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But from this observation was born an idea. The animated continuation of the movie ''Ghostbusters'' was released under the title ''[[Take That|The Real Ghostbusters]]''. (The two animated series debuted in the same year, furthering the confusion.)
The main characters from the film (with the [[What Happened to the Mouse?|notable exception]] of Sigourney Weaver's character) were all present and fought a variety of spectral adversaries. Unlike many other [[Animated Adaptation|Animated Adaptations]], this series took the basic premise of the movies and turned it into an example of the day-to-day busting that the movie didn't have time to show. The primary difference lay in the appearances of the main four characters: to get around having to get the rights to use the likenesses of the cast members of the film, each character was given a new face and look (Egon became a blonde with a [[wikipedia:Pompadour (hairstyle)|pompadour]], Ray became a red-headed short guy, and in the case of Peter, a complete character overhaul to make him a young 20-something instead a 30 year old, balding [[Bill Murray]]). They gained color-coded uniforms and slightly redesigned equipment, but overall retained the same basic personalities.
"Slimer", a green ghost who slimed [[Bill Murray]] in the first film, was added to the regular cast as a comic relief [[Non-Human Sidekick]] (Also [[The Unintelligible]]) (His nickname in the first movie was "Onionhead"). Somewhat atypically for cartoons of this genre and epoch, there was never a [[Big Bad]], or any hint of larger forces at work. There were just ghosts who needed busting. (Although some of them came back for second tries..)
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* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Played with. Non-regulars will sometimes express disbelief in the supernatural, only to be quickly proven wrong. However, there are times where the Ghostbusters fall victim to this. In "Poultrygeist," Peter initially dismisses the idea of a [[Our Werebeasts Are Different|werechicken]] - after having already encountered bonafide [[Werewolves]].
** They all four fall victim to this in "If I Were a Witch Man." Peter and Slimer laugh when Winston asks about them doing witches and goblins, and Egon actually goes on a rant in Ecto about them selling out their principles.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: In ''Stay Tooned'', one of the often-slammed post-[[Executive Meddling]] episodes, the Ghostbusters confront an [[Stylistic Suck|annoying slapstick cartoon character]] named Sammy K. Ferret. The artist probably never saw an actual ferret in his life, because Sammy looks like a fox.
* [[Artistic License Linguistics]]: The [[Anthropomorphic Personification|ghost of Halloween]], Samhain, has his name pronounced "Sam-hain" rather than the proper Gaelic pronunciation "Sah-win". This would seem to be a surprising case of [[Did Not Do the Research]], or perhaps even [[Sadly Mythtaken]] (i.e. a pagan holiday being demonized for a Christian audience) except that the imagery (jack-o'-lantern head) and overall personality ([[Dark Is Evil]]) have more in common with the [[Older Than They Think|modern-day]] [[Popcultural Osmosis|conception]] of Halloween as a dark, scary, sinister holiday ([[Lighter and Softer|when it isn't all about parties and candy]]) than its ancient much-debated roots which are lost in the mists of time. [[Fridge Brilliance|So the mispronunciation may be intentional--because this is the ghost of what people have come to associate with Halloween, rather than its original meaning.]]
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Slimer, from the movies.
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{{quote|'''Peter:''' Good job!
'''Egon:''' Wait 'til you get my bill. }}
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Played straight with Egon and Ray. Subverted with Peter in that, while he has his doctorate, any ghostbusting equipment he builds tends to be unreliable at best. By the time of the new video game, Winston becomes this trope when he acquires a doctorate of his own.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: An episode featured Egon turning into a [[Our Werebeasts Are Different|werechicken]].
** In "Short Stuff," a spell accidentally turns Peter into a mouse. The change lasts only a few moments, though.
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* [[By Wall That Is Holey]]: When haunted girders threw a large hunk of building at the team.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: A couple from the Slimer short toons made it to the main series late season: The insufferable Professor Dweeb made three appearances - looking not too different from his toon presentation. One appearance was "The Slob," which brought back the odorrific ghost Sleaze as the [[McGuffin]] for his older brother Glob.
* [[Cardboard Prison]]: Generally averted, as the Containment Unit was actually pretty secure. When a ghost did manage to escape, it was usually because another ghost opened the Unit from the outside to let them out. A few episodes centered around various ghosts and demons trying to open the Unit to free all the captive spirits (such as "Mrs. Rogers' Neighborhood"), while on a few occasions Egon or Slimer would actually go ''into'' the Unit to retrieve another ghost they actually wanted to free.
** It's mentioned that after the Gozer incident they upgraded the containment unit to be larger (in the movie it was mounted on the wall while here it takes up most of the basement) and more resilient.
{{quote|'''Egon:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|"I think I'll make it bigger."]]}}
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** More of [[Xenafication|an inversion]]. True the suits wanted Janine to have a milder personality, but they also wanted to make her a full fledged Ghostbuster. JMS wanted her to keep her personality, and her job as secretary. After JMS left, Janine soon began training with the Ghostbusters, following them on missions, and eventually even got her own pink uniform with her name stitched on it. She was also a Ghostbuster in the action figure line.
*** It's worth noting that [[Kath Soucie]] (the one hired to voice the milder Janine) stated in DVD bonus material that she was skeptical of the softening of the character in the first place.
*** Comes full circle in ''Ghostbusters 2'' where she actually resembles the new Janine anyway, in looks if not in attitude.
*** In "Janine, You've Changed," Egon says "Remember when Janine had that horrible Brooklyn accent?"
* [[Clip Show]]: "Deja Boo," where Professor Dweeb captures Slimer and uses a machine to see his memories.
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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Peter's dad apparently spent more time on his cons than being at home with the family. It's a sore point for Peter, especially in "X-Mas Marks the Spot."
** Winston was also found to suffer this. He and his father had a falling out when he became a Ghostbuster rather than stay in construction. The two did patch things up on-screen, though.
** It's curious that Egon's mother appears in two episodes, but there's never any mention made of his father.
* [[Divide by Zero]]: At one point, Egon manages to [[Explosive Instrumentation|overload his calculator]] with an offensive football play that, if executed, would not only completely collapse the defense but perhaps all known space as well.
* [[Driven to Madness]]: One of Ray's former paranormal studies professors investigated Heck House, becoming the only one to spend half the night there and survive, but at a cost.
{{quote|'''Ray:''' <sadly> He was a...brilliant man.
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'''Peter:''' I dunno, I think they saw something upstairs.
'''Ray:''' <frozen in wide-eyed shock> ...and it...it had two-hundred eyes, I know...I...I counted... }}
* [[Biological Mashup|Ectoplasmic Mashup]]: The episode "Slimer Come Home" featured a massive poltergeist who was absorbing the energy of many smaller ghosts to increase its power, while "Robo-Buster" pitted the boys against a colossal ghost that had been created by the dissipated energies of dozens of smaller ghosts broken up by Robo-Buster's modified proton beams.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Not only the aforementioned C(a)thulhu, but also the Mee-krah, a horrible octopus-like entity who awakened every few millennia and left complete destruction wherever it went (it is said in the episode that the Gobi and Sahara deserts were results of its activity). It fed upon the spiritual energy of ghosts, who practically ''begged'' to be captured by the Ghostbusters.
* [[Episode Title Card]]
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{{quote|'''Egon:''' We've faced demons, monsters, Gozer, multi-dimensional invasions, but there is nothing that will get me within a ''mile'' of Heck House.
'''Lawyer:''' One...million...dollars. }}
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Despite its runaway success, [[ABC]] decided they needed to "fix" the show. And not just once. Janine was changed to be more feminine and meek, and received round glasses because her pointy ones could scare children. More changes were forced upon the writing staff starting with Season 3. Recurring child characters were added. More focus was placed on Slimer, who spun off into his own (doomed) cartoon in Season 4. The whole team ended up taking on fixed roles: Egon was "The Brain", Ray was "The Hands", Peter was "The Mouth" and Winston was "[[Unfortunate Implications|The Driver]]". This was enough to make [[J. Michael Straczynski]], the head writer at the time, leave his position after Season 3 (though he wrote some later scripts for the show as a free-lance writer).
* [[Explosive Instrumentation]]: Everything from proton packs to PKE meters and calculators, though [[The Smart Guy|Egon's]] [[Homemade Inventions]] seemed to be the most volatile.
* [[Fan Service]]: One episode ("The Devil In The Deep") took place on an exceptionally hot day, leading Janine to show up to work [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbq4jo_janine-barefoot_shortfilms in a revealing bikini.]
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** What episode!!
** That's not counting all the times the guys are shown shirtless, in the shower, or even just in their boxers.
* [[Flash Back]]: As part of an [[Evil Counterpart]] episode, it showed the team discarding their old, evil-marshmallow-encrusted uniforms and building replacements for the equipment damaged in the first film's climax. And as a result of being encrusted with ectoplasm, the originals then became the team's ghostly [[Evil Twin|Evil Twins]].
* [[Finger Gun]]: Used by the ghosts of the Earps.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Ray: sanguine, Peter: choleric, Egon: melancholic, Winston: phlegmatic
* [[Fur Against Fang]]: The plot of "No One Comes to Lupusville".
* [[Genre Savvy]]: The Ghostbusters, natch, but not always enough to avoid close calls. In "No One Comes to Lupusville," when told they don't know if proton packs will work on vampires, Winston wants to leave. "I've seen enough movies to know you don't face the undead without knowing what you're doing, and ''we'' don't." Of course, the promise of a hefty payment causes him to ignore his better judgment.
* [[Ghost Pirate]]: The boys had to deal with a crew of these who invaded New York to recover their buried treasure after it was discovered and put on display in a city museum.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: See [[Something We Forgot]]. In "Killerwatt", Janine is left to run a pedal powered generator when the power goes off. Fast forward--monster defeated, power back on, heroes are celebrating, but "Wait--we forgot to tell Janine to stop, she must still be pedaling the generator.. nah she'd have figured out she can stop by now right?" [[Gilligan Cut]] to Janine STILL pedaling.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Happened to Egon most of the time, the two best-known cases being:
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* [[Haunted Technology]]: One episode featured a ghost trapped in a vat of molten steel. Every object made with the ghost's steel wound up coming to life and wreaking havoc.
* [[Headless Horseman]]: "The Headless Motorcyclist" featured a descendant of Ichabod Crane cursed by a headless apparition on a motorcycle who chases her.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Slimer and Stay-Puft. Robo-Buster also counts once Egon reworked its proton guns so they fired the same types of beams as the Ghostbusters' weapons and it helped our heroes clean up the mess its creator had caused.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The title character of the episode "Drool the Dog-Faced Goblin" did this to save a group of humans that were trapped by a murderous shape-changing phantom. Drool's biting the phantom forced it to let up on its attack and gave the Ghostbusters time to zap it, but Drool was caught by the proton beams too and couldn't escape. When the boys hesitated about using the traps for fear of taking Drool with the phantom, he told them to go ahead and do it.
** There have been a few of episodes where the boys themselves very nearly have to pull a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save the world. Fortunately, they always seem to get a reprieve.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Given the way he behaves, you'd almost forget that Peter has a doctorate. He actually comes up with several good plans against ghosts, such as capturing Nexa (a primordial god). He's also a softie at heart, which could lead one to consider that he actively employs a [[Jerkass Facade]].
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* [[Kangaroo Court]]: In "Jailbusters," the guys are kidnapped to the Ghostworld and put on trial for crimes against ghostkind.
{{quote|'''Ray:''' I'd say we have two chances for a fair trial: zilch and none.}}
* [[Kill and Replace]]: In the "Citizen Ghost" [[Flash Back]], the doppelganger ghost take the form of the Ghostbusters, and also try to take their spot by killing off the originals.
* [[Knight Templar]]/[[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The titular antagonist in "Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream" and Jeremy in "Ragnarok and Roll".
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Most notably Ray, although one time Egon fed them all sweat sandwiches.
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: The Ghostbusters' proton beams don't faze Cthulhu at all, but they eventually get the idea to focus their beams on a nearby metal rollercoaster track. The sheer amount of electricity surging through the metal framework is enough to banish Cthulhu back to his infernal prison, although it's specifically mentioned that they only imprisoned the monster, rather than destroying him.
** It wasn't the electricity surging through the track, that held him in place and attracted the lightning bolts. It was also explained that the idea came from Cthulhu mythos on how to defeat him, so rather justified.
* [[Living Dream]]: The Sandman's MO; he puts his victims to sleep, and their dreams come to life. Three of the Ghostbusters fall victim to this: Ray dreamed of a giant pizza (which fell on and covered Ecto-1), Peter dreamed of driving a solid gold car while being showered with all sorts of awards and prizes, and Egon dreamed of... [[Albert Einstein]].
** Winston managed to devise a plan based on this by having Janine fall victim to the sleep, where she dreamed herself as a Ghostbuster, assisting Winston to capture the Sandman and awaken everyone in the city.
* [[Louis Cypher]]: "The Devil To Pay".
* [[Man Child]]: Ray is a more realistic version of this trope, in that he's fully mature but also possesses a childlike idealism and enthusiasm for life. This actually helps the Ghostbusters lure the Boogieman once they figure out a way to trap the monster.
* [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]: [[Frank Welker]] (Ray, Slimer, numerous ghosts), [[Maurice LaMarche|Maurice La Marche]] (Egon, the Umpire in "Night Game"), Laura Summer (Janine and occasional female ghosts).
** [[Kath Soucie]] was the second voice for Janine and did a number of supporting voices, as well.
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** This led to their undoing, as the overwhelming negative energy of the flip side prevented the Ghostbuster's weapons from functioning outside the unit, but when they found a way out and the Peoplebusters gave chase...
* [[Missing Mom]]: Peter's mother is implied to have died, and he is more serious than usual whenever the subject of her comes up.
** "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic" practically waves on the audience's face that Peter's mom died and he regrets not having spent more time with her when he still had the chance. This leads to a tearjerker ending where Peter returns to Mrs. Faversham's place to visit the old lady, as she is completely alone in the world, just as Peter's mother was before she died.
* [[Mr. Alt Disney]]: Walt Fleishman in the episode "Who're You Calling Two Dimensional?"
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: It wasn't all the time, but there are several instances of Janine in skimpy outfits or [[Foot Focus|playing with her shoes]], and in "Janine Melnitz" Ghostbuster" there's even a scene of her in the shower.
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'''Winston:''' ''(covers Peter's mouth)'' Yo, don't you say a word. }}
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Usually averted, as some cases explicitly involved ghosts of dead people. Played straight with "Egon's Ghost," where [[Word of God]] acknowledged that they had to tip-toe around the subject as best as possible.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Paul Smart is a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who steals the Ghostbusters' technology and tries to run them out of business by using their weapons to create a ghostbusting robot called Robo-Buster, stating that Robo-Buster could destroy ghosts rather than just capture them. Unfortunately, all the ghosts zapped by Robo-Buster simply have their energies dissipated, and all this ectoplasmic power simply combines into one gigantic ghost that threatens to destroy the whole city.
* [[Nobody Touches the Hair]]: Venkman.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The Ghostbusters encountered stand-ins for celebrities ranging from [[Walt Disney]] to [[Agatha Christie]] to Casey Jones to [[Harry Houdini]]. Some of them were ghosts who needed the boys' help to complete their [[Unfinished Business]], while others were innocent victims who needed to be rescued.
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'''Winston:''' I don't wanna remember, eat your dinner.
'''Ray:''' Yeah, I'll eat my dinner, good idea. <picks up a sandwich with green lettuce> It was...it was ''green'', Winston... }}
* [[Non
** One scene in "The Slob" alone makes it clear that he has the standard four fingers for cartoon characters - even though that's not the case for other human characters.
* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Peter
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* [[Off-Model]]: Happens constantly. The fact that [[Wang Film Productions|s]][[TMS Entertainment|e]][[Toei Animation|v]][[Dong Yang Animation|e]][[Visual 80|r]][[Sei Young|a]][[Dai Won|l]] [[Hanho Heung Up|ani]][[Trans Arts|ma]][[Plus One Animation|ti]][[Studio Korumi|on]] [[Saerom|stud]][[KKC and D Asia|ios]] had a hand doesn't help one bit.
* [[Omniglot]]: In addition to having multiple doctorates, Egon is fluent in Sumerian, Russian, English, Japanese, and American Sign Language.
* [[Only in It For the Money]]:
** Averted in one episode where Egon tells a Western Community the Ghostbusters don't want their gold (though in New York, two of their folks gave them gold as a "retainer": as the episode ends, Peter uses "gold" in every other phrase to remind Egon they'd literally "blown a golden opportunity" to make money).
** Averted again in "You Can't Take It With You," where after they trick a miser into putting his building into the Netherworld, gold and cash rain down on them. Peter, after a evil grinning look from the other Ghostbusters, reluctantly doesn't take the riches (the cops show up not too long after).
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** "Cold Cash and Hot Water" premiered before both "Venkman's Ghost Repellers" and "The Spirit of Aunt Lois" - despite those two formally introducing Peter's dad and Doctor Basingame, respectively. ("Cold Cash and Hot Water" even references Basingame's bogus seance at Aunt Lois' house.)
** "Slimer, Is That You?" and "Transylvanian Homesick Blues" features a weird example. The former was produced as part of the syndicated package and the latter for ABC. However, the two were somehow flipped, with "Slimer, Is That You?" premiereing September 26, 1987 on ABC and "Transylvanian Homesick Blues" December 11, 1987 in syndication (the last premiere episode in the syndication run, no less.) It's largely noticeable due to the different voices for Peter and Janine (though the latter maintained her original design in both episodes).
* [[Paranormal Investigation]]
* [[Plot-Driven Breakdown]]: A few episodes introduced these to deprive the Ghostbusters of their equipment to force them to think their way out. While sometimes reasonable, one excuse--running out of juice after hours and hours of constant busting--was [[Jossed]] by the second movie establishing the astonishing half-life of the proton packs.
** I think what they were talking about in the second movie was if the equipment would work after being unused for several months.
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* [[Rogues Gallery]]: Sort of-adversaries like the Boogeyman, the Grundle, and Samhain returned for a second round with the Ghostbusters, even if they didn't exactly form a rogues gallery. Many C-list ghosts also reappeared, to prevent the animators from having to create new ones from scratch every episode.
** And, of course, the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man.
* [[Rogues Gallery Showcase]]: The retooled intro for ''Slimer And the Real Ghostbusters'' featured a number of enemies from earlier seasons, such as Samhain, being zapped by the Ghostbusters.
* [[Science Marches On]]: Thanks to the espionage conducted by [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Paul Smart]], a super-advanced, AI-driven Robo-Buster X1 was set to put the "dinosaur" Ghostbusters out of business. At its unveiling, the robot revealed it had an incredible 20MB of on-board memory.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Used in a few episodes. Notable examples include the Boogieman, who was trapped by the team in "The Boogieman Cometh" by sealing him in his own dimension with a ghost bomb, only to return in "The Boogieman is Back" after feeding off Egon's fear from nearly falling to his death; as well as the animal demon Rall in "It's a Jungle Out There", the greedy demon Lothgar in "Busters in Toyland", and most famously the Doomsday Door in "Knock, Knock" to name but a few.
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*** Hell, ''Extreme Ghostbusters'' had several moments that blatantly imply and Egon and Janine ''are'' in a relationship, but are remaining private about it.
* [[Shout-Out]]: One of the outros features the Ghostbusters dancing in a similar way as the 1984 Ray Parker video.
** On the other hand Ray Parker Jr. played a major role in the music for the first two seasons of the cartoon show. He wrote the songs that played in the chase scenes (the duo Tahiti performed then). He did the whining guitar solos for the background music. He even sung and reorchestrated the theme song for the intro and outro, playing the guitar along with the band.
** In the episode "Ragnarok and Roll", there's a scene where the villain of the episode says 'magic words' to gain power. These words are "Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. Khazad-dum!" The first sentence contains the words inscribed on the One Ring as read in the tongue of Mordor from ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''. "Khazad-dum" is the Dwarven name for the Mines of Moria.
** One throwaway line mentions a guy named Samsa who's been possessed by a cockroach.
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** This is a [[Call Back]] to [[Ghostbusters|the orginal movie]], where it's obvious that he's only humoring the Ghostbusters during his job interview:
{{quote|'''Winston:''' If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.}}
* [[Small Annoying Creature]]: Slimer.
* [[Something We Forgot]]: In the episode "Killerwatt", Janine pedals a bike generator to power the containment unit. Later on, the ghost is defeated and the Ghostbusters are in an impromptu parade. They wonder if Janine is still pedaling, then dismiss the idea as ridiculous; [[Gilligan Cut]] to Janine still pedaling.
** Also in the episode "Deadcon", the Staypuft Marshmallow Man was released to attend a ghost convention held (without permission) in a hotel which was currently having a costume party. Later, the 'busters exhausted every trap they had to capture all the ghosts. They then realize that they had forgotten one BIG thing... [[Gilligan Cut]] to the Staypuft Marshmallow Man still at the hotel, who even won an award for "best costume".
* [[Specs of Awesome]]: Egon wears them.
* [[Spin-Off]]: ''Slimer!'' In addition to his increased role here, Slimer received his own show in 1988. The series had 15 minute episodes (later edited into a two shorts format for reruns) and boasted a more cartoony atmosphere aimed at a younger audience. The Ghostbusters and Janine regularly appeared, but Slimer had his own cast of characters to interact with (some of them are shown in the ''Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters'' intro and Professor Dweeb appeared in three episodes here). It lasted one season.
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* [[Take That]]: The show's title is a pretty obvious shot at ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters|Filmations Ghostbusters]]''. Also, in the episode "Spirit of Aunt Lois", the fraud medium is dressed almost exactly like Jake Kong, the leader of the "other" 'busters.
** There were many Take Thats against other popular animated shows of the period: for example, in one episode the Ghostbusters' HQ was visited by a family of ghosts that looked like grotesque versions of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. Another episode featured a group of [[Totally Radical]] [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|reptilian humanoids]], and another one where TV characters came to life had, among the others, a [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|dumb brute from planet Petunia]].
* [[Talking to Himself]]: [[Frank Welker]] (Ray, Slimer, sometimes also voices ghosts -- he's pretty much a [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]) and [[Maurice LaMarche|Maurice La Marche]] (Egon, and the Umpire in "Night Game").
* [[Team Pet]]: Slimer, along with the [[Heel Face Turn]] Stay Puft.
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Prof. Dweeb.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: The main theme often plays during an episode's climax and the Ghostbusters are about to save the day.
* [[This Is a Work of Fiction]]: The cartoon disclaims any resemblance to persons "living, dead, or ''undead''".
* [[Ticker Tape Parade]]: The ending credits.
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*** When Mrs. Faversham (a woman that reminds him of his mother) explains she doesn't have much money to pay them, [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Peter]] says the only payment they require is a smile.
*** Averted in "Xmas Marks the Spot", when {{spoiler|Ebenezer Scrooge}} refuses to pay the Ghostbusting bill, Peter actually threatens to release the ghosts again. Sure, its {{spoiler|Scrooge}}, but he's still an elderly man {{spoiler|plus they didn't know it was him ''and'' it was Christmas}}. {{spoiler|The Ghostbusters not knowing it was him actually worked in his favor, if we consider what they did once they learned.}}
* [[We Only Have One Chance]]: Egon says this almost to the point of it being a [[Catch Phrase]].
* [[Weird Science]]: Pretty much the cornerstone of the ''Ghostbusters'' franchise.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: As often as the show likes to make callbacks to the movies, it ''pointedly'' avoids making any mention of Dana Barett.
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* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]: "Citizen Ghost", which details how Slimer came to live at the firehouse.
** Also the "Haunting at Heck House," as Peter relates the story to a bunch of schoolchildren touring the firehouse on a field trip.
* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]: Well, OBVIOUSLY.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Cockroaches?!?]]: Peter can stare down murderous ghosts, spirits and phantoms without fear, but he will [[Freak-Out]] at the sight of a cockroach.
** Egon can stare down Cthulhu and other powerful beings without wincing but the Boogeyman is enough to almost shut him down out of pure fear. While it's true that Egon was tormented by the Boogeyman as a child, there is a serious difference between it and Cthulhu.
*** Plenty of possible reasons for that, aside from simple childhood trauma. Some people have severe problems with the [[Uncanny Valley]]... the Boogeyman actually might be more scary to them since it's something not human, but seems like it's trying to ''look'' human. Cthulu isn't the least bit human, being basically the definition of alien and strange... someone, especially Egon, might find it easier to deal intellectually with something so obviously different than something stuck in between monster and human.
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