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“The Real Ghostbusters” Halloween Special.

I'm not late! I'm not late! It's still the 21st!

Today's Countdown entry sheds some light on The Halloween Door, a prime time Halloween special from The Real Ghostbusters. It's one of those rare cases when a "normal" cartoon got its own big special, and I don't think this one disappointed anyone. From singing Ghostbusters to dancing devils to a revised opening sequence chock full of pumpkin graphics, it had it all.

Posted by Matt on 09/21/2007. E-mail me!

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Matt: If you don’t use that post as a segue into a Countdown entry about fake blood capsules, you’re recklessly squandering serendipity.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 09/24/2007 9:25 PM

totally, Blood Capsules tasted so terrible but it was so worth it

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 09/24/2007 9:27 PM

Serendipity, another word I want to use someday.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/24/2007 9:30 PM

lumpling I saw that one. Some guy that created all these cartoon charcters got sucked into his own cartoon and they were there to find him or something like that. I remember one part where somehow they ended up getting all dripping wet and someone said all they had to do was just walk off frame and then walk back into frame. Sure enough, they did and came back into the frame perfectly dry. I remember noticing things like that in cartoons when I was a kid and thinking even then it was kind of weird.

Oh, and not to be a nagging nelly, but on the east coast here it’s a little after 9:30pm, um you know…getting pretty close to midnight, and what with the countdown being a daily thing during the week and all….well, this Ghostbusters thing was from a few days ago, and well….ahem…well, I’m just sayin’ is all.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/24/2007 9:37 PM

Hey now. Countdowns are weekdays only! I haven’t lost to the clock yet.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/24/2007 9:38 PM

I read that “Cowboys are weekdays only!”
No way man. Cowboys are for every day.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/24/2007 9:48 PM

I have the upmost faith.

Oh, but I am slightly disappointed in one thing though. I think you mentioned on one of the other boards for one of the other articles that you don’t do all the code and design or some such for the site. I agree with what the person who brought it up was saying at the time. X-E is one of the best looking sites on the web and so well laid out and I was so impressed that one guy could do all this one his own (not that I’m not still impressed, mind you..far from it), but then to find out that you only do part of it (still not sure what all that entails)….well, it was kind of a “pay no mind to the man behind the curtain” kind of thing. Pulling that curtain aside and seeing that you weren’t quite the omnipotent giant head in the sky that I thought you were was a tiny bit of a let down. I’ll pretend I didn’t see it though.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/24/2007 9:51 PM

On the bright side, Jacks will be happy to hear you say that.

If it makes you feel any better, the background of the blog is actually a doodle I made in a notebook with 10,000 filters on top. I made that!!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/24/2007 9:53 PM

Oh, to clarify: Jacks designs the main page and the top headers. (Like, where it says “home, blog…” on top. I do all of the articles, specific entry graphics, Trapper Keeper logos and whatnot. I just don’t have enough finesse for the primary schtuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/24/2007 9:54 PM

Its 10pm, do you know where your Halloween article for today is?

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 09/24/2007 10:06 PM

I’m writing it, I’m writing it. Sorry, they have me working this week.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/24/2007 10:07 PM

Sorry man. Take your time.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 09/24/2007 10:12 PM

Well, the background’s just swell. I too do catch myself from time to staring at it trying to figure out what all those little doodles are. Finesse or not, it gives me hope that I can come up with something as cool and graphically interesting. My new job allows me to work around a lot of folks that know more about all that jazz than I do. I’ve got loads of ideas for that kind of thing, but beyond some basic HTML and some finesse with Photoshop, I’m fairly limited.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/24/2007 10:16 PM

Yea, the background is pretty cool. I love it how it is graphicly interesting (better than the standar black background that most sites got goin) while at the same time being muted enough to visually make the article stand out against it, aming it the focus of the page.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 09/24/2007 10:19 PM

I got lucky on the background. I’ve tried to modify it for different designs, and it doesn’t work. Like, for Halloween, I wanted to adjust the hue and make it more greenish…it looked terrible. Tried orange…looked terrible. Tried just darkening it…looked terrible.

You can tell I’m procrastinating now. Back to work with me.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/24/2007 10:22 PM

Hey, theres nothing like procrastinating work late at night.

What about just switching a few of the doodles with some halloween ones. Stuff like a crudely drawn pumpkin, witch, skull, ect.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 09/24/2007 10:27 PM

What about just switching a few of the doodles with some halloween ones. Stuff like a crudely drawn pumpkin, witch, skull, ect.

Good thinking, Batman. However, as much as I’m an ardent supporter of almost all forms of procrastination, I’m going to greedily vote against it for the next hour and a half in favor of more Countdown. Let’s all collectively crack the whip.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/24/2007 10:34 PM

Haha, sounds like a good plan.
Well, I gotta wake up at 6am for ROTC physical training, so il just go to sleep now and read the article tommorow.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 09/24/2007 10:38 PM

Matt,

Don’t let us distract you. I totally blew off my work over the weekend and it took about 5 cups of coffee to bull shit my through it Sunday. I also agree with the crudely drawn pumpkins or witches idea. I totally have the image in my head, I’d be glad to send you a little 500×500 of it. Pixels, that is.

By the way, I always loved the way you set up the articles. I used to want to do things like that in the geocities days, but I felt like I’d be ripping your shit. Good times with clip art.

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 09/24/2007 10:43 PM

Real Ghostbusters were a prominent figure in my childhood and I’m convinced left such a positive impression of Halloween on my soft mallable brain. I’ve always wanted to see Play Them Ragtime Boos.

Chestnuts roasted by s @ 09/25/2007 3:30 PM

holy crap The real ghostbusters is on tv right now on teletoon in canada if any one wants to watch it

Chestnuts roasted by y2jay @ 09/27/2007 4:01 PM

It’s been a long time since I watched it, but I always thought that the reason the contract was still in effect was because the little girl was wearing a homemade Ghostbusters costume and trick-or-treating. Maybe the machine only took away store-bought costumes, or she put hers together afterwards, I don’t know.

Chestnuts roasted by Ronald MacKinnon @ 09/30/2007 7:45 PM

Count me in as one of the kids that the bogeyman TERRIFIED. That drawing should not have been allowed in the 80′s lol. The plot etc. scared the living crap out of me. To this day, I swear. The Bogeyman has evolved to a creature more realistic (how long can you go before a brightly colored animation scares you anymore) but still… I swear the fact the proton packs didn’t work on him screwed me up for years. The boys were always my safety net damnit!!! If the packs didn’t work, where the heck am I going to get the assortment of bombs to shut down his universe, or where am I gonna find a souped up pack to go rescue the junior ghosbusters?!?!?!? Jeeez!

Chestnuts roasted by Chris Whitcomb @ 06/26/2009 3:17 AM

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