Watch his SheRa video on his main channel Thought Slime! It was my first Slime video I dug into and it was really good. It leans into political analysis and chud hate a bit more but I think it shares a similar aesthetic
Didn't Renegade Cut or someone else make a video about the various problematic aspects of Ghostbusters? Also, that OG ghostbusters cartoon feels like they pulled a lot of elements straight from Scooby-Doo. That talking skull phone whips ass though.
Just from the clips he was showing, it gave the impression of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon more than anything else. Particularly the bizarre chase scene. it seemed like it was straight out of an episode of Scooby-Doo.
I love that the Ghostbusters have scientific proof of human souls and a nightmarish afterlife full of ancient demon gods and no one has any philosophical thoughts about this at all. They're just like "we're going to make a bunch of money! what about our branding? "
@@gapsule2326 I'm fairly sure that making the proton pack safe for large scale manufacturing would prove even more of a legislative nightmare. Unless they were selling to the army, and of course they'd be selling to the army. come to think of it, a sequel where ghosthunting is dealt with by a public facing goverment agency or a large corporation, and members of the original crew (and newcommers) get back into oldschool ghosthunting to recapture the magic of it, could be a nice premise. Also, could invite nice meta-commentary on the evolution of blockbuster moviemaking.
I was once involved in a copyright case for a subtitle I did (English to Swedish) for a major motion picture. The motion picture studio (we can call them 1900s Vulpine) had used the sub on the DVD release, changed it without my permission, and not given me proper writing credit (all three breaches of copyright under Swedish law). They had earlier tried - after the work was done and the film had premiered in theaters - to force me to sign what in Sweden is an extremely illegal contract; signing away my intellectual property rights to the subtitle. I had told them to fuck off in no uncertain terms, and that with this maneuver, they had just made sure that they had absolutely no right to use the sub on anything but the theatrical release. This was at the same time as this particular company was one of the co-claimants in the case against The Pirate Bay, which was supposedly all about the sanctity of copyright. Yet they had violated my copyright in three instances, and tried to get me to agree to an illegal contract. Naively, I thought it would be a slam dunk for me. It never lead to anything, partly because my union at the time were wimps *and* didn't really understand the case, but mostly because the studio had All The Money in the World (TM). TL;DR: Big companies bad.
I love everything about this channel but i **really** love the little intro with the jingle. Idk how many people agree with me but i just like the little tune. It's great
It’s straight 80s horror synth, and it packs minutes of identity into essential seconds. Matt, who composed that bit, anyway? EDIT: Nevermind, because he linked it in the video description, citing Intellectual Dark Web. My, it’s so simple and collaborative to just remember your peers, so-many-other-channels, innit?
To be fair, ths theme song is hella catchy. I randomy remembered the Filmation Ghostbusters a few years ago and searched that theme song on yt here to download it :D
I remember back in 2009 when I and my friend found out M. Night Shyamalan was directing a movie based on Avatar: the Last Airbender. We googled "Avatar movie trailer," saw a bunch of blue cat aliens, and agreed that it was a very Shyamalan-esque creative choice.
There was only one* dinosaur roaming the earth when we were kids. Denver (The Last Dinosaur). Note: Dinosaucers do not count because they are not even from here.
The Rambo cartoon is amazing. It's indirectly, unavoidably about US imperialism, and Rambo blows up a bunch of stuff just like in the movies, but he's not allowed to kill anyone, so they always show the south americans and russians in the tanks and barracks escaping just before the explosion. The 80s were a fuckin mess.
They should reboot The Ghost Busters, with an all female human cast (Tracy remains unchanged). Fun fact! When you Google for "The Ghost Busters", they auto-correct you to the Columbia/Sony property "The Ghostbusters", and you have to tell them "No, I meant the thing I typed".
The Toxic Avenger cartoon still blows my mind. I loved it having never heard of Troma or the movie then, one fateful day, I see it in my video store. My mom thinks "Based off a cartoon, what is the worst that could happen?" We watched it together and to day she shit bricks would be an understatement. She shit the whole Pyramid of Giza.
The real Ghost Busters was great. But I have a nostalgic love of the Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon. It’s designs were so weird and fun, even if the plots were brain melting.
We only ever had The Real Ghostbusters on TV in my area, but I once visited a cousin a good ways away and was deeply confused when they had the Gorilla-Flavored one on tape.
Wow! I had completely forgotten the Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon, but the little clip brought it back. My friends and I were a little obsessed with "The Real Ghostbusters". The episode with the boogeyman freaked my friend's little sister out so bad we had to tell her very nice happy non-scary stories so she could fall asleep.
Seeing as how you mentioned not being able to play even a snippet of the Ghostbusters theme to avoid a copyright strike, I think it's worth mentioning that Ray Parker Jr (or maybe his record label) was sued for copyright infringement by Huey Lewis because it's essentially a retread of I Want A New Drug. Lewis had originally been approached to do the theme song, and declined, so they just produced a song that sounded pretty much exactly like one of his songs. They settled out of court. So yeah...
For some reason the Filmation cartoon was the one I kept running into, as a young child with no understanding of TV scheduling blocks. I have forgotten most things about it, but experience moments of recognition whenever it shows up again.
I thought the Filmmation Ghostbusters was a fever dream I had as a kid until a few years ago. I really enjoy it though, some of the background art is really amazing. I love weird looking cartoons.
I have a real fondness for Filmation's Ghostbusters. I remember having at least one two toys from it, I think of the two main guys (What were their names? Jake and Tracy? Or was Tracy the gorilla?). I remember loving Futura and her little flying scooter and how she always wore a headset for no real reason. I loved their Speed Buggy-ass talking car. I also loved Prime Evil, the cyber-Skeletor with his rogue's gallery of henchmen. I remember an episode where he's playing Go Fish with them and it's the funniest scene ever. He's like "Golden robot that looks like an even wimpier version of C-3PO. Do you have any twos?" He looks around nervous, gulps nervously, and finally croaks out, "G-G-Go f-f-f-fish!" He strikes back, insulted, "How dare you speak to me like that, you miserable worm!" and shocks his circuits something real bad. More villains flood the room, note that the Ghostbusters have been cited, and one of the goons at the table starts up like "I'll prepare the trap for them!" Prime Evil is enthusiastic, and says something like, "Excellent! But first... give me your twoooooos..." I don't know why, but the comedic timing on it has always made me laugh. I had VHS tapes of it (All them cheap pieces of shit that played in EP/SLP mode), and I eventually even found both volumes of it on DVD, which, after encoding them to my computer I found was... a LOT of content for a show I thought disappeared after one season. I think there's, like, 80 episodes of it. Maybe more. And I don't mean 80 episodes like modern Cartoon Network or even old Garfield and Friends where each one runs somewhere between 6-12 minutes, but full 30 minute episodes, maybe only slightly less because, surprising no one, commercial breaks weren't as long back then as they are now. Not to mention the amount of reused animation. The whole transformation scene when they get suited up and get into the car sometimes got cut down, but I had to see that dude get kicked around in his boxers so goddamn much. I tried to watch through all of it and bailed somewhere in the first DVD set. Still have a soft spot for it. More so than The Real Ghostbusters, but that might be because the only episodes I can remember of it are "Knock Knock" with the doomsday door, and a much later episode when it became "The Real Ghostbusters and Slimer" where Slimer takes in a black cat that fell off a witch's broom that unknowingly grants his wishes when he pets it. I remember that show looking way more anime than I remember upon revisiting it, and never really knowing what to make of Egon's hair. Like, what was with his hair. It got turned into this weird, curly pompadour thing that, don't get me wrong, was fresh as hell, but if you hold up a picture of movie Egon from either GB 1 or 2 next to cartoon Egon, there's no way you're going to say "Oh, yeah, that's the same character." Yet, back then, it made sense to me as a child. I still don't know why. Why was he blonde?
Stoned out of my mind, this was the most clickable title you could've given this episode. It doesn't even matter what's actually in it, the title alone is worth the added SEO of my engagement.
OMG, I had TOYS from the "other" Ghostbusters and I had no idea where it came from. Probably my parents being confused by the name while shopping at Toys'R'Us. Now everything makes sense...
I am actually a much bigger fan of the Ghostbusters cartoon than the movies. And I loved the Filmation version as well because I was 5 or 6 and it was a horror cartoon and I just didn't really have any taste back then. Well you are the REAL Scardy Cat to me.
It made me happy when you said you only wanted to see Egon in adventures. Growing up with many VHS tapes of the Real Ghostbusters, Egon was my hero and I picked out red glasses frames to look like the cartoon version.
I was in kind of a similar situation as a Canadian kid when the two cartoons were airing: I thought the Filmation cartoon was a super early version of the franchise, and straight up didn't realize the two human characters in that cartoon weren't just early versions of Ray and Peter. Apparently three year old me understoof the idea of franchise reboots and updates, but wasn't smart enough to notice characters had different names between the two shows.
My grandparents used to do the whole winter here spring and summer in Florida thing, and I vividly remember one year they brought me and my brother a bunch of merch, he got all real ghostbusters stuff and I got all Alf stuff. That ghostbusters towel haunts my dreams still.
I remember the cartoon had this horrible ghost in a subway and it was genuinely terrifying. I thought I was a brave kid. I mean, I watched Alien 3 and wasn't scared. But that subway ghost...
"the real" Ghostbusters also had issues with their theme song, being a pretty blatant reworking of a Huey Lewis song. Surprised this wasn't mentioned as it lumps in with the notion of "we're more successful despite the surface branding being largely stolen from others." Also, this will always be my OG Scaredy Cats.
I love how excited all your fans are to present you with the idea of calling this the real scaredy cats as if you hadn't already done that in your twitter thread
This is when my love of Defunctland comes into play. I get to be the cool hipster who already heard of the “other” Ghostbusters. Also, such a strange combo of channels to love, but I am not surprised given how lovely both of the hosts are. 💙
OMG!🤯😱 I remember that OTHER Ghostbusters! I haven't thought about it in forever, but the MOMENT I saw that logo, it was like a whole corner of my mind turned on for the first time
I liked the dodgy low budget earlier one as a kid. I didn't know any of the details about why it didn't match the movie and when the 'real' Ghostbusters one made it to my tv I didn't find it as interesting. As I recall it aggravated me that they had Slimer as a pet/little buddy. I was a weird kid. But it was nice hearing you talk about them a little. Or at least remind me that the show existed.
I watched both cartoons as a child and would fantasize about one troupe of ghostbusters meeting the others and having adventures together...Decades later, I learned that this is called fanfiction XD
I remember both of those cartoons, and having similar confusions. I recall enjoying them both on their own merits. The Filmation one did feel like a throwback, but something in the ambience was really appealing. This reminds me of a conversation I had on Twitter with a fairly successful and well-established indie creator, who was upset that a small indie production was "stealing the IP" of a CBS character by doing stories in comic book format. He got really upset when I was like, "Dude, that one rando can't _steal_ that IP. CBS will never not own it, both legally and in the public consciousness." He could not wrap his head around the power dynamics, and saw himself in role of CBS while also being a beleaguered underdog. It was... deeply surreal, but also beautifully illustrative of the American entrepreneurial mindset.
For some odd reason the weird Ghostbusters-with-the-Gorilla cartoon was actually pretty popular here in Italy when I was a kid! I probably still have their car somewhere, haha
remember the carnie dog demon that gets entangled with a the actual bad demon, after taking shit for being a demon the whole episode, when he was just a really good boi all along.... it made me cry it was so sad
YTV was always weird with it's gets. Like I watched it and Teletoon growing up in the 2000s. For some reason, Teletoon (basically the Canadian Cartoon Network) got all of the CN shows except for Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab, which aired on YTV. Like, I would have assumed these shows came bundled together, being on the same network and all.
I never knew there was a live action Ghostbusters that the Filmation cartoon was based on. that's a cool little tidbit. I definitely remember the cartoon and always thought their car and weird bone elevator was incredibly badass. still, it holds onto all those Hannah Barbara style cartoon techniques that its truly painful to watch. I like that the transformation sequence is the only part with effort put in since it could be used on every episode.
I was never too fond on the live action The Ghost Busters show, but I always really enjoyed its animated spinoff. I even have some of it on laserdisc. However I have been ride or die about Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters (at least until Q5 ruined it) since I was two years old. I still remember completely gearing up in my Ghostbusters toys and jumpsuit to go to my local radio station and celebrate the release of Ghostbusters 2.
Seeing clips of the original Filmation Ghostbusters really hit a lot of nostalgia buttons, so I must have watched at least some of it, at some point. But I can't for the life of me remember when that might have been. I'm old.
A genuinely good video that happens to touch on an issue in your own channel... bravo Matt. Its almost like you're creative and the corporate shills are an embarrassment.
I kind of love the Filmation series. They had more varied weapons, the bad guys had more character (rather than the more generic one and done threats), it had charms that were its own and it should be appreciated on that level.
Ghostbusters was my first love - both of them. My introduction to Ghostbusters was the Filmation cartoon, but I was quickly converted over to "The Real Ghostbusters" by the lack of corresponding toys based on the other, and my desire for said toys. And even though I knew most everything in this video, I really enjoyed your analysis of it anyway. Both Ghostbusters hold a special place in my heart, even though the Filmation cartoon did indeed suck by comparison.
This confused me as a kid too. The opening to the filmation Ghostbusters is the best part. It is never able to capture the villain magic of their own shows. And yeah, the boogeyman on rgb is really spooky. That episode could have easily been the script for a third movie.
robocop: existential crisis the kids show rambo: this machinegun is full of love and honor toxic crusaders: nope. i love that show as much as the movie franchise it's based on.
The one that probably shouldn't have been adapted into a kids cartoon I most fondly remember (and was banned from watching on account of the cartoon giving me nightmares) being Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I probably should watch some of the films it's based on some time, come to think of it.
You should start calling this "The Real Scaredy Cats".
Lol fucking yes
I second this. I actually thought the video would end with that exact announcement.
LMAO. Thank you for that. I love it.
I think Matt's twitter handle for this channel was changed to that!
Arent the real scardey cats just the friends you met a long the way
Okay, new alternative name idea:
The Real Scaredy Cats
Lol fucking yes
Camille Playswithsquirrels How about “The OG Scaredy Cats”
Scaredy Matt's Original Scaredy Cats
The Original Scaredy Cats with Scaredy Matt
Scaredy Cats: Original Recipe (eyeballs not included)
Lawsuit Cats
I got one better:
Extreme Scaredy Cats
Holy crap
I like this combination of political/economic analysis and fanboying over scary stuff.
Watch his SheRa video on his main channel Thought Slime! It was my first Slime video I dug into and it was really good. It leans into political analysis and chud hate a bit more but I think it shares a similar aesthetic
Gateaux Q i love that video so much
@@gateauxq4604 Seconded, that video is really good analysis of the new She-ra cartoon and the online reaction to the shows creation.
"My good friend and role model Slimer"
Makes you think. Makes you think about eyeballs.
BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BUSTIN', BU-BU-BUSTIN'!
I AIN'T AFRAID OF NO- SLEEP
I AIN'T AFRAID OF NO- BED
Lemme tell you somethin'
BUSTIN' MAKES ME FEEL GOOD!
AN INVISIBLE BED
A- FREAKY GHOST BED
Bustin' to the east! Bustin' to the west!
Oh, wait nm
Didn't Renegade Cut or someone else make a video about the various problematic aspects of Ghostbusters?
Also, that OG ghostbusters cartoon feels like they pulled a lot of elements straight from Scooby-Doo. That talking skull phone whips ass though.
Just from the clips he was showing, it gave the impression of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon more than anything else. Particularly the bizarre chase scene. it seemed like it was straight out of an episode of Scooby-Doo.
Seosamh Wray came to say this exactly yes
@@Japaneseanimeguy yeah and that shot of a character jumping into the arms of the animal sidekick
I own a full layer of animation cells from the gorilla Ghostbusters. I'm not sure why but it's framed and preserved.
The Sacred Text...
The prophecy
Legitimately rad.
If people didn't want copyright laws to be solely to the benefit of huge corporations, they shouldn't have become peasants.
I love that the Ghostbusters have scientific proof of human souls and a nightmarish afterlife full of ancient demon gods and no one has any philosophical thoughts about this at all. They're just like "we're going to make a bunch of money! what about our branding? "
Also selling their power pack would make more money than they could ever make ghost busting.
@@gapsule2326 I'm fairly sure that making the proton pack safe for large scale manufacturing would prove even more of a legislative nightmare.
Unless they were selling to the army, and of course they'd be selling to the army.
come to think of it, a sequel where ghosthunting is dealt with by a public facing goverment agency or a large corporation, and members of the original crew (and newcommers) get back into oldschool ghosthunting to recapture the magic of it, could be a nice premise.
Also, could invite nice meta-commentary on the evolution of blockbuster moviemaking.
Peak capitalism.
Ghostbusters has a truly ludicrous premise: Reganomics works, also something about not being afraid of ghosts
Since I haven’t seen it since I was a kid, didn’t realize, but yuup.
I was once involved in a copyright case for a subtitle I did (English to Swedish) for a major motion picture. The motion picture studio (we can call them 1900s Vulpine) had used the sub on the DVD release, changed it without my permission, and not given me proper writing credit (all three breaches of copyright under Swedish law). They had earlier tried - after the work was done and the film had premiered in theaters - to force me to sign what in Sweden is an extremely illegal contract; signing away my intellectual property rights to the subtitle.
I had told them to fuck off in no uncertain terms, and that with this maneuver, they had just made sure that they had absolutely no right to use the sub on anything but the theatrical release.
This was at the same time as this particular company was one of the co-claimants in the case against The Pirate Bay, which was supposedly all about the sanctity of copyright. Yet they had violated my copyright in three instances, and tried to get me to agree to an illegal contract.
Naively, I thought it would be a slam dunk for me. It never lead to anything, partly because my union at the time were wimps *and* didn't really understand the case, but mostly because the studio had All The Money in the World (TM).
TL;DR: Big companies bad.
I love everything about this channel but i **really** love the little intro with the jingle. Idk how many people agree with me but i just like the little tune. It's great
Oh yeah it's awesome!
It’s straight 80s horror synth, and it packs minutes of identity into essential seconds. Matt, who composed that bit, anyway?
EDIT: Nevermind, because he linked it in the video description, citing Intellectual Dark Web. My, it’s so simple and collaborative to just remember your peers, so-many-other-channels, innit?
yup. i love it.
Dies Irae
I love it!
Maybe 'Scaredy Cats with Scaredy Matt'? It leverages your existing branding, and it is easy to remember
"Let's go, Ghostbusters" is now somehow stuck in my head
To be fair, ths theme song is hella catchy. I randomy remembered the Filmation Ghostbusters a few years ago and searched that theme song on yt here to download it :D
Same, and I like it 1,000x better than the other one's earworm.
It's disturbingly good for what it is
Hey Scaredy Cashews, it's Scaredy Matthew
The Filmation Ghostbuster seems like a weird Scooby Doo knockoff
New channel name proposals:
"The Real Scaredy Cats"
"The Legally Distinct Scaredy Cats"
Dic, creators of the cartoon of an orange cat from a newspaper comic: Heathcliff
googling it the heathcliff comic seems to predate that other orange cat by ~3 years
@@eoghainam Heathcliff is a very different comic than garfield though. They really have nothing in common except color.
I remember back in 2009 when I and my friend found out M. Night Shyamalan was directing a movie based on Avatar: the Last Airbender. We googled "Avatar movie trailer," saw a bunch of blue cat aliens, and agreed that it was a very Shyamalan-esque creative choice.
I wonder what inspired this video.
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I sure love *The Real* Scaredy Cats.
It’s a mystery! 😉
So you're changing your channel name to Ghostbusters? Bold move!
My god Scaredy-Matt you make the 80’s & 90’s sound like the Middle Ages and I’m thinking oh shit I grew up in the 60’s & 70’s.
There was only one* dinosaur roaming the earth when we were kids. Denver (The Last Dinosaur).
Note: Dinosaucers do not count because they are not even from here.
Yeah, those guys were some new friends... from out of town!
Denver wasn't just my friend, he was a whole lot more.
@@ScaredyCatsTV I guess the furries (scalies?) went wild on that one!
Yeah, I wouldn't count Dino from Flintstone Kids either. The Captain Caveman... and Son shorts were fun, at least.
So, are we sticking to Scaredy Cats, then? Hell yeah, King.
The Rambo cartoon is amazing. It's indirectly, unavoidably about US imperialism, and Rambo blows up a bunch of stuff just like in the movies, but he's not allowed to kill anyone, so they always show the south americans and russians in the tanks and barracks escaping just before the explosion. The 80s were a fuckin mess.
They should reboot The Ghost Busters, with an all female human cast (Tracy remains unchanged).
Fun fact! When you Google for "The Ghost Busters", they auto-correct you to the Columbia/Sony property "The Ghostbusters", and you have to tell them "No, I meant the thing I typed".
The Real Scaredy Cats.
Damn. I didn't know Filmation's Ghostbusters exists in the Scooby-Doo Universe! All that's missing is the Mystery Van!
Shoutout to Extreme Ghostbusters
though. Better representation for disabled people and POC than most modern kids shows.
This may just be but the soundtrack for that filmation Ghostbusters is dope af
Oh A show about shows using the same name! I wonder if this is going to connect wi-
2:40
-Yep. Nice tie in mate
The Toxic Avenger cartoon still blows my mind. I loved it having never heard of Troma or the movie then, one fateful day, I see it in my video store. My mom thinks "Based off a cartoon, what is the worst that could happen?" We watched it together and to day she shit bricks would be an understatement. She shit the whole Pyramid of Giza.
The real Ghost Busters was great. But I have a nostalgic love of the Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon. It’s designs were so weird and fun, even if the plots were brain melting.
We only ever had The Real Ghostbusters on TV in my area, but I once visited a cousin a good ways away and was deeply confused when they had the Gorilla-Flavored one on tape.
Wow! I had completely forgotten the Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon, but the little clip brought it back. My friends and I were a little obsessed with "The Real Ghostbusters". The episode with the boogeyman freaked my friend's little sister out so bad we had to tell her very nice happy non-scary stories so she could fall asleep.
As a matter of fact, some of J. Michael Straczynski's earlier credits include writing for both He-Man and She-Ra for Filmation!
Did I just watch a gorilla experience a microaggression?
I feed this to my eyeballs, I link it to my friend's eyeballs. All Hail Lord Oculon.
The Filmation Ghostbusters clip reminded me a lot of Scooby-Doo.
Like, original 1969 series Scooby-Doo.
There was A Thing in the 70s/80s of a shit ton of cartoons that were just Scooby Doo knock offs
It looks like scoobidoo featuring robot skeletor as the villain.
Seeing as how you mentioned not being able to play even a snippet of the Ghostbusters theme to avoid a copyright strike, I think it's worth mentioning that Ray Parker Jr (or maybe his record label) was sued for copyright infringement by Huey Lewis because it's essentially a retread of I Want A New Drug. Lewis had originally been approached to do the theme song, and declined, so they just produced a song that sounded pretty much exactly like one of his songs. They settled out of court. So yeah...
I’m glad that I’m not the only 35 year old man still concerned with nightmares about that godforsaken boogeyman.
Poor Matt :(
For some reason the Filmation cartoon was the one I kept running into, as a young child with no understanding of TV scheduling blocks. I have forgotten most things about it, but experience moments of recognition whenever it shows up again.
I thought the Filmmation Ghostbusters was a fever dream I had as a kid until a few years ago. I really enjoy it though, some of the background art is really amazing. I love weird looking cartoons.
I have a real fondness for Filmation's Ghostbusters. I remember having at least one two toys from it, I think of the two main guys (What were their names? Jake and Tracy? Or was Tracy the gorilla?). I remember loving Futura and her little flying scooter and how she always wore a headset for no real reason. I loved their Speed Buggy-ass talking car. I also loved Prime Evil, the cyber-Skeletor with his rogue's gallery of henchmen. I remember an episode where he's playing Go Fish with them and it's the funniest scene ever. He's like "Golden robot that looks like an even wimpier version of C-3PO. Do you have any twos?" He looks around nervous, gulps nervously, and finally croaks out, "G-G-Go f-f-f-fish!" He strikes back, insulted, "How dare you speak to me like that, you miserable worm!" and shocks his circuits something real bad. More villains flood the room, note that the Ghostbusters have been cited, and one of the goons at the table starts up like "I'll prepare the trap for them!" Prime Evil is enthusiastic, and says something like, "Excellent! But first... give me your twoooooos..."
I don't know why, but the comedic timing on it has always made me laugh. I had VHS tapes of it (All them cheap pieces of shit that played in EP/SLP mode), and I eventually even found both volumes of it on DVD, which, after encoding them to my computer I found was... a LOT of content for a show I thought disappeared after one season. I think there's, like, 80 episodes of it. Maybe more. And I don't mean 80 episodes like modern Cartoon Network or even old Garfield and Friends where each one runs somewhere between 6-12 minutes, but full 30 minute episodes, maybe only slightly less because, surprising no one, commercial breaks weren't as long back then as they are now. Not to mention the amount of reused animation. The whole transformation scene when they get suited up and get into the car sometimes got cut down, but I had to see that dude get kicked around in his boxers so goddamn much. I tried to watch through all of it and bailed somewhere in the first DVD set.
Still have a soft spot for it. More so than The Real Ghostbusters, but that might be because the only episodes I can remember of it are "Knock Knock" with the doomsday door, and a much later episode when it became "The Real Ghostbusters and Slimer" where Slimer takes in a black cat that fell off a witch's broom that unknowingly grants his wishes when he pets it. I remember that show looking way more anime than I remember upon revisiting it, and never really knowing what to make of Egon's hair. Like, what was with his hair. It got turned into this weird, curly pompadour thing that, don't get me wrong, was fresh as hell, but if you hold up a picture of movie Egon from either GB 1 or 2 next to cartoon Egon, there's no way you're going to say "Oh, yeah, that's the same character." Yet, back then, it made sense to me as a child. I still don't know why. Why was he blonde?
The Filmation one looks hella cool though. Love the surrealism.
Stoned out of my mind, this was the most clickable title you could've given this episode. It doesn't even matter what's actually in it, the title alone is worth the added SEO of my engagement.
Not 'doesn't matter', but is a bonus. Poor wording from stoned girl eating crisps.
OMG, I had TOYS from the "other" Ghostbusters and I had no idea where it came from. Probably my parents being confused by the name while shopping at Toys'R'Us.
Now everything makes sense...
If you need sound effects for the robot arm in your cartoon, just use a fishing rod reel sound. Thats robot sounds!
I am actually a much bigger fan of the Ghostbusters cartoon than the movies.
And I loved the Filmation version as well because I was 5 or 6 and it was a horror cartoon and I just didn't really have any taste back then.
Well you are the REAL Scardy Cat to me.
It made me happy when you said you only wanted to see Egon in adventures. Growing up with many VHS tapes of the Real Ghostbusters, Egon was my hero and I picked out red glasses frames to look like the cartoon version.
I was in kind of a similar situation as a Canadian kid when the two cartoons were airing: I thought the Filmation cartoon was a super early version of the franchise, and straight up didn't realize the two human characters in that cartoon weren't just early versions of Ray and Peter. Apparently three year old me understoof the idea of franchise reboots and updates, but wasn't smart enough to notice characters had different names between the two shows.
Baby Scaredy Matt was adorable.
Theres an invisible man
And hes in your bed.
FREAKIN GHOST BED
My grandparents used to do the whole winter here spring and summer in Florida thing, and I vividly remember one year they brought me and my brother a bunch of merch, he got all real ghostbusters stuff and I got all Alf stuff. That ghostbusters towel haunts my dreams still.
I remember the cartoon had this horrible ghost in a subway and it was genuinely terrifying. I thought I was a brave kid. I mean, I watched Alien 3 and wasn't scared. But that subway ghost...
"the real" Ghostbusters also had issues with their theme song, being a pretty blatant reworking of a Huey Lewis song. Surprised this wasn't mentioned as it lumps in with the notion of "we're more successful despite the surface branding being largely stolen from others."
Also, this will always be my OG Scaredy Cats.
Yep, to this day every play of Ghostbusters puts a dime in Huey Lewis' pocket.
Should have read further into the comments. You beat me to it.
This video has had a copyright claim from Huey Lewis and the News Media Conglomerates Inc.
I am here for the amount of shade being rightfully thrown in this video.
I love how excited all your fans are to present you with the idea of calling this the real scaredy cats as if you hadn't already done that in your twitter thread
This is when my love of Defunctland comes into play. I get to be the cool hipster who already heard of the “other” Ghostbusters.
Also, such a strange combo of channels to love, but I am not surprised given how lovely both of the hosts are. 💙
OMG!🤯😱 I remember that OTHER Ghostbusters! I haven't thought about it in forever, but the MOMENT I saw that logo, it was like a whole corner of my mind turned on for the first time
I had completely forgotten how incredibly confusing this was until now.
I liked the dodgy low budget earlier one as a kid. I didn't know any of the details about why it didn't match the movie and when the 'real' Ghostbusters one made it to my tv I didn't find it as interesting. As I recall it aggravated me that they had Slimer as a pet/little buddy. I was a weird kid. But it was nice hearing you talk about them a little. Or at least remind me that the show existed.
7:03 THAT'S WHERE THAT GUY IS FROM!
Thank you, you've managed to solve an existential crisis I've been having since childhood.
I agree with your points, as usual. But also I love when Babylon 5 gets name dropped. It's my favourite show
"Busting...makes me feel very good." I love your puns. They always bring me pleasure.
You just solved me a forgotten childhood mistery.
I watched both cartoons as a child and would fantasize about one troupe of ghostbusters meeting the others and having adventures together...Decades later, I learned that this is called fanfiction XD
I remember both of those cartoons, and having similar confusions. I recall enjoying them both on their own merits. The Filmation one did feel like a throwback, but something in the ambience was really appealing.
This reminds me of a conversation I had on Twitter with a fairly successful and well-established indie creator, who was upset that a small indie production was "stealing the IP" of a CBS character by doing stories in comic book format. He got really upset when I was like, "Dude, that one rando can't _steal_ that IP. CBS will never not own it, both legally and in the public consciousness." He could not wrap his head around the power dynamics, and saw himself in role of CBS while also being a beleaguered underdog. It was... deeply surreal, but also beautifully illustrative of the American entrepreneurial mindset.
This explains why there were so many weird spin-offs cartoons when I was a kid
For some odd reason the weird Ghostbusters-with-the-Gorilla cartoon was actually pretty popular here in Italy when I was a kid! I probably still have their car somewhere, haha
The real horror in this one is capitalism. But also boogyman.
I remember this and it did confuse me at the time. Thank you, for summing up, what I forgot 30 yrs ago.
remember the carnie dog demon that gets entangled with a the actual bad demon, after taking shit for being a demon the whole episode, when he was just a really good boi all along....
it made me cry it was so sad
I watched the live-action TV show back in the day, I loved it...I seriously doubt it's held up though.
Please for the love of God rename your channel "The Real Scaredy Cats"!
You're the only person I know who says adaption over adaptation.
YTV was always weird with it's gets. Like I watched it and Teletoon growing up in the 2000s. For some reason, Teletoon (basically the Canadian Cartoon Network) got all of the CN shows except for Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab, which aired on YTV. Like, I would have assumed these shows came bundled together, being on the same network and all.
"Well, observe."
*ad for 3 From Hell starts*
Yeah that's about right
I was always confused by “the real” part of the title. Thank you for answering that
I never knew there was a live action Ghostbusters that the Filmation cartoon was based on. that's a cool little tidbit. I definitely remember the cartoon and always thought their car and weird bone elevator was incredibly badass. still, it holds onto all those Hannah Barbara style cartoon techniques that its truly painful to watch. I like that the transformation sequence is the only part with effort put in since it could be used on every episode.
I was never too fond on the live action The Ghost Busters show, but I always really enjoyed its animated spinoff. I even have some of it on laserdisc.
However I have been ride or die about Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters (at least until Q5 ruined it) since I was two years old. I still remember completely gearing up in my Ghostbusters toys and jumpsuit to go to my local radio station and celebrate the release of Ghostbusters 2.
You are the true Scaredy Cats. This video is perfection.
I saw both of these shows at my friend's house when I was a kid.
Whoaaaaa! I remember the other "Ghostbusters" cartoon! I also assumed it was *way* older than "The Real Ghostbusters."
I have this weird fever dream moment every once in awhile where I swear up and down there was a Weekend At Burnie's animated series
Seeing clips of the original Filmation Ghostbusters really hit a lot of nostalgia buttons, so I must have watched at least some of it, at some point. But I can't for the life of me remember when that might have been. I'm old.
That Ghostbusters cartoon seems to have a pretty good soundtrack. Fight me.
Lol yes! also that boogie man is the biggest stand out part of that show, and that freakin' voice!
I loved both cartoons as a kitten, and I did think that the Filmation one was way older than the one based on the movie
A genuinely good video that happens to touch on an issue in your own channel... bravo Matt. Its almost like you're creative and the corporate shills are an embarrassment.
"Will you stop all the monkey business?"
"ROOOH"
Heck yeah Team Egon!
I kind of love the Filmation series.
They had more varied weapons, the bad guys had more character (rather than the more generic one and done threats), it had charms that were its own and it should be appreciated on that level.
The Real Scaredy Cats
The Real Scaredy Cats. Let's make it happen!
Ghostbusters was my first love - both of them. My introduction to Ghostbusters was the Filmation cartoon, but I was quickly converted over to "The Real Ghostbusters" by the lack of corresponding toys based on the other, and my desire for said toys. And even though I knew most everything in this video, I really enjoyed your analysis of it anyway. Both Ghostbusters hold a special place in my heart, even though the Filmation cartoon did indeed suck by comparison.
This confused me as a kid too. The opening to the filmation Ghostbusters is the best part. It is never able to capture the villain magic of their own shows. And yeah, the boogeyman on rgb is really spooky. That episode could have easily been the script for a third movie.
robocop: existential crisis the kids show
rambo: this machinegun is full of love and honor
toxic crusaders: nope. i love that show as much as the movie franchise it's based on.
The one that probably shouldn't have been adapted into a kids cartoon I most fondly remember (and was banned from watching on account of the cartoon giving me nightmares) being Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I probably should watch some of the films it's based on some time, come to think of it.