Let's go, Ghost Busters!

[aarond]

Hey, everybody!

I put up a review of the classic Ghost Busters 80's cartoon on my webpage! Check it out by finding the link on my Profile page or by clicking on the handy one here:

www.geocities.com/little_bad_wolf/ghostbusters.htm

Woo-hoo!

[Bureaucratic Model 1-3]

Where the devil did you find that series?

I saw a couple of episodes once, but we (the family, back before I became Deperado) rented it from a two-bit movie rental store that sunk long ago. It was crazy, I didn't know it was made after a TV show. Not that it would have made it any better. I wonder which was worse, even though, to be fair, I guess you could say they were 'bad' in a 'good' way. ^{Oh, and you never got back to me on that Teddy Ruxbin thing. How many episodes did it have before they quit making it or it died? Not that I care or anything but...} Never matter, but it is a question. Do you have the series on tape or did you just pull that article out of memory?

[aarond]

Nope, no tapes. I used to watch "Ghost Busters" faithfully when I was about seven or eight. I think I may have watched every single episode, but it's hard to say for sure. I think there were 63 or so. I also did some "research" on the Internet for the stuff I couldn't remember. I've always been able to sing the tune to the theme song, though. For a while, I liked them better than those...other Ghostbusters. Not better than the movies, but better than the other show.

As for Teddy Ruxpin, I do remember watching one of his shows in my youth, but even at a tender age I thought that cartoon was pure crap and made no sense. To be honest, I really didn't like most of the cartoons which were really disguised advertising for toys.

Now that I've said that, I just had another cartoon flashback: Hasbro or someone had a half-hour block of two shows that were based on multiple toys in their lines. This conglomeration of crap took the somewhat blatant advertising to the next level, 'cause there were two different toys each day, like, first it'd be Glow Friends and My Little Pony, then the next day, it'd be the Potato Head Kids and Go-Bots or something. God, those cartoons were REALLY horrible. They made the "Video Power" show which was to come years later seem well-produced in comparison.

[Bureaucratic Model 1-3]

Darth D you're so crazy I find it hard to fathom.

Crap! Teddy Ruxpin? Lets not say things we can't take back. However since I'm a fool for crazyness, and bad jokes, I guess that could account for that. Lets never speak of it again.

As for the toy shows you mentioned they still exist, and in all their awful glory. Yu Gi Oh, How I Hate It, only exists to sell cards and comics. I'm not even going to go into it, but Pokemon, same thing, except just cards, and then there was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which were actually cool, but I see where you're coming from. I have to say this, somehow my (family's) video library has two My Little Pony Movies, the first ever, and the latter one, you know, after they sold out. The first one is actually a good production well drawn, the little girl is a tomboy who they recruit... more like pull along to get some of the little little ponies back from Midnight Castle, and in the end it was an interesting half hour. But the latter movie was just awful. Sure someone like me or you could take the plot and rewrite something somebody somewhere might like to see, but this was a 'little girls only' production. It was mildly entertaining, but by then the whole thing had sold out, the little girl is walking around wearing some silk overalls and a pink fluffy shirt. 'Dream Castle' (a dubious toy product in the first place) was replace with paradise mannors, something my own little sister owned, or inherited, I wasn't there when she got it, thank the bank, and to top it all off we meet a whole new set of ponies called the flutter ponies, which are just like flying little ponies execpt with more glitter.

Now that's a spicey Sella Outa.

[aarond]

Actually, Yu-Gi-Oh and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were both comics, and later, TV shows, before they actually had merchandise. That's considered "OK" as far as TV goes. As for Pokemon, that was a video game, as we all know, and it's also okay to base cartoons on video games, especially in Japan, where it's a law, I believe, that you HAVE to do it, unless it's about Rockman Dash, in which case it is forbidden.

I also remember that Pony movie, as I had two little sisters, and I had to watch it daily for a period of about three weeks. They had to replace the Castle with the Manor so that there would be something to advertise in the movie. God, I even remember the Flutter Ponies.

See, that's the thing. You could say the the Yu-Gi-Oh guy sold out because he took his comic and then later on based it around the one card game and made TONS of cash, but you can't say the Ponies sold out, because the whole cartoon was blatant advertisement in the first place. The FCC actually made a regulation saying you can't base cartoons on toys anymore (which a lot of producers have gotten around simply by making the cartoon first).

To get back to the original topic, Ghost Busters worked kind of that way---it was on for a while, and they even came out with Ghost Busters action figures. Which is kind of weird, 'cause I don't remember the cartoon really being that popular.