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Extreme Ghostbusters is a short-lived sequel/spin-off of The Real Ghostbusters
cartoon series that aired 65 episodes in the fall of 1997. The show featured a new team of younger Ghostbusters led by veteran Ghostbuster Egon Spengler and secretary Janine Melnitz. The premise was that the Ghostbusters had done their jobs too well and were forced out of business once again. The new team came together just in time to combat new supernatural threats looking for a way into our world.

The new Ghostbusters were Eduardo Rivera, Roland Jackson, Garrett Miller and Kylie Griffin. The show handled serious and mature themes as opposed to the more childish 'Real Ghostbusters'.

Everything familiar to the previous series needed to be retooled design-wise as the character likenesses were owned by Columbia Pictures Television. That meant a new Ecto-1, different looks for Egon, Slimer and Janine, and all-new background layouts consistent through Sony cartoons at the time.

The theme music for Extreme Ghostbusters took a unique twist on the familiar Ray Parker Jr. theme. The new theme was a gritty, rock/funk inspired variation of the original Ghostbusters theme song.

Perhaps the most notable episode of Extreme Ghostbusters was the two part episode entitled "Back in the Saddle", in which all of the original Ghostbusters team up with their successors for an adventure. Dave Coulier (voice of Peter Venkman), Buster Jones (voice of Winston Zeddemore), and Frank Welker (voice of Ray Stantz) reprised their roles from The Real Ghostbusters.

Cast

Egon Spengler - Maurice LaMarche
Janine Melnitz - Pat Musick
Eduardo Rivera - Rino Romano
Roland Jackson - Alfonso Ribeiro
Garrett Miller - Jason Marsden
Kylie Griffin - Tara Strong
Slimer - Billy West

Trivia

The abbreviation for the title is either XGB or EGB.

Garrett is the only Ghostbuster in the history of the toy franchise be a paraplegic; Kylie is the first female Ghostbuster, as well as being a goth.

At the end of an episode involving a creature that feeds off laughter, the creature picks up Garrett and Kylie in its tentacles, and attempts to tickle them. A shot was cut from circulation, involving the creature taking Kylie's boots off and tickling her feet.

A long-running gag in the series is the way Eduardo and Kylie may someday be involved; but keep goading each other (Eduardo compares her to a vampire; she compares him to a goat.)

Another gag of this sort involved Eduardo and Slimer in a sibling-like rivalry; but for one episode, in which Eduardo had to enter the containment unit to save Slimer, these differences were put aside for ever (until, of course, the following episode).

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