I hope I'm not bringing up an old topic that's been debated to death, but something that's always kinda had me wondering…

Is there any real idea what the hell happened between GB1 and GB2 that earned the Ghostbusters all the apparent crap that was heaped upon them in between the movies, to where they had recieved a restraining order from ever doing anything supernatural again, among other things??? Not to mention a majority of the city that seemed to have conveniently decided that the events of “The Coming of Gozer” were nothing but complete crap, apparently.

Something had to have happened that caused all of that. Maybe it's just me thinking that it'd have to be something quite damning to suddenly make me question the reality of things like seeing a 100ft Marshmallow Man strolling down the street, ghostly beings infesting the city, hearing a booming demonic voice ordering 4 guys to choose the form of something called the “Destructor”, the eventual raining of marshmallow goo and other such things.

Just makes me wonder, what the hell happened after the happy cheerful ending of GB1? Have there been any attempts to explain what sorta things actually went on between the movies? I mean outside the “answers” we got in GB2, which created the questions to begin with.

Politics set in is what happened.

I always thought that after all that happened in the first movie, they had to blame someone in order to convience the tax payers to pay more money in order to fix the massive amounts of damage Stay Puft and Gozer caused.

September 11 can be a good exemple. Something big happened, 50% people think it's not true. Ahhh, media…

NewRecruit;151257
September 11 can be a good exemple. Something big happened, 50% people think it's not true. Ahhh, media…

I wouldn't really say “think it's not true” but more along the lines of “think it didn't happen the way it was depicted”

These men are complete snowball artists.

Well from the sounds of it, they were never paid for their work with Gozer and Stay Puft, They aren't aloud to use their proton guns after the end of the movie, so I guess its safe to say they were completely out of business.

As for Sept. 11th, its a little earlier than that happened

NewRecruit;151257
September 11 can be a good exemple. Something big happened, 50% people think it's not true. Ahhh, media…

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking of when I read this thread…

Walter Peck wasn't the only person to doubt that the Ghostbusters were authentic… Eventhough it was a really dramatic event, after time, I bet alot of people became increasingly skeptical/non believers… The easiest way for people to deal with something like that would be to just not believe… Either you can ditch your religion and start believing in ghosts/etc, or you can just deny it and say it never happened.

5 years after 9/11 the effect of what happened that day really started to wear off… It kind of became a joke to use 9/11 as a trump card in politics (like it did with Juliani in the last election) and people made up intricate conspiracies that made everyone stop and think for atleast half a second… As big of an event as 9/11 was, I bet no one thought that 5 years later we'd be back to our old bad habits and only think about that day when the anniversary rolls around… The same was probably true with the GBs, enough time of no ghosts passed that people started to doubt they were real.

Taking this conversation away from 9/11…


I think when they were debriefing Ray probably said “then I picked the form of Gozer”

And the naysayers said, “Oh, its YOUR fault?”

Keep in mind, all the general public saw was Stay Puft, everything that the boys said happened up top was taken at their word only. Not only that, but it sounds as if ghosts stopped popping up after that, so one would imagine they'd have gone out of business due to lack of funding too.

Now would Ray say such a thing to the medias after being responsible of this apocalyptic giant marshmallow man? I bet Venkman would pull one of his ears again before allowing him to go in front of the media. Winston would have been very serious about all this too, one mean look to Ray before saying “I was only working with you guys, careful with my image”

MuthaPussBucket is right. People SAW stay puff, that is IT. They could have thought the GBs were screwing up and brought this on the city, WHICH they did a little but that is not the point, but the public is stupid. Cheer one minute and the next boo. They don't get that Gozer's Destructor form would have come as ANYTHING and there was nothing anybody could have done. The GBs stopped it but a church got trampled and alot of shit went boom. So they got the bill. But you see in the credits in GB2 they are given the key to the city or something, I haven't seen that part in a while and they didn't get stiffed again as the GBs are in business in the game, aka GB2.5.