Perhaps the most confusing thing as a kid when it came to the Ghostbusters cartoon for me was the fact there two of them, one called Ghostbusters (like the film) featuring a gorilla and there was also Real Ghostbusters featuring you know characters from the film, it always confused me how the cartoon got away with being able to be called Ghostbusters while the official one had to settle for the pre-fix of "real". I found out when I was older there was actually a live action show the mid-70s (something I may cover at a later date) featuring the giant gorilla and it was a rights thing and all that.
As a child I always preferred the real to this, but I did enjoy it, it was something I owned on VHS and it was played more then once but it just wasn't the same you know and re-seeing it now after probably a good 26 years I decided to go with the first episode.
I think the thing I remember most about the show is the intro and it's theme song and Tracy the gorilla "singing" parts of it and really it was the non-human characters I tended to remember most about this. I've got say it's as goofy as I remember (not a bad thing it is a kids cartoon afterall)
The plot sees the characters take on from their Fathers in a ghostbusting business, as they try to prove to a reporter ghosts are real as Primeval tries to take over the world from the future.
It was a lot of fun revisting a series I hadn't seen in so long and while it's no Real Ghostbusters it's still an enjoyable show in it's own right with some creative moments.
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