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**** Yeah, you'll notice that we never see them bust Fiorella LaGuardia. All he did was show up and have a long chat with the current mayor. He wasn't into wreaking havoc, and as a result we never hear of him being contested.
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*** [[CaptainObvious When people are in a blind panic, they just run. They try to keep away from the thing they're running from but otherwise they have no plan. They're not being rational; it's practically a reflex.]]
*** People also tend to ''freeze up'' when they panic, genius.
*** People also tend to ''freeze up'' when they panic, genius.
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****** Peck would never get away with lying about his sources. He'd have to verify his sources in order to justify the warrant. As for the possibility of a corrupt judge, that ''might'' have worked, but it's a pretty big stretch. Any judge who granted a search warrant based on lies and innuendo would quickly find himself impeached and removed from the bench, and even the most corrupt judge in the world would logically care more about keeping his job than about fucking up the Ghostbusters' business.
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*** People also tend to ''freeze up'' when they panic, genius.
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***Most of what the Ghostbusters do is deal with ''unpleasant'' ghosts. If kindly old Aunt Agnes likes to manifest and chat from time to time, there's no real reason to call someone and pay them exorbitant amounts of money to get rid of her.
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** [[PrimeEvil I'd]] think that they use the "off-season" to design and build the next batch of fancy new gadgets in preparation for the next big crossrip.
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*** Venkman didn't imagine a picture of J. Edgar Hoover, he just came up with a random famous person's name to explain the trick. Most likely, Gozer needs you to clearly imagine a form for it to take rather than a name that probably means nothing to it
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*** Venkman didn't imagine a picture of J. Edgar Hoover, he just came up with a random famous person's name to explain the trick. Most likely, Gozer needs you to clearly imagine a form for it to take rather than a name that probably means nothing to itit.
**** WordOfGod states that "Ghostbusters" is Peter's story arc, in which he evolves from a jaded cynic into a true believer. Maybe this is one step in that ascent, where he takes a woman's plea for help seriously enough to bring a backup plan with him in case his theories are right.
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* I know Ray Stanz said to Peter Venkman, "Don't move it won't hurt you.", when staring at Slimer. But why didn't Peter Venkman RUN when Slimer came after him? Ray's advice be damned. Peter wasn't exactly trapped in a Dead End and could have easily turned the corner right behind him. Taking a few steps back then just standing there screaming is not exactly escaping a slime bath.
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* I know Ray Stanz Stantz said to Peter Venkman, "Don't move it won't hurt you.", when staring at Slimer. But why didn't Peter Venkman RUN when Slimer came after him? Ray's advice be damned. Peter wasn't exactly trapped in a Dead End and could have easily turned the corner right behind him. Taking a few steps back then just standing there screaming is not exactly escaping a slime bath.
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***** Which, if that is true, would still not be as much of a problem if Peck could either (a) lie about his sources, or (b) use Venkman's refusal to let them search the grounds as an indication that they clearly had something to hide to a judge who would agree with that, who dislikes the Ghostbusters to begin with, or who knows and trusts Walter Peck. I wouldn't put any of it past him.
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** Or maybe the eyes, since he's the AudienceSurrogate who brings an outside perspective to the group and keeps them grounded in practical reality. That especially fits with Peter being the mouth: Peter brings the Ghostbusters' POV out to the world, while Winston brings the rest of the world's POV to the Ghostbusters.
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** Or maybe the eyes, since he's the AudienceSurrogate who brings an outside perspective to the group and keeps them grounded in practical reality. That especially fits with Peter being the mouth: Peter brings takes the Ghostbusters' POV out to the world, while Winston brings the rest of the world's POV to the Ghostbusters.
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** Or maybe the eyes, since he's the AudienceSurrogate who brings an outside perspective to the group and keeps them grounded in practical reality. That especially fits with Peter being the mouth: Peter brings the Ghostbusters' POV out to the world, while Winston brings the rest of the world's POV to the Ghostbusters.
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** I'd say the arms/body or something similar. At least in the first movie, he's not a scientist like the others, but he's a hard worker and the everyman.
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** I hate to say this, but apparently he's the spleen.
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** And besides, according to the J-REF themselves many people can't force themselves to wade their way through the sometimes year or two of red tape involved before they can so much as ''sit down and actually have the million dollar challenge test''. Yes, even if it involves simply going somewhere else, there's still a lot of legalities involved with that much money. It's a long and arduous process and New York would be long since doomed by Viggo by the end of it.
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*** [[CaptainObvious When people are in a blind panic, they just run. They try to keep away from the thing they're running from but otherwise they have no plan. They're not being rational; it's practically a reflex.]]
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* Ivan Reitman said that he thought of the Ghostbusters as though they were a single entity, Ray being the heart, Egon the brain, and Venkman the mouth (voice). Where, then, does Winston fit in? What part of the entity is he? The soul...?
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* Ivan Reitman The filmmakers said that he they way they thought of about the Ghostbusters as though when they were made the movie was that the group was like a single entity, Ray being the heart, Egon the brain, and Venkman the mouth (voice). Where, then, does Winston fit in? What part of the entity is he? The soul...?
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* Ivan Reitman said that he thought of the Ghostbusters as though they were a single entity, Ray being the heart, Egon the brain, and Venkman the mouth (voice). Where, then, does Winston fit in? What part of the entity is he? The soul...?
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** Or maybe there's some nights he has to work late and doesn't feel like going back home. Especially considering ghosts seem to like the night more than the daytime. This troper works as a reporter, and after some late meetings has decided to stay someplace closer to his beat than trudging all the way back home at midnight.
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** Maybe Venkman fell on hard times and had to move back into the firehouse.
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** I don't think any proof is ever offered in the first movie outside of human speculation that the spirits you see are actually dead humans. They usually manifest themselves more like demons, or creatures than the spirits of lost relatives.
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* Why does the GhostBusters building have five beds in the video game if Venkman has his own apartment?
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*** Harold Ramis points this out in the DVD commentary. The pan & scan keeps cutting him out of shots.
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** I don't remember the character you are talking about, but if he pronounces his own name, that is the correct pronunciation. Admittedly, there could be an original pronunciation. This Troper had a friend with a last name that had an American pronunciation and an original.
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*** Who says they don't try? mayby they just can't do it with present technology.
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*** Who says they don't try? mayby Maybe they just can't do it with present technology.technology.
*** The cartoon says they do. Egon's soul was sucked out and replaced by a demon while looking into other dimensions. Slimer was put into a giant centrifuge device that was supposed to destroy ghosts. Given Extreme Ghostbusters, they never found a workable alternative in 20 years.
*** The cartoon says they do. Egon's soul was sucked out and replaced by a demon while looking into other dimensions. Slimer was put into a giant centrifuge device that was supposed to destroy ghosts. Given Extreme Ghostbusters, they never found a workable alternative in 20 years.
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** They may be out of business, but they're still The Ghostbusters. Merchandising, commercial appearances, cameos, book deals, maybe even their own TV show.
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** Who said he's Hungarian? Janosz is apparently a native-born New Yorker (from the Upper West Side) and the nationality of his family is never stated, he just has a strange, vaguely Eastern European-sounding accent. If anything the made-up name was supposed to add to the impossibility of accurately pinning a nationality on him.
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*** Venkman didn't imagine a picture of J. Edgar Hoover, he just came up with a random famous person's name to explain the trick. Most likely, Gozer needs you to clearly imagine a form for it to take rather than a name that probably means nothing to it.
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**** I figured this, too. Ray's thinking was probably "Don't think of anything. Don't think of anything. Although something like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man would be harmless. Unless he was a giant... I wonder, is he just a really pale creature or is he made entirely out of marshmallows? Probably the marshm--" "THE CHOICE IS MADE!" "Oh shi--".
**** I figured this, too. Ray's thinking was probably "Don't think of anything. Don't think of anything. Although something like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man would be harmless. Unless he was a giant... I wonder, is he just a really pale creature or is he made entirely out of marshmallows? Probably the marshm--" "THE CHOICE IS MADE!" "Oh shi--".
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* In Hungarian, the letter "s" makes an "sh" sound, and the letters "sz" make an "s" sound. Janosz is supposedly Hungarian, but everybody pronounces his name ''exactly'' wrong. I mean, if you're going to have a Hungarian character and you want his name to sound foreign, at least do the research and spell his name right.
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*** I always just assumed Ray thought of Mr. Stay-Puft instantly, and was pretending he hadn't while everyone else was prattling about Hoover.
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*** Might be worth noting here that Mankind ''also'' hasn't figured out how to dispose safely of hazardous waste materials from nuclear reactors which ''also'' last several thousand years or so. It doesn't stop society at large (a) generating further such waste products or (b) storing it with the best technology available at the time. Granted, it's not the same thing as chaining down Eddie Munster's vengeful spirit for all eternity, but it was also TheEighties. [[{{Anvilicious}} Might be they were trying to tell us something.]]
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*** Might be worth noting here that Mankind ''also'' hasn't figured out how to dispose safely of hazardous waste materials from nuclear reactors which ''also'' last several thousand years or so. It doesn't stop society at large (a) generating further such waste products or (b) storing it with the best technology available at the time. Granted, it's not the same thing as chaining down Eddie Munster's vengeful spirit for all eternity, but it was also TheEighties.
*** Who says they don't try? mayby they just can't do it with present technology.
[[{{Anvilicious}} Might be they were trying to tell us something.]]
*** Who says they don't try? mayby they just can't do it with present technology.
[[{{Anvilicious}} Might be they were trying to tell us something.]]
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** And even if, worst case scenario, they were forced to close up shop and retire after the whole Vigo business, they've all successfully salvaged their professional reputations. Surely they could all move on to other successful careers. Maybe even get their old jobs back at the university that kicked them out in the first film.
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** Run where? Slimer is clearly faster than any human being ''and'' can pass right through solid matter. Where could Venkman possibly hide from him?
