The Weekly Planet - The Real Ghostbusters - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

After the success of Ghostbusters 1984 but before the mediocrity of Ghostbusters 2 there was The REAL Ghostbusters, an animated childrens show that aimed to keep the series alive. And also sell toys t...o children. The story behind it's creation is facinating unlike the show itself which is not great. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:47 You know, they say, Mason, they say What do they say? That Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, it's going to borrow a lot from the real Ghostbusters in terms of storytelling. And I tell you what, after watching many episodes of this, I hope that's not necessarily true in the strictest sense.
Starting point is 00:01:03 Why do you say that, James? James, a classic cartoon from our childhood? What could be bad about that? What could be bad about the jangling keys of our childhood, James? The thing that encourages us to buy all these toys. Because we both had toys. I know this from conversations. They're great toys.
Starting point is 00:01:17 We didn't know each other in childhood. No. But we've had a conversation where we determined, yes, we had a bunch of, like, the action figures because there were many. There were waves and waves of action figures. They were wacky and goo and eyes poking out. Standard issue, the ones where you, like, click their legs together and their heads pop off or whatever.
Starting point is 00:01:35 There was the Ghostbusters. There was the Ghosts. There was the Firehouse playset. There was the Ecto-1 and 2 and 3 probably. There was leaving a like on this video, this Caravan of Garbage video. Welcome. That's right. Welcome.
Starting point is 00:01:47 It's good to be here. All of these things. Anyway, we had all the toys. And I have vague memories of watching this show as a kid. Same. Because I think it was probably one of those shows that was on like 7.30 in the morning before you went to school. Like it was just on.
Starting point is 00:02:01 I wasn't a TV school kid. I wasn't allowed most days. Had you watched this on VHS then? I just caught glimpses of it. I couldn't tell you specifically. Did you go to school and one of your friends who did watch it made a flick book of frames from the show and you sort of captured it via osmosis?
Starting point is 00:02:20 With a 34-page lined scrapbook. Wow. Anyway, with all that in mind, we rewatched some of this and it sucks. Yeah, it's not great. I think I like the idea behind it. I like the aesthetic. I think some of the animation is quite good. That was one of the first things I was going to say.
Starting point is 00:02:38 The opening title sequence of this show is actually spectacular. Agreed. It's excellent animation for the era it's almost as good as like a mid-tier anime from that era it's the one where they suck up the the big marshmallow man right yeah yeah i think a bunch of that was also used as like the concept so that's why it looks so good like if you look at the concept for the original he-man cartoon the animation uh-huh it looks a thousand fold better than the actual show, which has three frames of animation per episode.
Starting point is 00:03:08 Well, that's exactly it. With the opening sequence, the intro, it promises a lot of stuff. It's got the music! It's so fluid. Boy, does this show have the music. They've got it. They squeezed. I don't know if the cartoon producers had to pay for the Ghostbusters theme every time
Starting point is 00:03:24 they used it, because they'd be backed up. I don't think so. No. They mustn't have. They squeezed every dime out of this. And when they're not using the Ghostbusters theme, which is barely any of the time, they're using it in every sequence no matter what is happening,
Starting point is 00:03:36 they're using like a bunch of sort of like pop R&B, like 80s pop R&B that just sort of floats in and out of every scene. The audio mix on this is awful. Sure. Oh, it's mostly on YouTube, by the way, if people are interested. Officially. Yeah. I know this is all over the place. I'll finish my thought about the opening animation. It looks really good. It really sets up
Starting point is 00:03:55 the viewers for disappointment, because the rest of the animation is no good, because it was clearly done in a hurry. The audio mix is also awful. Yeah. It doesn't sound like anybody's ever in the same room. There's just like... Well, that. It doesn't sound like anybody's ever in the same room. There's just like... Well, that's funny because the cast did record this in the same room. Doesn't sound like it. Oftentimes, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:11 With an assortment of random microphones they found in the studio, I think. Because some people sound echoey. Some people sound like they're speaking to nobody. Some people sound like they're into it. Some people sound like they're not. Some people sound like Garfield. Look, I can't speak to the sound,
Starting point is 00:04:29 but I know that the episodes were animated by different studios. So the animation that was considered good, Toei Animation did that. Makes sense. And the stuff that's not as good were outsourced to smaller studios in other Asian countries or whatever. So that's why it dips in quality, like even during episodes. Yeah, okay, sure.
Starting point is 00:04:45 Which isn't great. Also, people might be wondering, why is this called The Real Ghostbusters and not just Ghostbusters after the movie that came out a couple years prior? Okay, sure. Oh, you want me to do it? You want me to do it? I'll do it.
Starting point is 00:04:59 Okay, so years and years ago, a trillion million years ago, before any of us were born. There was one season of a live action show called The Ghostbusters. Yep. And it was about a bunch of investigators that went around busting ghosts, two humans and a gorilla, if I recall. Yep. It was kind of like the Munsters sort of. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:18 And when Ivan Reitman went to create and direct Ghostbusters, they licensed the name and only the name from the TV series Ghostbusters. Also, they weren't sure whether they could actually use it. We've done videos on most of the Ghostbusters movies, if you want to check it out, so they weren't even sure they could have called it that, but they just started doing it when they were filming and they were like, well, we can't change this now. And then when Ghostbusters the movie was a big hit,
Starting point is 00:05:41 they're like, we should make a cartoon. But then Filmation, who owned the Ghostbusters, were like, we could also make a cartoon. Let's see if we can knock one out first. And it sort of became a race, as I understand it, to produce the first Ghostbusters cartoon. And so to differentiate the Ghostbusters from the movie Ghostbusters, they're like, what if we call it the real Ghostbusters?
Starting point is 00:06:02 Even though it's not the real Ghostbusters. I mean, in a way, neither of them are the real Ghostbusters because ghosts don't exist and Ghostbusting doesn't exist. Sorry to burst your bubble, everyone, but none of it's real. There's no afterlife. There's a Ghostbusters afterlife, but there's no afterlife. This is it. You don't know.
Starting point is 00:06:19 This is it, and you're wasting your one existence watching this video. You don't know that. I mean, they are wasting it video. You don't know that. I mean, they are wasting it, but you don't know. James, let's prove it. Let's do some flatlining right now. We'll do it afterwards. Next video, we'll both kill each other and then come back and we'll determine.
Starting point is 00:06:34 I would love that, yeah. Anyway, if I remember correctly, Filmation released their version of the animated Ghostbusters first. I'd imagine that was very confusing for children. I remember seeing that as a kid and even seeing some toys and being like, what's this? They've got a haunted car. Yeah. These Ghostbusters sometimes have a haunted car. Sometimes.
Starting point is 00:06:51 But they usually don't like it when it happens to them. That's true. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, which of the first three episodes of the first season? And I jumped around because I needed to know some other things about this series. Like why Slimer lives with the Ghostbusters? Yeah, man. I was like, what's the deal with this? Why is this freak hanging out?
Starting point is 00:07:04 And there is an episode called Citizen Ghost, which is a flashback. Yes. Which explains the origin of Slimer coming to be on this team. And that episode, along with a bunch of episodes of this series, were written by J. Michael Straczynski, who later went on to create Babylon 5. Oh, my God. But apparently he wrote that episode because people, he has said that people constantly came up to him and asked,
Starting point is 00:07:27 why does Slimer live with the Ghostbusters? I would have asked him that. But like, who's asking him that? Children? Oh my God, that's the writer of Ghostbusters, J. Michael Straczynski. I'm going to ask him why Slimer lives with the Ghostbusters in this TV series I watched before school. When did that happen?
Starting point is 00:07:43 I mean, at least a handful of times, I'd imagine. At this point also, Slimer wasn't called Slimer because this came out after the first movie. It did quite a good job of keeping the Ghostbusters out in the public and keeping people interested in it until the second movie came out, which is a whatever movie, in my opinion. That's why nobody cares about Indiana Jones anymore because there wasn't an Indiana Jones cartoon series
Starting point is 00:08:05 where he lived with... The ghost of that Nazi he killed. Yep. One of them. The ghost of the guy that pulled his heart out that time. Oh, you're all right, actually. Come and live in my apartment. Come on, you're all right.
Starting point is 00:08:18 Let's do hijinks. Yeah. But Slimer was given a name for this show. He was initially called Onionhead or the Mean Green Ghost. He's not named in the original Ghostbusters. So that's fun. I would have called him Dead John Belushi. Well, we talked about that.
Starting point is 00:08:33 There's a rumor that he's based off John Belushi, but he's not. We talked about it when we talked about first Ghostbusters. He's based on Jim Belushi? Yeah, he's based on, according to Jim, Jim Belushi. Wow! I mean, we have talked about this and people can check it out, but it was designed, they made it, and then the studio said like a few days before filming,
Starting point is 00:08:50 do you reckon you can make it look like John Belushi? And he went, yeah, man. And then didn't change it and they came back and they went, brilliant, you've done it. Brilliant, you've done it. Now here's a question for you. In this cartoon series, Slimer's often seen just snacking down on whatever he can find in the fridge.
Starting point is 00:09:05 But in the movie, anything he eats just falls right through him because he's dead. Yeah, yeah. Something happened, you're saying? What happened there? I don't know if there's an episode on that specifically. I'm going to call Jay Michael. Hang on. Hey, Jay Michael.
Starting point is 00:09:17 Look, I might have an answer for you. Go on. So this is not set in the mainline Ghostbusters continuity. Whoa. We'll talk about some sequel stuff to this specifically later. There's even an episode in season one called Take Two where the Ghostbusters go to Hollywood and they visit the set to watch them filming the movie Ghostbusters.
Starting point is 00:09:36 Okay, all right. And that's why all of the characters, and this was probably more for action figure purposes, they look very different often than they did in the movie. Okay, sure, sure, sure. Egon specifically. I prefer this look on Egon, by the way. I think this is a great look.
Starting point is 00:09:53 Just a blonde curl with a cornetto. It reminds me of Dermot Brereton, the patron saint of this video series. We should get him in. Do you think we can get Dermot in? Yeah. What do you think his passion would be? Where's our crossover with Dermot Brereton besides going to Subway? Punching a bloke?
Starting point is 00:10:11 Oh, yeah, we could punch a bloke together. Having a few drinks and punching a bloke, but then going, you're all right. Yeah, nice. Do you reckon that's it? That's pretty good, yeah. But also I imagine the main reason for the change, especially in the designs of the Ghostbusters, is so you can tell them apart.
Starting point is 00:10:23 Yes. And also so parents can be properly convinced to buy all the Ghostbusters so you can tell them apart. Yes. And also so parents can be properly convinced to buy all four Ghostbusters. And not just four brown-haired schlubby men. Yes, exactly. That's right. You've already got a brown-haired schlubby man. Yeah, but this guy's different.
Starting point is 00:10:38 He's got a blue jumpsuit. Now I had a question about on About the Ghostbusters Specifically how the ghosts work Because it's not really explained in the movies It's like class this Spectre form that Whatever Sure sure sure
Starting point is 00:10:53 I don't know if I'm using any of the right words But I figured it out I did some research I did my own research Which I encourage everybody to do Well you really got in deep on this For a franchise you hate I don't hate the franchise
Starting point is 00:11:03 You hate the fans I hate the fans And I like the first movie. Okay. And Ghostbusters 2 is as good as Ghostbusters 2016. Wait! Because they're about as funny as each other. You only like it more because it's got the guys from the first one. And they're in the Ghostbusters suit, alright?
Starting point is 00:11:19 Just think about it. I know you're going to yell at me, but you know I'm right. I'm not saying either are good because they're not. Just think about it. But Ghostbusters Afterlife, that's a good one. No. And Ghostbusters The Game is basically Ghostbusters 3. I'm not really a fan of that either.
Starting point is 00:11:33 Wow. So obviously my opinions are invalid. But it's the fans that have driven me to this. That's true. Now you have a theory about the ghost you were saying. Yeah, it's not a theory. This is stone cold facts, Mason. Okay, we'll put this on the ghostopedia.
Starting point is 00:11:45 Absolutely. The wicked ghostier? Yes. Ghost to ghostier. Yeah, ghost to ghostier, perfect. So class one, these are undeveloped forms. They're difficult to see. They don't really interact with environments
Starting point is 00:11:57 outside of maybe some lights or voices and sound. Okay, sure. Maybe some electroplasmic vapors. That's the extent of it. Okay, sure. So nothing. So like a poltergeist? Yeah, but less. Whoa. maybe some some electroplasmic vapors that's the extent of it so nothing so like a poltergeist yeah but less whoa
Starting point is 00:12:09 even yeah poltergeist maybe class 2 can physically manipulate things in the world you're reading off a wikipedia
Starting point is 00:12:16 no I've got look at my notes that I made boy you really did it's got dots and everything I did take it from ghostopedia
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Starting point is 00:13:39 Well, you could say that about every character in this show. Very true. Vague and inconsistent and incomplete. Might be floating sheets, ghost hands, animated lips, etc. So like a poltergeist. Or a mully grub. Class 3, anonymous hauntings. These are distinct human form and personality is evident,
Starting point is 00:13:58 but they don't have an identity. Sounds like a poltergeist. Yeah, maybe something that would suck Dan Aykroyd's dick in one of the movies, maybe. Absolutely sure. Potentially, yeah. Which I maintain is Dan Aykroyd's dick in one of the movies, maybe. Absolutely sure. Which I maintain is Dan Aykroyd from the future. He has to go back in time and do that to maintain the timeline.
Starting point is 00:14:12 I understand. It's a closed loop. It's Aurora Borealis. That's right. No, Ouroboros. It's Ouroboros. Mm, sure. Class four distinct human form and personality with known identity.
Starting point is 00:14:25 So you might get like, oh, that's a historical figure or whatever, you know? Oh, it's George Washington going to town on Ray over there. Wow, one with his wooden teeth and everything. Exactly. Now, in terms of disposal, you can do this if you know, like, what their deal is. So if you're like, oh, George Washington, I'll throw some wooden teeth at him. Then he'll stop doing what he's doing to Dan Aykroyd because he has to put his wooden teeth in Mason. Now how does this relate to the
Starting point is 00:14:47 ghosts we see in the three episodes? Wait for it. Class 5. These are electroplasmic manifestations of definite but non-human form specters. Wow, I didn't know you had a Masters degree in physics. I do. Slimer for example.
Starting point is 00:15:03 Or Muncher from Ghostbusters Afterlife. Ah, classic Muncher. They're not people. They're like manifestations of weird energy and emotions and stuff. Did they used to be people? I don't know. No, maybe. I don't think so. Because some of these also might be from other dimensions. That's true. Class 6 is Ghosts of Lower
Starting point is 00:15:19 Lifeforms. The example they gave was a giant penguin was once seen attacking a mugger in Central Park. I don't know what episode that is in and class seven is meta specters so they're like powerful beings often thought to be demons or whatever that's your gozers and you're stepping out of a portal etc sure sure it's where we're at okay so now my question again is is how does this relate to the various ghosts we see? Because we watched the first three episodes. The first episode. I did more, but go on. It's the Ghostbusters and they've.
Starting point is 00:15:48 Also, if I were to be critical about the series, and I am because it sucks. One of the things that I don't, that I think gets wrong is there's no central villain. Oh, okay. Because like Ninja Turtle. Not building towards or whatever. Yeah, like Ninja Turtle says Shredder and. It's interesting. You know, another thing.
Starting point is 00:16:04 G.I. Joe has Cobra Commander or what have you. But this is just a, you know, ghost of the week. I guess, you know, back in the day, the idea was they would just show these in any order. So it didn't make sense to have like an overarching storyline generally. Yes. But I think it makes it a bit. I agree.
Starting point is 00:16:19 It's lacking. It is lacking. It feels like the same episode. And again, we didn't watch all of them because there's 170,000 or whatever. Sure. But it is that. The thing shows up. They're like, what are we going to do?
Starting point is 00:16:28 It takes over or whatever. And then the things don't work, but then they figure it out. It's got a lot of color and noise, and I guess kids like that. They love that. But I don't remember liking it. Anyway, in the first episode, they fight a family of ghosts, three ghosts, which suggests they all died at the same time. Or they died separately.
Starting point is 00:16:43 Yeah. And then they found each other in the afterlife, which is nice that's nice exactly but then these ghosts escape the containment unit and decide to start their own ghost hunting business there's like a grift yeah man and they're like you got a problem with small business i do there should be more regulation as far as i'm concerned but what i liked initially i'm like well, these three, they managed to fool the public into thinking they're ghost hunters even though they look like absolute freaks. There's one with a three foot long neck
Starting point is 00:17:12 and then a real wide one and what have you. And I'm like, this doesn't make any sense. Does everybody in this city have some sort of ectoplasmic brain poisoning? Why are they not figuring this out? And then you look at the background characters in this show and you're like, oh, New York's absolutely bursting with freaks.
Starting point is 00:17:26 Oh, my God. And I'm like, all right, fair call. Fine. I get it. I mean, they give it up pretty quickly as well. I feel like they could have had a pretty comfortable existence. Right. Whatever.
Starting point is 00:17:36 Anyway, I want to talk about the cancellation of this. I was going to say second episode. Yeah. Electric Ghost? Yeah. Just an electric ghost. Just a guy who's like, bzzz. Third episode. Yeah. Electric ghost? Yeah. Just an electric ghost. Just a guy who's like... Third episode.
Starting point is 00:17:47 A different... Ghost takes over Peter Venkman's body. Oh, my God. Right? I love that. Pretty good. So what are they? Oh, in the classes?
Starting point is 00:17:55 Yes. They seem... They would be class five or above. Okay. Checks out. Yeah. Because I was definitely paying attention. Or maybe four human form and whatever.
Starting point is 00:18:03 Okay. Sure, sure, sure. It's not for me to say. I'm not an expert. It seems like you are, though. I don't like this attention. Or maybe for human form and whatever. Okay, sure, sure, sure. It's not for me to say. I'm not an expert. It seems like you are, though. I don't like this property. Oh.
Starting point is 00:18:09 It's bad. It's been bad for ages. Yeah. Anyway, let's do the real trivia. All right. Before we get to how this was cancelled, because I love it. It's a great story. Uh-oh.
Starting point is 00:18:20 According to Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zedmore. Is that right? Yes. In the Ghostbusters films. But not in the series. No. He auditioned for his own character, but they didn't think he sounded right, so they gave it to Arsenio Hall.
Starting point is 00:18:30 Incredible. Who later passed it on also, but I think that's pretty funny. When auditioning for the role of Egon, Maurice Lamarche was asked not to impersonate Howard Ramis, but he did it anyway and got the part. These executives, they don't know what they want. No, they really don't. We'll get to that. And during one meeting with the studio, one executive claimed that Janine's triangular glasses would scare children.
Starting point is 00:18:51 And other executives agreed that she should be less of a tough woman and more like a mother figure. Right. Sure. Let's go into this. Okay. Because this was cancelled due to a fun turn of events where they turned to a consulting firm by the name of Q5 after season two, despite it doing relatively well.
Starting point is 00:19:09 Okay. It was doing well in its time slot. And they said, listen, these are some changes we want you to make, and that includes re-editing the first season's episodes so they fall in line with the following changes. Number one, remove occult references. From Ghostbusters? Yes.
Starting point is 00:19:24 Sure. Just a bunch of guys. They're firefighters now? Yeah, they're firefighters now. They go to buildings and they electrocute the buildings. And then the fires go out. And everyone cheers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:36 Which happens at the end of every episode. Make Slimer the main character. They did that. This happened so much that they retitled the show at one point and they also added a bonus Slimer specific episode to drag this thing out to an hour. Sure, yeah. An hour?
Starting point is 00:19:51 Yeah, they really thought that, I mean with commercials for these toys. They really thought that Slimer was like the driving force behind the Ghostbusters. It's not, it's libertarianism. Exactly. Ray's character Ray's character design was slimmed down to give the character a less overweight aesthetic. Okay, sure. I think they should have kept him the same, but he should have been jogging everywhere.
Starting point is 00:20:14 Yeah. Also, his presence in the show was also questioned, and it was thought that maybe he could be just removed entirely. Sure. You know? I mean, they are four brown-haired men in jumpsuits. I guess you could. I mean, not at this. Slimer was also given a tail instead
Starting point is 00:20:30 of his rounded bottom. Too sexual? Yeah, maybe, but that also switched back towards the end. Okay, not sexual enough. Exactly. But the biggest change as mentioned was that of Janine, whose hair was completely changed from being short and spiky to long and straight, and her overall design was softened, and they wanted her personalityy to long and straight, and her overall design was softened,
Starting point is 00:20:47 and they wanted her personality to be more motherly and generally less harsh and slutty. Wow. Their words. Okay. This change was so severe and destructive that the story editor and frequent series writer, J. Michael Straczynski, who actually did Babylon 5, I don't know if you know that.
Starting point is 00:21:02 I said that earlier. He immediately quit out of protest and then the ratings fell to low numbers. And as a result of that, ABC begged for him to return, which he did because they wanted to restore the show to what it was before. And they said he could revert some of the changes. So we actually dedicated an episode to explaining
Starting point is 00:21:19 why Janine is now the way that she is. Okay, sure. Right. But then they cancelled it anyway. So they meddled with it. Okay. Ru ruined it, said, can you help fix it? It was already done at that point and it was over. This is fascinating. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:33 All the changes in themselves are fascinating, but it's also fascinating as a consumer of modern day media. Love media. That they just went, let's retool this instead of like, we've had two seasons, cancel it. Yeah. Make a different thing or even think like, how could we expand this instead of like, we've had two seasons, cancel it. Yeah, make a different thing. Or even think like, how could we expand this in a way that's interesting?
Starting point is 00:21:49 What can we build on what's working? Like, none of this stuff is the stuff that wasn't working. Bizarre. Anyway, good on you, Q5. You probably still exist. Anyway, there was, though, a sequel series. In 1997, Extreme Ghostbusters was released. This was done by Columbia TriStar Television and Adelaide Productions.
Starting point is 00:22:07 To do with Australia's Adelaide? I don't know. I hope not. Okay, sure. I doubt it. Okay, now if I recall, this only has Egon of the original Ghostbusters. Yeah, so it premiered in September of 1997, ran for 40 episodes, and it was set several years after the real Ghostbusters,
Starting point is 00:22:22 and the series opened by saying the team had disbanded due to lack of supernatural activity. Famous last words. Only Egon remains along with Slimer, but I'm sure other characters pop in and out of it, Mason. Slimer also appeared, do you remember this crossover? The VHS cartoon all-stars to the rescue don't do drugs thing that happened. I vaguely remember the concept, sure.
Starting point is 00:22:44 In 1990, and the president came on before and he went, don't do drugs thing that happened in 1990. And the president came on before and he went, don't do drugs, I'm George Bush, I do only good things exclusively. That's right. I think they got Bob Hawke to do it here, local reference. Absolutely. Because he was Prime Minister at the time. And it's Michelangelo being like, party down, dudes, but not with ecstasy.
Starting point is 00:23:00 That's right. Don't do reefers. Have a yard glass of beer, Mr Prime Minister. Radical. Tubular. But of course it has continued also, sort of. So there's a comic from 2015 called Ghostbusters Get Real. It's a four-part miniseries published by IDW
Starting point is 00:23:16 which crosses over the real Ghostbusters with movie Ghostbusters. They're always doing that in the comics, aren't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder who owns the Ghostbusters now. Whoever owns Filmation. I guess so. Probably Nickelodeon. Probably Nickelodeon.
Starting point is 00:23:31 Probably Comcast. Probably Comcast. Probably Adelaide Productions. Adelaide Productions, who owns everything now. They own Apple, I believe. Yeah, man, it's not great, is it? I was kind of excited to see what's... I think I was expecting more Men in Black cartoon, which we have looked at. Yeah, sure, it's not great, is it? I was kind of excited to see what's... I think I was expecting more Men in Black cartoon,
Starting point is 00:23:46 which we have looked at. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Which I think is really fun and strange. And it's just not... Like a ghost, it's formless. Yeah. Did you feel that? Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:56 It's just sort of like some stuff sort of vaguely happens. Piggledy, piggledy. Everybody just sort of wanders around. Yeah, man. Well, look, if you look at And then everyone cheers. Everyone cheers at the end. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:24:08 And then it goes da-da-da-da-da-da-da And then they walk down the street at the end and they go na-na-na-na-na-na in the credits, remember? I do remember that, yes.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Look, if you're looking for somewhere to wander though, you're lost. You can actually head over to BigSandwich.co where there's a bunch of bonus content that goes up there. Recently, we did commentaries
Starting point is 00:24:22 for both Ghostbusters Afterlife and also we talked about a very popular and good Ghostbusters comic from a few years back. That's right. We have different episodes. We do video game Let's Plays, as mentioned, bonus podcast, movie commentaries, etc. Also, early videos. These also go up there early. Speaking of, here's a bloody hint towards next week. Ah. Oh, yeah, that's scary, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:24:43 Ah. hint towards next week. Ah. Oh, yeah, that's scary, isn't it? Ah. Also, for those who are in the know, Lorenzo Music first supplied the voice of Peter Venkman, who was played by Bill Murray in the films,
Starting point is 00:24:54 and reportedly Murray did not like that his character sounded like Garfield, and the producers replaced Music with Dave Coulier, a Full House fame. And you want a no-fame. That's right, but maybe. Music did provide the voice of Garfield until his death, and Bill Murray later supplied the voice of Garfield in Garfield the Movie and its sequel, Garfield Kills Again.
Starting point is 00:25:10 There we go. That's a little fun fact for everybody who watched two seconds of this video. I can't believe I didn't say that the men of Garfield and Bill Murray and Garfield Don't you even watch Rick and Morty? Rick and Morty. We got you. Idiots. We laid a trap and you fell for it.
Starting point is 00:25:25 Thanks for the comments, though. Thanks for the engagement, you idiots. All right. Thanks, everyone. Grab that jimmy, guys. We'll see you later. And thanks to Ben and Lawrence for the edits. Thank you, Ben and Lawrence.
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Starting point is 00:26:06 One woman has a secret. The other, a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. FX's The Veil, starring Elizabeth Moss, is now streaming on Disney+.

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