| 1 | * AdaptationDisplacement: The animated series was meant both to avert and to capitalize on this, being based on the earlier 1975 live action {{Creator/Filmation}} series, but riding on the coat-tails of the wildly popular 1984 Creator/ColumbiaPictures [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} film]]. In [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140419040206/http://www.the-trades.com/articles/2007/06/11/lou-scheimer-candid-conversation-filmations-founder a 2007 interview]], Lou Scheimer recounted receiving a phone call from a gentleman who complained how his cartoon had ostensibly taken the film's African-American character (Winston Zeddemore) and turned him into an ape, with the man apparently unaware that the ape character had originated in the 1975 series. |
| 2 | * SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: As always, this show is full of spectacular Filmation background art. |
| 3 | * SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The theme, which incorporates Music/JohannSebastianBach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor," has been considered this. |
| 4 | * AudienceAlienatingPremise: Kids were understandably unimpressed when they tuned in to the 1986 cartoon only to discover that, despite sharing a title, it had nothing to do with [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 the popular blockbuster film]] of the same name. |
| 5 | * DesignatedVillain: Happened a few times in the 1975 show where the Busters were dedicated to sending the ghosts back...really [[VanHelsingHateCrimes just because they were ghosts]]. The best example might be the one with the werewolf who was trying to find the one thing that could ''cure'' his condition. Information the Busters probably would've liked to have had to use against more malicious werewolves. |
| 6 | * EnsembleDarkhorse: Apparitia... the fan art doesn't lie! |
| 7 | * FanNickname: Fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' referred to the Filmation series as "the one with the gorilla". |
| 8 | * GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The show has more fans in Latin/South America and in parts of Europe than it did in North America. |
| 9 | * NightmareFuel: Ironically, the ghosts and baddies in the show itself weren't really all that scary, likely by design. However, the area of the HQ where the boys suited up features weird, abstract demonic artwork that actually is frightening. It doesn't help that the demonic imagery is featured in the show's {{Episode Title Card}}s and ending credits (and the Filmation vanity card not appearing after the latter adds on to the weirdness). |
| 10 | * RetroactiveRecognition: The 1975 series episode "The Canterville Ghost" features actor Len Lesser as a jewel thief. Today, Lesser is better known as Uncle Leo from ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. |
| 11 | * SpiritualAdaptation: When ''Minty Comedic Arts'' made a video on this show, he described it as a live-action ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''. |
| 12 | * SpiritualSuccessor: To the earlier Tucker/Storch sitcom ''Series/FTroop''. |
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