YMMV / Super Ghostbusters

• Adorkable: The singer of "Ghostbusterswars" gushes on about Star Wars like a child on Christmas day.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • The protagonist cries at the end of "Ghostbusterz" after demanding money from the ghost of his dead grandma, but is this because he realises the immorality of the situation, or because he never got the money? The grandma is later brought up in "Ghestbest" where the singer wants to see her again, but is this out of grief, or because he still wants the money?
  • When the Rat Man says, "Oh no, it's murder!" at the end of "Ghost Buster", is he feeling guilty about having committed murder, pretending to feel guilty, or worried about being arrested for murder?
  • In "Ghosttbusters", is the singer's somber tone a result of him undergoing a Villainous BSoD after causing the death of everyone, or is it out of a Lack of Empathy — with him treating their deaths as a mild annoyance?
• Alternative Joke Interpretation:
  • Throughout the song about the lasagna, Joel makes a noise that could be interpreted as either crying or laughter — as such, is it his character being dramatic and crying over his lost lasagna, or Joel himself laughing at the ridiculousness of the song?
  • In one song, the singer calls the Ghostbusters claiming his toilet isn't working. When the person at the other end of the phone (presumably Janine) says that that's no reason to call them, the singer lies that the toilet is blocked with ectoplasm. Is the joke that the toilet was genuinely broken but the singer called the Ghostbusters instead of a plumber because he's a fanboy, or was the toilet not even broken and it was just a Prank Call?
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Vinny's cameo at the end of "Goatbuttsrz", which amounts to him abruptly shouting "CAPUSSI!" before disappearing.
• Crosses the Line Twice: George Lucas' death in Ghostbusterswars is a pretty good example. An angry fan killing the director of a new movie in their favorite series because the Fan-Preferred Couple didn't hook up by the end? A sobering reminder of how entitled certain subsections of fandom can be. Every fan shooting the original creator of the series, who didn't work on the new movie, in the head because two comic relief robots didn't make out? Now it's funny!
• Ham and Cheese: Joel clearly had a field day while delivering his lines. Special mentions go to "Ghost Buster", "Ghost-Boster", "Ghustbusters", "Gheestobesto", "Ghostdubster", and "Ghostbusterswars".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Three years after the release of Super Ghostbusters 2020 Teaser Trailer, Joel's prediction of Harold Ramis being recreated digitally in Ghostbusters: Afterlife would become spot-on.
• Parody Displacement: The original Super Ghostbusters album would end up getting more views on YouTube than the official soundtrack of the first film. The Super Ghostbusters 2020 Teaser Trailer would even have Joel point this out while showing that his album had 228,461 views, while the official soundtrack had only 87,582 views around the same time.
• Signature Line: The first line ("Ghostbusters! They're back in town!") is what often comes to mind in regards to the album — both due to Joel's enthusiastic delivery, and by the virtue of being basically the only remotely normal line in the entire album before devolving into complete chaos. Tellingly; the beginning of the deluxe version opens the exact same way, and the first lyric of "Ghostbusterswars" ("Star War, he is back.") is clearly based on said line.
• Signature Song:
  • For the original album, "Ghostbatista".
  • For the Deluxe edition, "Ghostbusterswars".
• Squick:
  • The first song is about a man's bladder being possessed.
  • One song involves a man getting food poisoning.
• Unexpected Character:
  • When the singer of "Ghostdubster" revealed his true identity, virtually no one expected him to be a younger Ghost Johnson, who was little more than a one-off antagonist in the original album. This was after many assumed that he was (or is) 'that homeless heroin addict' from "Gostbostr".
  • Given that both albums were themed around Ghostbusters, the appearences of Darth Vader and Yoda in "Ghostbusterswars", as well as the G-Man and Gordon Freeman in "Ghostandbust", came out of left field.
  • While he doesn't show up in person, Vinny abruptly appears at the end of "Goatbuttsrz" to deliver the final line ("CAPUSSI!").

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