters line.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #17:
    • On Page 11, left of the microscope is a photo of Kylie's Great Grandma Rose, also left of Kylie are the Runes of Kahlil from "Casting the Runes", in front of Kylie is a pack of Tarot Cards, a nod to a scene from "The Infernal Machine", in front of Kylie is her Great Grandma Rose's glasses, and also in front of Kylie is her journal from "Ghost Apocalyptic Future".
    • On Page 13, Melanie sports the Proton Pistol.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #18:
    • On Page 8, the Robobot from "The Infernal Machine" is on the bottom shelf behind the Terror Bird on the right.
    • On Page 12, the La Fleur French Cafe is from "The Crawler" when Janine and Samsa go on a date.
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #19:
    • On Page 1, in the background, on the computer screen, is the schematic of the Particle Thrower seen in "A Temporary Insanity".
    • On Page 3, still on the table is Great Grandma Rose's glasses. Also still visible on the table are Kylie's Tarot Cards from "The Infernal Machine".
    • On Page 6, now visible on the table are Kylie's journal and the photograph of Great Grandma Rose. The book to the left of the microscope is Powers of Darkness from "Witchy Woman".
    • On Page 10, the book directly under Peter's knee in panel 4 is the Gore Series book "More Cuts More Blood" seen at the beginning of "Deadliners".
  • In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #20:
    • On Page 3, in the storage room under the table on the left is Egon's Field Projector from "Killjoys".
    • On Page 12, next to Tiyah's apartment building is Beatty Mirror and Glass from "Till Death Do We Start".
  • In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters #2:
    • On Page 16, there is an ad around the rink of Molta from "Darkness at Noon" Part 1.
  • In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters #3:
    • On Page 12, in panel 1, Wu's Curio Shop refers to Agent Michael Wu from "The Eyes of a Dragon".
  • In Ghostbusters: Get Real #1:
    • On Page 21, Janine mistook Egon (RGB) for her ex-boyfriend Roger because Roger is visually based on the Extreme Ghostbusters era Egon and he was voiced by Maurice LaMarche in both animated series.
  • In Ghostbusters: Get Real #2:
    • On Page 2, the Extreme Ghostbusters and their Ecto-1 appear. Ghash's design is based on its appearance in the Extreme Ghostbusters' title sequence.
    • On Page 7, Kylie finishes Kylie's sentence.
    • On Page 9, Kylie is holding a copy of the Bestiary from "The Sphinx".
  • In Ghostbusters: Get Real #3:
    • On Page 12, Kylie has Spengler's Spirit Guide.
    • On Page 18, Kylie grabs the Megatrap. The Megatrap is based on the deluxe Ghost Trap toy that came with the Trendmasters Deluxe Kylie Griffin action figure.
  • In Ghostbusters: Get Real #4:
    • On Page 12, in panel 1, on the shelf right of Winston is Robobot from "The Infernal Machine".
  • In Ghostbusters Annual 2015:
    • On the Regular Cover, Kylie Griffin appears with Pagan holding a copy of Spengler's Spirit Guide.
  • In Ghostbusters International #1:
    • On Page 3, Jennifer draws the Tower card. Incidentally, in the episode "The Infernal Machine", Eduardo Rivera drew the Tower card.
    • On Page 12, in panel 6, on Vinter's check is a reference to Kahlil from "Casting the Runes".
    • On Page 15, in panel 2, on the TV set above Peter is the opening shot of Garibaldi's Residence in the episode "The Infernal Machine".
    • On Page 16, Egon is seen using a cane. The animated Egon also temporarily used a cane. This was in "The Sphinx" as well.
  • In Ghostbusters International #2:
    • On Page 11, the comic versions of Eduardo and Pagan make a cameo appearance. The post it note on the register references Great Grandma Rose. On top of stack of books in front of the phone is the Bestiary from "The Sphinx". On the top shelf behind Kylie are Pagan Rituals and Sacrifices from "Casting the Runes" and Magic of the Runes from "Casting the Runes". On the lower shelf is Galileo and His Studies of Medieval Poltergeist from episode "The Infernal Machine".
  • In Ghostbusters International #3:
    • On Page 20, in panel 4, on the left page of the book is a picture of the Sceptre of Donar and on the right page of the book is Harasvelg from the episode "Bird of Prey".
  • In Ghostbusters International #6:
    • On Page 2, Kylie mentions Eduardo Rivera by his nickname "Eddie".
  • In Ghostbusters International #7:
    • On Page 4, on the shelf is the Leprechaun's Pot from the episode "The Luck of the Irish".
  • In Ghostbusters International #10:
    • On Page 15, Egon admits he misses teaching and muses he might return to it someday, a nod to becoming a professor by the time of Extreme Ghostbusters. [34]
  • In Ghostbusters International #11:
    • On Page 21, left of Kevin Tanaka, on the top cabinet label is a reference to the Extreme Ghostbusters and 1997, the year it aired.
  • In Ghostbusters Annual 2017:
    • On Page 44, Kylie's apartment appears and this version is revealed to be in Queens. In panel 5, a portrait of Kylie's Grandma Rose is seen. The story stars Pagan.
    • On Page 48, the Extreme Ghostbusters make a cameo appearance.
  • In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #2:
    • On Page 12, in panel 1, on the top right monitor screen is a still from the Game Boy Color Extreme Ghostbusters game with Eduardo in play.
  • In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #4:
    • On the Regular Cover, Cleopatra's Needle Obelisk is marked on the map. It was seen in "Ghost Apocalyptic Future".
  • In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #5:
    • On the Subscription Cover are Trendmasters' Ghost Blastin' Buster Bike on the left side and on the right side is Egon wearing the team's pack.
  • On page 4 of Ghostbusters: Interdimensional Cross-Rip, Extreme Ghostbusters is mentioned in the Introduction.
  • In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #6:
    • On Cover A, Melanie Ortiz has the Proton Pistol visually based on the version from Extreme Ghostbusters.
    • On Page 6, the roof array of the Ultimate Mobile Trap is visually based on Trendmaster's Extreme Ghostbusters Ecto-1 toy.
    • On Page 8, in panel 1, the trap inside the Ultimate Mobile Trap is visually based on the trap installed on the Ecto-Garbage Truck in "Back in the Saddle" Part 2.
    • On Page 14, in panel 5, the blue sign above Abby's elbow is Molta from "Darkness at Noon" Part 1. In panel 5, on the far right, Bright Wave is from "Heart of Darkness".
  • In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #2:
    • On Page 20, in panel 2, on the five screens are still from Extreme Ghostbusters: Code Ecto-1
      • Top Left: Driving in-between level
      • Top Middle: Level title screen with Kylie and Eduardo art
      • Top Right: Ecto-1 art that precedes driving
      • Bottom Middle: Eduardo in-game firing
      • Bottom Right: Kylie in-game
  • In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #3:
  • In Ghostbusters Annual 2018:
    • On Page 9, the drawing of Samhain in the book is from Extreme Ghostbusters' Intro sequence.
    • On Page 12, Kylie uses the P.K.E. Meter visually based on the Extreme Ghostbusters version.
    • On Page 23, in panel 4, on the book shelves are "Ghosts Walk Among Us" and "Government Cover Up: Ghosts" - two books Kylie had in her stack near the end of the Extreme Ghostbusters episode "Darkness at Noon, Part 1".
    • On Page 37, the Extreme Ghostbusters come to the Ghostbusters aid.
  • On March 6, 2018, Tom Waltz posted Virtual Trading Card 5 of 50, Eduardo Rivera. [35]
  • In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #1:
    • On Cover A and RI-A, Garrett Miller sits in Ecto-1a.
    • On Cover RI-B, Kylie appears with her Proton Pistol drawn.
    • On Page 8, in panel 5, prime universe Kylie uses the P.K.E. Meter based on the model in Extreme Ghostbusters.
  • On April 12, 2018, Tom Waltz posted Virtual Trading Card 16 of 50, Garrett Miller. [36]
  • In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #2:
    • On Cover A, Eduardo Rivera is featured.
    • On Cover B, Garrett Miller is featured. The candy bar in his chest pocket is a nod his constant supply on the series. Egon is wearing the suit from The Real Ghostbusters episode "X-Mas Marks The Spot".
    • On Page 20, the Extreme Ghostbusters and Slimer appear and are from different dimensions than The Real Ghostbusters and their Slimer and the team from Slimer! are.
  • On May 10, 2018, Tom Waltz posted Virtual Trading Card 24 of 50, the Extreme Ghostbusters. [37]
  • On June 5, 2018, Tom Waltz posted Virtual Trading Card 31 of 50, Kylie Griffin. [38]
  • In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #3:
    • On Cover A is Roland.
    • On Cover B is a Spectral Ghostbuster doppelganger of Eduardo.
    • On Dramatis Personae Page 2, the Extreme Ghostbuters' bio mentions their Egon Spengler.
    • On Page 4, Kylie mentions their team's Egon and it is pointed out he's an older version of the Real Ghostbusters one.
    • On Page 20, Egon arrives to help out.
  • On June 7, 2018, Tom Waltz posted Virtual Trading Card 32 of 50, Roland Jackson. [39]
  • In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #4:
    • On Cover A and RI, Slimer appears.
    • On Cover B, Fenris, Achira, and her appendage minions appear.
    • On Page 5, Eduardo mentions his father. He was mentioned in "Rage".
    • On Page 16, the ghost is a version of the Bone Dragon from "The Eyes of a Dragon".
    • On Page 18, in panel 1, on the monitor screens are the close up of the P.K.E. Meter from the start of the Extreme Ghostbusters Intro in the far top right monitor screen and on the middle top screen, the P.K.E. Meter screen when Egon checks P.K.E. levels in "Darkness at Noon, Part 1".
  • In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #5:
    • On Cover A, Kylie appears.
    • On Cover B, Roland and Egon appears.
    • On Page 21, the Extreme Ghostbusters are featured in the memo. Egon and Janine are mentioned. The supernatural drought that took place between The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters is mentioned. Egon's college course "Paranormal Phenomena 101" is alluded to. Roland revealed his interest in the Ghostbusters' technology came up first in "Darkness at Noon, Part 1". Roland's fear of his technology failing him came into play in "Moby Ghost". Kylie's history with a Grundel was revealed in "Grundelesque". Eduardo's law enforcement family came up in "Rage". Roland's photo is from "Darkness at Noon, Part 1" when he enters the lecture hall. Kylie's photo is from "Be Careful What You Wish For" when she reads her journal. Garrett's photo is from "Darkness at Noon, Part 1" when he leans in to see what Kylie is reading. Eduardo's photo is from "Home is Where The Horror Is" after he finishes eating and describing a chocolate bar in front of Garrett who was on a fad diet. Egon's photo is from "Casting the Runes" when he was suited up near the end of "Casting the Runes."
    • On Page 21, Dimension 68-E's ID-coordinates are stated to be 12-052320-130504.
  • In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #6:
    • On Cover A, Roland Jackson is in the upper left and has early version of the Trap from an early commercial seen in the VHS release of Rudyard Kipling's "The Second Jungle Book" (1997), Eduardo and Slimer are in the lower left, Kylie is in the center, and Egon and Garrett are in the upper right.
    • On Page 3, the Hungry Manitou mentions Garrett's adrenaline chasing trait and Garrett's greed, likely alluding to this celebrity ambitions like in "Deadliners".
    • On Page 7, in panel 3, Roland's stream is colored like at the end of "Darkness at Noon, Part 2" and at higher power like in "The Pied Piper of Manhattan".
    • On Page 10, Garrett mentions his dimension's Egon and his Paranormal Phenomena 101 course.
    • On Page 12, of the three, the zombie Eduardo is one of the fear manifestations seen in "Fear Itself" and thus, the other 2 are based on that design. Garrett's new wheelchair is visually based on the unreleased Trendmasters toy.
    • On Page 21, the Extreme Ghostbusters are alluded to in the memo.
  • In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #7:
    • On Cover A, Garrett appears.
    • On Cover B, Pagan appears.
    • On Page 4, Roland's confidence in the Ghostbusters' technology is a trait carried over from the show.
    • On Page 8, in panel 3, Garrett uses full stream on the Manitou like the end of "Darkness at Noon, Part Two".
  • In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #8:
    • On Cover B, Eduardo and Garrett appear.
    • On Cover RI, Kylie appears.
    • On Page 1, the Extreme Ghostbusters' proton streams are at full power like at the end of "Darkness at Noon, Part 2".
  • In Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary: Ghostbusters:
    • On Page 6, in panel 1, above Peter's shoulder is a Proton Cannister on the shelf.
    • On Page 8, in panel 3, on the right is an ad for Molta, first seen in Times Square in "Darkness at Noon, Part 1".
  • In Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary: The Real Ghostbusters:
    • On Page 15, there is a cameo of Kylie and Egon.
    • On Page 20, among the liberated ghosts are the Gremlin and Slyphon from the title sequence and "Slimer's Sacrifice".
  • In Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary: Extreme Ghostbusters:
    • On the Regular Cover are Egon Spengler, Janine Melnitz, Tobin's Spirit Guide updated in 1997, the year the show aired and takes place in-universe, the Extreme Ghostbusters, Proton Pack, Proton Pistol, and Proton Cannisters, Spawn of Achira, Boney, Eyeball, Flyer, Ecto-1, the Trendmaster Ghost Blastin' Buster Bike, Gremlin, Sylphon, Slimer, and Pagan.
    • On the Cover RI, Slimer appears with the team. The staging and poses of the Ghostbusters is loosely based on the ending of the title sequence of Extreme Ghostbusters and character designer Fil Barlow's title art.
    • On the IDW Convention Variant Cover are Gu-Mo, Achira and her spawn, Duophanes in his true form, the Extreme Ghostbusters, Proton Packs, Proton Pistol, the Vathek (Crainiac, Corpuscle, and Gristle), Piper in his true form, Ravana in his fat form, Slimer, Kahlil, Donkey Ghost, Leprechaun, Jersey Devil, and Ecto-1. The staging and poses of the Ghostbusters is loosely based on the ending of the title sequence of Extreme Ghostbusters.
    • In the Dramatis Personae, Garrett's biography alludes to his failed attempt at writing in "Deadliners".
    • On Page 2, left of Egon are Frankie, Le, and the human form of Le Maison from "Home is Where the Horror Is".
    • On Page 4, in panel 1, the poster is of Syren from "Sonic Youth". The Extreme Ghostbusters' civies first appear in "Darkness at Noon, Part 1"
    • On Page 5, in panel 2, the sign references character designer Fil Barlow.
    • On Page 10, the New York Public Library sign references 1997 - the year the show aired on television and the year the series took place in-universe.
    • On Page 14, Garrett uses his "Brooklyn in the house!" line from the series.

References in Ghostbusters: Afterlife[]

  • Thomas Du Crest cites watching Extreme Ghostbusters when he was younger and it was an influence when he did concept art of Muncher.[40]

References in Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed[]

  • On April 20, 2023, new gear shells were added in Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed for the Proton Pack, Particle Thrower, P.K.E. Meter, and Traps based on the versions seen on Extreme Ghostbusters. Ghostbuster customization also added hairstyles and outfits based on the Extreme Ghostbusters.

References[]

  1. Greene, James, Jr., (2022). A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever, p. 156. Lyons Press, Essex, CT USA, ISBN 9781493048243. Jeff Kline says: "The toy company Trend Masters may have been the driving force. They came to Sony and said they wanted to make a toy line for Ghostbusters. That's my memory of it. But you know, a lot of those animated shows were meant to be bridges from what came before and what was next."
  2. Greene, James, Jr., (2022). A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever, p. 157. Lyons Press, Essex, CT USA, ISBN 9781493048243. Line reads: "Kline reveals that the dynamic between newbie characters Kylie, Eduardo, Roland, and Garrett was influenced by coming-of-age classic The Breakfast Club."
  3. Fil Barlow deviantArt 3/1/12 Fil Barlow says: "I've been digging through my conceptual designs for Extreme Ghostbusters and found this early sketch of Egon. This was an idea I proposed to Executive Producer Richard Raynis while the concept of the show was still in it's formative stage. I did all of the initial XGB design of the main characters from Australia. was pitching the idea of Egon as an ambassador to the ghost realm trying to stop an impending war on the other side (I originally suggested between demons and ghosts, but when hell was nixed as a bad idea for a kids show I changed it to a war between ghosts and ghouls). I always liked the idea of the new team entering an abandoned Firehouse and Egon appearing out of thin air in his ambassador garb murmuring in an ancient ghost language. He had spent so long on the other side he was barely able to speak English. I was asked why the final design of Egon had a ponytail, it was a holdout from this concept. I just couldn't let it go."
  4. Proton Charging "Interview: Fil Barlow" 10/9/1998 Fil Barlow says: "I had a whole other direction I proposed to Richard when I began designing for the series in Australia. I wanted to make Egon a warlock type character (long hair, goatee, robes and a staff), spending much of his time trying to settle a treaty between the ghosts, humans and the demons. My original line up of the main characters had a demon in it. I had Egon as a sort of politician speaking on behalf of the humans at Ghost Councils. This direction was seen as too complicated and difficult to manage as the series would have to be handled by many writers."
  5. Fil Barlow deviantArt Early Concept Lucy Part 2, post reply Fil Barlow says: "Haha, Roland also began as a female! I really liked Lucy but Richard had the vision and final say."
  6. Fil Barlow deviantArt Early Concept Julia 4/22/13 Fil Barlow says: "This is how Roland began in the early development phase of Extreme Ghostbusters. Executive Producer Richard Raynis wanted to see this character as a male. So for a while Roland had long dreads, which were too hip for the bookish character that Richard had in mind. So the dreads became cornrows, then ended up with Roland's final, more conservative, haircut. I kept pitching different ideas for devices, Julia had a chest piece, this is by no means a well crafted drawing, but a rough that was one of many used to triangulate the characters into what they became. As you can see, this was page 14 of 17 conceptual designs faxed that day to LA from my Australian studio."
  7. Fil Barlow deviantArt Early Concept Lucy Part 1 Fil Barlow says: "Back in 1996 while I was setting up my studio in Australia, Executive Producer Richard Raynis from Columbia Tristar (Sony) worked from LA with me visualizing the characters for what was to be Extreme Ghostbusters. It was so early in development that the characters I designed had no names so I would randomly assign them ones. Richard wanted a male character in a wheelchair, I was pushing for more female characters in the line-up and I could only foresee problems with the wheels in animation (that's a lot of ellipses and perspective to get right), so I sent him this design of "Lucy" and put her in leg braces (or calipers). I tried to show that the crutches could be used for sucking up ghosts, also that her head would be at the correct eye-line for the other characters to play off, making it easier for the Directors who would have to cut down to someone sitting all the time. Needless to say the calipers were rejected, Richard really wanted a wheelchair so I went back to the drawing board."
  8. Fil Barlow deviantArt Early Concept Lucy Part 2 Fil Barlow says: "This is the second attempt at Lucy. My boss Richard Raynis wanted the character in the wheelchair to be fearless and gung ho! I did my best to sell the fact that a female character could easily accomplish the same role. Richard wasn't convinced, what I was offering didn't fit the character he was forming in his mind. Resigned I simply changed the Lucy design into a male and Garrett was born."
  9. Fil Barlow deviantArt 4/11/13 Fil Barlow says: "I'm glad that Richard was, pardon the pun, pushing for a wheelchair bound character. It was actually a brave and risky move on his part and it could have easily backfired. In truth it was anything but safe. He had no pressure from government or anyone in management above him to create Garrett, he simply wanted to do it. I had my reservations mainly for practical reasons (I'm not a prop guy and thankfully Garrett's wheelchair was handled by the Prop Department). I must admit I was genuinely worried about offending people who use wheelchairs by appearing to caricature them negatively, there were no scripts or voice actor to work from when I designed him. By 1996 I had been working with Richard for a decade, I had learned to trust his vision. I could make suggestions, but he made the final call. Richard encouraged me to draw a "jock in a wheelchair", he chose the voice actor, worked with the script department and Directors on how he wanted to develop Garrett's personality. After I saw Garrett in action I had no reservations, he could handle any situation with confidence, the show even had some stair jokes. To be honest XGB would have been pretty dull without Garrett."
  10. Fil Barlow deviantArt 3/7/12 #1 Fil Barlow says: "Lucy was the precursor to Garret, I felt that the show was too guy heavy so I was pushing for more than one female in the cast, this was also before Kylie was created. Richard really wanted a male character in a wheelchair, so I simply changed the gung-ho Lucy design into a male."
  11. Fil Barlow deviantArt 3/7/12 #2 Fil Barlow says: "I tried to make the clothing on XGB as simple as possible because I don't like drawing props. So Garret's wheelchair (those wheels!!) was something I was keen to avoid in my department, I tried to get him in calipers in early design because crutches are easier to draw. Fortunately the Prop department eventually took his wheel chair off my hands."
  12. Fil Barlow Early Concept Female Characters 4/21/13 Fil Barlow says: "So, because you asked, here is the first sketch I ever did of Kylie, before she had a name. This was done very early in development long before the show was pitched to a network. Executive Producer Richard Raynis was still in the process of figuring out who he wanted in the team. I intended to throw as many female characters in the mix as early as possible. The first design, in the lineup above, evolved into Lucy, who became Garrett. The third one Richard rejected outright because it looked to close to a family member of his, which creeped him out. The middle character, the Goth, he liked and wanted to develop some more. It was his decision to make her diminutive, we struggled for a bit over that. Anyway this is how Kylie began, as a part of a character smorgasbord."
  13. Fil Barlow deviantArt 3/6/12 Fil Barlow says: "Here's an early design I did of Kylie while still in Australia. The suction tank weapon she is wearing was designed by Matthew Brady one of the artists on my team."
  14. XGB Main Model Pack Kylie Expressions 01 Fil Barlow deviantArt 4/15/13 Fil Barlow says: "Here is the original art from Kylie's model pack that I prepared from Australia in 1996."
  15. Fil Barlow reply deviantArt 3/25/12 Fil Barlow says: "It was strange how much resistance she got from the storyboard artists when they first had to work with her, but by the end of the season most of them were finding it hard to draw female characters any other way."
  16. Spook Central- Extreme Ghostbusters (THE ORIGINAL VERSION)
  17. Proton Charging "Interview: Fil Barlow" 10/9/1998 Fil Barlow says: "We were only meant to do 40 episodes. I haven't heard of another season being considered. The property is owned by Columbia-Tristar so you never know what they might decide to do. Maybe in ten years from now I'll be working on it again."
  18. Greene, James, Jr., (2022). A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever, p. 157. Lyons Press, Essex, CT USA, ISBN 9781493048243. Audu Paden says: "It got down to the wire. We had maybe thirty hours before the first mix was due before we finally got his okay."
  19. The Ship It Show "We Ship Extreme Ghostbusters Cosplay!" 39:41-40:00 mark 2/28/2023 Tara Strong says: "It's the only show I've ever done regularly as an animated series in the evening because at the time Alfonso Ribeiro as well as Jason Marsden were on on-camera series--sitcoms and so they couldn't tape during the day so we would tape at night in the studio together and it was sooo much fun."
  20. The Ship-It Show YouTube "We Ship Extreme Ghostbusters with ICONIC VAs!" 4:47-5:26 3/7/2023 Billy West says: "Well, that's a long story. It's a very long story. Well, you know what, it's the Slime--I played Slimer in the show and they were like 'what do you think, you want to do Slimer?' and I was like 'Yeah, I guess but that's Frank Welker...' 'Well, he doesn't want to do it, he won't do it' and I was lied to and so that's how I wound up doing it. Yeah, somebody lied -- they either turned Frank's request down for more money and I -- and it was suddenly I felt like I became my own enemy. I became what I hated the most is some grave robber."
  21. The Containment Unit YouTube "Laura Summer (Janine Melnitz, The Real Ghostbusters) Interview" 11:08-11:19 3/5/2021 Laura Summer says: "They even asked me to come back and do Extreme to audition for it and I did and they told me I had the job and then I didn't do the job. And that's just showbiz."
  22. The Ship-It Show YouTube "We Ship Extreme Ghostbusters with ICONIC Vas!" 26:18-27:40 3/7/2023 Rino Romano says: "I wasn't cast in it originally. I didn't get it. I was so right for it in my head. I was like 'I should get this.' I didn't get it. I was so bummed. I was like 'Oh well, I guess it wasn't meant to be.' Then I get a call back like two weeks later. I'm like 'How did I get a call back? They already cast it.' 'Ah, they may not be happy so they're gonna have you come back in.' Wow. Sue was so nice to me. It's between me and someone else. She says just do what you do. I said okay. So I did it and I didn't it and I was like man, I was sure. I was I really wanted this. Wow. **** I guess it's not for me. Whatever. Another week or two go by and they say, 'Listen, they're gonna have you back in.' I said, "Really? Are you kidding me?' 'Yeah, here's the thing. They're going to have you record with the cast. So it's an audition. They're pay you but it's a paid audition.' It was so nerve-wracking to have this but I was like 'Okay, give me a shot. I'm gonna do my best.' So the whole point of this setup is I walk in, I sit and I look down the aisle like I said 'holy **** there's this and there's everybody and there's Tara who I know all right' and then I look at Marsden who's sitting right next to me and I go "hey" and he looks at me and I've never seen this in real life before, he goes "hey" and he does literally a spit take or a triple take and he goes "yeah." I look as if I go 'What's up dude like what's up' and he goes "oh nothing" and I go "what?" and he goes "you look just like the other two dudes" and I was like "oh, all right." He thought I was the other guy. He talked to me for a couple seconds first anyway. That was that."
  23. The Ship-It Show YouTube "We Ship Extreme Ghostbusters with ICONIC Vas!" 28:36-29:07 3/7/2023 Jason Marsden says: "I remember. There was like two other kids. Like kids that were--that they cast to play Rino--to play Eduardo at the time. And I remember they were fine. It felt a little out of place because one was actually a minor. I think he was 16 and then you came in and you--as soon as you spoke, I think we I just remember feeling like 'oh this fits. This fits really good. I hope he stays.' And thank goodness you did."
  24. http://protoncharging.com/2009/07/23/comcast-now-showing-extreme-ghostbusters/
  25. Hulu Support tweet 2/24/16
  26. Hulu March Premieres 2/22/16
  27. Hulu.com: Extreme Ghostbusters
  28. Hulu.com: Extreme Ghostbusters en Español
  29. Saturday Morning Cartoons 7/4/2016
  30. Ghostbusters YouTube "Extreme Ghostbusters Intro! | Animated Series | GHOSTBUSTERS" 2/3/2021
  31. Ghostbusters Twitter 5/30/2021
  32. TomWaltz Tweet 3/6/18
  33. TomWaltz Tweet 5/10/18
  34. Egon Spengler/Animated (2016). IDW Comics- "Ghostbusters International #10" (2016) (Comic p.15). Egon Spengler says: "I do miss teaching. Perhaps I'll return to it someday."
  35. TomWaltz Tweet 3/6/18
  36. TomWaltz Tweet 4/12/18
  37. TomWaltz Tweet 5/10/18
  38. TomWaltz Tweet 6/5/18
  39. TomWaltz Tweet 6/7/18
  40. Thomas Du Crest ArtStation "Ghostbusters Afterlife - Muncher" 3/9/2021 Thomas Du Crest says: "This is one of the rejected propositions for Muncher. I got the color wrong but I still love him! It has a bit of an "Extreme Ghostbusters" vibe, which is a cartoon I used to watch as a kid."

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