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19 January 2006

What is your favourite quotation from Ghostbusters? →[More:]
Mine is "Back off man, I'm a scientist!"
post by: Capn at: 14:27 | 32 comments
"Allright, who brought the dog?"

Actually I really like all of them Zoolie. It's my best movie. As they say.
posted by Divine_Wino 19 January | 14:31
"back off man, I'm a scientist"
posted by joelf 19 January | 14:34
"Yes, have some."
posted by Divine_Wino 19 January | 14:34
Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.
posted by puke & cry 19 January | 14:44
Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.

Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!

Mayor: Is this true?

Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.

[pause]

Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.
posted by selfnoise 19 January | 14:44
I just like the name Egon Spengler.
posted by jrossi4r 19 January | 14:45
Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick.
posted by Hugh Janus 19 January | 14:46
also:
Janine Melnitz: Dropping off or picking up?

ha! Beat ya.
posted by puke & cry 19 January | 14:46
My favorite isn't exactly a quote, but more the noise the librarian lady makes in the beginning when the ghosts are fucking with her--she expresses a mix of both terror, and rage that they fucked up the dewey decimal system.
posted by SassHat 19 January | 14:47
actually:

"Gozer the Traveller will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii the Traveller came as a very large and moving Torb. Then of course in the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants they chose a new form for him, that of a Sloar. Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you."
posted by joelf 19 January | 14:47
Moranis has a great kinda nerdy chuffing laugh when he delivers that line.

posted by Divine_Wino 19 January | 14:49
Pretty much anything rick moranis says really.
posted by puke & cry 19 January | 14:50
"I seen shit that would turn you white"
is, to this day, something I say as often as possible.
posted by Divine_Wino 19 January | 14:50
"There is no Dana, only Zuul."

It's fun to insert friends' names in place of Dana.
posted by me3dia 19 January | 14:50
"Hey - where do these stairs go?"
"They go up."
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 19 January | 14:50
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.

The "scientist" line is a classic.
posted by porpoise 19 January | 14:51
"Here's your mucus."
posted by jonmc 19 January | 14:53
"Here's your mucus."

No wait, that is the best one.

posted by Divine_Wino 19 January | 14:58
Quotes I still sometimes throw into conversations:

"Ray, when someone asks if you're a God, you say "Yes"!"

"Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown."

"Nimble little minx."

"We came, we saw, we kicked its ass."

"Shh. Listen. Do you smell that?"

"I don't have to take this abuse from you, I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me."

"I've been slimed."

"...someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries."

"Take me now, subcreature."
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 19 January | 15:10
Dr. Peter Venkman: Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.

I've lost count of the number of times I've used that line.
posted by tommasz 19 January | 15:12
Dr. Peter Venkman: The flowers are still standing
posted by xhodgk 19 January | 15:14
I was gonna say the "dickless" bit but it's been done. I love how in 80s movies they used to just make up random insults like that- I've never heard that term before or since, except in the context of quoting "Ghostbusters."
posted by drjimmy11 19 January | 15:21
Ray Stantz: Gozer the Gozerian: good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activities and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 19 January | 15:42
You gotta try this pole!

In fact, I like that quote so much I had it put on a t-shirt, but my wife won't let me wear it.
posted by mr_crash_davis 19 January | 16:01
In a close second place is:

"I feel so funky"
posted by mr_crash_davis 19 January | 16:02
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Good shootin', Tex!
posted by deadcowdan 19 January | 16:06
And I find myself saying this one pretty often lately:

"I've quit better jobs than this."
posted by deadcowdan 19 January | 16:09
"She's a harbor chick!"
posted by warbaby 19 January | 16:24
"That's a big Twinkie."
posted by pivo 19 January | 17:26
hey, we're slipping into Ghostbusters 2.

He is Vigo! You are like the buzzing of flys to him!
posted by puke & cry 19 January | 17:30
'You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!' (Technically, the Tunguska impact was in 1908. I think they thought "9" was a funnier number.)
posted by steef 19 January | 21:38
"Okay....

so.....

she's a dog."
posted by Doohickie 19 January | 21:45
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