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"Well, there's something you don't see everyday."

The original Ghostbusters is widely considered to be one of the funniest comedies ever made, and for good reason.WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked.


  • Peter's introduction is hilarious in itself. First we see his office door, with some graffiti telling Venkman to "burn in hell", immediately followed by a cut to a hapless student taking part in his supposed ESP experiment alongside an attractive female student (and it's plainly obvious that Peter's only doing this to hit on her). The boy gets an electric shock after every guess at the card Peter's holding up, right or wrong; the girl misses all of them, but Peter dotes on her as if she's correct. After a few shocks, the boy storms out, while Peter continues to flirt as if he was never there to begin with.
    • Doubly funny is the "experiment" itself. Peter claims he's studying "the effect of negative reinforcement on ESP ability." While it seems like he's just bullshitting to justify keeping the "experiment" going to flirt, amusingly he inadvertently stumbles onto an actual result, as the girl guesses wrong all times, despite Peter doting on her, while the shocked boy guesses wrong then manages to get a correct answernote , showing that Peter's negative reinforcement may have enhanced the kid's natural ESP ability!
    • The poor kid's jaw goes slack at one point when Venkman zaps him, making him lose his chewing gum.
  • Peter teasing Egon shortly before going to confront the library ghost (a Throw It In! between Murray and Ramis, no less):
  • As Ray and Peter go to the Library, Peter is naturally skeptical about the whole supernatural business as always.
    Peter: Ray, you've been interviewing every schizo in the five boroughs that says he has a paranormal experience.
    Ray: You forget, that I was present at the undersea unexplained mass sponge migration!
    Peter: [Beat] Oh Ray, the sponges migrated about a foot-and-a-half!
  • Just before they find the ghostly librarian:
    Ray: Listen! Do you smell something?
    • Look closely at Peter trying to register what Ray just said. His facial expression is priceless.
    • When Peter asks what to do about the ghost, Egon tries entering something into his calculator. Peter karate-chops it out of his hands.
      Peter: Stop that!
  • Venkman's response to Egon wanting to keep some ectoplasm.
    Venkman: Somebody blows their nose and you want to keep it?
  • When the library ghost morphs into it's Nightmare Face scaring off Peter, Ray and Egon, the men run out of the place screaming. Birds flying. And the upbeat piano music makes it more hilarious.
  • When getting thrown out of the university, Peter's defense is "But the kids love us!"
  • Ray freaking out about their future prospects as Peter tries to calm him:
    Peter: You're always so concerned about your reputation. Einstein did his best stuff when he was working as a patent clerk.
    Ray: You know how much a patent clerk earns!?
    Peter: No!
    Ray: 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.
  • The Answer Cut away from Peter and Ray wondering how they're going to get funding to them coming out of the bank with Peter jubilantly declaring that "everybody has three mortgages nowadays." Especially considering Ray's retort that his parents left him the house, it's implied that they didn't simply take out a third mortgage. Rather, they applied for three mortgages all at once.
    Egon: Ray, for your information, the interest rate alone for the first five years comes to $95,000.
  • When Ray, Egon, and Peter are touring the old firehouse:
    Egon: 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.
    Ray: Hey, does this pole still work?? [slides down the pole] Wow. This place is great! When can we move in? You guys gotta try this pole! [...]
    Peter: [beat; looks at Egon who slowly shakes his head "no"] I think we'll take it.
  • The way Egon puts an end to Janine's flirting questions.
    Egon: I collect spores, molds, and fungus.
  • When Peter's in Dana's apartment for the first time:
    Peter: I'm gonna go for broke... I am madly in love with you.
    Dana: I don't believe this. Will you please LEAVE?
    Peter: And then she threw me out of her life.
  • After Peter's meeting with Dana, he, Ray, and Egon are sitting alone, eating Chinese takeout in the dark.
    Peter: [lifting beer can in toast] To our first customer!
    Ray: To our first and only customer.
    [Beat as the trio take a swig]
    Peter: I'm gonna need to draw some of the petty cash. I should take her out to dinner, I don't want to lose her.
    Ray: Uh, this magnificent feast here represents the last of the petty cash.
    [beat]
    Peter: [silently, solemnly] Slow down. Chew your food.
    • Ray and Peter have beer and are using utensils, but Egon has a can of Coke and is eating with his hands. There's something really funny about the intellectual sipping a soda while his friends have alcohol, and not using chopsticks or even silverware to eat.
  • Janine telling the hotel staff the Ghostbusters will be totally discreet, when they are everything but.
    Peter: Hey, anybody seen a ghost?
    • Then, after taking the call from the hotel in a relatively calm, professional manner, she hangs up and lets off a gleeful yell of "WEEEEEEE GOT OOOOOONNNNEEEEE!!"
  • The entirety of the Ghostbusters' first case snagging Slimer is one long CMoF the second they reach the elevators.
    Elderly Gent: What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut?
    Peter: Hah! No, we're exterminators. Someone saw a cockroach up on 12.
    Elderly Gent: That's gotta be some cockroach.
    Peter: [deadpan] Bite your head off, man.
    [the elevator opens]
    Stantz: Going up?
    Elderly Gent: I'll take the next one.
  • The calm bickering on the elevator over how their gear is untested leads to:
    Ray: You know, it's just occurred to me that we really haven't had a completely successful test of this equipment.
    Egon: I blame myself.
    Peter: So do I.
    Ray: Well, no sense worrying about it now.
    Peter: Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.
    • Egon hits the power switch on Ray's proton pack that starts to loudly hum and he and Peter try to move away in the cramped space.
    • After she's nearly vaporized by the Ghostbusters, the poor hotel maid can be seen pathetically trying to extinguish the burning carpet with her spray bottle.
      Maid: ...What the hell are you doin'?
      Egon: Sorry.
      Ray: Sorry.
      Peter: I'm sorry. We thought you were someone else. [to Ray/Egon] Successful test.
    • This gem:
    • Peter's first interaction with Slimer is easily one of the greatest Crowning Moments of Funny of the 1980s.
      Peter: [over the radio] Come in, Ray.
      Ray: Venkman! I saw it! I saw it! I saw it!
      Peter: [nervously] It's right here, Ray. It's looking at me.
      Ray: He's an ugly little spud, isn't he?
      Peter: I think he can hear you, Ray.
      Ray: Don't move! It won't hurt you!
      [Slimer roars and charges straight at Peter, who screams over the radio. Ray comes rushing to help him and he finds Peter lying on the floor, unhappily covered in ectoplasmic goop]
      Peter: He slimed me.
    • After Venkman is slimed, Egon says, "Save some for me".
    • Peter, when Egon talks about not crossing the streams:
      Peter: Why?
      Peter: Egon, I'm a little fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing.
    • When the chandelier falls.
      Ray: Sorry, that was my fault.
      Peter: It's alright, the table broke the fall.
    • Peter deciding to try the tablecloth-pull trick he had always wanted to do, even though Slimer is loose in the ballroom. Everything breaks, but we get this:
      Peter: THE FLOWERS ARE STILL STANDING!
    • From the capture, we have the immortal couplet.
      Ray: I'm opening the trap. Don't look directly into the trap!
      [The trap is opened]
      Egon: I looked at the trap, Ray! [eyes widen]
      • While it's never explained what looking into the trap actually does (most likely damages the eyes from the bright light), fan theory has it that it steals your soul. Egon seems no worse for wear after looking into the trap, which implies he doesn't have a soul to steal in the first place.
    • This line:
    • After catching Slimer:
      Ray: Sir, what you have there is what we refer to as a focused, non-terminal repeating phantasm, or a Class Five full-roaming vapor. Real nasty one, too!
      Peter: Now, let's talk seriously. For the entrapment, we're gonna have to ask you for four big ones. Four thousand dollars for that. But we are having a special this week on proton charging and storage of the beast, and that's only going to come to one thousand dollars, fortunately.
      Hotel Manager: Five thousand dollarsnote ? I had no idea it would be so much. I won't pay it.
      Peter: Well, that's all right. We can just put it right back in there.
      Ray: We certainly can, Dr. Venkman.
      Hotel Manager: [stops them] No, no, no, no! All right!
    • In the widescreen version, you can see Egon feeding them the numbers via hand signals. They're not even trying to hide it!
  • Louis trying to cover for Dana's loud TV by turning his TV up really loud too, so that people would mistake it for a malfunction.
  • Winston applying to work for the Ghostbusters.
    Janine: [completely deadpan] 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: Ah... if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.
  • Janine's line during another endless day in the office:
    Janine: I've quit better jobs than this. [answers the phone] Ghostbusters, whaddaya want?!
  • The completely straight-faced way Peter responds to Egon's "Twinkie" metaphor (using a Twinkie to represent paranormal activity).
    Winston: [to Egon] Tell him about the Twinkie.
    Peter: [stares, deadly serious] ...What about the Twinkie?
    • The Twinkie metaphor itself is pretty funny. Particularly Winston's deadpan, "That's a big Twinkie" — followed by Egon casually eating it.
  • The conclusion of the Running Gag of Louis (who, remember, ends up as the Keymaster) locking himself out of his apartment, with Rick Moranis's gloriously pathetic delivery of "Somebody let me iiIIIINNN!"
  • Peter going to Dana's apartment to find she's been possessed by Zuul, "the Gatekeeper".
    Peter: Hello ... That's a different look for you, isn't it?
    Zuul: Are you the Keymaster?
    Peter: Not that I know of.
    [Zuul rolls her eyes and slams the door; Peter looks through the peephole and knocks again]
    Zuul: Are you the Keymaster?
    Peter: Yes! [Zuul smiles and lets him into the apartment] I'm actually a friend of his. He told me to meet him here... I didn't get your name.
    • After she informs him of the coming of Gozer:
      Peter: [deadpan] Are we still going out?
    • Zuul wants to come onto him.
      Zuul: Do you want this body?
      Peter: [Beat] Is this a trick question? I guess the roses worked, huh?
    • Zuul tries to force herself on Peter.
      Zuul: Take me now, sub-creature.
      Peter: We never talk anymore.
      [Zuul grabs him and pulls him down onto the bed]
      Zuul: [straddling Peter] I want you inside me.
      Peter: [laughs in surprise] Go ahead!... No, I can't. It sounds like you've got at least two people in there already. Might be a little crowded [...] I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people. Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule...
    • Peter insists on talking only to Dana:
      Zuul: THERE IS NO DANA, ONLY ZUUL!
      Peter: What a lovely singing voice you must have.
  • Vinz Clortho, at this point a demonic dog creature, in Louis's backroom getting a coat tossed onto his head.
    Louis Tully: Who's up for a game of parcheesi?
    Vinz Clortho: (roars, everyone at the party turn their attention to the backroom)
    Louis Tully: Okay, who brought the dog?
    • When Louis runs into an elevator, an elderly woman exits her apartment to see what the commotion is about, only to see Clortho and immediately go back inside her apartment.
    • Once Louis is outside running, he screams "Help, there's a bear loose in my apartment!" much to the bewilderment of the people outside.
    • The novelization also gives us Vinz's appraisal of Louis.
      It is nearsighted, decided the guardian, shaking off the coats. It is ugly, too, but I have my duty.
  • The Central Park carriage driver's reaction to a possessed Louis talking to his horse, growling at him with inhuman red eyes, and running off screaming about how the apocalypse is at hand:
    Carriage Driver: What an asshole.
    • Even funnier is that according to Ivan Reitman, the standup comedian playing the coachman, Danny Stone, was so nervous about being in a major motion picture he almost couldn't get his lines out.
  • When the police arrive at Ghostbuster HQ, Janine greets them with this priceless line:
    Janine: Dropping off or picking up?
  • Rick Moranis's performance as Vinz is just downright Adorkable and hilarious.
    • The conversation Vinz has with the horse.
      Vinz: [to horse] Wait for the sign... then all prisoners will be released! [runs off and yells] You will perish in flames! [runs over grocery bag]
      • Be glad the horse didn't turn out to be the Gatekeeper. Very glad.
    • When Vinz is brought to the Ghostbusters' firehouse:
      Vinz: [almost pleadingly to Egon] Are you the Gatekeeper?
      Egon: [holds up PKE, which immediately spikes] We better bring him inside.
      [Vinz follows movements of the PKE, transfixed by the device]
    • After Vinz is invited to "Yes, have some!" coffee, Egon looks back to see him chugging hot water straight from its carafe. Vinz gives him a broad, goofy smile and goes right back to drinking.
    • The fact that Dana becomes Hotter and Sexier while possessed by Zuul, but Vinz is just as clueless and awkward as Louis as well as his verbal babbling:
      Vinz: 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 Sloar! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day, I can tell you!
    • Shortly after this scene, the phone rings as Peter calls and Vinz jumps up. When Egon picks up the phone, Vinz hands him the handset... then a frying pan... then a lamp.
  • Any scene with Egon and Janine is either this or a Heartwarming Moment. The scene where Egon rolls his eyes and awkwardly hugs Janine apparently went a little differently in the original script:
    Janine: [worried] Egon, there's something very strange about that man. [she indicates Louis] Listen, I'm usually very psychic and right now I have this terrible feeling that something awful is going to happen to you. I'm afraid you're going to die.
    Egon: Die in what sense?
    Janine: In the physical sense.
    Egon: I don't care. I see us as tiny parts of a vast organism, like two bacteria living on a rotting speck of dust floating in an infinite void.
    Janine: That's so romantic.
    [She hugs him; Spengler responds awkwardly, not sure where to put his hands]
    Egon: [nervous] You have nice clavicles. [he gulps] I wonder where Stantz is. I think we're going to need him.
  • Watch Vinz Clortho as Egon is warning Peck against shutting off the grid— bewildered as ever, he's clumsily copying Egon's warning gestures.
  • Peck being an ass again and Egon having had enough.
    Peck: HOLD IT! I WANT THESE MEN ARRESTED! CAPTAIN, THESE MEN ARE IN CRIMINAL VIOLATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT! AND THIS EXPLOSION IS A DIRECT RESULT OF IT!
    Egon: YOUR MOTHER -- [the rest of the sentence is lost as he attacks Peck]
  • Re-watch the prison scene again. As Egon is explaining Gozer's and Zuul's plans, the prisoners that keep passing by become increasingly enthralled by the topic at hand!
    Egon: ...Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive. [pauses to glance at the other prisoners, then continues his infodump]
    Peter: [to a jailbird looking over his shoulder to the blueprints] Everybody getting this so far?
  • The scene at the Mayor's office, when Ray explains how Peck caused the ghosts to be released:
    Ray: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
    Peck: They caused an explosion!
    Mayor: Is this true?
    Peter: Yes, it's true. This man has no dick.
    • Special mention goes to the whiny tone in which Peck cries out "They caused an explosion!"
    • Even the censored version is amusing enough to warrant note.
      Ray: Everything was going fine until the power grid was shut off by this weasel here.
      Peck: They caused an explosion!
      Mayor: Is this true?
      Peter: Yes, it's true. This man is some sort of rodent. I'm not sure which.
    • Another censored version has a slightly altered yet no less funny exchange, with Ray calling Peck "Wally Wick" instead of a weasel.
    • An issue of Nintendo Power with an article on the 2009 games had the guts to put up a picture of Peck with the caption: "Yes, it's true. This man has no Wii".
    • An airing on British terrestrial TV censored this scene by overdubbing the offending words with dialogue from elsewhere in the movie— so Peter's punchline becomes "Yes, it's true. This man has no Twinkie."
    • It's made even funnier by the resulting commotion/averted fistfight, during which Peter can be heard audibly protesting "Well, that's what I heard!"
  • Bill Murray's face when the Cardinal of New York walks in is quite possibly the greatest deadpan reaction gag of his career, and when you consider the range of said gags, that's saying something.
    Cardinal: Personally, Lenny, I think it's a sign from God— but don't quote me on that.
    Peter: Yeah. That's probably some good advice, Lenny.
  • Peter's reaction when his argument wins the day and Peck, swearing revenge, is ejected from the building is classic:
    Peter: Bye.
    Peck: [being pulled out] I'll fix you, Venkman, I'm gonna fix you...
    Peter: I'm gonna get you a nice fruit basket. I'm gonna miss him.
    • On the commentary, Ivan Reitman relates meeting with William Atherton after the film became a hit, and Atherton was quite upset that suddenly random people were calling him "dickless," including one incident where a whole bus full of tourists stopped to yell it at him.
    • As Peck is being escorted out of the building, watch Ray. He puts his hands on his hips and puffs out his chest like a proud little bird with a smug smile on his face. Seeing Peck get shot down obviously made his day.
  • Winston doing his part to convince the Mayor to trust the Ghostbusters, up to and including casual reflexive swearing... right in front of a man of the cloth. Bonus points for emphasizing the relevant word.
    Winston: Since I've joined up with these men, I have seen SHIT that would turn you white!
    Fire Chief: [looks flustered and embarrassed]
  • Peter finding exactly the right button to push to get the mayor's assistance.
    Peter: If I'm wrong, nothing happens! We'll 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.
    • Then the Mayor looks at the Cardinal, who just smirks and nods like "Yep, he's got ya."
  • The Smash Cut moment when, having arrived at Dana's building to battle Gozer and been greeted like conquering Big Damn Heroes by the people, we cut to the Ghostbusters exhaustedly pulling themselves up the stairs to reach Dana's floor.
    Peter: Where are we?
    Ray: Looks like we're in the— the...teens, somewhere.
    Peter: Well, when we get to twenty, let me know. I'm gonna throw up.
  • The Ghostbusters trying to fight Gozer.
    Peter: Whatever it is, it has to get by us!
    Ray: Right.
    Peter: GO GET HER, RAY!
    • This is an Ironic Echo of Ray saying, "GET HER!" in the New York Public Library in the beginning of the movie, which Peter was amused by.
  • Ray decides that bureaucrat-ese is the best way to deal with an invading god from Dimension X:
    Ray: Gozer the Gozerian? Good evening. As a duly designated representative of the city, county, and state of New York, I hereby order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.
    Peter: ...that oughta do it, thanks very much, Ray.
    • After Ray honestly replies "no" to Gozer's question "Are you a god?" and the Ghostbusters nearly get blasted off the building, he gets some useful advice from the Christian Token Minority:
      Winston: Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES!"
    • Reportedly, Dan Aykroyd made an appearance at a convention where someone in the crowd asked him once again "Are you a god?" This time, he did say "Yes."
  • When the boys are shooting at Gozer, Ray exclaims "Aim for the flat top!"
  • Gozer gives the Ghostbusters a choice of what form it'll take to destroy their world. Peter tells Ray, Egon, and Winston to not think of anything, which leads to this:
    Peter: Nobody "choosed" anything! [motions over to Egon] Did you choose anything?!
    Egon: No!
    Peter: [motions to Winston] Did you?!
    Winston: My mind is totally blank!
    Peter: I didn't choose anything!
    [Egon, Venkman, and Winston all turn towards a guilty-looking Ray and begin to close in on him]
    Ray: I couldn't help it! It just popped in there!
    Peter: What? WHAT just "popped in there"?
    Ray: I-I tried to think!
    Egon: [points] LOOK!
    • The line Egon shouts wasn't always LOOK! In at least one original take, it was OH, FUCK! This was, sadly, cut because the PG-13 rating didn't exist yet and one F bomb would have taken the movie from PG to R, but the idea of Egon of all characters shouting "fuck" at the top of his lungs is hilarious.
    • Notice also how, while the others are vehemently denying that they ever had any thoughts in their heads, Ray is subtly tiptoeing backwards away from the other three.
    • And we along with the other Ghostbusters learn just what Gozer's new form is:
    • The look on Stay-Puft's face is priceless. He looks so happy!
    • And Peter nonchalantly gives the only response you can in such a situation:
      Peter: Well, there's something you don't see every day.
      Ray: 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!
      Peter: Nice thinking, Ray.
      Ray: We used to roast Stay Puft Marshmallows by the fire at Camp Wauconda!
      Peter: Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon. What've you got left?
      Egon: Sorry, Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
    • Ray just looks so childishly heartbroken at the sight of his beloved childhood memory corrupted into being the vessel of a rampaging other-dimensional god that it becomes funny again.
    • When Stay-Puft reaches the building, he looks up and grins malevolently, prompting this response:
      Winston: Oh, no.
      Peter: Mother pus-bucket...
    • Moments later, he stomps on a church across the street:
      Peter: NOBODY STEPS ON A CHURCH IN MY TOWN!note 
    • When their first attempt at putting down Stay-Puft with their proton packs fails, Peter has an idea:
      Ray: Funny going out like this: killed by a 100-foot Marshmallow Man.
      Peter: We've been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft is okay! He's a sailor, he's in New York; we get this guy laid, we won't have any trouble!
  • As the streams are being crossed to destroy Gozer, the look on Stay-Puft's face is hilarious.
  • In relation to Gozer being destroyed in the form of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, we see bits of marshmallow raining down on the street below with people panicking and running about, then when Peck enters, he looks up, covers his head in fright... and gets splattered by a TON of marshmallow goo. Hilarious AND satisfying.
    • The production notes subtitles add a Pun, stating that "Walter Peck gets his just desserts."
  • After Gozer is destroyed and the damage is done, the Ghostbusters all emerge from the rubble. Everyone's covered head to toe in marshmallow foam except for Peter, who's relatively clean. There's a moment where the guys are looking at him like, "Wait, what the hell?"
    • Bonus points for the real-life reason for this: Bill Murray apparently had enough of being covered in slime and various other bits of gunk and refused to be covered in marshmallow for the scene.
    • On the other hand, despite Ray being relatively sheltered from the explosion of Stay-Puft, he's absolutely coated, more than the other three. Apparently, this is because Dan Aykroyd loved being covered in the shaving cream/marshmallow gunk, and kept demanding the crew put more on him even as it was sloughing off under its own weight.
    • Doubly hilarious when you realize that though Murray found being covered in goo discomforting regardless, in-story Peter was doused in disgusting ectoplasm produced by a slovenly ghost, only to later avoid being covered by the much more pleasant remnants of a giant dessert.
  • It looks as if Dana was killed in the explosion. Ray, who had been making jokes about the smell of burnt dog hair, realizes his mistake and apologizes with extreme sincerity and sympathy. Peter turns around to look at him... to see him standing there quite seriously, covered in marshmallow.
  • After it turns out Tully and Dana are alive, the Ghostbusters pull them out of the husks of their dog forms.
    Louis: [looks at the wrecked roof] Man, the superintendent's gonna be pissed.
  • Also, a still-woozy Louis' conversation with Egon and Ray as they help him off the roof.
    Louis: Who are you guys?
    Ray Stantz: [heroically] We're the Ghostbusters.
    Louis: Who does your taxes?
    Ray Stantz: You know, Mr. Tully, you are a most fortunate individual.
    Louis: I know!
    Ray Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
    Louis: Felt great.
    Egon Spengler: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
    Louis: Okay.
  • From the Director's Commentary:
    Ivan Reitman: Now here comes a very expensive special effect.
    Harold Ramis: There it is! BOOKS ON A WIRE!
    • The very last line of the commentary:
      Joe Medjuck: [pointing at a credit] I had a secretary?!
  • Dan Aykroyd in the commentary joking that you could date the movie from the sheer amount of cigarettes.

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