Familiar Faces: Tracy the Gorilla

[@RoninRen]

you know what; I would honestly enjoy a team-up of both Ghostbusters

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

When you're transformation sequence is longer than Sailor Moon's, you MIGHT have a problem. 8T

[@Babbleplay]

A lot of the time travel and more fantastic elements added to the cartoon were actually based off the ORIGINAL draft of the live action Ghostbusters movie. It was going to be WAY more fantasy sci-fi originally, but, budget and special effects limitations forced them to scale it back to the movie we all know and love.

[@minnion2871]

So... Tracy builds all their high tech gadgets, is responsible for their base of operations being bigger on the inside, has a different fur color than his first appearance, and travels through time with a couple companions... (Are we sure he's not The Doctor?)

[@trunksrocks1]

+Minnion Plot twist!

[@ParodyAccount_]

I love those monster backgrounds LOL.

[@shoresean1237]

To me, the 1975 original was stupid, goofy--but genuine and didn't take itself at all seriously. The animated follow-up, not so much. But when Retroblasting reviewed the toys for the series---wow. There, they heavily outclassed TRG. Made even more so when you consider we only this year got movie-accurate figures of Venkman and company. Has anyone on YT edited scenes from the two animated GB's together?

[@Takeshi357]

Too bad the same can't be said for the aftermarket prices. You would THINK that the Filmation toys aren't worth anything because the show is considered a joke, but while you can quite easily get the Firehouse for $200 in a decent condition and even complete in box if you're lucky, the Hauntquarters go upwards to **four figure sums.**

[@tehn00bdude]

God this video takes me back. Still watch it whenever I’m down

[@RaccoonRevolution]

Okay... I'll admit I thought the scene with the typewriter and the hot dog was a little funny.

[@shebakoby]

IIRC, the reason Prime Evil couldn't get out of the vault, is he's a "Robot ghost", like the skeletal Scared Stiff, who complains in one episode, "It's not fair! Other ghosts get to walk through walls!", so neither can Prime Evil. Why this is, is not explained.

[@bbodinefan11]

This is my favorite cartoon ever.

[@StevRayBro]

This isn't the Ghostbusters I called!

[@justinlafser916]

+StevRayBro Hey, Stev, loved you on the Podcast!

[@TsukiCondor]

hi stev

[@coldgindrinker5587]

+StevRayBro Please make a yo mama joke with Cr in it.

[@shesladytooner7718]

About Jake and Eddie's "transformation": Don't you know a parody when you see it? It's a spoof of He-Man's and She-Ra's real transformations. It takes forever and all they do is change clothes. You'd never catch He-Man in his skivvies (my favorite part of the FGB transformation).

[@babyrhino4543]

The theme song was the best part, I still jam out to it!

[@NYCQuint]

I loved this show as a kid

[@IdeaBox-dk5vj]

15:39-15:53: That list is too random for even Filmation's standards! And I love it.

[@JoLiKMC]

Personally, I always thought Jake (from the cartoon series) looked _suspiciously_ like Roger Wilco from the _Space Quest_ series of video games. Or rather, the other way around, since Wilco got his dye-job in 1991 with _Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers_.

[@scotty-lad7455]

Thanks again for posting this up. I forgot how funny this video was. :)

[@BigEWR]

It came as a shock that there were Ghostbusters before the ones we're familiar with.

[@totoro1591]

Hey! Somehow you picked up on that too! Guess I’m a mind-reader b/c I got it just a few seconds before you did. I LOVE DANNY PHANTOM!!! I like the Ghostbusters, but I gotta say I think Danny Phantom is the Best Ghost-fighting TV show! :) Also I was so super lucky to run into Danny and I think his Sister (Of course I mean the actors who voiced them) while they were rehearshing their lines... I was in a very special class with a Man who got us into a lot of animation Studios, but Nick was the 2nd best b/c of that moment and b/c I got to see pre-production of my favorite TV EVER… AVATAR:TLA. I did not want to interrupt their rehearshing... but it was so cool that they sat down right next to me, I have a medical condition so I was resting with my Dad who came to chaparone… too bad they got up and left before I could tell them how much I love the show… oh well. :) The best was when he got us in to WB and we all got to shake hands with Mr. Barbara just a few years before he passed. That was awesome!!! (I mean that I got to shake his hand, not that he died... that’s not awesome, but he was very old.)

[@Maxipandah]

totoro1591 You got a friend in me

[@Wolfcopy]

CR!!! We missed you man. Good to see your videos on youtube. Looking forward to your next one.

[@daniexists6]

I had an idea for a Familiar Faces episode. I dunno if you were at Epcot between the time of the early 80's-early 90's... but there was a character there named The Dreamfinder. He had a little sidekick named Figment, who is still around. Basically, he was one of the main characters in the ride Journey into Imagination. Think of Dreamfinder as Willy Wonka and Merlin combined. However, Michael Eisner changed the ride to go with the Honey I Shrunk The Kids 3D show that replaced Captain EO and had the character Eric Idle played in the show as the main character. When people were pissed about that, they got Eric Idle and Figment to do the ride together in the end, and that's how it is today.

[@Hanmacx]

the "original" ghostbusters are better than the 2016 one xD

[@BrenTenkage]

I recall seeing more scenes in this review when it was first up, like Aperitia (SP) rubbing the amulet...AROUND HER NECK, to cure her hic ups, as well as extending the scene with Kong and the hot dog in the typewriter....huh can't believe I typed that, the hotdog in the typewriter. But seriously why cutting some scenes?

[@FamiliarFacesChannel]

+Bren Tenkage When you let a scene go on too long it can get flagged for content...

[@supergoron1]

+FamiliarFacesChannel Gotta love KZbin.

[@Dragoon1809]

Ah youtube's cursed, broken copyright system!

[@totoro1591]

It's also the pre-cursor to Inspector Gadget... XD... (The Chief always sends exploding notes)

[@rexragnar7718]

Still much better than the 2016 remake

[@themysteriousunknownrevealed]

sleep apnea while wide awake.

[@catscratchtheatre]

Zero is the ghost busters's boss... not the chief

[@Santoryu90]

I do believe in rainbows

[@larryquisno430]

I like them both

[@totoro1591]

Hey! Somehow you picked up on that too! I LOVE DANNY PHANTOM!!! Best Ghost-fighting TV show! :)

[@BryanShadowbuck]

I saw The Rowdy Reviewer review both of the Filmation Ghostbusters series, Would recommend seeing it!

[@Dimensioneer88]

I was just wondering today if I'd ever see this episode again.

[@StruggaBugga]

Welcome back!

[@JCResDoc94]

awesome. i love rainbows.

[@DaisyDream_pers]

that animation looks just like She-Ra. some of the characters look and sound exactly alike

[@Nachosaurus]

ending credits song: Gorillaz sunshine in a bag

[@MyHeartIsOpen2You]

Sid and Marty Kroft’s Ghost Busters!

[@PartigradeCannon]

Does anyone else think Jake Kong Jr looks like Roger Wilco from Space Quest?

[@mildredchester]

Nice synopsis.

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

15:46 will love to see this as movie in comback in 2017 pls well ther a the original ghoustbusters

[@Rocketboy1313]

Are you going to do a Halloween special this year? I hope you do. A countdown? A weird goofy movie? A 40 minute deconstruction of something? Please?

[@KINGD353]

did johnny wiso just become a super villan?

[@shmee123ful]

And the IDW comics likes to joke at the other ghosters busters

[@TheMonyarm]

Does the live action show have any home video releases ?

[@Demolitiondude]

Saw an episode of the original series.

[@EqualOpportunityDestoroya]

There is also a Ghostbusters starring Bob Hope.

[@MegaMagicdog]

Actually that one was called, "Ghostbreakers", although the basic concept was the same (ghost breaking meant getting rid of ghosts, although in that film, the ghosts weren't real).

[@EqualOpportunityDestoroya]

Some sources listed it as Ghostbusters.

[@WarbanderLasty]

19:50 to the end, what is that a reference too? or did you make that shit up? the Austrian sounding emperor Palpatine

[@alexruddies1718]

The Room... Oh, hi Mark...

[@TheZipperDragon]

Does that pink bat look like piglett to anyone else? Where's Tigger & Pooh?

[@wolftitanreading5308]

what about that haunted mask never seen it link to the video?

[@FarelForever]

+Lane Newman I think it's from "Top 13 Goosebumps books/covers"

[@TheRealLongname]

it's vaudevillian humor

[@Idontmakejustvibe]

Whats the name of the song you used for the theme

[@petrino]

so is this an annual thing now?

[@teaguehansberry3135]

The Filmation Ghostbusters SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED!! I Know the Lou Shimer live action series predated the Ivan Rietman movie, but the Real Ghostbusters was the far superior show.

[@ВикторКотяш-д7м]

Его не где найти этот мультик (((

[@chasformer3091]

What was the purpose of Futura? Why would someone from the future go back in time to help a bunch of losers and an ape? At least Jessica Wray made sense, Futura is just pointless. It feels like Filmation comes up with the most absurd and stupid ideas. Gilligan's Planet anyone?

[@Fanatic_Foremem]

00:23 LIES!

[@TheZipperDragon]

It's Harambe! :D

[@Dragonfly-0010]

I love it when millennials over analyse old shows and movies by reading waaaaaaay too much into them. It's a fuckin' cartoon.