YMMV / Filmation's Ghostbusters

• Adaptation Displacement: The animated series was meant both to avert and to capitalize on this, being based on the earlier 1975 live action Filmation series, but riding on the coat-tails of the wildly popular 1984 Columbia Pictures film. In a 2007 interview, Lou Scheimer recounted receiving a phone call from a gentleman who complained how his cartoon had ostensibly taken the film's African-American character (Winston Zeddemore) and turned him into an ape, with the man apparently unaware that the ape character had originated in the 1975 series.
• Awesome Art: As always, this show is full of spectacular Filmation background art.
• Awesome Music: The theme, which incorporates Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor," has been considered this.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: Kids were understandably unimpressed when they tuned in to the 1986 cartoon only to discover that, despite sharing a title, it had nothing to do with the popular blockbuster film of the same name.
• Designated Villain: Happened a few times in the 1975 show where the Busters were dedicated to sending the ghosts back...really just because they were ghosts. The best example might be the one with the werewolf who was trying to find the one thing that could cure his condition. Information the Busters probably would've liked to have had to use against more malicious werewolves.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Apparitia... the fan art doesn't lie!
• Fan Nickname: Fans of The Real Ghostbusters referred to the Filmation series as "the one with the gorilla".
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show has more fans in Latin/South America and in parts of Europe than it did in North America.
• Nightmare Fuel: Ironically, the ghosts and baddies in the show itself weren't really all that scary, likely by design. However, the area of the HQ where the boys suited up features weird, abstract demonic artwork that actually is frightening. It doesn't help that the demonic imagery is featured in the show's Episode Title Cards and ending credits (and the Filmation vanity card not appearing after the latter adds on to the weirdness).
• Retroactive Recognition: The 1975 series episode "The Canterville Ghost" features actor Len Lesser as a jewel thief. Today, Lesser is better known as Uncle Leo from Seinfeld.
• Spiritual Adaptation: When Minty Comedic Arts made a video on this show, he described it as a live-action Scooby-Doo.
• Spiritual Successor: To the earlier Tucker/Storch sitcom F Troop.

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