That was interesting, but probably the most utterly pointless five minutes of my day. Bravo Bob, bravo.
The Big Picture: Two Many Busters
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Dude, the boogey Man episodes were my favorite as a kid. They were just crazy.Casual Shinji said:
I always wondered what the deal was with that. Thing is for me, I saw the cartoons before the movie, in fact I went and watched the movie because I saw the cartoon. ...and by the cartoon, I'm referring to "The Real Ghostbusters" not that other thing, but I do remember seeing that now and then.
Ah yes, the big picture which deals with such amazing topics as comic arcs that sucked and cartoon obscure trivia!
Really mate, to do this sort of stuff, just ask for a column and include it there, but if you are going to talk about the "Big Picture" I expect things that are a lot more prominent in our current society looked from another perspective that may seem to be underlooked, as in, dare I say it, looking at the big picture than what amounts to a geek column.
Really mate, to do this sort of stuff, just ask for a column and include it there, but if you are going to talk about the "Big Picture" I expect things that are a lot more prominent in our current society looked from another perspective that may seem to be underlooked, as in, dare I say it, looking at the big picture than what amounts to a geek column.
Wow!!! THANK YOU M.BOB!!! I saw an episode of the "ghost busters" not to long ago and you basically summed up my expression by "wtf"! I was wondering what the heck was going on with this and I'm so glad you did an episode to explain it all.
btw, I grew up with the "real ghost busters" and loved every minute of it! now if we could only convince the bigwigs to restart the animated series instead of a 3rd film... >)
btw, I grew up with the "real ghost busters" and loved every minute of it! now if we could only convince the bigwigs to restart the animated series instead of a 3rd film... >)
I have this weird faint memory of having watched the Ghostbusters cartoon as a kid, but... I can't quite grasp it. I suppose I did, but I've no idea what happened in the show or what characters was in it.
Well, this was actually very informative to me. I remember seeing the "Ghostbusters" cartoon a couple of... weeks? Months? Wow, the memories blur together... anyway. I saw it after the "Real Ghostbusters" cartoon had started airing, and I'd figured (even back then, I was cynical) that it was just a cheap, quickly-assembled knock-off of the movie concept. I'd had absolutely no idea that there had been a live-action show even before all of that, and that it had ties to F-Troop (which, from the few episodes I ever saw, I found fairly amusing).
And, yes, the first two or three seasons of TRGB had some crackerjack writing, especially from Straczynski; seriously, character and story depth of that quality were the exception rather than the norm for kids' shows back then. Unfortunately it sort of fell apart later in the series, when the executives decided to focus on Slimer and reduce the ensemble cast to two-dimensional (pun intended) parodies of themselves. I never even saw Extreme Ghostbusters, so I can't give any input on that.
And, yes, the first two or three seasons of TRGB had some crackerjack writing, especially from Straczynski; seriously, character and story depth of that quality were the exception rather than the norm for kids' shows back then. Unfortunately it sort of fell apart later in the series, when the executives decided to focus on Slimer and reduce the ensemble cast to two-dimensional (pun intended) parodies of themselves. I never even saw Extreme Ghostbusters, so I can't give any input on that.
They weren't the first by a long way though:
(1973)
(1969)
But the earliest I can find is The Television Ghost: Back in 1933: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Television_Ghost
Inglip warns of Ripagral presently though.
But the earliest I can find is The Television Ghost: Back in 1933: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Television_Ghost
Inglip warns of Ripagral presently though.
Okay, I feel like my nerdness was validated today. As I already knew everything you covered in that video. In part because I own the DVD set of "The Real Ghostbusters" and I owned (and enjoyed) a couple of VHS tapes of Filmation's "Ghostbusters".
Though I did only find out about the, who got there first debacle about a year and a half ago, the internet reviewer Chad "CR!" Rocco went over it as part of a holiday special on "That Guy with the Glasses". He is one of their strongest contributers.
Link to Tracy the Gorilla:
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/28241-episode-40-tracy-the-gorilla
Link to his mini documentary of Janine Melnitz of the "Real Ghostbusters":
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/12737-ff01
Though I did only find out about the, who got there first debacle about a year and a half ago, the internet reviewer Chad "CR!" Rocco went over it as part of a holiday special on "That Guy with the Glasses". He is one of their strongest contributers.
Link to Tracy the Gorilla:
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/28241-episode-40-tracy-the-gorilla
Link to his mini documentary of Janine Melnitz of the "Real Ghostbusters":
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/12737-ff01
And you sir get Nerd bonus points. I commend your mastery of Google and the arcana it yields to you.The_root_of_all_evil said:
This. While I'm probably never going to change my mind based on Bob's opinions (he tends not to explain them as well as he scoffs at all dissent), I preferred when this series was about Bob coming up with acerbic opinions and exploring unintended analogical properties of otherwise harmless media. My reaction is the same as many others: unless he happens to talk about something I'm already interested in, these info-dump episodes are pretty banal and forgettable.scottxxxx667 said:
Also, for a guy who claims he doesn't read comics, he sure does like talking about them a lot. Why does it irk me that he claims no connection to these stories and yet explains so many plot lines? It feels like I'm a black belt watching a white belt teach someone how to fight, annoyed even though the white belt is doing a good job.