A strange question....

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wasup124

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Have you ever noticed that some cartoons based off live-action films or TV series have the word "Real" in there title? For example, "Garfield Gets Real" even though it was animated and "The Real Ghostbusters" even though they were animated.

I dont know, I just thought Id point that out.
 
Garfield Gets Real was so named because Garfield, even though the whole film was animated, jumped from the comic pages to the real world.
 
The word "Real" was added to the animated Ghostbusters cause there was already another cartoon out called Ghostbusters. Which had nothing to do with the movie but was based on a silly live-action series.
 
Fine, picky. Im not looking for an explanation, im just saying isnt it strange that they chose to ad "REAL" to cartoon shows? IDK, thats just me.:shrug:



To-sha. (spelt that wrong)
 
It's not strange because they're just saying 'we're the genuine, real deal Ghostbusters, unlike those other guys and their ape over at Filmation who are just po'd that we had a hit movie and will go on for seven seasons and be remembered twenty years for now as opposed to those guys who just lasted a season and won't even be fondly remembered two years from now'.

That wouldn't have made a catchy title, so they just shorted it to 'The Real Ghostbusters'.

EDIT: And it's spelled touche'
 
^Exactly. The animated Ghostbusters that was based off of the Bill Murray/Dan Ackroyd/Harold Ramis movie only added "Real" to it's title so's to distinguish itself from the other Ghostbusters cartoon series that was an animated update of the 1975 live action Saturday morning series starring Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch and a guy in a gorilla costume (played by Bob Burns, respectively), that Filmation "coincidentally" got the idea to revive in the wake of the hit movie.
 
I'm not sure if I would say its ironic. It's an interesting creative choice to have real in the title, but I don't think its there for the shake of irony. Creators usually put in the title of their series/movie with some purpose in mind. Such as the case with Garfield Gets Real since he's suppose to be jumping from the comic world to the real world.
 
If said cartoon was trying to say that it had some basis in real life, then yes. Like if Little Rosey had been called 'The Real Roseanne' or if Spongebob had gone with the title 'Spongebob Squarepants: The Real Adventures', then yes.

But 'The Real Ghostbusters' wasn't an ironic title, since actually *were* the true ghostbusters when compared to Filmation's crew.
 
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