World Series? World serious fun!

Inside Citizens Bank Park, best friends George Else and Chris Breslin, both 31 and from Drexel Hill, came dressed in tan jumpsuits as ghostbusters and posed for dozens of cellphone pictures snapped by exuberant fans.

They held a sign emblazoned: “The Phillies Ghosts Have Been Busted!”

Else’s parents, George Sr. and Patricia, stood by, sporting Phillies red jackets and hats.

“When [George Jr.] was born I put a baseball in his bassinette. That’s how soon he got involved,” said the father, who works for Upper Darby’s department of Licensing and Inspection.

As the left-field Jumbotron broadcast the progress of the parade, fans cheered as their favorite players appeared.

Except for the bar inside McFadden’s, beer sales were suspended elsewhere inside the stadium, a development that lightened the heart of veteran usher Katie Walsh, of Prospect Park.

“We’ll be able to enjoy the day,” she said, “without the nonsense.”

At the Cobblestone Grill, cashier Laurenn Lewis, squinted hard and teased her school-age customers about playing hooky. For a moment some of the kids froze, then exhaled with relief when Lewis burst out laughing.

Dan Pinchiotti, 37, a construction worker from Huntington Valley, said there was never any question that he would pull his four children out of school for the historic day.

He is a season ticket holder. When it became clear that he would have enough tickets for the whole family to celebrate the championship, he said, “I ripped the kids out of school.”

Joining him were: third grader D.J.; his daughter Alex, a sixth grader; kindergartener Jonathan and pre-schooler Dominic.

Pinchiotti, a lifelong Phillies fan, said remembers well the last time the Phillies won the Series in 1980.

“I was 9,” he said, “and my father wouldn’t let me go to the parade because he thought it was too dangerous.”

His father passed away last month, he recalled. His eyes welled, and he stopped talking.

Then he looked at his kids, bit his lip, looked out at the field and smiled.