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The Real Ghostbusters was the number one cartoon in America, and then ABC hired a consulting firm that had never watched the show, never tested an audience, and never produced a single piece of data — just a memo calling the only female character "harsh and slutty," a directive labeling the only Black character as "the driver," and a ban on a fictional book they genuinely believed was real. The creator fought them, lost, and walked away. Then he came back, turned them into a literal demon on national television, and published the receipts in Penthouse magazine. The blacklisting that followed is the reason Babylon 5 exists.

These are 10 weird and hidden facts about The Real Ghostbusters (1986) — the cartoon that almost never existed because of a gorilla, put Lovecraft between cereal commercials, got J. Michael Straczynski blacklisted from animation forever, and produced one of the most satisfying acts of revenge in television history.

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0:00 - Intro
01:20 - Real Ghostbusters Fact 1: The Gorilla Problem
03:00 - Real Ghostbusters Fact 2: Lovecraft on Saturday Morning
04:45 - Real Ghostbusters Fact 3: The Baseball Game Between Good and Evil
05:31 - Real Ghostbusters Fact 4: Sci-Fi Heavyweights
05:52 - Real Ghostbusters Fact 5: The Voices
06:46 - Real Ghostbusters Fact 6: The Mistake
13:10 - Real Ghostbusters Fact 7: The Vengeance