11 Bizarre '90s Cartoons That Only Ran One Season
8. Extreme Ghostbusters
The history of Ghostbusters in animation is surprisingly more complicated than it ever needed to be. Originally, a 1975 live-action sitcom entitled The Ghost Busters, which reunited Larry Storch and Forest Tucker from F Troop, was created by Filmation. Lasting only fifteen episodes, it wasn't a success, though Ivan Reitman and co. did have to pay Filmation to license the name for their 1984 hit.
When it came time to adapt the show for kids, Filmation was working on their own animated adaptation of their failed show. As a result, Ghostbusters premiered on September 8, 1986. Seemingly thumbing their nose, The Real Ghostbusters debuted five days later (if you want your head to explode, throw in the Bill Murray/Lorenzo Music/Garfield connection).
The Real Ghostbusters ran a respectable five years.
But it was the nineties, when everything was EXTREME. You had SLAP Bracelets, you ate BIG League Chew and if you wanted pogs you used a SLAMMER.
Extreme Ghostbusters debuted in 1998, following a group of college-aged Ghostbusters led by veteran Egon Spengler. It only lasted three months, but managed to produce 40 episodes.
This, critics note, was the first time the franchise noticed that to survive, younger generations needed to be brought in. It has a following, but at the time came under fire for not following the trendy "educational" shows that were being pushed at the time.