Real Ghostbusters "Mean Green Teen Machine"

*DrSpengler* · 02-11-2012, 04:36 PM

I recently wrote up this article for Adventures in Poor Taste and thought I'd share it:

The Real Ghostbusters vs. the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

It's a review of an episode of The Real Ghostbusters that aired in 1990, "Mean Green Teen Machine", that was conceived as an attack on the Fred Wolf TMNT cartoon.

Due to forum policies, I can't provide the link, but the episode is on You Tube if you feel so inclined (personally, I used my DVD boxset of The Real Ghostbusters for reviewing and screencapping).

The episode is... interesting. It even ends with the lesson that the "Teen Machine" may be younger, but the Ghostbusters are smarter (as Egon puts it). It's about as subtle in its commentary as a brick to the face.

Unfortunately, this was a terribly, terribly written episode that came out when The Real Ghostbusters was at the end of its embarassing decline in quality, so the whole lesson pretty well falls flat.

What IS fun about the episode, though, is that it stars Cam Clarke as the leader of the Teen Machine ("Guggenheim") basically doing a Michaelangelo impression. Clearly he was in on the joke and it was pretty cool that they cast him for the part; about the only inspired thing in the whole parody.

02-11-2012, 04:36 PM	#1
DrSpengler Foot Elite Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 4,842	Real Ghostbusters "Mean Green Teen Machine" I recently wrote up this article for Adventures in Poor Taste and thought I'd share it: The Real Ghostbusters vs. the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles It's a review of an episode of The Real Ghostbusters that aired in 1990, "Mean Green Teen Machine", that was conceived as an attack on the Fred Wolf TMNT cartoon. Due to forum policies, I can't provide the link, but the episode is on You Tube if you feel so inclined (personally, I used my DVD boxset of The Real Ghostbusters for reviewing and screencapping). The episode is... interesting. It even ends with the lesson that the "Teen Machine" may be younger, but the Ghostbusters are smarter (as Egon puts it). It's about as subtle in its commentary as a brick to the face. Unfortunately, this was a terribly, terribly written episode that came out when The Real Ghostbusters was at the end of its embarassing decline in quality, so the whole lesson pretty well falls flat. What IS fun about the episode, though, is that it stars Cam Clarke as the leader of the Teen Machine ("Guggenheim") basically doing a Michaelangelo impression. Clearly he was in on the joke and it was pretty cool that they cast him for the part; about the only inspired thing in the whole parody.