Real Ghostbusters
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[edit] Introduction
Real Ghostbusters is the animated version of the hit 80's movie Ghostbusters, featuring the continuing adventures of Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddemore, and Janine Melnitz (and the spud, Slimer, too).
The connotation "Real" was added due to copyright conflict with another animed series by Filmation that got to the "Ghostbusters" moniker first. [1]
The Real Ghostbusters debuted in 1986 on ABC and featured an unusually high level of quality in its stories. Much of this can be attributed to J. Michael Straczynski, the head writer for the first two years. Many elements of Poe, Lovecraft and other masterworks of horror can be spotted in episodes.
Unfortunately, ABC determined that Slimer was the source of RGB's rating success, and slowly but surely the spud grew in prominence. Perhaps not coincidentally the quality of the ABC scripts declined almost proportionately.
[edit] Terminology
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[edit] Timeline
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan community.
[edit] 1986
- On September 7, 1986, Real Ghostbusters premieres on ABC.
[edit] Late 1980s
- During the late 1980s, the community was producing a number of fanzines.
- During the late 1980s, smarm was defined by the Real Ghostbusters community as "regarded as purple prosey, way over-the-top, hurt/comfort or buddy-buddy fanfic." [2]
[edit] 1989
- On June 16, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in United States. [3]
- On July 29, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in the Philippines. [4]
- On November 16, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in Australia. [5]
- On November 25, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in Japan. [6]
- On December 1, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in the United Kingdom. [7]
- On December 15, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in Finland. [8]
- On December 15, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in France. [9]
- On December 15, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in the Netherlands. [10]
- On December 21, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in Colombia. [11]
- On December 27, 1989, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in Italy. [12]
[edit] 1990
- On January 4, 1990, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in Hong Kong. [13]
- On January 11, 1990, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in West Germany. [14]
- On February 23, 1990, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in Sweden. [15]
- On July 21, 1990, Ghostbusters II premiered in theaters in South Korea. [16]
[edit] 1999
- On April 5, 1999, Mother's Day Pt. 1 by Patrick Moore became the first Ghostbusters story published on FanFiction.Net. [17][18]
[edit] 2000s
- During the 2000s, slash has not been very tolerated in the community. Some members were squicked by it and others found it out of character. Many readers on Ghostbusters.net would intentionally rate stories low if they had slash, rather than judging a story on the quality of the writing.
[edit] 2002
- On November 12, 2002, the Ghostbusters LiveJournal community ghostbusters was created. [19]
[edit] 2004
- On February 1, 2004, the orkut community Ghostbusters was created. [20]
- On July 9, 2004, the MySpace group httpgroupsghostbustersmyspacecom was created. [21]
- On November 5, 2004, the MySpace group TheRealGhostbusters was created. [22]
- On November 25, 2004, the orkut community Ghostbusters was created. [23]
[edit] 2005
- On February 11, 2005, the orkut community Ghostbusters was created. [24]
- On February 23, 2005, the MySpace group ghostheads was created. [25]
- On March 9, 2005, the MySpace group petevenkman was created. [26]
- On June 22, 2005, the MySpace group TRG23832 was created. [27]
- On June 30, 2005, the MySpace group GhostbustersLair was created. [28]
- On July 25, 2005, the MySpace group theofficialghostbusters was created. [29]
[edit] 2006
- On February 14, the FanFiction.Net forum Calling for the Ghostbusters was created. [30]
- On June 1, 2006, the orkut community Ghostbusters was created. [31]
- On September 5, 2006, the FanFiction.Net forum Ghostbuster of the year was created. [32]
- On November 9, 2006, the FanFiction.Net forum Things that go Bump in the Night was created. [33]
[edit] 2007
- On January 11, 2007, the orkut community Ghostbusters was created. [34]
- On March 4, 2007, the orkut community THE GHOSTBUSTERS was created. [35]
- On May 7, 2007, the orkut community Ghostbusters was created. [36]
- In August 2007, the bebo group parateam was created. [37]
- On August 30, 2007, the orkut community GHOSTBUSTERS was created. [38]
- On October 11, 2007, the Livejournal community rgb_icons was created. [39]
- In November 2007, the bebo group u-no-the-name was created. [40]
- On November 29, 2007, the orkut community GhostBusters 3 (Movie + Game)® was created. [41]
- In December 2007, the bebo group GhostBustersRock was created. [42]
- In February 2008, the bebo group ghost-RIP was created. [43]
[edit] Ships
Popular ships for this fandom include Egon/Janine and Egon/Peter.
[edit] Kerfluffles
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[edit] Influential Fanworks
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[edit] Fandom Members
- Deb Walsh: Fan artist and fanzine publisher [44]
- Sandy Schreiber: Fan artist [45]
- Sheila Paulson: Contributed to a number of Real Ghostbusters fanzines [46]
[edit] Fandom Size
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[edit] External Links
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
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