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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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Real Ghostbusters kicked so much ass – I wish it were on DVD

Chestnuts roasted by Glico @ 09/21/2007 10:10 PM

Gilco – they are! I have seen them at blockbuster, not sure about this one though.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 09/21/2007 10:12 PM

Not late..i dunno…but luckily enough i have just got home and was here to see it.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/21/2007 10:15 PM

I was waiting for this one so I could pass along a link to an absolutely wonderful little Japanese horror flick I watched tonight. It’s called Noroi, which means Curse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGamCYdV2UQ

It’s like Blair Witch meets The Ring. And it’s creepy as hell. And part 12, the final part, is so amazingly cool.

Enjoy, kids. And remember – watch with the lights off! I’M off to read the entry now~

Chestnuts roasted by ChibiSoma @ 09/21/2007 10:16 PM

Groovy, groovy. I have more memories of Slimer on the Hi-C’s I used to (and still) drink (just without Slimer) than I do of the actual show, sadly enough.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessi @ 09/21/2007 10:19 PM

Dr. Crowley seems to be smashing pumpkins “with his bare heads.” Unless it’s a Billy Corgan reference. *winces* I’m always unsure of pointing stuff out.

Oh and YAY I love halloween!

Chestnuts roasted by Katherine @ 09/21/2007 10:26 PM

I didn’t know “REAL Ghostbusters” was on DVD; I’d only seen “Ghost Busters” in stores (The one with Belfry the Bat)

Chestnuts roasted by Glico @ 09/21/2007 10:27 PM

Bare heads? It says “bare hands.” It’s always said “bare hands.” ::whistles::

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/21/2007 10:34 PM

I forgot how insane the character design on that show was. Is it me, or does the animation look a little better than the normal Saturday show?

Chestnuts roasted by Shawn @ 09/21/2007 10:36 PM

wow, this is the closest i’ve ever been to the top! woot! hows everybody this evening?

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 09/21/2007 10:52 PM

I didn’t know this episode ever existed and I was a huge Real Ghostbusters fan. Did any of you ever watch the more recent show “Extreme Ghostbusters,” where Egon (drawn like he was in Real GB’s) was teaching a group of teens how to ghost-bust? It was suprisingly good. There was an episode where the other three GB’s reunite with Egon, and the original team and the teenage team all get together and go bustin’. Crazy.

Chestnuts roasted by EtHM @ 09/21/2007 10:55 PM

English translation of German:
“If you can decode this code, realizes riesigesInsekt behind you and bites your head away.”
???

Chestnuts roasted by EtHM @ 09/21/2007 10:56 PM

I don’t think they ever put this into the regular RGB episode rotation. I used to watch the show all the time, but never caught this special.

This countdown is making me fall in love with this site all over again. I love you, XE.

Chestnuts roasted by Casual Jeff @ 09/21/2007 11:09 PM

Ah! the Real Ghostbusters! I enjoyed that cartoon when I was a kid… oh, so many memories

Chestnuts roasted by yelinna @ 09/21/2007 11:11 PM

EtHM, it’s been a few years since I took German class, so I don’t have a translation for that either.

I remember the Real Ghostbusters…just not this episode. Sad that none of the original actors wouldn’t reprise their roles. We just had to settle for Maurice LaMarche and Lorenzo Music…fair trade, I guess.

I thought of a poll…which other cartoons do you think had kickass Halloween episodes?

I toss in Rocko’s Modern Life and the Treehouse of Horror episodes from the Simpsons (preferably #s 3-7, they were the best)

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 09/21/2007 11:16 PM

“Invader Zim” had an excellent Halloween episode, along with an even better X-Mas episode.

Chestnuts roasted by EtHM @ 09/21/2007 11:19 PM

I used to love the Ghost busters cartoon, then they also made that cheezy one with the gorilla, which kind of sucked though the toys where very well done.

I remember the episodes with the boogy man used to freak me out a bit!

Hey hows the Pokemon game going Matt, I just got my sixth bandage Houndoom and Cubone are defiantly Halloween Pokemon.

Chestnuts roasted by mjgrass @ 09/21/2007 11:22 PM

I have to be honest, I haven’t picked it up once since getting stumped on the guy you have to beat after the Elite Four. I’ve gotta raise another Pokemon at least 30-35 levels before I’ll beat him, and I haven’t been inclined to go through the trouble yet.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/21/2007 11:31 PM

The Real Ghostbusters Rocked. They rocked hard.

Anyone else remember watching this on USA’s Cartoon express, at something around 5 AM?

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 09/21/2007 11:36 PM

Strange, thats not the boogyman I remember from RGB. The one I remember had goat feet and purple hair with a big ass mouth.

Chestnuts roasted by mjgrass @ 09/21/2007 11:38 PM

Yeah, there was another character (a recurring villain) also named Bogeyman, and he’s probably the more official of the two, since I’m only saying that this episode’s monster is named “Bogeyman” because of that weird song.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/21/2007 11:39 PM

Oh no! My head is being bitten away!

Chestnuts roasted by Evin. @ 09/21/2007 11:44 PM

While I don’t remember this special, I was also a fan of “Real Ghostbusters” in the day. One of my favorite finds at the Wildwood Blockbuster was a video of the show with one episode, “Venkmen’s Ghost Repellers,” about the Ghostbusters having to rescue Peter’s dad from the New Jersey Parallelogram. (There’s also two episodes on the “Ghostbusters II” disc in the Ghostbusters 2-movie set.)

Egon was always my favorite, in the movie too. I do like smart men.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 09/21/2007 11:59 PM

The regular Bogeyman was the creepiest fucking thing as a kid.
That first episode when he comes from the closet, looks at Egon and says “IIII remember youuuuuu…”
That still creeps me out a bit.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 09/22/2007 12:08 AM

“It’s also worth noting that J. Michael has one of the most impossible-to-spell surnames in history.”

Heh. Somebody has obviously never been to Pittsburgh.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 09/22/2007 12:14 AM

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