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*** If we use the cartoon to fill in the gaps (and since I love the cartoon and think the [[J. Michael Straczynski|JMS]] seasons were very faithful to the movie's mythology, that works for me!), they were working on a permanent solution. A rival businessman even tried to compete with them when he thought he'd come up with the answer (of course, it turned out he was dangerously wrong and they had to clean up his mess). I'd chalk up the lack of onscreen worrying to [[Rule of Drama]]: watching Ray and Egon having a [[Techno Babble]] debate while Peter and Winston watch TV in the background would just be boring. At least, it would in theory - I'd pay good money to see that...

** At least as far as the original films go, long-term safety considerations were likely not taken into account because these are films where [[The Eighties|people who stop dangerous supernatural entities for cash are heroes, private businesses automatically are morally superior to the government, and the EPA is the bad guy]]. Including any indication that Ghostbusters should have felt responsible for the accumulating waste-product of their particular industry would have interfered with the first film's ability to be a rags-to-riches lovesong to good old fashioned capitalism, and second film's ability to be [[Take That|a rehash of one]].

** The Ghostbusters never say in the films that the containment system they currently have has to be a permanent solution, only that SIMPLY shutting it off would be catastrophic. The presence of the word "simply" indicates that they have indeed considered the long term and have a safer alternative should the need arise.

* Has anyone ever considered the fact that, in spite of the happy ending to the second Ghostbusters film, they are probably going to be out of business again within a few months? Think about it. In the first film, the ghosts only start popping up en masse because of Gozer. Once Gozer is banished, the large scale appearance of ghosts ceased, and people were eventually convinced it was some kind of hoax. Then, several years later, we get Vigo, another powerful ghost who, on the verge of ressurecting himself, also causes a huge amount of ghostly activity. With his defeat, surely the ghosts will go away again, and people aren't going to need the Ghostbusters anymore.