What A Cartoon! - The Real Ghostbusters "Ragnarok And Roll"
Added 2019-08-26 03:59:59 +0000 UTCStrap on your proton packs and grab your PKE meters, as we head back to the late '80s toy-fueled toon, The Real Ghostbusters! We uncover how the fairly adult film transitioned into a Saturday morning blockbuster, the many changes the show went through, and the many talented folks who worked on Real Ghostbusters (both in America and Japan). Then we dig into one of the most celebrated episodes of the series, the apocalyptic Ragnarok And Roll! Who YOU gonna call?
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This was a very good What A Cartoon! I will forever be haunted by the Ghostbusters version of the Boogieman.
Mike Mariano
2019-09-04 02:14:03 +0000 UTCGreat, now all I want is for What a Cartoon to do an ep of Beast Wars. (Would it be "right" to do Beast Wars before doing an OG Transformers episode?)
Andrew Bouvier
2019-08-30 13:16:55 +0000 UTCGreat episode, guys. I hadn't seen this show since I was a kid but, after watching some glowing retrospective reviews online, I decided to check out the entire series recently while it was on Netflix (well, up until the voice changes, anyway). Your conversation brought it all back, how incredibly huge this show was to me and I'm really glad it holds up so well. I had the action figures, ghost trap, backpack, Stay Puft and the fabled fire station (even if "Santa" lost the doors for it ^_^). To this day, I still remember my parents bringing home a tape of the Filmation "Ghost Busters" from the video store. Having no idea what it was, it remains one of the most baffling experiences of my life. I have to agree with the love shown for Janine. Probably my first cartoon crush, if I'm honest (from the sounds of things, I'm not alone). Her voice and attitude sort of remind me of Harley Quinn a little. I wonder if there was some inspiration taken from her. Anyway, I don't know if I still have my old toys anywhere but I just got a Ghostbusters Transformer called "Ectotron" who turns into Ecto-1. I totally recommend checking it out. Keep up the awesome work. ^_^
To Boldy Joe... Moore
2019-08-28 23:56:03 +0000 UTCI don't think I had ever watched this cartoon before and holy shit it's actually really good? I like Ghostbusters 1 a fair bit and enjoy 2 OK, but never got super into the general Ghostbusters fandom so stuff like this has just escaped me. Well, that, and the fact that my younger age means that EXTREME Ghostbusters aired when I was only a one-year-old.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2019-08-28 05:31:07 +0000 UTCThe Real Ghostbusters was my first love, seeing it before I ever saw the film or even knew a film existed for it. I distinctly remember it coming on as the last cartoon on my local affiliate so there was a big come-down involved with those otherwise fun closing credits. After it ended, I think I had to turn over the TV to my mother who wanted to watch Oprah or the news which was last until 7:30 when my parents let me watch Loony Tunes on Nick. I had a ton of the toys, including the firehouse, and my mom absolutely hated that slime that came with everything. I ruined some clothes with that stuff and it even ruined spots on our dining room carpet. I can still remember how it smelled. DiC made a lot of bad shows, but at least the company helped bring TMS to US television sets. It's been fun as an adult seeing just what that company worked on, as I didn't care who was making the cartoons I watched as a kid. WB did hang onto TMS into the 90s though which the company producing 5 or 6 episodes for The New Batman Adventures which aired in 1997. They even let TMS receive directing credits on the episodes the studio produced and I wonder if that was something TMS pushed for as by then the company must have had a lot more sway compared with its status on the original BTAS. And, not surprisingly, the TMS produced episodes are among the best for that short-lived show, including the much-celebrated "Over the Edge." And I'm only mentioning it here because Henry brought it up briefly, but The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin cartoon is a surprisingly ambitious piece of media from the 80s. It may surprise younger listeners here, but Teddy was popular enough to get a direct-to-syndication episode order like Real Ghostbusters and DuckTales and most of the show is presented in a serialized nature. It makes the show more noteworthy than truly entertaining, but I was surprised by it when I sought it out for some reason a few years ago (I think I just wanted to confirm the show actually existed and weren't false memories).
Joe Hodgson
2019-08-27 18:41:51 +0000 UTCI agree that it's a lot of fun and the trailer makes it look worse than it is
nina matsumoto
2019-08-27 18:29:28 +0000 UTCI'd say* that Ghostbusters '16 is absolutely worth at least watching once. It's true that it has a fair amount of bad/overlong/low hanging fruit jokes in it, as well as references to the original movie that are mostly just there for the sake of having references, BUT there's still a lot of great stuff in it, and beyond that the core performances and character chemistry of McCarthy, Wiig, Jones and McKinnon (and Hemsworth) are excellent. Despite the flaws, I personally had a great time watching it and am genuinely disappointed there's not going to be a sequel, because there was a lot of untapped potential in the new Ghostbusters team. *Disclaimer: I firmly believe that Ghostbusters 2 is a good movie, not just "entertainingly bad".
Jack Christmas
2019-08-27 13:27:49 +0000 UTC"Oh, fuck! I forgot about that crap!" lmao
John Barnes
2019-08-27 05:49:28 +0000 UTCGrowing up with 2 half sisters who were much older, I was into ghost busters for as long as I can remember. However! When I was a kid the only cartoon ghost busters that was on TV was the lame seasons of this one, so I never got into it. Now I gotta watch this!
DrKarate
2019-08-26 18:55:10 +0000 UTCI rewatched most of this a few months ago (well my 4-5 year-old son did and I heard or watched large chunks of it) and I was surprised how good it looked still. You can see the Japanese influence immediately too and used it to educate my kids on the quality difference between this and something like He-man. As for the speculation about how it held up to a modern kid, my son enjoyed it and only started falling off of it near the end. I could see him slowing down and he would want me to just put on the first episodes again once we would get around the 100 mark. Before Netflix removed it, he had fully transferred to Pokemon which means I have traded one catchy theme song for another in the car and avoided having to put together the LEGO Ghostbusters Fire House and squeaked by on a few older LEGO Dimensions packs. Side note, I showed him parts of the movie and he was mostly confused about why they looked "weird" in the movie and I was really surprised by the non-stop smoking as well. I guess it was so common place back in the day my brain didn't even acknowledge it existed at the time.
Pumpkinbob
2019-08-26 16:12:52 +0000 UTCExtreme Ghostbusters was pretty good...other than the 90's EXTREME-ifying part of the title..nothing was terribly "extreme" about it, just good ol' modernized GB. If they ever toyed with an idea of a reboot, before the the 2016 one, I would have hoped Extreme GB was the direction they'd head. Beyond the reunion ep you talked about, other good eps include Slimer getting trapped in the containment unit and Egon having to go rescue him. Or when there's the ghosts that takes over their bodies and their spirits have to take them back. I think it might still be on Hulu.
Frank Grimes
2019-08-26 15:30:55 +0000 UTCRegarding the toys that were normal that transformed - I was obsessed with them! I had the football player and the cop. But more importantly, I decided that I HAD to be one for Halloween. I'm not sure why, but I wanted to be a racecar driver that became a scorpion. Somehow my mom made that happen.
Mat Segal
2019-08-26 09:18:38 +0000 UTCAlso referencing the late Larry DiTillio without acknowledging Beast Wars is a bad choice.
Zachary Adams
2019-08-26 05:10:07 +0000 UTC
