by Dennis Finocchiaro Sunday 8th June 2014

Happy 30th Anniversary, Ghostbusters! Here Are Our Ten Favourite Quotes From The Film!

To celebrate the official 30th anniversary of the film Ghostbusters, I will be putting together my new Lego Ghostbusters set, watching the movie, and sharing my top ten quotes from the film, in no particular order (mostly because I couldn’t choose which was my favorite!)

10. To start off, I’ve always loved the commercial, so it has to be in the top 10:

9. Easily Winston’s best line, and clearly one of the greatest in the film, finishes up this little scene when the boys are fighting Gozer:

Gozer: [after Ray orders her to re-locate] Are you a God?
[Ray looks at Peter, who nods]
Ray: 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: Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say “YES”!

8. Another favorite is the scene in the mayor’s office with the infamous Walter Peck:

Ray: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Venkman: Yes it’s true. This man has no dick.
Peck: Jeez!
[Charges at Venkman]
Mayor: Break it up! Hey, break this up! Break it up!
Peck: All right, all right, all right!
Venkman: Well, that’s what I heard!

7. And while I love all of the scenes between the possessed Dana Barrett and Venkman, I have to go with one of these two:

Dana: [as The Gatekeeper] I want you inside me.
Venkman: It sounds like you’ve got at least two or three people in there already.

Dana: There is no Dana only Zuul.
Venkman: What a lovely singing voice you must have.

6. One of the more subtle quotes that always gets me:

Ray: Listen… do you smell something?

5. This line is just one of those iconic moments of the movie, so it had to be here:

Janine: Hello, Ghostbusters… Yes, of course they’re serious… You do?… You have?… No kidding! Just gimme the address… Oh sure, they will be totally discreet. Thank you!
[hangs up]
Janine: WE GOT ONE!

4. Then there’s Stay Puft:

Gozer: The Choice is made!
Venkman: Whoa! Ho! Ho! Whoa-oa!
Gozer: The Traveller has come!
Venkman: Nobody choosed anything!
[turns to Egon]
Venkman: Did you choose anything?
Egon: No.
Venkman: [to Winston] Did YOU?
Winston: My mind is totally blank.
Venkman: *I* didn’t choose anything…
[long pause, Peter, Egon and Winston all look at Ray]
Ray: I couldn’t help it. It just popped in there.
Venkman: What? *What* “just popped in there?”
Ray: I… I… I tried to think…
Egon: LOOK!
Ray: No! It CAN’T be!
Venkman: What is it?
Ray: It CAN’T be!
Venkman: What did you DO, Ray?
Winston: Oh, shit!
[they all see a giant cubic white head topped with a sailor hat, Peter looks at Ray]
Ray: [somberly] It’s the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

3. Of course, no list would be complete without the Twinkie:

Venkman: How’s the grid holding up?
Egon: Not good.
Winston: Tell him about the Twinkie.
Venkman: What about the Twinkie?

2. The fantastic attack on Gozer:

Venkman: All right, this chick is TOAST. Okay; sticks?
Ray, Egon & Winston: HOLDIN’!
Venkman: Heat ’em up!
Ray, Egon & Winston: SMOKIN’!
Venkman: MAKE ‘EM HARD!
Ray, Egon & Winston: READY!
Venkman: Let’s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown.