Common Thought of Sir Rantsalot

Note: To anybody reading these, sorry it took so long; I’ve been busy with my new job.

Aah yes, the commercials full of the stuff you need to blast imaginary ghosts. I had about 80% of the toys shown, but the rents gave them all to Goodwill when I moved, (thanks mom). I suppose it is for the best, they were fun toys, I probably would have still been playing with them… and that would be creepy.

The cereal was a typical marshmallow cereal from what I remember.

Ecto Cooler was probably the best Hi-C I’ve ever had, it was limey and orangey. About 6 years ago, I was at a block party, and some of our neighbors brought a  Costco sized package of the stuff, and the taste brought back many a memory Slimer was even on the box. I recently discovered that the recipe still lives, but the name “Shoutin Orange Tangergreen” is what it’s labeled as.

With all of this merchandise making such a huge impact, I can honestly see why Bill Murray had to decline a Ghostbusters 3. One of Murray’s most remembered roles was Peter Venkman, and he said that it just wasn’t his forte, with hype of all this crap that came along.  But not all of the hype was bad…

This (believe it or not) holds a record for the longest running cartoon spin-off of a movie, it ran for 7 years! The stories were original, it kept in tune with the 2 movies, and it was just good!

It had two spin-offs of it’s own, one where Slimer had his moment in the sun, and where it’s 97 and the team has long since retired and a new squad formed that was targeted at generation X, entitled EXTREME Ghostbusters… it wasn’t that good.

In the midst of introducing these thoughts of Ghostbusters to yall, I had recently found out that they might be working on a third one soon, but it won’t be old guys chasin after ghosts, instead the torch will passed to Steve Carrell, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and Romany Malco, aka the 4 guys from the 40-year-old Virgin. It ought to be good, because that on-screen team just flat out rocks! But don’t quote me on that, it’s just a rumor.

Catch ya on the flipside

Next blog will be a good-un, talking about the video games.