Have ever gotten any official word about a timeline? I still find myself thinking about this from time to time even after years and it really bugs me if there's still no end date when the original GB went defunct.
Going by my gut, I feel like it happened in the early 2000s, about 20 years prior to Afterlife and while this is kind of dark and serious, the downfall may have had a lot to do with... 9/11, which has happened in the GB universe given we can see the twin towers in the original movies and the one world trade center in the new ones.
So perhaps, all the guys were traumatized and this is when Egon starts to have a mental breakdown and starts to no longer sound rational to his friends.
Yes, it's weird 9/11 happened in the Ghostbusters universe, but sometimes reality has to crash the party a bit, just like the fact that they had to write around Ramis' passing a bit awkward and arguably more "serious" at times than some fans think Ghostbusters is "supposed" to be.
Going by my gut, I feel like it happened in the early 2000s, about 20 years prior to Afterlife and while this is kind of dark and serious, the downfall may have had a lot to do with... 9/11, which has happened in the GB universe given we can see the twin towers in the original movies and the one world trade center in the new ones.
So perhaps, all the guys were traumatized and this is when Egon starts to have a mental breakdown and starts to no longer sound rational to his friends.
Yes, it's weird 9/11 happened in the Ghostbusters universe, but sometimes reality has to crash the party a bit, just like the fact that they had to write around Ramis' passing a bit awkward and arguably more "serious" at times than some fans think Ghostbusters is "supposed" to be.
Statistics: Posted by An Invisible Bed — February 14th, 2026, 7:59 pm