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1	* ActingForTwo:
2	** In the live action series, Creator/LarryStorch as Spenser and the UsefulNotes/AlCapone {{Expy}} in the first episode. ''They even dressed the same''.
3	** The cartoon really got a lot of mileage out of its small number of voice actors:
4	*** Creator/PatFraley: Jake Jr., Jake Sr., Ghost Buggy, Skelescope, and Scared Stiff
5	*** Creator/PeterCullen: Eddie Jr., Eddie Sr., Brat-A-Rat, and Haunter
6	*** Susan Blu: Jessica Wray, Futura, Belfry, and Time Hopper
7	*** Lou Scheimer: Tracy, Sir TranIn the live actiuon series me Why
8	* CaliforniaDoubling: The 1975 series episode "The Dummy's Revenge" has Spenser, Kong and Tracy entering a building lobby to check someone's contact information. That lobby was actually the foyer of the Filmation building!
9	* CreatorCameo: Creator/{{Filmation}} founder Lou Scheimer as Zero in the live-action series and several voices in the animated series. Tracy, Fib Face and Ansabone are but three examples.
10	* CrossDressingVoices: Susan Blu as Belfry and Erika Scheimer as Jessica's nephew Corky.
11	* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: At least outside the U.S., since the animated sequel was broadcast overseas, while the original live-action TV series prequel was never exported anywhere, with the sole known exception of Mexico.
12	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/PeterCullen plays the hero’s sidekick and a supporting villain. He does get to use his [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Optimus]] [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Prime]] voice in an episode where Eddie gets superpowers.
13	* RealitySubtext: The episode "Statue of Liberty" revolves around the newly-restored Art/StatueOfLiberty, which Americans had celebrated in real life that past July. (The episode aired in September 1986, just two months after "Liberty Weekend.")
14	* RecycledScript:
15	** Becomes really obvious when the same villain pulls off the same plot in two ''consecutive'' episodes, at least in the Creator/{{Netflix}} playlist order.
16	** The InsideAComputerSystem episode "Cyman's Revenge" is very similar to the ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' episode "Day of the Machines".
17	** There's a sequence in the episode "Statue of Liberty" in which The Ghostbusters go up a reeeeeally long flight of stairs in pursuit of Mysteria. Mysteria catches up to Eddie and surrounds him with mist. Eddie falls, and Tracy uses the Ghost Gummer to catch him in the nick of time. The sequence was reused in a later episode, replacing Mysteria with a generic orange ghost.
18	* ReferencedBy: ''WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_-D6BWXnOg&feature=related this clip]] at about 10:05, the opening credits run as Poink explains the series to Yappy. Oddly enough the music is the Ray Parker Jr. movie/''[[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters Real Ghostbusters]]'' theme...and it fits in with the animation like a glove.
19	* SerendipityWritesThePlot: A different actor was originally meant to play Tracy. After he had an disagreement with Filmnation surrounding royalties though, he ended up walking out alongside his gorilla suit. With only three days left until filming was supposed to start, the crew was desperate to find another actor and Bob Burns got the role primarily because he already owned a suit.
20	* TheOtherDarrin: In the 1975 series Jake Kong Sr. was played by Forrest Tucker and Eddie Spencer Sr. was Larry Storch but in the 1986 series and probably due to the passing of Forrest Tucker, Jake Sr. is voiced by Pat Fraley and Eddie Sr. is voiced by Peter Cullen.
21	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
22	** In the original "series bible" (the document which lays out the vision of the series), the moronic Airhead was described as working for the Ghostbusters while serving Prime Evil -- in other words, a [[TheMole mole]]. This gave his incompetence a very interesting angle, but in the finished series, he was just a moron.
23	** According to [[http://filmationghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Batz_(Series) the show's wiki]], Creator/{{Filmation}} was planning a SpinOff called ''Batz'' featuring Belfry's family, with the episode "Whither Why" as a PoorlyDisguisedPilot.
24	*** In her original design, Futura was an African-American with long, light-brown hair, and Jessica Wray originally had blonde hair.
25	*** Prime Evil was originally designed to resemble [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985 Mumm-Ra]], while Scared Stiff was originally conceived as more of a "walking fridge" robot and Mysteria originally had a human appearance and a long red dress.
26	*** Tex-Hex from ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' was originally meant to be a ''Ghostbusters'' villain. Lou Scheimer took one look at his character-sketch and decided that he should be a BigBad in his own right.
27	*** The original 1975 series did very well; it came in second for ratings, right behind another Filmation live-action show, ''The Shazam/Isis Hour''. A second season could have been done but Filmation cancelled it instead to concentrate on the aforementioned show.[[note]]Which they came to regret as Shazam/Isis ratings dipped sharply in the following season.[[/note]]
28	** Apparently, there ''were'' plans for an AnimatedAdaptation of the original '75 series, with artwork dating as early as 1982! One can only conjecture that Filmation shelved this idea in favor of [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse a more profitable project]].
29	* Bizarrely, if you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad2rDtKW8wQ combine the]] ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters Real Ghostbusters]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad2rDtKW8wQ song with the Filmation intro]], they match ''perfectly.'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxU4MCZZbk Combining the intro of]] ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxU4MCZZbk with the Filmation music]] isn't quite the same, but it still comes very close.
30	** Most likely the animators were told to time the intro animation to the Ray Parker Jr. music just in case a last minute agreement with Creator/ColumbiaPictures (or case handed down in court) allowed them to use it.

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