Longtime readers know this already--but as many things as I like about Ghostbusters, if I had to pick one single element that grabbed my attention, it was the weird budding romance between Egon Spengler and Janine Melnitz. It led to some touching scenes in the first movie, and the writers of the animated series--most notably J. Micheal Straczynski, Micheal Reeves, and Richard Mueller---took it and ran with it, deepening and defining them into possibly my favorite couple in popular fiction.
Well, to the consternation of fans everywhere, Harold Ramis disowned the idea and created the gut-churningly dumb Janine/Louis Tully romance in the sequel. An idea that was, in turn, disowned by Straczynski, comic writer James Van Hise, the producers of
Extreme Ghostbusters, and even later licensees such as the 88MPH mini-series. Not to mention a vast majority of the writers of fan fiction that have helped keep the flame burning in the years since.
(The iBooks novel
The Return was the sole exception, but even they, intentionally or not, had some material that could be construed as pro-Egon/Janine).
Well, after exploring the very beginning of their relationship in "Fateful Opportunity", it's highs in "The Zodiac Imperative", it's fall in "As Dreams Fade", and it's rebirth in "Dreams Reborn", it is time for the event so many have waited for.
Ghostbusters: Forever
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After fifteen years (or twenty two, depending on how you look at it) of confusion, denial, reversal, and dark moments of dispair, the long-awaited day has come for one brilliant physicist and one spirited secretary to celebrate the love that bind their souls together. At long last, the wedding of Professor Egon Spengler and Ms. Janine Melnitz.
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Couldn't have said it better myself, come on... Janine and Egon... it just works. As a long-time Ghostbuster fan... kudos on this image
Then I read Ghostbusters Forever and was floored.
I still get blubbery when I read it.
If you read much of anything on my site, it probably becomes clear that this is a story I've been meaning to write for quite a while. Three years on Ghostbusters.net and other sites, and I can't believe nobody else ever wrote a wedding.
And yeah, there is a weird RGB/Scooby Doo synergy at times, isn't there? Frank Welker is the most obvious one (Fred and Ray), though it's also true that Billy West did Slimer's voice on Extreme Ghostbusters...and Casey Kasem's wife Jean was actually in the first movie--Louis Tully danced with her at his party just before Vinz Clortho showed up.
Now just when is Scooby-Doo going to see the wedding of another blond and redheaded copule? (Weird coincidence)