Whilst it is sad to see the episodes depart, as they were a welcome distraction to tide fans over during the wait for the new movie, the uploads have created the opportunity for fans who’ve never had the chance to watch either series to experience them for the first time.
Classic episodes of The Real Ghostbusters are uploaded Saturdays. Episodes of Extreme Ghostbusters are uploaded Wednesdays.
That’s a shame but I guess I never expected them to be on YouTube forever.
Even though I have access to watch the episodes whenever I want, its been such a joy to watch them “live” on Saturdays.
What was also awesome is that I recently moved home and my housemate has two young kids who have been watching the show with me and they’ve become fans of the cartoon and just as familiar with the characters as they are with current kids shows.
Just downloaded crackle to have EGB available. Sucks it’s going always from YouTube and is already gone from Hulu. I read Roku channel has it but can’t confirm
I expected them to start taking the early episodes down, but I also thought they’d keep them rolling so you’d have 12 episodes up at a time. From the tweet it doesn’t sound like they’ll be back in Winter either. So that leaves:
It makes no sense to me to stop broadcasting RGB episodes when they sometimes clock up to 100,000 views and there are 2 years worth of classic episodes. I hope interest has been sufficient so it leads to a new, full RGB release with something unique from the Time Life set eg. Blu-ray, no ad-break inserts. And PLEASE… an official RGB OST.
Extreme Ghostbusters is honestly as poor as I remember it being… the animation sucks, Eduardo is a terrible character, and most of the villains are Men-in-Black insectoid designs. It doesn’t have an ounce of the humour, wit or charm of Real Ghostbusters. It still deserves a full box set for fans.
But overall this news makes me sad, 2020/21 have been rough and the RGB episodes offered a comforting nostalgia and communal experience for fans. As I have low-quality digital rips I guess I will carry on the tradition - maybe fans could organise to do the same… like a weekly book club, but with a double-bill of RGB episodes.
I’ll be surprised if the series ever gets a Blu-ray release. While Sony is one of the big companies that’s been continually pushing Blu-ray (despite the fact plenty of people still prefer DVD), the quality of the series even after it was remastered for the TimeLife set is still only “good”, and not the “great” I’d expect to be used for/justify a Blu-ray release.
It may be possible to improve it a little more by AI/digital upscaling, though that’d take time to process and may be deemed too costly in the long run… That may be the only way to get some improvement on marred broadcast copies that the TimeLife team used, in the absence of true masters of the original episodes.
Yeah, I doubt there is an audience to justify a remaster - especially given The Simpsons didn’t get that treatment.
I just meant to reduce the number of discs required in a full series set. As I think we agreed in another thread - just re-using the Time-Life files but removing those pesky ad-breaks would be a huge improvement and incentive to buy a new set. Plus a lot of fans missed out on the TL set first time round.
I still suspect they’re going to put the animated series on whatever streaming service Sony decides to partner with (likely Netflix) or whoever is the highest bidder.
Now that there will be a movie to tie in with, streaming services will want the show. Sony might have put RGB on YouTube first so they had the metrics to point to when asking for a higher price tag.
“See, X number of people watched this show, despite it being over three decades old. And with our new film coming out, you’ll definitely see your return on investment and plenty more!”
