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The Ghostbusters themselves seem to have no other manner of getting rid of ghosts other than putting them into the Containment Unit and on various occasions there has been the problem of what happens when all the ghosts get out of the Containment Unit at once and it's not too dissimilar from what happened with this door. It seems like the Containment Unit would have to be kept intact for the rest of time, leaving a problem of how to warn future civilizations. It's a problem that comes up in nuclear waste disposal and it seems to come up with the warning stone and the door itself which says "Do not open until doomsday"

The Ghostbusters never "caught" him in any normal sense, but he's inside the containment unit in the cartoon, and somehow he's turned friendly now that, according to Ray, he's not being controlled by Gozer. But how's that possible, and when did it happen? Well, the Destructor was formed by all the PKE energy Gozer had gathered in New York and, when Gozer was dispelled, that energy got released again (causing Stay-Puft's physical form to collapse into marshmallow goop). Then that shapeless PKE energy gradually spawned dozens of individual ghosts, which the ghostbusters hunted down and caught in separate cases over the next several months. Once the last ghost was captured and sent into the containment unit with the others, they all merged back together into the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man... except, without Gozer's influence, he now has the same friendly personality that Ray imagined he'd have. He's probably also a lot weaker now than he was as the Destructor, but he's still big, strong and benign enough to make him a useful last-ditch option against other ghosts.

The restraining order forbade the 'Busters from making money while ghostbusting. Nothing said they couldn't become rich beyond their wildest dreams by ''selling'' their story; ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' is the result. It would probably look more like ''The Original Real Ghostbusters'', with matching flightsuits and a Peter that looks a ''little'' more like Bill Murray at Peter's own insistence; also, instead of Slimer, Mr. Stay-Puft would be the unofficial mascot, after a ProductPlacement deal with the company that produces Stay-Puft Marshmallows. Somewhere around Series 3, the Marshmallow Man starts to take a bigger role, and the show is eventually retooled to focus entirely on him. At this point, we see Movie!Ghostbusters in decline, with Ray and Winston doing kids' parties in a decrepit ECTO-1.

He certainly acts like a dog, with his short attention span, his general lack of inhibition, and his strong sense of loyalty to the Ghostbusters. It also might explain why he eats so much; he sees being a ghost as his opportunity to finally get to try all the human foods his owner wouldn't let him eat in life.

* Alternately,she isn't in the cartoon because she doesn't exist as such. The movies are Hollywood's version of the events that the Ghostbusters went through. It would be typical of them to include a composite character, and even shoehorn in a romantic subplot with little or no basis in reality.

* There was an episode that explained it in flashback, IIRC it was them telling the story to a reporter of how Slimer became their TeamPet, after killing Gozer they went home, took off there marshmallow covered jumpsuits and tossed them in a box in the basement, where a leak from the containment unit caused the gunk to reform into the animated version of Stay Puff, which they busted, trapped, and stored.

The Ghostbuster themselves seem to have no other manner of getting rid of ghosts other than putting them into the Containment Unit and on various occasions there have been the problem of what happens when all the ghosts get out of the Containment Unit at once and it's not too dissimilar from what happened with this door. It seems like the Containment Unit would have to be kept intact for the rest of time, leaving a problem of how to warn future civilisations. It's a problem that comes up in nuclear waste disposal and it seems to come up with the warning stone and the door itself which says "Do not open until doomsday"

A lot of people assume from lines in "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic" that Peter's mother is dead. However, lines from later episodes ("My mother reads ''Celebrity'' magazine!" for one.) suggest that she's still living. Possibly, Peter remembers how sad and lonely his mother was when his father ran off to chase the latest Get Rich Quick scheme. She eventually got tired of being in a relationship of one and asked for a divorce. Peter never forgot how heartbroken his mother was. A combination of this plus some missed holidays and visitation weekends further strained Peter's relationship with his father. Mama Venkeman is alive and well, lives upstate and tries to find happiness in her present life, but was turned off the idea of marriage. Peter tries to visit her when he can, though his job means he can't as often as he'd like. (He at least manages to phone her on her birthday and Mother's Day.)

The restraining order forbade the 'Busters from making money while ghostbusting. Nothing said they couldn't become rich beyond their wildest dreams by ''selling'' their story; ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' is the result. It would probably look more like ''The Original Real Ghostbusters'', with matching flightsuits and a Peter that looks a ''little'' more like Bill Murray at Peter's own insistence; also, Mr. Stay-Puft would be the unofficial mascot, not Slimer. Somewhere around Series 3, the Marshmallow Man starts to take a bigger role, and the show is eventually retooled to focus entirely on him. At this point, we see Movie!Ghostbusters in decline, with Ray and Winston doing kids' parties in a decrepit ECTO-1.

* Egon, by and large, is charged with delivering the show's exposition, complete with SpockSpeak, making him the natural order of focus for the show. Also, the writers may have considered him the main protagonist as well, seeing as how it was Egon that would stay on as the mentor in Extreme Ghostbusters.

[[WMG:The Doomsday Door in the episode ''Knock, Knock'' is actually a Containment Unit]]

* Egon, by and large, is charged with delivering the show's exposition, complete with SpockSpeak, making him the natural order of focus for the show. Also, the writers may have considered him the main protagonist as well, seeing as how it was Egon that would stay on as the ObiWan in Extreme Ghostbusters.

A lot of people assume from lines in "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic" that Peter's mother is dead. However, lines from later episodes ("My mother reads <i>Celebrity</i> magazine!" for one.) suggest that she's still living. Possibly, Peter remembers how sad and lonely his mother was when his father ran off to chase the latest Get Rich Quick scheme. She eventually got tired of being in a relationship of one and asked for a divorce. Peter never forgot how heartbroken his mother was. A combination of this plus some missed holidays and visitation weekends further strained Peter's relationship with his father. Mama Venkeman is alive and well, lives upstate and tries to find happiness in her present life, but was turned off the idea of marriage. Peter tries to visit her when he can, though his job means he can't as often as he'd like. (He at least manages to phone her on her birthday and Mother's Day.)

* Another interpretation of this is that the movie was the in-verse adaptation of the "real" event that happened to the cartoon Ghostbusters. So, everything we ''think'' we saw happen in the movie could just be down to AdaptationDecay in the Real Ghostbusters universe version of the movie. The only events that we are ever actually told happened in the Real Ghostbusters version are that they captured Slimer at the Sedgwick Hotel, the containment unit blew up, and the final confrontation with Gozer resulted in them encountering the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. It's ''possible'' that in the Real Ghostbusters version of those events, the Marmallow Man was actually manifested as a typical ghost that they simply captured in a trap, whereas the 'movie adaptation' of those same events instead interpreted Stay Puft as being a corporeal manifestation that got blown to bits for the sake of condensing the 'real' story.

The restraining order forbade the 'Busters from making money while ghostbusting. Nothing said they couldn't become rich beyond their wildest dreams by ''selling'' their story; ''TheRealGhostbusters'' is the result. It would probably look more like ''The Original Real Ghostbusters'', with matching flightsuits and a Peter that looks a ''little'' more like Bill Murray at Peter's own insistence; also, Mr. Stay-Puft would be the unofficial mascot, not Slimer. Somewhere around Series 3, the Marshmallow Man starts to take a bigger role, and the show is eventually retooled to focus entirely on him. At this point, we see Movie!Ghostbusters in decline, with Ray and Winston doing kids' parties in a decrepit ECTO-1.

** It formed into EvilKnockoff versions of themselves rather than Stay-Puft, since the PKE energy took its form from their latent auras. Still, it shows that the Gozer/Destructor PKE energy stayed around after they defeated Gozer, just formless and unchannelled again.

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