Today, we think of as one of the great franchises of the ’80s. But truthfully, it was only one mega-hit movie, and a less successful follow-up five years later. The true reason we think of in this way is because of the massive success of the animated spin-off, The Real Ghostbusters. Long after the 1984 film vanished from theaters, the animated show kept the lights on at the fire station.
The massively popular cartoon premiered in 1986, and ran for seven seasons and 140 episodes. It
The video highlights all the weird and fun trivia surrounding the Ghostbusters’
animated adventures. Like the fact that there was a short-lived competingcartoon, totally divorced from the mythology of the movies. Hence the series’ title. And they also explain why the characters don’t really look like their live-action counterparts.
Unlike most of its cartoon contemporaries,
had a weekday syndicated version and a Saturday morning network component. That was extra exposure the likes of and didn’t get. It was so popular, that many kids (myself included) wondered why elements of the show received no acknowledgment in . It almost seemed like a slap in the face to what had been the preeminent version of the franchise for the last several years.Will
acknowledge the animated series (or its spin-off, ) in any way? Probably not. But this video shows why the show matters to the franchise so much. So we hope the movies acknowledge it in some way. Spectral fingers crossed. For more outstanding pop-culture deep dives in retro toys and the cartoons which spawned them, check out more videos from Toy Galaxy.The post
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