Attention, sad adults: The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters are heading to YouTube
As we continue on into another year of pandemic anxiety, people are getting creative with where they find sources of comfort. There’s the guy who keeps jumping in a lake every day, for instance, or the people writing COVID episodes of their favorite TV shows, a stand-up comic figuring out how to tell jokes in quarantine, and, presumably, a few people who only feel calm when listening to Lego ASMR. Fortunately, the gods of nostalgia have seen fit to grant plenty of nerve-wracked adults another way to feel sort-of-just-barely-okay for about 20 minutes at a time: Uploads of old Ghostbusters cartoons.
According to ScreenRant, the official Ghostbusters YouTube channel will be uploading one new episode a week of The Real Ghostbusters on Saturdays and Extreme Ghostbusters on Thursdays. The first episodes of both are already live.
The 1986 Real Ghostbusters pilot, in particular, is a wallop of nostalgia for an era when kids were as likely to see the cartoon’s Brand X Ghostbusters depicted on bed sheets and in toys as they were to know much about the live-action movie.