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Dec. 12th, 2011 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimon66Back in the days of Saturday morning, Hanna-Barbera was king. To stay on top, they milked the hell out of their most successful formulas. Case in point: One of many Scooby Doo knock-offs, Goober and the Ghost Chasers.
The Ghost Chasers goal was to pursue, find, photograph and interview (done by perky girl; when confronted by a grumpy spirit, she would whip out a pad and pen) spooks. Some ghosts were fake, some were real, all got the Specter Detector treatment, and Goober (the dog) would do his invisibility shtick at least once in every episode.
So where am I going with this?
Welp. In comparison to real life ghost hunters, Goober&Co are far more believable and professional paranormal investigators.
Typical ghost hunter show: Bunch of loud (and sometimes obnoxious; horsing around, cursing, forgetting their manners) people, who are somewhere in the dark. They alternate between copping attitude (by rudely issuing out orders) to the ghosts, and going on and on and on about "Something's here!! WOW, did you see that??!!", which you - the viewer - will never ever be privy to. The ghosts won't put in a TV appearance.
Goober&Co on the other hand, could 50% of the time produce actual physical evidence of a haunting.
After blowing a few hours of my life away on those dumb-ass reality ghost hunter shows, I swore "Never again" and waited for the day to be avenged.
That day (Dec. 11th) came, courtesy from Netflix:
The Ghost Chasers goal was to pursue, find, photograph and interview (done by perky girl; when confronted by a grumpy spirit, she would whip out a pad and pen) spooks. Some ghosts were fake, some were real, all got the Specter Detector treatment, and Goober (the dog) would do his invisibility shtick at least once in every episode.
So where am I going with this?
Welp. In comparison to real life ghost hunters, Goober&Co are far more believable and professional paranormal investigators.
Typical ghost hunter show: Bunch of loud (and sometimes obnoxious; horsing around, cursing, forgetting their manners) people, who are somewhere in the dark. They alternate between copping attitude (by rudely issuing out orders) to the ghosts, and going on and on and on about "Something's here!! WOW, did you see that??!!", which you - the viewer - will never ever be privy to. The ghosts won't put in a TV appearance.
Goober&Co on the other hand, could 50% of the time produce actual physical evidence of a haunting.
After blowing a few hours of my life away on those dumb-ass reality ghost hunter shows, I swore "Never again" and waited for the day to be avenged.
That day (Dec. 11th) came, courtesy from Netflix:
