YMMV / Extreme Ghostbusters

• Awesome Music: The show's rendition of the Ghostbusters theme adds a rocking beat to the song. It has been released to the Internet for easy listening here.
• Character Rerailment: Janine is a "best of both worlds" version of her fluctuating character design and personality from the original series. She looks like her Season 4/5 version (which was considered permanent after her Deal with the Devil), but acts like an Older and Wiser version of her Deadpan Snarker Season 1/2 self.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Evil Is Cool: The Vathek from Deadliners. Their designs alone border on Creepy Awesome due to being remarkably faithful to the design philosophy of the Cenobites they're based off of, as well as the chilling performance that Keith Szarabajka gave as Crainiac, their leader.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show was quite popular on continental Europe, to the level that it has a few video game adaptations. In Spain, particularly, this series is the first thing many millennials see whenever they think of the Ghostbusters franchise thanks to its successful TV runs in the 2000s.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The premise of having Egon as the only active member of the original Ghostbusters can seem a bit darker since Harold Ramis (Egon's original actor) was the first of the original Ghostbusters to pass on in 2014.
  • In the episode "Grease," Kylie offhandedly warns the others to not spend so much time on the Internet because the government could likely see and track everything they do. She's even reading a huge book about conspiracies in the scene. It doesn't seem like much, until you remember this was a cartoon that aired in 1997, a whole ten years before the now-infamous PRISM surveillance programs were launched. (Of course, the fear of such surveillance goes back as far as FidoNet...)
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • In the Episode 'Rage', it shows Eduardo and his home life. However there, his brother and probably his father believed Eduardo was a disgrace to the family but despite that, the situation was lightened by the sight of Eduardo's nephew, Kevin who showed his support to his heroes, the Ghostbusters. Because of that, its explainable why Eduardo continued the job and boasted about it, the job of a Ghostbuster made him a worthwhile person in front one member of his family's eyes, his nephew.
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife is Spiritual Successor to this show with its similar premise of a next generation team of Ghostbusters as well as the original team showing up near the end to take down the final enemy.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the pilot, Garrett declares Jackie Chan movies are for wimps (and people from Long Island). Adelaide Productions went on to do Jackie Chan Adventures a couple years later.
  • The working title of the show was Super Ghostbusters - a title that would later be applied to a different project entirely, and one where the tone was about as far from the direction Extreme Ghostbusters went as possible.
  • At one point in "Deadliners" Kylie calls Roland a simp, decades before that became commonly used as a term for someone obsessing over an unrequited partner.
  • In a few episodes, the beam from the trap has blue, pink and white rays that make it strongly resemble the Trans Pride Flag.
• Memetic Mutation: Some fans joke that the shows name comes not from the fact that it come out in the 90s, but because of the surprisingly disturbing and intense content as well as references to certainly family-unfriendly things like antisemitism, implied character death, psychological torture, a villain that's an allegory for child predators, as well as the Vathek, a trio of Cenobite-expies, with one of their members, Corpuscle, having a head that looks like a puckered anus, which is capable of spitting out a monster that's best described as a "rabid fetus-man" in a manner that's reminiscent of defecation, not to mention how the episode they appear in is filled to the brim with Body Horror that's extreme even for their inspiration, among other decidedly inappropriate-for-children things.
• Narm: Having Egon keep a straight face when talking about all the problems that come with old age and mentioning that he's THIRTY-NINE. Made even more laughable when you realize that’s how old Harold Ramis was when the first film released and not only were no jokes or remarks made about his age in that film, but this show is supposed to take place over a decade after that film.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Slimer has a smaller role here than in The Real Ghostbusters, and is therefore much more tolerable. Additionally, his characterization is more in line with the early days of the prior series. Rather than act like a Cousin Oliver, he behaves the way that made fans like him in the first place: A Big Eater that speaks incoherently and tries to do his best to help his friends. Most memorably, he tried to pull a Heroic Sacrifice in one episode.
• Retroactive Recognition: Podcast would probably be delighted to learn that Twilight Sparkle used to bust ghosts for college credit.
• Ugly Cute: Slimer's redesign in this series is considered to be an improvement over the original, which lessens his grotesque features for a more cartoony look.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Just like its brothers-in-arms, Men in Black: The Series and Godzilla: The Series, also produced by Sony Pictures Television's Adelaide Productions, this series contained massive amounts of nightmarish imagery, to the point that it makes its predecessors (including the movies!) look tame, and is easily the most actually horrific entry in the entre Ghostbusters franchise. Its mere opening is enough to send chills down the spine of people who grew with the series in The '90s, even if (or because) they are fans of the work, and it is safe to say the kind of monsters and artwork this series contained for a children show would be almost unimaginable today. Earlier episodes had characters implied to actually die (albeit offscreen), which is probably why they felt forced to establish in later episodes that trapping the Monster of the Week caused a Reset Button. That's probably why they went to syndication, as that meant not having to deal with network censors (considering the Executive Meddling that its predecessor went through, that might not be surprising).

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