Does anyone else not care for the "We'll be right back after these messages." on the DVDs?

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I have had the 5 volume Real Ghostbusters Firehouse set (though I only ever watched up to Volume 3 since Volume 3 was not available in stores at the time) since 2009 but, I always hated it cutting to the Ghost Busters Logo saying, “We’ll be right back after these messages.” I myself never got as a kid in the 90s why they even put those into the show as if kids like me didn’t know there’d be advertisements. I have always found it annoying when watching Real Ghostbusters on these DVDs. When I was a kid I had 7 episodes of Real Ghostbusters on VHS. We could not afford more tapes of it and we did not have cable since we lived out in the country where there is not very many affordable options.

Those VHS tapes we bought with those episodes did not have that Ghostbusters sign saying, “We’ll be right back after these Messages.” Said episodes were The Revenge of Murray the Mantis, Drool the Dogfaced Goblin, Ghostbuster of the year, Night Game, Lost and Foundry, Bird of Kildarby, and Cry Uncle. I get some people might have nostalgia for this logo announcing there was about to be ads but I have always found it annoying. No, I do not want to spend over $100 getting the episodes of the first 3 volumes before Lorenzo Music was fired on amazon. I am somewhat content. But seeing that logo saying there will be advertisements has always been annoying to me. What about you?

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I hope if they ever re-release the series - hopefully remastered - they remove the ads that were present in the Time life sets.

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They should’ve been a quick special feature, rather than in every episode.

To help provide context for those living in America, we have fewer commercial breaks in the U.K., and so we didn’t have the commercial bumpers at all during the show’s broadcast here.

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It blew my mind when we travelled to Florida for a holiday in 99 to see so many commercials during, I think an episode of Buffy we found on the TV.

For the life of me I can’t remember what or if ITV had a gimmick like BBC having the cupboard for that after school showing

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It was startling… Back in 2006, I went on a vacation to New York with my family (this was the second time I’d been, but the first where I’d been able to properly watch American television - the hotel room the first time was very basic, and had no television), and at one point we had an episode of Third Watch on, and immediately after the title sequence had finished playing (which must’ve been five minutes into the episode), the show went to an ad break… Which seemed excessive.

You and I may get bombarded with commercials/adverts in our normal lives, alpha, but that’s nothing compared to the level of adverts the Americans get carpet-bombed with on a daily basis.

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Same, I had a family holiday out to Florida years ago and was absolutely shocked at the amount of ads on Cartoon Network. I used to wonder why shows often had these random cut-to-black cliffhanger moments before suddenly just continuing on, but now I know that’s where a commercial for a Red Lobster kid’s meal would have appeared if we were watching in the US. I’ll never take our more infrequent UK ad breaks for granted again :joy:

But back to the matter, yes, I find these bumpers very annoying. We already know what we’re watching, just give it to me already.

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I am an American and am old enough to have grown up in the VHS era. Though I watched some episodes of TV shows on VHS as a kid, I never paid attention to how long each episode was. When getting a DVD player and buying TV shows as an adult I was shocked that some of the TV shows I watched as a kid were only 22 minutes long. Meaning I had to watch 8 minutes worth of ads when watching them on TV in the 90s! I did like some of the ads from the 90s. Especially the “Got Milk?” ads. Do you remember those? They were funny.

My least favorite ads have always been political attack ads during every presidential and governor election. Doesn’t matter which candidate was getting attacked. I wish they’d get rid of them.

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When RGB premiered in the UK (4:10 every Monday afternoon, beginning with Slimer Come Home) the ITV set up was Tommy Boyd in a pale coloured room at a desk with some kid ephemera on it, and the Ghostbusters logo in a panel on the wall behind him! It was a momentous occasion for me!

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Thank you!! I’d blanked that set up completely. Quick Google search and it all comes back

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I used to record the rerun episodes from CITV in the early nineties and I still remember the Twix and Crunchie adverts. Even though I hated them at the time, I occasionally still watch those old ad compilations on Youtube just for the nostalgia!

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It was thanks to those re-runs that I got to see Lost and Foundry for the first time, as I think they skipped it in the original run.

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I knew Lost & Foundry and Cabinet of Calamari from the black hardcover book series.

I didn’t see Lost & Foundry on British TV until I think it was on a Saturday or Sunday lunchtime (much later in the series run).

I never saw Cabinet of Calamari on British TV.

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I had Lost and Foundry on VHS from the first ITV run, so they definitely ran it (I was a bit old for RGB come the nineties - my wilderness years!) but it did have a big chunk of action missing from the middle, that really surprised me when I saw the proper version on the Time Life box!

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The animated modern art sculpture! :slight_smile:

Strange, I guess we missed recording it on the first run-through. Lost and Foundry and The Boogieman Cometh were two episodes I recall only seeing after we’d had episodes like The Brooklyn Triangle.

The theory I’ve developed is that in the early days of the show’s broadcast on CITV, they were restricted to somewhere between 25-28 minutes for the show, which led to a lot of episodes getting stuff cut out to fit the undersized slot in the schedule.

The “cuts for time” that I remember are:

Ghosts R Us lost a small segment in the toy factory just before the big bad scares the Ghosts R Us trio away.

Killerwatt lost most of the chase/escapades sequence inside the power station.

Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream lost the whole opening scene with the couple arguing over tennis and comic books, and Peter describing his dream of the Sandman.

Take Two lost the whole scene set on the chartered jet, and the clip of the movie at the end of the episode.

Play Them Ragtime Boos lost the whole opening scene showing the guys driving to Muddy Flat, as well as Janine’s scene.

Ain’t NASA-Sarily So lost the whole opening scene on space station Galileo.

Ghost Busted lost everything before the scene where Slimer steals the pretezel from the vendor, the whole “getting jobs montage” was deleted.

Chicken, He Clucked lost a section of the opening scene where Cubby is woken by the smell of chicken.

You Can’t Take It With You lost part of the scene in the lobby of Tummel’s building, specifically the bit about spiderwebs, and who was going to be paying the Ghostbusters.

The Man Who Never Reached Home lost everything up to (and including) the 1987 on-screen caption.

The Collect Call of Cathulhu lost the scene where the guys discuss the Necronomicon at the dining table.

Janine’s Day Off lost some of the scenes set at Janine’s family’s house, and some of the early scenes of the guys trying to trap the imps.

The Ghostbusters in Paris lost the entire opening/explanation scene at the Eiffel Tower. The U.K. broadcast opened on the panning shot of the New York skyline.

Rollerghoster lost the early portion of Janine and Egon’s date.

The Devil to Pay lost the opening of the episode up to the point where the guys arrive at Race the Devil, as well as the whole “Door Number 1”/Samhain segment.

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I had a VHS tape that had Night Game, Lost and Foundry, and Bird of Kildarby on it. Then another VHS tape that had The Revenge of Murray the Mantis, Drool the Dog Faced Goblin, and Ghostbusters of the year on it. And another that just had Cry Uncle on it. They were the ones that had the logo at the beginning with the kids running and then holding hands.