The Real Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!!!! Genre: Comedy Running Time: 14-24 minutes Country: United States Release Date: September 13, 1986 - October 5, 1991 Network(s): ABC Syndication (1987) Created by: Dan Aykroyd Harold Ramis Distributed by: Coca-Cola Telecommunications (1987-1988) Columbia Pictures Television Distribution (1988-1991) Starring: Lorenzo Music (Seasons 1 & 2) Maurice LaMarche Frank Welker Arsenio Hall (Seasons 1-3) Dave Coulier (Season 3) Laura Summer Seasons 1 & 2) Kath Soucie (Season 3) Jeff Altman Buster Jones (Seasons 4-7) Rodger Bumpass Seasons: 7 Episodes: 140 Next show: Extreme Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters is an animated television series created by DiC Entertainment, and a spin-off of the comedy movie, Ghostbusters. It ran for seven seasons from September 13, 1986 to October 5, 1991.

Summary

The series follows the continuing adventures of the four Ghostbusters, their secretary Janine, and their mascot Slimer, as they chase and capture rogue spirits around New York City and various other areas of the world.

Why Busting Feels Good

1. The show is very faithful to the first 2 films.
2. The voice acting is great by Lorenzo Music, Maurice LaMarche (Yosemite Sam from Looney Tunes series), Frank Welker (Fred Jones from Scooby Doo series), Arsenio Hall, Dave Coulier, Laura Summer, Kath Soucie, Jeff Altman, Buster Jones and Rodger Bumpass (Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants).
3. The animation is fluid, smooth, colorful and detailed.
4. The villains are threatening and scary, especially Marshmallow Man.
5. The soundtrack is great and catchy, especially the theme song.
6. There are tons of funny moments, such as the credits scene.
7. The show is canon to the movies.
8. Lots of funny and memorable characters.
9. It often parodied other series such as The Simpsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Potshots were even taken at Filmation's Ghostbusters, a cartoon running concurrently with The Real Ghostbusters.
10. Interesting story ideas, such as the Ghostbusters confronting Cthulhu from H.P. Lovecraft's mythos

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Trivia

• Lorenzo Music voices Peter Venkman in the first two seasons of this cartoon and voices Garfield in the 1988-1994 cartoon Garfield and Friends. Bill Murray plays Peter in the Ghostbusters movies from 1984 and 1989 and voices Garfield in the two Garfield movies from 2004 and 2006.
• Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters movies, auditioned to reprise his role for the cartoon but lost to Arsenio Hall, who voiced Winston in the first three seasons before Buster Jones took over in the role for the final four seasons due to Hall leaving to host his own talk show from 1989 to 1994.
• The name "The Real Ghostbusters" is due to Filmation using the name "Ghostbusters" as the title of an animated sequel series to their 1975 live-action comedy show The Ghost Busters.
• Above the last question, it was premiered the same month as the unrelated Ghostbusters series by Filmation,(September 8th) but was premiered after the first week ended (September 13th.)

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