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Conducted by David Lambert for TVShowsOnDVD.com on 7/26/2004
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TVShowsOnDVD: There are other things that our readers are interested in DVDs of. I know some of our readers are interested in DVDs of The Real Ghostbusters.
David: Oh, I would love to see that! There were so many funny episodes of The Real Ghostbusters, and it was such a fun show to write for! That was Joe Straczynski's, before he did Babylon 5.
TVShowsOnDVD: Right.
David: And I forget who introduced me to him, or how that got set up. I don't remember that much about how it happened, but I went in, I pitched the story, he said, "Sure, go on and write it." I came back with the outline, he approved it, I went home and couldn't write the script for 3 days. I couldn't get into it! So I pulled out the Laserdisc of the movie, and started watching the movie, and after about 30 minutes I had started - I could hear Bill Murray's voice in my head. Once I had that voice in my head, I knew how to write it. So I sat down and started writing, with the Bill Murray voice, and the Danny Aykroyd character fell into place, and everybody else...okay, I got it. So I wrote it around the Bill Murray voice, and I turned the script in. And Joe comes back to me with, "So, how long were you imprisoned?" "Excuse me?" "No SANE person writes like this! This is bizarre!" I said, "Oh. All right!" And he says, "And I'm going to shoot it exactly as you wrote it." I think he changed one line of dialogue, because a joke was a little too coy or something. And the same thing happened; I did a sequel. Well, not a sequel, I did a second one. And again he shot that exactly as written, taking out one little joke from the script that he felt was a little too over-the-top.
TVShowsOnDVD: And those episodes were "Adventures in Time and Space"...
David: "Adventures in SLIME and Space"
TVShowsOnDVD: SLIME and Space; sorry.
David: And "The Hole In the Wall Gang"
TVShowsOnDVD: And "Whole" was spelled with a "W" as I recall.
David: No.
TVShowsOnDVD: No? Just "Hole" normally?
David: Yeah.
TVShowsOnDVD: Well, my mistake.
David: Yeah. Not every title has to have a pun!
TVShowsOnDVD: Oh, but they're fun that way!