South Park using a JMS "Real Ghostbusters" style plot?
David E. Powell
the one with the characters trapped in the film. Wonder if Matt and
Trey watched "Real Ghostbusters" when they were young'uns?
Joseph DeMartino
wrote:
> The "Imagination Land" episode reminded me of a couple RG eps, mainly
> the one with the characters trapped in the film. Wonder if Matt and
> Trey watched "Real Ghostbusters" when they were young'uns?
Haven't seen the SOUTH PARK episode yet, but the idea of characters
going into a film is nearly as old as film itself. Buster Keaton's
silent "Sherlock, Jr." (1924) is a classic example.
Regards,
Joe
Amy Guskin
(in article
<4c207bcf-6daf-46a9...@l2g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>):
And that's not actually what happens in "Imaginationland" anyway. It's more
of a "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" or "Alice in Wonderland" type of
situation. They go with a dude in a balloon/ship (who's supposed to be a nod
to the Mr. Sophistication character from "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie")
to an actual place.
The trio of episodes won the 2008 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program of
One Hour or More.
Matt and Trey _are_ voracious consumers of media, and likely have a lot of
influences for everything they write (and this episode particularly is like a
kitchen sink), but I've not seen anything in any interviews about
"Imaginationland" that mention The Real Ghostbusters.
By the way, you can view the episode(s) here:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/1110
Amy
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Duggy
> >> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:34:54 -0500, Joseph DeMartino wrote
> > going into a film is nearly as old as film itself. Buster Keaton's
> > silent "Sherlock, Jr." (1924) is a classic example. <<
> And that's not actually what happens in "Imaginationland" anyway. It's more
> of a "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" or "Alice in Wonderland" type of
> situation. They go with a dude in a balloon/ship (who's supposed to be a nod
> to the Mr. Sophistication character from "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie")
> to an actual place.
Not completely an actual place... it's the world's shared imagination
so it's sort of a cross between "into a film" and "to another world".
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