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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!



Discussion Thread: 198 comments

After watching my beloved Bears get slapped around by Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys I decided to catch up on the Fox premieres I DVR’d.

Out of The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Family Guy, I would have to say that KotH definitely was the cream of the crop, IMHO.

Definitely. Definitely. Hmmmm. Definitely

Son. Of. A. Bitch.

OK, I now resume this blog response about thirty minutes later. Reading the word definitely up there reminded me of when I was writing out a dozen or so Thank You cards on Saturday night.

Stupidity is… Spelling the word “definitely” incorrectly on Thank You cards that you are sending to your friends and family. I distinctly remembered writing that word more than once.

Frustration is… Being smart enough to realize, over 24 hours later, that you did misspell the word but not knowing on which cards.

Mega-frustration… Having to open up all of the stamped envelopes to correct the two cards that had the word incorrectly written. Thankfully I was able to salvage all but one stamp since they are stickers, not the old lick/glue kind.

AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH. Shoot me.

BTW, has anyone else done that before? By “that” I mean make a silly little mental error, not catch it while you are doing it, but still discover your mistake long after the fact? I mean it is strange… I spelled the word wrong… didn’t notice… but somehow my brain did take note of it and I eventually caught it. Weird. Where were you on Saturday brain? Where?

Chestnuts roasted by Magic Toy @ 09/24/2007 4:17 AM

Too beat a dead horse, RGB needs to come out in full seasons on DVD. Also, I too have always felt that The real bogeyman (not the one in the halloween special) is the scariest ghost from the show. Again, great article Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Jay @ 09/24/2007 7:54 AM

CMJ I had to do some searching but the episode you mean is “Janine, you’ve changed” and can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ress8SWrCkM

Chestnuts roasted by Primus @ 09/24/2007 10:34 AM

I liked the post-movie opening credits on The Simpsons, I thought that was neat. I hope we’ll be seeing Colin too. As for KotH, I’m just happy to get another season, and that I remembered to DVR it. Family Guy was okay, but I thought the end was the funniest part. For a Star Wars geek, Robot Chicken did a better job. Or maybe I just hate being subjected to that “hilarious” dirty old man character.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/24/2007 10:40 AM

I think one of my favorite episodes of ghostbusters would be “the revenge of murray the mantis”. Ghostbusters was my favorite franchise as a kid, and still is till this day.

Does anyone in here remember the later series, “Extreme Ghost busters”? Most of the early episodes were pretty hokey, but there were alot of good ones, such as where the original ghostbusters have a reunion, and have to team up with the new ones.

Chestnuts roasted by asdfnick @ 09/24/2007 12:50 PM

oops, I failed to read that “extremem ghostbusters” had already been mentioned.

Chestnuts roasted by asdfnick @ 09/24/2007 12:52 PM

I too am a fan of the Samhain Halloween episode…am I wrong in thinking that there was a second Samhain Centric episode? Will have to do some digging around on the Internets to find out. Awesome review Matt…Can’t wait to see what is yet to come!

Chestnuts roasted by Gregor! @ 09/24/2007 1:17 PM

I’m old enough to have watched Filmation’s Ghost Busters way back in the 70′s, and I loved it because it was so corny. Their later cartoon shouldn’t have tried so hard to compete with RealGB, and stayed away from their usual “and a wise-cracking/cutesy side character” that nearly every adventure-type cartoon has been saddled with since the 80′s. Although I liked the skull telephone and the race to answer it before it tries to take a message.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/24/2007 2:06 PM

Does anyone else buy ALL of the yankee candle halloween scents….or is that just me? This year I got purrchouli, boonilla, some licorice scented candles from Wal-mart as well as cream-brulee and buttercream and melted them all together in a jar warmer. It’s a perfect Halloween smell….especially the patchoulli.

Chestnuts roasted by sublimesting @ 09/24/2007 2:12 PM

Yall know that watchin them ghoust busters gives autie may the winds like a tornada in a trailer park. I think it could also be like that ranch beans she likes, but I wanna blame that ghoust busters for this.

Chestnuts roasted by Bubba Joe @ 09/24/2007 5:41 PM

i hope matt’s all right, ..

Chestnuts roasted by oh andrew @ 09/24/2007 5:46 PM

Matt’s probably fine, just loaded with work–

The real Boogeyman episode, not the Halloween special is called “The Boogeyman Cometh” and the character is something like a Chicago-style Mobster. Is that correct?
Anyway, for my money, one of the scariest ghosts was the Sandman! He has this raspy voice that was just creepy!

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 09/24/2007 5:59 PM

anyone else love are you afraid of the dark? – the episodes with the original cast. suchhhh a good show!

Chestnuts roasted by oh andrew @ 09/24/2007 6:05 PM

yeah, I used to watch that show when it was part of SNICK- Big Orange Couch style

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 09/24/2007 6:45 PM

Mmm I used to have this big Chocolate cake every Saturday. Called it SNICK cake. Shit those were good times.

Matt’s fine, I sent him an e-mail and he shot me back one last night. Like Joker said probably loaded with work.

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 09/24/2007 7:02 PM

PS- Everyone has to see the movie “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon”
It’s a mockumentary about a Slasher ala Michael Myers, Jason, etc. It is funny as hell- If you’re a fan of that Halloween stuff, you might like it ;)
(sorry bout the double)

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 09/24/2007 7:03 PM

No need to thank me, your so deemed “double post” is now a “post”.

I’ll have to look into the movie. I’ve gotta admit, the first thing I thought of when I saw the title was the Alice Cooper song. You know the one.

Yeah, but he’s baaack. He’s the maaaan behiiiind the mask!

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 09/24/2007 7:08 PM

Behind the Mask is a great movie…weird, and hard to tell what is supposed to be funny or not, but a great movie.

Chestnuts roasted by Shuanfu @ 09/24/2007 7:25 PM

After all this, I’m going to be spending some considerable time on You Tube checking out some of these episodes. I noticed some of them are in their entirety, just split up into several parts. I second all the sentiments that I wish the the seasons would be completely released, instead of these themed collections they keep putting out.

Yeah, I’ve heard good things too about the “Behind the Mask” movie. It’s supposed to have a lot of genre stars in it, like Robert Englund and Kane Hodder and such.

I saw some really cool stuff at Walgreens yesterday. They had the hanging puppet deals that Matt wrote about a few articles ago, as well as the plastic glasses and goblets and things that seem to come around every year that I always say I’m going to get but never do (but that changes this year, dammit!). But the coolest was, get this…shot glasses featuring Freddy, Jason, and Leatherface. They came in packs of 2, one pack for each guy, and each pack was only $2.99. On one side you had the killer’s head popping out you all in 3D, and the other side had a cool graphic saying “Friday the 13th” or what have you. Yeah, that’s going on the shopping list when I finally do my big Halloween shopping spree in a couple of weeks.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/24/2007 7:36 PM

Am I the only one here who noticed that the singing bad guy here is NOT the Boogeyman? The Boogeyman made a few appearances in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, but this is NOT him! This character is called Boogaloo and the song he’s singing is “Boogaloo’s Back in Town” NOT “Bogeyman’s Back in Town”. It’s rare that Matt overlooks stuff like this from 80′s cartoons, but I guess I’m just a bigger geek than he is.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike D. @ 09/24/2007 7:40 PM

Chibi, thank you for that movie link you posted way up at the top of the page, it was awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by the Gripp @ 09/24/2007 7:41 PM

Just thought I’d scare some Halloweeny scans from a Batman Beyond comic I found on scans_daily:

http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/2578815.html#cutid1

The plot: It’s Halloween night, and the demon Etrigan is free to run wild in Gotham. Future Batman is following him around to keep the carnage to a minimum.

Chestnuts roasted by TB Tabby @ 09/24/2007 7:57 PM

anyone else see the episode of RGB where they were turned into cartoons (no change in appearance, though)?

Chestnuts roasted by lumpling @ 09/24/2007 8:35 PM

My bad. He totally is saying “Boogaloo.” I’ve spent the past week spreading false information about the name of a monster in an old RGB cartoon…the only solution is BLOOD ATONEMENT.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/24/2007 8:42 PM

Boogaloo? I liked him better when he was the Boogeyman! an official big bad!
Can’t take him seriously anymore now that he is some made up guy named Boogaloo.

Right now I’m watching the creepy movie that Chibi posted a link to.

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 09/24/2007 9:15 PM

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