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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Gozer is said to have been worshipped as a god by the Hittites, Mesopotamians, and the Sumerians around 6000 BC. But this is more than two thousand years before the start of recorded history, so there is no way for our heroes to know that.

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Gozer is said to have been worshipped as a god by the Hittites, Mesopotamians, and the Sumerians around 6000 BC. But this is more than two thousand years before the start of recorded history, so there is no way for our heroes to know that.that.
** Ray describes the events as being as important as the Tunguska blast of 1909. It actually happened the previous year.
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* CelebrityParadox: During the montage of released ghosts terrifying NYC, Louis/Vinz walks past a movie theater in Times Square showing ''Film/TradingPlaces'', which also starred Creator/DanAykroyd.

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* CelebrityParadox: During the montage of released ghosts terrifying NYC, Louis/Vinz walks past a movie theater in Times Square showing ''Film/TradingPlaces'', which also starred Creator/DanAykroyd.

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-->'''Egon:''' (''In a calm voice'') Sorry Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.



-->'''Egon:''' ''(In a calm voice)'' Sorry Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

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* CelebrityParadox: During the montage of released ghosts terrifying NYC, Louis/Vinz walks past a movie theater in Times Square showing ''Film/TradingPlaces'', which also starred Creator/DanAykroyd.






** Vinz Klortho rattles of the history of his sect in a series of allusions to bizarre and bloody events. What the hell was the "Rectification of the Vuldranai?" or the "Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants"?

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** Vinz Klortho Clortho rattles of the history of his sect in a series of allusions to bizarre and bloody events. What the hell was the "Rectification of the Vuldranai?" or the "Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants"?
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* ItsNotAboutTheRequest: Peter refuses Peck's request to see the containment unit not out of an objection to doing so, but because of Peck's rudeness, disrespect, and almost open accusation of fraud. This will have major consequences later in the movie when Peck uses Peter's refusal as a justification to get a court order to shut down the Ghostbusters.
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The Ghostbusters soon become household names and become so busy that they recruit a fourth team member, NaiveNewcomer and [[TokenMinority token black guy]] Winston Zeddemore (Creator/ErnieHudson), but they realize that the surge in ghosts is portentous. Dana is abducted and possessed by a malevolent entity in her apartment while her neighbor, nerdy accountant Louis Tully (Creator/RickMoranis), is chased out to Central Park where another evil creature possesses him. [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Petty bureaucrat]] Walter Peck (Creator/WilliamAtherton) shuts down the Ghostbusters' containment unit, releasing all the ghosts they had trapped and inadvertently allowing the possessed Dana and Louis to meet and unleash Armageddon in the form of [[BigBad Gozer]], an ancient Sumerian deity. While waiting for a meeting with the mayor, Ray and Egon explain the phenomena are centered on Dana's apartment, the building around which was designed by a cult from the early 20th century to attract spirits and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

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The Ghostbusters soon become household names HouseholdNames and become so busy that they recruit a fourth team member, NaiveNewcomer and [[TokenMinority token black guy]] Winston Zeddemore (Creator/ErnieHudson), but they realize that the surge in ghosts is portentous. Dana is abducted and possessed by a malevolent entity in her apartment while her neighbor, nerdy accountant Louis Tully (Creator/RickMoranis), is chased out to Central Park where another evil creature possesses him. [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Petty bureaucrat]] Walter Peck (Creator/WilliamAtherton) shuts down the Ghostbusters' containment unit, releasing all the ghosts they had trapped and inadvertently allowing the possessed Dana and Louis to meet and unleash Armageddon in the form of [[BigBad Gozer]], an ancient Sumerian deity. While waiting for a meeting with the mayor, Ray and Egon explain the phenomena are centered on Dana's apartment, the building around which was designed by a cult from the early 20th century to attract spirits and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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* JokersLoveJunkFood: Egon may have been TheComicallySerious, but he was a skilled member of the team who built most of their gadgets. He also had a thing for junk food, such as the Twinkie he used to explain the building problem in the containment grid. This carries over to ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', where his granddaughter, Phoebe, finds a candy bar wrapper in his old jumpsuit. And her brother Trevor finds a Twinkie in the glove compartment of Ecto-1.
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* LastDayOfNormalcy: opens with Dr. Peter Venkman performing an experiment with his Columbia University parapsychology students before he joins his colleagues, Drs. Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler, in tracking a ghost at the New York Public Library, after which they go back to the university, where they're told by Dean Yeager that they're being dismissed, leading to them establishing their business as paranormal investigators and exterminators.

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* LastDayOfNormalcy: opens Opens with Dr. Peter Venkman performing an experiment with his Columbia University parapsychology students before he joins his colleagues, Drs. Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler, in tracking a ghost at the New York Public Library, after which they go back to the university, where they're told by Dean Yeager that they're being dismissed, leading to them establishing their business as paranormal investigators and exterminators.
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** Egon's research reveals that by the time Ivo Shandor died, his Gozerian cult had amassed nearly 1,000 followers. However, Egon's exposition ''doesn't'' reveal their ultimate fates or whether the cult could still be active in the Present Day. [[spoiler:Despite Shandor himself subsequently appearing in ''Afterlife'', the fate of cultists ultimately remains left hanging in the Cinematic Canon (while over in the Expanded Universe, that loose end became ''very'' imporant to the plot of [[VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame 2009 video game]]).]]

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** Egon's research reveals that by the time Ivo Shandor died, his Gozerian cult had amassed nearly 1,000 followers. However, Egon's exposition ''doesn't'' reveal their ultimate fates or whether the cult could still be active in the Present Day. [[spoiler:Despite Shandor himself subsequently appearing in ''Afterlife'', the fate of his cultists ultimately remains left hanging in the Cinematic Canon (while over in the Expanded Universe, that loose end became ''very'' imporant to the plot of [[VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame 2009 video game]]).]]
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** Egon's research reveals that by the time Ivo Shandor died, his Gozerian cult had amassed nearly 1,000 followers. However, Egon's exposition ''doesn't'' reveal their ultimate fates or whether the cult could still be active in the Present Day. [[spoiler:Despite Shandor himself subsequently appearing in ''Afterlife'', the fate of cultists ultimately remains left hanging in the Cinematic Canon (while in the Expanded Universe, that loose end became ''very'' imporant to the plot of [[VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame 2009 video game]].]]

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** Egon's research reveals that by the time Ivo Shandor died, his Gozerian cult had amassed nearly 1,000 followers. However, Egon's exposition ''doesn't'' reveal their ultimate fates or whether the cult could still be active in the Present Day. [[spoiler:Despite Shandor himself subsequently appearing in ''Afterlife'', the fate of cultists ultimately remains left hanging in the Cinematic Canon (while over in the Expanded Universe, that loose end became ''very'' imporant to the plot of [[VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame 2009 video game]].game]]).]]
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** Egon's research reveals that by the time Ivo Shandor died, his Gozerian cult had amassed nearly 1,000 followers. However, Egon's exposition ''doesn't'' reveal their ultimate fates or whether the cult could still be active in the Present Day. [[spoiler:Despite Shandor himself subsequently appearing in ''Afterlife'', the fate of cultists ultimately remains left hanging.]]

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** Egon's research reveals that by the time Ivo Shandor died, his Gozerian cult had amassed nearly 1,000 followers. However, Egon's exposition ''doesn't'' reveal their ultimate fates or whether the cult could still be active in the Present Day. [[spoiler:Despite Shandor himself subsequently appearing in ''Afterlife'', the fate of cultists ultimately remains left hanging.hanging in the Cinematic Canon (while in the Expanded Universe, that loose end became ''very'' imporant to the plot of [[VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame 2009 video game]].]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The 'Busters get their initial capital by mortgaging Ray's family house at an absurd interest rate. We never learn whether they earned enough money fast enough to save it from being foreclosed.

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The 'Busters get their initial capital by mortgaging Ray's family house at an absurd interest rate. We never learn whether they earned enough money fast enough to save it from being foreclosed.foreclosed.
** Egon's research reveals that by the time Ivo Shandor died, his Gozerian cult had amassed nearly 1,000 followers. However, Egon's exposition ''doesn't'' reveal their ultimate fates or whether the cult could still be active in the Present Day. [[spoiler:Despite Shandor himself subsequently appearing in ''Afterlife'', the fate of cultists ultimately remains left hanging.]]
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-->'''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.
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* SecretMessageWink: When Venkman is running the ESP test, the wink that he tips to his female subject right before zapping his male subject pulls triple duty: it tells her he's lying about the other subject being wrong, signals her to play along in his little charade, and is also a subtle way to flirt with her.
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->''"I love [[TheBigApplesauce this town!]]"''

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->''"I love [[TheBigApplesauce [[BigApplesauce this town!]]"''

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* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: A Keymaster-possessed Louis is being held at Ghostbusters HQ under the watch of Egon, who wants to ensure that he and Zuul, the Gatekeeper, don't get anywhere near each other for fear of their joining resulting in a massive catastrophe (summing Gozer). It just so happens that that very morning Peck comes back with the order to shut off the protection grid. The resulting explosion and release of all the ghosts they had captured gives Vinz plenty of cover to escape. The best part is he doesn't even seem to be trying to sneak away. Rather he more just wanders off down the street and no one bothers to stop him.

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* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: A Keymaster-possessed Louis is being held at Ghostbusters HQ under the watch of Egon, who wants to ensure that he and Zuul, the Gatekeeper, don't get anywhere near each other for fear of their joining resulting in a massive catastrophe (summing (summoning Gozer). It just so happens that that very morning Peck comes back with the order to shut off the protection grid. The resulting explosion and release of all the ghosts they had captured gives Vinz plenty of cover to escape. The best part is he doesn't even seem to be trying to sneak away. Rather he more just wanders off down the street and no one bothers to stop him.



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->''"I love [[TheBigApplesauce this town!]]"''
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** The Sedgewick Hotel Manager initially not wanting to pay $5000 for the capture and storage of Slimer, given the Ghostbusters easily caused tripled that amount of damage in the ballroom alone, and almost killed a cleaning lady in addition to disrupting a planned event in the aforementioned ballroom.

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** The Sedgewick Hotel Manager initially not wanting to pay $5000 $5,000 for the capture and storage of Slimer, given the Ghostbusters easily caused tripled that amount of damage in the ballroom alone, and almost killed a cleaning lady in addition to disrupting a planned event in the aforementioned ballroom.
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** In the scene which Peter is inspecting Dana's apartment, if you look closely you can see a wooden hand behind Peter when he is sitting on Dana's sofa. This foreshadows the frightening scene which Data is attacked in the armchair by the terror dogs.

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** In the scene which Peter is inspecting Dana's apartment, if you look closely you can see a wooden hand behind Peter when he is sitting on Dana's sofa. This foreshadows the frightening scene which Data Dana is attacked in the armchair by the terror dogs.
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* ClueOfFewWords: the dying alien struggles to say the words "Orion's Belt" before he perishes, leaving the agents to wonder what he was referring to.
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** On the flip side, while Peter was a little too rude and flippant about it, he had every right to not acquiesce to Peck's demands. While Peck ''claimed'' to be an EPA representative, he showed no credentials that would verify this. Plus, Peck was trying to disrupt the Ghostbusters' operations without any kind of evidence, just cause, or proper warrant and failed to even list any codes or laws that the team was in violation of. All of this, coupled with Peck going out of his way to be antagonistic by refusing to address Peter as "Dr. Venkman" even after Peter politely informed him that's his proper title, makes it understandable why Peter would tell him to take a hike.
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* ClueOfFewWords: the dying alien struggles to say the words "Orion's Belt" before he perishes, leaving the agents to wonder what he was referring to.
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* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: During the climax the Ghostbusters have to use the stairs to reach the roof of Dana and Tully's apartment building as the elevator is shut off. It takes them a while as they have to carry their Proton Packs the whole way up.
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* DaylightHorror: The scene where all the ghosts escape the containment unit and rampage the city takes place in broad daylight.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Gozer is said to have been worshipped as a god by the Hittites, Mesopotamians, and the Sumerians around 6000 BC. But this is more than two thousand years before the start of recorded history, so there is no way for our heroes to know that.
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* PossessionLevitation: During a possession by Zuul, Dana begins to be sexually agressive and attempts to seduce Peter. Then she begins to levitate above her bed, and she even does a full mid-air rotation. Peter later sedates her.

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* PossessionLevitation: During a her possession by Zuul, Dana begins to be becomes very sexually agressive and attempts to seduce Peter. Then When he continues to reject her advances she gets angry and begins to levitate above her bed, and she even does a full mid-air rotation. Peter later sedates her.
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-->-- '''The 3 founding Ghostbusters in their first TV ad.'''

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-->-- '''The The 3 founding Ghostbusters in their first TV ad.'''
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