Ghostbusters Episodes

I watched this religiously, but it's been so long, I can't even remember one episode.

I liked the episode where they went to the set of the movie that was being made about them. That was a cute gag. There were also a few episodes that brought in Lovecraft, I believe.

If there was ever a DVD set, I'd probably pick it up as I remember the show being a lot wittier than it's contemporaries.

How the hell did Slimer become the Ghostbusters' buddy?

Wasn't that introduced in Ghostbusters 2? Either way, they obviously realised that the character was a hit with audiences, and 80s cartoon shows need a wacky sidekick (Snarf, Orko etc) so there you have it...

Hell, in the original movie he's not even called Slimer.

i remember this kickass episode where ghosts just kept coming out of holes, anywhere there was a hole, BAM. and Ray had a piece of wood with a hole in it in his pocket and this little ghost worm thing crawled out of it. It was rad, and the Toys kicked ass for that show.

I slightly remember the episode where Winston plays baseball against demons for Peters' souls. Fucking great show that was. Even better music.

oh yeah, I'm a 24 year old with no life!! So i can take that Proton pack off your hands for ya

Great show. I recently bought about 18 episodes on tape off of Ebay. I would love to see this on DVD. I was kinda shocked to see that it looks like J Micheal Strayninski (or however you spell it, the Babylon 5 guy--which I never really watched) was the show runner. Kinda like when I bought all the Dungeon and Dragons cartoons on dvd and saw all these names like Paul Dini and Micheal Reeves, guys from the Batman animated series.

Anyway, there was one with cthulhu I'm almost possitive (and other Lovecraftian ones too, I believe Dan was right) but unfortunately not on the ones I got. There was the "Ghosthunter of the Year" one which is the sequel to Citizen Kane and that was always kinda cool.

But I think my fave was Ragnorak...which had the guy who was so broken hearted when his girl dumped him that he travelled the world studying black magic, looking for a way to end it and ca,me back to NY with his hunchbacked companion and this flute that when played started the apocalypse. Very cool sounding tune also. But winged demons started attacking everyone in NY, floods, buildings fell, etc. And the Ghostbusters are about to overload their packs and blow themselves up to stop it (but of course the girl and hunchback change the guy's mind so he reverses the end of the world--but still was pretty cool, and they all say their goodbyes to each other, etc.)

Fox Kids started showing this over here quite recently I think. I watched the episode where the Ghostbusters go back in time and save Ebenezer Scrooge from the three ghosts of christmas only to come back to their own time to find that everyone hates Christmas.

And the toys did kick ass. I still have my Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

Last time I watched it was on everyday at Four but that was a few weeks ago.

Anyone remember the New Real Ghortbusters where they got a bunch of kids from all other the world and had them fight ghosts? Like Captain Planet only Ghostbusters.

I might be confusing two separate episodes, but I seem to remember Slimer hanging out at the firehouse and Ray and Egon realizing he was friendly and could use him to do tests on. He also helps save them from evil ghostly ghostbusters that formed out of their old jumpsuits in the first movie.


Too many to mention but a couple of favorites were when trolls took over the bridge, and a little old lady had a haunted house... but she turned out to be the demon and possessed Peter. It was creepy back then.

The all time best episode was with the Big Blue Headed boogeyman that lived in the kids closet....even Egon was afraid of him, and it gave him power.....I'm 23 now and that episode still freaks me out....it is so ingrained into my psyche it's not even funny......god i would kill for some dvd's of this one

You beat me to it, izzzm. The Boogeyman episode is one of the best cartoon episodes of any series. When I think of The Ghostbusters cartoon, I always first think of that episode. I especially like when the Ghostbusters enter The Boogeyman's domain - a kind of trippy M.C. Escher funhouse of horrors.

It will be on DVD soon. About damn time, too.

You all remember that crappy ghostbuster wannabe cartoon that had a gorilla that was a ghostbuster.

I was gonna mention that Boogeyman episode as well. Am I crazy or was he actually in more than one episode?

Man, I watched this show religiously when it was on.

My favorites were the ones with the big Pumpkin Headed ghost Samhain.

The Cthulu one was great also.

Yup, he was in another one. He came back for revenge against the guys.

Oh man, I do remember that show. As a kid, I rented a tape of it thinking it was The Real Ghostbusters. I was sorely disapointed. I guess thats what I get for ignoring the giant gorilla on the video box. I must have been a dumb kid.

The Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon pre-dated the movie - it came out in 1975. When the Columbia movie of the same name was a hit, Filmation re-released their show in 1986, calling it The Original Ghostbusters (or Filmation's Ghostbusters).

Columbia then called their animated spin-off The Real Ghostbusters in retaliation.

There used to be a website that had almost every episode in RealVideo. I can't seem to find it now, but it's probably the currently-under-renovation www.ghostbusters.net.

The Boogeyman episode(s) is a classic; it scared all of my friends as much as it did me. "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic" is a great one, too.

The one episode I can't seem to find that I remember was one where they visit some haunted house, and upon seeing a gargoyley statue outside, Peter remarks "Ugly with a capital ug." Sadly, I still find that to be quite funny.

i remember an episode where someone got trapped inside the containment unit and they had to go in a rescue him,or slimer went or something i dont remember, but i remember it was cool because they showed almost every ghost that they had captured until that episode just hanging out inside the contaiment unit which was like some wierd ghost universe

I loved the Ghostbusters cartoon! Everything about it ruled, especially the idea of the containment unit having it's own Purgatory-like world in it. I did love the Christmas episode with Scrooge, especially when the Winston, Ray, and Peter had to pretend to be the ghosts. But my favorite ep was the one with the Sandman, where everybody falls asleep in NYC, and their dreams come to life. One part I remember about that was a sleeping dragon that the Ghostbuster accidentally wake up, and Peter's line was "Why is it never easy?" I still use that line to this day, in the same Lorenzo Music-type tone.

Then they ruined it by having that damn goofy "Slimer" cartoon. Curse that crappy cartoon!

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Nobody's mentioned "The Ghostbusters Go To Paris", where the boys are retained by the French government because the city of lights is infested with ghosts, and it turns out that Gustave Eiffel devised the Tower as a containment unit, and a century of disrepair was causing it to malfunction. Insane shit.

Also noteworthy was "The Revenge of Murray the Mantis", the Godzilla homage with a demon possessing a Macy's float, laying waste to the city, and outgunning the guys to the point that they had to let the Stay-Puft Man out of containment to fight him. That was a fuckin' nail-biter at age seven.

I do remember them having to let the Stay-Puft man out to fight something around central park. For some strange reason though I thought it was some kind of Lovecraftian beast. But hey, Lovecraftian creature....Macy's Float, same thing.

I found this on the web a while ago.

The quality isn't great, and it's RealPlayer, but hey, it's every single episode of the series, in their entirety.

http://www.ghostbusters.net/realghostbusters/

I remember that one. Even as a kid though I remember it bugged me and my friends because we didn't know why Stay Puft would be in the containment unit.

anyone remember the episode with the were-chickens...still cracks me up thinking about it

Well, everybody's just about nailed all the episodes I liked, specially the boogeyman 1's and the one I've never been able to get out of my head for some reason, which was "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's attic".
Have it burned into my memory when the coat rack "came alive" yelling out for Faversham.

Anybody remember the episode where they wee stranded in a small town, that turns out was run by vampires.
The vampires had imprisoned the real towns folk, who turned out to be werewolves.
Ring any bells for anyone?

Yeah, got it on tape, it's a cool one. Great ending too, with the Ghostbusters realizing they're out of their depth as the two sides start fighting under the full moon and high-tail it out of town. They use their proton packs to divert a river to go around the town as vampires can't cross running water. And as the werewolves bite the vampires they become werewolves and as the vampires bite the werewolves they become vampires. Very cool. A hell of alot better than Underworld

It was called "No one comes to Lupusville"

I remember the one where this company made a robot that would "destroy" ghosts.

Egon said that it was impossible to destroy ghosts, and at the end, all their PKE energy formed a giant ghost, I believe.

That episode was a nice bit of conitnuity I remember.

In an earlier episode Egon tries the same thing to destroy ghosts ad accidentl splits Sime rinto hundres of tiny ones who reform in a giant blue one. Anyway, he realises you can't destroy ghosts.

And then in the episode you mentioned he says the very thing and is proved correct again.

Heh, I loved this show so much, my fave cartoon as a kid.

Fox Kid sin the UK have been showing it regularly and over Xmas I caught tons of old eps... nostaglia heaven, taped as many as I could.

As for Slimer:

There's an episode that shows events immediatly after GB1 where the Ghostbsters ditch there old masrh-mallow covered uniforms and get the new ones for the series. However the Conatinment Unit leaks and energy goe sinto the old uniforms and creats ghost evrsion of the team... i dso want to see this one as it was a fave. ANyway, Slimer also escapes and when they realise he's friendly they decide to keep him around for Egon to do tests on.

- Scarecrow

When? How do you know this? I want to believe, but it sounds too good to be true...

I remember this one where they go into another dimension, where the alternative versions of themselves are actually human busting demons.

I also remember this really cool episode of Extreme Ghostbusters, which was a cross between In the Mouth of Madness and Hellraiser. A writer is locked into a tower, and forced by beings incredibly similar to the Cenobites, to shape reality with his writings.

I only saw two or three episodes, but Extreme Ghostbusters was surprisingly good. I was expecting it to be too, well, Xtreme!, but it was pretty close in tone and spirit (pun intended) to the original. It also had some truly creepy monster designs.

I remember watching this cartoon a lot as a kid, and to be honest.. thats the only one I can remember. Don't know why.

I really liked Extreme Ghostbusters (other than the horrible name). The monster designs were good, the animation decent and consistent (unlike Real Ghostbusters which varied a lot). Many fans hate it though, but I'm not sure why other than for purely nostalgic reasons. The original crew even showed up once and they did a sequel to the Grundel episode.

Thanks for givig me the name of the ep. Dr. Vitus, I remembered there was a clue in the town name, something that indicated that they were werewolves.

I've got it and lots of other episodes on tape, somewhere,,,,

I distinctly remember when the werewolves and vampires are biting one another, and Ray want to stop and see what happens, because he's "always been curious what would happen, if a werewolf bit a vampire and vice versa".

Hey, got another episode I've never been able to get out of my head, wondering if anybody knows the name, here goes.

It's about a wayward troll, who comes to the city to "party", he wears a baseball cap and a trench coat.
Four things always stick out when I remember this episode.

1-The raspy low voice of the wayward troll, the way he said "party", which until the end of the ep, seems to be his entire vocabulary

2-The troll king/leader looks like he's out of "Road Warrior".

3-The trolls use fireflys to black mail the ghostbusters into finding the "party" troll, but they are giant creatures made of fire,they gave me a whole new meaning to the word firefly.

4-The hourglass the troll king uses to tell the ghosbusters how much time they have to fid the missing troll. It had 2 living creatures, on opposite ends, and they were bonded to the hourglass. Matter of fact, I think the troll king kinda smashed one when he slammed it down, starting their time.
I'd never seen anything like that, stuck with me.

I'd forgotten, till I read this thread, that I got a ghostbuster "Samhain" figure from the clearance bin of a five and dime store a few years back. Got him on top of a world globe, seems fitting.

Another question, anybody know if "Tobin's Spirit Guide" was based on a real book, or just a handy dandy plot device to help the stories along?
I remember it mentioned in the movies as well.

holy crap...I was just looking on IMDB and it turns out Dave Coulier of Full House fame was the voice of Venkman...I had no clue

The Trill episode, if I recall, was called, wait for it.... "Troll Bridge".

By my mind anyway, pretty sure that's right.

It was one I caught on Fox recently and was as great as I remembered it.

- Scarecrow

The Trill episode, if I recall, was called, wait for it.... "Troll Bridge".

By my mind anyway, pretty sure that's right.

It was one I caught on Fox recently and was as great as I remembered it.

- Scarecrow

The Trill episode, if I recall, was called, wait for it.... "Troll Bridge".

By my mind anyway, pretty sure that's right.

It was one I caught on Fox recently and was as great as I remembered it.


- Scarecrow

The Troll episode, if I recall, was called, wait for it.... "Troll Bridge".

By my mind anyway, pretty sure that's right.

It was one I caught on Fox recently and was as great as I remembered it.

ECK! Sorry, computer went nuts... sorry for the double double post.


- Scarecrow

Firefly, Rhino DVD will probably release them soon. There was a poll on Rhino.com asking what 80's cartoons would you like to see on DVD. Ghostbusters was on there, as well asl Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. TMNT Season One just was released a few weeks ago. So, I have hope (crosses fingers).

Edited to say that they also just released the first two seasons of Jem (you know, she's truly outrageous . . .)

Oh so it's not a sure thing