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Just in time for Halloween, let's look at five of my favorite episodes of The Real Ghostbusters!

Collect Call of Cathulhu

While the other episodes on this list are favorites from my childhood, this is one that I only have the vaguest recollection of as a kid, but now, as an adult and a lover of H.P. Lovecraft's writing, this is a real standout episode. The Necronomicon is being loaned to the New York Public Library from Arkham University, and is stolen by Cathulhu worshipers. It's later revealed by Egon and Ray that Cathulhu is one of several 'ancient ones' that writers like H.P. Lovecraft used as the basis for their stories. This episode is a real treat for Lovecraft fans by bringing in several elements of the Cthulhu mythos, and simply saying they were real elements that Lovecraft simply weaved into his stories. We get some great creepy character designs of the [find what they were], and a pretty great looking Cathulhu himself in the end. This is a really well-written episode that is fast paced and packed with action, intrigue and comedy.

To this day I’m still a fan of the cartoon Captain N: The Game Master. I used to watch it all the time as a kid, and when Shout Factory released the complete series on DVD I began watching it all over again. It was just always so crazy to see characters from different franchises, that weren’t even owned by Nintendo, in this cartoon together. You’ve got Mega Man, Simon Belmont, Pit (well, they just…

So it used to be that Disney had a ton of VHS collections with all kinds of themes. They had a couple that either directly dealt with Halloween, or were just a bit on the scary side. So this year I thought it'd be cool to grab one of those collections and watch some of these great cartoons, and wouldn't you know it, they don't make a Halloween DVD collection! What a waste! So I…