History Film / Ghostbusters1984

--->'''Peck:''' I want this man arrested! These men are in violation of the Environmental Protection Act, [[BlatantLies and this explosion is a direct result of it!]]\\

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Gozer is a disturbing HumanoidAbomination with plans to destroy the world in a relatively light-hearted horror-comedy

'''Egon:''' Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.\\

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* BigDamnKiss: The Gatekeeper and The Keymaster share one before moving on to the rooftop.

-->'''Ray:''' Fire and brimstone raining down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!
-->'''Egon:''' Forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes...
-->'''Winston:''' The dead rising from the grave!
-->'''Venkman:''' Human sacrifice, dogs and cats livin' together... mass hysteria!

--> '''Winston Zeddemore:''' When someone asks you if you're a god, YOU SAY, "YES!"
* BlatantLies: With the company's first customer (besides Dana.)

'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' Yes, I'm Dr. Venkman, Dr. Stantz, Egon…

* DramaticDrop: When Ray gets his first good look at Slimer in the hotel, the cigarette he's smoking hangs from his bottom lip for several seconds before falling off.

* {{Ectoplasm}}: Ectoplasm takes the form of sticky, viscous slime. The ghost haunting the library in the opening scenes leaves ectoplasm dripping from the card catalogs, which Venkman finds particularly hard to fling off of him. Later, Slimer charges at Venkman and covers him in ectoplasm but leaves him otherwise unharmed, prompting the famous line, "He slimed me!"

* LoonyLibrarian: The team is called to the New York Public Library to deal with a full body apparition that frightened a living, more typical librarian. On the trail of the ghost, the investigators find spewed catalog cards and piles of strangely-stacked books, eventually encountering a glowing, floating woman in flowing 19th-century dress and a hair bun. She shushes the Ghostbusters before spewing ectoplasm at them.

* DreamSequence: Ray dreams about a ghost of a woman who has been dead for a hundred years in a military fort detmerring she's anchored in, and then she gives him fellatio.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Gozer the Destroyer. It seems to be called "the Destroyer" because that's all humans really know about it: that it destroys things whenever it comes to Earth.

* JerkassGenie: Gozer. It puts it to those nearby to choose the form of the destroyer. Its [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever size]], however, is at its discretion.

* {{Ectoplasm}}: Ectoplasm takes the form of sticky, viscous slime. The ghost haunting the library in the opening scenes leaves ectoplasm dripping from the card catalogs, which Venkman finds particularly hard to fling off of him. Later, Slimer charges at Venkman and covers him in ectoplasm but otherwise unharmed, prompting the famous line, "He slimed me!"

'''Peter''': Why worry? [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Each of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Venkman is first shown giving an ESP test to two students in which a wrong answer is followed by an electric shock. Because one of his test subjects is an attractive female student, Venkman keeps zapping the other (male) subject regardless of who gets the right answer. This reveals Venkman as a {{Jerkass}} and a man who thinks with his groin. The sharp-eyed will note that the male test subject seems to be getting the answers right after complaining of the shock. Note the look on Venkman's face as he gets it right, and the look of horror on the subject's face as Venkman reaches for the button…

* GenericGraffiti: The outside of Dr. Peter Venkman's door has the words "Venkman, rot in hell" written on it in red paint.

** Walter Peck, the somewhat smarmy government stooge who shows up in a nice suit to inspect the Ghostbusters' equipment and finds himself rebuffed by the exhausted and irritable Venkman.

* RaisedHandOfSurvival: During their possession, Dana Barrett and Louis Tully are transformed into dog demons after they open the portal for Gozer. After Gozer is destroyed, the demons' charred, stone bodies are found. Dana's hand [[IronicEcho breaks out of the body she's trapped in]], showing that she's still alive inside it.

* UnitConfusion: According to Venkman, he "whacked Donna with 300cc of Thorazine." It's obvious that cc's, a.k.a. cubic centimeters, was chosen just to sound more medical, but while injected medicine is commonly measured in cubic centimeters, 300cc (10.14421 fluid ounces) is about half a Starbucks venti, and is a simply ''ridiculous'' amount to be carrying, much less ''injecting'' into someone. In fact, it would be impossible to inject that much fluid at once into a healthy body without causing serious health issues.

The mayor decides to let the Ghostbusters try. Worst case scenario is they're wrong and nothing bad happens. Best case scenario is they're right and he becomes a hero for trusting them. The Ghostbusters climb to Dana's penthouse, take on Gozer in the form of a hundred-foot tall marshmallow man, and win by breaking their own most serious safety rule.

** Egon describes the paranormal activity in the New York area as "a Twinkie 35 feet long, weighing approximately 600 pounds". A 600-pound Twinkie would only be 6.4 feet long, and a 35 foot long Twinkie would weigh approximately ''50 tons''.

* {{Main/Bowdlerise}}: The TV edit has actual alternate jokes for some of the lines that wouldn't make the cut before the watershed (rather than hasty looped lines), such as replacing Venkman's "It's true, your honor, this man has no dick!" with "It's true, your honor, this man is some kind of rodent, I don't know which." YMMV about whether or not this defangs the film's humor.

* {{Main/Bowdlerise}}: Averted in the TV edit by having actual alternate jokes for some of the lines that wouldn't make the cut before the watershed (rather than hasty looped lines), such as replacing Venkman's "It's true, your honor, this man has no dick!" with "It's true, your honor, this man is some kind of rodent!"

* {{Main/Bowdlerise}}: Averted in the TV edit by having actual alternate jokes for some of the lines that wouldn't make the cut before the watershed (rather than hasty looped lines such as replacing Venkman's "It's true, your honor, this man has no dick!" with "It's true, your honor, this man is some kind of rodent!"

* {{Main/Bowldlerise}}: Averted in the TV edit by having actual alternate jokes for some of the lines that wouldn't make the cut before the watershed (rather than hasty looped lines such as replacing Venkman's "It's true, your honor, this man has no dick!" with "It's true, your honor, this man is some kind of rodent!"