# Ghostbusters II

Ghostbusters II is a 1988 film and the sequel to Ghostbusters. In the film, the discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of the moribund Ghostbusters company to revive the business.
    Directed by Ivan Reitman. Written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

## Dialogue

    [Ray and Winston show up as children's party entertainers]
    Dr. Raymond Stantz and Winston Zeddemore: [singing] If there's something strange in your neighborhood / who you going to call?
    Kids at party: He-Man! He-Man!
    Stantz and Zeddemore: [singing unenthusiastically to each other] If there's something weird, and it don't look good...
    Stantz: Wanna go get a beer?
    Zeddemore: Yeah.
    [Peter Venkman hosts a new episode of his show, World of the Psychic]
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Hi, welcome back to World of the Psychic, I'm Peter Venkman. I'm chatting with my guest, author, lecturer and psychic, Milton Anglund. Milt, your new book is called "The End of the World." Now can you tell us when it's going to be or do we have to buy the book?
    Milton Anglund: Well I predict that the world will end at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
    Venkman: This year?
    Anglund: Mm-hmm.
    Venkman: Well that's cutting it a little bit close, isn't it? I mean, just from a sales point of view, I mean your book is just coming out, you're not gonna see any paperback sales for at least a year. It'll be at least another year before you know whether you've got that mini-series or movie of the week kind of possibilities. I mean just Devil's Advocate Milty! I mean shouldn't you have said: Hey the world's going to end in 1992! Or better yet 1994!
    Anglund: This is not just some money-making scheme! Alright! I have a strong psychic belief that the world will end on New Year's Eve. [begins to cry]
    Venkman: Well, for your sake, I hope you're right. Okay. But I think my other guest may disagree with you. Elaine, now you had another date in mind?
    Elaine: According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14, in the year 2016.
    Venkman: Valentine's Day. Bummer. Where did you get your date, Elaine?
    Elaine: I received this information from an alien. As I told my husband, it was in the Paramus Holiday Inn, I was having a drink at the bar, alone, and this alien approached me. He started talking to me. He bought me a drink, and then I think he must have used some kind of a ray or a mind control device because he forced me to follow him to his room and that's where he told me about the end of the world.
    Venkman: So your alien had a room at the Holiday Inn, Paramus.
    Elaine: It might have been a room on the spacecraft made up to look like a room in the Holiday Inn. I can't be sure about that, Peter.
    Venkman: [to audience] Of course not! And that is the whole problem with aliens; is you just can't trust them. Occasionally you meet a nice one; Starman, E.T., but usually they turn out to be some kind of big lizard. That's all the time we've got for this week on "World of the Psychic". Next week though...hairless pets. [holds up a hairless cat] Weird. Until then, this is Peter Venkman saying [puts a finger to his temple and sends out a thought to his viewers; laughs] See you then!
    [Judge Wexler is angrily berating the the Ghostbusters over their work on First Avenue; a jar of slime they had presented as evidence is heating up, bubbling over]
    Judge Wexler: Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler...stand up! Get up!
    [Peter, Ray and Egon complies]
    Judge Wexler: [looks at Louis] You too, Mr. Tully. [Louis stands up; reads his verdict] I find you guilty on all charges! I order you to pay fines in the amount of $25,000 each! [the jar of slime bubbles, Ray sees it] I sentence you to eighteen months in the city correctional facility at Rikers Island! [pounds his gavel]
    Ray Stantz: [to Egon] Eggy! She's twitching!
    Judge Wexler: I'M NOT FINISHED! On a more personal note, let just me go on record as saying that there is no place for fakes, charlatans-
    [They all began to notice except for the judge]
    Egon Spengler: Uh, Your Honor?
    Judge Wexler: Shut up! And tricksters like you in decent society!
    Ray Stantz: [interrupting] Your Honor!
    Peter Venkman: [interrupting with Ray] Your Honor, this is very important-!
    [Slime keeps bubbling]
    Judge Wexler: You prey upon the gullibility of innocent people!
    Ray Stantz: Yes, sir.
    Judge Wexler: Be quiet!
    Ray Stantz: But- [points to the jar]
    [Slime has risen to the point that the jar lid falls off]
    Judge Wexler: And believe me, if my hands were not tied by the unalterable fetters of the law! [slime rapidly overflows over the exhibit table] And I would indulge in the tradition of our illustrious forbears! Reach back, to a purer, sterner justice... [Peter, Ray, Egon and Louis begins to hide under the table] ...and have you BURNED AT THE STAKE!
    [The slime explodes and two ghoulish figures in electric chairs leap out]
    Ray Stantz: Wow!
    Judge Wexler: [aghast] Oh my God, the Scoleri brothers! [the ghouls lunge; he jumps over his bench and dives under the trio's table] The Scoleri brothers!
    Ray Stantz: Friends of yours?
    Judge Wexler: I tried them for murder! Gave them the chair! [one brother seeks out the group and spots them hiding] You gotta do something!
    Egon Spengler: Why don't you tell them you don't believe in ghosts?
    [One brother lifts the table and throws it across the courtroom as the group runs for cover]
    [Wexler, Louis, Peter, Ray, and Egon all watch the prosecuting attorney being carried by one of the Scoleri brothers outside the courtroom]
    Judge Wexler: [wailing] Ohhh...
    Dr. Peter Venkman: You're next, Bubbles.
    Judge Wexler: [screams] ALL RIGHT! ALL RIGHT! I rescind the order! Case dismissed!
    Louis Tully: Hooray, we won the case!
    Judge Wexler: Now do something!
    [The Ghostbusters turn on their proton packs and sing]
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Do.
    Dr. Raymond Stantz: Re.
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Egon.
    [Venkman and Stantz stare at Egon, and he smiles back]
    [Ray takes out a container full of slime from the microwave]
    Dr. Raymond Stantz: We've been experimenting with the plasm we found in the subway tunnel. Careful.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Should I get spoons?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't bother. [Ray sets the container on the table for everyone to see] Watch this. Go ahead, Ray.
    Stantz: [yells at the container] You! You worthless piece of slime!
    [Container twitches as the slime bubbles angrily]
    Stantz: You ignorant, disgusting blob! [slime reacts]
    Spengler: You're nothing but an unstable, short-chain molecule! [slime reacts]
    Stantz: You foul, obnoxious muck! [slime reacts]
    Spengler: You have a weak electrochemical bond! [slime reacts]
    [Winston and Peter looks at one another as the slime continues to bubble angrily]
    Stantz: I have seen some disgusting crud in my time, but you take the cake!
    Winston Zeddemore: [interrupting just before it overflows its container] Whoa, whoa!
    Stantz: You're a – You just –
    Zeddemore: Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
    Venkman: [beat] This is what you do with your spare time?
    Stantz: Peter, this is an incredible breakthrough. I mean, what a discovery! A psychoreactive substance! Whatever this stuff is, it responds to human emotional states.
    Venkman: [beat] Mood slime. [to slime affectionately] Oh, baby...
    [Slime reacts]
    Zeddemore: You mean this stuff actually feeds on bad vibes?
    Stantz: Like a cop in a donut factory.
    Spengler: We've been running tests to see if we can get an equally strong positive reaction.
    Venkman: What kind of tests?
    Stantz: Well, we sing to it, and, uh, we talk to it, and say...supportive, nurturing things to it...
    Venkman: You're not sleeping with it, are you, Ray?
    [Uncomfortable silence for Ray and Egon; slime bubbles softly]
    Venkman: [shakes his head in disbelief] Oh, you!
    Zeddemore: [mutters] It's always the quiet ones.
    Venkman: [chuckles] You hound!
    [The Ghostbusters study a painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art]
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505, died 1610.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: 105 years old? He hung in there, didn't he?
    Dr. Raymond Stantz: He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Ouch.
    Winston Zeddemore: Guess he wasn't too popular at the end, huh?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: No, not exactly a man of the people. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Wasn't he also Vigo the Butch?
    Dr. Ray Stantz: And dig this, there was a prophecy. Just before his head died, his last words were "Death is but a door, time is but a window: I'll be back".
    [The mayor walks in]
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Lenny. Big man.
    Mayor Lenny: The Ghostbusters.
    Winston Zeddemore: Mr. Mayor? [holds out his hand, wanting to shake his hand]
    Mayor Lenny: What is this? A slumber party?
    Dr. Ray Stantz: Well, that's why we wanted to see you.
    Mayor Lenny: Listen, I don't want to hear anything about it. You got two minutes. Make it good.
    Dr. Ray Stantz: [getting started] Well, first of all, Mr. Mayor, it's a great pleasure to see you again, and you'll be happy to know that almost fifty percent of us voted for you in the last election.
    Mayor Lenny: I appreciate that.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm sorry we have to meet under these circumstances.
    Dr. Ray Stantz: Mr. Mayor, we're here tonight because a psychomagnatheric slimeflow of immense proportions is building up beneath the city.
    Mayor Lenny: Psycho-what?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Psychomagnatheric.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Big word, big word.
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Negative human emotions that are forming into a vicious ectoplasm with *explosive* supernormal potential.
    Mayor Lenny: Can somebody speak English here?
    Winston Zeddemore: Uh yeah. Your honor, what we're trying to say is all of the bad feelings. You know hate, anger and the vibes of the city are turning into this sludge. I didn't believe in it either. But, we just went for a swim in it and end up almost killing each other.
    Jack Hardemeyer: [to the Mayor; aggravated] This is insane! Do we really have to listen to this?
    Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Hardemeyer] Can't you stop your lips from flapping for 2 little minutes? [to the Mayor] Lenny, have you been out on the street lately, do you know weird it is out there? We've taken our own headcount, there seems to be 3 *million* completely miserable assholes living in the Tri-State area.
    Jack Hardemeyer: [in disbelief] Please.
    Peter Venkman: I beg your pardon, 3 million and one.
    Jack Hardemeyer: Hey.
    Dr. Ray Stantz: And what fudgy brain here doesn't realize, that if we don't do something fast this whole place is gonna blow like a frog on a hot plate.
    Jack Hardemeyer: [in disbelief] Yeah, right.
    Mayor Lenny: [having enough] What do you want me to do, go on television and tell 3 million people they have to be nice to each other? [begins to walk off] Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right. Your two minutes are up. Good night, gentlemen. [leaves]
    [The NYPD is hands full receiving calls about the paranormal attacks all over the city, but one call...]
    NYPD Officer: What? Wait a minute.. [to colleague] Lieutenant, you better talk to this guy.
    NYPD Lieutenant: I'm busy here!
    NYPD Officer: It's the dock supervisor down at Pier 34.
    NYPD Lieutenant: What's his problem?
    NYPD Officer: He said the Titanic just arrived.
    Pier 34 Supervisor: [sees the Titanic at the moorings discharging passengers; to colleague] Well, better late than never!
    [Having received multiple reports of paranormal attacks over NYC]
    Mayor Lenny: What the hell is going on? It's pandemonium out there!
    Jack Hardemeyer: Yes, I know. We're working on it!
    Mayor Lenny: Great. While you're working on it, I'm going down as the mayor who let New York get sucked down into the tenth level of hell! [giving up] All right, we got no choice. Call the Ghostbusters.
    Jack Hardemeyer: [eyes widen] Wait! Uh...Now, I'm sure there's another way.
    Mayor Lenny: [aggravated] Jack, I spent an hour last night in my bedroom talking to Fiorello LaGuardia, and he's been dead for 40 years! [forceful tone] Now where are the Ghostbusters?
    Jack Hardemeyer: Uh, they're not available.
    Mayor Lenny: [confused] What do you mean they're not available?
    Jack Hardemeyer: [confessing] Well, I had them committed to the psychiatric ward at Parkview Hospital.
    Mayor Lenny: [shocked and angry] You WHAT?!
    Jack Hardemeyer: They were threatening to go to the press! I was protecting your interests!
    Mayor: Oh yeah?!
    Jack Hardemeyer: Uh-huh!
    Mayor Lenny: Well, you can stop protecting my interests! You have exactly three minutes to clear out! You're fired!
    Jack Hardemeyer: [shocked] But the election! You're making a big mistake, Mr. Mayor!
    Mayor Lenny: [ignoring Hardemeyer] Harry! Remove this man from the building! And get me the Ghostbusters!
    [Having animated the Statue of Liberty with positively charged slime, the Ghostbusters pilot it down Manhattan on the way to the museum, with thousands of New Yorkers cheering them on]
    Dr. Egon Spengler: We're running out of time, Ray, it's almost midnight. Can't you make her go any faster?
    Ray Stantz: I'm afraid the vibrations will shake her to pieces. We should have padded her feet!
    Egon: I don't think they make Nikes in her size, Ray.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Don't worry, she's tough. She's a harbor chick!
    [The statue stomps a police cruiser flat]
    Ray: Sorry, my fault!
    [Vigo's awesome power has paralyzed all of the Ghostbusters. He holds Oscar aloft]
    Vigo: Now we become one.
    [Suddenly, singing is heard from outside]
    Crowd: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and ne'er brought to mind...
    Dr. Raymond Stantz: Where's that singing coming from?
    Winston Zeddemore: The people outside!
    [Vigo begins to roar in pain]
    Crowd: If auld acquaintance be forgot, remember Auld Lang Syne!
    [They continue to sing. Vigo roars, his form becoming less tangible]
    Dr. Egon Spengler: He's weakening! The singing is neutralizing the slime!
    Stantz: I can move!
    Spengler: He's back in the painting!
    [Last lines]
    Winston Zeddemore: [sees the Vigo painting] Hey fellas! You wanna take a look at this?
    Dr. Ray Stantz: Wow!
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Early Renaissance, I think. Raphael, or Piero della Francesca?
    Dr. Peter Venkman: No, I believe it's one of the Fettuccinis.
    [The painting now shows the Ghostbusters wearing togas and clustered around Oscar.]

## Taglines

* Guess who's coming to save the world again?
* Be ready to believe us.
* The Superstars of the Supernatural are back. And this time, it's no marshmallow roast.
* We're back!

## About Ghostbusters II

* I'm not interested in doing anything I've already done, and I thought the second one was a disappointment.
** Rick Moranis, "Rick Moranis Talks Ghostbusters 3 Involvement". The Mary Sue. 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2013-07-26.

## Cast

* Harold Ramis as Dr. Egon Spengler
* Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman
* Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond Stantz
* Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore
* Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett
* William T. Deutschendorf and Hank J. Deutschendorf II as Baby Oscar
* Rick Moranis as Louis Tully
* Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz
* Peter MacNicol as Dr. Janosz Poha
* Harris Yulin as Judge Stephen Wexler
* Janet Margolin as Prosecuting Attorney "Kitten"
* David Margulies as Mayor Lenny
* Kurt Fuller as Jack Hardemeyer
* Wilhelm von Homburg and Max von Sydow as the body and voice of Vigo the Carpathian, respectively

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Ghostbusters II on Wikipedia
* Ghostbusters II quotes at the Internet Movie Database
GHOSTBUSTERS :
| FILMS | Ghostbusters (1984) · Ghostbusters II (1989) · Ghostbusters (2016) · Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) · Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) |
| TELEVISION | The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1992) · Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) · Extreme Ghostbusters (1997) |
| NOVELS | Ghostbusters: The Return (2004) |
| COMICS | The Real Ghostbusters (1988–1992) · Ghostbusters: Legion (2004–2005) · Ghostbusters: Ghost Busted (2008) · Ghostbusters: Total Containment (2011–2012) · Ghostbusters: Mass Hysteria (2013–2014) |
| VIDEO GAMES | Ghostbusters II (1990) · New Ghostbusters II (1990) · The Real Ghostbusters (1993) · Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009) · Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime (2011) · Lego Dimensions (2015) |