“”Rocko’s Modern Life” did Halloween? Really? I remember their X-mas one.

For modern cartoons I nominate TMNT (the 2003 series) and SpongeBob. *ducks and covers* No, i’m really going to defend the Spongebob nomination. Yes, it has its “official” Halloween ep but it’s got a bunch of scary ep bonuses, especially with the Flying Dutchman. “Rugrats” has an awesome Halloween ep too.

Chestnuts roasted by Poseid @ 09/22/2007 10:55 AM

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KentDoggy: I’m also an Egon fan, but then I’m a nerd of course. People try to convince us that the party animal or the leader is the coolest, but we know the truth, nerds rule. That is why:

Donatello is the best Ninja Turtle
Simon is the best Chipmunk
Thelma could kick Daphne’s butt.
Beast is the coolest X-Men.

The only exception I can think of is Mr. Fantastic, Reed Richards. Despite having stretchy body parts/leader/nerd, he will ALWAYS be the least popular member of the F4. Even Herbie the Robot is better than him.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/22/2007 11:18 AM

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“it took 2000 years but the Boogeyman is back in town”…..swear that was one of the lyrics. I’m sure it was a desire of the writers for a nice round # with the proper # of syllables for the line but still, that places the Boogeyman in direct contention with Christ. While the epic battle going on in my head is pretty cool (and has a great soundtrack) I’m confused as to why Jesus would condone an annual worship of demons as part of the ‘contract’ to keep him away. Thinking Judas had something to do with it.

Chestnuts roasted by guy @ 09/22/2007 12:06 PM

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http://agentdvdonline.com/agentdvd/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=439045
“AGENT DVD: Speaking of ‘Ghost Busters,’ did you have any involvement with the 1984 Bill Murray movie?
SCHEIMER: They had to get the rights from us to do the movie. We made a deal with Columbia to use the name. I didn’t think to secure animation rights. I suggested we could do the animated show, but they wanted to do it on their own. I couldn’t work out a deal. We did our own show, and the audience was confused. The live action show had Larry Storch. Those were funny shows for older audiences. Storch was a little crazy. The kids in the cartoon are the children of the guys in the show. The audience was confused. One man said it was terrible what we’d done. He said we’d taken the only black character in the movie and made him a gorilla!”

http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=5561
“Obviously a deal was worked out, but how did that carry over into the animation side, because for a while there were two competing shows, Filmation’s Ghostbusters and the so-called Real Ghostbusters.

It was weird. We did the live series in 1975, and the animated series was in the 80s. What happened was, we made a deal with Columbia to give them the rights to do the picture, and we got $500,000 for the use, and I made a dumb move. Oh, and we got 1% of the profit from the pictures. It was amazing. I think they spent something like $65 million, and they grossed something like $150 million, and they never had any profits. That’s when I was exposed to the Hollywood accounting practices. (They weren’t practices — they were well practiced.) And I didn’t make a deal with them that excluded the animation. I never thought of it.

Years after the live picture was released, Columbia decided to do an animated feature. And it was a very nice guy running Columbia, Herman Rush, who had turned out earlier in my history had been an agent for us. So I called Herman and suggested to him, ‘Why not do something together. We’ve got rights, you’ve got rights.’ And our parent company then, Westinghouse, said, ‘Oh, we don’t need them.’ And I said, ‘Bad idea. I think we need them. Because they’ll have one, we’ll have one, and nobody will know what’s going on.’ And as it turned out, that’s essentially what happened.

I think there was a whole generation out there that was only familiar with the feature film, and saw the Filmation cartoon as some sort of copy.

You know, the sadness was, we had the gorilla as part of our original show. They put a black man in the team, and I got a phone call from a nice man — I can’t remember where it was — and he was horrified that we had taken the Columbia picture and turned the African-American into an ape. And I tried to explain, ‘No, you don’t understand, that was in our original picture.’ It was sad. I couldn’t convince that guy that we hadn’t somehow done something terrible.”

Chestnuts roasted by THC @ 09/22/2007 12:41 PM

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guy:

1. And Malchizedek spake, saying 2. “And does the wise man not name the Philistine neighbor 3. and the Cherithite brother 4. if he come bearing fun-sized Snickers? 5. Verily, I say to you, spurn not the wicked 6. if delicious chocolates be in the offing 7. even down to the angels of the Pit. 8. For seriously, a Snickers would really hitteth mine spot right now. 9. Who I gotta prophesy to get some nougat up ins?”

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 09/22/2007 1:01 PM

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Oh, and by the way, the song in the Halloween special is definitely “Bugaloo’s Back in Town”.

Chestnuts roasted by KJS @ 09/22/2007 1:47 PM

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The “Real” in RGB was added only as a “fuck you” to Filmation.
‘s what I’ve always heard.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 09/22/2007 2:39 PM

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Oddly, you posted this on Bill Murrays birthday. irony?

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 09/22/2007 3:31 PM

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I used Lost in Translation on this quote: “To be or not to be, that is the question.” and added Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Here’s what I got…

“To determine end or because it is not, he is one requests.”

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 09/22/2007 4:20 PM

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My fiance just made me beer bong a can of Jones Gruesome Grape out of a skull beer bong. Did you know that if you spill Gruesome Grape all over your arms and the kitchen floor it looks gray not purple? hahaha

I don’t think I remember this episode of RBG. I’m pretty sure I would have remembered seeing it. I was a pretty big RBG fan until I had a nightmare that Venkman had been bitten by some ghost snake-thing and Egon and I put him in the back of the Ghostbusters hearse where he died. It was a really realistic dream and I think I gave up watching the show after that because I was afraid it was an episode I had seen psychically. Don’t ask; I was a strange child.

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 09/22/2007 4:55 PM

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Dr. Crowley, Aleister Crowley (Famous occultist, supposedly sold his soul to the devil, Ozzy Osbourne’s “Mr. Crowley”), oh, I get it!

Chestnuts roasted by AccidentalMartyr @ 09/22/2007 6:00 PM

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I’m posting from the woods. A article

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 09/22/2007 7:11 PM

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I’ve been visiting this site for so long, I think it’s about time I posted for once!!!

I agree with others that The RGB had long peaked by the time of this Halloween offering. The first season’s classic “When Halloween Was Forever” is a much better showcase for the series.

For some reason, when that was shown in the UK, I didn’t record it on video, but recorded the audio on cassette. I must’ve listened to that thing like, a hundred times, I knew everyword. I think the tape snapped eventually. (For the record, while the first two seasons or so were repeated ad nauseum in UK-wise, I don’t think we got as far down the series as the episode reviewed here).

There are only a couple of “best of” (ie random) episode compliations on DVD at present, but a couple of TV sites have unofficial, for-private-viewing-only off-air DVD collections if you search around a bit.

Chestnuts roasted by Jay Firestorm @ 09/22/2007 7:25 PM

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