History YMMV / TheRealGhostbusters

* GannonBanned: This series and its concept is created by Columbia (which produced the original movies), ''not'' DiC, who only did the animation work.

* AnimationAgeGhetto: Interestingly, the show began life as an attempt to get ''out'' of this; given [[JMichaelStraczynski who ran the show early on]], this shouldn't be surprising.

** The essential idea was to create a show that was acceptable for Saturday mornings, but would still get the same MultipleDemographicAppeal that the movie had, which is why you have unusually solid (and complex) writing and humor (with examples like "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic" or "The Hole in the Wall Gang"), episodes with near-psychedelic visuals like "Knock, Knock" and, uh, [[{{Fanservice}} a bit of occasional "focus" on Janine]]. Unfortunately, since TheMerch sold like crazy, the executives saw only dollar signs, and demanded {{Re Tool}}s to try and sell more merch. The writers revolted, many (including JMS) left and the show went right back into the ghetto. (Ironically this also drove away the wee kiddies to shows like, well, ''{{He-Man}}'' since the uniqueness of the early show is what drew people to it in the first place.)

** Arguably the fifth season more than any other. After the syndicated episodes, Seasons 3 and 4 suffered from ExecutiveMeddling to be LighterAndSofter (as well as [[TheOtherDarrin replacement voice actors for Peter, Winston and Janine]]), but still had some fan-favorites. Season 5, however, awkwardly shoehorned in elements of the second movie. (Louis was one thing, but the city's injunction against the team was seen as forced.) Slapstick humor became even more apparent and a number of episodes saw a Two Shorts format instead of one story.

* TheWesley - Arguably Slimer; he was TheScrappy to a lot of viewers, so what did the producers do? Rename the show ''Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters'' and have him show up even more. Then there were the Junior Ghostbusters. Yeah.
** Slimer was at least a little more bearable when he genuinely helped the Ghostbusters save the day, like when they went up against Killerwatt.
** A large part of the problem was that ExecutiveMeddling changed Slimer's character. Originally, Slimer was an affable sidekick that didn't speak coherently. While there were episodes where he would play a major role, there were others in which he barely appeared if at all. However, with the third season, Slimer started to take more focus in plots and began speaking coherently.

* {{Acceptable Targets}}: There is an ancient mystical tome in the ghost realm called "The Book of Annoying Beings." The Ghostbusters are on the second page. On the first page: [[EveryoneHatesMimes mimes.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Peter gets possessed by a demon in an early episode. The symptoms? [[TheSimpsons Spiky hair and a yellow complexion]].

* AnimationAgeGhetto: Interestingly, the show began life as an attempt to get ''out'' of this ([[http://www.ecto-web.org/~spookcentral/rgb_inprint_starlog1986-10.htm as documented here]]); given [[JMichaelStraczynski who ran the show early on]], this shouldn't be surprising.

** Actually, he did. The episode in question ("Janine, You've Changed") is widely seen as an AuthorsSavingThrow for Janine, who endured severe CharacterDerailment via ExecutiveMeddling.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The episode "Janine's Genie" has one scene in which the Ghostbusters, including Janine, tries to prevent a ghost-hijacked plane with the passengers inside from crashing in New York City. Janine and Peter, piloting the plane themselves, nearly but avoided crashing against the WTC twin towers.

** The essential idea was to create a show that was acceptable for Saturday mornings, but would still get the same MultipleDemographicAppeal that the movie had, which is why you have unusually solid (and complex) writing and humor (with examples like "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic" or "The Hole in the Wall Gang"), episodes with near-psychedelic visuals like "Knock, Knock" and, uh, [[{{Fanservice}} a bit of occasional "focus" on Janine]]. Unfortunately, TheMerch sold like crazy, the executives saw only dollar signs, and demanded {{Re Tool}}s to try and sell more merch. The writers revolted, many (including JMS) left and the show went right back into the ghetto. (Ironically this also drove away the wee kiddies to shows like, well, ''{{He-Man}}'' since the uniqueness of the early show is what drew people to it in the first place.)

** Arguably the fifth season more than any other. After the syndicated episodes, Seasons 3 and 4 suffered from ExecutiveMeddling to be LighterAndSofter (as well as [[TheOtherDarrin replacements for Peter and Janine), but still had some fan-favorites. Season 5, however, awkwardly shoehorned in elements of the second movie. (Louis was one thing, but the city's injunction against the team was seen as forced.) Slapstick humor became even more apparent and a number of episodes saw a Two Shorts format instead of one story.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Slimer in the later seasons.

** The essential idea was to create a show that was acceptable for Saturday mornings, but would still get the same MultipleDemographicAppeal that the movie had, which is why you have unusually solid (and complex) writing and humor (with examples like "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic" or "The Hole in the Wall Gang"), episodes with near-psychedelic visuals like "Knock, Knock" and, uh, [[{{Fanservice}} a bit of occasional "focus" on Janine]]. Unfortunately, TheMerch sold like crazy, the executives saw only dollar signs, and demanded {{Re Tool}}s to try and sell more merch. The writers revolted, many (including JMS) left and the show went right back into the ghetto. (Ironically this also drove away the wee kiddies to shows like, well, [[TruthInTelevision He-Man]] since the uniqueness of the early show is what drew people to it in the first place.)

* {{Acceptable Targets}}: There is an ancient mystical tome in the ghost realm called "The Book of Annoying Beings." The Ghostbusters are on the second page. On the first page: mimes.

* SeasonalRot