Ghostbusters

This franchise in a nutshell

Ghostbusters is a movie franchise about a bunch of guys and girls running around chasing ghosts as if they were The Orkin Man.

Related ED Articles

• Is it Ghostbusters 2? - Forced meme; disregard it, it sucks cocks in hell.
• Fembusters - Article about the 2016 "reboot" of the Ghostbusters franchise.
• Ghostbusters (2020) - Article about the 2020 sequel to the real Ghostbusters franchise.

Details

The media franchise includes:

• Ghostbusters (1984) — The original movie that started it all. It was actually pretty good.
• The Real Ghostbusters (1986-1991) — The animated series, which wasn't that bad. The "REAL" part was added to differentiate it from Filmmation's own, unrelated animated series, The Ghost-Busters, done in order to cash in on the success of the 1984 film. It's a long story. Anyways, this filled the gap while Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis were dicking around trying to make...
• Ghostbusters 2 (1989) — The sequel, which was OK. They probably waited a bit too long to make it, and it retread on a lot of the stuff that the original film covered. If you were between the ages of 3-13 when it was released, you probably loved it. If you weren't, you probably didn't.
• Extreme Ghostbusters (1997) — A sequel to the original cartoon, it's now best known as the most used counter-argument against claims that any Ghostbusters fan who hates Fembusters is anti-progressive. Consider that Extreme Ghostbusters team consisted of a Latino, a woman (technically the first female Ghostbuster), a black guy who was the team leader, and a guy in a wheelchair. You can't get more progressive than that! But hey, Fembusters as an all-woman team, even though basically everyone in the movie is white, so... yeah, I guess that's pretty progressive, right?
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009) — Basically counts as Ghostbusters 3, considering how long it was taking to make the ACTUAL Ghostbusters 3. And it'll probably be forever known as "Ghostbusters 3" now that Harold Ramis is dead. It was the last story that involved all four of the original Ghostbusters.
• Ghostbusters (2016) — Later renamed Ghostbusters: Answer the Call; the most unnecessary nostalgia cash grab reboot with female leads since Jem and the Holograms. BTW, you're not allowed to say anything negative about this movie, unless you want to be known as a sexist, racist, pissbaby shitlord.
• Ghostbusters 3 (2020) — The first of likely many more Hollywood backpedaling to come; this Ghostbusters film began production after the studio realized that insulting fans, shitting on paying customers, trying to appeal to SJWs, listening to out-of-touch film critics, hiring directors and actors only because they increase diversity and not because of their actual merits, blackmailing actors to play along, and paying off the most painfully obvious shills to help with promotion tend not to be things that help make a movie profitable.
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) - a much better sequel but slightly overripened with memberberries. Still more classier than Fembusters
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) - a much cooler sequel which hopefully doesn't involve so many memberberries, and definitely further pretends Fembusters never happened. Only time will tell if this is worth your time.

See also

• Ghost
• Ghost Riding
• Ghost World

Ghostbusters is part of a series on Television Visit the Television Portal for complete coverage.

This is a disambiguation page — I ain't afraid of no disambiguation