The show started in 1986, two years after the first movie, and three years before the second. Based solely on the first movie, they’d have no reason to put him in there: all he was was the nerd who lived next to Dana and got possessed. Considering they didn’t even put Dana in the cartoon, who had a strong connection to Venkman, there’d be even less reason to use him.
“Something’s Going Around”. Yeah, that was Louis’s first episode. Definitely not on my favorites list either…
Other entries in my hall of shame:
“Ranson of Green Spud”. Let’s count the ways it sucked: emphasis on Slimer. Overdone rip-off plot. Really crappy plot twists. Two thumbs way down–somebody kidnap the writer, please…
“The Magnificent Five” This pathetic would-be Western had me almost wishing I was a horse with a broken leg so that somebody would take me outside and shoot me. Tip: watch “Ghostfight at the OK Corral” instead.
“The Slob” Other than maybe, maybe Sebastien Clavet, the worst thing to happen to the Ghostbuster franchise was the Slimer cartoons in 1988, but at least a real fan could ignore them as part of some sort of evil parallel universe. Except then they did RGB stories like this one…
“Deja Boo” The perennial favorite on “worst episode” lists of any series is the “clip show”, so here it is, RGB’s very own clip show. Stew in brief clips of much better stories, season with Norman Dweeb, and bring to a boil. Result: sheer unedible ■■■■.
“OMG they ddint use teh proton packs and used thinking to solve the problem. BORING!”
Some of the old episode reviews on GBN seemed like that.
Apart from a few animation things which I easily look past, everything up through the voice changes was really solid. There was a good variety of anything and everything story and character-wise.
I thought it was great not to include Dana in the cartoon. It gave Venkman free range to chase after whatever skirt was in the episode that week. Hilarity ensued.
I definetly have to disagree with a lot of the choices, that may be my personal preference but some I just can’t believe I’m hearing. Go on youtube and watch some of the late late season episodes. I don’t even know if I’ve ever watched them all the way through. Maybe when I was younger. Ones that are forgettable but like recently I couldn’t even bring myself to sit through them. Maybe one day.
Like seeing some of the ones I thought were some of the best efforts the series had to offer.
Well, a bad episode is a bad episode. You can’t really give a bad animated and badly written eppy a pass and then slam another because “OMG that idiot from Full House is Peter’s voice! OUTRAGE!” Objectivity, my friend Zack.
Oh I know. I’m saying it seems like a lot of people rating episodes on Ghostbusters.net used to base the episode sucking or not on whether or not the guys were shooting proton packs for 22 minutes. A lot of the thinking or problem solving episodes were among some of the top rated for me.
I don’t have a problem with the animation on really any episodes I can think of that come to mind. There were a few things here and there with the characters looking strange or moving oddly but that’s about it. Some of my favorite episodes have some jerky animation in spots. To me it wasn’t even so much the voice changes, it was all the other changes people usually associate with the later seasons that occurred around the same time with stories that weren’t interesting, dialogue that wasn’t as good as the older stuff and poor music.
It was really just weird and hard to read some of my favorite episodes listed among some of the worse, like Kingpin said when there are far worse episodes, IMO. But I guess that’s what it really comes down to…opinions. A bit weird to see some people say for example the guys going into the cartoon world wasn’t realistic or retooling the proton packs to bust criminals but on the other hand would praise an episode where going into another dimension or something was completely “believable”
Like Apocalypse - What, NOW? and The Old College Spirit. I don’t get how those could be the worst but those are just my thoughts though and everyone is entitled to their opinions most definetly That’s all I meant.
Yeah I think it was real late on, you’re right. Not sure what they even hoped to accomplish with that. :whatever: I think there are some episodes not real late on with the usual music but it’s slightly sped up for some reason. :walterpeck: But the last season or two, I can’t even recall any of the music being memorable. I think it sounded pretty generic from what I remember.
EDIT: Well I guess it may have been Fox Family speeding everything up.
They might’ve hired a bunch of monkeys and given them some instruments.
They probably thought, ‘if unlimited monkeys were given typwriters and unlimited time they could create the works of Shakespeare’, then they probably thought ‘unlimited monkeys given instruments and unlimited time could create the works of Beethoven’.
But their budget could only stretch to two monkeys.
Digging a bit deeper, found a behind the scenes look at composing later season RGB music :angryvigo:
listening to some from a later season episode just a second ago, it actually reminded me of…EGB music Nothing seemed to emotionally match what was going on(I don’t think there was much going on anyway) or nothing that really jumped out as being musically interesting. It was well, like something was just playing in the background just for the heck of it. I didn’t care much for the over synthesized GB theme that showed up late in the series either. That’s my thoughts though.
One Season 5-6 theme I liked was the eerie music heard right at the start of Treasure of Sierra Tamale. That theme worked well. Also there are some odd scenes from earlier seasons where they experiented with more ambient themes, which sometimes worked…like one scene towards the end of Robo-Buster where it cuts from the GBs confronting the “ghost cloud” to a shot of Paul Smart at his desk, and the music gives it a wonderfully dark and twilight-ish feel.
Well I was watching Baby Spookums the other night and I thought I remembered it being a little better…most of the episode just made me sick to my stomach. I won’t say it’s the worst though.
It’d be a much better episode without that godawful cutesy piano theme they played every time Spookums appeared. Luckily, Season 2 got much better after that.
I refer to the seasons as listed at Spook Central (which I believe is derived from the ABC’s listings). Most people though seem to refer to the seasons as tv.com lists them, which is fine by me.
But Spook Central lists Baby Spookums as the first episode of the third season, I’m not sure where the conclusion that it was a second season episode came from. True, it’d be the second season of the ABC run, but I count it as the third overall season of the show in it’s entirety.
The alternate works like this. As mentioned, I leaned toward this when I wrote the Timeline, even though the episode numbers reflect the above system a little better:
Season 1: ABC 1986
The 65 first-run syndication episodes in 1987 are either considered part of Season 1 (GBN’s episode lists) or kind of their own “seperate” season
Season 2: ABC 1987; actually aired consecutively with the syndicated episodes
Season 3: ABC 1988
Season 4: ABC 1989
Season 4: ABC 1990
Season 6: ABC 1991
It’s why anymore I try to use the year instead of the system (ie " ‘Janine You’ve Changed’ was the first episode of the 1990 Season, and the last totally awesome episode of the series in my opinion")
I like all of the episodes to be 100% honest. The only one I usually bypass due to a personal bias is A Fright at the Opera, only because I really don’t like Wagner’s operas and this episode was heavily influenced by him.
Some of the old episode reviews on GBN seemed like that.
Go on youtube and watch some of the late late season episodes. I don’t even know if I’ve ever watched them all the way through. Maybe when I was younger. Ones that are forgettable but like recently I couldn’t even bring myself to sit through them. Maybe one day.
A bit weird to see some people say for example the guys going into the cartoon world wasn’t realistic or retooling the proton packs to bust criminals but on the other hand would praise an episode where going into another dimension or something was completely “believable” 
