The Real Ghostbusters had the best background music. It's still stuck in my head, over 30 years later! What an awesome show.

Too hot to handle, too cold to hold - they're called The Ghostbusters and they're in control... YES!

Ah, nostalgia! I used to watch this cartoon everyday before heading out to school. Now, *I watch Minty* after getting home from work ;)

I love the end of "Take Two!" The cartoon ghostbusters are in the theater and you hear but don't see Bill Murray. To which cartoon Venkman says "He doesn't look anything like me!" :D Genius!

Great, well written and imaginative series in the first couple seasons. Favorites include where the Eiffel Tower was a ghost containment unit, The Headless Horseman, The Doomsday Door, Samhain, and of course The Collect Call of Cthulhu. Winston - "Cthulhu? I heard of him, he's bad, right?" Egon - "He makes Gozer look like Little Mary Sunshine" Peter - "Anything that looks like Godzilla wearing an octopus hat shouldn't be hard to find"

One of my favorite lines from the show that referenced the movie was when the Ghostbusters are told the names of the actors who will play them in the movie: Hudson, Murray, Akroyd, and Ramis; Peter goes "sounds like a law firm." It doesn't get better than that. Incidentally I wondered about Slimer's back story which I don't know was ever elaborated in the series. Supposedly they got the idea of him being based on John Belushi.

funny thing about the Janine change is that it actually became a plot point in a later episode, she had a ghost posing as a "fairy godmother" that was altering her appearance so that, I think, Egon would notice her more.

I used to record The Real Ghostbusters episodes on VHS as a child. It was shown six days a week on two different non-cable networks in the L.A. region where I grew up. I still have my original Peter, Egon & Winston figurines, but I lost my Real Ghostbusters boardgame (which was my favorite Real Ghostbusters tie-in) ages ago.

So DIC had Walter Peck, but Walter Peck had no DIC?

That Boogie Man episode was scary and very well written Real talk!

I loved this show, and Peter and Slimer’s love/hate relationship was my favorite part. Then they fired Lorenzo Music, replaced him with Joey from Full House, made Janine a softer character, and made Slimer the main focus. They even changed his relationship with Peter. Basically it went from funny, smart humor, to just plain stupid. What was really dumb was giving Slimer actual dialogue. He went from my favorite character, to the reason I stopped watching the show.

Good to see another Extreme Ghostbusters fan! That show was seriously dark, and often hinted that not everyone lived at the end of each episode.

I can't believe you mentioned Janine's look changing but forgot the season 6 episode "Janine, You've Changed" where they explain her changes in the story, just like the episode where they tie into the first film and explain how they got the different colored jumpsuits. The episode, "Janine, You've Changed" is one of my top favorite Real Ghostbusters episodes.

I remember watching my uncle's old VHS tapes. When I heard Peter talk I said, "Hey! That sounds like Garfield!" Lorenzo Music was a very underrated voice actor. Great video!

The story lines for the episodes were extremely well written and still memorable years later. All of which were very unusual for a kids cartoon.

In reguard to Winston's voice, I recall reading that the producers of the show didn't want the characters to sound too much like their movie counterparts. I think this is also why the designs are different looking as well (and probably why Peter's design changed). I think this is more due to laws around actor's likenesses and voices then wanting to be different; but with Winston... I think one can make a valid case of 'Well if they go him to reprise the role, why not get the rest of them?' where is makes sense not to cast him since all the others are recast. The closest exception they made to this rule was with Maurice Lamarche, as they just ended up REALLY impressed by his impersonation of Harold Ramis.

That sucked that Ernie Hudson never got to play himself. That would have been somewhat of a 4th wall break or a meta moment.

I think my favourite episode was the one where Winston went to a minor league baseball game where the regular teams were replaced by an army of good VS an army of evil playing for a mysterious, unknown prize every 500 years, forced to use whatever form of combat was being used on that patch of ground they rose up from--in this case a baseball game. I found it the most profound of all the episodes as well as how the Ghostbusters actually "play ball" in the game, participating on the "Good Team". I especially love at the end when Peter finds out what they were playing for, whose they were playing for, and how he nearly lost all by nearly cheating.

Bonus fact! The Extreme Ghostbusters didn't have the rights to use any likeness of the original Real Ghostbusters characters. They assumed they'd get them throughout production but ended up not? So when you watch the show there will see manikins and photographs of the original Ghostbusters all pixelated out because they didn't have the time/budget to go back and edit them all out of the backgrounds.

Gosh I loved this show, also extreme ghostbusters. For a show with "extreme" in it's name it was pretty damn good... Also Kiley and Janine where allways for me the biggest proof how dumb and wrong the "nobody likes female ghostbusters" statement was and that they used it just as a dumb controversy. Janine was a ghostbuster at times in the show and people loved it, and Kiley is to this day a fan-favourite. I think she even shows up in some of the modern comics. Also not sure what is so creepy about this intro, but what was really creepy for me was the outro of extreme ghostbusters. It was some weird spooky music with freaky ghost-noises and concept art of the creepy ghost was floating over the screen.... till it ended on a freeze frame of the ugliest looking one that of course had to look right at the camera... geez

The show is far more rich and complex than what you could cover here. Been a historian of sorts for this show all of my life. There's things to note. The animation looks like 80s anime at times because it was, the show was animated in japan(oops Korea), so it's kinda an anime. The first season used pop music from Tahiti pop group for some reason, later never heard in the rest of the show. Also the first season was the best animated and written, all before syndication and of course the years where the show runner was removed and slimer took over, but there were a few halloween specials which were nice quality. The show was so well written at the start an entire episode was dedicated to Winston, solidifying why he's a great ghostbuster, and not one proton pack was used in the episode. Hudson would have gladly voiced winston, that's true. He got the last laugh having appeared as Winston on Fox Kids during a segment on Super Mario Super show, it was glorious. Dana never appears on the show, ever. Strange to grow up knowing her from the movie and having her not even exist in the show but her character would have nothing to do so it made sense. They brought Louis in and it didn't make sense. Harold Ramis made his hair bigger in GB2 to emulate the toon egon's hair. Slimer has a larger role in as well because of the cartoon making him a regular character. The show of course gave birth to Ecto Cooler which became the golden nectar of my childhood. Cheerios, Real Ghostbusters, and Ecto cooler... good retrospective. Such a monumental cartoon.

So, supposedly why everyone looked different from their movie counterparts was due to Columbia and Dic not wanting to pay expensive royalties to the actors for their likenesses and retain all profits for themselves. An oddly similar thing later happened with the MIB and Godzilla cartoons.

The real Ghostbusters has always been my favorite cartoon. I still watch it. Ninja turtles is my 2nd favorite.

Minty your taste in popular culture from the 1980s knows no bounds. Love and respect from England.

Unlike most LAZY cartoons of the day, TRG actually had really good animation.

The extreme Ghostbusters really does not get enough love, it's not the real Ghostbusters but its the next best thing in my opinion 😁

My childhood! I still have my Slimer, football monster, ghost bear traps and more! I saw both movies in the theater too, and watched the cartoon religiously, and it's still my favorite cartoon to this day. How old are you, Minty? I was born in early 1980 and was kicking rest to burst out in 1979

FYI: Slimer! And the Real Ghostbusters was a spin-off that ran right before The Real Ghostbusters. The Real Ghostbusters was still airing new episodes during the 88-90 run of Slimer!, and continued for a year after Slimer! ended.

It's funny how bill murray voiced Garfield in the movie, and the guy who voiced Garfield voiced Venkman. Mind blown.

Minty you videos make me feel like Im back in the 80s, and your videos are awesome!

That "The REAL Ghostbusters" episode explanation of the suits being contaminated should have also explained why the Ghosts came back after the defeat of GozerThe Gozerian.

I love your videos! When I watch your videos it takes me back to my childhood! Keep up the the great work! Much love from Alabama!

The SamHain episode scared me as a kid, Egon looks like Annie Lennox lmao Minty.

Loving these videos mate!!! This is my childhood!! All the way from the UK!

I so was into this show and franchise as a child. I have very fond memories of this. My son now watches this show, now on DVD. He loves it, and often wonders why the characters change their looks between the films and cartoon. :) Another great vid, Minty. Keep up the great work. Cheers!!

Ghostbusters 3 was the video game... And most of us still believe that.. Even though Bill phoned in the voice overs

12:17 if someone wants the name of the song, is On Our Own by Bobby Brown And yes, its the one that appeared in the second movie

Another great video. I didn't realize the show had so much going on during it's run. I watched this show during my Saturday morning cartoons.

Dude, never heard of extreme ghostbusters! That looks awesome, has a wheel chair guy, goth chick, black dude, punk guy..... This seems more relevant today then in 97.

I remember I used to come straight home from school and watch this, while my mum cooked my tea, thanks Minty.

You are right Minty! How can you not hire Ernie to play Winston?! That's almost an insult!!

Cartoons from the 80s I still love. The Real Ghostbusters, Thundercats, He-man, MASK, TMNT. My little Pony. Don't judge me! Lol. Great video once again. Thank you.

Awesome vid as always, The Real Ghostbusters is my fav loved that show growing up. Theres a cool episode of Extreme Ghostbusters called Back in the Saddle where the original Ghostbusters are in it. Great Vid Sir

I have been waiting for someone to do a real ghostbusters 10 things for a long time! Thank You!

Am I the only kid who thought original Janine was hot?

Personally, the show jumped the shark the moment that Lorenzo Music was replaced by Dave Coulier.

The Real Ghostbusters episode "The Collect Call of Cathulhu" was my first introduction to the Cthulhu mythos.

anyone remember eating the slimer toothpaste gum?

Also one fact; the the stay puft marshmallow man was more of a character in some episodes working with the Ghostbusters.

Minty: Sadly an animated series can't last forever The Simpsons: Hold my beer

J Micheal Straczynski was a writer on The Real Ghost Busters and goes into more detail about those changes (that he was against), in his autobiography "Becoming Superman" that was just released. He also wrote for He-Man and created a little show called Babylon 5.

Thank you so much for this, it was my favorite growing up too! Maybe you can do Gravedale High next, please.

WAIT, JANINE'S TRANSFORMATION WAS A PART OF A STORY RESOLVED IN A LATER EPISODE. She made a deal with a fairy/demon in an effort to attract Egon. She was then changed back after the guys took it out.

Dude. You sure do crank em out. And top notch quality stuff. Keep it up.

My favorite episode was where "Good vs. Evil", in a baseball game, with the Ghostbusters in the middle of the whole thing!

Ghostbusters 3 should have been Extreme Ghostbusters. IDK y the fuck Hollywood couldn't do that😐

Was easily my favourite cartoon and I still have them recorded on VHS because my dad was a nerd too

TRG comic even made a graphic book based on Ghostbusters 2 theres even a soundtrack for this show on cassette tape that came out in 1986 performed by Tahiti

Years ago I watched a video on KZfaq and I cannot remember the channel but this guy who was REALLY into Ghostbusters talked about some of this stuff. The stupid changes came along from some consulting firm that came in and ordered all these things to be more kid-friendly. This was not the only cartoon that firm ruined. The staff at the Ghostbusters firm fought them tooth and nail, hated the changes, and some of them quit. And I remember that they actually made an episode of the show to explain all of Janine’s changes, it was some fairy godmother (that she didn’t know was evil) that she for years was making wishes to, to change her appearance. And the Ghostbusters were too oblivious to Janine to notice the gradual changes.

Re: Ernie Hudson not as Winston: For whatever reason, valid or otherwise, the studio did not want the characters' portrayals to mirror those of the movie. They wanted every character to both look and sound different. One probable reason could be likeness rights. Regardless as to why, if they made the decision that they didn't want the characters to resemble their real-life portrayals, casting the person who played the real life portrayal of Winston would be counter-intuitive to say the least. The only character to get a voice that was close to an impersonation of his movie counterpart was Egon, and that was likely because Maurice LaMarche is simply that good.

I can safely say that as time went on after the original movies that the majority of the Ghostbusters fans wanted a new generation of Ghostbusters to continue the franchise, and the diverse cast of the Extreme Ghostbusters was a proven formula that would have done well as a proper sequel.

I remember not watching the movie before either animated series came out and preferring "The REAL Ghostbusters" because it didn't feel as cheesy.

I loved Slimer, always a funny character. This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. Looked forward to watching the new episodes. Great video!

Anyone else think TRGB's Janine was super hot???

0:47 - well, I think one reason for THAT is because THIS cartoon was on SYNDICATED television, NOT NETWORK Saturday morning (where cartoons had to be a bit tamer).

I remember that cartoon when I was as a kid I loved the real ghostbusters brings back memories.

Kylie Griffin actually made it to the IDW comics run of Ghostbusters.

@Minty Comedic Arts Another fantastic video, Minty. You are producing quality content at an extremely impressive rate, and I'm happy your views, likes, and subscriber count are starting to reflect that. Thanks for inviting all of us to share your nostalgia.

Lmao #7 is great! I’m so happy you brought this up. I had the tapes and I remember some episodes vividly and can’t find them online

Never watched the show but i still enjoyed the video. Luv the bobby brown track your playing through the vid. I still remember that video "on our own" lol

Minty you’ve gone to far now, you a truly a legend

Brilliant 80's cartoon dude. Really appreciate the vids you make dude. I look forward to seeing your next installment. Any chance you can do a vid about an 80's show called STAR FLEET.

The promo was never broadcast. It was made to sell the series to a network. It wasn't seen publicly until the Time/Life DVD set was released.

The first years of the series were incredible. I loved watching.

I love the movie Ghost Busters movies 1 & 2. . I have them on DVD . I do remember the real Ghost busters cartoon. The animation is awesome. I know there was also a Ghostbusters cereal. What better way to spend a Saturday morning than watching the real Ghost Busters cartoon & eating the ghost busters cereal?! Awesome.

Dammit Minty! Stop with the awesome content, I'm supposed to get stuff done at home! :O

"An animated series can't last forever..." "Hold my beer" -The Simpsons

I love your videos! because we grew up in the same era!

Great video. Only just got Slimer and Stay Puft figures this year to go with the rest of my Ghostbusters, Gozer and Demon Dog.

Nice video minty. One of my fav cartoons of ghostbusters !!

Thx for making this video 🙂. I loved this cartoon as a kid. I think it’s weird the changes that were made over time. They changed Jenine’s glasses because they might frighten children!? What about all the ghosts and monsters? The point of the show was to frighten kids lol. That’s what we wanted. Also, regarding Slimer, I don’t know if you had this in Australia, but here in the states we had slimer juice boxes. Anyone remember that? It was green, I think maybe lime or lemon-lime? I don’t know, I never drank it because I thought it would be thick and gross like his ectoplasm lmao

I first thought Peter's appearance was based on Mahoney from Police Academy... that might help explain my inability to get a date. Loving these videos and trivia therein, thank you!

Greatest memory was getting the Ecto-1! Not so much when I got the old woman figurine!!! :-D

Have this series on DVD in the box set. Still haven't finished watching all of the episodes yet, though I did back in the day when they were on TV.

Real or not,I love the toylines.It was just too bad that my parents couldn't afford to buy them all...except for a Yoyo.

I’m in last thing that I saw of extreme Ghostbusters was the final episode where they introduced to the original Ghostbusters team one last final case before the series ends

The color of the uniforms was actually explained in an episode.

I remember an episode about Janine where they address an in universe explanation why her appearance kept changing when they noticed she looked different from all her pictures in the album. That was the first time I ever saw a meta episode. It blew my mind.

I never known that they made comics for it. Well time to see if anyone selling any of them on ebay.

Very good job on this fun cartoon Deep dive. I love The Ghostbusters cartoons. I grew up in the 90s with Extreme Ghostbusters. However several years later I got a dvd set of the first series season 1 and I love it too. I’m a huge Ghostbusters fan. Very fascinating to learn some of the behind the scenes secrets!

I remember when I was a kid that my local toy shop had a sale on Ghostbuster toys. Where if you buy three or more toys, you'll get a free VHS tape of the Real Ghostbusters. But it only had one episode sadly.

Extreme Ghostbusters is how Ghostbusters 2016 should've been, and how Ghostbusters 3 is rumored to be.

The boogie man scared the FUCK out of me as a kid One of the greatest cartoons of all time

I remember Extreme Ghostbusters having a N64 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

In the sequel series,Vankman,Stance and Zetmore make a heart warming reunion with Egon.

In Extreme Ghostbusters Kylie Griffin was voiced by Tara Strong, who also provided the voices of Bubbles in the original Powerpuff Girls cartoon, Timmy Turner in The Fairly Oddparents, and Raven in Teen Titans, just to name a few.

Man I loved this cartoon and I'm happy it's on Netflix!

You missed that in a stroke of writing genius, they explained why Janine had changed over the years. She had cast a spell or something I can’t remember…a demon maybe? Everyone noticed that she’d changed except Egon and Janine went off on Ego, saying she had changed for him and how dare he not notice. I remember that episode being epic. She’s floating around him, her look changing over and over, and saying “Am I good enough now Egon?! How about now?!’. That was genius!

I live in the UK it sucks we only got series one on DVD great video minty I still have my comics from 1988 and 1989 that's about the time the UK got the series I had the granny ghost figure

Two great moments in the episode Take-Two are where the Ghostbusters accidentally grab prop proton packs instead of their real ones, and while reading the cast Winston goes "Murray? Akroyd?" Is this a law firm?"