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Just-Us Society Episode 1: The Real Ghostbusters

Hi and welcome to the first Just-Us Society. I'm Matty H, and along with Snapper of Fat Polly's Comix (another awesome comics website that you need to check out) we've teamed up to bring you commentary goodness to classic 'toons. This time around we are watching The Real Ghostbusters. Snapper is a huge GB fan and I love the movies but haven't ever seen a cartoon. He picked one of the weirder ones for me to start.
Who ya gonna call..?
It's series 1 episode 8 if you'd like to follow along. "When Halloween Was Forever" by none other than J. Michael Staczynski from Spider-man writing fame. 
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In this episode wikipedia tells me that Samhain, the spirit of Halloween, is released from his centuries-old prison and seeks to make Halloween last forever by stopping time. Can the Ghostbusters prevent eternal Halloween? Let's find out...
  • Matty H
    ok lets do this

  • Snapper
    on it
    that disco music is such a welcome noise

  • Matty H
    having only ever seen the movies this is going to be jarring haha
    is that ghost all beard?

Yes. This is Beard Ghost.
  • Matty H
    aha that ghost looks like a digimon reject

  • Snapper
    did you notice that news crew just screeched to a halt and had to just go straight off? imagine being that poor woman having to be just ready to go instantly

  • Matty H
    It's a good job the ghostbuster brought their own street signs too
    Egon's hair is epic
    I know in cartoons they often change likenesses slightly but that hair Oh Em Gee

  • Snapper
    i have no idea how he can keep it up, doing that every morning

  • Matty H
    I reckon he sleeps in a giant curler

I've got hair envy.
  • Snapper
    peter sounds so down to earth, he's the john lennon of the group
    hell of a soundsystem in there

  • Matty H
    Is that where halloween started or have they just made this up haha
    Slimer was just copping a feel
    What a beautiful sunset
  • Matty H
    These ghosts are getting increasingly elaborate
    Oh god I swear these ghosts get off to the boogy music

  • Snapper
    slimer looking for treats in egons socks haha
    slimer definitely copped a feel

He's really handsy.
  • Matty HJanine looks the spitting image of her movie counterpart

  • Snapper
    the eyes are going insane on this cartoon, nobody has any idea how much effort it is to try and capture them in screenshots
    i guess i'm relating to the ghostbusters catching ghosts

  • Matty H
    clearly they weren't planning on this kind of scrutiny
    Legit line "It's not christmas" in a halloween special.

  • Snapper
    you're right on the elaborate ghosts, these ones are wearing clothes! how are they doing that? like multicoloured clothes no less, these aren't your typical one-colour-ghouls

  • Matty H
    I always wondered why Slimer was such a big deal. He's in the movie for like 5 minutes

  • Snapper
    better than the sidekick they had in the 'Evolution' cartoon. there's some weird cartoons for adult movies in the world.

  • Matty H
    Poor Slimer though. I feel for him not wanting to be a ghost.

  • Snapper
    Holy shit Sam Hain's the bad guy! he terrified me as a kid, think he was a big deal in Extreme Ghostbusters.

  • Matty H
    Do you remember the mummy cartoon? That was messed up

  • Snapper
    wait was that Mummies Alive! or something?
    mummies as superheroes, brilliant.

  • Matty H
    These ghosts look like they should be in mystery packets and sold in newsagents
    The voice acting is spot on
    Why is a clown reporting the news?!
"Several children died in a fire today..."

  • Snapper
    fuck sam hain's voice is legit terrifying

    slimer just got called out on being a traitor just for moving in the crowd. they're good.

     canteen full of skeletons, that's the second scariest canteen sequence I've ever seen- after that terrifying issue of Sandman
  • fuck clown news reporter looks strangely normal

  • Matty H
    I'm not sure if he's a ghost or just dressed like that!

  • Snapper
    oh shit it makes sense cos of halloween obviously, but after seeing so many ghouls doing normal things it comes off as jarring
    ''stop that car!!'' by shooting nuclear weapons at it.

  • Matty H
    It would definitely stop it though
    The Jack o lantern is scary as hell.
Sam Hain bringing the pain!
  • Snapper
    yeah definitely, Sam Hain threatening the busters from a high building comes off as way spookier than it should be.
    his mouth is freaky as fuck

  • Matty H
    If he was simply a cut out that would be one thing but the gums and teeth just make me nervous
    The powers out. But our packs are still working...

  • Snapper
    definitely! and the dots in his eyes, somehow creepier than blank eyes

  • Matty H
    Were they plugged into the wall? haha
    Its a long cord if they were
    I think I just saw the 1000 volt ghost from scooby do in the background

  • Snapper
    i love peter's voice so much, he just doesn't give a single fuck about anything. so nonchalant.

  • Matty H
    zone dweebies? what a put down

  • Snapper
    slimer blowing a raspberry in Hain's face is a brave move. tough spud.

  • Matty H
    some of these ghosts look like spuds
    really messed up mr potato heads

  • Snapper
    I love that the full-on ghostbusters tune is playing like egon calling them zone dweebies is an epic move


  • Matty H
    Did they animate the show and then get someone else to animate the eyes

"Cower before your enemy... STAIRS!"
  • Snapper
    oh no, the ghostbusters worst enemy, stairs! carrying on the continuity of the movie there

  • Matty H
    its off the hook crazy

  • Snapper 
    egon's got spunk, he's got so much sass when dissing ghosts

  • Matty H
    Slime getting held hostage and he's just sat there looking so stoned
    Egon is the real hero of this show

  • Snapper 
    ''Traitor! Fill the green with green!''

  • Matty H
    Peter got too many zingers in the movie so Egon gets them all here clearly

  • Snapper 
    ''sometimes i think the universe just waits for me to get cocky'' is such an arrested development-level of humour for egon to say during his plan haha

  • Matty H
    The clock yelling bong is just more subliminal weed culture

"bong Bong BONG BBBOONNNGGG!!!"
  • Snapper 
    ghost just grabbed ray's nose, fucking deadly
    LOOK at that clock! terrifying

  • Matty H
    i love that they have a viewfinder for their ghost prison
    Sliders young girl voice scared the hell out of me
    I'm so glad I never saw this as a child it would have messed me up!
    You chose a good first episode for me

  • Snapper 
    the viewfinder is hilarious to me. the recent idw comics have a backup story that is just like a follow-up to this episode where it's set in the ghost prison
    honestly we need to get on extreme ghostbusters soon, so much more adult somehow

  • Matty H
    We'll have to try that next then!

    Snapper

  • i think it could have been a lot worse, especially on a special-holiday episode. Christmas, halloween, thanksgiving episodes usually grate me but it was just pure ''problem arises...ghostbusters sort it out thanks to egon's sass, despite some sets of stairs getting in the way''

  • Matty H
    haha exactly. Specials seem to be cornier than ever but clearly Halloween was made for the GBusters
And that's all folks. This went relatively well as an experiment for shared content (Just need an easier way to edit it) so I'm sure we will be back for more in the future. Long live the Just-Us Society! This could be a podcast if I had more charisma than a retarded tree stump. Thanks for reading!

Just-Us Society Episode 1: The Real Ghostbusters Just-Us Society Episode 1: The Real Ghostbusters Reviewed by Matt on 00:00:00 Rating: 5

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