Egads.
Thanks to the steel trap mind of Paul over at Spook Central, I’ve been reminded that Extreme Ghostbusters hit the air ten years ago – this means I moved to Vancouver ten years ago, as I recall the show starting about six months after I settled into my first apartment.
In Canada, we watched the show on YTV, at thanks to some Canadian channels being Toronto-centric, it was on at an ungodly hour (7AM, every weekday morning) – this is awesome if you’re nine years old, not so much when you’re a working adult. But still, VCRs were invented for a reason and I put mine to work.
In the US however, the show hit the air on the Bohbot network, September 1st.
So, happy birthday to the new kids.
And I don’t care what you hip, cyber-yoots say, the abbreviation is EGB, not XGB. 
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Wow… now that makes me feel old…
Yeah, hard to believe it was 10 years ago. As I wrote in my article, it seems like just yesterday that the online community was buzzing about it.
By the way, the link you have on my name points to a Wired blog article. Feel free to correct it when you get the chance
i prefer EGB anyway… man, how the HELL did everything get tagged with the ‘extreme’ label during that time??? ha
Am I the only one who hated Extreme Ghostbusters?
I think its more of a case for those who actually liked it being in the minority than those who hated it or disliked it. At least back then. Today some rewatch them and gain a new apprecation for them.
Fer’ crying out loud Chris, he says XGB in the end theme (the one which had lyrics)!
Regular (that’s the three readers out there) and irregular (everyone else) readers may have noticed Ghostbusters.nuts’ celebration of all things XGB. If not, why not?
To spare yourselves the shame, follow the link: http://kingpin1055.deviantart.com/art/Ghostbusters-nuts-No-52-64182408
Ben, there are two ways to look at the acronym:
XGB – The “official” way (never used on the show, only used in marketing – such as tv spots)
EGB – The gramatically-correct way
I side with the gramatically-correct way because (1) it IS gramatically correct after all, and (2) XGB is clearly a forced acronym probably done by the show’s marketing team (since it was never used in the actual series, I have to blame the marketing team for creation it).
Chris is apparently like me and a bunch of the other fans who reject the gramatically-INcorrect acronym forced upon us. Maybe if the marketing team spent more time actually marketing the show, and less time thinking about a unique, catchy, or trademarkable acronym, the show would have lasted a lot longer.
By the way, that piece you made is AWESOME!!!
Oh yeah, for anybody that’s reading this, if Chris hasn’t corrected the link by the time you read this, here’s a direct link to the journal post I made about the event:
http://ba1525.bravejournal.com/entry/22426
One day I’ll try to figure out Movable Type so that I can make my journal an actual part of my site
Anthony mentioned the “extreme” craze of the mid-to-late 1990s, well here’s a quick list of EXTREME tv series from that time (gathered from an IMDB search). How many of these do you remember?
* G.I. Joe Extreme (1995) (the first animated series that I remember being tagged as “extreme”)
* Extreme Championship Wrestling (1997) (the original and still the best)
* Extreme Dinosaurs (1997) (a Bohbot animated series)
* Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
- Extreme Machines (1997) (The Learning Channel reality series)
* Extreme Gong (1998) (Game Show Network revival of The Gong Show)
- Extreme Machines (1998) (a UK reality series)
- Too Extreme (1998) (The Learning Channel reality series)
- Extreme Homes (1999) (The Learning Channel reality series)
All of the ones with stars before them are what I either watched or remember being on the air.
Ugh, put in a list like that it makes you wonder if all media developers at the time shared the same braincell…I would like point out, that I prefer the acronym of EGB, not the actual show…the show itself was an odd and unneeded revamping, with of course, that Xtreme 90′s twist, not to mention the debauchery of the equipment as well as the scope of the characters…
my point exactly Anthony
Thanks to the Internet Archive, you can time travel back to 1997 and read Bohbot’s original series outline and show pages (no images, though). Downloadable copies have also been added to Spook Central’s Website Archives – Other Sites page.
I remember on Mystery Science Theater talked about the “extreme” everything. They noted that if you wear sunglasses and yell “extreme”, anything CAN be extreme, as they demonstrated with “extreme rice.”
10 years??? I just watched a couple of episodes… EGB never was aired in mexican tv. Yeap, that s*cks!
Waiting for the seasons on DVD (also the RGB cartoons)