Do Casper and the Ghostbusters Exist in the Same Universe?

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  @CinnamonGrrlErin1 · 1 year ago

  I would say so. Apparently GB also might exist in the same world as the 1980s Beauty and the Beast TV show; in the novelization by Barbara Hambly  she says "Across the street, in what looked like a converted fire station, someone was overhauling a disreputable Cadillac ambulance."

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  @mpg272727 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Given Ray says that the Ghostbusters did break up so I would like to think that for a short while after this Ray tried going it alone and busting ghosts by himself.. Which did not work out as we see in Casper.

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  @FreeJohnDoe2006 · 1 year ago

  I consider Casper cannon to the same universe as Ghostbusters strictly based on the background story of Ghostbusters Afterlife when Egon took most if not all the ghosttraps and wasn't at the firehouse to fix the old equipment left behind as he was at the dirt farm.

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  @Invader_Jeff · 1 year ago

  YES. CASPER IS LISTED IN THE MAGNOLI TOBIN'S SPIRIT GUIDE.

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  @nicholastosoni707 · 1 year ago

  Not only are Ghostbusters and Casper canon, it's them and Honey Bear Books' GB2 coloring book, which featured a mustachioed Ray.

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  @claudelorey6505 · 1 year ago

  God, the Casper cartoon based off the movie by Amblin was SO good too. Anybody else remember it?

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  @BrijaLabs · 1 year ago

  A friend of mine said at fan fest. That's where Dan confirmed. Casper and Ghostbusters was in the same universe

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  @dontoverthinkitdude · 1 year ago

  Nobody ever talks about the episode in Foster Home For Imaginary Friends and literally there was a whole "who you gonna call" gag. 😂

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  @striderskorpion · 1 year ago

  I mean, Luigi busts ghosts with a vacuum like device.

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  @LittleBlueImp · 1 year ago

  So.. wait. If they used the Lazarus to bring Dr. Harvey back to life, does that mean there's a dead Dr. Harvey shell out there at the bottom of a cliff? Would he have duplicate clothes, duplicate ID? If someone found his previous corpse and reported him deceased, and he showed up in public as alive and well, what would the consequences be? Also is it possible that there's a loose tie-in to The Sixth Sense considering Casper is taking to Kat in her sleep, and that's how Cole tells Malcom that he can communicate with his wife? I know that's a Stretch (lol Casper joke) but now I'm curious if there are other tie-ins to other ghost media.

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  @raymicheals4127 · 1 year ago

  I have another idea how Casper and Ghostbusters connect. Remember the secret lab underneath the Manor, it's highly unlikely Casper's dad would have the time to hollow out a cave and build a resurrection machine without much detection unless he had help from  a man by the name Ivo Shandor who had a mine in Somerville in Ghostbusters afterlife. In the first Ghostbusters, Shandor was making a superconductive attena design to pull turbulence creative a doorway for Zuul. During that time Casper had just passed so it was possible for Casper's dad to meet with Ivo Shandor ( who was also a doctor performed unlicensed surgeries) during that time Ivo discovered the base of Whipstaff was a large chunk of selenium the same material used in the construction of the Zuul temple in New York. So it was a win win situation for both of them Ivo gets his materials from Casper's dad and in turn he has a secret laboratory to build the Lazarus. But then Casper's dad was committed to an insane asylum and Ivo started his secret society worshipping zuul.

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  @SerpentNight · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cML_9EOwok8&amp;t=275">4:35</a> The Harvey Comics jack-in-the-box mascot, the Joker, is kind of interesting in itself. For the most part he was just that, a mascot used to promote the comics and animated shorts based on them. You can count on one hand the number of times he appeared as an active character, including in &quot;Who Framed Roger Rabbit?&quot;, but it was always just a brief cameo. I guess the Joker was never meant to be a star.

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