Talk:Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures/Archives/2023/December

Canadian Broadcast
I've seen no record of YTV broadcasting the series aside from this article (http://www.animationmagazine.net/licensing/multi-territory-license-brings-new-pac-man-collectibles) and even then, I still think it was an error on the writer's part.

Timeline

 * https://web.archive.org/web/20151218052027/http://www.dhxmedia.com/newsreleases/get-plugged-in-with-family-chrgd-this-holiday-season/ shows the 13 Dec 2015 air date of Santa Pac, about a year after Happy Holidays and a Merry Berry Day, although Santa Pac depicts events a year prior to it, it is a prequel, it shows the episodes do not air in chronological order — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.146.6.191 (talk) 05:30, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

I do not know if this should be mentioned under Plot or if a new section ought to be created for it. It is worth discussing and organizing here first anyway. The series episodes do not occur in chronological order. I first realized this watching the recent 2015 Christmas special Santa Pac today which I taped on the weekend. Pac rescues Santa from the Nether World. In the 2014 Christmas special, Cylindria mentions that Pac rescued Santa the previous year.

I have not yet noticed of the episodes I have watched any other overt examples where later-aired episodes explicitly depict events which must have occurred prior to earlier-aired ones. I am wondering if anyone noticed any other examples I didn't.

Since we can not take for granted a chronological ordering of episodes, it would be interesting to detail in this article explicitly what we do know happens in a given sequence, based upon references to earlier episodes events.

The most common sense stuff would be the 2-parters:
 * Adventure Begins Part 2 after Adventure Begins Part 1. I still have not seen these but presumably they set up the show and precede all other stories.
 * No Pets Allowed Part 2 after No Pets Allowed Part 1. Not sure if this picks up explicitly where the last arc left off.

Then are the ones not obvious from the titles but from the plot:
 * Heebo Skeebo precedes Peace Without Slime precedes Ghost Behind the Throne due to progressive Obtuse drama.
 * Robo Woes precedes Invasion of the Pointy Heads and Cosmic Contest due to progressive Apex drama.
 * Pac to the Future precedes Cave Pac-Man since they reference the earlier time-travel.
 * as above, Santa Pac occurs exactly 1 year before Happy Holidays and a Merry Berry Day (even though it aired 1 year later)

Most episodes seem like 1-shot stories which no obvious reasons why they must occur before or after other episodes but there are minor details which I believe we might observe, reference to earlier episodes or existing people or tech, which could help establish some guidelines as to a skeletal fixed chronology. --184.146.6.191 (talk) 07:25, 16 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Pac Pong Fever (S1EP14) presumably occurs before Pac to the Future (S1EP08), as, in Pac to the Future, Cylindria recognizes Spheria as Pac's aunt without prompting, while in Pac Pong Fever she does not know the fact the two were related until Pac refers to her as his aunt, and the episode as a whole acts as an introduction to Spheria. EarthStarsBanjo (talk) 00:31, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Ghost gang family?
I've watched nearly every episode and I don't recall any mentions of Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde being siblings. Why does it say they are in the article? Also I don't remember any mention of their ages either but the article keeps mentioning who's older than who. Sources anybody? 176.252.28.5 (talk) 17:12, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Was there a production note that placed them in order of age? Otherwise I would just remove it and change "family" to group. AngusWOOF ( bark  •  sniff ) 18:50, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think they're related, guys. I've watched pretty much all of the ghost gang scenes and there's no confirmation they are related in any way. The only background information we ever get about them is that Clyde's middle name is Filbert and that Inky has a mom. In fact, we could probably use Inky's line about his mother as evidence they AREN'T related based on the fact that his specific line is "... and my momma didn't raise no loser" (season 1 ep 26) which, in context of being said to the other members of the ghost gang, would imply that his mother is not the mother of the other ghost gang members. Also, in S2EP9, Blinky talks about being a Pac Fu master before being a ghost, and the other ghost gang members seem shocked at this fact. It seems highly unlikely that Blinky would have any reason to, or would even be able to hide this from them if they were actual siblings. We also get no discussion at all about who is older or younger than who, so I have no idea where any of that info came from.
 * We should remove the mentions of them being siblings and birth order unless we can find any definitive sources that say they're related. EarthStarsBanjo (talk) 00:17, 7 February 2023 (UTC)