"Real" Ghostbusters notwithstanding, this series made one mistake; it made "Slimer" into a "good guy." I know, yeah; Slimer was cool to see as a weekly character, not an enemy seen only once-in-a-while. He wasn't very good as a good guy, though. Based on his film character, Slimer was clearly bad-boy material. That was his whole charm.

It's a well known trivia byte that the original Ghostbusters story was co-written by Dan Ackroyd, with fellow "Blues Brothers" alum John Belushi in mind, for the role of Peter Venkman. We can presume, then, that Slimer was intended as a salute to Belushi's infamous "Bluto," in National Lampoon's Animal House. Much like Bluto, Slimer was not unlike a frat brother; a "bad boy"; a mischief-maker. This is the troublesome ghost who made "He slimed me!" one of the biggest movie buzz phrases of 1984. While this isn't enough to paint Slimer as a villain per se, it is clear that Slimer was not meant to be so, well...cute.

Sure, movie characters are made into cutie versions of themselves in cartoons, all the time. However, how far is "too far"...? Gone was Slimer's grunting obnoxiousness that everyone loved to hate, replaced with an almost Jar-Jar-Binks style "Ain't-I-cute?" attitude. What's worse: they gave Slimer a "voice" (!!!), which sounded like a cross between Garfield the Cat and Scooby-Doo. Ugh.

Yes, Slimer was a funny ghost in the movie, though he was a wild and crazy ghost; that was the whole idea. Force feeding him into the role of "Casper The Friendly Ghost " was silly. He was far better suited as the ghost people loved to hate, eating what he shouldn't and causing major havoc. Instead, he's just oh so cute, eating stuff he shouldn't but that's okay because he's just cutie-cute-cute and can eat whatever he wants because, gosh, he's just oh so cutie-cute-cute. Oh...gag.

Halfway there! #5 is irrefutable: this, I commmmmand!!!