#the ghost busters

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All my Ghostbusters DVD & BLU-RAY media!

Am I missing anything?

[thenightling]

Winston = The Unsung hero of The Ghostbusters franchise

Winston was the most down-to-earth ordinary guy of the original Ghostbusters team, having joined about half-way through the original movie. He worked well as a viewer-insert character for the audience to relate to and se themselves in, and to ask the questions that we want to ask. Someone recently referred to Winston as an opportunist. They didn't mean it negatively. Winston (in the more recent films of Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) became a successful businessman. Now I know that today we have a habit of associating corporations and especially wealthy CEOs as evil but Winston is the true hero of the Ghostbusters franchise. Hear me out. After Winston became a successful businessman he did not forget his roots as a Ghostbuster. In fact he went back to aid and protect his friends. He bought the Firehouse to prevent the entities from getting loose that were in the Containment unit and to give a home to Egon's daughter and grandchildren. Not only that but Winston financially supported Ray's Occult Book shop and kept it in business for him. And Winston apparently spent most of his fortune investing in turning Ghostbusters into the paranormal version of SHIELD with advanced tech. He protected New York from supernatural threats. He gave a home to Egon's daughter and grandchildren. He kept Ray's business alive. He made Ghostbusters into something much bigger than it was. It's like the paranormal equivalent of SHIELD or Men in Black. Now if we take The Real Ghostbusters animated series as canon Winston has helped and rescued his friends many times, including even taking part in a baseball game between the forces of Heaven and Hell to save Peter's soul. So he gave Egon's family a home, saved Ray's business, and saved Peter's soul. Winston has saved everyone in some way. Even in their Halloween special (The Real Ghostbusters: The Halloween Door) he had more lines in the Touching Old Magic song number than the others.

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Larry Storch as Corporal Agarn Eddie Spencer, Forrest Tucker as Sergeant O'Rourke Kong, and Bob Burns as Tracy the gorilla in Filmations' live-action series The Ghost Busters (1975).

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Ghostbusters 1984 review: Dickless for 40 Years and Running! (Comissioned by Weird Kev)

Hello all you happy people and welcome to the start of our look at ghost busters! Kev's a fan, i'm a fan, your a literal sentient fan that eats children to survive. We're all fans here.

In 1980 Dan Akroyd drove his car into columbia pictures with a dream.. to make a film about his love of ghosts and since he wouldn't leave they sent director ivan reitman to get him to. Instead Ivan agreed with the dream and agreed to not have columbia pictures, which he was mayor of, to press charges. They then went to get their friend Harold Ramis who was, ironically trapped in the phantom zone and with the help of mon el they freed him and all 4 escaped.

Then they had to spend a year curing MOn El's led poisning but unfortuatnely failed and had ot send him to the future. With their venkman gone, they instead went with Bill Murray, who had just finished up being a consuler at a summer camp by the time the summer of 81 rolled around. They had three but they needed a fourth. So the four set out on an epic quest to find their fourth ghostbuster. So they arrived in Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So they tied an onion to their belts, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was they had an onion on their belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

Any ways they soon found ernie hudson but he was in the thrall of the shadow king so to free him Murray winged him real godo with a boot and then a now free enrie threw him into the sun.

With that production began, but soon mysterious murders began just like what happened in woodsburo a few years ago, and bill murray sadly died confronting ghostface. To revivie him our heroes went back in time and managed to save him and unmask ghostface early, but marty mcfly's parents ceased to exist, so they went back again only to make a world ruled by apes. This was satisfactory enough for a while but when the apes decreed ghosts and all depecitons of them banned our heroes went back AGAIN and finally got a timeline that worked well enough. Bill Murray was a transformer now of course and ernie hudson could turn water into flame, but those were okay. Dan Akroyd, who was now a cartoon dog wrote a new draft, the studio loved it and thus ghostbusters was born.

They cast an all star cast: Some Guy as Walter Peck, some other guy as the mayor, Segornye Weaver who had an uneventful year but wasn't about to tell the cartoon dog, and Rick Moranis, who had his own epic quest with best friend and great white north co-star dave thomas to save the world that we'll get to some other day. THe film was a hit, created a franchise and here we are so join me under the cut will ya.

So the film begins with famous outlaws Billy the Kid and Belle Starr rising from the dead. Depsite having died a decade apart and billy having been about 20 and belle 40, they both look middle aged as they plan to rustle cattle, there apparnetly being no beef in the afterlife

We'll deal with that terror as we get our title sequence, as Ray Jay Parker junior.. sorry three old white men sing the ghost busters theme. All three are here KOng, the leader, Spencer, the dumb one dressed like jack napier for some reason and Tracy, the gorilla who wears hats.

Their the ghost busters, they caper after ghosts and work out of an apartment in what could only be new york. So after the opening they have some banter i've blocked out because I want to live and sad to say it hasn't held up well> Speaking of holding up I can't really keep this up so

APRIL FOOLS BITCHES

Yeah bad news, we will not be covering the 1984 classic ghostbusters.. till October. Yeah this is a hell of a way to do it but in october we'll be starting a yearly look at one of the best comedy franchises around, Ghostbusters, starting with the original timeline: Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, the video game and the first arc of the idw comic. And possibly a brucey bonus as we have an extra week.

To kick this off we decided to look not at the movies.. but at the OTHER ghost busters... the 1975 live action filmation show starring two guys from f troop and a guy in a gorilla suit who dick around an office, get a call from some guy named zero, and then bust ghosts.

This show is also why the real ghostbusters are called that: Filmation made the BOLD choice to do thier own cartoon based on the 70's show to cash in, Columbia said HELL NO, and since they coudln't get it stopped (It was within filmation's rights) instead named theirs the REAL GHOSTBUSTERS. And it was. We'll look at the other one next year for now let's talk about the live action show

The reason I couldn't hold up the gag is simple: The Ghost Busters... is pain. It is deep hurting. it is grief in telvision form. The Ghost Busters.. is lame. Or, at the very least the episode Kev choose by roulette wheel , they went thataway is. Kev is also now barred from using a randomizer for at least a review or two. Sorry kev.

I thought it might at least have a chuckle, I mean it's a series with a giant gorilla and their chasing cowboys. This had to be at least a LITTLE fun right? right?

I mean ... it was a LITTLE fun as Tracy the gorilla.. is genuinely a delight. He throws a man upside down when he tries cheating him in a coin toss, wears delightful hats, and somehow makes a giant propellor work on a model airlplane. Is the schitch he does all that funny? no. Is he still charming anyway because it's a gorilla? yes. Sadly we do NOT get to see a fake gorilla drive a fake car.

The fact a fake gorilla doing mildly amusing schtick is the only thing this episode did that was remotely amusing should tell you to RUN SAVE YOURSELVES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RUN. RUN. NEVER LOOK BACK. RUN. RUNNNNNN.

But since you didn't take my warning if your onto this paragraph, let the misery continue: While I can enjoy a corny joke on occasion, The Ghost Busters is the corniest of jokes. It is the lamest of ideas. It is just 20 solid minute of dad jokes without the charm of being told by an actual dad. We get a joke where the cowboys ask if Spencer , the idiot of the group wants to wet his whistle.. AND THEN HE DIPS IT IN WATER. GET IT. GET IT. GET IT. GET IT GET...

Every fucking joke is like that: a pun without any sense of irony or whimsy that makes a pun tolerable.

The actual premise is also just.. not funny. Cowboys want to rustle up cattle because hell apparently has none. Maybe that's why theirs so many delightful 40's cannibals, we don't know. So they want to go cattle rustling but DOHOHOHO THEIRS NO CATTLE IN THE CITY and they make soup but it's warm despite no fire because she LEFT IT ON TWICE AS LONG DOHOHOHO. i'm dying inside because this show is inane DOHOHOHOHO.

I"m.. not exaggerating. I'm a forgiving man: I find the good in most stuff I review even fi I don't like it. I try to be positive: it's why most stuff I review or get comissioned for is stuff that's GOOD. And even the mediocre or bad I can still usually find something but this show has a gorilla with hats and NOTHING else. Kong and Spencer have the "schemer guy and idiot" schtick you've seen a million times. The jokes are trite as hell and were played out in 1975 to the point i'm baffled this came out in the 70's. It was aimed at kids sure but kids aren't THIS stupid. I thought given the gorilla it'd at least be goofy fun or so bad it's good.. but it's just nothing. I'm struggling to find things to say that aren't "I died a little on the inside watching this".

The actual "plot" is paper thin, which is fine for a comedy if it's actually funny. To use a refrence to the good ghostbusters, Meatballs, from the same director, is good. it's also a lot of scenes of dicking around with teens. But the bill murray jokes, his friendship with chris makepiece, the jokes that do work, that makin it dance scene.. it has more than enough to compensate. It also has a truly awful scene I skip every time that acts like consent don't exist.

This is just "dick around with cowboys", "Dick around till they go to get the call from ghost man", dick around with cowboys again" , "Dick around a bit after getting their assigment' , "Dick around and pretend to be cowboys", "Catch ghosts embarassingly easy while billy the kid humps the air". The only clever or notable things are the fact the ghosts randomly age and that Bella gets a happy ending as they at least cooked her a meal first.

So yeah this was 25 minutes of my life i'll never get back. I wish I had more to say but this is just.. nothing. Maybe the dracula or frankenstien episodes have more I don't know, and I don't care. This was a MASSIVE disapointment and hopefully the cartoon willl be better. Thanks for reading.

[garm-wars]

We're the Ghostbusters, I'm Spenser, He's Tracy, I'm Kong! We're the Ghostbusters, We're clever, courageous, and strong!

Your sleep has been haunted with whispers and rattlings, Your blood has been curdled, we know what to do, Your skin has the creepies, you wonder what's happening, You're safe in our hands, we will take care of you!

We're the Ghostbusters, Spirits and Demons beware! The Ghost Busters, Wherever you're hiding out there!

We know what you're up to, we're ready for anything, We're bold and we're fearless, and never afraid, We're always prepared, we're right there with everything, With us on the job, Troubles soon fade, The Ghost Busters do it again!

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Buster Keaton - The Haunted House (1921)

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The Haunted House | 1921

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Spoilers for ghostbusters

[abriefingwithmichael]

Bernie Kopell guests as the ghost of Dr. Frankenstein.

Half the gags miss the mark, but half land perfectly. The tone is juvenile, but the cast are great and there are laughs to be had. Some of the prop-based stuff is very inventive.

Better than episode one. You get much clearer picture here of the dynamic between the three main characters. And they play off one another really well.

5/10

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they had the IP and by God they were gonna use it

Scared Stiff - Filmation’s Ghostbusters (Schaper)

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[avionvadion]

Behold: Malleus' future wife and eventual Queen of Thorns, ya'll. XD

I had the sudden realization that the Twst Boys would probably hate the Ghost Busters song (since they got mad at Skully for wanting to attack and exterminate ghosts) and I absolutely had to have Eleanora singing it.

Vil, off screen, giving Idia a disbelieving look: "That's what you focus on? Really?"

El: *proceeds to asthma attack after finishing the song, lowkey dying in a baffled Malleus' arms* "W-Worth it...!"

[tesseractrave]

I love all the Ghostbusters and their friendship so much, and I know Ray and Egon are the most popular pair, but please allow me to indulge and just talk about how much I love Ray and Peter specifically because they're so cute.

Why do they keep standing as close as humanly possible. Shoulders brushing. It's enough of a problem that they OBSCURE WINSTON. BOYS. SAVE ROOM FOR JESUS (WINSTON).

Mutual smacking

Ray watching Peter act famous and Peter making sure Ray feels good about himself too and calling him the "heart" okay whatever I'm gonna throw up

Stop looking at him like that you loser

Getting food together??? They didn't even get Egon a coffee (maybe Egon doesn't drink coffee... sweet-toothed man likes coca cola)

Indirect kiss no homo tho

Peter. What.

WHAT.

Anyway, I think they're neat.

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Yall fw king Boo?

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