Not sure how I missed this show, I was ten when it came out and after reading the summary it sounds like something that would’ve been right up my alley.
Yea this was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I was super into it. It hit just at the perfect time for me to think the concept was still cool and having age-appropriate crushes on the girls. Funny story about that –
Fast forward almost a decade, I’m a first-year at my undergraduate meal hall, stoned off my petard giggling and eating a bunch of awesome food with my roommates. I spy, across the room, 3 girls sitting with each other and I IMMEDIATELY recognize one of them as Mayteana Morales, the original Gaby Fernandez. I INSTANTLY recognized her, there was aboslutely no question in my mind it was an aged version of her, she looked just like herself.
Now, I should mention that I have this habit of when I’m high I just sort of misrecognize people. Like, incredibly often I see people who look like someone I know, and I walk up on em like “HEY BOBBY” and I get close and it is clearly not Bobby. Like I got some sort of weed goggles, for whatever reason I just don’t recognize people as well.
ANYWAY, I KNOW this is her and I tell my roommate – “I recognize that girl from a show I used to watch as kid!” He’s incredulous, but like I said I’m absolutely certain. So my bold, also very stoned roommate just walks over outside of my earshot and starts talking to her! They look over at me and I’m freakin mortified.
He comes back quickly, sits down says “it’s not her”. I look over at them, they’re giggling. They ask “WHAT SHOW?!”
I said “GHOSTWRITER”
They giggled more and said “No!”
Embarrassed, but relieved they were too far this to go any further we finished our meal and left.
…
I however, was not fully convinced. I also at the time had a habit of randomly googling my childhood crushes. Put these two together, lo and behold, Mayteana Morales was listed as an *enrolled student* at my very school, at that same exact time…..
I’ll never know if it was her, but to this day, I choose to believe it was. Love you Gaby.
1. Was not expecting Samuel L.
2. What are they doing in the Huxtables’ house? His bedroom is even blocked the same as Theo’s!
3. Oh shit, the first purse snatching in the history of PBS. Gritty.
4. I like how they ‘translate’ the Spanish by contextual replies.
5. Homeboy hover-handed that register.
So apparently in a 2010 interview with the shows creator, it turned out that ghostwriter was a runaway slave. Taught himself to read and write, freed other slaves and then taught them to read and write.
kids who grew up on cable have different nostalgias than kids who grew up without it. Rocko’s Modern Life means nothing to me. Remember when the show was Shining Time Station and Thomas the Tank Engine was the filler?
“Ghostwriter!”
Not sure how I missed this show, I was ten when it came out and after reading the summary it sounds like something that would’ve been right up my alley.
“As a kid, I was a bit of a detective.”
My brother and I used to carry pens on a string around our neck and had the notebook too! Such an awesome, underrated show!
Ghostwriter can time travel.
I think of this show anytime the term ghost writer is used haha
Loved this show! We only had like 5 channels when I was a kid but we actually got this! (And no I’m not that old, I’m 36)
Watched it on TVO as a kid, they had a write in contest with answers from the show and I won a sweater once. See, I am famous.
Idk anyone else who even knew this show existed. I watched like 3 episodes, but I definitely remember it
How could you ever forget Gooey Gus?
I remember this show. Haven’t thought about it in nearly 30 years. Total blast from the past.
Cool cameo by Samuel L. Jackson.
Yea this was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I was super into it. It hit just at the perfect time for me to think the concept was still cool and having age-appropriate crushes on the girls. Funny story about that –
Fast forward almost a decade, I’m a first-year at my undergraduate meal hall, stoned off my petard giggling and eating a bunch of awesome food with my roommates. I spy, across the room, 3 girls sitting with each other and I IMMEDIATELY recognize one of them as Mayteana Morales, the original Gaby Fernandez. I INSTANTLY recognized her, there was aboslutely no question in my mind it was an aged version of her, she looked just like herself.
Now, I should mention that I have this habit of when I’m high I just sort of misrecognize people. Like, incredibly often I see people who look like someone I know, and I walk up on em like “HEY BOBBY” and I get close and it is clearly not Bobby. Like I got some sort of weed goggles, for whatever reason I just don’t recognize people as well.
ANYWAY, I KNOW this is her and I tell my roommate – “I recognize that girl from a show I used to watch as kid!” He’s incredulous, but like I said I’m absolutely certain. So my bold, also very stoned roommate just walks over outside of my earshot and starts talking to her! They look over at me and I’m freakin mortified.
He comes back quickly, sits down says “it’s not her”. I look over at them, they’re giggling. They ask “WHAT SHOW?!”
I said “GHOSTWRITER”
They giggled more and said “No!”
Embarrassed, but relieved they were too far this to go any further we finished our meal and left.
…
I however, was not fully convinced. I also at the time had a habit of randomly googling my childhood crushes. Put these two together, lo and behold, Mayteana Morales was listed as an *enrolled student* at my very school, at that same exact time…..
I’ll never know if it was her, but to this day, I choose to believe it was. Love you Gaby.
when lennie would rap haha
my fourth grade teacher made us watch this show and gave us homework based on it. also, samuel l. jackson is in one of the episodes.
Rally J!
He’s a ghost… And he’s writes to us… Ghostwriter 🤷♂️
Oh, god, it’s been ages. Am I recalling correctly that the show was canceled right as they started to dig in the mystery of the Ghostwriter’s origins?
THABTO anyone?
I think I remember having the books for this show as well.
Hells yea. Coolest show on pbs. That and wishbone. I think 9 year old me had crushes on all the girls
[Julia Stiles was a hacker in ghost writer. ](https://youtu.be/bLlj_GeKniA)
Jamal taught me the word modem.
Carmen San Diego and then this… The semi good years..
So many great memories. THABTO. Julia Stiles being a super cringe hacker. Hangin with the Hood Man. That street poet from The Warriors.
WHO IS MAX MOUSE?!
***Oh yeah oh yeah, ya gotta believe.***
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Ghostwriter was the SHIT.
Yes. I was traumatized by the Gooey Gus episode [so I interviewed the writer to confront her on why it was so scary.](https://youtu.be/SRa0GdOwVzc)
(Interview at 22:50)
This and Wishbone were after school staples.
My mate asked me if I liked ghost rider. I said yeah, I like ghost writer.
Much confuse.
[You know, I was a bit of an official ghostwriter investigator myself](http://tinyimg.io/i/Qx0FUv8.jpg)
Remember the one when ghostwriter goes back in time?
> Do you know anything about hackers?
> Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?
> Never experienced the new wave? Next wave? Dream wave? OR cyberpunk?
10 Things was great and all, but this was her most iconic role and everything she did afterwards paled in comparison
1. Was not expecting Samuel L.
2. What are they doing in the Huxtables’ house? His bedroom is even blocked the same as Theo’s!
3. Oh shit, the first purse snatching in the history of PBS. Gritty.
4. I like how they ‘translate’ the Spanish by contextual replies.
5. Homeboy hover-handed that register.
Was that dudes last name really Turnipseed
Whatever you do, stay away from the remake.
You’ve been warned.
So apparently in a 2010 interview with the shows creator, it turned out that ghostwriter was a runaway slave. Taught himself to read and write, freed other slaves and then taught them to read and write.
kids who grew up on cable have different nostalgias than kids who grew up without it. Rocko’s Modern Life means nothing to me. Remember when the show was Shining Time Station and Thomas the Tank Engine was the filler?
“Ghostwriter! Word!” I loved loved loved this show. I used to fill up my notebook with clues
Oh my god, I just remembered my 90’s line up for saturdays:
Ghostwriter
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
Pete and Pete
Dude Ranch
The Secret World of Alex Mack
All that
Animorphs
Are You Afraid of the Dark
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you just took me to a 90’s Nick rabbit hole. there goes my weekend!
ITT: People 37-42 years old.