History Headscratchers / TheRealGhostbusters

* Peter attempts to build a ghost attracter in "Standing Room Only" in hopes of making ghostbusting easier and to ensure that they all become rich, but there is one glaring flaw in this plan. Putting aside the fact that the invention turned out to not be working as intended and that the ghosts gathered at the Firehouse for different reasons, how the hell are the Ghostbusters going to get wealthy if no one's paying them to capture the ghosts that show up at the Firehouse?

* One thing that always confused me in the episode "Captain Steel Saves the Day" was when Captain Steel questioned who he was going to fight upon returning to his comic now that his archenemy Doctor Destructo was in the Containment Unit, and the comic's creator Len Wolfman simply stated that he'll think of something. Exactly how would having Doctor Destructo removed from the comic in that manner stop Wolfman from continuing to use the villain in the comics? It's not like Wolfman can't draw him anymore.

* One thing that always confused me in the episode "Captain Steel Saves the Day" was when Captain Steel questioned who he was going to fight upon returning to his comic now that his archenemy Doctor Destructo was in the Containment Unit, and the comic's creator Len Wolfman simply states that he'll think of something. Exactly how would having Doctor Destructo removed from the comic in that manner stop Wolfman from continuing to use the villain in the comics. It's not like Wolfman can't draw him anymore.

** The Flip Side Slimmer makes sense in that it looks like an organic monster probably from another dimension. So, in a similar way how Slimmr is a good ghost living with organic beings (humans) the Mirror!Slimmer is an evil organic being living with ghosts.

* So what are ghosts exactly? I mean are all of them spirits of the dead? I ask because then some episodes are really really very dark. One episode name “Baby Spooky” has a literal baby ghost walking around with her parents looking for her. The ghostbusters eventually help them reunite but, was him the soul of a dead baby? A family that died together? The episode itself sucks but that’s kind of a dark background if you think about.\\\

** The nature of the ghosts will vary from episode to episode. In some episodes yes, they are the spirit of the dead, most notably: the skeleton soldiers in "Bustman's Holiday", Ray’s farmer relatives in "Dairy Farm", the pirate ghosts in "Sea Fright", the ghost of Harry Houdini in "The Cabinet of Calamari", the one in "The Man Who Never Reached Home", Agatha Christie’s expy in Boo-Dunit and probably most of the ghosts in "Deadcon 1". Nevertheless other episodes made clear that other ghosts are actually creatures from AnotherDimension that were never humans to begin with like the aforementioned "Baby Spokens", “The Hole in the Wall”, “Trascendental Tourists” and probably the ghosts in “Flip Side” too, as some of the recurring villains like Samhain and The Ghostmaster. Slimer is most probably one of these cases. Other episodes have both like "Cry Uncle" have obviously the uncle who died and the more monstrous one to be one of these spirits. Other episodes like "Venkman's Ghost Repellers" with the New Jersey parallelogram and "You Can't Take It With You" show entrances to another dimensions where “ghosts” (as in weird things/life forms who float around) enter our world with no indication that they are human in any way or ever been.

* In the Christmas episode, the Ghostbusters trap the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future all in one trap, and they all remain separate. But didn't another episode state that when you trap multiple ghosts in one trap, they end up permanently fused?

** Several episodes are in contradiction with this. In ''Ghost ‘R’ Us'' a family of ghosts is trapped together and later seem separated, even inside the Containment Unit.

** The nature of the ghosts will vary from episode to episode. In some episodes yes, they are the spirit of the dead, most notably: the skeleton soldiers in "Bustman's Holiday", Ray’s farmer relatives in "Dairy Farm", the pirate ghosts in "Sea Fright", the ghost of Harry Houdini in "The Cabinet of Calamari", the one in "The Man Who Never Reached Home", Agatha Christie’s expy in Boo-Dunit and probably most of the ghosts in "Deadcon 1". Nevertheless other episodes made clear that other ghosts are actually creatures from AnotherDimension that were never humans to begin with like the aforementioned "Baby Spokens", “The Hole in the Wall”, “Trascendental Tourists” and probably the ghosts in “Flip Side” too, as some of the recurring villains like Samhain and The Ghostmaster. Slimmer is most probably one of these cases. Other episodes have both like "Cry Uncle" have obviously the uncle who died and the more monstrous one to be one of these spirits. Other episodes like "Venkman's Ghost Repellers" with the New Jersey parallelogram and "You Can't Take It With You" show entrances to another dimensions where “ghosts” (as in weird things/life forms who float around) enter our world with no indication that they are human in any way or ever been.

** The Flip Side Slimmer makes sense in that it looks like an organic monster probably from another dimension. So, in a similar way how Slimmer is a good ghost living with organic beings (humans) the Mirror!Slimmer is an evil organic being living with ghosts.

** The nature of the ghosts will vary from episode to episode. In some episodes yes, they are the spirit of the dead, most notably: the skeleton soldiers in "Bustman's Holiday", Ray’s farmer relatives in "Dairy Farm", the pirate ghosts in "Sea Fright", the ghost of Harry Houdini in "The Cabinet of Calamari", the one in "The Man Who Never Reached Home", Agatha Christie’s expy in Boo-Dunit and probably most of the ghosts in "Deadcon 1". Nevertheless other episodes made clear that other ghosts are actually creatures from AnotherDimension that were never humans to begin with like the aforementioned "Baby Spokens", “The Hole in the Wall”, “Trascendental Tourists” and probably the ghosts in “Flip Side” too, as some of the recurring villains like Samhain and The Ghostmaster. Slimmer is most probably one of these cases. Other episodes have both like "Cry Uncle" have obviously the uncle who died and the more monstrous one to be one of this spirits. Other episodes like "Venkman's Ghost Repellers" with the New Jersey parallelogram and "You Can't Take It With You" show entrances to another dimensions where “ghosts” (as in weird things/life forms who float around) enter our world with no indication that they are human in any way or ever been.

* In the "Flip Side" episode, that is like a MirrorUniverse episode, why is Slimer's counterpart a monster? Shouldn't he be a human (just probably fat an evil) as everything is backwards?

And what are the ghosts in Flip Side? Are all spirits of the dead that go there? Is that the afterlife? And if it is, then why do they have ghost versions of Peter, Egon and Ray, did they travel to the future when they died? (now that I think about that could explain Winston’s absent, he hasn’t die “yet” or he went to heaven maybe).

* To be honest that sounded like an excuse from them to not release Drool. The only “explanation” I can think of for the discontinuity is that Drool was biting the other ghost at the moment of their capture which might be more invasive than be trapped together.

* So what are ghosts exactly? I mean are all them spirits of the dead. I ask because then some episodes are really really very dark. One episode name “Baby Spooky” has a literal baby ghost walking around with her parents looking for her. The ghostbusters eventually help them reunite but, was him the soul of a dead baby? A family that died together? The episode itself sucks but that’s kind of a dark background if you think about.\\\

* So what are ghosts exactly? I mean are all them spirits of the dead. I ask because then some episodes are really really very dark. One episode name “Baby Spooky” has a literal baby ghost walking around with her parents looking for her. The ghostbusters eventually help them reunite but, was him the soul of a dead baby? A family that died together? The episode itself sucks but that’s kind of a dark background if you think about.

## The episode "Citizen Ghost" reveals that the Gozer-marshmallow-residue all over their uniforms was dangerous and needed to be disposed of (since Peter fails to do so, it turns into doppelgangers of the guys who nearly kill them). Thus, all the goo that rained down on NYC after the battle was just as dangerous, and the guys needed to dispose of it, too. How? By vacuuming it up and putting it in the Containment Unit, where it returned to its original form, albeit without the mind or personality of its maker (Gozer).

## The episode "Citizen Ghost" reveals that the Gozer-marshmallow-residue all over their uniforms was dangerous and needed to be disposed of (since Peter fails to do so, it turns into doppelgangers of the guys who nearly kill them). Thus, all the goo that rained down on NYC after the battle was just as dangerous, and the guys eneded to dispose of it, too. How? By vacuuming it up and putting it in the Containment Unit, where it returned to its original form, albeit without the mind or personality of its maker (Gozer).

* Could someone tell me why the Ghostbusters had the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in the containment unit? This cartoon's supposed to have continuity with the movies, and the he wasn't trapped. He was blown up into marshmallow goo.

* In the climax of "Ragnarok and Roll," while the guys' plan to blow themselves and the villain up is noble and brave, how come none of them pointed out while agreeing to the plan that there were also two innocent bystanders on top of the building at the time? Yes, they had no choice, there were billions of lives at stake, they couldn't let that stop them, but still, it would've been nice if one of them had observed "But we'll take out the two of them, too" or told them to run for it (even though they probably would've refused).

** Several episodes are in contradiction with this. In ''Ghost ‘R’ Us'' a family of ghosts is trapped together and later seem separated, even inside the Containment Unit.

** This one has bothered me as well, especially in light of the fact that in the movie (the events of which are canon to the animated series) all the ghosts stuffed in the containment grid were able to separate after being trapped when the containment grid went nuclear (which is why we have Slimer running around), even though at one point in the film, foreshadowing the danger, Egon mentioned the super concentration of ectoplasm in the grid, implying compression. However, there is another possibility with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. They may not be separate entities at all, but rather, all aspects of the same spirit. They wouldn't need to worry about separation, as they were already a connected entity to begin with.

** That was "Drool, the Dog-faced Goblin." Um...okay, let's try to untangle this one. Drool and his Bigger Brother are "monster" ghosts; as such, they probably have low personal "integrities." That is to say, when locked in the trap, they fuse easily. The Christmas Ghosts, on the other hand, are personifications of Christmas, and their personal integrities are most likely pretty strong. Also, as revealed at the end of the episode, the Christmas Ghosts ''allowed'' themselves to be captured as part of their plan.

* In the Christmas episode, the Ghostbusters trap the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future all in one trap, and they all remain separate. But didn't another episode state that where you trap multiple ghost in one trap, they end up permanently fused?

* In the Christmas episode, the Ghostbusters trap the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future all in one trap, and they all remain separate. But didn't another episode state that where you trap multiple ghost in one trap, they end up permanently fused?

* In the Christmas episode, the Ghostbusters trap the ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future all in one trap, and they all remain separate. But didn't another episode state that where you trap multiple ghost in one trap, they end up permanently fused?