Hate is Such a Strong Word: The Ghost Busters??? Not THOSE ones.

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Side effects of viewing include: Your eyes bleeding... out your butt.

I can sum up my initial feelings in one word: DISAPPOINTMENT. The disappointment I would experience every time I realized that the Ghostbusters coming on TV were not the good ones. The disappointment when my mom came home with a video and it wasn't the Ghostbusters I knew and loved... but this turd sandwich:

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Cartoon gold!

The original TV show from the 70's was a live-action slap-stick piece of crap that lasted a very short period of time. When the Ghostbusters movie in 1984 hit it big, the owners of the copy-right (Filmation) got into legal battles over the rights to use to title, and for a short time there was even a deal worked out where Filmation would have done the cartoon starring the 4 proton-pack toting busters we all know and love. But that didn't happen and what we got instead (well in addition I guess...) was this:

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A C3PO knock-off and werewolf in tennis shoes and a green unitard? Terrifying.

Pictured above are the villains of the show. A blend of bizarre from-the-future technologies, and undead magic... and I just don't give a crap. I'm just... disappointed. If there had never been a GOOD Ghostbusters show, then I probably would have gobbled this up. But even as a kid I thought it was weird that there was this crappy knock-off of a show I loved with the SAME NAME. I didn't know the term bait-and-switch back then... but on some level I recognized it when I saw it. And it just came off as sour-grapes on Filmation's part. Jeez you guys. Pull up your He-Man underpants and grow a pair.

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Dude. The air-brushed van you used to live on just called. It misses you.

The leader of the villains is this shmuck. "Prime-Evil". A robo-skeleton in a cloak. Aaaaand apparently he plays a killer keyboard. Seriously, this kind of looks cool... but in action I can assure you it is not. When we refer to him as "bad-ass" we are referring only to his terrible hemorrhoids.

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Are those "Mom-Jeans" you're wearing?

And the toys. Well just look at this thing with its pith helmet and child-bearing hips. Every child's Christmas list must have been packed with DUPLICATE "Haunter" action figures. Who came up with these characters? Who found this guy menacing? AND HE WAS A REOCCURRING CHARACTER!!!

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Don't ever leave us again.

Let's see what some of the other Leaguers are Hating on this week:

- Lord Bad Guy takes over the Midnight Monster Spookshow for a post about the poor portrayal of his 80's cartoon villain brethren.

- Nerd Rage Against the Machine is NOT feeling Footloose and Fancy Free.

- Geeky Vixen Floors me with her UNBRIDLED (ha!) hatred of all thing My Little Pony!

- SOMEONE (Jaime Hood) is FINALLY taking a brave step and talking about the true crime against humanity that Zoobilee Zoo represents.

- Miss M at Diary of a Dorkette hates... balls? I'll just let you read it for yourself. Her story is the pits.