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Old 11-19-2004, 04:05 AM
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Take that you marketing whore.....


Oh yeah, and the other ghostbusters show was terrible. They considered a gorilla with a hat original... i hope they were sued into oblivion over that.... That tv show was like making a show called "The Terminator" about a robot that kills people, but in no way affiliated with the original production compnay, they didnt get permission to use the name, and they introduced a loveable chimp sidekick ah-la BJ and the Bear, only it caries a gun and can change into a pepper mill at will.
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Old 11-19-2004, 03:15 PM
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Does anyone remember the old-school "Ghostbusters" cartoon (sans "The Real") with that gorilla?
If I remember right this Ghostbusters show starred Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch (both from F-Troop) and a guy named Bob Burns in a gorilla suit. It ran on CBS in the 70's. Long before the movie and cartoon series "Ghostbusters"
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Old 11-19-2004, 03:37 PM
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The original Ghostbusters were the ones with the gorilla and they drove around in a jalopy and they caught ghosts in bubbles. I think after it started airing again in the 80s, after the big movie, that they redid the titles and called the gorilla one "the original Ghostbusters" and the newer one with Venkman and the gang changed their name to "the REAL Ghostbusters," so as to not incite a lawsuit.

Aside from all that, Ghostbusters was my favorite movie as a kid and I had seen it well over 100 times before the age of ten. I loved the cartoon and I think the best one was the pilot which was about a haunted house inhabited by a ghost woman on "1313 13th Street." I think the episode was something like "Mrs Robinson's Neighborhood." I had more Ghostbusters toys than any other line (the lines at the time being mainly GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, and He Man).

So yeah, I'm a fan. Bill Murray '08.
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Old 11-19-2004, 06:38 PM
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The original Ghostbusters were the ones with the gorilla and they drove around in a jalopy and they caught ghosts in bubbles. I think after it started airing again in the 80s, after the big movie, that they redid the titles and called the gorilla one "the original Ghostbusters" and the newer one with Venkman and the gang changed their name to "the REAL Ghostbusters," so as to not incite a lawsuit.

Aside from all that, Ghostbusters was my favorite movie as a kid and I had seen it well over 100 times before the age of ten. I loved the cartoon and I think the best one was the pilot which was about a haunted house inhabited by a ghost woman on "1313 13th Street." I think the episode was something like "Mrs Robinson's Neighborhood." I had more Ghostbusters toys than any other line (the lines at the time being mainly GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, and He Man).

So yeah, I'm a fan. Bill Murray '08.
The toy line for the ghost busters was cool. I had everything form that line. Sadly I don't have any of the toy line left I forgot what happen to them.
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Old 12-01-2004, 05:48 AM
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God, i fucking hate the word extreme...... Possibly the most annoying trend from the mid-90s. Make something electric blue or radioactive green, give a guy a mohawek and a skateboard, and now it is "x-treme!"
I couldn't agree more. The Simpson's episode where "Poochie the Dog" (complete with shades, reversed baseball cap, baggy jeans etc) joins the Itchy and Scratchy show is a classic bit of satire on just this theme.

Lisa sums the character up beautifully as "a soulless by-product of committee thinking."
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Old 12-01-2004, 06:49 AM
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I couldn't agree more. The Simpson's episode where "Poochie the Dog" (complete with shades, reversed baseball cap, baggy jeans etc) joins the Itchy and Scratchy show is a classic bit of satire on just this theme.

Lisa sums the character up beautifully as "a soulless by-product of committee thinking."
I like you already :D

That is exactly what that episode was about. remember poochie saying "Recycle... TO THE EXTREME!"?

Definetly one of the major downpoints to a capitalist society.
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Let's call it Extreme Ignorance... forgiveable, but less so in the Internet Age, when you can look anything up.

In fact (check it), the live action GhostBusters was the original, and the Bill Murray version and spinoffs were the ripoff. Amazing that none of Columbia Pictures' high priced lawyers ever bothered to check whether they were infringing on the copyright of the earlier show, and more embarrassing that Ivan Reitman and company would just simply steal the name - with no respect for their fellow artists.

Those of us that enjoyed the original really appreciated its revival of old-time vaudeville humor. For a kids' show it was really great, featuring a lot of great old time comedians who deserved the paycheck and earned it.

Bob Burns as the gorilla Tracy was far more than an ape suit in a hat, the guy's a legend, watch how much he brings to the character without any dialog. Great stuff, give it a chance.
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