Fil Barlow, the designer, was given rough outlines and originally designed all the characters bar Eduardo as girls (Garrett as Lucy and Roland as Julia), with Egon originally designed as bearded and robed.
The show's creators decided "what we wanted to do was really put together a team of misfits in a way, people that you would not necessarily associate with being superheroes on television": hence Eduardo as a slacker, Roland as a "square", and Kylie as moody and sarcastic, with Garrett as the balance, "an adrenaline junkie. (Egon would be "huddled in front of a computer screen, battling program bugs instead of spooks".) Originally announced as Super Ghostbusters in 1996, the initial press release had Janine, teaching history at a local college, bringing together a new team with "a hip new attitude" to face a new plague of ghosts "short on time and more than a little desperate, Janine turns to four of her teenaged students". Showrunner Bob Higgins told Ability Magazine that the decision to create a new Ghostbusters was taken by the studio, which hoped to reinvigorate a lucrative franchise. Recurring themes throughout the series are the new team learning to work together despite their differences, Janine's largely unrequited affection for Egon, the love-hate relationship between Kylie and Eduardo that is never resolved, and the Ghostbusters' frequent clashes with authority figures who disbelieve their work. This is reflected by the use of a gritty, rock/ punk-inspired variation of Ray Parker, Jr.'s song " Ghostbusters" as the opening theme written by Jim Latham and performed by voice actor Jim Cummings. The series is styled as a supernatural comedy, following the trend set by its predecessor, but given an updated and darker feel. The series follows the adventures of this "Next Generation" of Ghostbusters tracking down and capturing ghosts all over New York and occasionally beyond the city. Filling the cast are Janine Melnitz, the Ghostbusters' previous secretary who returns to the job, and Slimer, a hungry ghost. These are Kylie Griffin, a goth girl genius and expert on the occult Eduardo Rivera, a cynical Latino slacker Garrett Miller, a young white paraplegic athlete who uses a wheelchair and Roland Jackson, a studious African-American machinery whiz. When ghosts start to reappear, Egon is forced to recruit his lone four students as the new Ghostbusters.
Egon Spengler, who still lives in the firehouse to monitor the containment unit, take care of Slimer, further his studies and teach a class on the paranormal at a local college. Each member has gone their separate way, except for Dr. Set years after the end of The Real Ghostbusters, lack of supernatural activity has put the Ghostbusters out of business.
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