Ghostbusters Proper

Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were famous for their Saturday Night Live sketches in the 1970s. They were planning to star in a supernatural comedy set in space, but it was deemed too expensive. The film was scaled back and set on Earth with Bill Murray replacing Belushi. This film became the 1984 hit Ghostbusters. It had a budget of $30 million and made $300 million, spawning a billion-dollar franchise. The film was known for its memorable characters and scenes, such as the library ghost and Slimer. Bill Murray's scenes were mostly ad-libbed, and Eddie Murphy was originally supposed to be in the film. The famous Ghostbusters song was written by Ray Parker Jr. The film was the highest grossing comedy until Home Alone in 1990. Dan Aykroyd's original script was set in space and had to be scaled back. Aykroyd has a reputation for letting his projects spiral out of control. The comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi would become famous in the 1970s for their Saturday Night Live sketches, and would later star in the hit musical The Blues Brothers in 1980. The duo's collaboration came to an abrupt end after Belushi died from a drugs overdose in 1982, but Aykroyd already had much of her next project in the making. The pair were going to star in a supernatural comedy set in space that would see the two responding to paranormal incidents, but the project was deemed too expensive and was scaled back to be set on Earth with Bill Murray replacing Belushi. It would spawn a billion-dollar franchise and would become the film on the cold marble slab today, Ivan Reitman's 1984 Ghostbusters. Welcome listener to the 16th episode of the Dissect the Directs podcast. My name is Pete Swan and with me as always is Jeff Holmes. Greetings. Greetings. Now, if you've listened to one of our podcasts before, or any film podcast for that matter, you'll realise there's going to be spoilers and a lot of bad language. Normally this is the part where we make a crack and find a way to crowbar the word cunt into our intro, but instead, well, with that box ticked, I can say that the bad language used in this film is mostly going to be around the insult dickless. Yeah, a couple of asses and shits I think. As well as our own contributions to the podcast. So this film came out in 1984 and the big films of this year were Beverly Hills Cop, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, which was released on the very same day as Ghostbusters, Karate Kids and Police Academy. And my girlfriend was born in 1984 as well. Yeah, there you go. It was a good year for, yeah, for awful. The budget of this, well, just like any film which spawns a franchise, the budget, the return on this was excellent. So the budget was 30 million and made a return of 300 million. So you can understand why there were so many cartoons, toys, computer games and everything. And some of the toys. Yeah, for sure. I think, I think both of us knew Ghostbusters through the cartoon before the film, right? Yeah. No, I knew it from the film. What are your memories of the film then Geoff? I remember my, I used to always get scared by the, the library ghost at the beginning. There were lots of very scary bits in this for a kid, even though it was kind of a comedy and a kid's film. Yeah. The library ghost at the beginning is terrifying. Yeah. My sister was, I normally like hide behind the pillow at that bit, but my sister once just grabbed hold of me and held my eyes open and made me watch it. Lovely bit of sisterly love there. Sure torture. Not in any constructive way to help me get over my fear or anything. It was just to be horrible. Yeah. Just because it amused her to see you in discomfort. How would you describe the library ghost to listeners of the podcast? At first, it looks like just kind of like a semi-see-through old lady who's sort of got this sort of purpley pinkish tinge to her. And when she's approached, we'll discuss it more later. Yeah, sure. When she's approached, she sort of morphs into this like quite ghoulish skeletal creature. Yeah. Which looks very aggravated. Yeah. Wails alarmingly. My memories with the dogs, the terror dogs, of course, very memorable, very frightening. The ones that chase Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis' character. Yeah. The bit when he trashed the whole hotel room in order to get the slimer, which is brilliant, obviously delightful to a young lad. Oh, you just wanted to break things when you were little. Yeah. When you watch that. Yeah. To watch them do it with glee and complete impunity as well. The Bill Murray's character, Peter Bankman, bullying one of the university volunteers with the electric shocks, trying to work out telepathy. They're just, yeah. Of course, the marshmallow man, hugely memorable. And of course, Slimer, because Slimer was a bit, Slimer was a kind of like pet in the cartoon, right? Yeah. He was like almost like one of the, like he's an He-Man sort of style character. Yeah. But obviously in the film, it's like an enemy, like a ghoul that they've got to get. Okay. Trivia and points of interest. So Bill Murray's scenes were almost all ad-libbed. In fact, most of the cast sort of ad-libbed their way through here. But yeah, pretty much everything Bill Murray says is ad-libbed. Eddie Murphy was originally supposed to be Winston. Yeah. I think he turned it down because he had Beverly Hills Cop. Yeah. Winston's sort of like the fourth Ghostbuster, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So he turned it down for Beverly Hills Cop, which was the only film that made more in a box office than Ghostbusters, but only by a little bit. I mean, it pretty much made the same. John Candy was supposed to play the character of Lewis, which ended up being played by Rick Moranis. But Rick Moranis absolutely kills it, which we will come back to at a good time. John Belushi, of course, as I mentioned in the intro, was supposed to play Peter Venkman, which of course was played by Bill Murray instead. And Slimer, so the Ghost Slimer... John Belushi, sorry to jump in there, is actually kind of represented in the film. Were we just coming to... I was just going to say, come onto it. Yeah, that's right. So the character Slimer... So in the film, the character Slimer is never referred to as Slimer, but no one knows him as Slimer, because obviously in the cartoon he's given that name. But yeah, the Slimer character, or the Slimer Ghost, was a sort of little nod to John Belushi. He doesn't really look like John Belushi, or at least I hope that's not what they remember their friends looking like. They've kind of got the same nose. Yeah, I guess so. Slimer is a gluttonous eater and basically just pretty much attacks foods with vigor. And that was a little nod to John Belushi's character in Animal House. Pluto. Yeah, National Lampoon's Animal House, another comedy film that he did. That's a pirate film. Yeah. Literally one of the funniest films I've ever seen. The famous Ghostbusters song, which I think was in part responsible for making the film as big as it was, because it was a number one hit, was written by Ray Parker Jr. And they told him he had to have the word Ghostbusters in the title of this song, and he hated this. He said it was such an unmusical word, a really awkward thing to kind of make a song about. And that's why in the song Ray Parker Jr. never says Ghostbusters. He gets his girlfriends and her mates to shout out the Ghostbusters when they're going back and forward. And yeah, he was sort of inspired by, because I think he got like a pre-screening of the film, and when they do the TV adverts and they pretend to be sort of like rodent catchers or pest control. But for Ghosts, that was his sort of inspiration for the song. Yeah, great song. In the music video for that, you do see John Belushi, even though he never got the part in the film, and Danny DeVito's in it, and a whole bunch of other stuff they might like. John Belushi. Sorry, not John Belushi. Danny DeVito. Yeah, and John Candy. John Candy, I meant. So yeah, sorry. Yes, it'd be a bit weird if John Belushi was in it. Yeah, that would be strange. It's like CGI from your back from the death. From 1984. Yeah, that would be some shit. So this was the highest grossing comedy ever made, until Home Alone beat it off the spot in 1990. The Gozer, the name Gozer, one of the ghosts, Zool's, is it like Zool's like sidekick? No, Zool is the sidekick. Oh, okay. Gozer is the main. The nemi-god. The name Gozer comes from an apparent real-life haunting in England, an Enfield haunting, and in this haunting apparently the name Gozer would be found etched into things mysteriously, and they never knew, so they nicked it. The name for this film. Good name for a band as well. Yeah, good. Nice little subtle reference. Dan Aykroyd really believes in all this stuff. He's got a long-standing belief in the paranormal and ghosts and all this kind of stuff, so he was well, well, I'd say well-cast, he wrote the thing, so obviously. Some of the sort of paranormal science, or pseudo-science, I guess, or whatever his standpoint is on it, he's quite sceptical, is actually supposedly very, very accurate, because Dan Aykroyd knows so much about the subject. Yeah, presumably why he does all the technical pseudo-science. Jeff Goldblum was considered for the role of Egon, and so was Christopher Walken, but I think Jeff Goldblum would have made an amazing Egon, not to take away from Howard Ramos' performance. Christopher Walken would have been scarier than any of the ghosts in the film. Yeah, as I mentioned in the intro a little bit, Dan Aykroyd's original script was just absolutely mad, set in space, in a parallel universe where there are as many ghostbusters as there are police officers or firemen, and they travel around space capturing ghosts in different dimensions, and it took Howard Ramos to step in and go like, well, Dan, you've got something good here, but you need to scale it back. He's made it really wacky. You're not going to get a billion dollars to make this film. When he's left alone to make something, that's kind of what happens. Yeah. You've never heard of the film Nothing But Trouble? I haven't heard of it, no, but I did hear that Aykroyd has a reputation for letting his projects spiral out of control for a realistic performance. Well, that's a horror film that's got Chevy Chase in it, where it's a comedy horror, and John Candy and Demi Moore as well, so it's actually all right, but it is so convoluted and mashed up together, because it's obviously Dan Aykroyd's just imagination's gone a bit haywire. Yeah. And basically he needs... Howard Ramos is on board. Dan Aykroyd is an excellent writer, but he always needs proper supervision, I think that's probably the best way to politely explain his projects don't work when he goes solo. Okay, points of interest, trivia out of the way, done a bit of memories and budget and other films that are out around that time. Some memories fonder than others. Thank you, Vicky. How does the film start? It starts in a library, right? Yeah, so we go in, there's nice sort of subtle but quite spooky music. Yeah, a little bit suspenseful. It reminded me of a Steven Spielberg film, that kind of place where you know something's going to happen. Like a theremin or something like that. It's just sort of panning through the library, following this little old librarian, she sort of puts books back on shelves and whatnot. She goes down into the sort of cellar, into the bit that's probably off limits of the public, with her little trolley. You start to see little things happen behind her. Some books will swap over behind her onto a shelf. Something will sort of jump off the shelf, and she'll sort of turn around, but she's just kind of missed it. And then she turns a corner, and then there's this sort of bright light, and she starts screaming, and then there's this kind of growl noise, and her hair blows back like there's a huge wind in her face. And then we get the sort of opening title, the iconic drum beats of the title song, and we get the Ghostbusters sort of logo come up into the screen, right? Yeah. From here, we are introduced to... Frankman. Frankman. And they waste no time in showing to us that he is an absolute sleazeball. Yeah, he's kind of just horrible, but kind of charming and charismatic at the same time. Yeah. He's constantly making fun of somebody, or belittling somebody, but doing it in such a funny way that you actually like it. Yeah, with Bill Murray's kind of deadpan humour, somehow it kind of works out. But I think it shows us in his office, and on the door of his office, somebody scrawls, or just Frankman goes to hell, or something like this. So you know he's not alive. Like his character in hell. And so he's doing an experiment where he's trying to test if people have telegraphic powers. Yeah, or some sort of like ESP ability. And to do this test, he's basically linked up to students or to volunteers, to like something that gives out electric shocks. Yeah, for every wrong answer, a little shock on their hands. Just the cause of a certain amount of pain. And he's holding up cards which have patterns or shapes on them, and the person's got to guess what they are. And there's some kind of nerdy-looking young guy that's guessing, and basically every guess that he gives, whether he's right or wrong, he basically shocks the guy. Yeah, he is actually right on one of them. Yeah, and he still shocks him. He still gives him an electric shock. But the lovely young woman who's guessing is basically getting everything wrong, and he won't shock her at all, and he's very flattering. He's pretending that she's getting them right. Yeah, but it's all a sort of ploy to essentially slime his way into her pants. And you see a guy giving her numbers like, oh people are going to be very jealous of you, we need to work together on this, all this kind of stuff. Yeah, it's really grooming, it's unpleasant. Yeah, this is her lecturer in a university, this is so inappropriate. But it's funny. It's hilarious, yeah. After this, we get, we're introduced to Ray, who's kind of, is he the lead ghostbuster, or is he just the one who kind of knows his stuff the most, would you say? Yeah, he's kind of his baby, I guess. I'd say he's probably kind of almost the leader, but sort of hands the leadership side of things over to Venkman, if you will. Yeah. Kind of the social leader of their little group. But we kind of, we're introduced to him, and he's kind of, obviously, played by Dan Aykroyd, the writer of this, and Ray's character is kind of like a puppy of a guy, you know what I mean? He's quite a lovely bloke. Yeah, yeah, he's a nice guy, but he's just really excisable, and he talks in this kind of pseudo-scientific gobbledygook, when referring to ghosts, to make it sound like there's some sort of scientific basis to it. Yeah. But we're introduced to him when him and Venkman go down to investigate the library. Yeah, so as Venkman's chatting up the student who was taking part in his experiment, the other guy stormed out because he was sick of getting electric shocks, which is fair enough. Ray kind of just bursts in the room and goes, this is it, this is definitely it, and he's really, really, really excited, but you don't know why. And so they go down, they actually lay eyes on the ghosts. Yeah, so they go down because Ray, what this is, it means is that someone saw a ghost, i.e. the librarian at the beginning of the film. Yeah. So they go straight to the library, and that's where we also get introduced to Egon, who's the third member of their group. He's kind of like a tech guy. And Egon is played by Harold Ramis, who's a guy that they basically brought in to reign in Dan Aykroyd from the writing side of it. He's brilliant, he plays Egon. And Egon's character, played by Ramis, is basically, he's also a nerd like Ray, but rather than being really excitable like Ray, he's very sort of... Very reserved and almost emotionless. Yeah, very sort of a dry academic type. Yeah, almost kind of like on the spectrum. Yeah, yeah, I would say. And so they find the ghost, but they don't really have a plan from here. They're just like, what do we do? Do we talk to it, or tell it to go away, or what's the... Yeah, so yeah, they get Vankman to try and talk to her. Yep. He sort of just sort of like speaks to her as if he's met her in a bar. Excuse me, where are you from originally? And then she just sort of turns and goes, shh, and then goes back to reading this book. And so Ray comes up with an idea where he's just like, all right, everyone stay close. Stay close. Do exactly as I say. Try to creep up on her. Yeah, and then he goes, get her! They try to rush her. Yeah. And then we see her transform into this terrifying creature, which used to scare me to hell when I was a child. Um, and this is kind of a proper bit of horror. So far it's been sort of, yeah, it's been comedy and lighthearted, but this is truly terrifying. Well, like you say, your sister used to torment you. You've never seen it before. It does kind of take you by surprise. Um, and yeah, it's a bit of a jump scare and a bit of horror into this comedy, but they instantly go into some great sort of comic relief by having all of the Ghostbusters fleeing the library to survive. Very comedic fashion. Yeah. So it's a very sort of upbeat blues music, which I assume was inspired by the Blues Brothers. Yes. Um, so after this, a bit more bad luck. They've failed in their first attempt to, uh, bust the coast. Yeah. But as they're walking through the park a bit disheartened, Egon points out to, um, Franklin that from the readings he took from that experience, that they have a chance of actually catching and holding, like trapping the ghost. Okay. Um, so they, um, yeah. And after this, they, uh, essentially we go to them in their university. Yeah. They go to the university and the, the Dean, who is not a fan of them at all. Yeah. Um, basically tells them that they've been kicked out of the university. Yeah. He's, he's annoyed with them. He's like, look, you're taking all this money for funding. You haven't written a paper in however long. Yeah. You seem to prat around to the office talking about ghosts. The Dean's kind of got a point here to be fair. Yeah. They are taking the piss and they've been held back to rights. And so they're kicked out. So they need to set up their own office and they want to kind of go into business. Yeah. Given that they've only met one ghost and it's, they fled from it. And it seems like quite a bold business plan. Yeah. Um, nonetheless, Ray is bullied into selling his family home in order to find an office. And basically thanks for that. A really big ask. Yeah. I think that is basically just, well, just being the wanker that he is by basically just sort of smooth talking Ray into. Never going to regret this, Ray. Everyone has free mortgages these days. Um, and EGOD is basically just. He's crunched the numbers on it. Yeah. And yeah, Ray's going to have to pay back 94,000 a year in interest alone, right. Which is obviously. I know, I think that's money they get, isn't it? Well, maybe that's what they need to bring in, but, or maybe, yeah, actually. But in any case, they're looking with this 94,000, they're looking for a suitable place and they find an old fire station. Yeah. EGOD is not impressed by this fire station. No, he makes a very good case for not buying it. Yeah. And he says that it's got like metal fatigue, the structural problems, the wiring substandard, and he describes the neighborhood as a demilitarized zone. But Ray, countering all of these goods, fairly serious concerns. Pops out of the woodwork and goes, this place is great. And it's basically because he slid down the fireman's pole. Yeah. Like a child, just like that, like a child, he fritters away his entire family's inheritance. Because he enjoyed sliding down a fireman's pole. Yeah. Well, who wouldn't? So now the Ghostbusters have an office. Is it a base of operations? A base of operations, even if it is a rundown building that needs a lot of work. This film has a lot of montages, so we're going to sort out that problem with the montage a bit. But from here, we meet the characters Dana, who is played by Sigourney Weaver, and Lewis, her neighbor, who is played by Rick Moranis. So Dana's coming back from shopping, just taking her groceries up. And then her annoying neighbor, Lewis, who's a bit pervy, but he's so non-frightening. Yeah. Because he's just such a geek. It's so obvious that any attempts he makes on Dana are just going to be completely ineffectual. But you kind of let him get away with this stuff. He's also so entertainingly hopeless. Yeah. So he tells Dana that her television's been on in her flat all day, thinking that she'd left it on, and then goes into this elaborate story about how he climbed out to try and disconnect it onto the window ledge. That didn't work. And then he turned up his television so that everyone would think both of their TVs were broken. So somebody would think there's something wrong with the building. I don't think anyone's going to think the buildings are this, on account of two televisions being up there. But yeah, Dana's carrying her shopping, and it's a classic Hollywood grocery thing, with a bit of greenery popping out the top for the baguettes. Nice big, long sort of brown paper bag. Yes. Like brussels, annoyingly. Yeah. And Lewis is just waffling, basically. But it's obvious he likes Dana. Dana's sort of rolling her eyes, just trying to get past him. Yeah. So she just goes back into her flat and pretty much ignores him. He tries to go back into his, but he's such a twat, he's locked himself out. This is a common thing that he keeps doing throughout the film as well. Yeah, I think he locked himself out of his flat three times in the film. And we'll find out why. That's a good comedy reference later. So Dana gets into her flat, and she's putting away her groceries, or shopping, as we say here in the UK. And she puts her eggs on the counter, or on the kitchen counter. And the box, while she's putting everything else away into the fridge, the egg box opens by itself, and the eggs kind of pop out. Yeah, then start sort of cooking. Start cooking on the counter. And she's kind of a bit alarmed about this. She goes back to the fridge. And hears this weird noise. This weird kind of growling coming from inside. And when she opens the fridge, what does she see? She sees this weird sort of, it's almost like a view into another world, or dimension. It's like this big swirling vortex, with like a temple in the background, with loads of lightning coming out of it. Like a pyramid kind of temple, right? Yeah, sort of. And then these big creatures, dog things. They're like half dog, half demon. But actually, yeah, they're bigger than tigers, basically. Yeah. They're like something off of like a Death Metal album cover. But she's seeing it from sort of afar, into the fridge. Yeah. And then one of them just goes... She screams and slams the fridge door. And so it looks very likely she's going to be the Ghostbusters' first proper client. From this, we go back to their office, the fire station that they've got. They now have a vehicle, right? Yeah. Ray turns up in this beaten up old hearse, that looks like it's about to die on the pavement. Is it a hearse, or like an ambulance? It's long enough to be either, right? I think it's a hearse. Okay. Yeah, it's not sort of tall enough to be an ambulance, yes. It's a pretty cool car. But yeah, it turns out that he spent $4,800 on this, and it needs new shocks, brake pads, brake lines. Everything's fake, I think. Everything. And in addition to their new vehicle, they have a new assistant, Janine. Janine Melnitz. And she's brilliant. She's the most New York-y person I think I've ever seen in film. She speaks with this kind of nasal kind of whine. Yeah. She's got tons of attitude, and she's quite into Egon. And she's really sarky as well. Yeah. She's got a lot of sass about her. Venkman. Yeah, so Dana comes down. So Sigourney Weaver's character, Dana, comes down to the Ghostbusters headquarters because she's seen their advert on the TV. Yes. And Venkman is instantly sleazing over her. Yeah. He literally sprints from his desk and hurdles over a barrier and interrupts her when she's trying to talk to Janine, the receptionist, and then just basically starts trying to steamroller with Jan. Yeah. She's trying to explain about the eggs cooking and what she's seen in the fridge. Yeah. After this, they get another call out. Yeah. Well, first, I think Dr. Venkman goes back to Dana's apartment to check it out. Oh, right. Yeah. He's like spraying it with like... looks like something you'd water plants with. It appears that he doesn't even know what it's for or what it is. Yeah. It's just this... they've got lots of weird homemade gadgets in this film, which look really, really odd. And they're basically other household items stuck together. I think this looks something like an old tape deck. Yeah. And a little squeezy tube on the end of it. And you can see Venkman isn't really interested in finding the ghost. Oh, yeah. At one point, he opens up her piano and plays the high keys. He's like, yeah, they hate that. You know, I just did it just to annoy them. Making stuff up. Yeah. Just going, all right, boys, it's Dr. Venkman. What's the outcome of this? I think Venkman's basically just trying to get a date with her. He's like, yeah, we should discuss this over dinner and all this kind of stuff. She's not impressed by this at all. As you wouldn't be, really. This is completely unprofessional and inappropriate. But yeah, we cut from this scene and now they have another call out to a hotel this time. So they're eating a Chinese takeaway or something. Ray mentions that this takeaway consists of the last of their petty cash. So they're financially looking pretty bad at the moment. And then Janine gets a phone call and there's obviously a job coming in. So she hits this fireman's bell alarm thing going, we've got one. After having said to the hotel owner, don't worry, we'll be very discreet. They'll be totally discreet. So they all slide down into the fireman's pole and slip into their Ghostbuster uniforms, which are these sort of crummy brown overalls and get into their car, which has now been done up and has got loads of weird shit all over it. Yeah, it's got sirens. It's got the Ghostbusters logo on the side. So they hightail it to their job, which is a very posh, the Sedgwick Hotel, in this insanely loud, massive vehicle. Yeah, there's sirens blaring and dressed up like, well, like what the hotel guests are, so that they're supposed to be a Cosmodore. Yeah, they've got these proton packs on the back, you know, with these sort of like electric guns like attached to it. And, well, we'll get to the ghost they bust in the hotel in a moment. But before we do, I'm just going to read out this episode's hater review. This hater review was written by Sobhan Malik in 2020. He's given it one out of ten and describes it as one of the most overrated and rubbish films in history. Strong take. The review is follows. I decided to watch this movie as it had been a few years since I'd not seen it. And by a few, I mean 16 years. And my God, what an awful film. I don't know whether it was a fact that I was a child or whether I bought into a collective delusion about what a masterpiece this movie was, because after having rewatched it, I was utterly appalled and disgusted. This movie made me physically sick. It was not funny at all, not even a little bit. And it's a movie that's, it's a movie stuck between different genres, and yet it fails to define what it is. A comedy with no humor or horror, which fails to instill fear. It fails utterly on both. And it's one of the most forgettable movie experiences I have had. Undoubtedly one of the worst movies of the decade. I have no idea how it got the ratings that it did. Now, Jeff, a few bits in here. Malick was... I'm actually furious. I mean, how dare he? I think this is the first A to review that's actually made me angry. Yeah, normally they're quite funny, but that wasn't. That was just nasty. Yeah, it was just bruising. Nasty little person. What has gone so wrong in a person's life that they can watch Ghostbusters and feel physically sick and be utterly appalled and disgusted? And he describes it as the most forgettable movie experience he's ever had, but not so forgettable that he didn't go on to the fucking internet to write all of this fucking boil. Nasty little... Anyway, let's cool down and get to... Where were we? The Ghostbusters are going to the hotel to... Yeah, sorry. The Ghostbusters... I've calmed down now. Take a few breaths. Ghostbusters have turned up to the hotel. They're going to go up to the floor where the ghost was last sighted. So yeah, they're going to take the lift. Makes sense because they've got these huge massive proton packs on their back. Yep. So as they're waiting for the lift, one of the other patrons at the hotel sort of goes, what are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut? To which Franklin says, oh no, there's a cockroach on the top floor. He's like, must be some cockroach. He's like, yeah, bite your head off, man. Just get to the lift. Going up? I'll take the next one. Yeah. Then Ray says, well, like the proton packs, basically an unlicensed nuclear accelerator. Then asks them to turn his on, which Franklin does, but then him and Egon just sort of start edging towards the other side of the lift. When they come out of the lift, do they see the ghost straight away? No, they hear a noise and then Ray and Egon both turn around really, really quickly and basically just open fire. But the noise turns out to be a maid. Yeah, they blow up her sort of cart and like all of the toilet rolls are on fire. What the hell? What the hell are you doing? And they just go, oh, sorry, we thought you were someone else. And just walk off, leaving her with a... Trying to put a fire out. With a spray. But they have like a kind of like ghost detector thing, right? It looks like a calculator with like antennae coming off it or something. It's like lights that kind of like flash. A surveillance meter. I don't know what that stands for. And it's sort of like the thing in Aliens where it kind of beeps when they get kind of closer. And so they follow it and it takes them to, they turn a corner and they see the ghost. Ray sees it first. Okay. So Ray's just like smoking through the corridors of this hotel. And then turns around to see what we call Slimer now. But yeah, back then it was just Green Ghost. This is just this like big green blob with a really horrible face and just massive mouth. And this is the Slimer from the cartoons, right? Yeah. But they never actually call it Slimer in this film. But yeah, so it's gluttonously eating again and nods to it. Yeah, shoveling food into it. Just this giant mouth. Disgustingly, like some of it's falling out onto the floor. It doesn't even appear to be enjoying it. It's just sort of doing it out of some sort of... A lot of reflex. But the ghost hears him. Slimer hears him and sort of turns and flies off down the corridor, making this really horrible noise. And then sort of goes through a wall, leaving this big dripping slimy residue behind him. And on the other side of the wall is Vankman in another corridor. And they're all like walkie talkies. Yeah. Ray's like, Vankman, I saw it. And Vankman's like, yeah, it's right here. It's right in front of me. It's looking at me like an ugly little spud, isn't he? Ray, I think he can hear you. Don't move. It won't hurt you. And then it just rushes Vankman. Yeah, he kind of screams and then it cuts to him on the ground, covered in all of this goo, later called ectoplasm. Or maybe they've already established that. But anyway, rather than being really concerned for their colleague and co-ghostbuster, they're just excited because they've got sort of physical evidence of a ghost. Ray calls Egon immediately and goes, I've got Vankman. He's got slime. It's great, Ray. Save some for me. They manage to trap Slimer in, it flies downstairs into a big kind of fancy ballroom. Yeah. But there's like tables out for, you know, the restaurants, you know, like there's this massive spread of really posh, nice food. Yeah. Presumably why Slimer's gone down there. As they're about to take Slimer out, Egon mentions, as if it's like a side note, oh, by the way, don't cross the streams, the streams that come out of their guns, or like electric guns, because it would be bad. And Vankman's like, I'm a little bit fuzzy in the whole good bad thing. What do you mean bad, this thing? Well, imagine every molecule in your body exploding simultaneously at the speed of light. Yeah. Oh, that kind of bad. Okay. Well, thanks for the important safety tip, Egon. So the woman who's booked that room is this really posh, posh old lady, like American aristocracy or something. And the hotel manager is quite frantic and is trying to calm her down. But obviously the Ghostbusters have locked the door to the ballroom while they take care of that little job. So he's getting really, really sketched out. So the deal is when they catch the ghosts with these sort of proton packs, these electric guns, they don't actually kill the ghost. They just kind of capture it. They have this kind of trap that they throw out, and they're able to sort of hold on to the ghost and force it into the trap. And that's how they take care of this problem. So they need to clear some space in the trap and so basically just destroy this very fancy room. Yeah, they just start tipping tables over. Yeah, Venkman at one point is like, oh, guys, just before we do the ghost, I've always wanted to do this, and whips away the table. The flowers are still there. Yeah, everything falls on the floor except the flowers. Like he's doing a magic trick. But they do manage to get Seiner after a lot of destruction. Yeah. And then they walk out to the very alarmed and very angry hotel manager, carrying this shrouding trap. They've got loads of smoke coming out of it, which is obviously quite stinky. All the other hotel guests have gathered around. They're all sort of gagging. And this is where they tell the hotel owner how much it's going to cost. Okay, 5,000 for the ghost. We've got a discount on storage, proton charging. Yeah, all this kind of stuff. But basically, you give them this huge bill, which is like 8,000. I'm not paying that. Okay, well, that's fine. We'll just put it back in the room. So he begrudgingly accepts the check and pays it. And yeah, they're jubilant. They've caught their first ghost. They've got their first pay packet. And now we have one of the film's montages. And basically, in the montage, the Ghostbusters are going from job to job. Yeah, it's kind of New York's caught like ghost fever. Yeah, they're on Larry King, aren't they? They go on talk shows. All the news channels are talking about them. And it has various ghosts that are catching around the city and crowds, kind of adoring crowds gathering around when they finish jobs. But within this montage, bearing in mind this is a kid's film, there's a bit where Ray is lying in bed. And you see like his belt buckle be like undone whilst he's lying in bed by a ghost. And it pans up to his face and he kind of leans back in ecstasy, implying that he's getting a blowjob on a ghost. And this is the second 80s film where it has an inappropriate blowjob in a kid's film. Because, of course, there's one in Batman as well. Yes, there is. Yeah. So yeah, a lot of things are changing in kids films. As well, I should say, all of the Ghostbusters smoke. Like chain smoke. Yeah, exactly. Which is constantly on screen. Something you don't see with heroes in kids films anymore. So after the montage, we are now introduced to the fourth Ghostbuster, Winston. Yeah, played by Ernie Hudson. Yeah, and he's brilliant. Yeah, he's awesome. Yeah. And it has Janine saying, with her nasal New York accent, do you believe in the theory of Atlantis, such and such? It's like extraterrestrial astral projection. The fate of Atlantis. And Winston says, yeah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe whatever you say. Janine's unsure, but Venkman walks in and just says, yeah, yeah, you're hired. He starts right away. Yeah, because they're massively overworked and knackered at this point. They need help, so they just hire him on the spot. And they give him all of these smouldering traps. Welcome aboard. And a load of smelly traps. We then go to, we have another Venkman and Dana scene, right? Do they go on a date? Well, he goes to meet her. She's a concert cellist. He goes to meet her outside the concert hall. And she's got a kind of boyfriend waiting for her. Yeah, this sort of really snobby, pretentious, classical musician who's constantly putting some kind of nasal spray up his nose, like Synex stuff. Yeah, Venkman's like, who's the stiff? The stiff happens to be a world-class, one of the finest musicians in the world. So yeah, Venkman's still pursuing Dana, but she's still kind of resisting, right? Yeah. But he basically gets her to agree to have dinner with him. Okay. He's kind of charmed her enough to basically get in on a date. She finds him funny, basically. And he is funny. Yeah, yeah. So fair enough. After this bit, we are introduced to what happens to all of these ghosts and these traps. Not quite yet. No? Okay. What happens in return? So we get a visit from a character called Walter Peck, who represents the EPA, or Environmental Protection Agency. Yeah. I feel like it wouldn't be the EPA doing this in real life. It would just be the police, or someone with greater authority. But anyway, he goes in, he's kind of sniffing around because he wants to know what the deal is. And he's, yeah, he's quite obnoxious and stuck up and... Really condescending. And he's kind of already made the decision that he wants to get them. Yeah, sure. Yeah. So he meets Venkman, and Venkman is just having none of it. He's completely insouciant. He doesn't care that the guy's trying to talk down to him. He says, he says, I'm a doctor. And Peck's, yeah, Walter Peck's like, what is it? What exactly is it you're a doctor of? Parapsychology, psychology, but he refuses to call him Dr. Venkman. He says in a really pointed way, addresses him in a really pointed way as Mr. Venkman, always. Anyway, Walter Peck wants to see the storage facility where they keep all the ghosts. Yeah. But Venkman won't. He's like, you've got to get a warrant. Well, in that case, that's exactly what I'll do. Yeah. He goes off. So they have a bit of a, a bit of a... Standoff. Salty standoff. Exchange, yeah. Um, we then cut to Dana has gone back to her apartment to join Weaver's character. And once again, she meets Moranis' character, Lewis, in the corridor. And again, he's just waffling. Yeah. You want to get her to come to a party or to come in for like a mineral water. Lewis is, is throwing a party at his flat. Yeah. Um, but because, but because he doesn't really have friends, he's just invited his accountant clients because he's an accountant. He's just invited all of his, yeah, customers. Um, so eventually Dana manages to sort of get away from him. He's like, yeah, yeah, look, I've got a date tonight. He's like, oh, a date? He's like, yeah, put out by, oh, I guess you can bring him too. He's like, I don't want to go to your party on the first date, Lewis. Leave me alone. Yeah. Um, but when Dana gets into her apartment, she's attacked once again by these terror dogs that were in the fridge. And this time they're not at a distance in the fridge. They are. Yeah. They come out of a couch. Well, their arms do. Yeah. And, um, it's quite scary. She sort of basically finishes this phone call with her mum, which seems like it was quite arduous. And then she's put the phone down and she just sits back in her armchair to relax. These like arms burst out of the chair. They're like claws from a dog, right? Sort of green. Yeah. Yeah. Sort of claymation with really like sharp nails. And one holds her face down and covers her face from screaming. One of them grabs her, boom. Yep. Dirty get. And the other one kind of comes up for her legs and pins down her torso. So she's kind of trapped in it. And then the chair sort of reverses its speed through a doorway. Yeah. And there's another door opens and then there's another terror dog there and the chair is pushing her into the other terror dog. Terrifying, really. Again, another bit of horror within this sort of comedy film. Lewis is also attacked, which is also very frightening for Lewis, but quite hilarious for anybody else. Yeah. So how's Lewis attacked in this one? So there's one of these terror dogs is in Lewis's sort of cupboard. And as he's throwing guests coats into that, you see like some coats land on his head. So you get a sneak peek of it. Yeah. And then obviously pissed off with this. It just bursts out of the cupboard. Yeah. Terrifies all of his guests. They all scarper. Which is fucking horrifying. Yeah. To begin with, before it does this, it kind of growls. Okay, who bought the dog? This is an excellent prelude to being mauled by a demonic beast. Yeah. This thing starts chasing Lewis through the apartment building. And even when he's running away in terror, he has the most ridiculous, nerdy, uncomfortable looking kind of run. Yeah. It's like he can't really control his limbs. Yeah. He's like scuttling. While Lewis makes it out of the apartment, runs across the road, goes out into New York City. The dog follows him. He tries to sort of get into this really posh restaurant, but he can't. He's like, easy, easy dog. Maybe I've got like a milk. Is it a milk bite for you or something? Some treats? Cute little pooch. Maybe I got a milk bone somewhere. He's pinned up against the window of a restaurant and the diners kind of look over and you know, he sort of screams. You see the back of him slide down the window. Yeah. You don't, you don't see exactly what happens to him. You just see that the dog's got him basically. Right. So after this scene, basically it's assumed that both Dana and Lewis have now in the clutches of this, these demon dogs. Yeah. Now Venkman goes to see Dana or he's maybe he's turning up for the dates, right? Yeah. He's turning up to pick her up for that date. Okay. But she's not the same Dana as before. No. Everything's a bit off. Yeah. So to begin with, he knocks on the door and she does answer that she's looking very sort of spaced out and a little bit sultry. Yeah. She's dressed in this sort of like glittering kind of red dress. And she sort of asks him, are you the key master? No. And she slams the door in his face. So he knocks again. It's like, I was asking the same question the same way. Are you the key master? And she goes, yes, but actually I'm a friend of yours. But he can see something's up with Dana. So he kind of looks around the apartment. She kind of coaxes him into the bedroom, right? Or frozen, frozen on the bed. Right. Yes. And she's like, do you want this body or something like this? Very suggestive. Again, it's a kid's film. It's like, is this a trick question? Franklin's still keeping his cool, even though clearly she's possessed. She starts floating above the bed. Yeah. She just sort of like starts like almost fitting and growling and speaking in this really sort of demonic voice. There is no Dana. There's only Zuul, right? The same Zuul that was in the fridge, Zuul was referred to in the fridge. And then he starts sort of floating and growling and stuff. So Franklin stays with Dana. Meanwhile, Lewis is wandering the streets of New York, also possessed and just prattling on about like, I don't know, ancient folklore. And he tries to speak to a horse. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's a horse and carriage. Yeah. And whilst he's doing it, the guy that runs it, he's like, hey, he just pulls a carriage. I'll make the deals. Wanna ride? Lewis spins around with these red demon eyes and growls at him. Yeah. Yeah. Every sort of extra character in this, again, is just so New York-y. They're all kind of Janine in their way, you know what I mean? Really New York stereotypes. So Lewis is eventually picked up and put, well, I think they're going to take him to like the loony bin or put him in the cells, but he starts talking about ghosts or whatever. So it's probably quite a big breach of medical protocol. They take him to the ghostbusters instead, and they start running tests on him. But he keeps saying he's a key master, coming back to the fact that he keeps locking himself out of apartments. And then they contact Venkman. Venkman's with Dana. She's possessed, and they realize now that there's a connection between Lewis, who's the key master, and Dana, who keeps saying that she's the gatekeeper. So they've made a connection, and I think they try to get them together. Is that right? So they can figure out? No, no, no. They decide to keep them apart, I think. Well, whilst, oh yeah, this is it. So whilst they've got Lewis in the station, Walter Peck comes back. Yeah. And this time he's not just there to belittle them or snoop around. He's come in there with a course order. A policeman and some kind of like... Engineer. Engineer or something. Yeah. And he wants them to turn off all their equipment and stop doing what they're doing. But they, he goes down and he finds this storage thing, and this is where all of the ghosts go, right? Yeah. The ghosts are caught in traps. It's like this big generator thing. Yeah, yeah. They put it, and they put the traps in, and then it's kind of locked in, and you don't know where they are, but the ghosts are out of harm's way. And Peck comes down, instantly focuses on this thing. He's like, right, turn that off. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa. But you don't even know what it is. If you do that, there's going to be, yeah, there's going to be chaos and explosion. They've kind of got a point. This looks like a big bit of machinery, but you don't really understand. At the very least, say, right, well, you've got 10 days to shut it all down. Like, you don't just flip the switch. So yeah, he sort of bullies the sort of engineer guy. Yeah, the engineer guy's conflicted as to what to do. He's like, I've never seen anything like this. Like, I don't want to mess with it. And Peck is like, well, just do it. So he goes to do it. Venkman sort of goes to push him back and goes, my friend, don't be a jerk. Yeah, one final warning, so you don't listen to reason. And, like, the policeman pushes him back, who is also one of the most New York-y sub-characters ever. Because Peck's like, oh, if he does that again, officer, you can shoot him. He goes, you thought you had your pencil neck. Don't tell me how to do mine. Pencil neck. Yeah. Anyway, they don't listen to the Ghostbusters. And Peck shuts down the storage with all of the ghosts. So all of the Ghostbusters, good work, catching all these ghosts, painstaking. It's done in a flick of a switch. Yeah. And so we basically now have a reverse montage to the montage before. First montage is them catching all the ghosts. But this montage is all of the ghosts being released back into New York City. And, yeah, you've got, it cuts to all sorts of funny ghost-related antics around New York. You have Slimer gobbling down, like, a hot dog cart. You have a guy getting into a New York taxi, and it's like a zombie taxi driver, like, and you just turn off into the road without sort of looking. And, yeah, because there's a big explosion, and because there's lots of ghosts, and because Walter Peck's not going to take responsibility for him basically doing this, the Ghostbusters are arrested. Yes. They're all taken to this holding cell. And Ray's explaining that there's been an increase in sort of paranormal activity in the last few weeks, which is why they've been so busy. Which is what has also led up to this whole Keymaster gatekeeper situation. Yep. And that building that Dana and Lewis live in is actually like, almost like, designed to be like an antenna. Yeah. Like an interdimensional thing. Yeah, it's sort of, it picks up like paranormal sort of frequencies. And this is why Dana and Lewis have been targeted by the ghosts. Okay. And whilst they're doing it, all the other prisoners sort of around them, to begin with, just think that they're nuts. And then they start to listen and... Looking over their shoulders and stuff, and Vankman's like, is everyone getting this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But whilst they're doing this, whilst they're figuring it out, basically one of the guards comes down and goes, right, Ghostbusters, the mayor wants to see you. Yeah. And this leads to one of the most delightful scenes in the film, I reckon. Yeah. Where it's basically a standoff between the Ghostbusters and Walter Peck. Yeah. In front of the mayor. And the mayor, they basically all have to put their case to the mayor, and whoever's going to successfully win the mayor over is the person who's going to basically prevail. So the Ghostbusters argue their case, and they get to go out and take out the ghosts with the help of Newark's finest. Yep. And if Peck gets his way with the Ghostbusters, they're going to go to prison, presumably, for a very long time. Yeah. But the Ghostbusters, I think, have it in the bag. But there's a great bit of back and forth between Peck and Vankman in this, right? Oh, it's glorious. Well, the Ghostbusters have basically worked out that the end of the world is coming. This has always been leading up to an apocalypse. Okay. But in the meantime, Peck is accusing them of basically releasing hallucinogenic gases so people think they're seeing ghosts. So how much evidence does this guy need? He's literally seen it with his own eyes. He thinks it's all like lasers and drugs. And he's saying that they turn up with a fake electronic light show to end it all. Yeah, Ray's saying, no, no, these are real ghosts, and we had it all under control here until Dickless shut down the storage thing. And the mayor turns to Vankman and says, is that true? He's like, yeah, it's true. This man has no dick. Peck attacks Vankman, and he's just broken up. Yeah, yeah. And at one point he's like, yeah, are you going to listen to Mr. Pecker here? My name is Peck. Pecker. But yeah, Winston sort of steps in at this point and kind of goes, look, I've only been with the company for a couple of months, but since then I have seen shit that will turn you white. Yeah. And then they basically then tell their side of things to the mayor. So yeah, Vankman does this great kind of like monologue to the mayor, which convinced him. He says, look, if Peck's right, then we'll go to prison, whatever. We'll enjoy it. No big deal. But if we're right, we go out and we catch these ghosts, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters. And this has basically got the mayor saying, yeah, OK. There's this really long pause. I don't understand why Peck's arrogant face pops over. You can't be seriously considering this. I can't be seriously considering listening to these men. And then the mayor just goes. And out of here, points to Peck, and Peck's taken away. Vankman just smiles and goes, bye. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Peck's kicking off, he's leaving. Vankman's like, oh, I am going to miss him. I'm going to send him a fruit bowl. He's got a nice fruit bowl. Just winding him off as he's leaving. So the Ghostbusters are now given reign of the city, or they're given everything by the mayor. So now they have like the army on their side. They've got every police officer at their command. And basically, this is leading up to the final showdown, where they're going to take on Zool and Gozer. Yeah. So we go back to Dana and Lewis's building. And at this point, Dana and Lewis, in zombie form or possessed, have found each other in all the chaos. They kind of met up and they're now. I think they did the nasty. Yeah, it's sort of implied. But yeah, they're kind of like in each other's arms. Yeah. Yeah, they're kind of like zombie lovers now, or demon lovers or something. But the Ghostbusters go to take on the main, whatever, demons of the apartment. Which we find out is called Gozer, which is an ancient Hittite or Sumerian god or something. Yeah, it's all very sort of convoluted, you know, backstory. But if Gozer turns up, it's bad news for, you know, the world. Mankind, basically. So they get to the apartment. There's like cheering crowds that have to be held at bay by like the army and the police, as well as the Ghostbusters go in there. Yeah, there's a bit of an earthquake. And you think, oh no, they're dead. They've been sucked into the ground. Yeah. Ghostbusters are going to die. Yeah. But you see them sort of climb out and the crowd goes nuts. And yay! Yeah, and Venkman's loving it. He's sort of like ramping up the love of the crowds. They go on in. It's like, let's show this prehistoric bit. Shall we do things downtown? Oh no, that comes in a bit later, yeah. They go in, they have to go up all of the stairs because they can't take the lifts. And there's these heavy proton packs. And they're all out of breath because none of them are in particularly good shape. No, they smoke like kinsmen. They get lots of bath. Yeah. They're like panting. It's like, ah, what floor are we on? Are we somewhere in the teens? I think. I don't know what you're going to tell me. Yeah. I think I'm going to throw up. So they get to the top and they, Dana and Lewis are there. But they're in, they turn back into like the terror dog form. Yeah, so they see them sort of get hit by lightning and morph into these dog creatures. Yeah. Um, and so now the actual demon comes down because these terror dogs are just, you know, bodyguards of the main one. And this is the main demon. This is Zool, right? Gozer. This is Gozer, okay. And Gozer, how would you describe Gozer to listeners? Like a Russian gymnast from the 80s. Yeah, I was going to say, I was going to say like a Russian David Bowie. Yeah. They look sort of like glam pop to it. I don't know. But obviously with a sort of demon's eyes. Yeah. And a really demonic voice as well. And Ray, Dan Aykroyd's character, tries to reason with her. Yeah, kind of pushed into it by Vankman. Yeah. It's like as a... Because Vankman just goes, well, one of us should maybe try and communicate. Go get her, Ray. He goes up to her and just says, are you, as an elected representative of New York City, I command you to go back to your home planet or the nearest parallel dimension? And Vankman very sarcastically goes, yeah, that ought to do it, Ray. Yeah, well done. Gozer just says, are you a god? Are you a god? Are you a god? Yes, that's her. No. Then, ahhh. And shoots all abyss, like pink lightning. Yeah. Blows them off the edge of the building, but they managed to sort of cling on. And when it's all over, they managed to help each other over the end. They've almost died. Winston confronts Ray and goes, Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say, yes. Right, yeah, that's probably a good idea. As Vankman's pissed off and goes, right, this chick is toast. Yeah, let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown. Again, there's so much in this film that's just like a little pay-on to New York City. Yeah. It really bakes up New York of the 80s. So, they go to attack Goza with their proton packs. Is that right? Yeah, so they just fire their proton packs at Goza. She's sort of, it, I guess, it's just bouncing around, doing all these crazy backflips and stuff. Yep. And then she just kind of disappears. And this is where they think, oh, well, that was easy. But then she manages, when they're sort of going to, they're sort of hiding from her or they're sort of looking around. They think that they've killed her because they kind of shoot her and she disappears. And then everything, like the building, starts shaking and sort of fixtures start coming off of it and bits of masonry falling down onto the ground and what have you. And then you just hear her voice coming, but it's like massively amplified, sort of coming out of the temple. And then she basically says that... Choose the destroyer. Yeah, the destructor is coming and you must choose its form. So basically they're just like, right, don't think of anything because whatever you think of is going to be what comes and destroys the city. It went to your head. Yeah, don't think of anything. But almost instantly she says, the choice has been made. Yeah. So Beckman's like, well, well, well, we didn't choose anything. Like, I didn't think of anything. Egon, did you think of anything? No. Winston, did you think of anything? Nope. They all kind of turn to Ray. What did you think of Ray? I couldn't help it. It just popped in there. What just popped in there? What just popped in there? And then we hear loud thundering footsteps coming down beside us and it's a giant Stapoff Marshmallow Man. Which normally would probably be quite a good choice. You know, if you're going to choose something, you try and choose something non-threatening and harmless. There's a small one the size of a marshmallow. But whatever it is, yeah. But this thing is hundreds of feet tall. It's like Godzilla size. Yep. And it comes marching down New York Avenue. And that's what it's called, isn't it? New York Avenue. And Avenue of New York, I should say. Alongside their building. They tried to get it with the proton packs, but it doesn't do much good, or the packs aren't powerful enough to... Yeah. Yeah. Normally they catch the ghosts, but with this one, they're killing it with the proton packs. Yeah, they're trying to sort of just blow it up. But it's not effective. No. So then Egon says, well, maybe the only thing we can do to get enough power is to cross the streams. And they know this is very dangerous from the exposition earlier on in the film, right? Yeah, yeah, that's right. The bankman's like, nah, you said that was bad. Crossing the streams is bad. Yeah. You're going to endanger us. Yeah. You're going to endanger our client, the lovely lady who paid us in advance before she became a dog. But they cross the streams anyway, and this is enough to kill the Staple Marshmallow Man. And it sort of explodes and goo goes everywhere. The temple blows up as well. So Gozo's been destroyed. And you see, I think, that he cuts to a scene where a massive kind of this gloop comes down and lands on... Scalding hot marshmallow. And lands on Peck. He lands on Peck. He gets his comeuppance. Yeah. And they're kind of covered in it as well, all this sort of like marshmallow goop. Yeah. And yeah, the Ghostbusters are now victorious. They go down to the adoring crowd. First, we see that they think that Dana and Lewis have been killed because they... They've turned into stone statues. Turned into stone statues. And it smells like, as Ray puts it, barbecued dog hair. Yeah. And then Tyler Sabatman goes, oh yeah, sorry. That's a bit sensitive. That was your girlfriend. She's just been killed. But then they hear some sort of movement from inside the statues. Okay. And then they break them open, and Ray and Dana, unharmed, are inside. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. It's very touching. Venkman's got the girl now. Moranis is out being delightfully... Egon asks if he can get a sample of his brain tissue. Yeah. He sort of just agrees. Yeah, because he's in shock. Yeah, I don't think that's kind of enough consent. Yeah, they walk out to the adoring crowds. The title song plays again. And you have a little sort of final montage of the meltballs kind of going off, waving to the crowds. Venkman kisses Dana. Yeah, they get into their crazy, weird fucking car. Yeah, drive off. Lewis is taken away by... The Red Cross. Like, I want to go with them. Put a blanket around him. Yeah, he wants to do an interview for TV and no one's interested. Yeah. And yeah, our heroes have prevailed. Yeah. And yeah, Ghostbusters have won. And that's the end of the film. Oh, it's such a good film. It is excellent. I mean, of all of the films we've done for the podcast, this is the one I've enjoyed the most re-watching as an adult. There's so much comedy gold in there you mess with the kids, basically. Yeah, excellent film. I guess it's just housekeeping left, right, Geoff? Yeah. Thanks. I would like to say thanks to my beautiful girlfriend, Naomi. Hope you listened to this. Love you. Shout out to my girlfriend, Coral. And yeah, to all of our listeners. I know Kevin Richardson was keen to hear this pod. Alex Irvine said he was interested in hearing it. I knew he liked Ghostbusters growing up. Alex Ferguson, he always listens. He's got a new job. Yeah. I hope that's going well. And yeah, to everyone else that listens, if you've got a recommendation for our pods, let us know. Yeah, please. Send it in. And we will catch you in the next episode. Ciao. Ciao.