This cartoon show is one of the highest rated in the 80's.
The guys who made the show wanted to keep the same chemistry. They did, but also made Winston a bigger part (good choice), they made Janine's love for Egon less subtle and more lovey dovey, and they made Slimer a regular character. The Marshmallow Man reappeared out of nowhere and now was most of the time friendly. New vehicles were added. Oh ya, and Egon's hair was changed blonde (for some reason people get really upset about that). Each of the guys were changed to look different from their characters in the movie. Apparently Columbia was afraid about having to pay the guys royalties for using their likenesses. That reasoning really did suck since Dan and Harold created the characters and Bill was getting royalties for the character Peter anyway. The story of how Slimer came to live with the guys is explained in "Citizen Ghost" How the Marshmallow Man reappeared and became friendly is a mystery. The show was sometimes criticized as being an anime cartoon, because the animation was sometimes choppy and not smooth. That may be true, but notice that very rarely does the show use the same shot twice. The animators never used the same scene, as appossed to the 90's Spider-Man which had fantastic animation but always used the same shots over and over. Just because it's a cartoon show doesn't mean it doesn't have an all star cast. It had well known writers, and voices. The guy that did Garfield voiced Dr. Venkman, Maurice LaMarche (who would do Brain from Pinky and the Brain), played Egon, and Arsenio Hall (who had a talk show and lots of other stuff) played Winston. My only complaint of the voices was Janine. The first person to do her voice was absolutely annoying! While she did sort of sound like Annie Potts she was way too annoying. The other people to voice Janine were much better, but none of them sounded like Annie Potts. There were some fantastic writers, of which J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5) is one of the most famous. In the second season some consultants were hired and talked to the writers on how to "improve the show" (already you know that this'll be bad). Most of what they said was pointless stuff that didn't matter or could be ignored, but they did say some words that would stick. They said Slimer should be a bigger part of the series (not too bad, Slimer should always get his day(s) in the sun). They said since it was a kid's show they should have kids, so the Junior Ghostbusters were created (I didn't mind these guys much). But the biggest thing they did was attack Janine. They said her clothes were slutty, her glasses were too pointy and they frightened children (what the?), and she should be changed to a more motherly figure. Lots of the writers didn't like these changes, but Mr. Straczynski hated it so much he quit the show. In the third season it was seen that changing Janine was an error. They wanted to change her back and hire Straczynski again to write. He said he would as long as he could explain why Janine had these changes, and as long as he didn't have to write about the Junior Ghostbusters. He took the task of writing an episode to explain why Janine changed, which became his favourite episode and one of the top ten best RGB shows. Besides this episode, "Janine you've changed" he also wrote some more episodes for the series before and after, including "Citizen Ghost" and "Take Two". The guys had lots of new vehicles. Besides the Ecto-1 (a 1959 Cadillac Eldurado ambulance) they had Ecto-2 (a helicopter), Ecto-3 (a weird go cart or something. In the NOW comic books of the show they also had the Ecto-4, a really futuristic machine that flew and could travel through dimensions (a very bad idea whoever made this). The toyline also included lots of other Ecto-mobiles, including an airplane, a sweeper, and a racer. Despite the Ghostbusters owning a helicopter (Ecto-2), none of them had the licenses to fly. All four of the guys and Janine could fly it, but it wouldn't be until about 1997 that Winston got a license. Egon is a very reckless driver. While the Ecto-1 is always shown spinning and doing sharp curves, if you watch all the episodes it almost seems that Egon has road rage (this also goes for when he's flying the Ecto-2 and in Extreme Ghostbusters). Some memorable villains from the show include Samhain, the Boogieman, and the Sandman. Some less evil ghosts include Slimer, the Marshmallow Man, Drool the Dog faced Goblin, and Baby Spookums. The best rated episodes of the show are as follows: 1: Citizen Ghost 2: The Night Halloween was Forever (tied with) The Boogieman Cometh 3: Take Two 4: Janine You've Changed In the episode "Take Two" the Ghostbusters go to Hollywood to watch a movie about them being made. The cast of the movie includes "Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis? What is that, a law firm?" The episode includes scenes of the actual movie GHOSTBUSTERS. The Real GHOSBUSTERS toyline by Kenner is the third most sought after and collectible of action figures. The first being Star Wars and the second GI Joe (At least that's what I heard…). For the series the proton packs were often tinted a dark blue to make them show up better. When time for the toys to come out the proton guns couldn't be black because they might resemble real guns too much (it's a pretty valid rule). Since the packs were often tinted blue in the show anyway Kenner thought a dark blue would work well for the toys, but some head honchos thought they were still too dark. As a result the gun had to be a really bright blue, but the pack got to keep it's intended colour. To go with the pack, most of the other toys were changed blue as well. There are occasionally mistakes and sometimes add ins into the show. The funniest is in "Troll Bridge" there is one scene where a man is buying a paper and looks up to see monsters. If you watch carefully you'll see he has a pacifier in his mouth! Earlier in the same episode when Egon and Ray are chasing the ice cream truck in the Ecto-1, for one shot their actuall driving backwards. The cartoon show was taken off the air because it was said to be too violent. With the show down it paved the way for a much more violent show, the Ninja Turtles. The show reappeared as Slimer! and The Real GHOSTBUSTERS, but the damage was already done, the Ghostbusters were through.Ghostbusters was first a campy 1970's TV show about two guys and an ape that blasted ghosts. It was made by Filmation. It wasn't until partway into the movie that it was discovered that Filmation owned the name Ghostbusters. Columbia Tri-Star bought the name for movies, while Filmation could still make TV shows called Ghostbusters. Because of this, the Ghostbusters cartoon show by Columbia Tri-Star was called The Real Ghostbusters.
When the Real Ghostbusters cartoon was made, Filmation tried to leach off of the success by making making a sequel series to Ghostbusters. It was still called Ghostbusters, but it was a cartoon and featured the sons of the Ghostbusters.
