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Ghostbusters
1986 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Marc Richards
Jake Kong Jr. and Eddie Spencer Jr. are sons of the original Ghost Busters, and they work alongside Tracy the Gorilla (who also worked with their fathers). Together, they are dedicated to ridding the world of the evil ghost wizard Prime Evil and his cast of henchmen.
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Actors appear in docudramas all the time who do not resemble the real people they're playing. Jordan Belfort doesn't resemble Leonardo DiCaprio. So maybe, in the universe of the films, (most of) the characters don't actually resemble the actors who play them in our universe, but the parallel universe versions of those actors do resemble themselves.
This was played with a little bit in the 80s cartoon show, The Real Ghostbusters. The show was actually named that to distinguish it from the Filmation cartoon Ghostbusters (which was unrelated to, but made to capitalize on, the popularity of the 1984 film and take advantage of the rights to the name that Filmation still held) and reassure the audience that yes, unlike the Filmation cartoon, these are the Ghostbusters you're familiar with -- Peter, Ray, Winston and Egon, the Beatles of spook hunting.
But there is an in-universe explanation of the show's title, as well: in the universe of the show, the 1984 film Ghostbusters exists, and is based on the lives of the main characters of the show -- who, due to player-likeness issues in real life, look nothing like the film Ghostbusters. In an early episode, Venkman comments on his resemblance (or lack thereof) to his movie counterpart.
Someone has to say it. If you’re letting your kid use YouTube or I’d even say the internet or smart phones unsupervised before their brain is well developed you are taking a tremendous risk on their mental development.
A few years back when my kids were toddlers I’d rather naively give them my phone with YouTube on it, and after ignoring them for just 15 mins they’d have switched from whatever edutainment programme I’d put on to a video of a burly pair of hands unwrapping toys - for 4 hours...there are no studies on the long term effects of YouTube on cognitive development in young brains but why wait? It’s not like it’s rocket science to infer that if you show growing minds poor quality content you’re going to get poor quality results.
I don’t feel comfortable leaving my kids to watch Netflix either. It’s too easy for them to binge watch a half season of Paw Patrol or Omizumi or other similarly lite content. As a kid I remember eagerly waiting for the next episode of He-Man or Ghostbusters but to have had several seasons of dozens of episodes on tap would have been too much to resist. With auto play on these services too it’s not like they have the interests of us or our kids at heart.
We need to be super careful here, this is new territory with early indicators showing declines in ability to concentrate in adults from these forms of distraction - god knows what it’s doing to our kids.
Technically the original movie wasn't the first to use the "Ghostbusters" name, and there were some legal issues around that. This is why there was a "Ghostbusters" cartoon that was not tied to the movie franchise, and a "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon that was tied to the franchise.