Music / Super Ghostbusters

"Ghostbusters, they're back in town!"

"THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO RAY PARKER JR., THE ULTIMATE DEATH METAL MASTER!"

— "Ghost Boston"

Super Ghostbusters, released on November 20, 2018, is the third studio album by Swedish Heavy Metal musician Vargskelethor. A radical contrast from his traditional sound, the album shifts to avant-garde Comedy Music, more in line with the leftfield humor of his livestreams as Vinesauce Joel. Heavily influenced by the likes of Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and especially Outsider Music artist Wesley Willis, the album is based entirely around various MIDI renditions of "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr.

The record is a Concept Album based around a babbling Cloudcuckoolander armed with a cheap Fisher-Price keyboard, who narrates the multitude of supernatural, mundane, and generally bizarre troubles that face him throughout his life, both singing praises of the Ghostbusters and annoying them out of their wits. According to Vargskelethor, the album was created as a means of distracting himself during an internet outage, with the resultant boredom translating to the increasingly surreal tone of the album's content.

With Word Salad and Toilet Humor abound, Super Ghostbusters was released suddenly on an unsuspecting Twitch chat before being officially uploaded to YouTube in its entirety four days later. With every track being titled some variation on "Ghostbusters.mp3", there really is no anticipating what insane new direction the album will take without listening to it oneself.

On March 26, 2023, Joel released a deluxe edition on Bandcamp and YouTube Music and streamed the entirety on Twitch. The portion of the stream covering the bonus tracks in turn got its own upload on Joel's YouTube channel. The Deluxe Edition includes an additional joke track released around the original teaser to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, as well as two other new tracks by Joel and some chaotic remixes submitted by fans.

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Tracklist:

All of the track names are a variation of "Ghostbusters.mp3," so another (more fitting) description of each track is given here as well.

1. "Ghostbusters (You Need to Pee)" (0:58)
2. "Ghost Buster (The Ratman)" (0:48)
3. "Ghostbusterz (Grandma Has Died)" (0:56)
4. "Ghost-Boster (Ghost Burger)" (1:19)
5. "Ghastbistin (The Lasagna)" (0:45)
6. "Ghostbusterss (Ghost Pizza)" (1:01)
7. "Ghustbusters (The Ghost is Stealing my Money)" (0:22)
8. "Gostbostr (Smonk)" (0:57)
9. "Ghostabusta (Spooky Spaghetti)" (0:49)
10. "Ghooooostbuster (I Shit My Pants)" (0:56)
11. "Ghostingbust (Ray Parker Jr. in Concert)" (0:44)
12. "Ghostbatista (Milk)" (1:03)
13. "Gheestobesto (The Nutt Buster)" (0:58)
14. "Ghastbasters (The Ghostbusters Break Joel's Legs)" (1:18)
15. "Ghestbest (Ghost Johnson)" (0:49)
16. "Ghosttbusters (I Poisoned the Water Supply)" (0:16)
17. "Ghost Bast (Cook a Ghost on the Grill)" (1:12)
18. "Ghoostbuusters (Ray Parker Jr., Please Don't Sue Me)" (1:02)
19. "Ghosterboster (Metallica Mashup)" (0:27)
20. "Ghstbstrs (...Porno?)" (0:47)
21. "Ghost Bus-Ters (When You Fart into the Microphone)" (0:57)
22. "Ghost Boston (Metal Cover)" (1:22)
23. "Ghostboster (Pick up the Phone) (0:25)
24. "Ghost Bologna (2$ Fisher-Price Keyboard)" (0:46)

Deluxe Edition tracks

25. "Ghostbusters Afterlife" (Super Ghostbusters 2020 Teaser Trailer) (1:44)
26. Baconguden - "Ghostdubster" (Vaping Grandma) (3:18)
27. "Ghostbusterswars" (Star Wars 9) (2:39)
28. Ilya the Karbyurator - "Ghost-inside" (One Time I Shit My Pants) (0:50)
29. EvilStevil TheKenevil - "Ghostandbust" (Cockbusters) (1:22)
30. Ivan Simonov - "Ghostmoney" (I Poisoned The Pizza Place) (1:18)
31. Anster - "Ghost'n Bustins" (YTP: Quest For Money) (0:49)
32. MisterPrawn - "Goatbuttsrz" (Illegal Grandma) (1:02)
33. DatAnnonymousBlock - "Googboob" (My Butte Is Invading My Butte) (1:13)
34. Bees with chainsaws - "Gotbut" ([e-mail]‏‏‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎fuckyourself.com) (0:51)
35. Anster - "Groosebrusters" (The Ghostbusters take Joel's money) (1:18)
36. Mehrio - "Grandbusters" (You Need to Pee but it's a high quality rip) (1:12)
37. "Ghostbusters (Busting Makes Me Feel Good)" (New Metal Cover..?) (2:07)

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Watch the fuck out, it's me! I'm gonna bust a trope!

• Adaptational Alternate Ending: Unlike The Rise of Skywalker, the final scene of Star Wars 9 has Darth Vader bang a robot.
• Adaptational Comic Relief: While Darth Vader is a No-Nonsense Nemesis in canon (but not one without a twisted sense of humor), the Vader in "Ghostbusterswars" is far goofier; proudly declaring that he shall bang a robot for the final scene of Star Wars 9.
• Adaptational Sexuality: The Darth Vader in "Ghostbusterswars" lacks his canon counterpart's Single-Target Sexuality, as he has no problem with banging a robot for the final scene of Star Wars 9.
• Adaptation Title Change: Implied. The singer of "Ghostbusterswars" exclusively refers to The Rise of Skywalker as Star Wars 9 — though it's unknown if this is the movie's actual title, or just a nickname.
• Adapted Out: Implied in "Ghostbusterswars". The characters introduced in the sequel trilogy are never heard from or mentioned, with the singer only listing those from the original trilogy (and Jar-Jar Binks as the prequel trilogy's representation). Additionally, a throwaway line ("Darth Vader — resurrection; complete.") implies that Vader took Palpatine's spot as the Big Bad of Star Wars 9.
• Addled Addict: The singer in "Gostbostr" is known as "that homeless heroin addict."
• All of Them: All of the 'fans' killed George Lucas following the release of Star Wars 9.
• Ambiguous Ending: We never find out if the Ghostbusters went through with the singer's demands to "DESTROY THE CITY!" at the end of "Ghost-Boster".
• Amusing Injuries: Frequently suffered by the singer, often overlapping with Asshole Victim.
• Animated Music Video: An unofficial, but officially endorsed one was made for "Ghostbatista" by web animator Zeurel. Later, Zeurel made another music video, this time for "Ghostbusterss"
• Ass Shove: The Ghostbusters threaten to shove the P.K.E. Meter up the singer's bumhole for repeatedly calling them. When he asks how much that costs, they instead just break his legs.
• Atrocious Alias: The singer in "Gostbostr", in addition to calling himself Spider-Man, states that he's also known as "that homeless heroin addict."
• Badass Boast: After the singer of "Ghostdubster" announces that he quit school, he proclaims "I am now... 'Epic... Vape... Ghost... Johnson'! And I might be five-years old, but I'm hitting the road for that... epic! Gamer! Lifestyle!"
• The Bad Guy Wins:
  • The Ratman successfully murders the Ghostbusters in his song.
  • The angry fans succeed in killing George Lucas after being unsatisfied with Star Wars 9 at the end of "Ghostbusterswars".
• Bait-and-Switch: "Ghost Bast" starts out as mostly a direct cover of the Ghostbusters theme, but then transitions into talking about grilling ghosts and mocking the listener for expecting a regular rendition of the song. The very next song actually does a rendition of the (first verse of the) theme song.
• Bait-and-Switch Compassion:
  • "Ghostbusterz" opens with the singer proclaiming "GRANDMA HAS DIED!" in anguish. After a short pause, the singer clarifies that they're pissed because their grandma owed him money.
  • When we first meet Ghost Johnson in "Ghestbest", he reassures the grieving deep voiced man that he can ressurect people with his drums, and offers to bring his grandma back — seemingly for free. However, when the grandma turns into a zombie and attacks the latter, Ghost Johnson cheerfully says "No refunds!" as he presumably steals his money.
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • The singer says milk makes your skeleton strong and healthy, but it ends up getting too strong and bursting out of his skin.
  • The deep voiced man wanted to bring his grandma back no matter what, and he was willing to have Ghost Johnson play the drums to do just that. It's just not the way he intended.
• Big "NO!": At the end of "Ghostbusterswars", this was the singer's reaction to George Lucas getting murdered out of Disproportionate Retribution.
• Biting-the-Hand Humor: "Ghostbusters Afterlife" involves Joel trying to pull this off while singing for the movie's teaser, even going over how Sony was paying him and Super Ghostbusters got more views on YouTube than the official soundtrack at the time. The head of Sony Pictures did not appreciate that one bit and put Joel back in the cage.
• Bittersweet Ending: "Gostbostr" ends with the singer gaining superpowers following the ghost's attempt on his life — at the cost of him becoming a homeless heroin addict.
• Bookends:
  • In a meta sense; George Lucas was declared dead in a car crash at the start of his career, and "Ghostbusterswars" ends with George being declared dead, seemingly for real, after being shot in the head.
  • The first song on the album has the Ghostbusters use their proton packs on the singer's dick, which hurts. The last song of the Deluxe Edition ends with the singer buying a vaccum at the Home Depot for the purpose of doing the same, except the experience this time around is more pleasurable.
• Boom, Headshot!: The singer of "Ghostbusterswars" notes that George Lucas died after the wrathful fans shot him in the head.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In "Ghostbusterswars", the singer's list of characters returning in Star Wars 9 is capped off with "Anakin choked his wife. Oh, what a clown!" ("SLAUGHTERED THEM LIKE ANIMALS!")
• Breathless Non Sequitur: The singer of "Ghostbusterswars" gushes about Star Wars 9 being "so fine", before announcing that George Lucas died in the same line.
• Call-Back: The end of "Ghost Bast" has Joel make fun of the audience for thinking the last song on the album was going to be good. In the Deluxe Edition, the actual last song ("Ghostbusters (Busting Makes Me Feel Good)") is, much like "Ghost Bast", also a straightforward cover until the end. Joel once again makes fun of the audience for thinking "this time" was going to be different.
• Came Back Strong: Upon being resurrected in Star Wars 9, Darth Vader's updated suit came equipped with lightsaber feet.
• Came Back Wrong: Ghost Johnson resurrects the deep voiced man's grandma with his drum skills, but she doesn't have any skin and attacks him.
  Ghost Johnson: No refunds!
• The Cameo: Through Stock Footage, Vinny abruptly appears at the end of "Goatbuttsrz" to deliver the final line ("CAPUSSI!").
• Canon Character All Along: Not exactly a canon character, but it takes until the end of "Ghostdubster" to reveal that the child vaping his grandma's ashes was actually Ghost Johnson from the original album.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Joel swears just as liberally in his songs as he does in his regular speech.
• Concept Album: The whole album centers around the theme of bizarrely parodying the Ghostbusters franchise.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: In "Ghost Bus-Ters", the singer claims Ghostbusters came out in 1986, when it actually came out in 1984. The closed captions for the album call Joel out for this.
• Crippling Overspecialization: The Ghostbusters only brought ghost-busting weapons to fight the Ratman, and are easily dispatched when he pulls out his gun.
  Ratman: The Ghostbusters, are ill-equipped. They only have ghost-busting weapons, but they should've brought a shotgun!
• Cruel Twist Ending: "Ghestbest" ends with the deep voiced man's grandma being resurrected... as a zombie.
• Cursed with Awesome: Getting shot by an evil ghost's magic spell gives the singer superpowers in "Gostbostr", although it doesn't help his drug habits.
• Death by Cameo: "Ghostbusterswars" has George Lucas end up getting Killed Offscreen by wrathful fans sometime after the release of Star Wars 9.
• Death Is Cheap: The singer and the Ghostbusters die at least once each, but are fine by the next song.
• Dem Bones: When Joel drinks milk in Ghostbatista, his skeleton becomes too strong and healthy and bursts out of his body.
• Demonic Possession: The singer's butt gets invaded by a ghost in "Ghostbusterss", causing him to roar demonically and/or makes him order a ghost pizza. Pizza Baker Man isn't too happy with the protagonist either way.
• Department of Redundancy Department: "Ghostdubster" has the singer call himself a "stupid moron" after running out of vape juice.
• Didn't Think This Through: The singer poisons the water supply and is surprised when everyone who drinks it dies.
  Protagonist: I poisoned the water supply. Now everyone dead. Whoops.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • After McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken both serve the singer food with ghosts inside, he calls the Ghostbusters and demands that they destroy the city.
  • After the singer orders Spooky Spaghetti and asks to make it quick, the spaghetti shop worker throws the singer out on the street and repeatedly punches and kicks him in the dick.
  • Because Star Wars 9 did not include a scene of C-3PO and R2-D2 making out, a group of angry fans shot George Lucas dead at his ranch. This isn't even accounting the fact that he likely had nothing to do with the scene getting cut.
• Drugs Are Good: Smonking a ghost in a crack pipe gives the singer superpowers. Subverted in that his habits cause him to become a homeless heroin addict.
• Ectoplasm: Discussed in one song, in which the singer lies that his toilet is blocked with ectoplasm.
• Enfant Terrible: According to a throwaway line, the Villain Protagonist of "Ghostdubster" is five-years old.
• Epic Fail: In "Ghost Bologna", Joel's keyboard breaks down when he tries to sing another song.
• "Everybody Dies" Ending: In "Ghosttbusters", the singer poisoned the water supply, resulting in the death of everyone. Whoops.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": None of the Ghostbusters are ever identified by name, though their actors are.
• Evil All Along: Ghost Johnson, the seemingly decent drummer who offered to resurrect the deep voiced man's grandma, reveals his true colors when he cheerfully states "No refunds!" as he presumably steals his money.
• Exact Words: The final line of "Ghost Bast" has the singer note: "You'd think the last song would be good, but... HA-HA!" However; he didn't specify that the current track was the last song...
• Fake-Out Fade-Out: "Ghost Bast" seemingly concludes with the singer taunting the audience for thinking that the song would be good... before '[laff strikes back]'.
• Faux Affably Evil: Ghost Johnson's reaction to the deep voiced man being attacked by his grandma is to cheerfully claim "No refunds!"
• The Food Poisoning Incident: In "Ghost-Boster," the singer gets food poisoned from eating a burger with a ghost inside. That makes him angry.
• Four Is Death: The outro that closed out the livestream release of the album is four seconds long, fitting for an album focused entirely on ghosts.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You:
  • "Ghostbusters", "Ghost Buster", and "Ghostbusterz" are narrated in Second-Person Narration, putting the listener at the center of the insanity.
  • Right as the ghost in "Gheestobesto" is about to bust another nut, the singer proclaims "And now it's time for you to nut to this song!"
  • "Ghostdubsters" is also partly in second-person, with the singer blaming them for using up all of the "vape juice" and threatening to kill them.
• For Want Of A Nail: Halfway through "Ghostbusterswars", George Lucas decides to sell Star Wars to Disney. Although he's rewarded an impressive amount of money in the process, the deal ends up costing his life when the wrathful fans broke into his ranch and gunned him down following the backlash of Star Wars 9.
• The Grunting Orgasm: A ghost busts a huge nut in "Gheestobesto", lasting fifteen seconds as the background music goes wild, then immediately does it again.
• Guns Are Useless: Inverted. The Ghostbusters' equipment proves to be no match for the Ratman's gun.
• He's Back!:
  • The very first line of the album is an excited "Ghostbusters! They're back in town!" This winds up being basically the only remotely normal line in the entire album as from the second line onwards it devolves into complete chaos. The beginning of the Deluxe Edition portion opens the exact same way.
  • "Ghostbusterswars" opens with the singer gushing that the Star Wars cast is back — which includes the likes of Darth Vader, Yoda, Chewbacca, and Jar-Jar Binks.
• Horrible Judge of Character: The singer of "Ghostbusterswars" notes that Anakin choked his wife, before cheerfully proclaiming "Oh, what a clown!"
• Hotter and Sexier: This version of Star Wars 9 seems to be far more lewd than The Rise of Skywalker, as it features Darth Vader banging a robot during the final scene.
• I Am Not Shazam: In-universe. The first lyric of "Ghostbusterswars" is "Star War, he is back", implying the singer thinks that "Star War" (singular, not plural) is the name of a character.
• I Didn't Mean to Kill Him: The Ratman inadvertently escalates a home invasion into murder by shooting the Ghostbusters with his gun.
  Ratman: But I... have a gun, so I kill them instead, oh no, it's murder!
• Idiot Houdini:
  • Downplayed in "Gostbostr". Although the singer tried to smonk a ghost, and ended up gaining superpowers when the ghost tried to attack him, he still ended up becoming a homeless heroin addict.
  • The singer in "Ghosttbusters" poisoned the water supply, not realizing that it would cause the death of everyone, and ended up becoming the sole survivor as a result.
• I Love the Dead: Bill Murray, and possibly his co-stars, end up screwing ghosts in "Ghstbstrs".
• I'm Going to Hell for This: In "Ghostdubster", after the singer/Ghost Johnson breaks into a cemetery to vape the ashes of the dead, he says "What is that smell? That, boys, is me going to Hell!"
• The Immodest Orgasm: Exaggerated in "Gheestobesto". "GHOOOOOOST NUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTT!!!"
• Incoming Ham: "Ghostbusterz" and "Ghooooostbuster" open with the singer abruptly proclaiming "GRANDMA HAS DIED!" and "I SHIT MY PANTS!" respectively
• In Name Only: Lampshaded in "Ghostbatista", where the singer admits his quest for milk has nothing to do with Ghostbusters. Later, his skeleton rips out of his skin.
• Insistent Terminology: The Ghostbusters' proton packs are never referred to by name. Instead, Joel seems to call it "the gun."
• Intentional Engrish for Funny: Joel himself speaks English fluently, while the singer is much more stereotypically Swedish and choppy with his language (except for "Ghost Boston" and "Ghost Bologna", in which Joel breaks character when he advertises himself in the former and when his keyboard breaks down in the latter).
• Interface Spoiler: Although the singer of "Ghost Bast" claims that the track is "the last song" (or not, if one goes by Exact Words), the track list inducates that there is still 7 songs left.
• I Resemble That Remark!: Immediately after the singer of "Ghostbusterswars" states that Anakin is "a clown!" for choking his wife, Anakin shouts that he "SLAUGHTERED THEM LIKE ANIMALS!"
• Jerkass Genie: Ghost Johnson resurrects the other character's grandma with a drum solo like he promised, only for her to come back without skin and attack her grandson. He even claims "NO REFUNDS" as he presumably steals his money.
• "Just Joking" Justification: When the Ghostbusters arrive at the singer's house to beat him up for one too many calls, he pleads with them that it was just a joke, to no avail.
• Killed Offscreen: Near the end of "Ghostbusterswars", George Lucas is abruptly revealed to have died sometime after the release of Star Wars 9.
• Lack of Empathy: In "Ghosttbusters", the singer's reaction to everyone dying after he poisoned the water supply is a mildly annoyed "Whoops."
• Lame Comeback: In "Ghostdubster", the singer rejects his parent's demand to shut off the music by saying "This is not music! This is meeee!". Later, after being told to do his homework, the singer's retort is "I quit schoooool!"
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: "Ghostbusterswars" opens with Darth Vader saying "Luke, I Am Your Father.", something that isn't revealed until near the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Later on, a certain line ("Darth Vader — resurrection; complete.") alludes to his fate at the end of Return of the Jedi.
• Lethally Stupid: In "Ghosttbusters", the singer poisoned the water supply, unaware that this would kill everyone.
• Letting the Air out of the Band: The album only stops after Joel's Fisher-Price keyboard breaks, causing the MIDI to slow down and corrupt before failing entirely.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: The livestream release of the album ends with this trope being mentioned by name.
• Loony Fan: "Ghostbusterswars" is sung by a very enthusiastic Star Wars fanboy.
• Lost Food Grievance: In "Ghastbistin", the singer gets really upset because his lasagna was eaten by a ghost.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: "Ghostbusterswars" opens with Darth Vader saying the trope word-by-word (even though he actually said "No, I am your father." in the original film).
• Manipulative Editing: More than half of the Deluxe Edition's tracks are basically sentence mixed parodies of the original album, to the point some of them wouldn't look out of place in a YouTube Poop.
• May the Farce Be with You: "Ghostbusterswars" is themed entirely around Star Wars.
• Miniscule Rocking: A vast majority of tracks on the album don't crack the two-minute mark, and a significant chunk of them aren't even one minute long. "Ghosttbusters" is the most prominent example, being only sixteen seconds long.
• Minor Insult Meltdown: After being told by his parents to shut off the music, the singer of "Ghostdubster" got "really angry, and shit [his] diaper."
• Misplaced Retribution: Because Star Wars 9 did not include a scene of C-3PO and R2-D2 making out, a group of angry fans shot George Lucas dead at his ranch. This is despite the fact that he likely had nothing to do with the scene getting cut, as he sold the Star Wars franchise.
• Narrow Parody: "Ghostbusters Afterlife" is a parody of the film's teaser trailer, not the final film itself.
• Nice Guy: The deep voiced man in "Ghestbest" is very cordial to Ghost Johnson despite his depression, and just wants to see his grandma again.
• No Ending:
  • While the singer tries to explain in "Ghstbstrs" how the Ghostbusters' actors ended up doing pornos with real ghosts, he ends up laughing too hard to finish the anecdote, and the song abruptly ends.
  • The album itself ends on a rather abrupt note, thanks to Joel's keyboard breaking down when he supposedly actually wants to sing the song properly this time.
• Non-Indicative Name: Zig-zagged. All of the track names are a variation of "Ghostbusters.mp3". Yet the Ghostbusters themselves end up becoming a no-show in many of the tracks ("This song has nothing to do with Ghostbusters!") — although they still involve the Ghostbusters midi and/or the supernatural. And then there's "Ghostbusterswars", which features neither.
• Obliviously Evil: The singer in "Ghosttbusters" genuinely didn't realize that poisoning the water supply would kill everyone — until it was too late.
• Odd Job Gods: At the end of "Ghostdubster", the singer prays to the "Gods of Vape" to make the song end. It works.
• Offing the Mouth: "Ghastbasters" ends with the Ghostbusters (non-lethally) breaking the singer's legs after the latter made a snarky remark when threatened.
• Only in It for the Money: The only reason the Ghostbusters still respond to the singer's insane calls is because he still pays them. Subverted when they feel guilty and leave after the singer yells very cruelly at his grandma's ghost.
• Origins Episode: "Ghostdubster" is one for Ghost Johnson from the original album. He bought a vape pen off eBay.
• Out-of-Genre Experience: While not too dissimilar from the gags and bits scattered throughout Joel's livestream output, the avant-garde comedy of Super Ghostbusters is a massive deviation away from the Heavy Metal albums before and after it in his discography as Vargskelethor.
• Overly Long Gag: The entire album is just Joel singing multiple bizarre songs over various different MIDIs of the Ghostbusters theme song, some of which don't even mention ghosts at all, yet still have the Ghostbusters involved somehow.
• Parody Displacement: In-universe. A throwaway line in "Ghostbusters Afterlife" has Joel point out that Super Ghostbusters had more views on YouTube than the official soundtrack at the time.
• Percussive Maintenance: Joel attempts to fix his dying Fisher-Price keyboard by slamming and yelling at it. This ends up breaking it for good.
• Police Are Useless:
  • The cops don't take your calls about a Ratman in your basement seriously, so you have to call the Ghostbusters instead.
  • The police demand the singer stops calling after he reports that a ghost ate his lasagna in "Ghastbistin".
• Potty Failure:
  • The singer shits his pants twice in "Ghooooostbuster", ostensibly to protest the ghosts being shitty.
  • After being told by his parents to shut off the music, the singer of "Ghostdubster" got "really angry, and shit [his] diaper."
• Prank Call: Seemingly everyone is tired of getting calls from the singer for this reason, and eventually the Ghostbusters take it into their own hands to put a stop to it.
  • In "Ghastbaster", the singer claims his call was a prank when the Ghostbusters come over and break his legs.
    Protagonist: No! It was joke! Noooo! It was only a prank! AAAAH!
  • In "Ghostboster", the person on the phone tell the listener that it's something important and then says the listener "smells of poo poo pee pee".
• Production Throwback: Two of the songs in the Deluxe Edition reference Joel's work on Vinesauce:
  • Vinny suddenly appears for a line at the end of "Goatbuttsrz".
  • "Grandbusters" is a parody of Joel's infamous reaction to 7 GRAND DAD, in addition to being done in the style of a SiIvaGunner rip (where the reaction is one of the channel's staple memes).
• Rat Men: One of them breaks your door in, sneaks in the basement, and eats all your cheese at night. He eventually murders the Ghostbusters.
• Rearrange the Song: Almost every track on the album is a different version of the Ghostbusters theme. Tracks differ in tempo and length, add and subtract instruments, completely replace lyrics, and even vary up the vocal melody from song to song.
• Re-Cut: The YouTube Music version of the Deluxe Edition features a slightly different tracklist compared to the Bandcamp edition. Namely, "Googboob"/"Gotbut" and "Goatbuttsrz"/"Groosebrusters" are sequenced as one track each, with the order of the bonus tracks being altered as a result.
• Robosexuals Are Creeps: According to Darth Vader, the final scene of Star Wars 9 has him bang a robot. He proclaims this in a rather vulgar manner with Hulk Speak.
• Running Gag: Calling the Ghostbusters, food-service workers, and cops, and getting beaten up by them.
• Sampling:
  • The singer produces an Archvile's scream when a ghost invades his butt in "Ghostbusterss".
  • The vocals to "Ghosterbuster" are lifted from Metallica's "One".
• Self-Backing Vocalist: Of the sillier kind in "Ghostingbust", a more ominous kind in "Ghoostbuusters", and then a more serious kind in "Ghost Boston".
• Self-Deprecation:
  • The cover of the album features the logo for Great Value, the in-store generic brand of Walmart, implying that the album is a cheap knockoff of the Ghostbusters brand.
  • The final line of "Ghost Bast" has the singer note: "You'd think the last song would be good, but... HA-HA!"
  • The singer thinks the album needs to end already at the conclusion of "Ghost Bus-Ters".
  • Joel, seemingly As Himself, awkwardly plugs himself after "Ghost Boston", sharply contrasting with his best-produced (read: only sincere) song on the album.
  • The final song of album, "Ghost Bologna", features Joel beating up a Fisher-Price keyboard he bought for two dollars, which he ostensibly used to make the whole album.
  • Following the death of George Lucas in "Ghostbusterswars", the singer declares that the song needs to end.
  • "Ghostbusters (Busting Makes Me Feel Good)", another straight cover that suddenly has Joel switch to singing lyrics in line with the rest of the album, ends with him saying "You idiots thought it was gonna be it this time, huh?" The chorus responds by swearing in frustration.
• Self-Referential Track Placement: "Ghostbepilogue" (the track that contained The Stinger) is the last track on the original release of the album.
• Sensory Abuse: Joel yelling (and/or just talking) right in front of the mic and as close to it as possible during "Ghost Bus-Ters". The Deluxe Edition has "Ghostandbust" (about various kinds of genital torture), at the end. There is a cock and ball torture segment, and a strange sound as the C&BT goes on until a distorted version of the Ghostbusters MIDI plays.
• Sexbot: According to Darth Vader, the final scene of Star Wars 9 has him bang a robot.
• Shipper on Deck: Exaggerated. The fans of Star Wars were so obsessed with shipping C-3PO and R2-D2 that, when Star Wars 9 did not include a scene of them making out, an angry group (if the singer is to be believed, said group consists of every single fan active) shot George Lucas dead at his ranch.
• Shout-Out:
  • The "super" on the logo is taken from Super Paper Mario.
  • The singer of "Gostbostr" gains the power to shoot web and climb walls, and says you may know him as Spider-Man, or as that homeless heroin addict.
  • Joel's voice lapses into his Mario impression in "Ghost Bus-Ters".
  • The livestream ends with Joel impersonating the memetic "BUP" voice clip (itself a modified sample of Toad from Mario Kart 64).
  • Ghost Johnson plays drums so good, he brings back the dead. Sound familiar?
• Sole Survivor: The singer in "Ghosttbusters" is the only one left alive after he poisoned the water supply
• Spared By Adaptation: Despite ending the original trilogy by turning into a force ghost in the original canon, Darth Vader ends up resurrected in a physical form during the events of Star Wars 9.
• Spear Carrier:
  • At the end of "Ghostbatista", the final line ("I LIVE!") is exclaimed by the singer's skeleton.
  • In "Ghostbusterswars", Darth Vader(/Anakin Skywalker) and Yoda have three lines and one line respectively.
  • Vinny is heard shouting "CAPUSSI!" at the end of "Goatbuttsrz".
• Spoiling Shout-Out: While Darth Vader's first line ("Luke, I Am Your Father") in "Ghostbusterswars" is a Late-Arrival Spoiler within itself, the song also spoils other details related to both the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy of Star Wars. This includes Anakin "SLAUGHTER(ing the Tusken Raiders) LIKE ANIMALS!" and choking his wife, Luke learning the true identity of Yoda, and Darth Vader's eventual fate.
• Start of Darkness: "Ghostdubster" is revealed to be one for Ghost Johnson from the original album. Turns out that buying a vape pen off eBay does not do wonders to one's ego.
• Stealth Sequel: "Ghostdubster" is revealed to be a prequel to "Ghestbest", as the five-year singer is a younger Ghost Johnson. Even before the reveal, it's implied that the singer is also 'that homeless heroin addict' from "Gostbostr", as they're both stoners that pronounce 'smoke' as 'smonk'.
• Stylistic Suck: The whole album, with the exceptions of "Ghost Boston" and "Ghostbusters (Busting Makes Me Feel Good)" (until the end, at least.)
• Sudden Downer Ending:
  • Played for Laughs with "Ghostbatista", which starts off as the singer attempting to get milk, before singing about the benefits of milk. Then, during the last ten seconds, the singer's skeleton becomes sapient and bursts out of his skin.
  • Also Played for Laughs in "Ghostbusterswars". The song mostly consists of the singer gushing about Star Wars. However, following the release of Star Wars 9, George Lucas was found dead at his ranch — murdered by angry fans because the film did not include a scene of C-3PO and R2-D2 making out. The singer then declares that the song needs to end.
• Surprisingly Normal Backstory: Played for Laughs in "Ghostdubster", which reveals that Ghost Johnson's Start of Darkness was triggered by... buying a vape pen off eBay when he was five-years old.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death:
  • The Sudden Downer Ending of "Ghostbatista" has the singer go from singing happily to panicking as his skeleton gains sapience and bursts out of his skin.
  • Near the end of "Ghostbusterswars", George Lucas is abruptly revealed to have been Killed Offscreen sometime after the release of Star Wars 9.
• Synthetic Voice Actor:
  • A text-to-speech program reads the Wikipedia article's description of milk during the bridge in "Ghostbatista".
  • "Ghostbusters (Busting Makes Me Feel Good)" ends with a text-to-speech program reciting the line "busting makes me feel good."
• Take That, Audience!:
  • The final line of "Ghost Bast" has the singer taunt the viewer for expecting a regular rendition of the song, before noting: "You'd think the last song would be good, but... HA-HA!"
  • The ending of "Ghostbusterswars", where a group of angry fans murder George Lucas after being disappointed with Star Wars 9, is clearly a jab at those who sent death threats to the actors that participated in the Star Wars movies, starting with The Phantom Menace. As well as shippers that overreact to those who don't agree with their pairings, as the fans targeted George because the film did not include a scene of C-3PO and R2-D2 making out.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: "I got food poisoned! That made me angry!"
• Toilet Humor:
  • The very first song describes that the Ghostbusters have to remove a ghost from your bladder because you need to pee.
  • The singer mentions that he shits his pants twice (the second time is to protest the ghosts in the city) in "Ghooooostbuster".
  • The singer asks the Ghostbusters to unclog his toilet in "Ghastbasters", and they break his legs for it.
  • The singer threatens to fart into the microphone in "Ghost Bus-Ters", but mercifully does not.
  • Someone on the phone tells the listener they smell of poo-poo pee-pee in "Ghostboster".
• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: The five-year-old Villain Protagonist of "Ghostdubsters" smokes cremains, threatens to kill "Mr. Minecraft", and breaks into a cemetary to get more "vape juice".
• Typecasting: According to "Ghstbstrs", the actors who played the original Ghostbusters ended up making ghost-themed pornos.
• Undercrank: In "Ghustbusters" and "Gheestobesto", while the singer rants about ghosts stealing his money and when a ghost busts a nut respectively, the Ghostbusters MIDI present in every track (except for "Ghostingbust", "Ghstbstrs", and "Ghost Boston") plays at its fastest possible speed. In the Deluxe Edition, "Gotbut" has the MIDI at its fastest, even faster than "Ghustbusters" and "Gheestobesto".
• Unexplained Recovery: Despite Darth Vader famously dying and returning as a force ghost in Return of the Jedi, Star Wars 9 has Vader return in a physical form ("Darth Vader — resurrection; complete.") to bang a robot during the final scene. This is a clear Take That! to the Opening Scroll of the original ninth installment, which reveals that Palpatine recovered from his previous death. Somehow. And with the same level of abruptness.
• Villainous Lament: Downplayed with "Ghosttbusters". Although it involves the singer somberly reflecting on them poisoning the water supply, their reaction to everyone dying is a simple "Whoops."
• Villain Protagonist:
  • The Ratman in "Ghost Buster".
  • The singer in "Ghosttbusters" was the culprit of the poisoning of the water supply. Although he was unaware that this would kill everyone, he is only mildly annoyed by this revelation.
  • The singer in "Ghostdubster" is an Enfant Terrible who smonked his grandma's ashes, and broke into a cemetary to supply himself with more vape juice. Near the end of the song, it's revealed that the singer is a younger Ghost Johnson.
• Villain Song:
  • "Ghost Buster" is one for The Ratman.
  • "Ghostdubster" is sung by an Enfant Terrible known as 'Epic Vape Ghost Johnson'.
• Water Source Tampering: In "Ghosttbusters", the singer poisons the water supply and it ends up killing everyone.
• Wham Line:
  • After grandma is ressurected at the end of "Ghestbest", the deep voiced man's last words are "Oh my god; SHE DOESN'T HAVE ANY SKIN!" This is followed by Ghost Johnson taunting him by cheerfully claiming "No refunds!"
  • After the singer of "Ghostdubster" announces that he quit school, he proclaims "I am now... 'Epic... Vape... Ghost... Johnson'!"
  • Near the end of "Ghostbusterswars", the song takes a drastic turn when the singer proclaims "George Lucas is dead."
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: The final line of "Ghost Bast" has the singer note: "You'd think the last song would be good, but... HA-HA!" It takes 7 more tracks before the album finally ends.

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Joel: Now let's never speak about this thing again. The End. BUP.