I believe we of this generation would do well to forget what we learned as kids from Caspar the ghost cartoons and similar garbage throughout our lives from Hollywood.
We learned to model fantasy from these, not to expect reality as experienced on a daily basis.
Casper the Friendly Ghost is "garbage"? I'll grant you that the Casper cartoons were formulaic to a fault, with subpar animation by the standards of the time, but they weren't that bad.