First off, yes I voted for RGB, as it has the most memories and such. I perfer the animation style of the series overall and the first season comes off being the best anything to do with the term Ghostbusters. Heck both movies to me is a step down to episodes like The Boogieman Cometh, and Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream.

As for EGB, it has it's moments such as Fear Itself, and The Pied Piper of Manhattan that were quite enjoyable. However to me, I look at the show as a sequel to RGB so its hard to give it much more credit than that. I didn't like the animation style to EGB as much as the faces of the characters were not pleasing, and the overly dark colors come off being boring.

I can't pick one or the other, because I tend to break RGB into two halves: the JMS/Lorenzo Music/Laura Summer era, and the post-JMS/Dave “Slimer Little Buddy” Coulier/Kath Soucie era. (The Arsenia Hall/Buster Jones transistion wasn't so noticeable, because the voice change wasn't so radical, and more importantly the way the character was written didn't change)

The JMS era of RGB stands above them all (I even prefer it to GB2), but I'd put EGB ahead of the dumbed down post-JMS run on the whole.

9sam1;153936
I think this is something we can all get behind.

I think of it as either the monkey ghostbusters or the slimer ghostbusters.

I prefer RGB. I really enjoyed it very much.

I recently officially watched every single episode of EGB, as most of them are featured on Youtube, so I finally sat down and really gave it a chance, whereas back in the day I was far too biased to do it.

I'll give it this: it definitely had its moments, and decent stories from time to time.

That said…

The animation was flat-out awful; to be fair, most of the animated shows at this time had craptastic animation, but unfortunately, RGB completely overshadows it in this area. And hey, RGB never had to have some ridiculous flickering effect when they were firing their beams…it really gives ya the impression that they were doing anything possible to make it look better than it was. And the drawing was an abomination, too.

The music wasn't very good either.

While the Extreme Ghostbusters themselves have indeed grown on me over time…they just don't have…the “attitude” of Ghostbusters; they're like annoying punk kids.

In fact, I was having a heated argument with a fellow fan online about it 10 years ago, regarding “Back in the Saddle”, citing that not even the Real Ghostbusters seem to take them seriously, specifically showing a picture of Ray looking at them with his eyes rolled.

The other fan said to me “that was because something went wrong with the meter” or something or other…

No….they just didn't take them seriously; they thought they were rank amateurs; and I fully agree. In fact, while Garrett did grow on me with his “go get ‘em” attitude, all the Ghostbusters seemed to look at him like he was nuts whenever he shouted phrases more idiotic than Ray ever did.

The show also didn’t have very mature plots like RGB had. I'm not saying all the episodes of RGB had better plots, but even JMS has said in the past that he wanted RGB to be a show people could “grow up with”; you could enjoy it as a kid, and find it even more enjoyable as an adult, picking up on things you didn't before.

EGB regrettably just doesn't have that quality to it. I was able to enjoy it cause I enjoy kids shows to this day…and also cause it's Ghostbusters. But otherwise, I'd just shrug and shake my head in disappointment over it.

I mean..Sony didn't even seem too motivated in promoting it. What…Taco Bell got a few exclusives, some figures were made, GARRETT GOT LEFT OUT, a few videos were thrown on shelves, and that was it? I can only imagine how the meeting in the board room went:

“You want to do an Extreme version of Ghostbusters?”

“Yes, that's right”

{snicker}…..“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHA OH GOD I NEEDED THAT! That was great, so ridiculous…but *ahem*..look, here's 5 bucks, see what you can do”

I've seen a handful of episodes of XGB, and they seemed quite good, the problem I have with it is the fact it has Ghostbusters in the title.

If it had been a completely separate entity, disconnected from Ghostbusters entirely, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. The thing that bugs me about it is that they bolted it to the Ghostbusters franchise.
I really dont care much for the characters. Its like they were trying to cash in on the Scream/Buffy generation by having some spiky haired teenagers and a grunge-ified theme tune. (The whole “extreme” thing makes me cringe). I mean what qualifications did those kids have to become ghostbusters? I just can't buy the idea of Egon taking these kids in off the street and letting them run around with proton packs.

If XGB had been its own show, about a group of kids investigating the paranormal (like a teenage version of The X Files) I would have been more open to it, but as a part of the Ghostbusters franchise, nah.

EGB doesn't deserve all of the hate it gets, even if it sometimes did try too hard to get itself over with fans. It was good, but IMO, not great show.

RGB,for the time period it came out, was rather ground breaking. A cross between american animation and anime, the show appealed to youth and adults alike.

You have to remember this was a time before shows like Batman TAS,Cowboy Bebop and others would raise the standard for show. In 1986, there was nothing like Ghostbusters.

The fact that the script, and even a lot of the animation, holds up so well 23 years later speaks volumes of its quality.It's certainly not flawless, but there's a reason there were more than 140 episodes over 5 years.

Sorry but RGB is just on another level.

FAC73;154352
I mean what qualifications did those kids have to become ghostbusters? I just can't buy the idea of Egon taking these kids in off the street and letting them run around with proton packs.

He didn't exactly “take them off the street” as you said; they were in his paranormal class because they wanted an easy A (well, at least in Eduardo's case). That right there ties in EGB to Ghostbusters' conceit that “some people just don't believe in the paranormal” and it also sets up Ed as the Peter-figure, seeing the field as an easy, if dubious, qualification.

And then the kids' plans go horribly awry when real ghosts terrorize NYC for the first time in 15/20 years, and hilarity ensues from there as they confront ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and Janine's rather ill-conceived, misguided attempt at trying to look like Sarah Palin. :p

Nix;154379
for the first time in 15/20 years. :p

15 to 20 years? That'd put XGB post-millennium if you take the last case for the RGBs being in 1992.

Kingpin;154382
15 to 20 years? That'd put XGB post-millennium if you take the last case for the RGBs being in 1992.

OK, so I just threw that out there–I was probably counting from GB2 or something.

(1989 + 15 = 2004) …yeah, you're right, my figure's inaccurate, especially since the EGBs are so 20th Century.