# The Junior Ghostbusters **URL:** \ **Category:** Ghostbusters Cartoons\ **Created:** [November 13, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653 "2009-11-13T21:30:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WowThisIsGreat](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/wowthisisgreat/32/3994_2.png) [@WowThisIsGreat](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/WowThisIsGreat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/1 "2009-11-13T21:30:12Z")
**I don’t know if we’ve talked about this before, but what was the deal with the Junior Ghostbusters? When did they get the title, because they just came out of nowhere in the cartoon. Even when they showed up in the [Slimer](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/slimer) cartoon there wasn’t any backstory to them. Did I miss something? I thought they sucked, by the way.** ---
**Author:** ![Zack](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f6c823/32.png) [@Zack](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Zack)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/2 "2009-11-13T22:39:30Z")
you are correct and wouldn’t be alone in your opinion. I believe when the series was successful they took a look at the show to see what changes could be made to make it even “better”! I think their reasoning was that kids liked to see kids on TV thus the Junior Ghostbusters were born. To give us kids someone we could relate to… :sigh: ---
**Author:** ![Traveler\_Of\_Games](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@Traveler\_Of\_Games](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Traveler_Of_Games)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/3 "2009-11-13T22:42:53Z")
Yup, just a group of characters to garner viewership of the age 6-12 group (as if that group weren’t watching already). Pay them no heed… Before them, there was another “junior Ghostbuster” but I don’t remember his name or what episode he was in. I didn’t mind that kid, though. He made his own little [Proton Pack](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/equipment/proton-pack), costume, and all topped with the “honorary badge” Peter gave him. I thought the episode was cute and showed Peter’s nice side (later back to his selfish side, then nice again ^^; ). ---
**Author:** ![kind2311](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/kind2311/32/187468_2.png) [@kind2311](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/kind2311)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/4 "2009-11-13T22:51:17Z")
That would be the episode “Masquerade”, guest-starring Soleil Moon-Fry(TV’s Punky Brewster) as Kenny Fenderman https://www.youtube.com/embed/06SuvFiUB5M?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Shannon](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/dan_shannon/32/5852_2.png) [@Dan\_Shannon](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Dan_Shannon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/5 "2009-11-13T22:53:33Z")
Junior Ghostbusters. What cracked out dickwad thought that was a good idea? They were just in the way of ■■■■, not like they really did anything useful. What a bunch of ■■■■. ---
**Author:** ![jettajeffro](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@jettajeffro](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/jettajeffro)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/6 "2009-11-13T23:09:40Z")
So was that the other lucky coin Janine had from the 1964 Flushing Meadows World’s Fair? ---
**Author:** ![ProtonCharger](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@ProtonCharger](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/ProtonCharger)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/7 "2009-11-13T23:12:28Z")
> [@kind2311](#): > > That would be the episode “Masquerade”, guest-starring Soleil Moon-Fry(TV’s Punky Brewster) as Kenny Fenderman makes you wonder how she felt as a kid knowing her voice was used for a boy. not to mention, you all should look her up now. punky’s all growed up. and wrote a chapter in the book of hot. ---
**Author:** ![kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/kingpin/32/187259_2.png) [@kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/kingpin)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/8 "2009-11-13T23:17:17Z")
Nope, a pin badge. Kenny was the way the Junior Ghostbusters should’ve been done, if they had to be. Neither he nor the rest of the cast pandered in that episode… and by right he should’ve been one of the ‘next generation’ of Ghostbusters. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Rookie](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/the_rookie/32/6167_2.png) [@The\_Rookie](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/The_Rookie)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/9 "2009-11-14T00:05:49Z")
I think that he would have made a good character or at least cameo in [Extreme Ghostbusters](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/extreme-ghostbusters)… I mean, age him appropriately and it would work. Though, then again, I’m surprised that no one has brought up the fact that someone strapped a nuclear accelerator on the backs of some kids… Which, being a teen myself, is pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![fritz](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/fritz/32/10773_2.png) [@fritz](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/fritz)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/10 "2009-11-14T00:19:06Z")
The Junior Ghostbusters are one of the reasons JMS quit. Not the only reason, or the most important one, but they’re on the list nonetheless. I think I made my own opinion on them quite plain [elsewhere](http://www.ectozone.com/ff/gbgr5.php)😛 (Go 3/4 of the way down, to the green header “Near Ghostbusters Central”…) ---
**Author:** ![Midcoast\_Ghostbuster](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Midcoast\_Ghostbuster](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Midcoast_Ghostbuster)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/11 "2009-11-14T22:08:06Z")
I agree, that if the powers that be on the show wrote the Junior Ghostbusters closer to how Kenny in the episode Masquerade was written it would have not bugged me as much. Looking back thought I don’t really find them that annoying, since they only appeared in two episodes of season two before the Simer cartoons started. ---
**Author:** ![exo95er](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@exo95er](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/exo95er)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/12 "2009-11-15T03:09:59Z")
Long live Kenny. The first member of the Ghostbuster Auxiliary. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![kind2311](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/kind2311/32/187468_2.png) [@kind2311](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/kind2311)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/13 "2009-11-19T17:13:32Z")
I’ve decided that I don’t like Kathy Soucie’s voice. futurama, rugrats, RGB, none of it thats one of the reasons I think the Jr. Ghostbusters suck ---
**Author:** ![Jumpy86](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/jumpy86/32/6183_2.png) [@Jumpy86](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Jumpy86)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/14 "2010-01-05T01:01:57Z")
I’m surprised they did not make the Jr ghostbusters the [Extreme ghostbusters](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/extreme-ghostbusters) when EGB came out… ---
**Author:** ![kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/kingpin/32/187259_2.png) [@kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/kingpin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/15 "2010-01-05T02:04:49Z")
You’d think it’d been the logical course. It’s an idea that has ‘fanfic’ written all over it. ---
**Author:** ![pferreira1983](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@pferreira1983](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/pferreira1983)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/16 "2010-01-09T19:06:21Z")
I barely remember the Junior Ghostbusters. I need to see my DVDs!!! I remember them more from the [NOW comics](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/uncategorized/ghostbusters-ii-now-comics) that were avaliable in the UK. The idea of having children help adults in cartoons or be the focus of cartoons (rather than the adults featured) was done a lot in the 1980s and not just in [The Real Ghostbusters](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/games/the-real-ghostbusters-activison). It was the same thing with Defenders of the Earth, The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo or even Popeye and Son. I guess as adults we look at these shows and relate more to the adult characters. ---
**Author:** ![LordVigo82](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/lordvigo82/32/3974_2.png) [@LordVigo82](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/LordVigo82)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/17 "2010-03-04T10:20:34Z")
funny enough…I didn’t like them then, either. if you pay close attention in the show, watching it now, even the 'Busters don’t take them very seriously. Who could blame 'em? Seriously…the kids get scared sh!tless over everything. Every time one of them starts talking, I just keep going “shut up”. I’ve come to realize at almost age 28 that they ruined the episode The Boogeyman is Back for me…and the one possible moment of redemption they could’ve had…was blown when they didn’t blast him themselves. I literally find them so annoying, I hereby make this following offer to the _Extreme_ Ghostbusters: I will gladly accept you into canonity of RGB with open arms if you’ll do this one simple thing…aim your plasma blasters at the Junior Ghostbusters, and FIRE WHEN READY!!! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Joker](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Joker](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/The_Joker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/18 "2010-03-05T13:11:12Z")
> [@LordVigo82](#): > > funny enough…I didn’t like them then, either. > > if you pay close attention in the show, watching it now, even the 'Busters don’t take them very seriously. Who could blame 'em? > > Seriously…the kids get scared sh!tless over everything. Every time one of them starts talking, I just keep going “shut up”. > > I’ve come to realize at almost age 28 that they ruined the episode The Boogeyman is Back for me… **and the one possible moment of redemption they could’ve had…was blown when they didn’t blast him themselves.** > > I literally find them so annoying, I hereby make this following offer to the _Extreme_ Ghostbusters: > > I will gladly accept you into canonity of RGB with open arms if you’ll do this one simple thing…aim your plasma blasters at the Junior Ghostbusters, and FIRE WHEN READY!!! I think you said the same thing over at [GB.net](http://GB.net), LordVigo82, and I think that if the JGBs had busted the Bogeyman themselves, then that would have been 10,000 times lamer than anything we got. For one, it’s unrealistic - we’ve seen that the proton rifles are a handful to operate at first even for fully-grown adults, so what chance would a ten-year-old have? And secondly, the Bogeyman was EGON’S. That what the Bogeyman episodes were about, Egon facing his fear and dealing with the Bogeyman for good. :boogieman: ---
**Author:** ![LordVigo82](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/lordvigo82/32/3974_2.png) [@LordVigo82](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/LordVigo82)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/19 "2010-03-07T12:11:14Z")
> [@The Joker](#): > > > [@LordVigo82](#): > > > > funny enough…I didn’t like them then, either. > > > > if you pay close attention in the show, watching it now, even the 'Busters don’t take them very seriously. Who could blame 'em? > > > > Seriously…the kids get scared sh!tless over everything. Every time one of them starts talking, I just keep going “shut up”. > > > > I’ve come to realize at almost age 28 that they ruined the episode The Boogeyman is Back for me… **and the one possible moment of redemption they could’ve had…was blown when they didn’t blast him themselves.** > > > > I literally find them so annoying, I hereby make this following offer to the _Extreme_ Ghostbusters: > > > > I will gladly accept you into canonity of RGB with open arms if you’ll do this one simple thing…aim your plasma blasters at the Junior Ghostbusters, and FIRE WHEN READY!!! > > I think you said the same thing over at [GB.net](http://GB.net), LordVigo82, and I think that if the JGBs had busted the Bogeyman themselves, then that would have been 10,000 times lamer than anything we got. For one, it’s unrealistic - we’ve seen that the proton rifles are a handful to operate at first even for fully-grown adults, so what chance would a ten-year-old have? And secondly, the Bogeyman was EGON’S. That what the Bogeyman episodes were about, Egon facing his fear and dealing with the Bogeyman for good. > > :boogieman: yeah, and I’ve come to realize that well…_nothing_ could honestly redeem the Junior Ghostbusters; they were just that annoying. They really did ruin that episode. They managed to not ruin [Halloween II 1/2](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/real-ghostbusters/halloween-2), which I’m impressed with. I still stand by wanting the EGB to absolutely fry them. Heh, I find Donald to be the most bareable of all of them; of course, that’s not exactly a compliment, regardless… ---
**Author:** ![jerseykid37](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerseykid37](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/jerseykid37)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653/20 "2010-08-19T17:45:49Z")
just to throw this out there. you know in the episode the boogie man is back. one of the junior ghostbusters picks up the pke and says that it was an [old one](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/old-one) that egon gave him. well i find this messed up, in episodes where are 4 heros come across a high level demon,ghost,or just anything the pke would overload and explode. i find it hard to believe a smart guy like egon would give a child an unstable device like that. also long live kenny the true junior ghostbuster!! [Next page](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/the-junior-ghostbusters/25653.md?page=2)