Plot
Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple.
Keywords: 1980s, accountant, apartment, apocalypse, art-deco, ballroom, black-comedy, blockbuster, boredom, brooklyn-bridge
Here To Save The World Again [re-release]
Let's Get Slimed One More Time. [re-release]
They're Here To Save The World.
Coming To Save The World This Summer.
We're Ready To Believe You.
Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!
The supernatural spectacular
They ain't afraid of no ghost.
The world's most successful comedy
[Inspecting Dana's refrigerator for paranormal activity]::Dr. Peter Venkman: Oh, my *God*. Look at all the junk food!::Dana Barrett: Oh, no, Goddammit. None of this was here...::Dr. Peter Venkman: You actually eat this?::Dana Barrett: Look, this wasn't here! There was *nothing* here! There was this... space! And there was a building or something with flames coming out of it, and there were creatures writhing around, and they were growling and snarling. And there were flames, and I heard a voice say "Zuul"! It was right here.::Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, I'm sorry, I'm just not getting any reading.::Dana Barrett: Well, are you sure you're using that thing correctly?::Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, I... I think so, but I'm sure there are no animals in there.::Dana Barrett: Well that's just great. Either I have a monster in my kitchen or I'm completely crazy.::Dr. Peter Venkman: [smiles] I don't think you're crazy.::Dana Barrett: [sarcastically] Oh, good, that makes me feel so much better.
Gozer: [after Ray orders her to re-locate] Are you a God? [Ray looks at Peter, who nods]::Dr Ray Stantz: No.::Gozer: Then... DIE!::[Lightning flies from her fingers, driving the Ghostbusters to the edge of the roof and almost off; people below scream]::Winston Zeddemore: Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!::Dr. Peter Venkman: All right! This chick is TOAST!
Dr. Peter Venkman: [as the Ghostbusters approach Gozer] Grab your stick!::[the Ghostbusters draw their handsets]::Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: HOLDIN'!::Dr. Peter Venkman: Heat 'em up!::[they arm their packs]::Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: SMOKIN'!::Dr. Peter Venkman: Make 'em hard!::[they rack their handsets]::Dr Ray Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore: READY!::Dr. Peter Venkman: Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown... THROW IT!
Winston Zeddemore: Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, "yes!"
[Dana is at home doing exercises as she watches the news on television]::Roger Grimsby: Good morning, I'm Roger Grimsby. Today, the entire Eastern Seaboard is alive with talk of incidents of paranormal activity. Alleged ghost sightings and related supernatural occurances have been reported across the entire Tri-State area.
Larry King: Hi, this is Larry King. The phone-in topic Today: "Ghosts and Ghostbusting." The controversy builds, more sightings are reported, some maintain that these professional paranormal eliminators in New York are the cause of it all.
Casey Kasem: Still making headlines all across the country, the Ghostbusters are at it again. This time, at the fashionable dance club, "The Rose." The boys in gray slugged it out with a pretty pesky poltergeist, then stayed on to dance the night away with some of the lovely ladies who witnessed the disturbance. This is Casey Kasem. Now, on with the countdown.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Nimble little minx, in't she?::Dr. Egon Spengler: We're gonna go full stream.::Dr Ray Stantz: Aim for the flattop!::[Ghostbusters shoot at Gozer, but she disappears]::Dr. Peter Venkman: [uncertainly] Wasn't so hard.
Winston Zeddemore: Hey, wait a minute. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Hold it! Now, are we actually gonna go before a federal judge, and tell him that some moldy Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West, and start tearing up the city?::Dr. Egon Spengler: Sumerian, not Babylonian.::Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah. Big difference.::Winston Zeddemore: No offense, guys, but I've gotta get my own lawyer.
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.::Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?::Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.::Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.::Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!::Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...::Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!::Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!::Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (born April 27, 1932) is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.
Kasem, along with Don Bustany and Ron Jacobs, founded the popular American Top 40 franchise in 1970, hosting it from July 4, 1970 to August 6, 1988; and then from March 28, 1998 to January 3, 2004. Between January 1989 and early 1998, he was the host of Casey's Top 40, Casey's Hot 20, and Casey's Countdown.
Currently, Kasem is heard on Premiere Radio Networks' weekly syndicated radio programs based on the American Top 40 franchise: Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The '70s and Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The '80s are replays of AT40 shows from the respective decades. He also hosted American Top 20 and American Top 10. Kasem retired from AT20 and AT10 on July 4, 2009 and both shows ended on that day.
In addition to his radio shows, Kasem has provided the voice of many commercials; has done many voices for Sesame Street; was the voice of NBC; helps out with the annual Jerry Lewis telethon; and provided the cartoon voices of Robin in Super Friends, Mark on Battle of the Planets, and a number of characters for the Transformers cartoon series of the 1980s. In 2008, he was the voice of "Out of Sight Retro Night" which airs on WGN America, but recently was replaced by rival Rick Dees. After 40 years, Casey retired from his role of voicing Shaggy from Scooby-Doo in 2009, instead voicing Shaggy's father in the 2010 TV series, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. Letterman recently surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson for having the longest late-night hosting career in the United States of America.
Letterman is also a television and film producer. His company Worldwide Pants produces his show as well as its network follow-up The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Worldwide Pants has also produced several prime-time comedies, the most successful of which was Everybody Loves Raymond, currently in syndication.
In 1996, David Letterman was ranked #45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Letterman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, Harry Joseph Letterman (April 1915 – February 1973), was a florist of British descent; his mother Dorothy Letterman (née Hofert, now Dorothy Mengering), a Presbyterian church secretary of German descent, is an occasional figure on the show, usually at holidays and birthdays.
William "Bill" Hader (born June 7, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, producer and writer. He is best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for his supporting roles in comedy films such as Superbad, Hot Rod, Tropic Thunder, Adventureland, Paul, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
Hader was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Sherri and Bill Hader. He has two sisters, Katie and Kara. Hader attended Patrick Henry Elementary School, Edison Junior High, and Cascia Hall Preparatory School, before attending The Art Institute of Phoenix and Scottsdale Community College.
Hader's comedic aspirations eventually led him to Los Angeles where he joined the Second City, a comedy troupe that has been a training ground for many SNL cast members since the 1970s. He performed at iO West in Los Angeles. During his time at Second City and iO West, Hader worked as a production assistant on the DVD Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy and Collateral Damage, as well as an assistant on VH1's The Surreal Life.
Kerri Kasem (born 12 July 1978)[citation needed] is an American radio and television host.
She is the daughter of the radio host Casey Kasem and his ex-wife, Linda Myers Kasem.
Kerri was a reporter/host on E!, is a host on UFC, and a host on SiTV's The Rub. In 2003, Kerri was a contestant on the ESPN reality show, Beg, Borrow & Deal. Along with her TV shows Kerri worked on radio shows such as; "Racing Rocks," syndicated on over 120 stations, the "National Lampoon Comedy Countdown", "The Solomon Free Money Hour," "Pet Talk" and as co-host to Alan Stock on KXNT 840 AM in Las Vegas for a morning radio talk show from 5am-9am US Pacific Time weekdays (KXNT.COM). She left KXNT in August 2007 for TV and Radio in Los Angeles.
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He developed his on-air personality when he landed positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, WCCC in Hartford and WWWW in Detroit. In 1981, he was paired with his current newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers at WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern then moved to WNBC in New York City in 1982 to host afternoons until his firing in 1985. He re-emerged on WXRK that year, and became one of the most popular radio personalities during his 20-year tenure at the station. Stern's show is the most-fined radio program, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued fines to station licensees for allegedly indecent material that totaled $2.5 million. Stern has won Billboard's Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year award eight times, and is one of the highest-paid figures in radio.