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Bill Murray
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with Sigourney Weaver
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Ghost Busters (1984) was nominated for the following awards:
Golden Globes
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Golden Globe
1985 Grammy Awards
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Grammy
1985
Best Album of Instrumental Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Mick Smiley
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1985
Best Album of Instrumental Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Jay Graydon
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Best Album of Instrumental Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
Elmer Bernstein
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes drfrr dr fgt Inspecting Dana`s refrigerator for paranormal activity]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Oh, my *God*. Look at all the junk food!
Dana Barrett: Oh, dammit. Look, this wasn`t here...
Dr. Peter Venkman: You actually eat this?
Dana Barrett: Look, this wasn`t here! There was *nothing* here! There was this... space! And there was a building or something with flames coming out of it, and there were creatures writhing around, and they were growling and snarling. And there were flames, and I heard a voice say "Zuul"! It was right here.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, I`m sorry, I`m just not getting any reading.
Dana Barrett: Well, are you sure you`re using that thing correctly?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, I... I think so, but I`m sure there are no animals in there.
Dana Barrett: Well that`s just great. Either I have a monster in my kitchen or I`m completely crazy.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [smiles] I don`t think you`re crazy.
Dana Barrett: [sarcastically] Oh, good, that makes me feel so much better. Gozer: [after Ray orders her to re-locate] Are you a God?
[Ray looks at Peter, who nods]
Dr Ray Stantz: No.
Gozer: Then... DIE!
[Lightning flies from her fingers, driving the Ghostbusters to the edge of the roof and almost off; people below scream]
Winston Zeddemore: Ray, when someone asks you if you`re a god, you say "YES"!
Dr. Peter Venkman: All right! This chick is TOAST! Dr. Peter Venkman: [as the Ghostbusters approach Gozer] Grab your stick!
[the Ghostbusters draw their handsets]
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: HOLDIN`!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Heat `em up!
[they arm their packs]
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: SMOKIN`!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Make `em hard!
[they rack their handsets]
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: READY!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Let`s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown... THROW IT! Winston Zeddemore: Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, "yes!" Dana is at home doing exercises as she watches the news on television]
Roger Grimsby: Good morning, I`m Roger Grimsby. Today, the entire Eastern Seaboard is alive with talk of incidents of paranormal activity. Alleged ghost sightings and related supernatural occurances have been reported across the entire Tri-State area.
Larry King: Hi, this is Larry King. The phone-in topic Today: "Ghosts and Ghostbusting." The controversy builds, more sightings are reported, some maintain that these professional paranormal eliminators in New York are the cause of it all. Casey Kasem: Still making headlines all across the country, the Ghostbusters are at it again. This time, at the fashionable dance club, "The Rose." The boys in gray slugged it out with a pretty pesky poltergeist, then stayed on to dance the night away with some of the lovely ladies who witnessed the disturbance. This is Casey Kasem. Now, on with the countdown. Dr. Peter Venkman: Nimble little minx, in`t she?
Dr. Egon Spengler: We`re gonna go full stream.
Dr Ray Stantz: Aim for the flattop!
[Ghostbusters shoot at Gozer, but she disappears]
Dr. Peter Venkman: [uncertainly] Wasn`t so hard. Winston Zeddemore: Hey, wait a minute. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Hold it! Now, are we actually gonna go before a federal judge, and tell him that some moldy Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West, and start tearing up the city?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Sumerian, not Babylonian.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah. Big difference.
Winston Zeddemore: No offense, guys, but I`ve gotta get my own lawyer. Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! Man at Elevator: What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut?
Dr. Peter Venkman: No, we`re exterminators. Someone saw a cockroach up on twelve.
Man at Elevator: That`s gotta be some cockroach.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Bite your head off, man.
Dr Ray Stantz: [Entering elevator] Going up?
Man at Elevator: I`ll take the next one. Dr Ray Stantz: You know, it just occurred to me that we really haven`t had a successful test of this equipment.
Dr. Egon Spengler: I blame myself.
Dr. Peter Venkman: So do I.
Dr Ray Stantz: Well, no sense in worrying about it now.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back. Dr Ray Stantz: [astounded] Wow! Talk about telekinetic activity, look at this mess!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Ray, look at this.
Dr Ray Stantz: Ectoplasmic residue.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Venkman, get a sample of this.
Dr Ray Stantz: It`s the real thing.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Someone blows their nose and you want to keep it?
Dr. Egon Spengler: I`d like to analyze it.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [gets the slime on his hand] Whoa, ah.
Dr. Egon Spengler: This way.
[Venkman tries to wipe the slime off of his hand] Dana Barrett: You know, you don`t act like a scientist.
Dr. Peter Venkman: They`re usually pretty stiff.
Dana Barrett: You`re more like a game show host. [Dana, possessed by "The Gatekeeper," answers the door]
Dana Barrett: Are you the Keymaster?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Not that I know of.
[She slams the door in his face. Venkman knocks again]
Dana Barrett: Are you the Keymaster?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes. Actually I`m a friend of his, he asked me to meet him here. Dr Ray Stantz: I think we`d better split up.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Good idea.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah... we can do more damage that way. [evaluating a site for their business]
Dr. Peter Venkman: What do you think, Egon?
Dr. Egon Spengler: I think this building should be condemned. There`s serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it`s completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.
Dr Ray Stantz: Hey. Does this pole still work?
[slides down a fireman`s pole]
Dr Ray Stantz: Wow. This place is great. When can we move in? You gotta try this pole. I`m gonna get my stuff. Hey. We should stay here. Tonight. Sleep here. You know, to try it out.
[Venkman looks at Spengler. Spengler slowly shakes his head. Venkman turns to the real estate agent]
Dr. Peter Venkman: I think we`ll take it. [business is terrible at Ghostbusters]
Janine Melnitz: [answers the phone] Hello, Ghostbusters... Yes, of course they`re serious... You do?... You have?... No kidding! Just gimme the address... Oh sure, they will be totally discreet. Thank you!
[hangs up]
Janine Melnitz: WE GOT ONE! Dr. Peter Venkman: We`ve been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft`s okay! He`s a sailor, he`s in New York; we get this guy laid, we won`t have any trouble! Dr. Peter Venkman: Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon... what`ve you got left?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Sorry, Venkman, I`m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. Dr. Peter Venkman: Hee hee hee! "Get her!" That was your whole plan, huh, "get her." Very scientific. Dr. Peter Venkman: So, she`s a dog... Dr. Peter Venkman: Mother pus bucket! Dr Ray Stantz: My parents left me that house. I was born there.
Dr. Peter Venkman: You`re not gonna lose the house, everybody has three mortgages nowadays. Dr. Egon Spengler: I feel like the floor of a taxi cab. Dr. Egon Spengler: There`s something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don`t cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I`m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That`s bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon. Dr. Peter Venkman: We came, we saw, we kicked its ass! Dr. Peter Venkman: Somebody blows their nose and you want to keep it? Dr Ray Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.
Dr. Peter Venkman: You`re right, no human being would stack books like this. Dr Ray Stantz: Listen... do you smell something? Dr. Peter Venkman: I don`t have to take this abuse from you, I`ve got hundreds of people dying to abuse me. Dr. Peter Venkman: [surrounded by excited reporters during the montate sequence, which shows the Ghostbusters as a sudden popular culture craze] Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, no job is too big, no fee is too big! first lines]
Dr. Peter Venkman: All right, I`m gonna turn over the next card. Concentrate... I want you to tell me what you think it is. Dr. Peter Venkman: He slimed me. [surveying a wrecked apartment building corridor having climbed over thirty flights of stairs with his proton pack]
Dr. Egon Spengler: [casually] Art Deco, very nice. Dana Barrett: [reading from the printout] "Zuul was the minion of Gozer." What`s Gozer?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Gozer was very big in Sumeria.
Dana Barrett: Well, what`s he doing in my ice box?
Dr. Peter Venkman: I`m working on that.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Alice, I`m going to ask you a couple of standard questions, okay? Have you or any of your family been diagnosed schizophrenic? Mentally incompetant?
Librarian Alice: My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I`d call that a big yes. Uh, are you habitually using drugs? Stimulants? Alcohol?
Librarian Alice: No.
Dr. Peter Venkman: No, no. Just asking. Are you, Alice, menstruating right now?
Library Administrator: What`s has that got to do with it?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Back off, man. I`m a scientist. Janine Melnitz: You`re very handy, I can tell. I bet you like to read a lot, too.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Print is dead.
Janine Melnitz: Oh, that`s very fascinating to me. I read a lot myself. Some people think I`m too intellectual but I think it`s a fabulous way to spend your spare time. I also play raquetball. Do you have any hobbies?
Dr. Egon Spengler: I collect spores, molds, and fungus.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Oh good, you`re here!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah, what have you got?
Dr. Egon Spengler: This is big, Peter, this is very big. There is definitely something here.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Remember that?
Dr. Egon Spengler: That would have worked if you hadn`t stopped me. Dr Ray Stantz: Well, this is great. If the ionization-rate is constant for all ectoplasmic entities, we can really bust some heads... in a spiritual sense, of course. Dr Ray Stantz: Hey, Dean Yeager! Are you moving us to a better office on campus?
Dean Yeager: No, you`re being moved off campus. The Board of Regents has decided to terminate your grant. You are to vacate these premises immediately.
Dr Ray Stantz: What?
Dr. Peter Venkman: This is preposterous. I demand an explanation.
Dean Yeager: This university will no longer continue any funding for any of your group`s activities.
Dr. Peter Venkman: But the kids love us!
Dean Yeager: Doctor... Venkman. The purpose of science is to serve mankind. You seem to regard science as some kind of dodge... or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist, Dr. Venkman!
Dr. Peter Venkman: I see.
Dean Yeager: And you have no place in this department, or this university. [Dana has described seeing a terror dog in her refrigerator]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Generally you don`t see that kind of behavior in a major appliance. Dana Barrett: That`s the bedroom, but nothing ever happened in there.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What a crime. [Persuading the mayor to let them stop a supernatural upheaval]
Dr. Peter Venkman: If I`m wrong, nothing happens! We go to jail - peacefully, quietly. We`ll enjoy it! But if I`m *right*, and we *can* stop this thing... Lenny, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.
Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it`s true.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.
Walter Peck: Jeez!
[Charges at Venkman]
Mayor: Break it up! Hey, break this up! Break it up!
Walter Peck: All right, all right, all right!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, that`s what I heard! Janine Melnitz: Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Winston Zeddemore: Ah, if there`s a steady paycheck in it, I`ll believe anything you say. Dana Barrett: [possessed by Zuul] Do you want this body?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Is this a trick question? Winston Zeddemore: Hey Ray. Do you believe in God?
Dr Ray Stantz: Never met him.
Winston Zeddemore: Yeah, well, I do. And I love Jesus`s style, you know.
Dr Ray Stantz: The entire roof cap is made out of a magnesium-tungsten alloy...
Winston Zeddemore: What are you so involved with over there?
Dr Ray Stantz: These are the blueprints for structural ironwork of Dana Barret`s apartment building, and they are very, very strange.
Winston Zeddemore: Hey Ray. Do you remember something in the bible about the last days when the dead would rise from the grave?
Dr Ray Stantz: I remember Revelations 7:12...?And I looked, and he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake. And the sun became as black as sack cloth, and the moon became as blood."
Winston Zeddemore: "And the seas boiled and the skies fell."
Dr Ray Stantz: Judgement day.
Winston Zeddemore: Judgement day.
Dr Ray Stantz: Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world.
Winston Zeddemore: Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we`ve been so busy lately is `cause the dead HAVE been rising from the grave?
Dr Ray Stantz: [Pause ] How `bout a little music?
Winston Zeddemore: Yeah. Dr. Egon Spengler: Venkman, shorten your stream! I don`t want my face burned off! Janine Melnitz: Do you want some coffee, Mr. Tulley?
Louis: [to Egon] Do I?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Yes, have some.
Louis: [to Janine] Yes, have some. Walter Peck: I`m Walter Peck, from the Environmental Protection?
[Venkman shakes hands with Peck and still has ectoplasm on his hands]
Walter Peck: Agency, the third district.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [Peck is wiping the ectoplasm on his jacket] Great, how`s it going down there?
Walter Peck: Are you Peter Venkman?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes, I`m *Doctor* Venkman!
Walter Peck: Exactly what are you a doctor of, Mr. Venkman?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, I have a PhD in parapsychology and psychology.
Walter Peck: And now, you catch ghosts?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah, you could say that.
Walter Peck: And how many ghosts have you caught, Mr. Venkman?
Dr. Peter Venkman: I`m not at liberty to say.
Walter Peck: And where do you put these ghosts, once you catch them?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Into a storage facility.
Walter Peck: And would this storage facility be located on these premises?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes.
Walter Peck: And may I see this storage facility?
Dr. Peter Venkman: No.
Walter Peck: And why not, Mr. Venkman?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Because you did not use the magic word.
Walter Peck: What is the magic word, Mr. Venkman?
Dr. Peter Venkman: [looking surprised] Please!
Walter Peck: May I *please* see the storage facility, Mr. Venkman?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why do you want to see the storage facility?
Walter Peck: Because I`m curious. I wanna know more about what you do here! Frankly, I`ve heard alot of wild stories in the media and we want to assess any possibility of dangerous and possibly hazardous waste chemicals in your basement.
[Peck is angered]
Walter Peck: Now you either *show me* what is down there, or I come back with a court order.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [Venkman snaps back] You go get a court order, and I`ll sue your funny ass for wrongful prosecution.
Walter Peck: You can have it your way, Mr. Venkman. Dr. Peter Venkman: [to the librarian ghost] I`m Peter Venkman. Where are you from... originally? [Egon is running tests on Louis, who has been possessed by Gozer and is now the Keymaster]
Dr. Egon Spengler: Vinz, you said before you were waiting for a sign. What sign are you waiting for?
Louis: Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you! Dr. Peter Venkman: NOBODY steps on a church in my town. Dr Ray Stantz: Gozer the Gozerian... good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [Sarcastically] That oughta do it. Thanks very much, Ray. [In a TV commercial]
Dr Ray Stantz: Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Have you or your family ever seen a spook, spectre or ghost?
Dr Ray Stantz: If the answer is "yes," then don`t wait another minute. Pick up the phone and call the professionals...
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. Peter Venkman: Ghostbusters.
Dr Ray Stantz: Our courteous and efficient staff is on call 24 hours a day to serve all your supernatural elimination needs.
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. Peter Venkman: We`re ready to believe you. Winston Zeddemore: I`m Winston Zeddmore, Your Honor. I`ve only been with the company for a couple of weeks, but these things are real. Since I joined these men, I`ve seen shit that`ll turn you white. Dr. Peter Venkman: All right, this chick is TOAST. Okay; sticks?
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: HOLDIN`!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Heat `em up!
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: SMOKIN`!
Dr. Peter Venkman: MAKE `EM HARD!
Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: READY!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Let`s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown. Dr. Egon Spengler: I`m worried, Ray. All my readings point to something big on the horizon.
Winston Zeddemore: What do you mean, big?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Well, let`s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning`s reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds. Winston Zeddemore: That`s a big Twinkie. Dr Ray Stantz: Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn`t have to produce anything! You`ve never been out of college! You don`t know what it`s like out there! I`ve *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*. Dr. Peter Venkman: Janine, someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.
[phone rings]
Dr. Peter Venkman: You gonna answer that? Janine Melnitz: I`ve quit better jobs than this.
[answers phone]
Janine Melnitz: Ghostbusters, what do you want? [Janine opens the front door and sees a policeman]
Janine Melnitz: Dropping off or picking up? Dr. Peter Venkman: Ray, pretend for a moment that I don`t know anything about metallurgy, engineering, or physics, and just tell me what the hell is going on.
Dr Ray Stantz: You never studied. Dr. Peter Venkman: He slimed me.
Dr Ray Stantz: That`s great. Actual physical contact. Can you move?
Dr. Egon Spengler: [over walkie-talkie] Ray, Ray, come in please.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I feel so funky. [a giant marshmallow man crashes through the streets of New York]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, there`s something you don`t see every day. Janine Melnitz: You are so kind to take care of that man. You know, you`re a real humanitarian.
Dr. Egon Spengler: I don`t think he`s human. Dr Ray Stantz: Are you okay?
Louis: Who are you guys?
Dr Ray Stantz: We`re the Ghostbusters.
Louis: Who does your taxes?
Dr Ray Stantz: You know, Mr. Tully, you are a most fortunate individual.
Louis: I know!
Dr Ray Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
Louis: Felt great.
Dr. Egon Spengler: We`d like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
Louis: Okay. Dr. Peter Venkman: Maybe now you`ll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh? [the Ghostbusters HQ blows up]
Louis: This is it! This is the sign!
Janine Melnitz: Yeah, it`s a sign, all right - "Going out of business". Woman at Party: [coming up to Louis during party] Do you have any Excedrin or extra-strength Tylenol?
Louis: [opening cabinet] Gee, I think all I got is acetylsalicylic acid, generic. See, I can get six hundred tablets of that for the same price as three hundred of a name brand. That makes good financial sense, good advice...
[takes platter back into living room]
Louis: Hey, this is real smoked salmon from Nova Scotia, Canada, $24.95 a pound! It only cost me $14.12 after tax, though.
[walks up to a hapless guest, speaking confidentially]
Louis: I`m givin` this whole thing as a promotional expense, that`s why I invited clients instead of friends. You havin` a good time, Mark?
[heads across the room, greeting other guests]
Louis: How you doing? Why don`t you have some of the brie, it`s at room temperature!
[to the Tall Woman]
Louis: You think it`s too warm in here for the brie?
Tall Woman at Party: [standing] Louis, I`m going home.
Louis: Aw, don`t leave yet. Well, listen, maybe if we start dancing other people will join in!
Tall Woman at Party: [pauses] Okay!
[Louis and the Tall Woman begin disco dancing. Suddenly the doorbell rings]
Louis: Oh, don`t move, I just gotta get the door.
[opens door, greeting guests]
Louis: Ted! Annette! I`m glad you could come, how you doin`, give me your coats. Everybody, this is Ted and Annette Fleming! Ted has a small carpet cleaning business in receivership; Annette`s drawing a salary from a deferred bonus from two years ago! They got fifteen thousand left on the house at eight percent.
[throws the guests` coats in the closet, oblivious that they hit the Terror Dog hiding there]
Louis: So they`re okay! So, does anybody wanna play Parcheesi?
[the Terror Dog growls from inside the bedroom]
Louis: [grinning] Okay, who brought the dog? Janine Melnitz: [on the phone] Is it just a mist, or does it have arms and legs? Dana Barrett: [possessed by Zuul] Take me now, subcreature. Dr. Peter Venkman: [hands Egon a petri dish filled with ectoplasmic residue] Egon, your mucus. Dr. Peter Venkman: As a friend, I have to tell ya you`ve finally gone around the bend on this ghost business. You guys have been running your ass off, meetin` and greetin` every schizo in the five boroughs who says he has a paranormal experience. What have you seen?
Dr Ray Stantz: Of course you forget, Peter. I was present at an undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Ray, the sponges migrated about a foot-and-a-half. Dr Ray Stantz: Your girlfriend lives in the corner penthouse... of Spook Central.
Dr. Peter Venkman: She`s not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she`s a client and because she sleeps above her covers... *four feet* above her covers. She barks, she drools, she claws!
Dr. Egon Spengler: It`s not the *girl*, Peter, it`s the *building*. [after nearly being crushed by a falling bookcase]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This happen to you before?
[Ray shakes his head]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Huh. First time?
[Ray nods] Dr. Peter Venkman: What I`d really like to do is talk to Dana. Dana? It`s Peter.
Dana Barrett: There is no Dana, there is only Zuul.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Oh, Zuulie, you nut, now c`mon. Just relax, c`mon. I want to talk to Dana. Dana, Dana. Can I talk to Dana?
Dana Barrett: [in an inhuman demonic voice] There is no Dana, only Zuul!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What a lovely singing voice you must have. Walter Peck: Hold it! I want this man arrested! Captain, these men are in criminal violation of the Environmental Protection Act! And this explosion is a direct result of it!
Dr. Egon Spengler: YOUR MOTHER! Dr. Peter Venkman: I`m gonna take back some of the things I said about you, Egon.
[pulls out candy bar]
Dr. Peter Venkman: You... You`ve earned it Dr. Peter Venkman: To our first custumer.
Dr Ray Stantz: To our *first* and *only* custumer.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I`m gonna need to draw some petty cash. I should take her out to dinner. We don`t wanna lose her.
Dr Ray Stantz: Uhhh... this magnificent feast here represents the *last* of the petty cash.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Slow down. Chew your food. [Louis is being chased by a demon dog]
Louis: [frightened] I`m going bring this up with the Tenant`s Association. You`re not supposed to have pets in the building. [Dana is possessed]
Dr. Peter Venkman: I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people.
[Dana starts passionately making out with him]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Actually, it`s more of a guideline than a rule... Male Student: [after the beautiful female student has guessed 5 out of 5 cards right while he has "none"; actually he has one] What are you trying to prove here, anyway?
Dr. Peter Venkman: I`m studying the effects of negative reinforcement on ESP ability
Male Student: The effect? I`ll tell you what the effect is, it`s pissing me off!
Dr Ray Stantz: I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Nice thinkin`, Ray. Dr. Peter Venkman: [picking up his radio and speaking slowly] Come in, Ray.
Dr Ray Stantz: [excited] Venkman? I saw it, I saw it, I saw it.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [slowly, calmly] It`s right here, Ray. It`s... looking at me.
Dr Ray Stantz: He`s an ugly little spud, isn`t he?
Dr. Peter Venkman: [quickly] I think he can hear you, Ray. Dr. Peter Venkman: How`s the grid holding up?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Not good.
Winston Zeddemore: Tell him about the Twinkie.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What about the Twinkie? Dana Barrett: [as The Gatekeeper] I want you inside me.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [referring to her radical change in personality] It sounds like you`ve got at least two or three people in there already. Dr Ray Stantz: Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world.
Winston Zeddemore: Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we`ve been so busy lately is because the dead *have* been rising from the grave?
[long pause]
Dr Ray Stantz: [Turns on radio] How `bout a little music?
[Dana is possessed]
Dr. Peter Venkman: So, what are we doing today, Zuul?
Dana Barrett: We must prepare for the coming of Gozer.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Gozer?
Dana Barrett: The Destructor.
[long pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Are we still going out? Dr. Peter Venkman: I`ll take Miss Barret back to her apartment and check her out.
[Dana Barret looks up confused]
Dr. Peter Venkman: I`ll go check out Miss Barret`s apartment. OK? Dr. Egon Spengler: I have a radical idea. The door swings both ways, we could reverse the particle flow through the gate.
Dr. Peter Venkman: How?
Dr. Egon Spengler: [hesitates] We`ll cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: `Scuse me Egon? You said crossing the streams was bad!
Dr Ray Stantz: Cross the streams...
Dr. Peter Venkman: You`re gonna endanger us, you`re gonna endanger our client - the nice lady, who paid us in advance, before she became a dog...
Dr. Egon Spengler: Not necessarily. There`s definitely a *very slim* chance we`ll survive.
[pause while they consider this]
Dr. Peter Venkman: [slaps Ray] I love this plan! I`m excited to be a part of it! LET`S DO IT! [last lines]
Winston Zeddemore: I love this town! Louis: Boy, the superintendent`s gonna be pissed! [in front of the library ghost, their first ghost sighting]
Dr. Peter Venkman: So... what do we do?
[Egon and Ray stare at each other in silence. Peter grabs Ray`s ear]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Would you come over here, please? That`s it, c`mere Francine. What do we do?
[Egon pulls out a calculator and starts punching in numbers. Peter slaps the machine out of Egon`s hand]
Dr. Peter Venkman: STOP THAT! [clearing away tables in the dining room to make room for the ghost trap]
Dr Ray Stantz: I`ve gotta get this in the clear...!
Dr Ray Stantz: Wait, wait, wait! I`ve always wanted to do this...
[He yanks a tablecloth off of a table, overturning and shattering everything except the centerpiece in the middle]
Dr. Peter Venkman: [triumphantly] And the flowers are still standing! [alternate wording from cable TV version]
Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine until the grid was shut down by wally wick here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: [to Venkman] Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes sir, it`s true. This man is some kind of rodent, I don`t know which. Dean Yeager: Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable. You are a poor scientist, Dr. Venkman! Dr. Peter Venkman: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Nice shootin`, Tex! [Dana has been possessed by a demon dog]
Dr. Peter Venkman: I think we can get her a guest shot on "Wild Kingdom." I just whacked her up with about 300 cc`s of Thorazaine... she`s gonna take a little nap now. Walter Peck: Shut these off. Shut these all off! [Ray and Peter have been fired]
Dr Ray Stantz: This is a major disgrace. Forget MIT or Stanford now. They wouldn`t touch us with a 10-meter cattle prod.
Dr. Peter Venkman: You`re always so concerned about your reputation. Einstein did his best stuff when he was working as a patent clerk!
Dr Ray Stantz: Do you know how much a patent clerk earns?
Dr. Peter Venkman: No! [Venkman arrives at 55 Central Park West, a few minutes after Louis was chased out by a terror dog]
Dr. Peter Venkman: [to a policeman] What happened?
Policeman at Apartment: Some moron brought a cougar to a party and it went berserk. [as Dana puts strings on her cello, Ray is being interviewed by Joe Frankin on television]
Joe Franklin: As they say in T.V., I`m sure there`s one big question on everybody`s mind, and I imagine you are the man to answer that. How is Elvis, and have you seen him lately? Gozer: The Choice is made!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Whoa! Ho! Ho! Whoa-oa!
Gozer: The Traveller has come!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Nobody choosed anything!
[turns to Egon]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Did you choose anything?
Dr. Egon Spengler: No.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Winston] Did YOU?
Winston Zeddemore: My mind is totally blank.
Dr. Peter Venkman: *I* didn`t choose anything...
[long pause, Peter, Egon and Winston all look at Ray]
Dr Ray Stantz: I couldn`t help it. It just popped in there.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [angrily] What? *What* "just popped in there?"
Dr Ray Stantz: I... I... I tried to think...
Dr. Egon Spengler: LOOK!
[they all look over one side of the roof]
Dr Ray Stantz: No! It CAN`T be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What is it?
Dr Ray Stantz: It CAN`T be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What did you DO, Ray?
Winston Zeddemore: Oh, shit!
[they all see a giant cubic white head topped with a sailor hat, Peter looks at Ray]
Dr Ray Stantz: [somberly] It`s the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Dr. Peter Venkman: [looking at the temporary sign on Ghostbusters HQ while a worker is hanging it up] You don`t think it`s too subtle, Marty, you don`t think people are going to drive down and not see the sign?
[hears a siren approaching and an old, gray station wagon pulls up in the driveway]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Whoa! Whoa! You can`t park right here!
[looks and sees Stantz in the driver`s seat]
Dr Ray Stantz: [gets out] Everybody can relax, I found the car. Needs some suspension work and shocks. Brakes, brake pads, lining, steering box, transmission, rear-end.
Dr. Peter Venkman: How much?
Dr Ray Stantz: Only $4800.
[Venkman looks shocked]
Dr Ray Stantz: Also new rings, mufflers, a little wiring. Dr. Peter Venkman: Janine, any calls?
Janine Melnitz: No.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Any messages?
Janine Melnitz: No.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Any customers?
Janine Melnitz: No, Dr. Venkman.
Dr. Peter Venkman: It`s a good job, huh?
[she smiles]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Type something, will you? We`re paying for this stuff! And don`t stare at me, you got the bug-eyes.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Janine, sorry about the bug-eyes thing. I`ll be in my office. Archbishop: Lenny, offically the church won`t take any postion with the religious implications of these phenomenons. Personally Lenny, I think it`s a sign from God, but don`t quote me on that.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I think that`s a smart move, Mike. Dr. Egon Spengler: I have a radical idea. The door swings both ways, we could reverse the polarity flow through the gate.
Dr. Peter Venkman: How?
Dr. Egon Spengler: [hesitates] We`ll cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: `Scuse me Egon? You said crossing the streams was bad!
Dr Ray Stantz: Cross the streams...
Dr. Peter Venkman: You`re gonna endanger us, you`re gonna endanger our client - the nice lady, *who paid us in advance*, before she became a dog...
Dr. Egon Spengler: Not necessarily. There`s definitely a *very slim* chance we`ll survive.
[pause while they consider this]
Dr. Peter Venkman: [slaps Ray] I love this plan! I`m excited it could work! LET`S DO IT! Dr Ray Stantz: Hey... Where these stairs go?
Dr. Peter Venkman: They go up! Dr. Peter Venkman: See ya on the other side, Ray.
Dr Ray Stantz: Nice working with you, Dr. Venkman. [talking about Dana`s building, while waiting in jail]
Dr. Egon Spengler: The architect`s name was Evo Shandor. I found it in Tobin`s Spirit Guide. He was also a doctor, performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920, he started a secret society...
Dr. Peter Venkman: Let me guess: Gozer worshippers.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Right.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Ray] No studying.
Dr. Egon Spengler: After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive.
[He pauses, glancing nervously around at the holding cell crowd]
Dr. Egon Spengler: And he wasn`t alone, he had close to a thousand followers when he died. They conducted rituals up on the roof. Bizarre rituals, intended to bring about the *end of the world*, and now it looks like it might actually happen.
[pause. Peter spins around to face another of the inmates, and starts singing]
Dr. Peter Venkman: So be good, for goodness` sake! Whoa, somebody`s coming... Dr Ray Stantz: It`s a girl.
Dr. Egon Spengler: It`s Gozer.
Winston Zeddemore: I thought Gozer was a man.
Dr. Egon Spengler: It`s whatever it wants to be.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, whatever it is, it`s gotta get by us.
Dr Ray Stantz: Right!
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Go get her, Ray! Dr. Peter Venkman: [steps in front of Peck] My friend, don`t be a jerk!
Walter Peck: If he does that again, you can shoot him.
Police Captain: You do your job, pencil neck, don`t tell me how to do mine!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Thank you, Officer.
Walter Peck: SHUT IT OFF! Louis: [possessed by Vinz Clortho] I am The Keymaster!
Dana Barrett: [possessed by Zuul] I am The Gatekeeper! Dr Ray Stantz: [training Winston] This is where we put all the vapors and entities and slimers that we trap. Quite simple really. Load a trap here, open, unlock the system. Insert the trap, release, close, lock the system. Set your entry grid, neutralize your field and... the light is green, the trap is clean! The ghost is incarcerated here in our custom-made storage facility.Trivia dr e The role of Louis Tully was originally written for John Candy. The role of Peter Venkman was originally written for John Belushi. According to Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis in the DVD Commentary, in Dan Aykroyd`s original rough draft of the movie, the story was going to take place in the future and that there would be teams of Ghostbusters like there are paramedics and firefighters (thus explaining basing the Ghostbusters HQ in a firehouse). According to Reitman, such a film would cost "at least $300 million in 1984 dollars". So Harold Ramis was brought in to rewrite the script and bring it into modern times. The role of Winston was originally written for Eddie Murphy.
Gozer was originally going to be played by Paul Reubens, who turned down the role. In the original script, Gozer appeared as a normal man in a business suit. Punk rocker Anne Carlisle was originally offered the role of Zuul, but turned it down. Sandra Bernhard was originally offered the role of Janine. #
# Dan Aykroyd`s original version of the script began with the Ecto-mobile flying out of Ghostbusters HQ, but director Ivan Reitman suggested that it would be better to show how the team got started. Dana`s apartment building actually exists at 55 Central Park West in New York City. The building is actually only 20 stories high. For the film, matte paintings and models were used to make the building look bigger and with more floors. According to the commentary on the DVD, the top of the building is modeled after the top of the Continental Life Building in St. Louis, MO.
On the set, Dan Aykroyd referred to the "Slimer" ghost as the ghost of John Belushi. Though never referred to in the script, the green ghost the guys bust in the hotel was dubbed "Onionhead" by the crew, because of its horrid smell. A scene where the ghost haunts two newlyweds showed this characteristic, but it was cut. Since it was never referred to in the movie, the writers of the animated show came up for a different name for the green ghost: Slimer. #
# The eggs which fry themselves are sitting next to a package of "Sta-Puft" marshmallows. There is also a large advertisement for "Sta-Puft" marshmallows (complete with the marshmallow man) visible on the side of a building.
Many sequences were shot but removed from the film (a couple of the following were added as extras to the Criterion Collection CAV laserdisc release) : - Several shots in the sequence where Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler are thrown off campus were cut. - Several scenes throughout the film with Janine and Egon were cut. - The first time Venkman leaves Dana`s apartment, he says to Louis "What a woman." - The "green slimer" ghost is discovered by two newlyweds at the Hotel Sedgewick. Also cut was a Ghostbuster inspection of the room. - A policeman tries to ticket the Ectomobile, but the car won`t let him. - Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd play two bums that witness Louis being chased by the terror dog. - Ray and Winston inspect Fort Detmerring, where Ray dresses in an old General`s coat and falls asleep. When he awakes, he sees a female ghost above his bed. This part of the sequence was kept and used in the montage in the middle of the film. - Louis encounters two muggers in Central Park during the ghost montage. - Venkman and Stantz discuss matters with the mayor outside City Hall. - The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man sequence ends with his large hat falling to the ground. Some deleted shots appear in the film`s trailers. In the middle of the film`s initial release, to keep interest going, Ivan Reitman had a trailer run, which was basically the commercial the Ghostbusters` use in the movie, but with the 555 number replaced with a 1-800 number, allowing people to call. They got a recorded message of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd saying something to the effect of "Hi. We`re out catching ghosts right now." They got 1,000 calls per hour, 24 hours a day, for six weeks.
When Alice the librarian is queried as to whether anyone in her family had ever had any history of mental illness, she replies she had an uncle who thought he was St. Jerome. Jerome is the patron saint of librarians. The demonic voice of Dana/Zuul was performed by director Ivan Reitman. The voice of Gozer was provided by Paddi Edwards. In rehearsal, Bill Murray (Venkman) teased Czech model Slavitza Jovan (Gozer) about her pronunciation of the line "Choose and Perish", which sounded to him like "Jews and Berries"(!) and he`d say "There are no Jews and Berries here!" Most of the deleted scenes are "restored" in the novelized adaptation of Ghost Busters (1984).
The original script had a budding romance between the cynical receptionist Janine and the blissfully out of it Egon, but most of it was edited out of the film. The special edition DVD features a deleted scene of Janine giving Egon a coin for luck before he goes off with the other Ghostbusters to fight Gozer; they are interrupted by Venkman. The relationship between Janine and Egon was explored more in the animated series that followed. #
# The interiors for the hotel scene were filmed (mostly) at the famous Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, on the corner of 5th and Grand. This famous location has been used for hundreds of films, TV shows, commercials and even a few music videos. The three doors that the Ghostbusters walk through in the movie are actually located on the entrance on 5th St. The Grand Avenue entrance leads you to the main lobby, which used to be the hotel ballroom, as seen in the film. (The ceiling is a dead give away.) The room`s formerly solid walls have been replaced by glass doors (at the entrance) and archways. The reception desk is where the long banquet table was located in the film. To the right of that would have been the bar that Egon blasts. If you go into the bar to the right of the main lobby, there is a picture of the old ballroom on one of the walls, giving you a better perspective of what the room looked like in the early `80s. Flashbulbs were used on the business end of the proton pack weapons so that the special effects creators could properly synch up the effects with the action (most visible in the dining room scene, frame by frame, when capturing Slimer). All the college scenes were filmed at Columbia University in New York, including the fictional Weaver Hall office/lab interiors. Director Ivan Reitman decided to use an actual on-campus office instead of a soundstage so the film crew could film indoors if the weather turned bad, rather than lose a day`s filming. Columbia University agreed to all this, on the condition the school not be mentioned by name on-camera. The firehouse set the Ghostbusters use as HQ was remodeled and used once again as the mechanic shop in The Mask (1994). The original premise of Ghost Busters (1984) had three main characters: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. They fought ghosts in S.W.A.T. like suits using wands instead of guns. The ghost named Slimer was known as `Onionhead`, and at the end of the movie the Ghostbusters franchise was all over the United States. John Candy also was slated to play Louis. However, with Belushi`s death and characters backing out, the script was rewritten and new actors cast. Storyboarded but never shot included: - A scene with Egon testing the proton pack, which is charged by being plugged in. The pack melts the plug. - A model`s mink coat comes to life on a runaway. Note that this scene does happen in Ghostbusters II (1989) to a woman on the street.
Early publicity for the film was a teaser campaign featuring just the "no ghosts" logo. As the campaign built, the Ectomobile was also driven around the streets of Manhattan. Exterior scenes of the Ghostbusters headquarters were filmed at the Hook and Ladder #8 Firehouse in the Tribeca section of New York City. Inside the firehouse are a Ghostbusters sign and photos taken with the cast and crew. #
# After the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is destroyed there is a shot of a man down on the street being deluged by a huge amount of marshmallow goo. Due to the extreme angle of the shot most viewers don`t realize that this is Walter Peck, until he screams, "I HATE you, Venkman!". A cut scene (included on the DVD) took place a few moments before, at the same angle, where Peck tells the police to go up to the roof and arrest the Ghostbusters. The "marshmallow" goo was actually shaving cream. More than fifty gallons was dumped on Walter Peck almost knocking him to the ground. #
# The schedule for getting the movie into theatres for its scheduled release date in summer 1984 was so tight, director Ivan Reitman said that the final print included incomplete special effects shots and errors like "wires showing" but, "remarkably, people didn`t care". One scene shot for the film but later deleted shows Ray and Winston on a call and Ray ends up in Canadian Mounties outfit. Production stills from this scene appear in the published version of the film script. #
# Initally, Ray Parker Jr. was having trouble writing the theme song to the film. The problem was solved when he saw the TV commercial for the Ghostbusters business in the film which inspired him to write the song like a advertising jingle for the business. The song was a #1 hit for three weeks. When Venkman mentions the time Spengler tried to drill a hole in his head, Spengler`s response ("That would have worked if you hadn`t stopped me") was actually ad-libbed by Harold Ramis. The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man suits cost Approximately $20,000 apiece. Three were made and all were destroyed during filming. The Ectomobile was originally painted black until it was pointed out that most driving would be at night and the car would be difficult to see. It was then repainted white.
The firehouse used is actually two different firehouses that are in two different cities. The exterior is in NY, while the interior is in downtown Los Angeles. The LA firehouse is very popular with filmmakers and has been used in many movies. Bill Murray agreed to do this movie only on the condition that Columbia finance a remake of The Razor`s Edge (1946) with him as the star. The remake was made (The Razor`s Edge (1984)). The bum that Bill Murray played in a deleted scene looks and acts just like his character on Caddyshack (1980) (and also sports a golfing cap).
The party scene where Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) mingles with his party guests (commenting on the price of the salmon, and so on) is not only taken in one continuous shot, but is almost entirely improvised.
Huey Lewis and the News turned down an offer to write and record a theme song for Ghostbusters. They later sued Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarism, citing the similarities between his theme song and their earlier hit "I Want a New Drug." Lindsey Buckingham was approached to write the theme song to after the successful collaboration for Vacation (1983) ("Holiday Road"). He declined. There was a even more ferocious version of the Librarian Puppet that was going to be used, but it was rejected. However, it was recycled and used in another successful Columbia Pictures film released one year after this one, Fright Night (1985).
Before the release of Home Alone (1990), this was the highest-grossing comedy of all time. In the original draft for Bill Murray`s character, sexual obscenities were written on Peter Venkman`s door; but Ivan Reitman wanted to make his film a target audience for families so the phrase "Venkman Burn in Hell" was added. In fact, this is a nod to the final scene in Stephen King`s Carrie (1976) - where there is a for-sale sign on the vacant lot where Carrie`s house once stood, and someone has graffitied it with "Carrie Burn in Hell". Voted number 28 in channel 4`s (UK) "Greatest Family Films". #
# Scenes in the montage sequence of the Ghostbusters running around New York (and also driving in the Ecto-mobile) were done on the first day, largely without film permits. In one scene, someone who looks like they might be a security guard begins chasing after them, and Dan Aykroyd can be seen actually driving the Ecto-mobile.
In the scene when the terror dogs (Zuul and Vince Clorthow) come to life, were actual statue designs on an old church in Philadelphia. As revealed in an interview with Mix Magazine Online the hit song `Ghostbusters` was created 4:30 in the morning when after almost 2 long days of trying to create a song Ray Parker Jr. saw a commercial for a drain company that reminded him of a scene from the film. That commercial helped him coin the popular line "Who you gonna call?"
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# The character of Winston was initially written to be a guard at the Ghostbusters firehouse. Also, in earlier drafts of the script, Winston was the one who conjured up the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. # The phone number for the Ghostbusters as it appears on the television ad that Dana sees in her apartment is 555-2368.
When the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man arrives, Ray says that he remembered the Stay-Puft marshmallows from when he use to go camping at Camp Wauconda. Camp Wauconda is an actual boy scout camp outside of Peoria, IL. The electric shock experiments that Venkman conducts on the college students parodied the real life Milgram Experiments, which related to obedience. In the early 1960s, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to see if test subjects would administer electric shocks of increasing voltage to fellow test subjects (actually actors pretending to be shocked) based on the commands of an authority figure. Most of them did. Michael Keaton turned down both the roles of Dr. Peter Venkman and Dr. Egon Spengler.
Chevy Chase turned down the role of Dr. Peter Venkman, he claimed that the script used in the movie wasn`t the original script and in the original script was very dark and even more scarier. The movie`s line "Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!" was voted as the #68 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007. #
# The movie`s line "Well, there`s something you don`t see every day." was voted as the #19 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007. The music video for the song "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr., directed by Ivan Reitman, featured a number of celebrities who did not appear in the film. This included Chevy Chase, John Candy, Danny DeVito, Peter Falk, Melissa Gilbert, Carly Simon, Teri Garr, Irene Cara and George Wendt. In addition, the Ghostbusters themselves danced down Times Square right behind Parker Jr. The lively chorus shouting the words "Ghostbusters" through the song were made up of the only people Ray Parker Jr. could find quickly enough to help him meet his deadline: his young girlfriend and her friends.
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# The floating Sigourney Weaver special effect is an actual physical effect, not an optical effect. The actress was put in a full body cast and attached to a post that was hidden in the curtains. According to the commentary, this effect came from director Ivan Reitman`s Broadway experience. #
# Harold Ramis says that his character`s name was built from two parts. The first name (Egon) was taken from a Hungarian refugee he went to grammar school with, and Spengler was from historian Oswald Spengler. Christopher Walken, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd and Jeff Goldblum were all considered for the role of Dr. Egon Spengler. #
# Harold Ramis really had no intention of starring in the film, only writing it. But he decided to star in this film as Dr. Egon Spengler after he felt he was the best person suited for the role.
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# The probe Venkman uses in Dana`s apartment is actually a United Technologies/Bacharach 300 Series "Sniffer", normally used to locate utility gas leaks or low-oxygen hazards. The squeeze-bulb is standard. It is conceivable such a detector could be modified to find other gases-perhaps even paranormal ones.
Jean Kasem`s feature film debut. The name `Gozer` was taken from the much publicized alleged haunting in Amityville. The term `proton pack` was never actually used until the middle of Ghostbusters II (1989) when Spengler, in the subway tunnel said "before we go any further I think we should get our proton packs." Probably by interesting coincidence, the name "Zuul" corresponds to "Zuhl", an Alien Being George Adamski claimed to have met in his 1955 book "Inside the Space Ships". The eggs which fry themselves are sitting next to a package of "Sta-Puft" marshmallows. There is also a large advertisement for "Sta-Puft" marshmallows (complete with the marshmallow man) visible on the side of a building.
On the set, Dan Aykroyd referred to the "Slimer" ghost as the ghost of John Belushi.
The Stay-Puft marshmallow man was originally supposed to come up out of the water right next to The Statue of Liberty, to get a contrast of size, but the scene was too hard to shoot.
Dana`s apartment building actually exists at 55 Central Park West in New York City. The building is actually only 20 stories high. For the film, matte paintings and models were used to make the building look bigger and with more floors Dan Aykroyd`s original version of the script began with the Ecto-mobile flying out of Ghostbusters HQ, but director Ivan Reitman suggested that it would be better to show how the team got started.
Gozer was originally going to be played by Paul Reubens, who turned down the role. In the original script, Gozer appeared as a normal man in a business suit.
The role of Winston was originally written for Eddie Murphy. According to Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis in the DVD Commentary, in Dan Aykroyd`s original rough draft of the movie, the story was going to take place in the future and that there would be teams of Ghostbusters like there are paramedics and firefighters (thus explaining basing the Ghostbusters HQ in a firehouse). According to Reitman, such a film would cost "at least $300 million in 1984 dollars". So Harold Ramis was brought in to rewrite the script and bring it into modern times.
The role of Peter Venkman was originally written for John Belushi The role of Louis Tully was originally written for John Candy.
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