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09/21/2007: “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.

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Never dissapoint Kneg, never dissapoint.

Ghosted by Bill @ 09/23/2007 1:11 AM EDT

Wait– Fresh Prince Halloween? I am SO there. When is it, 12:00?

Ghosted by AccidentalMartyr @ 09/23/2007 1:15 AM EDT

Man, I wish this was official SNT. Just isn’t the same without the official blog post with some sort of witty heading of sorts. Eh, I guess this is okay.

Ghosted by AccidentalMartyr @ 09/23/2007 1:18 AM EDT

Hello? Anybody home?

Ghosted by AccidentalMartyr @ 09/23/2007 1:28 AM EDT

I am still here, AM, I am still here.

Not the one you’re looking for, you say?

Well darling, that’s the story of my life.

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/23/2007 1:36 AM EDT

Touche.

Ghosted by AccidentalMartyr @ 09/23/2007 1:38 AM EDT

I’m out. Futurama & SNL (or Home Movies) for me. Fun time!

Ghosted by AccidentalMartyr @ 09/23/2007 2:00 AM EDT

Oh how I loved The Real Ghostbusters. I forgot how much the characters’ voices matched the voices of the original actors. Ol’ whats-his-face did a bang up job imitating Bill Murray.

Every instance of “RGB” in the article only made me think of “RGB as in “red blue green”. That’s what I get for being such a geek.

Holy crap, my Wal-Mart had suck in the area of Halloweeny stuff. I did however notice that they moved the Halloween stuff to another area and replaced it with Christmas stuff. I mumbled to myself “It’s freakin’ September.”

Ghosted by Justin @ 09/23/2007 2:08 AM EDT

Yeah, at my Rite-Aid, there was a fucking Christmas section! And to add insult to injury, it was right next to the Halloween shit! The fuck!

Aw well, I’ll be happy about it in a couple months.

Ghosted by Cotter @ 09/23/2007 2:10 AM EDT

OMG Home Movies, one of the best cartoons that a lot of people have never heard of. I freakin love Coach McGuirk.

Ghosted by Crazy_Mainer @ 09/23/2007 3:12 AM EDT

I haven’t watched this show in years, and just recently noticed a slight anime style to the drawings. Maybe it’s just cause I’ve gotten into anime in the last few years, but there were several Japanese names in the credits, and like Inspector Gadget (which had a very apparent Japanese look), apparently it was another DIC production.

It sure was well-written and intelligent for a kids’ show. A little risque at times too… There was another episode with a crazy guy who hated chickens and made a deal with a demon to banish them from earth. The Ghostbusters go to a librarian from whom the guy checked out occult books, and the librarian gives Egon her address. Egon asks if she knows anything about chicken or something like that, and she replies, “I could get you some.” Hmmm…

Ghosted by The Real Andrew @ 09/23/2007 3:20 AM EDT

I’m pretty sure it was DIC. There was a point earlier in the DIC programs where after the credits all rolled, they showed the DIC logo and you hear a kid’s voice say “DIC”. Weird stuff.

Super Mario Bros. show was also a DIC production! Wheee!

Ghosted by Justin @ 09/23/2007 3:24 AM EDT

Cool… I didn’t realize X-E’s SNT was big enough for it’s own urban dictionary entry, but apparently so….

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snt

Of course this may have been noted in an earlier comment somewhere but heck if I am digging through all these posts.

Ghosted by MessiahRp @ 09/23/2007 4:08 AM EDT

Egon is blonde mostly due to the fact that the cartoon didn’t have the rights to the visual appearances of the movie stars. Hence things like making Ray plump and ginger!

There was a story in the UK RGB comics where, shortly after the events of the first movie, some spores Egon was growing had a bad effect on him,and turned his movie-style hair into the punked-up blonde of the cartoon series.

Ghosted by Jay Firestorm @ 09/23/2007 8:14 AM EDT

Your story makes much more sense Jay Firestorm, but for some reason when I was a little kid I always thought it was because the people who made the show thought we’d be too dumb to tell them apart if they all had dark hair.

Ghosted by Jasmine @ 09/23/2007 9:13 AM EDT

I have a bootleg copy of the first season of Real Ghostbusters, last night I watched the Halloween episode called “When Halloween was Forever”. It’s about the evil ghost SamHain escaping imprisonment on Halloween and attempting to magically make the night last eternity.
The cool thing is, SamHain looks exactly the The Great Pumpkin, or a lot like I imagined the Great Pumpkin would look.

Ghosted by Joker @ 09/23/2007 11:54 AM EDT

But I thought the Great Pumpkin was good, not eeeeeevil. (Did anyone else think Samhaine also sounded like he had a Japanese accent?)

Ghosted by The Real Andrew @ 09/23/2007 12:55 PM EDT

That’s an interesting bit about why Egon’s hair was blond and “tunelly” looking, Jay Firetsorm. It reminds me of something. Remember how Janine looked a bit different each season? Sometimes she had more punkish hair, and and her glasses changed. Well, I remember that one of the later season shows had Egon follow her on this one day of the year that she always disappeared (maybe her birthday?) and found out she talked to a huge ghost that came out of the Hudson river, and made a deal with her to change her appearance. Something like that!

Ghosted by CMJ @ 09/23/2007 1:41 PM EDT

Danny Man:

Hadent seen that episode in years! thanks for that

Ghosted by mjgrass @ 09/23/2007 2:23 PM EDT

CMJ Wow, that’s pretty cool. I love it when they do stuff like that to explain little details. Yeah, I too used to wonder why none of the characters looked at all like their movie counterparts. Well, Egon did a little, except for the hair thing.

By the way, I’m at my new job as I type this, grossly misusing company resources. But, there’s nothing to do and since everyone else is either playing video games, reading online comics, or generally sitting around talking about nothing, I don’t think this will be too much a violation. I’m just glad I’m finally at a job that allows me to do my X-E postings at work. Makes coming to work a lot more enjoyable.

Ghosted by DJ D @ 09/23/2007 2:56 PM EDT

Sorry for the potential double post, but I just had to mention this. I just went back and watched the little clips and does anyone else notice that they kind of milked Winston’s “token” status for all it was worth? He seemed to get all the prime singing parts in the musical number, did a little more dancing and generally had a lot more soul than everyone else.

And did I just watch the Boogyman do the Moonwalk? Did that just happen?

Ghosted by DJ D @ 09/23/2007 3:10 PM EDT

Sorry I missed SNT (sort of). I tried posting last night, but my messages wouldn’t appear. In fact I don’t even know if this will go through.

Anyway, thanks for the Danny Man.

Ghosted by Magic Toy @ 09/23/2007 5:42 PM EDT

Manimal: Don’t forget to watch “The War” on PBS tonight!

Ghosted by Bill @ 09/23/2007 6:58 PM EDT

fyi i went to headless horseman hayride last night….they were filming for the “travel channel” keep your eyes open. a good time was had by all.

Ghosted by leo @ 09/23/2007 7:00 PM EDT

OMG these are so cool if you ever played the Oregon Trail game on Apple II you have to see this shirt

http://www.thewirelesscatalog.com/wireless/Item_The-Oregon-Trail-Shirts_VE9662G_ps_dpr.html

Ghosted by Goob @ 09/23/2007 7:58 PM EDT

Oh man, I loved playing Oregan Trail at school.

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/23/2007 8:08 PM EDT

Hah! That is an unbelievably terrific shirt, Goob. Game day in the computer lab was the best. Especially when you named all your party members after your buddies, and then yelled at them across the room when they got cholera or drowned due to terrible river management.

If you’ve got Firefox and some time to kill, click my name for an Apple II emulator which includes Oregon Trail. Remember to buy plenty of ammo, kids.

Ghosted by Jedoc @ 09/23/2007 8:20 PM EDT

i just spent wayyyy too much money on halloween junk at wal-mart. ugh..

Ghosted by The REAL - real Andrew @ 09/23/2007 8:30 PM EDT

Samhain is the name of an actual evil demon with a pumpkin head? Sound very Jack Chick-ish.

Ghosted by Monte @ 09/23/2007 9:17 PM EDT

Man, I remember being so ticked when I missed this as a kid! Got to find this episode to make up for all the years of shame!

Ghosted by Capt. Struggle Bunny @ 09/23/2007 9:46 PM EDT

Apparently Samhain was a seasonal festival, not an actual god or demon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain

Heh, it’s actually the word for “November” in the Irish Gaelic language.

On another note, in a Christmas episode, the Ghostbusters get transported back to 1830s London in A Christmas Carol, and accidentally suck up the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. So Egon has to actually go inside the container and rescue them, all while dodging Samhain and some other captured ghosts.

Ghosted by The Real Andrew @ 09/23/2007 10:09 PM EDT

I love that episode.
check it out here..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qihweKlTMEQ

Ghosted by JoshC @ 09/23/2007 10:17 PM EDT

yeah, at the end of the episode they allude to Samhain plotting revenge in the containment unit. As if he would be a recurring villain.

Ghosted by Joker @ 09/23/2007 10:27 PM EDT

so…I hope matt is okay…man, it seems every mom and pop ice cream store has pumpkin flavor this year. oh brb…gotta check the taste of the strawberry slime soda now…wow…its actually pretty good! though i have no clue why its called strawberry s’lime with the apostrophe

Ghosted by mandy_pumkin head_Reeves @ 09/23/2007 10:50 PM EDT

mandy

I’m guessing because there’s a lime flavor as well as a strawberry flavor?

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 09/23/2007 11:04 PM EDT

I always figured Janine was working on making Egon over.

Joker – Mr. Sta-Puft was the Destroyer. Gozer was the chick with the flattop covered in soap bubbles.

Ghosted by Moony @ 09/23/2007 11:13 PM EDT

Man, you would have to bring up Oregon Trail. I don’t know about you guys, but at my school if you weren’t a banker from Boston you might as well hang it up right now. You were screwed. Oh, and as far as the river goes–you gotta fork it. Fork it real good.

Ghosted by DJ D @ 09/23/2007 11:37 PM EDT

DJ D

I think you mean Ford the river, right?

Anyway, Oregon Trail saw many many MANY hours of play when I was a kid…Great game that I revisit every now and then..

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 09/23/2007 11:41 PM EDT

Oh Crap, forgot to close the tag. Hope I didn’t screw up the whole blog.

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 09/23/2007 11:45 PM EDT

Leo where is this headless horseman hayride located? Is there actually a Sleepy Hollow? In New York state? Forgive me, I am too lazy to try to research it online…

Ghosted by crazy_mainer @ 09/24/2007 12:00 AM EDT

For those ShowBiz Pizza and Rock-afire Explosion fans out there…. enjoy.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-robotband_bd_23sep23,1,1728285.story

Boy was I shocked to see a photo of Fatz staring back at me when I checked the chicagotribune.com front page this morning. Gotta love it.

Ghosted by Magic Toy @ 09/24/2007 12:03 AM EDT

Does anyone remember the “Ghostbusters” cartoon that didnt have the “real” cast in it? Man did I feel cheated having wasted my time watching those posers on the other show. Ah well, hindsight is 20/20

Ghosted by spectre1979 @ 09/24/2007 12:16 AM EDT

Hey guys, sorry about the lack of a formal SNT. I was gone overnight on Saturday with no access to a computer, though I intended to bring my phone to post it remotely. Forgot my phone. :O

Next Countdown entry will be posted…well, tonight, if we count right now as Monday.

To some of the points mentioned above:

1) I’m a little rusty on this, but the gorilla-boosted “Ghost Busters” cartoon technically wasn’t a rip on the Ghostbusters we know and love. The animated series was based on a live action series from the ’70s (called “Ghost Busters”), but it’s true that there probably wouldn’t have been an animated series if the movie wasn’t such a smash.

2) It’s true that the RGB folks weren’t at liberty to make the Ghostbusters look exactly like their movie counterparts, but count me in as someone else who thinks that Egon went blonde to help differentiate a couple of guys who would’ve more or less looked too similar in animated form.

Also, Kneg, just saw your comment up there…is it Cynthia? I honestly can’t remember. It’s the guy/girl you face right after beating the Elite Four. I kind of knew from past Pokemon games that there would be an extra opponent, but after successfully killing the Elite Four after no less than 50 failed attempts only to get my ass handed to me by the Elite Fifth, I had to put the brakes on for a while.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/24/2007 12:43 AM EDT

yeah heh the computer room in elementary school only had a few of the ‘colored’ screens and plenty of the orange and black or green and black screens. The quickest kids got the colored and bragged the rest of the afternoon.

Hey is anyone watching the Family guy star wars special? Did anyone watch it? I have about 15 mins more left, not a star wars nut but I find it amusing. Makes me want to watch the robot chicken one that I haven’t seen yet.

Ghosted by Goob @ 09/24/2007 12:45 AM EDT

Yeah, because you fight your Rival right before the elite 4, and the only one after them is the league champion, Cynthia.

She’s at the bottom of this page:
http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-elite-four-members

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/24/2007 1:01 AM EDT

Cameron T Yeah, it is Ford. What did I say? It’s getting too late for this…

Oh, and way to screw up the whole blog. Good job.

Ghosted by DJ D @ 09/24/2007 1:10 AM EDT

For Cynthia…she’s a bitch. There’s really no common weakness whatsover between her pokemon, save for Garchomp & Roserade who are both weak to ice.

My advice: Have at least 1 pokemon be as strong or stronger than Cynthia’s Garchomp (level 63) and have a pokemon have an ice attack like Ice beam or you’re pretty screwed. My Empoleon that was around 62 or so had ice beam and was the only one still standing, and managed to kill Roserade only with Ice Beam because Roserade only used Shadow ball and not Energy Ball (what Empoleon was weak against).

I’ve realized that this might be the first 3 members of the Elite 4 had weaknesses to one of the respective starters:

Aaron: Bug types (monferno)
Bertha: Ground Types (torterra)
Flint: Fire Types (empoleon)

Also, Goob, I saw it and thought it was awesome.

Speaking of Robot Chicken, wait until the end. It’s all worth it.

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 09/24/2007 1:13 AM EDT

Family guy was pretty funny. My favorite RGB episode was the one in which they fought the ghosts in the attic that seemed to stretch on forever. That one scared me as a kid.

Ghosted by Purple Tentacle @ 09/24/2007 1:15 AM EDT

yes Invader Norbert yes! I love how Chris ran out of the room crying. Easter egg? Hmmmmm ‘touches chin and ponders’

I tried to play my best on the Oregon Trail game earlier I couldn’t hunt though because everytime I pushed the space bar the screen automatically scrolled to the bottom of the page. Aint that a bitch

Ghosted by Goob @ 09/24/2007 1:25 AM EDT

“You have died of dysentery.” Killer tagline there. There’s also been a Net meme with a picture of the gravestone reading “Here Lies Tony pepperony (sic) and cheese” As in “What do you want on your tombstone”, gettit?

I always took the Barlow Toll Road myself. The river towards the end always scared me.

I think I too remember fighting over the computer with the color screen in the computer room. To think that color screens were considered high-tech…and there wasn’t even really an Internet when I was in 3rd grade (circa 1990). Those were the days…

Ghosted by The Real Andrew @ 09/24/2007 2:02 AM EDT

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