In our final episode of HaHaHalloween, we discuss the iconic film Ghostbusters, exploring its cultural impact, memorable scenes, and the nostalgia it evokes. We delve into the film’s humor, its place in Halloween traditions, and the performances of its cast, including Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. We’re also drinking Community Beer Works’ Lets Go Pils pilsner!
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0:04
Cookie Walk of Halloween horror over here, let Let the Black Run podcast All season long, September and October will be celebrating with creaky funny our parodies just bring your favourites from satirical splashes to classic parodies and even some rollback Spooks.
0:30
I’m even told evident to go sololy.
Rising from the dead.
Celebrate with us.
Welcome back from podcast as we dive into Halloween.
0:54
Hey guys, welcome back to the Blood of Micron podcast.
I’m Ryan from closeploitation.com and I’m joined with my Co host Martin.
How’s it going we’re doing?
Well, we’re literally one day away from Halloween.
The Krusty the Clown came back.
1:10
It’s funny, my son’s been watching The Simpsons and he watched a few Treehouse supporters, but I think he just likes The Simpsons.
He doesn’t even really like Treehouse supporters because they kind of scare him.
So he’s just been watching straight up Simpsons.
Well, good, because I don’t know if that’s.
Good, we’re not for a six year old to be watching The Simpsons, but whatever.
1:28
Are you kidding me?
Classic Simpsons are good.
Wholesome family sitcom.
Absolutely, absolutely.
I still to this they quote a bunch of Simpsons things.
It’s great.
Haven’t watched the monorail episode.
You know, but anyway, no, we’re not here to talk about the tree House of horror, although that would be a fun show.
1:46
Did you like, what are the best Tree House of horrors out of the 36 seasons episodes they have there?
It’d be a fun one, something to do think about in the future and maybe cover a couple in each episode.
But no, we’re not here to talk about that.
We’re ending ha ha, Halloween.
2:02
This is our I believe our 9th episode now of Halloween if I’m.
Sure is our longest running.
Series, it’s actually tied for the longest so that we did another one because I actually I went through maybe a few days ago and I went on to our Spotify, even though I not don’t love Spotify and I’m trying to get us away from Spotify as much as possible.
2:20
But one of the things you could do with Spotify is make playlists.
And one thing I did was I went on our Spotify and I made a playlist of all the Hollywood Halloween episodes because I didn’t realize I’ve done this for Thanksgiving and I did it for Christmas, but I never did it for the Halloween episodes.
And we have like 86 Halloween episodes or something like that.
2:39
But I went through and I did see that there was another nine episode Halloween season at one point.
I can’t remember which one it was now, but was it the Saw movies?
I don’t think it was the Saw movies.
I think it was either.
Might have been reanimated when we came back from the COVID hiatus that we did or something else.
2:57
But it I do remember there was another nine episode season.
But with that said, we are finishing up Ha ha, Halloween and hold on a second.
What’s that sound?
Oh, I think we’ve placed a call to to somebody who to help us out with our paranormal an incursion that we have.
3:23
I ain’t afraid of, no.
Ghosts rights.
We have done a Ghostbusters movie previously.
Hold on, we’ve done the Ghostbusters movie.
3:41
I wasn’t going to say it, but you could say it.
The only there’s only one Ghostbusters movie and it’s this one.
The one that we did back in 2017.
Is that when it released?
I didn’t.
I’m checking right now.
Sometime like that it was 20/16/2016 Ghostbusters movie which we saw in.
4:02
Lifetime away.
The hell.
‘S right and we had to do it.
And now looking at it too, I forgot about this, that it’s an egregious 2 hours and 15 minutes long.
That is way too long for.
A She don’t remember the movie.
I was going to say, you don’t remember that movie being ridiculously long.
4:20
It was long.
I’m just saying I don’t remember.
You know, I actually don’t really recall much about it at all, period.
I can tell you, I can tell you one of the things is like one of the villains in the movie was the kid from What About Bears?
4:36
Oh yes, fair spray and I remember Chris Hemsworth being in it as well.
But but other than that, I really don’t really remember too much else about it.
But that is the only Ghostbusters movie that we’ve actually done on the show.
And so we saw, you know, we, we, we wanted to rectify that with a the Ha Ha Halloween series because there’s a perfect time to do a comedy horror film such as Ghostbusters.
5:00
And we were, you know what?
And it’s, it’s not very fair to the rest of the Ha Ha Halloween lineup because this is our second Bill Murray film in the Ha Ha Halloween series.
That’s that’s not fair.
I don’t know why you know who who did that?
Who chose that?
5:16
That was me.
But both counts.
That was you.
But yes, we wanted to do Ghostbusters the original again.
It recently last I think it was last year and it was last year the 40th anniversary of Ghostbusters.
5:32
By the way, that is an old movie now I.
Have to say it makes you feel real old.
Don’t That does make you feel real old.
I also found it funny when I was watching this because I watched it with the family, because it’s a family movie.
It is, especially back in 1984.
5:50
Any movie like this, you know, it doesn’t matter if you’ve got Sigourney Weaver in various stages of Undress and some jokes about Keys and you know, the gatekeepers and coming together and such as it is, it’s still PG movie.
6:07
So you know, appropriate for the whole family.
Apparently back then, MPAA said.
I think, well what is like a year away for PG13 I think.
I believe it, yeah, some somewhere around there.
It was very very close to the the time when PG13 was ripped out so.
6:24
Well, I was going to say because, you know, Spielberg had a fit about, you know, Temple of Doom.
That’s right.
Possibly getting outrated R and so you know.
Yeah, I, I think so, but I mean again, and I I think it’s mostly fair for Ghostbusters to be rated PG.
6:40
It is a pretty family friendly movie throughout much of it.
There’s a couple of, you know, risque jokes that probably kids won’t understand anyway.
My my son didn’t.
But as we were watching it, my wife said she didn’t think she’s seen all of Ghostbusters before.
6:57
She said she’s seen bits and pieces of it, but she’s never seen the whole thing before.
And I was like, what?
That’s surprising.
She always gets surprised at me when she names, like, some random kids movie from the 90s that I don’t have any this, you know, never seen or don’t have a nostalgia factor for.
7:14
But then she’s like, I’ve never seen Ghostbusters fully, so I don’t know.
I don’t know about that.
It’s crazy.
But yeah, we want to do Ghostbusters.
I think it’s a fun movie to do for Ha Ha Halloween.
It is not what we would consider like the traditional types of horror satire that we’ve been generally doing for the Ha Halloween series.
7:36
But at the same time is a horror comedy sits really, really middle of the road in that wheelhouse between horror and comedy.
You know, often taking itself pretty seriously at times and at other times really running with the comedy element and the SNL veterans that has at its disposal.
7:56
And yeah, it’s it’s, it’s a classic.
It’s a classic that we just had never ventured into before.
So what’s your experience with Ghostbusters?
How much how many times have you seen it as one of your favorite movies?
Like what’s what’s what’s going on with this nostalgia?
8:14
So I’ve seen it a bunch of times.
It is a pretty nostalgic film for me.
Obviously from being in the early 80s, it wouldn’t have been as nostalgic as like you know, people who are, you know, Gen.
Xers.
But it got played a lot on TV.
8:30
And like I’ve said before, when talked about Ghostbusters, I’ve seen Ghostbusters two more times that I’ve seen the first one because it used to be on Comedy Central on repeat for like 4 years straight.
You know, you had so, but I, I have seen it.
I have no great love and nostalgia for it, but I haven’t seen in a couple of years, but I do.
8:49
I do like it a lot.
You know, again.
Well, it’s not to like you got Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman is director, Bill Murray, Rick Moranis.
You know, it’s all Dan Aykroyd, which The funny thing is too, the older and older I get, the more and more like, especially with like Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis, their Canadian accent just like creeps in and all I can hear is like there’s a moose loose, a boot, the horse.
9:18
You know, it’s it’s just funny because it’s like, you know, I’d never really thought about like, oh, they kind of sound like, you know, a little weird.
But now it’s like, especially watching this, like Dan Aykroyd, like, you know.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
The Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man at Camp Wananaka.
9:39
Yeah, I mean, he definitely, again, he has it pretty more pronounced in some other films that he’s in, especially Christmas with the Kranks.
He’s definitely got Canadian accent in that one.
This one is less pronounced, but still, you definitely can hear it.
Yeah.
Same thing with like Rick Moranis.
9:55
They’re like, Oh yeah, I got the grilled salmon.
Don’t you know?
I’m from Nova Scotia.
It’s 2499.
The Parambus.
I got it for 15.
And Rick Moranis always had that one.
He’s definitely always has a very pronounced accent that I’ve found in the movies that I’ve seen in there.
10:11
I’ve just never really know.
Like I never like, you know, as a kid, like I was just thinking about like, I never watched like, you know, My Girl or Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and you know, was like, wow, listen to that, you know.
Yeah, I I’ve seen Ghostbusters a few times.
10:27
Of course, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen last watched it, though.
I don’t really even remember the last time I I watched this movie.
It’s probably been a good ten years.
I, you know, and again, it, it’s been one of those movies that, yes, we didn’t technically grow up with Ghostbusters as it released in 1984.
10:47
And that was, you know, five years prior to us even being born.
But I definitely did watch it as a kid.
And I want to say I was probably about 10-11 when I first saw the movie.
Did you watch the cartoon?
11:04
Oh yeah, I watched the cartoon and not only did I watch the cartoon, I also had the car.
I had the the toy car along with a couple of the action figures as well, and I believe those are based off of the actual cartoon show instead of the movies, but I had, I do recall having the car specifically.
11:26
So yeah, there’s there’s always something.
I had some really cool action figures when I back in the day and I really wish I had like a whole bin of them.
And at one point I just like we just got rid of the bin.
And I’m really upset because I feel like those would have been, you know, nice collectors items that I don’t and I no longer have.
11:45
Like I had I had that Ghostbusters card.
They had like a bunch of like Predator and alien toys.
I had, you know, even things like this.
Weird to think about because I never even watched Predator or Aliens back in the day.
But I had the toys because I just thought they looked cool.
Well, again, like, yeah, I remember the 80s, all these films that were not meant for kids.
12:05
Yeah.
Getting spin out, like RoboCop, here’s your cartoon in your action figures, you know, Ghostbusters, same thing.
It’s, you know, Predator, Alien.
Like I, because I remember too, I didn’t have the Ghostbuster car and stuff, but I remember you having it.
12:21
I remember my, you know, like one of my cousin’s having it.
Like, you know, you know, we raced that the Batmobile from the anime series, like, you know, around the house and, you know, Ecto Cooler.
That was a big, big, big.
Big thing I fucking loved Ecto Cooler.
12:36
You knew you were in for a good time back in the 90s if your mom got you some ecto cooler. 1000% yes it ecto cooler was awesome.
It was nice to have it when they brought it back for that period of time, which I grabbed a couple of cartoons of that.
It’s great.
12:53
It’s a good experience to think back on the ecto cooler and again to also a weird thing like the weird tie in of them making ecto cooler like routinely for the throughout the years for being, you know, tied in with Ghostbusters.
It’s kind of strange, but I love it.
13:10
It’s like a piece of nostalgia that I feel like people just won’t have now, like a similar aesthetics, like oh, Mr. B’s toys, you have nostalgia for them.
You know, I don’t know mate.
13:25
It’s not the.
I feel like it’s not the same, but again, I’m not.
Logan Paul brain bottle.
I’m not a five year old, so I’m.
Somebody they have like a Mr. Beast burger at Friendly’s and somebody like ordered it once at work and it was like one who the fuck is Mr. B’s and two like why is there like some streamer like side burger at Friendly’s or something?
13:48
My wife said the same thing because my son just happens to have some Mr. B’s toys because he got them for Christmas and my dad got them like probably just thought, oh cool.
Like this is the thing I know about.
So I’m just going to grab him a couple.
And I like stretch screamers basically.
So they’re pretty cool because I used to like stretch screamers.
14:04
I had, I had those too.
But yeah, my, my wife recently saw him just on YouTube or something.
He’s like, she’s like, this guy’s just a YouTube streamer.
Like what is that?
That’s what the toys are based on.
Yeah, that’s that’s what it is.
14:21
He’s like a fucking billionaire just cuz he’s like, we’re gonna see who can last the longest in this house full of shit, you know, and see if you can win $2479.
That’s right.
That’s, that’s what it is.
14:37
That’s the YouTube thing.
That’s the.
Worst that are Yeah, it’s just all of that.
Like I said, like I the people who make a living on like, you know, Twitch, get a real job.
Shoot off all the drama and stuff.
14:54
I can’t even.
I can’t even I I wouldn’t want.
To you’re the you’re the leftist hippie version of ice.
Get a real.
Job is like the equivalent of like actual like, you know, the 90s soap operas where you, you have to be, you have to stay tuned in or like you have no idea what’s going on.
15:11
Well, that’s funny because my mom sometimes bitches like just missed like 2 days.
Like I missed my soaps.
I need to catch up.
And it’s like, what do you mean you need to get caught up?
It’s a third.
Yeah, this this time on the Bold and Beautiful.
Are you caught up with the 37 years of I have something that.
15:27
It has.
There’s something I need to tell you.
What’s that?
You’re not going to believe me.
Next scene, something similar to that.
And it just continues on for, you know, seven years before.
Like, that’s right.
Oh, no.
Steph Stefano did what?
15:44
That like, it’s.
Yeah, just still silly and stupid.
All right, let’s take a break real quick to talk about the beard that we have on the show today.
Interestingly enough, we were out together to, to doing some errands that when we got this beer.
16:02
So that’s not that doesn’t happen often.
We both live busy lives.
I don’t leave the house that often.
That just happens like that.
But we’re running errands together because I had the the day off and we stopped at the Beer Store and we are both kind of going through this period of slight disappointment every time we go into the beer Store at this point because just nothing really seen.
16:31
It’s like, it’s like beer depression.
It’s like beer beer goggled depression.
You see everything in there and you’re like just doesn’t have the same luster that it once did.
But we did find one there.
And again, it seems like a run on a theme here that we’ve had throughout this ha ha, Halloween season, I think is to not only associate the season with Oktoberfest, but also with Buffalo Bills football.
17:01
And so that’s what we have on today as well.
Another Bills themed, though they don’t come out and explicitly say it because let’s face it, you can’t, can’t do that.
NFL would be all over.
You don’t have the express written consent of the NFL.
Now it’s affiliate, but it is again, it’s sufficiently Bills themed where you can draw in in first and and you can infer that front.
17:28
So I’ll let you take it.
What what did you get for us?
Because you’re technically your beer.
Yeah, you’re the one that spotted it.
But yeah, so walking around, nothing really appealing, you know, it’s getting sad, really sad and depressing.
The show just might become US drinking like, you know, paps every episode and wallowing into sadness.
17:49
But any who now so no new Oktoberfest, you know, showing out, trying to find something more Halloweeny themed that isn’t $40 a four pack.
We stumbled upon this community beer works.
18:09
Let’s go pills their version of a Bill’s Mafia pilsner.
We’ve never had community beer works.
Excuse me, based out of Buffalo.
They’re apparently on the same St. that Thin Man is because it’s on their web page.
18:24
Like, they’re one of three breweries that are part of like.
Oh, that’s interesting, I didn’t know that.
Yeah, if you go to your about Oster, you go and see, you know, they’re about and like that, you know, so that’s cool.
You know, Thin Man’s, you know, we’ve done a couple of times and they got the, you know, pills Mafia.
18:45
Yeah, Cam looks great.
You know, it’s got, you know, nice, you know, classic football.
Buffalo Iconography Journal Buffalo 716.
Hey, you know, they have little pennants with the ingredients on their hops, grain, water, yeast.
19:06
And that’s how you know you got yourself a true German pilsner.
Yeah, right.
No extraneous adjuncts or anything.
So what do you think about it first?
Yeah, I think it’s good.
I think I actually need to stop you and say that I actually have had one other community view works.
19:26
Didn’t realize it didn’t stand out to me as a name that I’ve seen before.
But I had their brown ale apparently back in like 2018 at Project 29.
So probably when we went there one time, I’m going to guess we were probably there together.
19:44
But yeah, I never don’t really have much of, of a association with community beer works.
And I also find it interesting.
I was actually down by Buffalo one time before when we were travelling and I was actually meaning to stop in the thin man.
20:01
Didn’t get a chance to because it’s kind of if you’re driving past Buffalo, it’s really not that convenient to just go stop off in Buffalo when you’re, you know, driving on the highway.
It might seem like it’s close, but it’s really not even though you know, so it’s kind of out of the way, but I did.
20:20
I wanted to stop at thin man’s probably wouldn’t be would have been one of the only opportunities to actually do so unless I made a specific trip out there.
But I didn’t realize that community Bureau works is there as well.
Like really close by, which is actually.
I was the one I’m wrong.
20:35
There weren’t.
They’re not close by.
They’re actually in the same place.
Oh, they’re in like a same building.
Basically, yeah, they have 3 three different breweries, them Thin Man and so spouldered society because I’m looking at it, it’s a street distinct craft beer vision under one roof.
20:53
Well, that would be then.
That would be a a nice trip to make.
Is this?
What about all three?
Wouldn’t that be great?
You know, if you were like, oh, tree house, turn around right behind you, Oh sident, oh, you know.
Yeah, no, that would be dangerous.
It would be it’s.
21:09
I’m sure it’s dangerous entirely to.
Listen, tree house with the compound, as we talked about last week, they could afford to, you know, housing someone else, you know.
But anyway, about the beer, I think it’s pretty good standard pilsner style.
21:25
It’s definitely on deal as you said, more of a like German pilsner style than a Americanized macro brand.
It’s got a nice malt character to it, like the grain and hop balance is very nice here.
It’s a very clean, very drinkable.
21:44
There’s nothing about it that’s like extremely stand out.
But I would say that that’s probably, again, I think we’ve talked about that with pilseners before, which becomes kind of difficult to assess, to really assess a pills in your style because it’s a certain point.
You don’t really want it to stand out because if it stands out, then it might mean there’s actually something wrong with it.
22:03
You know, like you, you kind of, there’s a fine line between getting the style correct and then like doing a variation on it where it doesn’t really seem like a Pilsner anymore.
So I think, you know, hitting it right in the middle square on that clean, crisp body is exactly what you want.
22:21
And I think they’ve done a good job with it.
It’s it’s very standard and a really refreshing Pilsner style.
So I think I like it a lot.
What about you?
Like it a lot too a big fan of the style just like you it’s definitely not adjunct to you at all it’s got that you know bright, you know slight very hoppy you know touch to it has you know nice Brady body to it.
22:49
You know very like a nice light white bread.
You can taste like that, you know all of it.
It’s just you know, it’s it’s like a German pills or Vienna log.
I would compare it more.
I know it says pills number.
I would say it’s kind of more like a Vienna log just because it’s got you know that you know more of a Brady bite to it.
23:09
But again, totally works like a lot.
Problem is 4 pack pilsner.
Not a fan.
Sure.
Got to make it a six pack even if it says you know, pints but.
Quite light to 4.2%.
So another thing that I found was interesting is so Community Works has a lot of variations on the Let’s Go pills as well.
23:31
They do a number of ones that actually do have some sort of adjunct in them or flavor to them, you know, citrusy ones, different fruits, what have you.
But they also have the playoff Let’s Go pills, which I think is funny.
You know, it’s a nice, nice little play on the whole idea of doing the Bills stuff.
23:51
And that one’s an imperial Pilsner, which I have admittedly never had.
An imperial Pilsner sounds very similar to like what you might expect from something that would just kind of creep up to more towards like a pale ale territory, you know, like except it’s, you know, Logger style or maybe even unlike it, which you would consider like an IPL.
24:14
Something like that, said style died and then came and went and like it’s a two year.
Yeah, not super popular, but yes, I would say, you know, I would say like it would probably be equivalent to something like that because as what I’ve seen is it’s basically just hoppier and maltier.
24:33
And that sounds to me like the same kind of ideas like an IPL or what was that other one that was like a craze for a little while came and went.
It was like a cold.
Oh, the cold like cryo the.
Cryo, lager, whatever.
24:48
And it was basically made like a lager, but it was like an IPA.
Hot like an IPA and.
Like it was one of those beers again that we were like, this is just a brewer’s beer.
Like I don’t know, like I don’t I’m not really seeing much of A of a difference between it, but but cool for the the whole explanation of how you brewed it.
25:11
But anyway, I just thought that was interesting that they have that playoff let’s go pills.
Never seen it before, Never don’t.
Probably only available like on tap or.
Something.
Yeah, it might.
Not it’s not on their their webpage.
So yeah, this is a pretty, I think it’s a fairly small microbrewery, and Thin Man is kind of like the bigger giant of the three that are there in that building.
25:34
So all right.
But with that said, let’s get on to Ghostbusters.
Let’s talk about some Ghostbusters.
What do you, what do you think about the whole idea of Ghostbusters?
First and foremost, you got a group of guys, professorial types who they get kicked out of their their college research grant and they decide, hey, let’s just go into business doing some paranormal research.
26:03
Well, it’s not just that they’re paranormal researchers.
That’s, you know, more Harold Ramis’s and Dan Aykroyd’s.
Yank old doctor bank man Bill Murray.
She’s looking to slice some pussy.
Yeah.
26:20
You know young collars ones too, you know.
I know it’s funny when you’re watching this movie and this is a bit of a skeeviness to it that yeah, of the business that occurs and Ghostbusters that, you know, it’s kind of it’s in the midst of the comedy element of the of Ghostbusters.
26:42
But then when you really stop and think about it a little bit pervy at times, the way that they are are basically effectively using their expertise and like sort of elevated status as doctors and researchers.
26:58
And it’s going to and I’m not talking about Dan Aykroyd or anything like that.
It’s specifically Bill Murray’s character who is basically the audience stand in right there.
That or the the guide for the audience as the person who is the least well researched on the paranormal and the least believing of the the guys that are, you know, make up the Ghostbusters.
27:22
He’s kind of our stand in as the audience to kind of explain what’s going on or have or have things explained to him, which then, you know, essentially explains it to us.
But he’s also the guy who is this the, you know, the the one who’s the skeeviest of the three going into people’s apartments and, you know, trying to ask them out.
27:42
And I think you, you see that like right away as the film begins after that first library sequence.
And you see he’s giving like a, a test to to got two people, a guy and a girl.
And you know, he’s letting the girl get everything right even though it’s not right.
27:58
And the guy’s completely wrong every single time for the ESP test.
And you?
Know it should have been like we should have been telling too.
She’s constantly flipping the card over for him, showing that him.
That guy’s wrong.
And for her and then for her, he’s like, oh, you’re so good.
28:13
You’re so good at this and not showing, not even showing it.
And then he’s like.
Yeah, yeah, I love that.
But but like what do you think about the set up the the whole idea of these three guys as researchers?
It’s a, you know, fun idea, you know, kind of slightly, you know, you can play plays into the Satanic panic of the Yeah, you know.
28:37
Yeah, which was a little bit later.
But at the same time, I, I can see what you’re saying of like there was a spin towards New Age aesthetics at this time period.
And I think, yeah, like the Satanic Panic would have been more like the 8788 range when really a lot of heavy metal was starting to come out and people were like, you know, shaking in their, their britches about like potential, you know, everybody around them could have been Satanic worshippers who are performing rituals every night and cemeteries and stuff.
29:13
But in this one, you know, you kind of have it’s, it’s interesting to me because they do go the route of like, these are just some people who are like, you know, we had experiences with ghosts and we’ve opened up a paranormal research society.
You know, as we see currently today, I’ve just random people who are like, I have no experience.
29:32
I, I bought some equipment and we’re going to go investigate some ghosts and open up a YouTube page and, you know, get access to all these haunted places.
Like, they didn’t go that route with it.
They weren’t layman.
I like it a lot that they are like they’re literally parapsychologists and people who have been studied and have grants at the college.
29:55
And now again, at the opening of the film, they lose their grant because the basically the college is like, we can’t continue to fund this bullshit like you got there’s like.
That, which is funny too, like, like, oh, where they’re at Columbia.
They don’t, they doesn’t say it, but you can tell it’s like Columbia.
30:11
And it’s like really like, OK, no, no.
Columbia is like, Oh, yes, we’ll give you funding for this, you know, sure.
Like somebody on the board must have seen, you know, like Amityville Horror.
And it’s like true.
Yeah.
And I mean, I think that’s true of some colleges.
30:29
They do have like parapsychology, either minors or you know, they do have some sort of research into it because again, it’s kind of that same ideas, like you don’t know what you don’t know.
And there’s probably worthwhile value and doing research to see if there is something to the idea, like whether it be real paranormal activity or the psychology behind people who believe they had paranormal experiences.
30:58
There’s worthwhile evidence to research this phenomena that seems to happen to many people, right.
And then.
And so I do think that there are a number of colleges that do have programs like this.
I believe like Penn State is one of them ’cause there was a paranormal show called Paranormal Society or something like that, that used to be on TV and it was all about the Penn State paranormal research facility and things like that.
31:23
So there’s a, it’s a cool idea.
And the one thing I was trying to get out with the like, you know, asking about this is I, I actually think Ghostbusters 4 at night of film in 1984.
I think it was really ahead of its time in terms of looking at the paranormal, kind of setting up a very explicitly detailed set of investigations and functions that the Ghostbusters have at their disposal.
31:50
Because like, I think it’s really ingenious, the whole idea of having these proton beams that kind of trap the ectoplasmic entities because of the science behind it.
And then having like almost like a Pokémon S, you know, trap that they throw out to capture the the ghost.
32:07
I think that’s a really cool idea.
Not only that, you know what?
You’re right, they should be suing Pokémon for stealing it.
Right.
It’s like the same idea.
It’s like instead of instead of like, you know, capturing and battling ghosts, they were battling pocket monsters instead, but catching them in the same same sort of idea.
32:30
It’s a super American like, you know, especially like Reagan era type idea because it’s like the school’s not going to fund your bullshit science.
So what are we going to do?
We’re going to turn this into a money maker.
We’re going to go private and you know, yeah, we’re going to be rolling in money.
32:47
You know, it’s it’s, you know, just funny.
And then like it, right?
Like, how are we going to get the money for this?
And then you see them at the bank and Dan Aykroyd’s like, I don’t know if this is such a good idea.
And I’ve been like Bill Murray’s like, oh wow, everyone’s got.
33:04
A third mortgage on their.
House.
And yeah, it’s the other sort of Reagan idea of, like, you know, can’t get, you know, can’t get actual funding for it.
Then, you know, you could be your own venture capitalist, right?
You can, you know, pull yourself up by the bootstraps.
33:20
You start your own business.
Look at you.
You’re an entrepreneur at this point.
You’re a businessman.
And I think it’s funny because the film kind of does go into that whole point of like, wow, you know, we started this, but we spent all of our money.
Like there’s a 1 scene where they’re eating Chinese food and they’re like, what’s what’s still in the coffers?
33:37
And you’re like, you’re looking at it.
This was the end of the, the money that we had this nice Chinese food that we got out.
So.
But it’s great.
I love, I love the idea.
I think the idea is really ingenious.
It was very, you know, there’s a reason why it’s stuck around.
I think like the whole idea of capturing ghosts like that, it really lended itself to sort of like an animated feature too, you know, because we see Ghostbusters has had a couple different animated series.
34:06
But I think that the idea of it being like trapping ghosts and like sort of catching them is almost like an anime esque, you know, shown in style thing that you could run with, which I probably has at some point been, you know, you know, basic basically an anime plot it it turned into something different.
34:26
But capture and ghost, I’m sure is is a another type of anime, even Yu Yu Hakusho, right, like the spirit detective is, you know, kind of in that same realm.
So I, I just really, I want to bring that up.
34:42
I really like the idea of the traps.
I think it’s really cool.
I think it’s fleshed out very well.
You know, again, the the film kind of the shoes going into the pseudoscience behind it.
And so that’s where you have basically Igor, Igon, Igor, I’m thinking of Frankenstein.
35:01
Here.
You have Egon, who is basically the guy who is the nerd.
And so every time he tries to go into any detail, you’ve got Bill Murray sitting there really, like, just in, you know, give it to me straight, pretend I know nothing about this.
Well, it’s funny too, though, because it’s not just, well, it’s not just Egon, but it’s also, you know, Ray Dan Ankred’s get rid of the two like, you know, bouncing off of each other like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
35:27
And, you know, Bill Murray is like, I don’t fucking care.
I just fucking.
I just need money and to, you know, get my pee pee, you know, But I mean, but I’d be like, yeah, but I mean, it’s great.
They’re like 1.
I go cuz like, they’re great.
Cuz like, OK, like Bill Murray’s the straight man, you know, layman.
35:46
Like this is a bunch of bullshit to him.
Egon’s the nerd, but he’s also like the Super like autistic nerd where like, you know, he’s very focused on just like, you know, the science aspects and like there’s some really good jokes about that too.
And Ray is, you know, like he’s like really into it, but he has a child like wonder about it at all.
36:07
Like, you know, like you got the echo splooge on you.
That could be about, you know, the first contact of, you know, and, you know, so it, you know, again, like the casting is great.
I know Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, you know, wrote it and you could tell like, you know, like with how Dan Aykroyd is now about all the spooky stuff and, you know, like this is would be totally right up his alley.
36:33
But like, you know, my God, like it’s just a great buddy comedy too.
Like, you know, between they, you know, the three of them, you know, yeah, obviously from work and from previous things too.
But like it’s, he can’t have better casting than that.
36:48
Yeah, I mean, and not only that, you know, it’s, it isn’t nice to see that.
Well, for one thing, I think we have a very stereotypical set up for the casting.
You know, Bill Murray, this is not his first rodeo playing this type of character.
37:04
I mean, this is basic Bill.
This is basically Bill Murray.
His character and himself are kind of synonymous with each other and do the same to much of the 80s output from Bill Murray.
This is basically how he played it.
It was, you know, basic Bill Murray shows up, does a Murray esque thing, goes home, gets a paycheck and, you know, it’s kind of like.
37:26
Easy.
Is that him or his?
Oh, no, it’s Scrooge.
No way.
Is this him or, you know, stripes?
No, it’s, you know.
Yeah, you could basically replace some scenes from each of the movies and you still have the same prototypical Bill Murray character in any of them.
37:42
You wouldn’t.
It wouldn’t really feel out of place.
You know, in some movies he’s a little bit more of an asshole, you know, so like Groundhog Day at times Scrooged bit more of an asshole.
But here, you know, he still has those sort of same mannerisms and personality that’s makes him a little bit bristly.
38:04
Some might say surly at times to, you know, as an adjective to describe him.
But again, too, I think that there’s a the key there is that he’s also, as you were saying, basically in it for the, we’ll say to put it nicely, the relationship element, which is interesting because at the end of the movie we find out like, hey, it works.
38:29
Like, why aren’t other people setting up these elaborate schemes of putting people in some sort of paranormal danger in order to win the girl at the end of the movie?
You know Sigourney Weaver is is is is wooed by it at the end didn’t have poor.
38:46
Which she says no for the 4th time.
You just keep going, you know, You just keep.
You know, in poor Lewis, Rick Moranis character, you know, he’s trying super hard.
He’s, you know, he’s all over it and it just doesn’t work out for him at the end.
39:01
He doesn’t get the the happy ending that Bill Murray’s character does.
Which I don’t quite understand when we first see him, his you know, tracksuit is hyped up so perfect.
His, you know, he’s got like, you know, the the nice Adidas on to like, you know, yeah, that’s a whole lot of man right there, you know.
39:19
Yeah, you know, you, you know, you can rely on him.
He’s got a reliable job, whereas Bill Murray’s, you know, just recently lost his actual job.
He had to start up a new business himself.
So, you know, Rick Marinis is really the the the goal here.
39:34
I don’t I don’t know why he’s not a ladies man in this one.
But but anyway, as I was saying, I think it’s it would be really interesting to see A and I’m not saying it would be a good movie.
I’m just saying I would like an alternate reality where, you know, Dan Aykroyd is Bill Murray, his character in this one.
39:54
He’s is Bankman in the movie.
Because I’m really curious to see like what kind of riff and take on that sort of character he would have.
Instead of, you know, playing the more of the, you know, scientific character, which it is always interesting to think about, like what it would be an alternate reality of all those types of things.
40:17
Like if we we had swapped everything around, what what would the movie be like?
I think it wouldn’t be as good, of course, but I would just be interested to see, you know, Bill Murray in a character at this time period that wasn’t exactly typecast for him.
40:37
And I don’t know that I’m not like a huge person on the back story of Ghostbusters.
I don’t know if Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis wrote this and they wrote it basically for Bill Murray, you know, knowing their background and knowing the the relationships that they had at the time.
40:55
I don’t know if that was the case, but it seems like it, you know, it we could be be very plausible that they basically just wrote Finkman as Bill Murray and that was, you know, how it came to be.
Again, we don’t do a whole lot of research for the episode, so there might be some of that out there, but we don’t know it.
41:15
Well, we’re not a history podcast.
We’re, you know, we’re reviewing podcasts.
That’s right.
One thing I did want to point out too is what do you think about the opening library sequence that the New York Public Library?
That’s like your first excursion with the Ghostbusters.
41:32
It’s a nice tense, you know, set up and it’s pays off really well.
You know, the librarian, she’s walking down the hall.
So we start to see move.
Things move back and forth.
You know, she’s kind of getting the eerie feeling that she’s being followed until eventually it blows up and like, you know, she, you know, runs into the ghost and it goes into the opening.
41:58
It’s, you know, really well done, really well shot, you know, built some nice tension up.
I know what back when I first saw this movie, I was pretty scared of that opening ghost sequence where it’s not, it’s not before the the actual like title card, it’s after.
42:16
But when the librarian or when the Ghostbusters are in the library and they just see that little, like the little old lady that’s the ghost just standing there reading a book and they’re approached her because it seems like she’s, you know, a fine little old lady, just maybe hard to move on from life.
42:34
And then when she turns around, she’s like that grotesque, you know, monstrous ghost character looking character that’s definitely scared me when I was a kid.
I was, I remember pretty distinctly like the first time I saw this movie, not being prepared for that.
42:51
So I thought that was pretty effective.
And I think it does a good job of setting up this sort of horror element to Ghostbusters because we always think about it mostly as a comedy.
But I do think it does have a good amount of horror to it too, with the haunting sequences that, you know, it is pretty well set up in the first part with the library.
43:09
The other one that’s great is like the whole sequence in the hotel with Slimer of like them being in the banquet hall and all the guests, you know, in the hotel or you know, it’s a very hoity toity hotel.
And there’s like all kinds of like rattling sounds and tables flipping over and you just see the guests out in the hallway like what’s going on in there?
43:29
And the concierge has to be like, oh, no, wait, I promise you it’s fine.
It’s fine.
Your your hotel room will be fine.
Did every 80s comedy have to have concierge show up in it like you know?
I think so.
I’m surprised that this one didn’t have Donald Trump in it somewhere.
That problem is too small, too small.
43:46
Never go in there, never go in there.
I do I do like that part does have like a lot of great parts because they’re going up into the up in the elevator and the guy just sitting out there smoking his cigar.
What you know what time would be alive smoke a cigar.
Well, she’s going to have to finish it anyway because in the hot we find out later when they’re in the elevator says no smoking.
44:06
So, you know, but they’re all he’s he’s like, the hell are you guys doing?
Like, oh, we’re exterminators and they’re all dressed up in the gear and that he’s like, what are you exterminating?
And I’m like, oh, it’s cockroach.
And he’s like, yeah, it must be some cockroach.
44:23
And he’d take it on the elevator and he’s like, you want to come in?
And he’s like, I’ll take the next one.
You know, same thing too.
Because that whole scene, they’re like, oh, we need you to be the screen.
They come who see the ghost.
You see the ghost, you see the ghost.
Where’s the ghost?
44:38
There?
You know it.
Is the first mention of their streams the proton streams too?
You can’t cross them, can’t cross the streams.
And then they shoot the the maid, who is unfortunately an unwitting victim in this like this is blaster made card.
44:59
Which is great too, because there’s fire.
She’s sitting there with her bottle.
You you noticed that too?
It’s pretty.
Yeah.
You’re talking?
Yeah.
I don’t know if I’ve ever really seen that before, but I noticed it in this one.
In 4K you could, you know.
Yeah, I know.
That was like, hilarious.
Just spritzing you.
45:15
Yeah.
Yeah, I, I that’s a nice little touch in the background that I feel like people don’t notice as much.
Yeah, I did notice that this time.
The whole crossing the streams bit too now is like for every young boy afterwards, like when you’re peeing in A at a urinal or you know, if you’re at a place that has a nice, you know, pitched off still.
45:36
A truck.
You know, you know you don’t.
Don’t cross the streams.
You never cross the streams.
I mean, it’s great because the end where they actually do have to cross the streams to close the gate is definitely suggestive.
You know, with the three of them gripping their proton blasters suggestively and putting them together.
45:56
Very phallic and.
A nice, yeah, nice little, nice little fun, suggestive moment.
How do you What do you think about Sigourney Weaver’s character Dana, who opens up the gate to Zul?
She’s Sigourney Weaver.
46:15
Yeah.
She’s perfectly fine.
You know, I think, you know, she plays well with Bill Murray.
You know, she doesn’t get as, you know, much attention, you know, screen time as she probably doesn’t Ghostbusters 2 because she spends the last like 30 minutes as a dog and, you know, mini exorcism.
46:39
So but I just love the fact that like in the 80s, like, you know, she’s possessed.
It’s like, what is she?
Could it be, I know, put a just put a God damn curtain on her, make her hair all messy and a ridiculous amount of, you know, Rouge and sexy?
47:00
Yeah.
So that’s how we know.
That’s how we know, though.
Bill Murray is a man of character though, because he went there to get laid.
But not if she’s.
You know, possessed, right?
She’s not a possessed.
I I do love that, though.
That’s a it’s a great moment where she’s basically like, do you want to take me?
47:18
And he’s like I do.
No I shouldn’t.
I should you know.
And there’s like that.
It’s a nice, you know, it’s a great moment.
So again, skeevy at times, especially at that opening sequence where he’s like, I’ll go back to her apartment and basically she lets him in and he’s, you know, putting the moves on her, checking the bedroom, you know, saying how it’s a shame that hasn’t been used often, you know, very vulnerable position to be a woman.
47:47
Do you think I was?
Going to say, do you think you brought that thing around just for shit?
Like I don’t think that thing even did anything because he was just walking around, you know, grabbing on to it, squeeze like the ball.
She’s like, what does that do?
And he’s like.
Yeah, it’s very scientific.
48:04
I can’t explain.
Yeah, it’s it’s great.
It’s like, it’s almost like a like a like a pesticide, you know, thing that you could go around and like squirting pesticides and stuff.
But yeah, I don’t think it does anything.
It’s.
Great, I I know why her apartment was haunted.
48:19
What’s that?
Her poor choice of groceries.
Who goes to the grocery store and just gets celery, eggs, stay puffed marshmallows and like some like Triscuits and bread and mix or something.
48:36
Apparently it’s, you know, what are we making?
What are we making?
Supplementing whatever she already has in the fridge when Bill Murray opens it up says wow.
Come on, crappy you.
Know why it’s probably true though, because as you said, that she, that’s all, that’s all she buys is like a bunch of junks.
48:54
Like, you know what?
Maybe she’s having a party.
She’s having s’mores needed the marshmallows.
She’s going to say, is that what Rick needed?
Rick Moranis needed over at his party?
You know, I do love the bit, too, because he like, when he’s looking into the fridge and sees like the little casserole thing, He lifts it up and gives it a sniff.
49:15
He’s like.
It’s fun, right?
Yeah, let’s get the get a little shot too.
What do you think about the the whole the Zool thing like opening up a realm and the the description of Gozer and the architectural design of this New York City skyscraper, but the key master in the gatekeeper and all that well done, good story or just kind of in there to shuttle things along.
49:44
It’s fine enough.
Like I don’t have a problem with Gozer and the key master.
And, you know, I think it’s fine.
It’s a cool enough idea.
It’s like, because again, it’s like, what are you going to do?
Like what’s causing all this?
Like, I don’t know.
49:59
But being like, oh, it’s some ancient Sumerian thing that people wouldn’t know.
Like that’s pretty cool, you know?
Yeah.
Grabs your attention.
It’s not like, you know, like, oh, it’s Dracula from behind, you know, beyond the grave or some said, you know.
50:15
So I think it’s pretty good.
I think that it has sort of like a understatedness to it that maybe doesn’t coalesce enough.
But I think at the same time again, it’s sort of a, a means to get the the ghost in and, and to get to a certain point with Gozer.
50:31
I think that, you know, they kind, they kind of messily go over this whole idea and you kind of piece it together as the viewer.
But I think it’s good enough.
It’s it kind of makes me laugh sometimes because it is so intricate for a movie such as this.
It, you know, it kind of relies on a lot of lore in the movie itself, which is kind of a cool thing too when you stop and think about it, that there is all this lore involved in like the setup of getting, you know, to the meat of the Ghostbusters, you know, main concept.
51:04
It’s pretty cool.
It would only get more complicated from there.
You know, especially as we get into some of the newer movies that are technically like sequels to it, it gets even more complicated.
So I think it’s cool to go back to the beginning and see sort of like the intricate concept that Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis set up for this first movie.
51:28
And then what do you think about the fact that the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man is, is the, you know, the big bad And at the end of the movie, which is, you know, become very iconic, something if people don’t know much about Ghostbusters, they probably know about the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man.
51:44
What do you think about him?
I think it’s funny.
I think it’s really funny idea just because the fact that like ghosters, like, you know, whatever you think of, you’ll have to destroy Bill Murray.
51:59
Like we’re all going to stay there.
Anything.
Don’t think of anything so we can figure this out.
Don’t think, don’t think it has been chosen.
What who did that?
All I could think of was stay Puff Marshmallow Man from my childhood.
52:16
It’s, you know, that is really funny, stupid on Gozer’s part to be like, I’m trying to, you know, end the world.
You choose the form I take in this battle.
Yeah, and and it’d be a marshmallow guy.
Yeah, that’s it.
Well, that no, I mean like no, no, I’m fine with it being I’m saying for Gozer like well.
52:35
Yeah, yeah, no, I’m saying, I’m saying for Gozer, you wouldn’t want a marshmallow guy.
There’s like a lot of ways that you could get rid of a marsh, a giant marshmallow guy.
You know, just have a fat kid come in and just start chowing away at the the leg and eventually, you know, you you.
52:51
Get Augustus bring You should bring Augustus gloop and.
That’s right.
You know, you get to the same conclusion as this one, which is that the city of New York got a very messy but very yummy conclusion to it as the marshmallow man blows up and spreads marshmallow all over the place of sure, bonfires kicked up everywhere in the city in there, you know, little, you know, hobo trash bins as they roasted marshmallow and which is shaving for him.
53:22
Let’s be, let’s be honest in here.
This is very clearly shaving cream.
But yeah, I mean, I, I, but I, I think it’s really clever that like as you said, when she gets the groceries, the the camera really does linger on the Stay Puff marshmallow.
53:42
Just sort of set up that realism and verisimilitude up of the Stay Puft marshmallow existing in this universe.
Doesn’t come out of nowhere.
Right, exactly.
It’s there and you you can see it.
So you’re not like, wait a second, where’s Jet Pod, You know, why don’t they have Jet, you know?
54:02
So I like that.
I think that’s a good inclusion and it was a good detail.
Film is detail oriented and I like that.
It’s very good.
What else?
What else did we talk about?
One of the best characters in the movie.
54:19
Good.
Who is it?
Andy Potts.
It’s true, Andy Potts is a nice character, very again, very bristly as Janine.
Call Spot Like Cyndi Lauper?
Like Ghostbusters?
54:35
What do you want?
I just love the fact, too, that she’s constantly hitting on Egod and like, he’s just like, Oh yes, I, you know, everybody’s too autistic and busy.
You know, she’s like, I don’t think you’re going to make it alive.
What kind of hobbies do you like?
I like collecting mold.
54:53
You know, she’s like throwing herself at him.
What was he doing under that?
Guest, I was just going to say that there’s a nice little, you know, double entendre cunnilingus sort of thing going on there, which I, you know, it’s not very common for for comedy films.
55:09
You know, there’s a lot of blowjob references.
Yeah.
Speaking.
Speaking of, what the hell was up with that?
The ghost getting Dan Aykroyd off.
That’s awesome.
That’s hilarious.
That’s one thing.
I was watching with my son and he was like, Oh my God, the ghost took his pants down, like thinking it was like dancing.
55:30
And I was like, yeah, that’s right, That’s right.
Look Ghost likes in the pants.
People because you can just yeah, it’s like when you get pants, you make the face, you go, oh, damn, yes.
55:47
Yes, nice PG rating.
Thank you MPA.
Everybody has to explain that to their children.
That’s what they thought too.
What?
It’s just a pantsing.
Ghost taking the pants.
Down see, I think that was part of the fun back in the day.
Like you take care and it’s one of those movies kind of pushing tone line and then you’re left like they’re laughing at you.
56:07
You got to explain this to your kids.
Have fun, asshole.
Yeah, Yeah.
What about One thing that really concerned me is when they get the fire station and they’re in it and they’re basically, you know, basically Dan Aykroyd’s having a field day and they’re like, look at.
56:25
This there’s.
A fire pole in here.
The fire pole looks like it should be condemned though.
I think they should take that down.
It is wiggling like crazy.
I’ve never seen it.
If it was a modern, if that was modern day, he would have like slid down it and it would have broken and like he would have like fell on his ass.
56:43
That’s like.
So they don’t need the ETA coming in.
You know, William Atherton’s character, the guy who comes in is like shutting them down because they’re, you know, running an illegal operation where they can’t, you know, they don’t know what the proton beams are and they don’t know what the, the the whole grid that they have is going on.
56:59
They need OSHA to come in here, say, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That pole has four inches of wobble on it.
That is not acceptable if you’re going to be using that for emergency calls.
OK, that’s what they need.
I I was concerned.
I was, I was like, wow, has a very wobbly pull, but otherwise it looks like a fun little place.
57:23
And then how about the theme song?
Of course, we have to talk about the Ghostbusters theme song.
Iconic.
Iconic.
You.
Know nice earworm recognizable for all elementary school children who probably played Ghost the the Ghostbusters game in gym class.
57:42
I don’t know if that was just something local for us, but it was a goddamn fun.
Game I think like I I I don’t I I don’t know why it was called I think it was just an excuse to have kids run around during Halloween with the.
Music with the music, yeah.
You know, I wonder if that is, was that a local thing?
57:59
Was that just something like our gym made-up, like at school made-up or was did other people?
Was that like a thing that people were sharing?
Is like you should, you know, for for a fun Halloween game for your children in school, you should play this game called Ghostbusters.
I would.
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I would be interested to hear from people.
Did you?
What do we What do we even do?
Just run around.
They had a couple people with pennies on, I believe, and they were the ghosts.
And they would run around and tag people and bring them to like ghost jail and they would be in ghost jail until somebody was able to run over to the ghost jail and get the person out.
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And then you’re back playing again, I think was the goal of the game.
I can’t quite recall.
I might be getting that confused with a couple of games.
We used to play a couple of tag games like that.
Such a different music.
Yeah, basically, basically.
And then if you remember, there was also one called the BLOB, which was basically if you got tagged you joined the BLOB.
58:59
Yeah, and you became one big BLOB that you know, that’s that was a great idea.
Another cool game as well.
I don’t know again, if if you did, you have these games, were these games that you had back in?
I feel like they had to have some kind of crossover because again, like you see constantly people posting like you never ain’t nothing ever got better than this since that rainbow colored, you know, trust building you run in and out that like barely everyone did in the names, you know?
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I also seem to remember there was like a tile that you flipped over and if it was like the ghost tiled you had to run across the gym or something.
I don’t know, I’ve maybe getting that confused too, but I feel like I remember something similar to that.
But it was a God damn fun game to play it at Halloween time.
59:43
That was like something you would look forward to you just recently, you know, like you were in 3rd grade and you, you know, you played it in second grade.
You’re like, God damn, I hope we do Ghostbusters today, Jim.
You know, it was awesome.
So I definitely remember that though that was that was that was always fun.
59:59
The the the tune is an ear worm, though it does get stuck in your head.
Recently, I believe it’s been, you know, re released, re recorded, remixed by like Fall Out Boy and stuff for the new film.
It’s, you know, but there’s nothing like the original by is it Ray Parker Junior?
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Yes.
There’s nothing like it.
It’s just a staple and it was written for the film, right?
Is that am I correct in that or was it just I feel like it was written for the film I.
Imagine it’s the age, I believe.
1:00:33
So you had to have it, you know, like a theme song to go with it.
Which is not something that you see all the time of, of a song written for a film that really breaks out and is like hitting the charts because people love it so much outside of the movie.
1:00:54
Happens a few times here and there.
I feel like that Billie Eilish song for Barbie, I don’t know if that was written specifically for Barbie or whatever, but that’s one of them that I could think of like.
From recently.
How does that go?
I’m a harpy.
No, not that one.
1:01:10
It’s like, it’s that, it’s that slow. 1 I don’t even know.
I don’t know.
I don’t, I don’t know Billy Eilish songs very well.
I just know.
That’s all.
That’s all Billy Eilish.
Yeah, I don’t.
I don’t.
Know exactly what?
It is called, but I could probably look it up here and tell you what it is.
1:01:27
But that’s one that comes to mind.
What was I made for it?
That was the song that’s was I made for that.
That’s what comes to mind recently.
But like, it’s kind of weird to think about, you know, you wrote a song for a movie and it just becomes like maybe even a little bit more elevated than the movie.
1:01:47
Like people who don’t even know what Ghostbusters is still know the song Ghostbusters.
It’s pretty crazy.
And it’s it’s it is very interesting to see how proliferative Ghostbusters has been in pop culture.
Like it still remains in pop culture whether people actually watch the movie now.
1:02:05
I mean, it’s kind of hard to believe that there would even be like, you know, Gen. alpha people who don’t know Ghostbusters.
I feel like it’s still really prevalent even if you they’ve never actually seen the movie so.
Really, the gear is very iconic.
1:02:20
I love the look of, you know, the scholar, the Firehouse, the suit, the God damn packs, you know, the catcher.
It’s all like, you know, Yeah, very, very.
They’ve gotten so much mileage just on the Slimer alone.
You.
Know yeah, that’s true too.
1:02:37
For like just being like a 4 minute part of the movie, Like, Oh yeah, you know, like, yeah, Slimer, get your Slimer shit.
Yeah, yeah, kind of crazy actually with that Slimer.
It’s kind of, you know, how much he’s been elevated to a key player in the Ghostbusters universe.
1:02:57
And then so I guess finally, how how is Ghostbusters fare for a Halloween movie as we’re doing for ha ha ha.
Halloween perfect, it doesn’t have to be, you know, all Halloween need to be a perfect Halloween film.
1:03:14
It’s so so I I think tied to the hip with the holiday.
Then you you can’t not watch it during the time.
Till this day, you still got kids running around in Ghostbusters costumes for Halloween.
1:03:30
So, yeah, I completely agree.
I think it’s a great movie for Halloween.
I had a lot of fun with it.
So it’s a, you know, it’s exactly what you want for a Halloween movie, fun, funny, got some of the atmosphere and just, you know, a perfect encapsulation of it to like get the correct mood for the holiday.
1:03:51
I I think that, again, it’s something that you can put on in the background to during Halloween and, you know, especially because most people have seen it and you can kind of just have it playing and, you know, recognizable parts and point out little bits and pieces without having to actually like, sit down and watch it entirely.
1:04:09
I think it’s perfect for the holiday.
I think it’s really good.
And it is a great pick for the last of the Ha Ha Halloween series, I think.
Nice job.
Very good.
Yeah.
All right, so with that said, let’s give Ghostbusters a rating.
So on a scale of zero to 10, jokes about entering a woman, but she’s already full, which is a great joke from Bill Murray as well.
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What would you give Ghostbusters from 1984?
I would give it a 9910.
It’s still classic, still really funny, smartly written, well directed.
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, you know, the whole cast, You know, Harold Ramos, terrifically funny together, nice punchy jokes.
1:04:59
They’re all really funny.
Some of them subtle, some like, you’re going to be like, you know, I didn’t see that, you know, really good, just a really good stand the test of time, horror comedy.
It’s got some good, very good, you know, Spooks and scares.
1:05:19
It’s got, you know, comedy is everywhere.
Get highly recommended enough 910.
Yeah, I would agree.
I would say like 8.75 or 9. 10/19/84 That’s right out of 10.
1:05:34
I think it’s really, it’s a really good movie.
It’s you know, like I think we talked about it, but I find that the the whole concept is really ingenious.
I like the setup of the trapping ghosts.
I think that’s really cool.
I think again, I think one thing we should we didn’t even talk about, but I think 13 ghosts is very owing to Ghostbusters in terms of like trapping ghosts, because that’s that whole movies concept is like we.
1:06:02
Need 13.
We need to trap.
Them all in here, same idea, but I think that’s really ingeniously done in Ghostbusters.
I think that they had a really good idea, ran with it.
Interesting to see how iconic this movie really has been.
You don’t normally have a movie that has like so many disparate parts that are iconic, that has been picked out for pop culture.
1:06:21
The car, the fire station, the suits, the guns that, you know, Stay Puft, Marshmallow Man.
It’s a lot of stuff that’s really proliferated into pop culture.
And, you know, you just can’t discount the fact that it’s just a really entertaining movie to watch.
1:06:37
This movie is on the longer side as well, like an hour and 47 minutes.
Doesn’t feel like it feels very succinct in its prodding and doesn’t really overstay its welcome or, you know, have any extraneous things in it.
I think it’s all pretty much needed.
It’s a really great movie and you know, it definitely makes sense that this is one of the movies from this time period to have really stood the test of time and still referenced and very popular to this day.
1:07:08
It’s a great, great movie to to watch this probably Dan Aykroyd’s best movie for sure and just really well done from everybody.
All right, well, you know what that means as we close out this episode on Ghostbusters.
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This is the end of Ha Ha Halloween, as we basically literally released this episode on Halloween day.
That’s going to do it for us.
So thanks for listening.
We hope you really enjoyed this series Ha Ha Halloween.
1:07:43
If you did, you should like and subscribe.
We also have a a large number, as I said, like 80 something episodes of Halloween, specifically movies that we’ve done for Halloween that are available on any podcast app.
So she’d definitely check those out.
1:07:58
You could literally do well, I want you could do probably see that’s like 80 hours because we basically do like over an hour an episode.
So you have 80 hour, at least 80 hours of content.
You could listen to us for the Halloween season, so you should check those out.
1:08:15
Done a lot of great series, very fun.
But we’ll be moving on after this Halloween season 2.
I’ll probably do a Thanksgiving esque episode.
We’re kind of running out of Thanksgiving movies to do, so that will probably be part of what’s coming up next.
1:08:33
And also Christmas movies is coming up very soon with our Festivus series that we’ll be returning to.
And we have a lot of large number of Festivus episodes too.
But not sure yet what we’re going to do for the Festivus series.
Haven’t.
I still like my idea.
1:08:50
What’s that?
Doing like 12 different versions of.
A Christmas Carol.
Yeah, it’s tough.
It’s tough because at a certain point you like you can’t can’t keep bringing up like, you know, I really like Dickens idea there.
You know, you kind of run out of that.
1:09:08
So you got to find other things to talk about, but it would be cool.
It would be an interesting.
You know what, maybe maybe we’ll have to do like like make a mini mini thing out of that like make it like be like a like like 6 minute like minisodes that we do yes and it it could be like, you know, we’ll do 12 days of Dickens and it’s just, you know, 12 different.
1:09:28
That’s a good idea of just like mini sods because yeah, again, I I feel like you would really you can’t.
It’s really hard to do an hour episode each time of Christmas Carol and like, wow, they really, you know, the way they had Scrooge whip open that window and shout to the boy about getting that goose.
1:09:43
I that was great in this one, you know.
Come and get.
Christmas gone so.
Yeah, still to this day say, still to this day one of my favorite things you’ve ever said because I don’t even, I don’t even remember that.
1:09:59
Great.
I haven’t.
I’ve never been a big fan of A Christmas Carol so.
I mean the the book the Dickens classic is.
Really nice.
You know what?
I was told that about A Tale of Two Cities, and that was you know what?
1:10:14
That is good as well, but not nice.
You have to be being a right mindset for it.
But yes, festive series would be fun. 12 episodes, 1212 days of of Christmas Carol.
That’d be fun too.
I would do that six, you know, just like because I’ll be watching Christmas Carol stuff anyway, I’m sure so.
1:10:33
Same that that I was going to say that’s why too.
We’ll have to use the South Park Jimmy singing Oh I’m God boy.
Yeah.
That sounds, that sounds going to feel like my little 10th film.
1:10:50
Like he’s like, I just want.
God.
In the year after, we could do like the 25 different versions of like a miracle on, you know, 34th St. like.
Yeah.
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1:11:07
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1:11:24
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