Ghostbusters/Trivia

* The Particle Throwers were wand-like and attached via black flex cords to a back-mounted proton power source. The wands were strapped in place at the wrist - one in each arm - and extended out along the palm to a point 6 inches beyond the fingertips. When fired by means of an elbow toggle switch on the back pack - phosphorescent beams of red and green light issued forth.
* The Slimer scene was originally drafted as a call from the Greenville Guest House's kitchen about a gluttonous yellow mist of grotesquely altered form. The fee was to be $500.
* The Containment Unit was in a deserted Sunoco gas station in northern New Jersey taken over and converted by the Ghostbusters.
* Zuul was a generic term for the other-dimensional creature that would later evolve into the Terror Dogs.
* Gozer was absolute ruler of the sixth dimension.
* The "Stays Puft, Even When Toasted" slogan for Stay Puft Marshmallows originated in the original script.
* One of the manifestations in the original script was a skeletal biker terrorizing residents of a small town. This entity became the skeletal cab driver in the final script.
* Ivo Shandor was the interdimensional employer of the Ghostbusters.
* When ghosts were released from the Containment Unit in Jersey, a 25 acre sinkhole is created which disrupts a long inactive fault line which somehow transforms most of northern New Jersey into an inferno.

### June Draft

*For more trivia, see June 6, 1983 Draft*

* The graffiti on the Paranormal Studies Laboratory door read 'Venkman sucks cock in Hell!' as a reference to "The Exorcist." Ivan Reitman decided to take the high road and the message was changed.
* The Ghostbusters were tossed out of a small New England college and then go to New York. It was realized there was something vital to the story taking place in New York. The opening sequence was set in a nice, converted farmhouse where a family was bothered by incessant knocking they couldn't trace. The theme of mundanity in supernatural phenomena was preserved when the scene was rewritten to take place in the New York City Public Library.
* In a deleted scene in the June (and July) drafts, Zuul feels sorry for a horse in a bridle and harness and kissed it.
* Peter's love interest was an interdimensional woman posing as a beautiful woman.

### July Draft

*For more trivia, see Ghostbusters July 6, 1983 Draft*

* In the July draft, Peter Venkman appeared before a university funding committee. Dean Yaeger was up for a Nobel in Stockholm the previous week but didn't win.
* In the July (and August) draft, Egon Spengler plugged the Proton Pack prototype into an AC outlet. The pack heated up to 550 degrees and the resulting surge melted the outlet then caused a downtown blackout.
	+ The widescale blackout idea was seemingly reused in Ghostbusters II.

* Louis Tully was a visiting conventioneer.
* Peter's love interest was a beautiful woman possessed by an interdimensional alien.
* Ghostbusters became Ghostbusters International, a high rolling multinational corporation. Egon and Janine married in Las Vegas with Louis as their witness, Ray paid another visit to Fort Detmerring, Winston arrived at HQ in a limo, and Peter and Dana hung out at her apartment as a baby chick hatched out of an egg in the kitchen.

### August Draft

*For more trivia, see Ghostbusters August 5, 1983 Draft*

* Louis' party portrayed John Candy's Louis and his earthier interests.
* While running out of the apartment, Louis jumped into a cab first.
* Ivo Shandor was electrocuted at Sing Sing after his attempted abduction of a teenage girl led police to his penthouse apartment, furnished impeccably with stacks of human bones.

### September Draft

*For more trivia, see Ghostbusters September 30, 1983 Draft*

### October Shooting Script

*For more trivia, see Ghostbusters October 7, 1983 Draft*

### Production

* Dan Aykroyd originally wrote a 40 page treatment featuring himself and John Belushi.
* After reading the treatment, Ivan Reitman met with Dan Aykroyd at a deli about the concept of Ghostbusters and suggested bringing in Harold Ramis and Bill Murray.
* With no script and no special effects team, Ivan Reitman managed to get Ghostbusters greenlit for a $30 million budget but only had one year to make it starting on June 8th, 1983.
* Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman suggested the idea of focusing the story on how the Ghostbusters started out.
* Thom Enriquez was brought on in June 1983 and was asked to draw a scene in which a "ghost seduces Chase."
* When Thom Enriquez was hired on June 2, 1983, the movie's title was Ghost Chasers. On June 17, it was changed back to Ghost Busters.
* Officially, principal photography was scheduled to start on October 26, 1983.
* Ivan Reitman did three days of shooting in New York in October 1983 without the main cast before principal photography started in November.
* According to Ivan Reitman, the hardest aspect of developing the story was what was going on in the apartment. The Keymaster-Gatekeeper idea came very late in the process.
* During principal photography, flying books in the library scene was deemed too obvious a concept and Dan Aykroyd suggested several volumes to be made to float mysteriously across aisles.
* After the film came out in theaters, Ivan Reitman got an idea to help keep the phenomenon going. Taking a 'junk buy' cross-country on late-night TV and running the commercial just as it appeared in the film only with the superimposed phone number changed to an 800 number, 1-800-654-1984. People could call in and get an answering machine with message from Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray.
* Ivan Reitman knew the movie was a hit when he saw knock off merchandise for sale during the second weekend of release.
* According to Ivan Reitman, there was plans to do a second commercial as an elaborate MTV music video with the Ghostbusters singing the Ghostbusters song (that could actually be played on MTV) but the song wasn't just right until too late in post-production.
* According to Michael Gross, at one point a Stay Puft Marshmallows spot was considered for either the ending or beginning of the Ghostbusters commercial. A cartoon Stay Puft Marshmallow Man would be dancing around like the Pillsbury Doughboy. It was deemed overkill and discarded.
* According to Joe Medjuck, it was only 4 weeks into shooting before the name Ghostbusters could be legally used. As a contingency, three different signs were also made up but the only other serious alternate was Ghoststoppers.
* The slime was derived from methylcellulose ether - a powdered thickening agent used in pharmaceuticals and food products.
* The P.K.E. levels analogy started out as "the universe as an expanding four dimensional balloon" but it was later changed to the Twinkie, according to Harold Ramis.
* Originally, the three arms that grab Dana were different - one human, one hook, and one green frog-like sucker arm. Ivan Reitman thought the sucker arm was too cartoonish and it was discarded.
* There was some debate over the costly $250,000 sinkhole effect. Ivan Reitman felt it should stay because it showed what the Ghostbusters were getting into. The scene shifted between the actual Central Park West and the Columbia back lot, where John De Cuir recreated Central Park West and the first three floors. Half a police car was placed into the hole.
* Around 25 representatives from Coca-Cola came to the set one day. Bill Murray sensed their presence, stopped in the middle of filming a scene, walked over to them, and talked to them for about 40 minutes while the crew and rest of cast waited around. The Coca-Cola team left and never came back.
* The movie went a little over budget at around $31 million. The final budget was $38 million with marketing costs factored in.

### Locations

* Although permission was granted for the production unit to shoot on the Columbia University campus, it was with the understanding that the school not be identified as such in the film.
* There is no actual Weaver Hall at Columbia University.
* The Paranormal lab scenes were also filmed at Columbia.
* The electric shocks were inspired by the Milgram experiment.  Ivan Reitman commented the shocks scene spoke volumes about Peter Venkman and set him up as the skeptic of the group.
* It was discussed at length when Scott would spit out his gum.
* The scaffolding seen at the New York Public Library were part of an ongoing cleaning project at the time of filming.
* Joe Medjuck crosses the screen just before the one minute mark.
* The room Alice and later Peter, Ray, and Egon check out were filmed in the Los Angeles Public Library.
* The floating book effect cost $250,000.
* Filming at the library had to be done before 10 am.
* Footage from the library scenes were part of the first screening. The Library ghost's transformation was one of the only special effects done so far.
* Some of the library shoots were done on the first day of principal photography.
* The Irving Trust Bank on Avenue of the Americas eventually became the fictional Manhattan City Bank with the sequence being filmed directly across from the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.
* The bank scene was shot at the end of the day when the library scenes were filmed.
* Production designer John DeCuir made a foam core mockup of the Firehouse to establish a feel for the set before construction and renovation of the shooting location and for Ivan Reitman to determine blocking action and camera angles.
* The Firehouse was used, essentially as found, in the sequence where Egon, Ray, and Peter look around the hall. Once the initial scenes were shot, John DeCuir and his staff moved in and made the necessary modifications for later sequences.
* Both the Los Angeles and New York Firehouses were built in the same year, 1912.
* Dan Aykroyd really wanted to use the fire pole. It wasn't just a line for Ray.
* The "We Got One!" scene was filmed in the Los Angeles Firehouse.
* When Egon and Janine interview possessed Louis, they simply had Louis duck out and used a one of the rubber heads of a Terror Dog during the parts where the screen shows Vinz Clortho.
* The first choice for the Shandor building was 1 Fifth Avenue because it was felt the Washington Square Arch would have been a suitable landmark for the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man to walk past. Plans were dropped when the co-op committee for the building voted against its use in the film, according to Michael Gross.
* At least one of the gargoyles was added in optically to the Shandor building.
* Most of Vinz' pursuit of Louis to Central Park was filmed before principal photography.
* The bulging and glowing kitchen door was Ivan Reitman's nod to a similar effect done by Steven Spielberg on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
* When Peter shows up at the Shandor building for his date, the exterior was filmed in a back lot of Columbia Studios.
* The filming of the Ghostbusters arrival at the Shandor building caused major traffic in Manhattan, effectively shutting down most the area. Dan Aykroyd got to meet science fiction writer Isaac Asimov during this shoot, but Asimov was angry about the traffic. Police had to arrest an obnoxious motorist during the shoot.
* The hotel scene was planned to be shot in New York's Waldorf Astoria but the lobby was too small and would have cost too much, according to Joe Medjuck.
* Ivan Reitman also used the Biltmore lobby for filming in "Dave".
* Slimer flying around the chandelier in the hotel ballroom is one of Reitman's least favorite effects.
* The ballroom sequence took about three to four days to film.
* The staff didn't really have any permits to shoot in places like Chinatown, Rockefeller, 42nd, Saks Fifth, and the United Nations. They made quick shots and left. The crowds on 42nd were real ones. A guard is actually chasing the Ghostbusters from the Rockefeller for real.
	+ The guard can be seen in the teaser trailer but not in the movie itself.

* The Lincoln center scene was the first scene shot between Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver. For long shots, the crew had to loop the dialogue because the fountain created too much noise. For close ups, it was okay for the fountain to be shut off.
* While scouting locations and emulating Louis Tully's movements, he saw the Tavern on the Green and decided to use it.
* The scene in Central Park where possessed Louis talks to the horse is near 6th Avenue and was really done in the middle of the night.
* The incarceration scene was shot on location at an actual New York prison facility that was out of commission and essentially abandoned. Scratches were discovered in the film used for the shot but Sheldon Kahn was able to work around them in editing and a reshoot wasn't necessary.
* The prison is somewhere in Lower Manhattan somewhere in the middle of 14th Street.
* Ivan Reitman fired an extra during the prison filming.
* Filming was done at the actual New York City Hall.
* The Mayor's office scene was shot in City Council president Carol Bellamy's office. Both were identical in design.
	+ Joe Medjuck, in the commentary, misremembered it as Elizabeth Holtzman's office on the other side of the building where the actual Mayor's office was.

* In a variation of the Mayor's office scene, Ray called Walter Peck 'wee wienie winkie' and Bill Murray broke up completely - a rare occurrence he almost never does.
* There were only two flights of stairs at the Biltmore Hotel. The rest were added in post-production.
* The Temple of Gozer was in part inspired by the book "Rooftops of New York".
* The whole rooftop sequence took a few weeks to film on a stage.

### Props

* An early concept by Stephen Dane was a device that resembled a metal detector.
* Only Harold Ramis knew how to use the P.K.E. Meter.
* Dan Aykroyd primarily drove Ecto-1.
* Ecto-1 died in the Chapter 20 "Keymaster" scene where Ray and Winston drove across a bridge.
* Sound designer Richard Beggs incorporated a modified leopard snarl played backwards in the siren sound.
* Sound designer Richard Beggs did a feedback loop in the harmonizer and generated a sort of rhythmic pulsing sound between the uniform base sound he made first and the Moog synthesizer. Beggs then made a library of raw sounds in six or seven different families of sounds for different situations like whimpery for when the thrower was turned on, the degree of violence or impact, and one distinct sound for each of the Ghostbusters.
* The smoke made from after the Trap captures a ghost was made from fabric strips socked in smoke-generating liquid.
* An early version of the concept was a visor worn like an eyepatch-like monocle.
* The Ecto Goggles are a modified version of the U.S. Army's AN/PVS-5a night-vision goggles introduced in 1972.
* The ornamental lamps affixed to the exterior of the Shandor Building appear on the ex-Cardassian space station in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Fascination" (from Season 3). The lamps were even immortalized in the Star Trek Online video game.

### Characters

* Dan Aykroyd insisted on the haircut done for Ray Stantz.
* Harold Ramis credits Peggy Semtob for Egon's hairstyle.
* Egon Spengler's name was combined from the names of Egon Donsbach and Oswald Spengler.
* Harold Ramis also took inspiration from Egon Schiele, an Austrian Expressionist painter from the early twentieth century, and Léon Krier, a Luxembourg architectural theorist and urban planner for Egon.
* Costume designer Suzy Benzinger found Egon's gray suit in a thrift store on St. Mark's place and his glasses in a eyeglass store on Seventh Avenue.
* Winston Zeddemore was originally named Ramsey.
* Harold Ramis wrote the line about Egon trying to drill a hole in his head. It was inspired by a thwarted experiment by John Lilly, a prominent researcher in dolphin communication who proposed drilling a hole in his head to test some higher brain function.
* Until the final shooting drafts, Winston had been seen in the script as a security man for the company.
* The original concept for Winston was younger and hipper for an actor like Eddie Murphy. Dan Aykroyd wrote Winston's predecessor Ramsey in the Ghost Smashers with Murphy in mind. Gregory Hines was spoken to for the role.
* In all drafts but the final, Stay Puft was conjured up by Winston.
* Dana Barrett was originally a model but Sigourney Weaver suggested it would be more interesting if she were a musician. According to Harold Ramis, Weaver's suggestions really grew and strengthened the character.
* Dana Barrett's wardrobe was based on costume designer Theoni Aldredge's.
* Theoni Aldredge chose a lavender dress for when Dana was possessed by Zuul but Bill Murray suggested orange. Aldredge and Suzy Benzinger took influence from "Flashdance" went with a Jennifer Beals sort of dress.
* For possessed Dana's hair, Sigourney Weaver suggested that it should look like she was electrified, other-earthly, and unlike anything Dana would logically do.
* John Candy was originally going to portray Louis Tully and thus, molded to match his persona. Louis first appeared in the June draft as a fellow refugee of the creature which was to become Peter Venkman's interdimensional love interest. With a diet cola commercial, one creature turns into a beautiful woman while the other turns into a heavy-set man. Joe Medjuck notes Louis would have been similar to Candy's Johnny LaRue character from SCTV. Rick Moranis took on the role and added to the character, even improvising lines during the party scene.
* Sigourney Weaver auditioned for the role of Dana by acting like a dog.
* Sigourney Weaver suggested the 'game show host' line, which was deemed more amusing and apropos of Peter Venkman's persona.
* Sandra Bernhard was offered the role of Janine Melnitz.
* Janine's look was based on costume designer Suzy Benzinger.
* The "What the hell are you doing" was originally Frances Nealy's reaction to the prerigged cart's pyro work going off. The line was added into the script.
* According to John Bruno, the name "Slimer" came about in reaction to the "It slimed me" scene in the Sedgewick Hotel.
* Dan Aykroyd described Slimer as a vapor - a kind of confluence of stored up psychic energy, an accumulation of spirits that haunt the hotel who doesn't want to leave.
* Dan Aykroyd's original Ecto-1 was an all-black, rather sinister-looking machine with flashing white and purple strobe lights that gave it a strange, ultraviolet aura. While going through the script, the cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs first pointed out the black design would be a problem since part of the movie would be shot at night.
* Thelma Moss, of the Parapsychology Department at UCLA, told Harold Ramis Slimer was similar to a classic type of haunting known as 'hungry ghosts' - a ghost who just eats and drinks. Ramis admitted they didn't know about that when they wrote the script.
* During pre-production, Ivan Reitman remarked Slimer was sort of like Bluto in the film "Animal House" like the ghost of John Belushi. Dan Aykroyd never argued with that point.
* Several national newscasters were approached but turned down the offer cold. It appeared newscasters were very sensitive about doing anything other than "real news."
* Casey Kasem was included at the very last minute during post-production. Kasem was called up, a deal made, and he appeared the next day to rad his bit. Kasem's lines were cut into the film all in 24 hours.
* Michael Ensign originally read for the part of Walter Peck.
* William Atherton was heckled a lot after the movie came out in theaters.
* According to Dan Aykroyd, Gozer was based on several things - a Gozer Chevrolet dealership in upstate New York and was a name related to a documented haunting in England, the one "Poltergeist" was based on. During the haunting, the name Gozer appeared on walls and things.
* Gozer was originally supposed to look like Bert Parks then in later Aykroyd-Ramis collaborations, a Richard Young-type. Ivan Reitman thought it might be more interesting if Gozer was rather androgynous-looking, someone like David Bowie or Grace Jones.
* Anna Carlisle, a punk rock singer, was offered the role of Gozer but she declined.
* In earlier drafts, the Terror Dogs were sympathetic creatures from another dimension trying to escape from Gozer. They sought help from the Ghostbusters.
* Ivan Reitman provided all of the unearthly voices, such as Dana's demonic Zuul voice and Slimer, except for Gozer's.
* The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was originally an intermediate form of Gozer.
* In the concept phase, an alternative to the Stay Puft Marshmallow created by Thom Enriquez was a monster that was based on Ray's pet lizard from his childhood.
* The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man originally rose up by the Statue of Liberty.
* One faction in the production unit argued for a 100 foot tall Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, another argued for 125 feet but Ivan Reitman ultimately declared 112.5 feet.
* The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was originally a throw away character in the midway point and didn't become the final encounter until the July draft.

### Montage Scenes

* The scene at at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street near 280 Broadway with the TV Reporter was the first thing filmed for the movie before principal photography started.
* In the first montage, the part where Peter, Ray, and Egon run down Madison in full gear was the first thing they shot for the movie.
* During the montage, the USA Today is dated Tuesday, October 8, 1984. The date was actually a Monday in reality.
* Ivan Reitman kept some of the magazines and newspapers from that montage.
* When the Omni Magazine cover appears, Joe Medjuck makes his second cameo. He is behind Egon.
* The television in Dana's living room is a Sony Trinitron KV-1711.
* The radio in Dana's kitchen is the Panasonic RXF20.
* The red book near the small Sony TV when Ray is asked about Elvis is "Who's on First" by William F. Buckley. It is a spy thriller and the third in a series.
* In the second montage, when the escaped ghosts shoot towards the Shandor building, film crews shot from the apartment next door.
* The scene with the Subway Ghost was shot in October 1983 before principal photography.
* The scene with the Zombie Taxi Driver was also done during the first week of shooting on Madison Avenue.\*The scene with the Zombie Taxi Driver was filmed on the first day of shooting.
* The scene where possessed Louis walks and just before Slimer appears in the hot dog stand was shot in Broadway. It was also one of the very first things shot.

### Deleted and Discarded Scenes or Ideas

* There was going to be a second stage to the Library ghost's transformation where it became even more demonic-looking but Richard Edlund nixed it due to budgetary concerns despite the puppet being almost done.
* Ivan Reitman thought the bride and groom scene was one of the funniest sequences but ended up cutting it because it stopped the movie cold. It was one of the tougher decisions Reitman made.
* The bride and groom were played by Charles Levin and Wendy Goldman.
* During the Sedgewick case, Egon ran into a woman in a towel. Mary Woronov was cast but the scene was never shot.
* Ivan Reitman rejected an airbrush rendering of the Chinese ghost to be used during the montage.
* The encounter between a policeman and the Ecto-1 was the only scene in the final shooting script that suggested the vehicle had some extranormal powers carried over from Aykroyd's initial draft. It was removed because it slowed down the montage.
* There was going to be a scene in Little Italy for the montage with the Ghostbusters leaving a store with Traps but the Mafia in control of the area wanted $1500 for permission to film.
* Ivan Reitman came up with the idea of treating the Fort Detmerring deleted scene as dream in the montage sequence.
* In the August 5, 1983 draft of Ghostbusters, the Mink Coat manifested during a fashion show when the Containment Unit was shut down.
* The mugging scene involving the possessed Louis was cut because there was simply no time left in the production process and Richard Edlund had no time to do effects.
* The tip of Roosevelt Island was to be used for a scene but it was discarded and never filmed.
* Marine Ecto-8 was originally one of Aykroyd's unused ideas from early drafts of the first movie.
* An unused concept by Thom Enriquez for the montage was a "pizza ghost," a demonic pizza deliveryman with cheesy flesh dripping from its face.
* Mrs. Reitman, Jason, and Catherine were originally going to have a cameo in Ghostbusters panicked residents fleeing from 550 Central Park West but it was scrapped when both got too scared after the first take and Jason would not do a second take.
* There was a planned scene that was storyboarded of Stay Puft stepping on a police car. The Boss Film crew joked about adding a bit where the crushed car was embedded in the bottom of his foot. The scene was ultimately discarded.

### Trivia by Chapter

*Alternatively and more comprehensively are trivia organized by chapter*

* 01. Start
* 02. Shock the Nerd
* 03. "Get Her!"
* 04. Terminated
* 05. Fixer-Upper
* 06. Spook Central
* 07. Fried Eggs & Zuul
* 08. "Bug-Eyes Thing"
* 09. The 1st Customer
* 10. Checking Out Dana
* 11. "We Got One!"
* 12. "He Slimed Me!"
* 13. "Nice Shootin', Tex."
* 14. Welcome Aboard
* 15. E.P.A. Man
* 16. Dogs Drag Dana
* 17. "Who Brought the Dog?"
* 18. Terror on the Tavern
* 19. Peter's Date with Zuul
* 20. Keymaster
* 21. Out of Biz
* 22. Holding Cell
* 23. Keeper Meets Master
* 24. Biblical
* 25. Working the Crowd
* 26. Gozer
* 27. Stay Puft Man
* 28. Crossing Streams

### References in The Real Ghostbusters

* In "Slimer, Come Home":
	+ In the aftermath of the party, Peter refers to the Ghostbusters' first encounter with Slimer, seen in the movie.

* In "The Boogieman Cometh":
	+ Peter mentions their usual fee for standard capture and containment is $1500, much less than their $5000 charge for catching Slimer in the movie.
	+ As Peter jumps into the Boogieman's portal, he tells Egon, "See you on the other side, Egon."

* In "Take Two":
	+ "Take Two" is the episode that directly dealt with the movie to cartoon issue. The making of the movie took place during the animated Ghostbusters show.
	+ It is also one of two episodes that explains the differences between the cartoon and the movie (something rarely done with animated series based on films), the other being "Citizen Ghost".
	+ The Ghostbusters are mystified by the names of the actors supposedly playing them; they claim that they've never even heard of them and Winston thought it was a law firm at first.
	+ At the end of the episode it has a bit of Ghostbusters on the screen. About the end of Chapter 1: Start to the beginning of Chapter 2: Shock the Nerd is seen on screen.
	+ The voice of Bill Murray was dubbed during the movie.
	+ When Venkman sees Bill Murray onscreen, he comments "he doesn't look a thing like me." Which, in a way, is true.

* In "Citizen Ghost":
	+ Peter tells Cynthia Crawford how and why Slimer came to live with the Ghostbusters, in events immediately following their film encounter with Gozer.
	+ One of the photos hanging on the wall near Peter's office is of the Firehouse, after it blew up during the events of the movie.
	+ In storyboards, deleted from the episode, the Shandor Building is alluded to in script excerpts. When Peter starts his story, the scene was supposed to start on one of the frames in his office which had a photo of the building after it blew up then shift to the frame of the Firehouse in ruins.
	+ Peter instantly recognizes the green ghost as the one who slimed him at the (Sedgewick) Hotel.

* In "Adventures in Slime and Space":
	+ Peter alludes to the Ghostbusters' first encounter with Slimer and getting slimed.
	+ The Mayor also mentions the manifestations of the Terror Dogs and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
	+ After the first meeting with the Mayor, Egon's plan prompts Ray to tell Peter to give Egon a chocolate bar. This is in reference to the post-New York City Public Library scene in the movie.

* In "A Fright at the Opera":
	+ Peter offers to tell the Diva how he saved the world, a likely reference to the movie.

* In "Doctor, Doctor":
	+ Peter quotes his "Heat 'em up!" line as heard in the movie, and the other three Ghostbusters respond "Smoking!" accordingly.

* In "Ragnarok and Roll":
	+ The ABC Theater has a showing of "Ghostbusters" which was premiered, in-universe, at the end of the episode "Take Two".

* In "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost?"
	+ Peter says, "I've always wanted to do this." While in the restaurant, the same thing he says at the Sedgewick Hotel in the movie. Instead of pulling the table cloth, he throws a plate of pasta at a ghost.
	+ Jon mistakenly calls the Ghostbusters the "Ghost Smashers" three times in the episode. This was the original name of the Ghostbusters movie.
	+ Uncle Horace reads aloud the Ghostbusters' phone number, NO GHOST or 664-4678. This marks the first time the phone number is stated or seen in the animated series. Previously, in the first Ghostbusters movie, it was 555-2368 but the 664-4678 phone number was first used in Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular, a novelization of the first movie, as 1-212-NO-GHOST.

* In "The Collect Call of Cathulhu":
	+ The opening shot of a focus on the library's lion statue is similar to the opening shot of the first film.
	+ In the script, when Ecto-1 departed the Firehouse for the library, there was an exchange between Ray and Peter. Peter referred to the Library ghost in the dialogue.
	+ Egon references Gozer as the team departs from the library.
	+ The man on the train says he would have thought Venkman was an astronaut. The man at the Sedgewick hotel in the first movie asks Venkman, "What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut?"
	+ Winston voiced his regret over answering the ad the Ghostbusters placed during the events of the movie.

* In "Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster":
	+ The Ghostbusters speculate the surge in paranormal activity could be hailing the return of Gozer.
	+ Janine refers to the Containment Unit as the Storage Facility like in the first film.

* In "The Revenge of Murray the Mantis":
	+ Egon mentions Gozer.
	+ Winston mentions the giant Twinkie analogy from the movie.

* In "Egon's Ghost"
	+ A larger Terror Dog pursues the Ghostbusters. Winston comments he hasn't seen a Terror Dog in a long time, most likely referencing the movie.

* In "Big Trouble With Little Slimer":
	+ Walter Peck reveals that he lost his job after the events of the movie.
* In "The Copycat":
	+ A Terror Dog briefly invades the Firehouse.

* In "Elementary My Dear Winston"
	+ When the Ghostbusters pull up to the New York City Public Library, Peter reminisces about how their first case was there, as seen in the movie.
* In "Jailbusters":
	+ The Ghost Governor has two large sized Terror Dogs.

* In "Revenge of the Ghostmaster":
	+ When Ray and Egon conduct research at the New York City Public Library, there is construction going on, shown by a man working on scaffolding like in the movie.
* In "Loose Screws"
	+ Peter says, "Nice shootin' Tex!" to Winston.

* In "The Halloween Door":
	+ Peter says he's been waiting five years to slime Slimer. This is true, since he was first slimed by Slimer in the movie.
	+ J. Michael Straczynski, during a visual commentary, points out that the destruction of the Containment Unit is stylistically lifted from a similar scene in the first Ghostbusters film.
	+ Brian O'Neal, the voice of Boogaloo, was also a member of the The Bus Boys. That group performed the song "Cleanin' Up The Town" from Ghostbusters and its soundtrack album.

* In "The Haunting of Heck House":
	+ Egon mentions facing Gozer.
	+ Peter reminds Egon of the first case at the New York Public Library, and hopes for Egon's sake that the spirits in Heck House never saw the movie based upon that incident.

### References in Ghostbusters II

* In the August 5, 1988 draft:
	+ On page 5, Ray retells the final battle from the first movie. He alludes to 550 Central Park West and mentions the two Terror Dogs.

* In the September 29, 1988 draft:
	+ On page 12, Lane Walker tells Egon she remembered the old Ghostbusters commercials.
	+ On page 15, Egon and Ray waiting for Peter but he vehemently refuses to help, citing they bubbled up a 100 foot marshmallow man and blew off the top 3 floors of a very big apartment building.
	+ On page 16, Peter reminds them they are on probation and he won't risk ending up in jail again... until he sees Lane Walker, the new romantic interest.
	+ On page 43, Peter, Ray, and Egon go to the old Firehouse, boarded up, still wrecked, and the gaping hole in the roof is still there. Peter concludes they got too big too fast and their liability insurance didn't cover saving the world.
	+ On page 46, they encounter Slimer in the Firehouse basement and are slimed.
	+ On page 48, the Firehouse's old logo comes crashing to the ground then the new one is put up.
	+ On page 80, St. Mark's Playhouse is host to an All Night New Year's Eve 3-D Horror Show. Moviegoers mistake the ghosts for being part of the movie and applaud.
		- St. Mark's Playhouse was a discarded idea from drafts of the first movie. Ultimately, the Movieland Theater takes its place in Ghostbusters II.

* On page 85, Peter points out to the Mayor the last time they helped the city, he stiffed them and brings up "Ancient Sumerians, big lizard dogs, and a hundred-foot marshmallow man." Peter wants them to be paid upfront this time.

* In the November 27, 1988 draft:
	+ On page 131, Slimer flies out of the Statue of Liberty's torch to the screen like the ending in the first movie.
* In the February 27, 1989 draft:
	+ On page 120, Slimer flies out of the Statue of Liberty's torch to the screen like the ending in the first movie.

* In Chapter 01: Start, Winston alludes to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and blowing up part of 550 Central Park West but they ended up getting sued by every state, county and city agency in New York.
* In Chapter 02: "World of the Psychic", Peter alludes to the battle with Gozer, calling it a "little job" the Ghostbusters did for the City a while back but they got stiffed on the bill by some bureaucratic bookworm like Jack Hardemeyer.
* In Chapter 03: Dr. Janosz Poha, Dana talks about getting back to the orchestra. In Chapter 14 of the first movie, she left a rehearsal at Lincoln Center.
* In Chapter 05: Investigating Oscar, Peter plays Dana's cello like a stand-up bass. This was an unused idea from the Ghostbusters October 7, 1983 Draft when Peter went to initially investigate Dana's apartment on page 24.
* In the Ghostbusters II (Deleted Scene): Dana's Curse, Peter's "It's technical" line is a callback to when Dana asked about the Ghost Sniffer.
* In Chapter 06: Late-Night Excavation, Ray is silently voted as the volunteer by Peter and Egon after he asks who will go down the shaft. This mirrors when Peter was silently voted to talk to the Library ghost.
* In Chapter 10: Their Day in Court, Louis speaks in simplistic terms about when he turned into a Terror Dog while he was possessed by Vinz Clortho and the Ghostbusters crossed the streams on the Temple of Gozer which in part restored him back to normal. The Prosecutor reveals that after Gozer was defeated, the Ghostbusters were placed under a judicial restraining order that strictly forbade them from performing services as paranormal investigators or eliminators.
	+ In the deleted scene Ladies and Gentlemen of the Audience, Louis mentions being turned into Terror Dog as well.

* In Chapter 12: Two in the Box, Peter, Ray, and Egon did a similar jog down a sidewalk in the first montage of the first movie in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard. This time, Winston is included.
* In Ghostbusters Chapter 12: Two in the Box, a new commercial is shown. Elements of commercial originated in the commercial in pages 17-18 in the October 7, 1983 draft of the first movie. It featured a frightened family. One of the mother's lines, "It's that darn ghost again," is spoken by Janine. One of the father's lines, "I guess we'll just have to move," is spoken by Louis.
* In Chapter 13: Mood Slime, Rudy the Museum Guard is reading a Star magazine featuring "Ghostbusters Save Mayor" and "Team of Venkman Stantz & Spengler in heroic deed." The photo of the trio is from a promo shot taken during production of the first movie in New York at 696 Madison Avenue which became the Ecto-1 Parking Ticket deleted scene.
* In Chapter 16: Vigo 101:
	+ Near the desk in Peter's apartment on the wall are frames with the magazine and newspaper covers from the first film's montage in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard, the New York Post, USA Today, and Time magazine.
	+ Near the doorway to Peter's bathroom is the lamp that was on Peter's desk in the Firehouse in the first movie.
	+ On the wall in Peter's office in the Firehouse are frames of magazine and newspaper features:
		- Row 2, Left: The TIME magazine issue from the first movie, Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard.
		- Row 2, Center: The USA Today edition from the first movie, Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard.
		- Row 3, Left: The Omni magazine issue from first movie, Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard.
		- Row 3, Right: The Atlantic Monthly issue from the first movie, Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard.

* In Chapter 21: Tenth Level of Hell:
	+ The Theatre Ghost scene in the montage mirrors the Subway Ghost terrorizing people.
	+ The Mink Coat originates from the August 5, 1983 draft of the first movie. It manifested during a fashion show after the Containment Unit was shut down.

* In Chapter 28: World is Safe Again:
	+ It is highly contested among fans that at the end of some cuts of the theatrical version of Ghostbusters II, Slimer comes out from behind the Statue of Liberty and flies right into the camera just like how he did at the end of the first movie. The main ending just ends with a pan up to the statue's head then a fade to black.
		- The Slimer ending does appear in the November 27, 1988 and February 27, 1989 drafts.
		- The Slimer ending does show up in a storyboard.

### References in Ghostbusters: The Video Game

* In the February 11, 2008 draft revision of Ghostbusters: The Video Game:
	+ Peter alludes to when he saw the possessed Dana Barrett levitate above her bed.
	+ Ray and Peter allude to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and the events of the first movie when the former laments about another childhood icon of his being ruined.
	+ Winston recalls when Dana Barrett turned into Zuul's Terror Dog form.

### References in IDW Comics

* In Ghostbusters: The Other Side #1:
	+ On Page 12 and 21, Gozer is referenced by Fred.
	+ On Page 19, Fred references the Ghostbusters' slogan in jest.
* In Ghostbusters: Displaced Aggression #1:
	+ When researching Dan Aykroyd's early concepts for the first film, writer Scott Lobdell decided to use the idea of the Ghostbusters traveling through time and dealing with ghosts of different ages.
	+ On Page 11, Peter reminisces about the first case. The scene is of Egon, Peter, and Ray walking to the elevators of the Sedgewick from a bird's eye view point.
	+ On Page 13, Peter quotes a line he made in the first film, "Nice shootin', Tex.
* In Ghostbusters: Displaced Aggression #4:
	+ On Page 28, Janine asks the same questions during her interviews as she asked Winston Zeddemore.
* In Ghostbusters: Tainted Love:
	+ On Page 8, Egon suggests the ghost is a Gatekeeper, a reference to Zuul from the first film. Ray mentions Gozer.
* In Ghostbusters: Con-Volution:
	+ On Page 17, Peter mentions Gozer while distracting D'Orka.
* In Ghostbusters: What in Samhain Just Happened?!:
	+ On Page 1, "Who are you gonna call?" is quoted. The DJ is holding a Ghostbusters LP album cover.
	+ On Page 8, Janine's car has license plate "GBI ZUL," a reference to Zuul in the first movie.
	+ On Page 17, a woman is dressed like Dana Barrett, post Temple of Gozer getting blown up, seated next to the Hatbox Ghost from the Haunted Mansion ride. At the party, Sherri says there is "something weird and it doesn't look good", a reference to the Ghostbusters Theme Song.
	+ On Page 22, the entities watching Sam Hain includes a Terror Dog
* In Ghostbusters: Guess What's Coming to Dinner?:
	+ On Page 74, Winston says he hopes "it's not another ghost in the fridge."
* In Ghostbusters: Infestation #1:
	+ On Page 5, Peter asks Egon if he drilled a hole in his head yet
* In Ghostbusters: Infestation #2:
	+ On Page 1, the Twinkie metaphor from the first movie is used by Winston.
	+ On Page 4, Britt calls the team "private sector types." The private sector is mentioned by Ray in the first movie.
	+ On Page 11, the "Cross the Streams" strategy is mentioned but Egon advocates against it.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #1:
	+ On Page 1, Janine mentions the Mass Sponge Migration.
	+ On Page 3, Gozer asks Ray if he is a god.
	+ On Page 4, Gozer fires lightning and Ray is nearly knocked off the roof of 550 Central Park West.
	+ On Page 5, Ray Puft rampages near 2 Columbus Circle.
	+ On Page 8, 55 Central Park West appears again.
	+ On Page 9, the hands are reminiscent of when Zuul attacked Dana Barrett.
	+ On Page 10, Janine has a book titled "Learn Squash and Racquetball in a Weekend" which references her racquetball hobby conversation with Egon in Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 14, Peter uses the Ghost Sniffer.
	+ On Page 16, Peter bemoans stairs, referencing the traumatic stairwell climb.
	+ On Page 19, Peter mentions he has a score to settle with Slimer.
	+ On Page 21, the schematics of Ecto-1 from "Making Ghostbusters" are in the file.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #2:
	+ Cover B is a homage to the commercial.
	+ On Page 1, Winston references the Sedgewick Hotel and the team's first case.
	+ On Page 5, Jim Silver/Idulnas mentions Gozer.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #3:
	+ On Page 2, "It's Milla Time" - a phrase shouted when the Ghostbusters thought they neutronized Gozer appears on one of the neon displays.
	+ On Page 9, Spates Catalog appears.
	+ On Page 10, a Manhattan City Bank with a three mortgage reference can be seen on a billboard.
	+ On Page 11, Builtmore Hotel - reference to Biltmore Hotel used for filming Sedgewick Hotel scenes.
	+ On Page 15, Peter makes light of Ecto-1a eating people. Ecto-1 was almost sentient in the final version of Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 16, Ray's "Identify yourself..." line is a variation of his 'greeting' to Gozer.
	+ On Page 16, Idulnas later refers to the Zuul and Vinz Clortho, and the Traveller.
	+ On Page 19, Egon refers to Zuul and Vinz Clortho. Peter refers to crossing the streams.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #4:
	+ On Page 5, Winston mentions Twinkies
	+ On Page 6, the framed articles on Peck's wall and speed dial references the EPA's role in shutting down the Ghostbusters and Mayor Lenny.
	+ On Page 10, Idulnas mentions a Sloar.
	+ On Page 17, Ray enters room 2206, Dana Barrett's apartment. The person is based on John Candy's take of Louis Tully - a German man with two dogs. The original Ghostbusters commercial is playing in 2206.
	+ On Page 23, a map of locations and events from the first movie are seen: 55 Central Park West, Lincoln Center where Peter made a date with Dana, Tavern on the Green where Louis was possessed, and Columbia University. This map originated from the book "Making Ghostbusters".
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 TPB:
	+ The back cover re-uses Cover B of Issue #2, a take on the commercial.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #5:
	+ On Page 7, the 489 address posted in a repeating fashion indicates the gym occupies the same building on 5th Avenue as Manhattan City Bank. The logo for Manhattan City Bank can be seen over Egon's right shoulder.
	+ On Page 12, the phrase "Burn in Hell Venkman" can be partially seen outside Ray's Occult.
	+ On Page 13, a bag of Wise Natural Potato Chips is in Peter's office.
	+ On Page 15, the Atlantic issue from montage in Ghostbusters is on the wall
	+ On Page 15, stack of books include "Roylance Guide to Secret Societies and Sects" and "Spates Catalog".
	+ On Page 17, the Proton Packs are more similar visually to the versions from the movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #6:
	+ On Page 1, the Spates Catalog symbol is still visible in the Ray's Occult storefront.
	+ On Page 4, Ted and Annette Fleming from Louis' party are outside the diner.
	+ On Page 4, the Canned Ghost poster on the wall is from Coca-Cola's "Ghost in a Can" promotion
	+ On Page 4, on the newspaper, Gozer's "Choose or Perish" quote is embedded.
	+ On Page 21, Rachel Unglighter went to Columbia University.
	+ On Page 21 and 22, Gozer and the Cult of Gozer come up.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #7:
	+ On Page 4, Peter talks to the Hungry Manitou in the Paranormal Studies Laboratory of Weaver Hall from the first movie. The Manitou is dressed like Peter was in the Lincoln Center scene from the first movie. The Manitou holds up the ESP cards Peter used for his test at the start of the first movie.
	+ On Page 9, the Manitou conjures an image of Dana Barrett playing her cello.
	+ On Page 19, Peter has a get well card from Dean Yeager from the first movie and quotes his famous line when he addressed why the guys were terminated. To the left of Yeager's card is a card from Jennifer and the interior references the 8 o'clock appointment Peter made with her before he went to the library with Ray.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #8:
	+ On Page 4, Winston references his famous "Yes!" line.
	+ On Page 7, the guestbook is turned to a page with the infamous bad English text that you see at the end of the Ghostbusters Activision NES video game.
	+ On Page 8, on the poster board is Egon's initial critique of the Firehouse from the first movie.
	+ On Page 10, between the truck and Egon, with his back turned, is the Violinist from the first movie.
	+ On Page 11, the two bums from the deleted scenes of the first movie are present.
	+ On Page 12, a third can references Shubs, a race destroyed by Gozer.
	+ On Page 21, the meeting with Belascu led to the Tunguska Blast of 1909.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 TPB:
	+ The back cover is a homage to when the guys talk to Mayor Lenny about mass hysteria in Chapter 24 "Biblical" with quotes on an invoice.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #10:
	+ On Page 3, next to the helicopter is a bag of Wise Natural Potato Chips, a product seen in Peter's office.
	+ On Page 3, on the hanging TV screen is the city view of the Ghostbusters Activision video game. In the next panel, the screen shifts to the games infamous Conglaturation screen
	+ On Page 3, Peter refers to his "bad" line from the first movie when Egon first explains crossing the streams.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #11:
	+ On Page 10 and 11, in one of the rows is an example of Symmetrical Stacking.
	+ On Page 11, "1984" appears on a shelf sign behind Ray.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #12:
	+ On Page 9, to the left behind Ray is a poster of The Bus Boys who did the song "Cleanin' Up The Town". To the extreme right is a picture of Ray Parker, Jr. wearing a No Ghost logo shirt. Below Parker is a picture of the Alessi Brothers who did the song "Saving the Day".
	+ On Page 9, a poster of Air Supply is on the club's wall in the flashback's first panel.
	+ On Page 14, Ecto-1a's billboard references the 1-800-555-2368 number from the commercial in the first movie
	+ On Page 19, the man who wondered on set during the first movie's montage when the reporter talked about his grandmother and a spectral locomotive in the crowd to the right.
	+ On Page 19, Ray is wearing one of the outfits he wore early on in the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #14:
	+ On Cover RI, the Zombie Taxi Driver appears in an homage to one of the movie posters of "Taxi Driver".
	+ On Page 5, in the kitchen area is a box of Cheez-It.
	+ On Page 10, the Ectomobile outfitting section of the Ghostbusters Activision video game is on the screen of the Ethereral Solidifier.
	+ On Page 12, the hot dog vendor is from the first movie, he was startled when he found Slimer inside eating his product.
	+ On Page 6, Peter is wearing the outfit he wore before the Sedgewick Hotel bust in Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 20, the Ghost Smashers' name is taken from Dan Aykroyd's original script for the Ghostbusters movie, "Ghost Smashers"
	+ On Page 20, the Ghost Smasher's car is all-black, the original concept for Ecto-1. It was pointed out the all black design was not feasible for filming at night.
* In Ghostbusters: Times Scare!:
	+ On Page 4, Peter uses the KL5-2368 (555-2368) phone number from the first movie.
	+ On Page 10, Egon looks in the Trap like in the first movie.
	+ On Page 11, Egon gets in a line about his hobby, spores and fungus.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #15:
	+ On Page 1, Carl the reporter refers to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man's debut in the first movie.
	+ On Page 4, a plaque refers to "Wally Wick," an alternative to the infamous "Dickless" line from the first movie used in TV broadcasts. Also in the plaque is a reference to the 3rd District, Peck's station in the first movie when he worked for the E.P.A.
	+ On Page 4, an Omni magazine, first seen in the first movie, is on Peck's desk.
	+ On Page 6, the Fight Back poster is from the second montage in the first movie when the Subway Ghost appears.
	+ On Page 11, Alice the Librarian from the first movie is among the crowd. A civilian in the crowd mentions the E.P.A.
	+ On Page 18, Winston suggests Crossing the Streams but Egon refers to the absence of something like the Temple of Gozer to skew the results.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 1 #16:
	+ On Page 5, the Police Sergeant who aided in the opening of the Containment Unit and the Jail Guard from the prison scene in are hauling away Ron Alexander in the framed article. The article itself is an old review of the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #1:
	+ On the Subscription Variant Cover, the lamp is from Peter's desk is present, behind Janine is a bag of Wise Natural Potato Chips like in the first movie, and the 1915 frame hanging up is from the first movie.
	+ On Page 2, the Ritz Cafe is acting as a stand-in for the Tavern on the Green.
	+ On Page 6, the scene draws several parallels with Ray and Peter's first meeting with Slimer - the ghost drinking from a bottle, a Proton Stream missing it, and someone gets slimed.
	+ On Page 6, above the refrigerator door are Stay Puft Marshmallows and a box of Cheez-It. In the refrigerator is a Ghost in a Can on top shelf. The contents of the refrigerator loosely resembles what was in Dana Barrett's in the first movie.
	+ On Page 10, the officers present from left to right are the Police Commissioner from the first movie and one of the cops who escorted the Ghostbusters to City Hall in the first movie.
	+ On Page 13, by the Mayor is the crisis map the Police Commissioner utilized in the first movie
	+ On Page 14, the prison is the one from the first movie. Kylie Griffin looks at the blueprints to the Shandor Building from the first movie. An inmate is one of the extras from the prison scene. Peck arrives with the jail cop from the first movie.
	+ On Page 15, the Collectors' Limbo dimension is based on the Gozerian dimension designs from the first movie seen in "Making Ghostbusters"
	+ On Page 17, Winston refers to the various Sumerian deities the Ghostbusters have defeated from Gozer and on.
	+ On Page 18, behind Peck is Peter's Psychology Doctorate from Columbia University. One of the signatures seen is Slavitza Jovan, who portrayed Gozer.
	+ On Page 19, also behind is the bag of Wise Natural Potato Chips from the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #2:
	+ On Page 5, the inside of the locker "Zuul!" poster.
	+ On Page 7, Peter references the term Protonic Reversal.
	+ On Page 12, on the wall are sketches of the Gozerian dimension, seen in "Making Ghostbusters".
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #3:
	+ On Page 5, still on the walls are Gozerian letters and sketches of the Gozerian dimension seen in "Making Ghostbusters".
	+ On Page 9, there is an ad for Manhattan City Bank, from first movie, ad to the right of Molta.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #4:
	+ On Page 2, the Zombie Taxi Driver from the first movie was Ron's driver.
	+ On Page 2, the Gozerian dimension sketches from the first movie are still up on the walls.
	+ On Page7, Ray refers to Louis Tully when he was possessed by Vinz Clortho.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #5:
	+ On Page 1, outside the Pequod's on the left is Scott Dickinson, the electrical shocks guy, and on the right is Ron Jeremy who had a cameo when the Containment Unit was shut down.
	+ On Page 1, some of the subtitles for characters reference lines from the first movie like "Heart of the Ghostbusters."
	+ On Page 13, Walter Peck drinks from an EPA mug.
	+ On Page 17, the periodic table seen in Ghostbusters II is visible.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #6:
	+ On Cover A, below the Ghostbusters Mug and Balloon is the whale figurine on Janine's desk in Ghostbusters. To the left of the whale is a quote of Janine's conversation when she gets the call from the Sedgewick Hotel. The paper in the typewriter has the "We got one!" line from the first movie. By Egon is another quote from the first movie, during the montage, is on another paper "Does it have arms and legs..." Near Egon is a quote from the first movie, "I quit better jobs than this." By Egon's right hand is Janine's lucky coin from a deleted scene in the first movie. By Egon and Roger is another quote from the first movie, "Ghostbusters, what do you want?" By Roger are the interview questions Janine asked Winston in the first movie. Also below is Peter's "bug-eyes thing" line from the first movie. Also below is a racquet ball set, also one of Janine's hobbies and under Egon's right hand is a racquet ball book.
	+ On Page 3, the set up of items on the round table is a homage to the "We got one!" scene from the first movie.
	+ On Page 8, Janine working in fast food may be a nod to Peter's quip to Janine in the first movie when she mentions she's been working two weeks without a break.
	+ On Page 9, the job interview memory fills in between scenes of the first movie showing how Janine was hired. Peter holds a Weaver Hall mug, a nod to where he, Ray, and Egon used to work at on Columbia University campus. Behind Janine is the car that would become Ecto-1 that Ray bought.
	+ On Page 10, the first memories are from the first movie: When Egon emerges from Janine's desk and they talk about their hobbies, when Janine has a premonition Egon is going to die but Peter calls the Firehouse just as the two embrace, and the reunion between Egon and Janine as the Ghostbusters emerge from the Shandor Building.
	+ On Page 20, racquetball, Janine's hobby, comes up in conversation.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #7:
	+ On Page Two, it appears to be the Hot Dog Vendor from the first movie is the one off screen serving Peter. Peter is wearing one of his suits from the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #8:
	+ On Page 18, Winston refers to the others talking about stingy hotel managers. A similar showdown occurred between the three and the manager of the Sedgewick Hotel.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #9:
	+ On Page 1, the Ghostbusters commercial uses the 555-2368 phone number is from the commercial in the first movie.
	+ On Page 9, the Zombie Taxi Driver from the first movie brought Melanie Ortiz to the Firehouse.
	+ On Page 9, on the upper right of the board is Steven Dane's schematic for Ecto-1 seen in Making Ghostbusters, page 66, and by Wat is a photo of an unused entity from the first movie shown in Making Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 10, Egon's clipboard has Don Shay's map of shooting locations from a page from Making Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 21, the pin up is also a nod to Peter's electric shock experiment at the start of the first movie, complete with the Male Student.
	+ On Page 22, the pin up nods to Ray's memory of roasting Stay Puft Marshmallows at Camp Waconda.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #10:
	+ The Cover RI is a recreation of the famous scene depicting Gozer's "Then Die!" response.
	+ On Page 4, in the upper left corner, sitting on the edge of the sidewalk is Harlan Bojay, one of the bums from the first movie. In the lower right corner, walking, is Robert Learned Coombs.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #11:
	+ On Page 1, the yellow pennant refers to Camp Waconda.
	+ On Page 6, among the books Ray asks for are Tobin's Spirit Guide and Spates Catalog, first mentioned in the first movie by Egon and Ray.
	+ On Page 6, on Tobin's, there is a red Post-It note that appears to reference Dan Aykroyd's encounter with Isaac Asimov during filming outside Central Park West which caused major traffic.
	+ On Page 6, the October 1st, 1983 date on the red Post-It note refers to when filming for the first movie began. on the Luko picture is a blue Post-It that refers to the Tunguska Blast of 1909.
	+ On Page 6, Kylie asks about the first encounter with Gozer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the first movie.
	+ On Page 6, the third yellow Post-It Note, on the upper left of Gallon's Spectral Almanac, references 55 Central Park West. The fourth yellow Post-It Note, on the middle left of Gallon's Spectral Almanac, references Room 2206, formerly Dana Barrett's apartment unit at 550 Central Park West. The fifth yellow Post-It Note, on the right of Gallon's Spectral Almanac, references again the October-November time frame of the first movie and Room 2202, formerly Louis Tully's apartment unit at 550 Central Park West. The sixth yellow Post-It Note, to the right of the Luko art, references the Manhattan City Bank and the 19% interest rate from the first movie.
	+ On Page 15, in the middle is a square Zener card, used by Peter at the start of the first movie.
	+ On Page 16, Kylie refers to Gozer.
	+ On Page 16, in the kitchen area, on the counter is a Ghost in a Can drink.
* In The X-Files: Conspiracy: Ghostbusters:
	+ On Page 2, Byers mentions the time the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man blew up.
	+ On Page 3, Ringo mentions the EPA and its history with the Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 4, the first panel of Janine is taken from the first movie when she's fielding the call from the Hotel manager of the Sedgewick Hotel and the shot of the Lone Gunmen entering the Firehouse is from Walter Peck's arrival with the Police Captain and Con Edison Man later in the movie.
	+ On Page 9, the shot of the Ghostbusters arriving is lifted from the Fort Detmerring deleted scene, the positioning of Ecto-1 and the way Ray and Winston get out of the car.
	+ On Page 17, Winston references Gozer's "Are you a god?" question from the first movie, much to Ray's dismay.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #12:
	+ On the Cover A, among the litter is a Ghost in a Can.
	+ On Page 9, in the center of the Times Tower, there is an ad for Manhattan City Bank. On the right side, there's "Builtmore Hotel," nod to Biltmore Hotel where Sedgewick Hotel scenes were filmed at, and the Atlantic Monthly.
	+ On Page 10, the Ghostbusters have to ascend a 25 story building for a rooftop battle, in similar fashion to the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #13:
	+ The order forms for this issue revealed Tiyah Clarke's middle name to be Elizabeth and Winston's to be Ramsey. Ramsey was the original name for the character that would become Winston during development of the first movie.
	+ On the Story So Far page, there is reference to their first case and Gozer.
	+ On Page 15, on the refrigerator, Oscar's teacher is listed as Mrs. Runyon, a nod to Jennifer Runyon who portrayed Jennifer in the first movie. There is also a note about the Lincoln Center and Dana's upcoming performance.
	+ On Page 15, Dana is wearing the same articles of clothing she did when she was taken by Zuul in the first movie. On top a cupboard is the wooden hand from Dana's apartment's living room in the first movie. In the refrigerator is the ceramic dish from Dana's refrigerator in the first movie.
	+ On Page 19, Tiamat refers to Gozer and Zuul.
	+ On Page 20, there's bag of Stay Puft Marshmallows, a bag of Wise Natural Potato Chips, and a box of Cheese-Its.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #14:
	+ On the Dramatis Personae, Dana's bio refers to Zuul and Gozer.
	+ On Page 1, Peter has his flask from the scene after they are removed from Columbia University.
	+ On Page 4, Peter is wearing the attire he wore in the first movie, from Chapter 19 "Peter's Date with Zuul" to Chapter 24 "Biblical".
	+ On Page 5, this Pequod's is at Columbus Circle, located at the southeastern tip of Central Park.
	+ On Page 8, Peter makes light of Ray's Belo Horizonte reference, as a callback to Ray's Mass Sponge Migration and Philadelphia Mass Turbulence of 1947 references in the first movie.
	+ On Page 9, behind the bus is the USS Maine Monument. The monument was previously seen in the first movie during the Chapter 20 "Keymaster" scene before the possessed Louis talks to the horse.
	+ On Page 10, Dana's front door matches the design motif of the front doors in the Shandor Building.
	+ On Page 10, Melanie makes note of Dana's past with Zuul.
	+ On Page 11, Melanie also notes Dana was part of the Ghostbusters first case.
	+ On Page 12, above Dana atop the cupboard, the wooden hand from her apartment living room in the first movie.
	+ On Page 17, in the ABS News ticker is "Darkness! Earthquakes, Volcanoes" - part of the classic 'Mass Hysteria' line from the first movie when the Ghostbusters talk to Mayor Lenny.
	+ On Page 17, to the left of Tiyah is the Seiko travel clock from the deleted "Honeymooners" scene in the first movie.
	+ On Page 20, the red lamp to the right of Dana is from her bedroom in the first movie.
	+ On Page 20, in panel 5, behind Dana on the wall is a light fixture based on the one above her piano in the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #15:
	+ On the Regular Cover, on the planner, the 4:00 mentions Smoked salmon, full price - a nod to a line from Louis' party. The 6:00 mentions Milk-Bones - reference to what Louis wanted to give to Vinz Clortho as he was trapped outside the Tavern on the Green. The 6:00 also mentions Generic aspirin - another reference to a line during Louis' party in Ghostbusters. On the gym paper is a mention of 20 minute workout VHS - referring to Louis' workout regime he revealed at the start of Ghostbusters to Dana.
	+ On the Dramatis Personae, Louis' entry mentions Vinz Clortho and Gozer.
	+ On Page 2, Louis' memories include him running from Vinz Clortho through Central Park and opening the gateway for Gozer when he was possessed. The last memory is of breaking up with Janine. In it, Louis is wearing the blue tracksuit from the first movie.
	+ On Page 5, Dana is restrained by several monster arms like in the first movie.
	+ On Page 6, Tiamat alludes to Gozer and his need to have his servants help him gain entry to Earth.
	+ On Page 7, Dana (and later Louis) is possessed by a servitor like in the first movie.
	+ On Page 8, Kylie alludes to the Cult of Gozer.
	+ On Page 9, Kylie's notes the many rules that bound Gozer: the Cult of Gozer paving the way, the Keymaster and Gatekeeper, and choosing a Destructor Form.
	+ On Page 9, There are some Zener cards in Eduardo's deck.
	+ On Page 10, the news ticker quote's Egon's assessment of the Firehouse in the first movie.
	+ On Page 10, the It's Milla Time neon display is seen and Louis asks Tiamat his classic "Who does your taxes?" from the end of the first movie.
	+ On Page 12, a bag of Wise Natural Potato Chips is in its usual place behind Peter in his office.
	+ On Page 15, Peter leaping from his office is a nod to the first movie when he hopped over to greet Dana Barrett.
	+ On Page 17, the bums Robert Learned Coombs and Harlan Bojay, deleted from the first movie, are outside Dana's Apartment.
	+ On Page 20, Possessed Louis refers to when he was turned into a Terror Dog in the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #16:
	+ On the Regular Cover, the depiction of the possessed Dana and Louis appears to be a loose homage to a similar pose in the first movie when they were possessed and had 'reunited' in Dana's apartment room.
	+ On Page 1, Peter alludes to the Ghostbusters' storied history of facing 'Big Bads' on the top of buildings.
	+ On Page 2, like the first movie, the Ghostbusters ascend a long flight of stairs.
	+ On Page 7, Peter alludes to the first movie when Egon states he is scared beyond the capacity for rational thought in reaction to the manifestation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
	+ On Page 8, like the first movie, the Ghostbusters reach the roof and see a zigguart in another dimension.
	+ On Page 9, like in the first movie, Louis makes a suggestion about exercising in half time to get greater results.
	+ On Page 11, like in the first movie, possessed Dana and Louis transform into their Terror forms but uniquely with their human faces intact.
	+ On Page 12, Ron invoked the "Get her!" line like when Peter, Ray, and Egon first tried to deal with the Library ghost in the first movie.
	+ On Page 12, the Terror Birds leap away from their positions just like the Terror Dogs did in the first movie.
	+ On Page 13, Tiamat knocks the Ghostbusters backwards like Gozer did in the first movie.
	+ On Page 15, Peter brings up Gozer and Crossing the Streams.
	+ On Page 16, Ray mentions Crossing the Streams worked at least twice before. The Ghostbusters used it to defeat Gozer the first time.
	+ On Page 20, like the end of the first movie, compared to the others, Peter is barely saturated with goop.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #17:
	+ On Page 1, in the vision, Ray is wearing the outfit he wore in the first movie when Dana Barrett comes to the Firehouse. Gozer takes on its first form in the first movie.
	+ On Page 5, the Stay Puft Marshmallows sign from the first movie is still on the building by the Firehouse.
	+ On Page 7, Gozer takes on the appearance of Ivo Shandor. This design is an unused concept from the first movie - a form of Gozer was to have taken on, to be portrayed by Paul Reubens, a kindly looking man in a nondescript suit and tie.
	+ On Page 8, Ray's lines appear to be a spin on his speech to Gozer in the first movie.
	+ On Page 8, Stay Puft also takes on a form when he was set on fire in the first movie.
	+ On Page 11, Louis offers Dana some Cheese-Its, popularized in the first movie.
	+ On Page 14, Peter exclaims "Daaah!" like in the first movie when he tries to collect Ectoplasm left by the Library ghost.
	+ On Page 20, Egon's foot locker has Cheese-Its from first movie and a framed The Atlantic Monthly from first movie.
	+ On Page 20, there are extra Firehouse light covers. The positioning appears to be a nod to the first movie, seen in Chapter 21: Out of Biz when Janine is pouring coffee and Walter Peck returns to shut down the Containment Unit.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #18:
	+ On Page 6, Winston's handkerchief bears the Sedgewick Hotel logo, like the one used by the Hotel manager in the first movie.
	+ On Page 9, Egon's footlocker has a Cheese Its, a framed Pacific Monthly, a nod to the Atlantic Monthly in the first movie during the first montage, a package of Twinkies, and when the Trap is removed, there are three bottles labeled 'Spores', 'Mold' and 'Fungus' - a nod to the first movie when Egon tells Janine what his hobby is.
	+ On Page 12, there is a plaque with the 'Today Eastside Theatre Guild Midnight Buffet' sign from the Sedgewick Hotel in the first movie.
	+ On Page 13, the Etc. piece on the wall is a nod to the same piece in Louis' apartment in the first movie.
	+ On Page 13, Kas Gibbons' credit card is with the Manhattan City Bank.
	+ On Page 14, Peter is wearing his orange jacket from the first movie when he meets with Dana outside the Lincoln Center.
	+ On Page 15, Dana and Louis' blankets are similar in color to the ones they wore at the end of the first movie.
	+ On Page 19, Peter inquires about human sacrifice, something mentioned in the Ghostbusters' Mass Hysteria speech to Mayor Lenny in the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #19:
	+ On the Story So Far page, the title of this issue's story "...At Least Two" appears to have a double meaning - Ray is possessed by Gozer and Tiamat and the title is a callback to one of Peter's lines when he meets the possessed Dana in the first movie.
	+ On Page 1, continuing straight from last issue, Peter still has his orange jacket from the first movie when he meets with Dana outside the Lincoln Center.
	+ On Page 2, Gozer takes on the form of a Torb, mentioned in the first movie.
	+ On Page 8, a label on a cabinet drawer near Winston reads "GB1 84", a nod to Ghostbusters which was released in 1984.
	+ On Page 9, Gozer takes on the form of a rejected Robert Kline concept, seen in "Making Ghostbusters" page 155. It was one of a few advance concepts for a third form after the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
	+ On Page 10, there is a Ghost Busters poster outside the R&D Lab doorway. It is an unused Ghostbusters logo concept and can be found on the special features of the 1999 DVD of the first movie.
	+ On Page 13, Gozer takes on the form of a Sloar.
	+ On Page 16, Gozer's consciousness is the first form seen in the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Volume 2 #20:
	+ On Page 3, an unused Ghostbusters logo is on the tool box in the last panel.
	+ On Page 6, Ray mentions he suggested looking into off-site containment. In Dan Aykroyd's first script for Ghostbusters, the storage facility was not at the Firehouse. Instead, it was located in a deserted Sunoco gas station in northern New Jersey.
	+ On Page 9, 7E56, the taxi driven by the Zombie Taxi Driver, from Chapter 21 "Out of Biz" is on the left of Winston and behind the cab is the Con Ed Blue Ribbon Service van also from Chapter 21 "Out of Biz".
	+ On Page 21, like in the ending of the first movie, Slimer flies towards the audience.
	+ On Page 26, the last image is a homage to a scene in Ray Parker, Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" music video.
* In Ghostbusters: Mass Hysteria:
	+ On Page 2, in the upper left corner, cut off, is a bag of Stay Puft Marshmallows. Next to the marshmallows is a box of Cheeze Itz
	+ On Page 3, in the upper left corner is a bag of Wise Potato Chips. The calculator is left on four digits to spell out Zuul.
* In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters #1:
	+ On Page 10, the New York Today newspaper has a photo on the front page of the Subway Ghost.
	+ On Page 12, it is shown that the Ectomobile is back to its original Ecto-1 dressing.
	+ On Page 13, on the dining table is the 'magnificent feast' the Ghostbusters dined on just before they got the call from the Sedgewick Hotel.
* In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters #2:
	+ On Page 5, Egon pokes April on the shoulder as he did with the Hallway Bystander in the first movie at the Sedgewick Hotel.
	+ On Page 11, Egon's "It's...technical" response to the Ghost Sniffer question is a callback to Peter's response in the first movie to Dana's query.
	+ On Page 12, Peter mentions Trephination. In the first movie, Peter brought up how Egon attempted to drill a hole in his head.
	+ On Page 15, Ray alludes to Peter's initial skepticism in the first movie.
	+ On Page 16, there is an ad for the Manhattan City Bank from the first movie once more with Peter's 'everyone has three mortgages nowadays' line.
	+ On Page 20, in Egon's locker is a box of Cheese Its, seen in the first movie.
	+ On Page 21, Egon eats a Twinkie
	+ On Page 22, in Ray's locker is an article about another Mass Sponge Migration, a bag of Stay Puft Marshmallows, an article mentioning the Philadelphia Mass Turbulence of 1947, and a Camp Waconda pennant.
* In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters #3:
	+ On Page 7, on Egon's white board are a storyboard from the first movie depicting Louis Tully, portrayed by John Candy, running from Vinz Clortho in Central Park and John Bruno's layout of Louis Tully's apartment, seen in "Making Ghostbusters" page 120
	+ On Page 10, in panel 3, Janine's paper slip has the address for the Tai Hong Lau Restaurant on 70 Mott Street.
	+ On Page 11, the street this encounter takes place on is Mott Street, the same street featured in the first movie during the first montage.
	+ On Page 11, in panel 2, the kanji on the tarp on the left is Ghostbusters, the first movie, in Chinese.
	+ On Page 12, in panel 1, right of Peter, on the white board with red kanji in the vertical orientation, is from the left side the Chinese poster for Ghostbusters, the first movie.
	+ On Page 12, in panel 1, right of Peter, on the yellow tarp, is the subtitle in red kanji from the Chinese poster for Ghostbusters, the first movie.
	+ On Page 14, in panel 2, above the man Michelangelo saved, on the yellow tarp is the last 4 red kanji in the tagline underneath the Ghostbusters/Chinese movie poster
	+ On Page 14, in panel 2, above Raphael, the kanji in blue oriented vertically is from the right side of the Chinese poster for Ghostbusters, the first movie.
	+ On Page 14, in panel 2, above Raphael, the second board with kanji oriented vertically is from the left side of the Chinese poster for Ghostbusters, the first movie.
* In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters #4:
	+ On Page 1, in panel 4, still on the whiteboard from last issue are John Bruno's layout of Louis Tully's apartment from the first movie, seen in Making Ghostbusters page 120
	+ On Page 6, in panel 5, on the board is a Ghostbusters newspaper theater advertisement to promote the first movie.  and a Ghost in a Can promo flat for England to promote the first movie in 1985.
	+ On Page 11, Peter mentions Ray is still the owner of the Firehouse.
* In Ghostbusters: Get Real #1:
	+ On the Convention Cover, cut off from the cover on the left side, by the Scoleri Brothers, with only a claw visible is Gozer and by the Scoleri Brothers is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
	+ The Nerd Block Cover is inspired by a poster for the first movie.
	+ On Page 9, in the far right, parked by the sidewalk, is a Con-Ed van like the one seen in the first movie when the containment grid is shut off.
	+ On Page 9, Janine is sporting one of her outfits and her hairdo from the first movie. It is the outfit she wore when she first debuted in the movie in Chapter 8: "Bug-Eyes Thing"
	+ On Page 18, Egon is wearing a gray vest similar to the one he worn in the first movie in Chapter 20 "Keymaster"
	+ On Page 18, one of the arcades is Star Gazer.
	+ On Page 18, on the table is Chinese take out from the Tai Hong Lau Restaurant seen during the first montage of the first movie.
	+ On Page 18, Egon pokes Winston's left shoulder like he did to the Hallway Bystander at the Sedgewick Hotel in the first movie.
	+ On Page 18, on the brown tack board in panel 4 are schematics of pack rack and Ecto-1 from Stephen Dane's isometric sketches during first movie.
* In Ghostbusters: Get Real #2:
	+ On Page 7, on the chalkboard, on the far left is a reference to a 9'o clock appointment at Weaver Hall.
	+ On Page 7, on the chalkboard, under the Weaver Hall reference, is a nod to the Sedgewick Hotel: the 'No Smoking' lettering from the elevator in the first movie.
	+ On Page 15, on the right side, at the top, is Venkman, Stantz and Ramsey - the team from Dan Aykroyd's original Ghost Smashers ideal cast. They are visually inspired by Michael Keaton, Eddie Murphy, and John Belushi. Murphy was originally an idea for Ramsey, Belushi for Venkman and Keaton was rumored for Venkman.
	+ On Page 15, under the Ghost Smashers are the Ghostbusters, Peter, Ray, and Egon, from the Ghostbusters Sega Genesis video game.
	+ On Page 18, in panel 3, now visible on the chalkboard in the upper right, partially blocked by Egon's head is Stephen Dane's detailed final sketch of Ecto-1 from the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters: Get Real #3:
	+ On Page 2, continued from last issue, Egon is still wearing his gray vest ensemble from the first movie]
	+ On Page 2, in panel three, on Egon's clipboard is a nod to the Ghostbusters Official Fan Club (1984) - including the "I've Been Slimed" and "Back Off, Man" stickers.
	+ On Page 2, in panel three, on the red screen is a grab of a city map from the Ghostbusters Activision Video Game.
	+ On Page 5, continued from last issue, Janine is wearing one of her outfits from the first movie.
	+ On Page 11, the arcade on the right is the Star Gazer from the first movie.
	+ On Page 13, in panel 5, Janine is looking at "The Digest Book of Racquetball." It was printed in January 1980.
* In Ghostbusters: Get Real #4:
	+ On Page 3, continued from last issue, Janine is still wearing the outfit when she first appeared.
* In Ghostbusters Annual 2015:
	+ On the Regular Cover, Janine is wearing the outfit seen in Chapter 21 "Out of Biz" and her book is about her racquetball hobby.
	+ On Page 3, in panel 2, Peter mentions condemning the Firehouse like how Egon recommended in the first movie.
	+ On Page 5, in panel 4, Brent invokes the Ghostbusters' "We're Ready to Believe You" credo.
	+ On Page 10, the outside Firehouse signage is the original banner seen in the first movie.
	+ On Page 10, in panel 3, on the toolbox is two stickers. One is an unused Ghostbusters logo from the first movie.
	+ On Page 11, in panel 1, on the computer left of Ray is the ending to the Ghostbusters Activision video game.
	+ On Page 12, in panel 3, Peter has his liquor, that he and Ray drank from after they are are kicked out of Columbia University in the first movie.
	+ On Page 13, in panel 4, on the computer is the game over message from the Ghostbusters Activision video game
	+ On Page 14, in panel 1, there is a Ghostbusters theater ad.
	+ On Page 14, in panel 3, on the shelf over the bed is the military cap Ray wore in the deleted Fort Detmerring scene from the first movie.
	+ On Page 16, Peter's dream reality is a recreation of a scene from Chapter 20 "Keymaster" from the first movie right when Peter tells Egon he tranquilized Zuul-possessed Dana Barrett with 300 cc of Thorazine. Ray takes the place of the Zuul-possessed Dana Barrett.
	+ On Page 16, the original Ghostbusters commercial from the first movie plays on the TV on the left.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 2, under the Elon note is a quote of Harold Ramis' "We were delighted with the notion that this script could be so 'out there,' and yet still have a scientific and parapsychological plausibility" which is from an annotation on "Making Ghostbusters" page 104 about how he and Dan Aykroyd worked on the evolution of the Twinkie metaphor in the first movie.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 2, right of Winston is a nod to his "That's a big Twinkie" line in the first movie and Egon's estimate it would be 35 feet tall and weigh 600 pounds.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 2, above Peter's head is "Trepanation," a nod to the first movie when Peter referenced the time Egon tried to drill a hole in his head.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 2, in the top middle, written down are "Electrical Applications of the Psycho-sexual Drive" and "Astral Projections as an Untapped Power Source." These are two books Egon read in his youth, as recounted on page 23 of Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 2, to the upper left of Egon is his "Print is dead" line from the first movie
	+ On Page 19, in panel 2, to the middle left of Egon is "Oswald Donsbach," a nod to the inspirations for the name 'Egon Spengler' - Oswald Spengler and Egon Donsbach, and more nods to Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular page 23 - Cleveland, Ohio where Egon grew up and more books he read "The Mysteries of Latent Abnormality," "Your Friends the Fungus," and "Necronomicon"
	+ On Page 19, in panel 2, left of Egon's boots is "Balloon will pop," a nod to the four dimensional balloon that was originally part of the Twinkie metaphor seen in drafts of the first movie and explained in annotation on Making Ghostbusters page 104.
	+ On Page 37, Louis is in his blue track suit from the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters International #1:
	+ Erik Burnham titled the issue's main story "Ready to Believe Everyone" - a nod to their commercial in the first movie.
	+ On the Dramatis Personae, Ray's biography mentions the Mass Sponge Migration he talked about.
	+ On the Dramatis Personae, Winston's biography alludes to his "seen shit that will turn you white" line from the first movie
	+ On the Dramatis Personae, Egon's biography mentions the time he almost he drilled a hole in his head which Peter mentioned in the first movie.
	+ On the Dramatis Personae, Janine's biography mentions her racquetball hobby.
	+ On Page 1, Jennifer from the first movie debuts in the IDW Comics continuity. She apparently took Peter's words to heart and became a psychic.
	+ On Page 2, Ray is wearing the outfit he wore when he first appeared in the first movie.
	+ On Page 3, as in the movie, a call about a ghost interrupts a session with Jennifer.
	+ On Page 11, Erland Vinter mentions the refusal as grounds to release the trapped ghost. This dates back to the Ghostbusters' first call seen in the first movie when they almost released Slimer back into the ballroom.
	+ On Page 12, in panel 4, Vinter's check references Irving Trust. This was the bank later replaced by Manhattan City Bank in the first movie script.
	+ On Page 14, Janine thinks back to Ray's quick hiring of Winston in the first movie.
	+ On Page 14, the neon light displays are for Miller Time, a nod to Miller Light and Peter's line after Gozer vanished in the first movie.
	+ On Page 16, in panel 2, the cardboard boxes are of Cracker Jacques and Swizzlers - a nod to Cracker Jacks and Twizzlers snacks.
	+ On Page 16, in panel 3, is a box of Cheese Its which Egon eats from in the first movie, a chart of spores, molds, and fungus on the wall and fungi in the fish tank, and in the bottom right corner is a Twinkie.
	+ On Page 17, Kylie mentions the Spates Catalog, a book came up in the first movie.
	+ On Page 27, the homage to the "Ghostbusters" music video from Volume 2 Issue #20 is reused on the page with the crew's social media links.
* In Ghostbusters International #2:
	+ On Page 10, the New York Public Library makes its debut appearance in the IDW comics.
	+ On Page 10, in panel 5, Alice and Roger Delacorte from the beginning of the first movie make a cameo appearance.
	+ On Page 13, Ray has on the first outfit he's seen in during the first movie when he mentioned Egon's scans at the library buried the needle.
* In Ghostbusters Deviations:
	+ On the Subscription Cover are Zuul and Vinz Clortho in their Terror Dog forms. The Ghostbusters are depicted in handcuffs, as a nod to Peter telling the Mayor if they were wrong they would go to jail.
	+ On Page 1, The story centers on what if the Ghostbusters did not Cross the Streams on the Temple of Gozer
	+ On Page 20, The timeline resets at Peter's "Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown" line. As the timeline resets, Gozer does its aerial flip and lands on the altar.
	+ On Page 22, Winston exclaims his "I love this town!" line
	+ On Page 23, Egon and Ray's conversation with Louis is verbatim from the movie.
	+ On Page 24, Louis wears the Aura-Video Analyzer colander.
* In Ghostbusters International #3:
	+ On Page 6, in panel 2, Janine refers to when Winston applied for a job at Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 6, in panel 3, on the drawer cabinet Janine pulls from, the label starts with 2206 which was also Dana Barrett's apartment in the 550 Central Park West Building.
	+ On Page 6, in panel 3, on the drawer cabinet Janine pulls from, the label ends with 013335 which was the reading on Ray's Ecto Goggles when he sighted Slimer in the Sedgewick Hotel ballroom.
	+ On Page 6, in panel 4, as always, is a bag of Wise Potato Chips in Peter's office
	+ On Page 6, in panel 5, on the newspaper there is an old theater screening ad of Ghostbusters with the headlines "They're Here to Save the World" and "The Supernatural Comedy"
	+ On Page 7, in panel 2 is Danny DeVito and in panel 8 is Peter Falk as seen in the "Ghostbusters" music video.
	+ On Page 17, Ray's camera appears to be the Nikon SLR FE2 he used in the first movie.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 3, a box of Cheez-Its is on Egon's table.
	+ On Page 20, in panel 4, on the right is a Twinkie.
	+ On Page 20, in panel 4, right of Egon's hand is the mug that references his Cobalt line.
* In Ghostbusters International #4:
	+ On Page 1, in panel 1, 2206 is on Janine's calculator. 2206 is a nod to Dana Barrett's apartment number in the first movie.
	+ On Page 1, in panel 2, behind Janine is a Wise Potato Chips bag, a staple of Peter's office since the first movie.
	+ On Page 8, Ray falls "victim" to the classic 'don't look in the Trap' gag from the first movie.
	+ On Page 15, in panel 1, the poster Ray looks at bears the phrase "Ils Arrivent Pour Sauver Le Monde" which appeared on the cover for the 1984 S.O.S. Fantomes novelization of the first movie by Jason Dark.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 4, on the computer screen monitor is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the Ghostbusters Activision video game.
* In Ghostbusters International #5:
	+ On Page 4, Egon wears his gray vest ensemble from the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters International #6:
	+ On Page 1, Egon is still wearing his gray sweater vest outfit from the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters International #7:
	+ On Page 2, Peter asks Peck to say "please", likely a nod to the first time they met in the when Peter teased him with having to say the 'magic word'
	+ On Page 17, in panel 1, on the billboard is an advertisement for Angelus Puft Marshmallow Man, one of the inspirations for the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
	+ On Page 18, in panel 4, under the Ecto Coolers are a box of Cracker Jacques, a nod to Cracker Jacks
	+ On Page 19, Egon mentions Gozer.
	+ On Page 20, in panel 2 is a box of Cheese Itz from the first movie
	+ On Page 20, in panel 3, left of the Trap is a pamphlet for the Angelus Puft Marshmallow Man.
* In Ghostbusters International #8:
	+ On Page 4, in the upper left corner, the tray of Ecto Cooler cans are atop a box of Cracker Jacques.
	+ On Page 4, in panel 5, the box of Cheeze Itz seen in the first movie.
	+ On Page 17, in panel 1, Peter's framed diploma appears still up in his office.
	+ On Page 18, Winston alludes to Gozer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 1, right of Ray's first word balloon is a can of TaB.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 3, Kylie eats some Wise Potato Chips, seen in the first movie in Peter's office.
	+ On Page 20, Peter alludes to the Psychokinetic Atmospheric Influence that often accompanies the bigger paranormal incidents.
* In Ghostbusters International #9:
	+ On Page 1, in panel 1, Peck's framed articles and awards that nod to the movie are still up in his office: the Pacific Monthly "EPA Busts Ghost Catchers", The New Yorks' article on the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and Wally Wick, a nod to the edited TV version of Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 9, Peter alludes to Gozer who blasted the guys with lightning in their encounter in the first movie.
	+ On Page 9, Winston alludes to Gozer's "Are you a god?" question.
	+ On Page 20, Ray's outfit is based on an outfit Dan Aykroyd wore on the set of first movie.
* In Ghostbusters International #10:
	+ On the Dramatis Personae page, Ray's bio mentions he's down to two mortgages, a nod to the first movie when Peter, Ray, and Egon leave Manhattan City Bank.
	+ On Page 3, in panel 3, Peter reacts to the ghost appearing with his classic "Dah!" from the first movie
	+ On Page 15, Egon mentions Gozer and speaks of both teams' first encounters with it.
	+ On Page 16, in panel 2, right of Ray is a can of TAB, also seen in the first movie.
	+ On Page 16, the arcade on the right is Star Gazer from the first movie
* In Ghostbusters International #11:
	+ On Page 1, in panel 3, the license plate of the police car is "1984" - a nod to the first movie's release.
	+ On Page 3, in panel 5, part of the Tavern on the Green can be seen.
	+ On Page 19, Ray's girlfriend Jenny manifests as a ghost. Peter alludes to the Dream Ghost from the first movie; the ghost of a blonde woman. Kylie's disgust is a nod to the infamous blowjob the ghost gave Ray.
	+ On Page 20, in panel 2, on the computer screen is a still from the Ghostbusters Activision Video Game Commodore 64 version. It appears on the back of the game's box next to "One Temple of Zuul. Two Terror Dogs. And a zillion ghosts."
	+ On Page 20, in panel 4, on the board are a theater ad for the first movie and the Ghost in a Can England ad.
	+ On Page 21, Janine is wearing an outfit from the first movie, notably when she gets the call from the Sedgewick Hotel.
	+ On Page 21, on the bottom cabinet label is a reference to the first Ghostbusters movie and its year of release, 1984.
	+ On Page 21, in panel 3, on the slip of paper Winston has is "Millennium Biltmore Hotel 506 South Grand Avenue" - where parts of Sedgewick Hotel and 55 Central Park West scenes were filmed for the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Annual 2017:
	+ On the Dramatis Personae Page, Peter's biography references Dana Barrett's game show host line from the first movie. Ray's biography mentions Fort Detmerring from the first movie.
	+ On the Story So Far Page, the Ghostbusters' first case in the first movie is mentioned.
	+ On the Story So Far Page, it is mentioned the Ghostbusters has expanded operations to other dimensions. This is in line with Dan Aykroyd's original premise in the Ghost Smashers script.
	+ On Page 10, the first cop mentions he was a rookie during the events of the first movie and was on marshmallow detail after the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man blew up.
	+ On Page 39, in panel 2, on the top left of the corkboard, between Egon's legs, the Millennium Hotels and Resorts logo of the group who owns the Biltmore Hotel used for the location of the Sedgewick Hotel in the first movie.
	+ On Page 43, Peter says his "You've earned it" line from the first movie when he gives a chocolate bar to Egon at Columbia University.
	+ On Page 46, the story appears to be a nod to the deleted scene from the first movie of honeymooners encountering Slimer at the Sedgewick.
* In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #1:
	+ On the Regular Cover, the map credit references Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Joe Medjuck, and Ivan Reitman.
	+ On Subscription Cover B, Zuul plays the role of Kevin's pet dog Mike Hat.
	+ On the Retail Incentive Wraparound Cover, the PR photo used on the back is of the team at Gozer's altar.
	+ On the Convention Edition, the PR photo used is of the team posing covered in Stay Puft marshmallow.
	+ On the What Came Before Page, the first battle with Gozer is alluded to.
	+ On Page 7, in panel 4, on the right, is the "Ghostbusters" song's 30th anniversary edition.
	+ On Page 8, Janine has on a variation of an outfit from the first movie, when she first appeared. Egon has on his gray vest outfit from the first movie.
	+ On Page 8, the Ghostbusters revel in the irony of Peck being threatened with a shutdown by an EPA representative like he did to them in the first movie.
	+ On Page 8, in panel 3, behind Peter, is the I Love New York ceramic pig seen behind him in Chapter Two of the first movie when he administers electric shocks.
* In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #2:
	+ The Retailer Incentive Wraparound Cover's back cover is Egon in his gray lab coat outfit from when he spoke to the possessed Louis Tully in Ghostbusters, Chapter 20 "Keymaster".
	+ On the What Came Before Page, Peck's attempted shut down of the containment grid in Ghostbusters is mentioned.
	+ On Page 6, in panel 6, Egon has on his lab coat ensemble from the commercial in Ghostbusters, including his stethoscope and PC-4 Calculator.
	+ On Page 7, in panel 6, the shot is a homage to the end of the commercial in Ghostbusters along with the 555-2368 phone number in the yellow font. The difference is Winston is now added to the line up.
	+ On Page 8, in panel 1, as always, Janine's whale paperweight is on her desk. In panel 2, Janine is, like last issue, wearing variation of an outfit from the first movie, when she first appeared.
	+ On Page 13, in panel 2, the framed newspaper in the hall is the New York Post "Ghost Cops Bust Chinatown Spook" article from the first movie's first montage, seen in Chapter 14 "Welcome Aboard".
* In Ghostbusters: Funko Universe:
	+ The Regular Cover recreates when the Ghostbusters first sighted the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the first movie, Chapter 27: Stay Puft Man.
	+ The Retailer Exclusive Cover takes place in Dana's kitchen at 550 Central Park West with Dana Barrett in the red dress she first wore while possessed by Zuul, Zuul in Terror Dog form, Louis Tully, wearing the Aura Video-Analyzer colander, Slimer, and Stay Puft Marshmallow Man present. A bag of Stay Puft Marshmallows are in the lower right corner.
	+ On Page 3, Egon wears his blue lab coat from the commercial.
* In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #3:
	+ On the Subscription Cover, Peter is wearing his orange jacket from the first movie when he spoke to Dana outside Lincoln Center.
	+ The Retailer Incentive Wraparound Cover's back cover is Ray from the first movie during the Sedgewick Hotel case.
	+ On Page 10, Egon is wearing his stock gray vest from the first movie.
	+ On, Page 15, Winston alludes to Egon's experiments on himself. In the first movie, Peter remembers when he tried to drill a hole in his head.
	+ On Page 17, panels two and three recreates scenes from the arrival of Gozer in Chapter 26 of the first movie. Ray steps up to talk to Gozer, Gozer pets Vinz, and the Temple of Gozer. Ray mentions Zuul and Ivo Shandor.
	+ On Page 18, panel 1 recreates scene from Chapter 28 when the Ghostbusters crossed the streams on the Temple of Gozer with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man watching horror. Holtzmann alludes to the urinating joke that came from the crossing the streams term in the first movie.
	+ On Page 23, in the standard ectoplasm section, Smells "Funky" is a nod to Peter's recollection after he was slimed by Slimer in the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #4:
	+ On the Regular Cover, 55[0] Central Park West and Tavern on the Green is marked on the map.
	+ On the Subscription Cover, Peter is wearing his outfit from the commercial in the first movie.
	+ The back of the RI Wraparound Cover is a close up on Winston in a group shot promo photo from the first movie.
	+ On Page 6, Kylie brings a copy of Spate's Catalog and Tobin's Spirit Guide.
	+ On Page 11, Abby uses the Ghost Sniffer from the first movie.
	+ On Page 23, the Bacharach series is brought up. It was used for the Ghost Sniffer. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and Gozer are mentioned.
* In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #5:
	+ On the Subscription Cover near the top center are Egon and Janine hugging like when she had a premonition he was going to die. "84" is on her jacket, a nod to the year of the first movie. Peck is depicted shutting down the Containment Unit's power grid although he didn't do it himself.
	+ On the back of the RI Wraparound Photo Cover is a close up on Peter when the team approaches the Temple of Gozer.
	+ On Page 1, the Mayor mentions the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. In panel 1, chalk writing left of the drawing of green plant is "...Question, Yes is the answer. Right, Ray?!" is a nod to Winston's "You say Yes!" reply to Ray after Gozer blasted them.
	+ On Page 3, in panel 4, Zoe is wearing the Aura Video-Analyzer colander. On the far right, is the bad grammar ending to the video game on the computer.
	+ On Page 10, in panel 2 and 3, the frame that can be partially seen is the logo for Bandai's Ghostbusters toyline from 1984 to 1985.
	+ On Page 11, in panel 1, the posters reference the "Here to Save the World" and "I've Been Slimed" shirts from the first movie's Official Mail Order Merchandise.
	+ On Page 12, Erin refers to the Gozer incident.
	+ On Page 18, Ray's blue shirt and khaki slacks civies appears to be based on the civies he wears in Chapter 7 and 9 of the first movie but the collar is colored blue instead.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 4, Egon appears to be using his Casio Micro-Mini Calculator from the first movie when he, Peter, Ray left Manhattan City Bank.
	+ On Page 20, in panel 1, Egon eats from a box of Cheeze Itz.
	+ On Page 23, mentioned in the Tobin's Spirit Guide section is are Gozer, Ivo Shandor and the Ghostbusters' use of Tobin's in the first movie.
	+ On Page 24, mentioned in the Spates Catalog section is Tobin's Spirit Guide.
* In Ghostbusters 101 Issue #6:
	+ On the back of the RI Wraparound Cover is Janine Melnitz from Chapter 8 when she talks to Egon.
	+ On the What Came Before Page, Egon's "It would be bad" line, from when he explained the danger of crossing the streams to Peter at the Sedgewick Hotel, is referenced.
	+ On Page 11, in panel 3, Erin mentions there were so many stairs - the natural enemy of any Ghostbuster. In panel 4, on the signs on the left is Stay Puft Marshmallows ad.
	+ On Page 12, in panel 4, on the left of the trap are two panels that have screens from the Ghostbusters Activision video game for the first movie - the title screen and the red Ecto-1 screen. In panel 4, in the bottom center, under the trap is the yellow Ghost Trap decal that originated from the trap slot of the Containment Unit.
	+ On Page 18, the first image is from Chapter 3 "Get Her!" when the Library ghost roars at them. Erin and Patty appear in place of Peter and Egon. Ray and the Camcorder remain. The ninth image is from Chapter 27 "Stay Puft Man" when they shoot the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Abby appears in place of Ray.
	+ On Page 20, Peter alludes to Zuul, who possessed Dana Barrett then turned into a Terror Dog.
* In the Ghostbusters 101: Everyone Answers The Call TPB, the movie is mentioned in the Introduction.
* In  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #1:
	+ On Cover A, the Ninja Turtles look into the Trap, a nod to Egon's warning in the first movie not to.
	+ On Page 5, in panel 1, some of the ghosts are visually based on unused designs of ghosts, the Terror Dog and Gozer forms in the first movie like a Bernie Wrightson concept of a Gozer form (seen in Making Ghostbusters page 155), a ghost concept (seen in Making Ghostbusters page 89) and a Wrightson Terror Dog concept (seen in Making Ghostbusters page 116).
	+ On Page 11, in panel 1, on the cork board is the Amstrad/Schneider "Richochet" EU cover for Ghostbusters Activision (1984), a 1985 "Now Making Housecalls!" ad for the VHS release of the 1st Ghostbusters movie reusing the poster of Peter, Ray, and Egon looking up, Slimer added to the top right corner, and the VHS cover on the left of the guys, and the black and white photo of 1984 Official Ghostbusters Fan Club's Swissvale, Pennsylvania founders Mark Lister and Jim Garvey with merchandise.
	+ On Page 12, in panel 1, left of Winston is the Star Gazer arcade from the first movie.
	+ On Page 16, in panel 4, on the left is a structure from a Gozerian dimension design concept made for the first movie from which the Collectors' limbo is loosely based on.
	+ On Page 20, in panel 3, the ghost sprites on the screen are from the city map in Ghostbusters Activision (1984). In panel 4, the arcade on the right is Star Castle - the middle arcade on the second floor of the Firehouse in the first movie.
* In  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #2:
	+ On Page 4, Egon eats a Twinkie.
	+ On Page 4, in panel 1, the photo above Donatello appears to be from Chapter 27 of the first Ghostbusters movie when Stay Puft Marshmallow Man begins climbing 550 Central Park West after it's blasted or a photo of when the scene was filmed seen in books like Making Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 7, Raphael's threat was a nod to Egon's request for a brain sample from Louis at the end of the first movie.
	+ On Page 9, Ray refers to his sister and nephew. They came up in a flashback scene in the novelization of the first movie.
	+ On Page 18, in panel 5, the arcade on the right is Star Castle - the middle arcade on the second floor of the Firehouse in the first movie.
* In  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #3:
	+ On Page 10, the Trap slot is re-purposed from the first Containment Unit.
* In  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #4:
	+ On Page 8, Danny is chosen to talk to Michelangelo, mirroring when Ray was elected to talk to Gozer. Danny's speech even mirrors Ray's speech to Gozer and Peter realizes this.
	+ On Page 11, Danny reveals their version of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was a Marshmallow Bunny.
	+ On Page 17, in panel 4, an unused logo from development of the first movie is on the toolbox.
	+ On Page 18, in panel 4, between Donatello and Egon is a frame of a poster from the first movie. Egon's watch is based on the Seiko Voice Note M516 4009 watches worn in the first movie. They can be notably seen in most of the press photos worn by Egon and Ray.
* In  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #5:
	+ On Page 19, in panel 1, Ray's "Don't look into the Trap" warning comes up between Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello.
* In Ghostbusters: Answer The Call Issue #3:
	+ On Cover A, one book is Tobin's Spirit Guide and another is Sumerian Legends - Behind the Legend of Gozer.
* In Ghostbusters Annual 2018:
	+ On Cover B, Kylie is wearing an orange jacket like Peter's.
	+ On Page 4, Ray attempts to communicate with Connla much like Gozer in the first movie.
	+ On Page 7, Peter does his "Dah!" from the first movie.
	+ On Page 11, in panel 1 is a recreation of a scene from Ghostbusters Chapter 11 "We Got One!" after Janine gets the call from the Sedgewick.
	+ On Page 12, in panel 5, the Manhattan City Bank branch is a stand-in for a TD Bank branch.
	+ On Page 12, Ray's 'We have a date with a ghost' line is similar to Peter's line to the crowd as they prepare to go into 550 Central Park West.
	+ On Page 32, Peter once again yells Dah!
* In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #1:
	+ On Cover RI-B, is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and Slimer with his cart.
	+ The Convention Cover uses a behind-the-scenes photo of Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson posing for a photo between filming when Peck turns off the Containment Unit in the first movie.
	+ On the What Came Before page, Winston's interview and Janine's questionnaire are mentioned.
	+ On Page 7, the civilian is visually based on the man who gives Ray and Peter ducks in the Chinatown segment of the first montage.
	+ On Page 8, in panel 5, the sign reveals the bust takes place inside Tai Hong Lau Restaurant from the Chinatown segment of the first montage.
	+ On Page 12, in panel 4, in Peck's desk is a nice fruit basket, a nod to Peter's line when Peck was ejected by Mayor Lenny. Still on the wall is the framed award referencing the Wally Wick alternate line.
	+ On Page 13, Peck mentions Gozer.
	+ On Page 18, in panel 2, on Janine's desk is the trusty whale paperweight.
* In Ghostbusters: Answer The Call Issue #4:
	+ On the bottom of Cover A, Egon's spores, molds, and fungus hobby is referenced.
* In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #2:
	+ On Page 1, behind Holtzmann, in the corner of the frame is the credit for John DeCuir and Bernie Brillstein in the "They're Here to Save the World" poster.
	+ On Page 4, on the shelf bottom right of Jenny is a Wise Natural Potato Chips minus the text between the logo and yellow band.
	+ On Page 6, Peter does his "Dah!" from the library scene. The glowing door is a nod to when Zuul possessed Dana Barrett, seen in Chapter 16: Dogs Drag Dana.
	+ On Page 7, the room recreates Dana's kitchen from the first movie in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard. Peter's outfit is based on the one he wore to his initial investigation of her apartment in Chapter 10: Checking Out Dana in the first movie. The entity takes on the form of Dana Barrett from the first montage in Chapter 14 down to her chopping vegetables. In panel 1, on the microwave clock is "19:84" - a nod to the first movie.
	+ On Page 15, Egon alludes to when he was terrified by the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
	+ On Page 16, Gozer appears.
	+ On Page 17, the entity mentions Peter's paper on the theory of Werewolf Gladiators of Atlantis, a riff on the 'theory of Atlantis' question Janine read in the first movie.
	+ On Page 18, Egon is wearing his suit and vest outfit from the first movie.
* In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #3:
	+ On Cover B, left of Spectral Eduardo is the city map from the Activision Ghostbusters game from 1984.
	+ On Dramatis Personae Page 1, the Prime Ghostbusters' bio mentions when they crossed the streams at the end of the first movie and defeated Gozer.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 1, Extreme Ghostbusters Slimer is eating from a bag of Wise Potato Chips.
* Peter and Peck's first meeting and the shut down of the Containment Unit is mentioned in Walter Pecks' bio on the 35th Crossing Over Virtual Trading Card, posted on June 19, 2018.
* In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #4:
	+ On Cover B, Slimer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man appears.
* In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #5:
	+ On Page 3, Peck alludes to when he had the Containment Unit turned off.
	+ On Page 16, Koza'Rai mentions Gozer's first defeat.
* In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #6:
	+ On Cover B, Peter has on his orange jacket.
	+ On Cover RI, Ray's "Going up?" at the Sedgewick elevator is quoted.
	+ On Page 17, some of Louis 00-D's words are a nod to the prime Louis' lines in the first movie. He states he got a great deal on the Trap Orbslike in the movie, he states he got a great deal on the cedacelacytic acid and Nova Scotia smoked salmon and he asks Peter 68-R who does his hair like in the movie, he asks the Ghostbusters who does their taxes.
* In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #7:
	+ On Page 3, Peter does his Dah!
* In Ghostbusters Crossing Over #8:
	+ On Cover B, Janine is in her first outfit from the movie.
	+ On Page 13, in panel 2, Egon 68-E is wearing a "I've Been Slimed" T-Shirt from the Official Fan Club. Peter charges him $24.99 for the shirt. When it was originally sold, the price was $7.50.
	+ On Page 17, Ray and Egon are in their blue lab coats from the commercial in the first movie. Egon has his Stethoscope and PC-4 Calculator as well.
* In Ghostbusters IDW 20/20:
	+ On Page 2, Egon is wearing a blue lab coat from the commercial in the first movie.
	+ On Page 5, Samuel Hazer refers to the symmetrical book stacking seen in the first movie.
	+ On Page 20, Gabriel Sitter brings up the warning about not looking into an open Trap.
* In Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary: Ghostbusters:
	+ On Cover RE are Gozer, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Library ghost in her transmogrified form, Slimer, Zuul and Vinz Clortho, and Ecto-1.
	+ On Page 1, Peter alludes to Walter Peck and his court order in the first movie. In panel 2, the skull by Ray is visually based on the new dinosaur discovered in May 2017 in Montana and named after Zuul.
	+ On Page 3, Peter is wearing his blue sweater vest, shirt, brown pants combo before on the back cover of the Volume 2 trade paperback with a brown coat based on the scene in the first movie when the Ghostbusters talk to Mayor Lenny.
	+ On Page 6, Winston refers to his job interview with Janine in the first movie in Chapter 14 "Welcome Aboard".
	+ On Page 8, in panel 1, the walk on extra from the first montage during the ghost train story is to the left of Ecto-1. In panel 1, above the Penn Station signage is an ad for Manhattan City Bank with the quote of Ray's line about nobody having three mortgages. An ice cream ad is inspired by Snowman from the Ghostbusters Sega game. The Chomp ad quotes Peter's line to Egon, "You've Earned It" after the Library ghost.
	+ On Page 9, in panel 2, on the left is Richard Edlund, head of effects.
	+ On Page 11, Peter alludes to Egon talking about Ivo Shandor's conclusion the world was too sick to survive while they were in jail.
	+ On Page 13, Ray mentions Gozer.
	+ On Page 15, Egon pokes a light pole like when he scanned and poked the man in the Sedgewick Hotel hall.
* In Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary: The Real Ghostbusters:
	+ On Page 9, Saul's "Disgusting blob" line is a nod to Ray's line in when he first met Slimer.
* In Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary: Answer The Call Ghostbusters:
	+ On Page 1, the billboard uses the "Who You Gonna Call?" credo.
	+ On Page 12, on the book shelf is a plushie head of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
* In Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #1:
	+ On Page 2, Gozer repeats one of its lines, "The Traveler has come."
	+ On Page 3, instead of the Ghostbusters, the four who face Gozer are Decepticons Soundwave, Starscream, Megatron, and Shockwave. In panel 2 are the familiar twin pillars and alter that also appeared on the roof are present. Gozer shoots lightning out of its fingers at the four.
	+ On Page 4, instead of Ray, it is Megatron who goes up the stairs to address Gozer.
	+ On Page 5, Gozer tells the Decepticons to choose.
	+ On Page 6, Gozer suddenly announces the choice is made. Megatron's reaction about someone choosing mirrors Peter's. Shockwave's "what did you do?" mirrors Winston's line. Starscream is in Ray's position of having chosen the Destructor Form.
	+ On Page 12, the Ghostbusters climb out of a sink hole similar to when they arrived at the Shandor Building.
	+ On Page 16, Ectronymous vaporizes the parking ticket, a nod to a deleted scene "Ectomobile Rejects a Parking Ticket".
* In Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #2:
	+ The Story so Far page mentions Earth's history with Gozer.
	+ On Page 10, Kremzeek refers to Gozer by its title of the Traveler.
	+ On Page 11, Egon alludes to Gozer's initial arrival in New York.
	+ On Page 17, Peter yells "Dah!" like in the library.
* In Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #3:
	+ On Page 1, Janine is wearing her outfit from when the Containment Unit was shut down.
	+ On Page 2, Peter has on his orange jacket.
	+ On Page 5, Peter refers to Slimer as a "spud," a nickname originating from the first movie.
	+ On Page 10, Peter does his "dah!"
	+ On Page 11, Egon replies "That would be bad," similar to when he informed the team about crossing the streams
	+ On Page 19, in panel 1, one of the graffiti on Optimus Prime is "84," a nod to 1984 when both Transformers and Ghostbusters debuted.
	+ On Page 20, in panel 3, "Burn in Hell, Venkman" is a nod to the graffiti on the Paranormal Studies Laboratory door.
* In Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #4:
	+ On Page 1, in panel 3, on the toolbox is a sticker of one of the unused logos.
	+ On Page 2, Winston alludes to not believing in the supernatural before he joined the Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 4, Peter exclaims "Dah!" like in the first movie.
	+ On Page 5, like the Ghostbusters did, Ectotron blows something up the first time he uses his Proton Pack.
	+ On Page 6, in panel 2, the 555-2368 phone number from the commercial is on Optimus Prime's vehicle form.
	+ On Page 11, Winston mentions blowing up the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man all over Central Park West.
	+ On Page 16, in panel 2, there is the blue Con Edison sign.
* In Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron Issue #5:
	+ On Page 3, Peter screams "dah!" like at the start of the movie.
	+ On Page 19, Ray is intrigued with the notion of ghosts in space, a nod to the Ghost Smashers script.
* In Ghostbusters Year One Issue #1:
	+ On Cover A are Winston and the Zombie Taxi Driver and scenes of Winston driving in Chapter 20: Keymaster and Winston about to declare, "I love his town!" in Chapter 28: Crossing Streams.
	+ On Cover B are a photo of Winston holding the Traps in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard, a photo of Ray and Winston pulling up to Fort Detmerring in a deleted scene, a Second Dan Black Belt in Karate as a nod to the final shooting script for Ghostbusters and on page 136 of Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular where Winston's resume listed him as a black belt in karate, a photo of Winston on the file folder is a stock promo photo from the first movie, Winston's middle name Ramsey was the original name of the character in early drafts of the first movie, Winston's pay grade is listed as $11,500, mentioned by Winston in Chapter 27: Stay Puft Man, Janine's interview questions about UFOs, Astral Projection, Mental Telepathy, ESP, Clairvoyance, Spirit Photography, Telekinetic movement, Full trans-mediums, Loch Ness Monster, and the theory of Atlantis, the check is from Manhattan City Bank seen in Chapter 4: Terminated at the Avenue of Americas address, The New York Times Monday classifieds references the Sedgewick Hotel, Dan Aykroyd encounter with Isaac Asimov during filming in Central Park West amid a traffic jam production caused, Tavern on the Green, the original 555-2368 Ghostbusters' phone number from Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul, and a nod to the weight of the Proton Pack props.
	+ On Cover RI is the Library ghost is in her transmogrified form. Studio 84 appears to be a stand-in for Studio 54. The 1984 is a nod to the year the first movie came out in.
	+ The Dramatis Personae mentions The Ghostbusters defeating Stay Puft Marshmallow Man at the end of the first movie in Rebecca Morales' biography. The act of mortgaging his family home in the first movie in Chapter 4: Terminated and Ray quickly hiring Winston in Chapter 14 is mentioned in Ray's biography. Egon's biography mentions his love of junk food. Peter's biography mentions how he talked Ray and Egon into forming Ghostbusters.
	+ On Page 1, in panel 2, the Cosmopolitan: Tonetic VHS tape in Louis' box is a nod to his 10 minute work outs he tells Dana about in Chapter 6: Spook Central. Dana's outfit is from Chapter 16: Dogs Drag Dana, right before she gets taken by Zuul. In panel 7, the Sedgewick Hotel manager's name in this canon is revealed to be Bennett Davis. Bennett is technically correct. While Dana was the Ghostbusters' first client, the Sedgewick was the first place where the Ghostbusters trapped a ghost. In panel 7, Bennett admits the damages were unacceptable at first. In the first movie, Ray shot up a hallway and they wrecked the Alhambra Ballroom. In panel 8, Bennett alludes to Slimer and mentions his capture in Chapter 13: "Nice Shootin', Tex."
	+ On Page 2, in panel 1, the Archbishop's last name in this canon is revealed to be O'Sullivan. He refers to when the Ghostbusters talked to Mayor Lenny in Chapter 24: Biblical of the first movie. In panel 3, the jail guard's name in this canon is revealed to be Tim Carlson. He mentions when the Containment Unit was shut down on Peck's order and caused an explosion in Chapter 21: "Out of Biz", when Peter was signing "Something good! For goodness' sake..." in the jail cell in Chapter 22: Holding Cell, and Mayor Lenny.
	+ On Page 5, in panel 3, at the news stand are the Omni magazine and Atlantic Monthly seen in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard at the top right. In the bottom right, on the left side of the second row is the Globe newspaper seen in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard. In the bottom left, is the USA Today "Ghost Fever Grips New York" newspaper and Time magazine seen in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard. In panel 4, the ad references the original 555-2368 Ghostbusters' phone number from Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul, and a nod to the weight of the Proton Pack props, Tavern on the Green, and Columbia University.
	+ On Page 6, the scene takes place in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard between when Winston looks up at the sign and when Janine asks the question about what he believes in. Janine alludes to when Peter asked if the first sign was too subtle or not in Chapter 8: Fried Eggs & Zuul.
	+ On Page 7, Winston's interview from Chapter 14 is reenacted. Janine, however, bears her blue rim glasses from the IDW canon rather than the red rim glasses in the movie. In panel 5, Winston alludes to when he was shown how to empty a trap in the basement in Chapter 14.
	+ On Page 9, in panel 3, Ray and Winston allude to Egon's Twinkie metaphor in Chapter 15: E.P.A. Man.
	+ On Page 11, in panel 1, Winston notes Peter reminded him of a carny. In the Supernatural Spectacular novelization, Peter worked summers as a carnival barker. Posted on the inside of Peter's locker door is the New York Post "Ghost Cops Bust Chinatown Spook" newspaper from Chapter 14.
	+ On Page 15, in panel 1, on the right are Harlan Bojay and Richard Learned Coombs, the deleted characters from the first movie portrayed by Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.
	+ On Page 16, Egon uses the Gamma Rate Meter, the device he used before the disembodied voice of Gozer demanded them to chose a Destructor Form in Chapter 26: Gozer of the first movie.
	+ On Page 18, at the last second, Winston is earned not to look in the Trap when it's open like in Chapter 13: "Nice Shootin', Tex."
	+ On Page 19, Peter mentions when Egon looked in the Trap during Slimer's capture in Chapter 13.
* In Ghostbusters Year One Issue #2:
	+ On Cover A are Ray and the Library ghost. The cover recreates scenes from the first movie: Ray in a period costume from Fort Detmerring in a deleted scene and Ray seeing Slimer for the first time but the latter depiction lacks his cigarette in Chapter 12: "He Slimed Me!"
	+ On Cover B is bottom part of the classifieds seen on Ghostbusters Year One #1 Cover B with a reference to Columbia University, a bag of Stay Puft Marshmallows first seen in Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul, reference to the Tunguska Blast of 1909 mentioned by Ray in the last chapter, a reference to the Manse Turbulence, the predecessor of the Philadelphia Mass Turbulence of 1947, mentioned on page 40 of the August 5, 1983 draft where Ray tells Winston about a documented case from Pennsylvania, the "Manse Turbulence" that entailed the occurrence of major structural damage, the appearance of multiple full head and torso manifestations, and ecto fluids, a photo of Ray in his blue lab coat from the first commercial in Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul, Ray's file has the Firehouse's North Moore Street address and the 555-2368 phone number seen in Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul. A Post-It note mentions: "Jean," the name of Ray's sister in Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular. A Columbia University business card for Dean Yeager. In this canon, Yeager's first name is "Jordan," taken from the name of the actor who portrayed him, Jordan Charney. A document mentions Islip. Islip was listed as the location of Ray's family's home on page 45 of Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular. The top left corner of the The Atlantic issue seen in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard appears at the top of the cover. In the petri dish is a piece of sponge, a nod to Ray's mention of a Mass Sponge Migration at the start of Chapter 3 "Get Her!" A document that references the Manhattan City Bank mortgage from Chapter 4: Terminated and Ray's "Francis" middle name uttered by Peter in Chapter 3 "Get Her!". A photo of Ray standing outside the Firehouse, before the exterior was modified, in the civies he wore in Chapter 5: Fixer Upper. A Camp Waconda card, the camp was mentioned by Ray in Chapter 27: Stay Puft Man and Stephen Dane's Trap sketch are on the right. Under the P.K.E. Meter is a passage "from a vantage...Librarian as the –" which is from the start of the August 5, 1983, September 30, 1983, and October 7, 1983 drafts of the first movie. The full passage is, "A single eerie musical note signals the presence of something strange looking down on the Librarian from a vantage point high above the room. It follows the Librarian as she pushes her cart around the corner." There is a Wise bag under the desk, seen in Chapter 15 E.P.A. Man.
	+ On Cover RI is Ray and Ecto-1. Ray is working on the red "sniffer" antennae seen on Ecto-1's roof rack. Next to the antennae is the Texas Instruments Cross-Section Sensitivity Unit, also installed on Ecto-1's roof rack. Ray is in his civies from Chapter 7 Fried Eggs and Zuul.
	+ On Page 1, continuing from page one of last issue, Dana's outfit is from Chapter 16: Dogs Drag Dana, right before she gets taken by Zuul. Jennifer brings up Peter convincing her of her psychic ability in Chapter 2 "Shock The Nerd". Bob refers to his repeated electrocutions in Peter's experiment in Chapter 2 "Shock The Nerd". As with his reason for taking part in Peter's experiment, Bob once again asks if he is being paid for the interview.
	+ On Page 2, Dean Yeager refers to firing Peter, Ray, and Egon in Chapter 4: Terminated and when he called Peter a poor scientist. Roger refers to the Library Ghost scaring Alice at the start of the first movie and to Peter's line of questions to Alice in Chapter 3: "Get Her!" Alice asks if she's talked about Saint Jerome. In the first movie, she mentions her uncle claimed he was Saint Jerome.
	+ On Page 3, Ray recounts the mass sponge migration he witnessed that he mentioned to Peter in Chapter 3: "Get Her!"
	+ On Page 4, Peter introduced Ray and Egon to each other. In the first movie's deleted scene "Nobel Prize Aspirations," Peter mentions he introduced Ray and Egon to each other.
	+ On Page 5, Peter assures Ray and Egon no one will care about their results. Evidently, the Board of Regents did.
	+ On Page 6, the flashback takes place before Chapter 2 and recreates how the New York Public Library exterior looked like in the movie down to the ongoing renovation and background extras. The moment of Ray and Egon first detecting the Library ghost, mentioned in Chapter 2, is shown. In panel 4, in the lower right seated is Joe Medjuck like his cameo but dressed like his later cameo in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard.
	+ On Page 7, the page recreates scenes from the library investigation in the first movie, Chapter 3: Panel 1 is Egon stepping away from the symmetrical stack while Ray films it. Panel 2 is when they find the Library ghost. Panel 3 is when the ghost shushes Peter. Panel 4 is the group huddle about what to do next. Panel 5 is Ray's "Get her!" Ray mentions Peter interviewing Alice in Chapter 3.
	+ On Page 8, the page recreates when the Library ghost transmogrifies and roars in Chapter 3. Ray alludes to them running out of the library, seen in Chapter 3.
	+ On Page 9, Rebecca alludes to Ray, Peter, and Egon getting fired in the first movie, Chapter 4: Terminated. Ray mentions going into business shortly after being fired, also seen in Chapter 4. Ray mentions the Sedgewick Hotel and getting their first call, seen in the first movie, Chapter 11: "We Got One!"
	+ On Page 10, Janine is wearing her outfit from the first movie, Chapter 21: Out of Biz when the grid is shut off.
	+ On Page 11, in panel 3, Peter is wearing the v neck sweater he had in the first movie, Chapter 11: "We Got One!" In panel 3, on Peter's locker door is the "Ghostbusters chief tells all" is originally from the July 2, 1984 Daily News interview with Ivan Reitman and an official 8x10 photograph of Sigourney Weaver in costume as Dana.
	+ On Page 12, Ray alludes to Peter not negotiating at Manhattan City Bank in the first movie, Chapter 4: Terminated.
	+ On Page 13, Peter's quip is a nod to Ray's plan to get the Library ghost in the first movie, Chapter 3: "Get Her!"
	+ On Page 14, Peter screams "Dah!" like in the first movie.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 4, behind Peter is a symmetrical stack of books.
* In Ghostbusters Year One Issue #3:
	+ On Cover A is Peter and Slimer. The scenes recreated on the cover from Ghostbusters are Peter radioing Ray after he sees Slimer for the first time in Chapter 12: "He Slimed Me!" and Peter holding up a Zener card in Chapter 2: Shock The Nerd.
	+ On Cover B are Janine's whale paperweight, the Ghost Sniffer, a photo of Peter dancing with a woman that references the issue's story about the bust at The Rose mentioned by Casey Kasem in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard, Zener Cards from Chapter 2: Shock The Nerd, the Post-It note reminder to meet Dana Barrett after practice and bring flowers which is a nod to Peter's bouquet in Chapter 19: Peter's Date with Zuul, a book in a satchel referenceing Janine's reading hobby, the Atlantic issue seen in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard, a flyer for a circus which references the family circus Peter was part of in page 155-156 in Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular, a photo of Peter in his blue lab coat from the first commercial in Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul, a game token referencing Peter's past as a carnival barker on page 153 of the Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular novelization, a mortgage contract from Manhattan City Bank seen in Chapter 4: Terminated, and the contract lists Ray's middle name, Francis used by Peter in Chapter 3: "Get Her!", the 19% interest rate from Chapter 4 is listed, the annual payment is listed as $19,000 references Chapter 4 when Egon stated in the first five years the interest would be $95,000 (in other words, each year, it would be $19,000), and Islip was listed as the location of Ray's family's home on page 45 of Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular.
	+ On Cover RI are Jennifer and Male Student from Chapter 2: Shock The Nerd, Male Student is spitting gum like he when he got shocked, EPA replaces the Comic Code, Peter's "8'o clock" quote replaces the Ha Ha Ha, the wavy line Zener card replaces the Ace of Spade playing card, and Peter is in his blue lab coat from the first commercial. Also on the cover is the Shandor Building, Temple of Gozer, the Firehouse, and Ecto-1.
	+ On Page 1, Louis is wearing his blue track suit from Ghostbusters Chapter 6: Spook Central. Next to Louis is a bottle of mineral water modeled after Perrier. In Chapter 6: Spook Central, Louis offered Dana some mineral water and in Chapter 17: "Who Brought The Dog?", bottles can be seen around the party. It is revealed Peck was placed on restricted duty pending official review after the events of the first movie. In panel 7, Janine is wearing the modified version of the outfit from her first appearance in Chapter 8: "Bug-Eyes Thing" that has been seen in past issues like Ghostbusters 101 Issue #1.
	+ On Page 2, Dana's instrument case is to her left, it was seen in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard. Dana mentions Thorazine. It was what Peter used on her when Zuul was in possession of her. Peter mentions it in Chapter 20: Keymaster. It is revealed in this canon, the Thorazine Peter used was prescribed to Dana for hiccups. Dana alludes to when she saw the Temple of Gozer and Terror Dogs in her refrigerator in Chaper 6: Spook Central.
	+ On Page 3, the USS Maine National Monument appears in panel 1, indicating they are at the Merchant's Gate entrance to Central Park on Columbus Circle. The monument appeared in Chapter 20: Keymaster.
	+ On Page 4, Rebecca recalls Dana describing Peter as a game show host then remembers she told him so. This was in Chapter 10: Checking Out Dana when Peter went took readings in her apartment. Rebecca also recalls Dean Yeager called Peter a poor scientist. It came up last issue and originally in Chapter 4: Terminated.
	+ On Page 5, Peter alludes to saving the world at the end of the events of the first movie.
	+ On Page 6, Peter alludes to Louis Tully and when Vinz Clortho chased him to the Tavern on the Green in Chapter 18: Terror on the Tavern. Peter mentions he has both a doctorate in Psychology and Parapsychology. He told Peck that in Chapter 15: E.P.A. Peter alludes to his experiment in Chapter 2: Shock the Nerd.
	+ On Page 7, Rebecca refers to the Containment Unit as "storage facility," a name used in the first movie.
	+ On Page 8, Peter brings up the bust at The Rose. It was only mentioned in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard. The IDW canon version of the events are gone over in this issue.
	+ On Page 9, in panel 1, one of the signs is changed from "Miller Time" to echo Peter's "It's Milla Time" in Chapter 26: Gozer after they open fire on Gozer a second time.
	+ On Page 14, in panel 4, tossed up the air from the explosion are: Chartbusters, a Ray Parker Jr. compilation album from 1984 in the top left, the Ghostbusters Soundtrack Album, evidenced by the red sticker advertising Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters", "In the Name of Love" by Thompson Twins, "I Can't Wait Forever" by Air Supply, "Hot Night" by Laura Braingan, and and "Cleanin' Up The Town" by The Bus Boys, in the top right, and in the bottom right is the LP cover of the Japanese version of the Ghostbusters Soundtrack.
	+ On Page 19, in panel 2 is the tall woman from Louis' party, portrayed by Jean Kasem, in Chapter 17: Who Brought The Dog? In panel 5, the Ghostbusters dance like how they do in the music video for Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" song.
	+ On Page 20, Peter alludes to Casey Kasem talking about the bust at The Rose in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard and even quotes his "pretty pesky poltergeist" line. Peter mentions the bust took place before they hired Winston. It was indeed mentioned in Chapter 14 right before Winston goes to the Firehouse and applies for the job opening.
* In Ghostbusters Year One Issue #4:
	+ On Cover A is Egon and the Subway Ghost. The scenes from the movie are Egon using his Twinkie metaphor in Chapter 15: E.P.A. Man and Egon reading about trepanation, a nod to Peter mentioning his aborted attempt in Chapter 3: "Get Her!"
	+ On Cover B is Egon's stethoscope is draped down the middle of the cover. Under the card are two articles about mycology, another nod to Egon's hobby. The top part of the Omni issue seen in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard is at the top of the cover. Janine's phone references the Ghostbusters' 555-2368 phone number seen in Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul and the Containment Unit. Under the phone is a paper on trepanation, another nod to Chapter 3: "Get Her!" The file photo is of Egon in his blue lab coat from the commercial in Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul. The small blue bottle is a nod to Egon asking Louis for a brain sample in Chapter 28: Crossing Streams. A Post It note from Janine mentions Egon's Fungus of the Month is coming in mid-November, a nod to his fungus hobby. Next to the Post It is Egon's Casio Micro-Mini Calculator from Chapter 4: Terminated. 1984 is on the calculator screen. Next to the calculator is a photo is Egon's "I got it!" scene with Joe Medjuck in the montage in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard. There is a Twinkie, first seen in Chapter 15: E.P.A. Man. The big jar contains mod, another nod to Egon's hobby. There is a Trap is under the desk. Slimer's ectoplasm is throughout the cover.
	+ On Cover RI is a Twinkie.
	+ On Page 1, Janine is wearing the modified version of the outfit from her first appearance in Chapter 8: "Bug-Eyes Thing". Janine alludes to trying to get to know Egon like when she asked him what his hobby was at the end of Chapter 8. Ray alludes to the P.K.E. readings taken at the New York Public Library and talks about when they were walking through Columbia University after the first encounter with the Library ghost, seen at the end of Chapter 3. Ray partially quotes Egon's line, "According to these new readings, I think we have an excellent chance of actually catching a ghost and holding it indefinitely," and alludes to when Peter gave Egon a Crunch bar. Peter refers to Egon's diet of junk food like the Twinkie in the first movie. Peter mentions HG Huges, a nod to Chapter 3 when Peter recalled Egon tried to drill a hole in his head. Hugo Bart Huges was a Dutch librarian and a proponent of trepenation.
	+ On Page 2, Winston mentions the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and the final battle in the first movie.
	+ On Page 3, it is revealed the Firehouse is still in disrepair from when Peck had the containment grid shut down. Officer Mike's license plate is 1984. Officer Mike's squad car is from the 41st Precinct. Those were seen outside the Shandor Building in the finale of the first movie.
	+ On Page 4, Winston alludes to when the Containment Unit detonated in Chapter 21: Out of Biz. Egon is using the Gamma Rate Meter, famously used after Gozer vanishes in Chapter 26: Gozer. Egon is in his gray sweater outfit like in Chapter 15 E.P.A. Man.
	+ On Page 5, Rebecca alludes to the Containment Unit blowing as soon as the grid was shut down in Chapter 21.
	+ On Page 6, Egon mentions Gozer and its arrival in the first movie. In panel 2, Winston mentions Egon's Twinkie analogy from Chapter 15. Egon mentions the Containment Unit was pushing capacity. He mentioned that in Chapter 15. Egon refers to the Shandor building as a magnet to the ghosts. Egon alludes to Walter Peck and his shut off order in Chapter 15. Rebecca mentions the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and when it was blown up in Chapter 28: Crossing Streams.
	+ On Page 7, Egon refers to the capture of Slimer at the Sedgewick Hotel in Chapter 13 "Nice Shootin', Tex." Egon refers to Chapter 11 "We Got One!" when the Hotel manager revealed the original staff all knew about Slimer and its history of disturbances. The last panel recreates when Ecto-1 parked in front of the Sedgewick Hotel in Chapter 11.
	+ On Page 8, in panel 1, to Ray's right is the Man at the Elevator from Chapter 11. Also in panel 1, in the background between Egon and Peter is the Hotel manager. Peter brings up when Egon looked in the Trap in Chapter 13 as they captured Slimer. Janine is in the outfit she wore in Chapter 11. Peter alludes to all the damage they did to the Alhambra Ballroom in Chapter 13.
	+ On Page 9, Peter's invoice references when he gave to the bill in Chapter 13, entrapment for $4000 and a special on proton charging and storage cost $1000. Ray alludes to when their dinner of Chinese takeout was interrupted by the first call in Chapter 11.
	+ On Page 10, the table in the basement is essentially as it looks in Chapter 14 and 15.
	+ On Page 11, Egon mentions the field might not have been properly neutronized. That was one of the steps Ray taught Winston in Chapter 14.
	+ On Page 13, the Aura-Video Analyzer's tower briefly appears. In panel 4, on the table is a Budweiser, what Ray drinks in Chapter 9: The 1st Customer and Chapter 11 "We Got One!" and a Wise Potato Chips bag. In the movie, one was in Peter's office in Chapter 15. Rebecca correctly recalls it took the three Ghostbusters to catch Slimer in Chapter 13.
	+ On Page 14, in panel 1, on the refrigerator are newspaper clippings are the June 10, 1984 Michigan Daily article "In search of ghosts..." review, a Halloween 1984 showtime ad from a California newspaper of children in costumes bearing the Ghostbusters' logo and the headline "Give The Little Monsters What They Deserve", the foldout manual from the Spectrum Game Cassette version of Ghostbusters: The Computer Game, and the Temple of Gozer image from the foldout manual. Egon eats Cheez Its like in Chapter 9. In panel 2, the man with the pizza spooked by Slimer was also one of the men spooked at the hot dog cart in Chapter 21: Out of Biz.
	+ On Page 16, Egon mentions the Sedgewick Hotel and the bust in Chapter 13.
	+ On Page 17, Rebecca brings up when he looked in the Trap in Chapter 13. In panel 3 are the three arcades Missile Command, Star Castle, and Star Gazer, seen in Chapter 11.
	+ On Page 18, the swirl of pink P.K.E. is reminiscent to when the ghosts escaped the Containment Unit in Chapter 21.
	+ On Page 20, in panel 3, Peter is in his purple sweater from Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul when Ray arrives with the car.

### References in Ghostbusters: Afterlife

* Peter's line, "For whatever reasons, Ray, call it fate... call it luck... call it karma... I believe that everything happens for a reason." is quoted in the first trailer.
* Elmer Bernstein's score is used throughout the movie.
* For the opening of the movie, Cynthia Millar performed and recorded with the ondes Martenot from Abbey Road Studios in London. She previously performed with the martenot for the first movie.
* Jason Reitman asked Cynthia Miller what she could do with the ondes Martenot that was never done in the first movie. She went one full octave lower.
* Even noise was sampled from the original score's multi-track recording. At a loud enough volume, viewers can hear a noise floor shift.
* The antennas on top of the Farmhouse is a nod to the equipment on Ecto-1's roof rack.
* The original P.K.E. Meter props were 3-D scanned and the props used in Afterlife were made from those scans.
* Zuul attacks Egon in a similar way she attacked Dana Barrett in the first movie with multiple arms popping out of the chair.
* Zuul and Vinz Clortho both display the ability to take the form of the P.K.E. wisp seen after the Containment Unit was shut down in the first movie. In Afterlife, Zuul takes on the form at the start of the movie as it flees the Farmhouse. Vinz takes it on as he returns to the Temple of Gozer after being released from the Trap and when he enters the Summerville Walmart.
* Phoebe shines her headlight in Callie's face, similar to when Egon did so to Peter in the first movie when they interviewed Dana Barrett.
* Callie, Phoebe, and Trevor losing their home and getting wrapped up in a paranormal event mirrors how Peter, Egon, and Ray were fired from Columbia University in the first movie.
* The proper quote of Revelation 6:12 from the King James Version of The Bible, "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood" is on the makeshift display in the path to the Farmhouse.
* The license plate of Callie Spengler's Subaru Outback is "48IRG91" and unscrambles into "IRG1984" or "Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters 1984."
* A stack of books in the living room is a nod to the Symmetrical Stacking found in the New York City Public Library.
* Janine Melnitz repeats one of her lines from the first movie, "Can I help you?"
* Janine's hesitance alludes to the romantic sub-plot between her and Egon in the first movie.
* Spinners Roller Hop, and later Enjoy Garden, bear Coca-Cola fountains.
* Tobin's Spirit Guide is seen in Phoebe Spengler's bedroom. She reads it the first night at the Farmhouse and later, Podcast reads a passage out loud about Gozer and the Terror Dogs.
* Phoebe's line stating she figured Gary Grooberson for a football coach is a callback to the first movie, Chapter 10: Checking Out Dana, when Dana told Peter he seemed more like a game show host than scientist.
* It is revealed the Shandor Mining Company extracted selenium from the mines in Summerville, a callback to the first movie, Chapter 20: Keymaster, when Ray noted 550 Central Park West was built with selenium girders.
* The hieroglyphs on the side of the stone wall match the ones on the Temple of Gozer in the first movie.
* Egon's ghost moves the armchair with Phoebe on it in a similar way done to Dana in the first movie.
* Gary Grooberson refers to when the Ghostbusters blew up the roof of 550 Central Park West in the 1984 movie.
* One of the clips in the video Gary plays is a deleted take of Mrs. Reitman, Catherine Reitman, and Jason Reitman's cameo as background extras fleeing from 550 Central Park West from the first Ghostbusters movie.
* One of the clips in the video Gary plays is of the Ghostbusters arriving at Central Park West and Peter greeting the crowd.
* One of the clips in the video Gary plays is a daily of Egon and Janine hugging at the end of the movie.
* Gary remarking "cool" when he learns Callie is single mirrors when Peter remarks "good" when he learns Dana lives by herself.
* Gary Grooberson admits "I always wanted to do this," in reference to using a Ghost Trap. In the first movie, Peter had a similar line when he performed the 'the flowers are still standing' trick.
* The teenagers looking down the mine shaft and seeing a figure say "Gozer" mirrors Dana's refrigerator scene.
* The pattern on Phoebe's maroon shirt are all the shapes on the Zener cards, the same used by Peter for his research at the start of the first movie.
* When Phoebe slides down the fire pole to Egon's underground laboratory, re-recording mixer Will Files reused the sound of when Ray Stantz slides down the fire pole in the original movie.
* Egon's collection of spores, mold and fungus are present in his underground laboratory.
* Janine's whale paperweight from the first movie is also present in the underground laboratory. It is on top of a computer.
* The maid door sign seen at the Weaver Hall lab's door in the first movie is present on the locker where Phoebe finds the Uniforms.
* The flightsuits were replicated from the originals down to the small details like the knife pocket being above the seam, using fewer stitches for the patch, using a machine to sew the patches, and matching a repair above the right thumb of Mooglie.
* Phoebe finds a Crunch bar in chest pocket of a flightsuit.
* The Medrad Mark IV Angiographic Injector Injection System from the Paranormal Studies Laboratory in the first movie is present in the underground laboratory.
* Egon's Stethoscope earphones from the library scenes appear on the stack of objects.
* There is a box of Cheez-Its in the underground laboratory.
* The Ghost Sniffer makes a cameo when Egon's ghost shows Phoebe his wall of framed diplomas.
* The original Proton Pack used by Harold Ramis in the first movie was Lidar-scanned then rebuilt down to the millimeter and aged. Ramis's daughter Violet Ramis-Stiel accompanied Jason Reitman and the crew when they went to Sony's archives to scan the prop. She tried on the prop and started to well up.
* Phoebe watches "Old Ghostbusters Ad (1984)" on a laptop in her bedroom. It is the commercial from the first movie, Chapter 7: Fried Eggs & Zuul.
	+ However, based on text overlay, the version used was not the one in the first movie. It is a fan-edit of the commercial uploaded by "Core" on June 9, 2017. It was assembled using the text-free commercial outtakes from the PlayStation 3 version of Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
* One of the video ads on the side of the video of the first Ghostbusters commercial is a thumbnail of the pink P.K.E. wisps flying through the New York City skyline after Walter Peck had the containment grid shut down in Chapter 21: Out of Biz.
* Another ad, for the video titled "The Ghostbusters: Where Are They Now?" by ParanormalWatch has a thumbnail taken from a candid on-set photo of Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray.
* One of the side ads when Phoebe watches the Ghostbusters commercial is of the scene when Slimer flies towards the camera at the end of the first movie.
* One of the side ads has a thumbnail of a poodle dressed as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
* Phoebe tells Podcast to "switch me on" like when Ray tells Egon in the Sedgewick Hotel elevator.
* Re-recording mixer Will Files took the digitized work tapes from the original movie and added new notes to make the Proton Pack Phoebe uses sound rusty and miscalibrated. In the cyclotron start up sequence, Files recorded an old railroad welding turbine from the 1800s while the Particle thrower and Proton Stream sound was processed and made to sound like it was spinning around.
* Richard Begg's original sounds that were and weren't used were used for the Proton Pack start up sequence. The sound team carefully manipulated and stitched the unused sounds together. Then for the sound of the cyclotron spinning around, they created a doppler effect using software called Sound Particles. They fed a sound into it and the software created thousands of little sound particles.
* Muncher took some inspiration from Slimer in the first movie.
* On the drive to Summerville to find Muncher, Podcast alludes to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and the finale of the first movie.
* After being pulled over by the Sheriff Domingo, a Twinkie is seen in the Ecto-1's glove box.
* Phoebe, Trevor, and Podcast are briefly held in a jail cell.
* Sheriff Domingo asks Phoebe "Who ya gonna call?"
* It is revealed Ray got the Revelation 6:12 quote tattooed on his left wrist.
* Ray recalls he was in the slammer once, a reference to when the Ghostbusters were imprisoned briefly after the containment grid was shut down in the first movie.
* Phoebe's impulsive emotional outburst in the police station mirrors when Egon had an outburst against Walter Peck.
* The close up of the red eye on the Terror Dog statue in the mine was a nod to when a similar manifestation happened in the first movie.
* Mini-Pufts emerge from bags of Stay Puft Marshmallows in the Summerville Walmart.
* VFX Producer Kerry Joseph and his team studied footage of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the first movie but added more emotion to the eyes of the Mini Pufts.
* At one point, there was talk of changing the look of the Terror Dog. Arjen Tuiten felt strongly against that and wanted to keep the iconic look. He put his foot down and the original look was kept.
* Tuiten got a call asking if he would be willing to do the Terror Dogs as well. He quickly agreed to. Sony gave him access to never-before-seen stills of the original puppets and reference material for the sculptures.
* Tuiten and his team wanted to stay with the process used by the Boss Films crew rather than scanning and milling one out in foam. They started with making a Terror Dog maquette. Steve Koch sculpted the maquette. They photographed it, projected ut on the wall four times the size, made an armature, and used 600 pounds of wet clay. They spent two weeks sculpting.
* Bill Sturgeon, of Spectral Motion, took lead on the Terror Dog's body skin. All other head foam skins and cosmetic elements were handled in Tuiten's shop.
* Bill Sturgeon scanned the core and designed all the internal head and body mechanisms then Jurgen Heimann built them.
* Vinz is seen eating from a bag of Purina Dog Chow Complete Adult with Real Chicken. Gary was about to call Vinz a nice doggie like Louis did in the first movie but is interrupted by a roar.
* Vinz Clortho's clumsiness mirrors when he crashed Louis Tully's party in the first movie.
* During the meeting in Spinners Roller Hop, the finale of the first movie is mentioned.
* As the other teenagers look over Phoebe, Podcast, Trevor, and Lucky Domingo's booth as they discuss the map, it mirrors when the Ghostbusters' cellmates started to get interested in their conversation about 550 Central Park West and Gozer in the first movie.
* Phoebe corrects Trevor calling Gozer a "she" and notes it is genderless. In the first movie, Chapter 26: Gozer, Winston thought Gozer was male then Egon states it's whatever it wants to be.
* After coming down the mine elevator, there is a statue of the pre-chosen form Gozer took in first movie.
* In the mine, Podcast concludes 1908 was for the Tunguska blast.
* Ivo Shandor appears in the movie.
* Among Callie's wall of photos, there is a note written by Egon thinking her college dorm room shows serious fatigue in all load bearing.
* Possessed Callie repeats to Phoebe, "There is no Mom, only Zuul."
* Possessed Callie breathes heavily just like possessed Dana did in bed when the containment grid was shut down in the first movie.
* The "Gozerian clouds" were taken from the original 65 millimeter cloud tank footage from the first movie.
* Podcast puts on the Aura Video-Analyzer's colander helmet.
* Possessed Grooberson is lying down in a pose mirroring possessed Dana in the first movie.
* It is revealed Zuul materializes a shiny dress from her host's clothing.
* The P.K.E. wisps flying out of the sacrificial death pit and around the city mirrors the first movie after the Containment Unit was shut down.
	+ The crew found the original special effects 70 mm footage of the pink P.K.E. streaks flying through the city, scanned them, and re-used them for shots in Summerville.
* The Miner Ghost was inspired by the Zombie Taxi Driver.
* The shot of the garage door rising up and making the turn mirrors when the Ecto-1 drove out of the Firehouse to head to the Sedgewick Hotel in the first movie.
* Ecto-1 drives by a big Stay Puft Marshmallows mural.
* Possessed Callie and Grooberson's transformation into Terror Dogs mirrors Dana Barrett and Louis Tully's transformation in the first movie. Likewise, Phoebe's reaction to the transformation and Zuul's head turn was a nod to a similar sequence between Peter and Zuul in the first movie.
* Peter refers to Gozer as "Flattop," a callback to the first movie when Ray says, "Aim for the flattop!"
* Ray addresses Gozer to stop in a similar long-winded way like he did in the first movie.
* Gozer asks Ray if he's a god.
* When the Trap Field is activated, the Mini-Pufts look like when the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was caught in the explosion from the Ghostbusters crossing the streams.
* One of Lucky's hands emerges first from the Zuul husk similar to the end of the first movie.
* Gary somewhat recalls he had sex with Callie while they were possessed and she confirms it. In the first movie, there is a deleted scene "No, Louis!" where Louis somewhat recalls it but Dana flat out denies it.
* Podcast emerges from Ecto-1 covered in marshmallow residue much like three of the Ghostbusters at the end of the first movie.
* In the mid-credits tag, Dana Barrett tests Peter with his own experiment, using the Zener cards and Electro-Shock Generator. He admits he only shocked the male subjects.
* Only one element in the Busy deleted scene was used for the end tag and the rest were built. The background sounds they added in were filtered to make it feel more like the 1984 movie.
* In the end credits tag, Janine recalls when she interviewed Winston.
* In the end credits tag, Winston alludes to his steady paycheck quip.
* In the end credits tag, Winston quotes one of his lines from the first movie when they thought they defeated Gozer, telling Janine "I had the tools and the talent."

### References in Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed

* In Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed:
	+ "Ghostbusters" plays in the opening title sequence.
	+ In Act 1 Scene 1, Ray alludes to Gozer.
	+ After the Act 1 Scene 3 cutscene, talking to Catt reveals she was a Ghostbusters fan since she was seven or right when she saw the cross-rip in 1984.
	+ In Act 3, Scene 3, Nameless is wearing the Aura Video-Analyzer colander helmet.
	+ In Act 3, Scene 3, Eddy Chan mentions Zuul.
	+ In the Firehouse:
		- The footlockers still bear the name plates of Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, and Winston Zeddemore.
		- Throughout the Firehouse are boxes of Yellow Cake Logs, a stand-in for Twinkies.
		- On the front desk is Janine Melnitz's whale figurine from the first movie.
		- In the back office are some of the newspaper articles from the first movie, including the "Ghost Fever Grips New York" one in Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard.

* On the second floor there are:
	+ An area for a spores, mold, and fungus collection, a nod to Egon's line in Chapter 8: "Bug-Eyes Thing".
	+ On a desk are Egon's Stethoscope from the first movie.
	+ On the counter is a bag of Stay Puft Marshmallows and box of Cheeze-Its.
	+ One of the arcades is Star Explorer based on Star Gazer seen in Ghostbusters.
	+ In the lab, on the right is an old computer with the game title screen for the Ghostbusters Commodore 64 video game.
	+ Right near the old computer is the colander helmet for the Aura Video-Analyzer.
	+ In the far corner of the lab is the MEDRAD Mark IV Angiographic Injector from the Paranormal Studies Laboratory in the first movie.
	+ On the table at the far side of the lab is a Ghost Sniffer from the first movie.

* The Stay Puft Marshmallows ad originally seen in Chapter 22: Out of Biz is in the alley between the Firehouse and Ray's Occult Books.
* The graffiti under Stay Puft in the alley advertisement quotes Winston's line "What did you do, Ray?" in the first movie in Chapter 27: Stay Puft Man.
* In the alley between Ray's Occult and the Firehouse, behind the targets on the wall and on a pile of junk is "Venkman Burn in Hell," a nod to the message left on the Paranormal Studies Lab door in Weaver Hall from Chapter 2: Shock the Nerd.
* Hanging on the shelves behind the counter in Ray's Occult is a framed copy of the famous Revelations quote from the first movie in Chapter 20: Keymaster.
* If the player flies the ghost to the top of the Ghost Realm map, Mick Smiley's "Magic" song plays.
* "Magic" also plays in the last cutscene.

## References

1. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 82 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Though the nutrona wands employed in the film are clearly rifle-inspired firearms, the high-tech ghost-herding devices of Dan Aykroyd's original concept were indeed wand-like. Attached via thick black flex-cords to a back-mounted proton power source, the wands were strapped in place at the wrist -- one on each arm -- and extended out along the palm to a point six inches beyond the fingertips. When fired -- by means of an elbow toggle switch on the backpack -- phosphorescent beams of red and green light issued forth."*
2. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 84 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Overall, the Onionhead entrapment follows -- with a fair degree of faithfulness -- the opening sequence in Dan Aykroyd's solo script. As originally drafted, the Ghostbusters respond to a call from the Greenville Guest House regarding the discovery in the kitchen of gluttonous yellow mist or grotesquely altered human form -- a 'FRVP' or 'free-repeating vaporous phantasm' in ghostbusting lingo. After chasing the apparition -- described as 'onion-headed' at one point -- through the rustic guest home, the Ghostbuster corner it in the basement, encircle it with nutrona beams and maneuver it into a small collapsible trap."*
3. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 86 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In the first Dan Aykroyd script, the Greenville Guest House proprietor balked at a mere $500 fee."*
4. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 102 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In Dan Aykroyd's first script, the spectral storage facility was not at the firehouse itself, but rather in a deserted Sunoco gas station in northern New Jersey, taken over by the Ghostbusters and surreptitiously converted into a holding cell for wayward spirits."*
5. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 125 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In Dan Aykroyd's original script, the root of New York's widespread psychic disturbances lay in the fact that a 'Zuul' -- a generic term for the other-dimensional creature which would later evolve into the Terror Dogs -- had somehow strayed out of its rightful time and place and was being held captive by the Ghostbusters' employer, himself a transdimensional being."*
6. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 125 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Unfortunately, the Zuul happened to be a favored pet of the all-powerful Gozer -- absolute ruler of the sixth dimension -- who, it seemed, would stop at nothing to recover it. When this concept was superseded in subsequent drafts, Zuul became a given name for the female Terror Dog, which -- along with her like companion Vinz Clortho -- is seeking refuge from the Gozer in New York."*
7. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 138 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "A large billboard -- rendered in matte painting form by Matthew Yuricich -- appears on one of the buildings adjacent to the firehall. Featured on it is a representation of the Stay-Puft marshmallow man and the words "Stay-Puft Marshmallows -- Stays Puft, Even When Toasted -- an advertising slogan lifted from Dan Aykroyd's original script."*
8. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 146 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "One of the many supernatural manifestations encountered in Dan Aykroyd's first script was a skeletal biker who has been terrorizing the residents of a small upstate town.'"*
9. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 146 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Harold Ramis says: "Often, in early drafts of a script, you have one scene with good dialogue, another scene with a great visual impact, and yet another scene that makes a really expositional point. But what makes a really dense comedy is when you can take the good dialogue and the physical business and the raw exposition for all these different scenes and load them into one strong scene with a definite reason for being. That's what happened with the skeletal biker. It was a wonderful concept, but it was too far removed from the main story. With the skeletal cab driver, we were able to save the visual effect from that original scene and put it in a place where it made better sense.'"*
10. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 152 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In Dan Aykroyd's original script, Shandor was the name of the Ghostbusters' interdimensional employer - a decided eccentric whose walls were lined with mounted trophy heads taken from such challenging big game as bats, rats and lobsters. Though Shandor was invariably to be found sequestered in his darkened office, perched on a swivel armchair and covered entirely by a near-opaque mosquito bonnet, no one seemed to suspect that there might be anything inherently out of the ordinary about him."*
11. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 165 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph says: "A sinkhole of much grander scale was included in the original Dan Aykroyd script, when the accidental release of the Ghostbusters' incarcerated spirits triggers a twenty-five acre sinkhole around their gas station storage facility. The sinkhole, in turn, disrupts a long inactive fault line which somehow transforms most of northern New Jersey into a blazing inferno."*
12. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 18 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In the first Aykroyd-Ramis collaboration, the graffiti read: 'Venkman sucks cock in Hell!' -- an amusing reference to one of the shocker lines from The Exorcist. An occasional R-rated expletive -- strictly for humorous effect -- was also to be found in the early Ghostbusters drafts. In the end, however, Ivan Reitman opted to take the high road with regard to language and taste."*
13. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 36 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Harold Ramis says: "In our first draft, the Ghostbusters were tossed out of a small New England college and then go to New York. But we realized that there was something very vital about being in the city, so we began thinking maybe we should start the film there. That's when we came up with the idea of using the New York Public Library for our opening sequence."*
14. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 124 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "The exchange between Louis and the horse harkens back to a deleted scene from the June and July drafts in which Venkman and the alien Zuul -- masquerading as human in Dana's body -- leave the restaurant and encounter several carriage horses. Noticing the bridles and harnesses, Zuul inquires if they are prisoners. Uncertain of her reaction, Venkman responds promptly: "No, no. They're volunteers. This is considered a good job for a horse." "They look so sad," Zuul laments, and then kisses one of the beasts with enough genuine emotion to elicit a worried look from the carriage driver. In the June draft, Venkman pulls her away and segues -- ever so smoothly -- into an invitation which leads to his surprise wakeup the next morning: "You know, I was just thinking. No trip to this dimension would be complete without a visit to the Times Square Motor Hotel."*
15. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 126 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Eventually cut from the script was a restaurant sequence which appeared in the June and July drafts. In both, Venkman takes Dana -- an interdimensional alien masquerading as a beautiful woman in the first draft, and a beautiful woman possessed by an interdimensional alien in the second -- to a fashionable restaurant. Her unfamiliarity with the finer points of human etiquette becomes apparent when, upon arrival, she observes several ladies removing their wraps and proceeds to follow their example by taking off her blouse."*
16. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 22. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Though present -- in somewhat differing form -- in all three of the early Aykroyd-Ramis collaborations, Venkman's appearance before a university funding committee was ultimately scratched in favor of the ESP testing sequence. In the July and August drafts, the opening segment with the screaming librarian cut directly to her apparent point of view -- in actuality a ceremonial demon mask being used by Venkman as a visual aid..."*
17. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 68 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In the July and August drafts, Spengler conducts an early demonstration of the experimental ghostbusting equipment for his comrades at the firehall. Since the self-contained unit is still under development, the existing prototype is plugged into an AC outlet.* An audible surge of power runs from the wall socket along the extension cord to the power pack on Spengler's back. The pack heats up to 550 degrees and kicks the electrical surge back down the wire to the wall outlet which melts. At once, all the lights in the room black out. *Compounding the gag, the action then cuts to an exterior of the firehouse as all the lights in and on the building go out, as does the street lamp and the stoplight at the corner. Then the action cuts once again to a long shot of downtown office buildings as they all black out in rapid succession, leaving dark silhouettes against the night sky."*
18. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 126. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685.
19. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 126 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Later in the July draft, Louis Tully -- then a visiting conventioneer, also possessed -- enters the same restaurant..."*
20. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 203 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Alternate endings in earlier drafts included scenes within the towering glass and chrome headquarters of Ghostbusters International - now a high-rolling multinational corporation "recognized everywhere as the first line of defense against interdimensional trespassers." The July draft even attempted to wrap up the romantic loose ends. Venkman and Dana set up housekeeping, Spengler and Janine are married, and Stantz returns to Fort Detmerring for spiritual renewal."*
21. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 115 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "As originally scripted for John Candy, the Louis Tully character was to have had decidedly earthier interests -- best evidenced in the party sequence as it appeared in the August draft."*
22. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 121 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In the August draft, Louis' attempted escape into Central Park is preceded by a sequence in which -- having just emerged from the apartment house -- he flags down a passing taxi and jumps inside. Seconds later, the Terror Dog bounds out of the building and launches itself onto the hood of the cab. In true New York form, the driver hurls a few expletives at the beast, guns his motor and speeds away, causing the creature to lose its balance and fall by the wayside. Undaunted, the Terror Dog takes off in hot pursuit, chasing the taxi through the streets of Manhattan."*
23. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 152 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Shandor was dropped altogether from the first two Aykroyd-Ramis collaborations, but resurfaced in the third - in name, at any rate - with an even more unsavory background than that suggested by the final shooting script. As recounted by Spengler in the August draft, Ivo Shandor was a deranged surgeon, architect and Gozer worshipper, electrocuted at Sing Sing after his attempted abduction of a teenage girl led police to his penthouse apartment, furnished impeccably - if not tastefully - with stacks of human bones."*
24. ↑ Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 06:21-06:55). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "We uh we all went up to um, where was it?"/*Joe Medjuck says: "Martha's Vineyard."/*Ivan Reitman says: "Martha's Vineyard! The story of the making of this movie actually uh has... it all happened very quickly. Danny Aykroyd wrote a 40 page treatment. That happened over years and years which I was fortunate to get sent to me and uh... I think he originally wrote it for he and..."/*Joe Medjuck says: "John Belushi."/*Ivan Reitman says: "That's right, he and Belushi and unfortunately John Belushi passed away before they could make that one. When I read it, it took place in the future with tons of..."*
25. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 12:43-13:37). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "When I read the very first sort of treatment it took place in the future. There were many groups of Ghostbusters, the Marshmallow Man came out on page 20 and was one of 50 large scale monsters. Frankly, if I was going t make that particular script, it would have cost $300 million in 1984 and...but there was this one fantastically brilliant idea which there was a group of men who much like firefighters who could catch ghosts and I remember sitting down at a deli with uh Danny and said "Look this is a great idea but we should work on it some more and why don't you get Harold Ramis involved because he outta be a Ghostbuster as well. He's great, he's got just the right sort of brilliance to him and let's bring Billy into it" and he went with it and about a month later we were making this picture. "*
26. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 13:44-14:21). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "I went into Frank Price's, who was the head of Columbia Pictures, office and uh I said "Okay, we're going to do this movie, it's called Ghostbusters. This is sorta what the story is about..." because we of course didn't have a script at the time, and um he said uh "What will it cost?" and I said "$30 million." It was just a number off the top of my head because that was more money, three times as much I spent on my last movie and he uh he said "Fine, have it out by June." and that was exactly 12 months from that moment. We had no script, no special effects team but we had three willing actors. "*
27. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 15:27-15:43). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "I should probably point out also in Dan's original script, there was no development of the Ghostbusters as parapsychologists working in the university, starting up the company... all this stuff. Ivan and I both had the idea we wanted to see how the Ghostbusters got to be Ghostbusters. "*
28. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 15:43-15:59). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "Yeah, I always thought the movie should be a going into business story. Really smart guys that go into business. Just a very unusual business. I like the idea of them going to a bank, getting a place, dealing with a realtor, fixing the place up... I thought these were all things an audience could relate to. "*
29. ↑ Greene, James, Jr., (2022). *A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever*, p. 24. Lyons Press, Essex, CT USA, ISBN 9781493048243. *Line reads: "Chevy Chase has said he turned down a role in the movie but has never elaborated about the details (storyboard artist Thom Enriquez says that when he was brought aboard to work on the film in June 1983, he was asked to draw a scene in which a ghost seduces Chase)."*
30. ↑ Greene, James, Jr., (2022). *A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever*, p. 26. Lyons Press, Essex, CT USA, ISBN 9781493048243. *Line reads: "When I was hired on June 2, 1983, (the movie) was called Ghost Chasers. It changed back to Ghost Busters on June 17."*
31. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 16:57-17:00). Bueno Productions. *Ivan Reitman says: "Our official start of principal photography was the end of October."*
32. ↑ "Columbia Plans Production Increase." Variety Daily, 11 October 1983. *Article reads: "Reitman currently is doing second unit on Columbia's upcoming "Ghost Busters" with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Principal photography starts Oct. 26."*
33. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 54:07-54:31). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "I remember because of the amazing schedule we were under which was that we started writing in May or June of '83 then the movie the movie was going to be out in June of '84 and that I decided arbitrarily to do three days of shooting without the main cast in October when we actually did principal photography in November. "*
34. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 12. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Ivan Reitman says: "The whole Keymaster-Gatekeeper idea came very late, and we struggled with it all the way."*
35. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 18 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "During principal photography, it was decided that the flying books concept was too obvious an effect. At Dan Aykroyd's suggestion, several volumes were instead made to float mysteriously across the aisles, exchanging places while the librarian's back is turned."*
36. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 47 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "After the film was out and doing well -- just to keep the phenomenon going -- Ivan came up with the idea of taking a 'junk buy' cross-country on late-night TV and running the commercial just as it appeared in the film, only with the superimposed phone number changed to an 800 number. Then people would call it and get an answering machine with Danny's and Bill's voice saying: 'Hi, we're the Ghostbusters. We're not in right now -- we're out catching ghosts...' Well, they did that, and they got a thousand calls per hour, 24-hours-a-day for six weeks."*
37. ↑ Southland Ghostbusters Facebook "1984 Ghostbusters Hotline audio recording" 1/24/2020
38. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 08:15-08:30). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "I knew we had a hit actually when... the second weekend of release when I was walking through Manhattan there were sort of... kiosks at every corner with guys selling illegal black market T-shirts with sayings from the movie and the logo on it. "*
39. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 47 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Ivan Reitman says: "At one point, we planned to do a second commercial for the film -- one that we could work into the montage after they've become famous. I was going to do it as an elaborate MTV music video, with the guys singing the 'Ghostbusters' song -- which we later could have actually played on MTV. Unfortunately, we didn't get the song we liked until late in postproduction, and by that time it was too late to go back and do it."*
40. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 49 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "The Stay-Puft marshmallow man appears several times in the film, because we wanted to build a continuity of his presence. In fact, at one point, we considered either ending or beginning the Ghostbusters commercial with a Stay-Puft spot -- complete with a little stop motion countertop like the Pillsbury doughboy. We discarded that idea, though, as being a bit of overkill."*
41. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 50 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says: "We were about four weeks into shooting before we knew for certain that we could use the name. Because of that, we had three different signs made up for the carpenter to hang over the firehouse door -- each with a different name on it, although the only other serious contender was Ghoststoppers. Finally, we struck a deal with Filmation that allowed us to stick with our original title."*
42. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 81 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Joe Day applies 'ectoslime' to Bill Murray. In reality, the gooey substance was derived from methylcellulose ether -- a powdered thickening agent used in pharmaceuticals and food products."*
43. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 104 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Harold Ramis says: "We were delighted with the notion that this script could be so 'out there,' and yet still have a scientific and parapsychological plausibility. From a physics point of view, Dan was always talking about things like 'holes in the reality envelope.' Well, I didn't know what that would mean to an audience, so I came up with this 'Mr. Wizard' kind of analogy -- describing the universe as an expanding, four-dimensional balloon. And as I was talking, I'd be blowing up this balloon. Then I'd explain, 'If something were to penetrate the envelope of our reality...' -- and the balloon would pop. That then led to the 'Twinkie' analogy. The whole thing made sense in terms of the plot but it was just much too long, so only the Twinkie survived."*
44. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 112 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "It was always the intention to have only two, but when Thom Enriquez storyboarded the sequence, he showed the movement of one of the arms by drawing it in two positions, with cartoon-style movement lines in between. This drawing was misunderstood by the guys in the 'monster shop,' so they built three -- and since they had, we used them. When it came time to shoot the scene, Ivan decided to have the third arm come right up between Sigourney's legs. It really made the sequence much more terrifying and threatening. Originally, each arm was different. One was a human arm, one had a hook on the end of it and one was a green, frog-like sucker arm. Ivan didn't like the sucker arm -- he thought it looked too cartoonish -- so we ended up with two human arms and the one with the hook."*
45. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 165 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Ivan Reitman says: "There was a lot of debate over whether or not the sinkhole effect was worth doing. It was, after all, a very expensive stunt - about $250,000. The studio didn't want me to do it, and my associate producers both felt it was something we could give up. But I thought it was really important because up to then, nothing really bad had happened to these guys. They'd had their hair tousled and blown around, but there was no real sense of the threat. It seemed to me that prior to the final battle we had to demonstrate - immediately and simply - just what they were going up against. The sinkhole effect showed how though and violent things would get. I was convinced it was a great sequence, so I stuck with it."*
46. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:20:20-1:20:25). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Here's a great switch from the real Central Park West to the back lot. This is all the back lot now. "*
47. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:20:26-1:20:45). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "All these effects John De Cuir recreated the street and [first two floors] actually three so I could get wide enough for the shot and these are all on hydraulics underneath so we could redo it over and over and there's... "*
48. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:20:45-1:20:55). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Then in New York, the police car slid into the street. They took a police car and just literally cut the front half off the car and laid it in the hole in the street, the fake hole in the street. "*
49. ↑ Indie Wire "Bill Murray Says He's Ready to Do Another 'Ghostbusters': 'It Paid For My Son’s College'" 5/15/19 *Bill Murray says: "They came to set one day. All of a sudden, there were like 25 guys from Coca-Cola hanging around in suits. You can smell people who don’t belong on sets, right? You can just smell 'em. You can feel that there's weird energies. You can almost smell the enemy because the enemy is distraction. I just like to tell this story because it's funny to me. So they came, and we're in the middle of a scene. I immediately stopped what we were doing, and just sort of walked over and started talking to them. And I kept talking to them. It went on and on. It wasn't two minutes, it wasn't 10 minutes, it wasn't half an hour. When we passed half an hour and got into the 40 minute range, they started going, 'There's 250 people watching us talk to this mother\*\*\*\*er. Maybe we should go.' And they left, and never came back. "*
50. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 50:31-50:39). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "Amazingly enough, the budget as I said earlier was $30 million and I think we finally made the film for $31 million. We went slightly over budget. "*
51. ↑ Greene, James, Jr., (2022). *A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever*, p. 56. Lyons Press, Essex, CT USA, ISBN 9781493048243. *Line reads: "This was especially true considering the film's reputed final* budget of $38 million (a number that factored in marketing costs)."
52. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 35 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Although permission was granted for the production unit to shoot on the Columbia University campus, it was with the understanding that the school not be identified as such in the film. Neither Weaver Hall nor a 'Paranormal Studies Laboratory' actually exists at Columbia."*
53. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 02:40-02:44). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "There's no Weaver Hall but this is Columbia University. "*
54. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 02:45-02:47). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "Even this was at Columbia, wasn't it? "*
55. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 03:39-03:54). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "And t his was actually a room at Columbia University, we should have--we were planning to shoot this on the set but were moving so fast in New York that we went to our cover sets that John De Cuir aged it but otherwise it's in the basement somewhere in Columbia. "*
56. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 02:57-03:00). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "And this was based on a real experiment, wasn't it, Harold? "*
57. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 03:01-03:17). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "We based it on the Milgram Experiment which was to psych--subjects in a psychological study were instructed to give electrical shocks to people trying to learn a list of words but what they were really testing were the peoples' willingness to give electrical shocks to other people. "*
58. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 20 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Harold Ramis says: "Our original concept for the scene was to have the ESP test and Venkman reinforcing the girl by telling her she's getting them all right, even when she's not. Then I came up with the added dimension of having him give shocks to the poor nerd -- an idea that was based on a real experiment, were people had to give electric shocks to test people; but the people giving the shocks didn't know that they were the test subjects. The idea was to see how far people would go in giving shocks to other people. I thought that was a very interesting psychological problem, and I loved the notion of the hero of the film giving electric shocks. It has an interesting moral edge for people, and it just seemed like a delightful setup."*
59. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 04:47-04:58). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "There was a lot of conversation I remember about when the spitting of the gum moment should occur. Should it be on the first? The second? The third? We used it as a climax moment. "*
60. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 00:25-00:41). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "Now we actually shot this in New York at the Public Library. But unfortunately there was scaffolding everywhere because they were cleaning the building... "*
61. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 00:56-00:59). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "And this handsome young man is me 15 years ago crossing the screen. "*
62. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 00:59-01:07). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "And through the magic of cinema, as she [Alice] walks down the stairs we are now shooting in the Los Angeles Public Library. "*
63. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 01:27-01:29). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "$250,000. "*
64. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 07:45-07:46). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "All before 10:00. "*
65. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 10:24-11:05). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "But he um this first moment of seeing the Librarian and the Librarian shift... I remember our first screening. Our first test screening was only three weeks after we finished shooting. We edited the movie very quickly. It came together nicely and we didn't have much of our special effects but we had this one here, not so much this one but the one that's coming up - the transformation and when we screened it for this audience for people at Columbia Studios they just freaked out... both screamed and laughed at the same time. It was a sense of how the movie was going to work, both truly scary and really funny. "*
66. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 12:25-12:27). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "No, this was the first day of principal photography. "*
67. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 37. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685.
68. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 15:17-15:27). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "I remember because we finished in the library at 10 am then we went outside, took a break, went outside of the library, and shot this same scene at the end of the day. "*
69. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 39. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Production designer John DeCuir examines a foam core mockup of the firehall -- an existing structure to which he would be adding the enclosed office area at the rear as well as other modifications and refinements. Such mockups were invariably useful in establishing a three-dimensional feel for the sets -- before costly construction or renovation was initiated -- and often proved useful to Ivan Reitman for blocking action and determining camera angles."*
70. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 39. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Once these initial scenes were shot, DeCuir and his staff moved in and made the necessary modifications for later sequences in the film."*
71. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 16:00-16:10). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "More creative geography. This is an actual old Firehouse in Los Angeles but the interior is an actual in-use Firehouse in New York. "*
72. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 16:10-16:13). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Coincidentally built in the same year, 1912. "*
73. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 16:17-16:24). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "And it's true, as soon as we did see this pole, Danny said we gotta use it. It wasn't just a moment in the movie. "*
74. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 28:32-28:36). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "This really was fun. This was also back in LA. We got to slide down the pole. "*
75. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:01:24-1:01:44). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "We used that same um machinery we saw on Sigourney and as the camera moves across Rick ducked out and we put the head of one of those rubber dummies of the Terror Dog in so it would appear like that's what was inside of him. "*
76. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 41 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "Plans to use the 1 Fifth Avenue building progressed to the point of designing preliminary rooftop sets for it, but were dropped when the co-op committee for the building voted against its use in the film."*
77. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 16:52-16:54). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "This was added optically, this gargoyle. "*
78. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 54:01-54:02). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "Yeah, this was in October when... "*
79. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 54:02-54:06). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "This was when we went a week early. Shot for five days. Most of this. "*
80. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 60. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Line reads: "The illumination peeking through the doorframe was Reitman's nod to a similar effect in Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind."*
81. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 55:05-55:14). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "And this was the street we created in the back lot of Columbia... Columbia Studios. "*
82. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:18:44-1:19:19). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "So this is 65th and Central Park West so what happens there's the East-West crossing through the park on 65th and 66th. Columbus Circle is just off the street so when we were shooting this scene for three days, we stopped traffic here which shut down Columbus, 8th, Broadway, 7th, and 59th Street. Shot the East-West pass through the park, traffic started backing up to Times Square then Herald Square, Eastside, all the way to the river and they told us at one point we shut down 60% of Manhattan. "*
83. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:19:24-1:19:50). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Ah right, so we're taking a break one day, Danny and I are standing on 65th and Central Park West, Danny sees Isaac Asimov, who lives in the neighborhood. Danny was so excited, he was one of the great science fiction writers of our age, 'Mr. Asimov, Dan Aykroyd, we're shooting the Ghostbusters movie'... he says 'Are you the ones responsible for this?'... and he walks away. He couldn't get home. "*
84. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:20:05-1:20:19). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "I remember there was a guy trying to get through, a really obnoxious guy in a car in the area and he started giving the policemen who were working on the film some real grief so they just pulled him out of the car and arrested him. "*
85. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 67. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685.
86. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 29:52-29:59). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "I used this moment in "Dave" when he exits as the supposed President of the United States. "*
87. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 35:05-35:10). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "One of my least favorite special effects. "*
88. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 35:32-35:37). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "We ended up shooting I guess in the hotel for three or four days on this sequence. "*
89. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 91 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says: "Most of the montage was shot in one day in New York. We had been working late the night before with the full crew, then got up early in the morning and went all over town with a small crew, shooting stuff. We went to Chinatown, Rockefeller Center, 42nd Street, Saks Fifth Avenue and the United Nations -- all in one day. We didn't really have permits to shoot in any of these places -- we just made quick stops here and there. That's pretty much the way Ivan made movies in the old days -- a small crew, moving fast. We had two small trucks with equipment, and Danny was actually driving the Ectomobile, having a great time. And the crowds on 42nd Street are real. You put Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd on a street corner, and you have no trouble drawing a crowd."*
90. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 40:02-40:14). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "The guy chasing here is not an actor, he was really chasing...The guy chasing was really someone from Rockefeller Center because it was illegal to shoot there. "*
91. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 96 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Venkman's interception of Dana outside the Metropolitan Opera House -- ostensibly to give her a progress report on her case -- was actually the first scene shot between Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver."*
92. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 96 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says: "For the long shots, we had to loop the dialogue because the Lincoln Center fountain in the background created so much noise. For the closeups -- when the fountain was out of frame -- we were able to have the water shut off."*
93. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 123 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "The original idea was for Louis to be trapped by the Terror Dog in a dark corner of the park. But Ivan was scouting locations one day, emulating Louis' moves from the time he runs out of the apartment building -- 'Louis runs here, then he runs here, and then he runs ... there!' And there was the Tavern on the Green -- a logical distance for Louis to have run, and a logical place to seek refuge."*
94. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 59:15-59:17). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "This is uh 6th Avenue I think. This is the middle of the night near Central Park I remember. "*
95. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 151 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "The incarceration scene was shot lon location at an actual New York prison facility, now out of commission and essentially abandoned."*
96. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:11:01-1:11:05). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "Yes, this was a real jail, deserted I believe. "*
97. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:11:13-1:11:17). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "Danny claimed it was haunted and the film got scratched, we had to cut around it. "*
98. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:10:44-1:10:46). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "This is a jail in Lower Manhattan. "*
99. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:11:07-1:11:12). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "No, it was in the middle of 14th Street or something. "*
100. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:13:12-1:11:15). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Ivan, you fired an extra on this day, do you remember that? "*
101. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:13:16-1:13:19). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "Some guy mouthing off... 'You, out and never come back'. "*
102. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:13:20-1:13:23). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "And he thought you were kidding and you said 'No, get out'. "*
103. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:14:28-1:14:32). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "This is actually the City Hall yes. "*
104. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:14:37-1:14:44). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "We were given amazing access actually by the filming group in New York. "*
105. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 154 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "The production unit filmed for two days in and around New York's City Hall, during which time the office of City Council president Carol Bellamy was graciously made available as a stand-in for the actual mayor's office cited in the script."*
106. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:14:54-1:15:02). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "This was I believe Elizabeth Holtzman's office if my memory serves me. It's a twin to it on the other side of the building. "*
107. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 156 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says: "There were several variations of that scene on the set. During one take, Danny called Peck 'wee wienie winkle' and Bill Murray broke up completely - which is something he almost never does on camera."*
108. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 165. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685.
109. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:22:02-1:22:07). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "This is one or two stairs then everything up is a matte painting. "*
110. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:22:08-1:22:16). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "I think this was shot at the Biltmore. "*
111. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 24:04-24:38). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "Let me say about the rooftop. We were thinking about where, what would be the center of the disturbance. And different kinds of buildings and places all over the city and we...I don't know if this this is how it occurred to everyone but I remembered a rooftop in St. Louis which was a replica of a temple and we started looking at the rooftops of New York and someone produced a coffee table book called 'Rooftops of New York' and we saw all these interesting temples on rooftops of buildings and all these strange Gothic structures and they went with that as a design concept."*
112. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:23:34-1:23:49). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "The whole rooftop sequence took us a few weeks to film. It was all on this stage. The Ghostbusters are actually in there in that shot in the hole, closer you can see the guys walking around. "*
113. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 59. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Line reads: "Stephen Dane's concept sketch for a metal detector-style ghost-detecting device."*
114. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 08:31-08:40). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "This piece of equipment, only Harold got to learn how to use it. He had sort of had a secret way to use the three buttons that were on it that made the little wings rise and fall. "*
115. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 39:54-40:01). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "Danny Aykroyd is actually driving the car in most of these shots. We shot it all in one day after we been up late the night before. We went off with just the car... "*
116. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 40:50-41:03). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "Yeah and Dan, we used that as part of the pre-publicity for the movie. "*
117. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:03:21-1:03:23). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "This is when the car died at the end. "*
118. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 42. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Richard Beggs says: "It was a leopard snarl that I had done a number of things to. I looped it, cut it in quarter-inch tape, and played it backward. Usually I am very loath to play things backward, because they have a very telltale characteristic and I think it's sort of a cop out. I played it backward and it did that err-reearr-err-reearr- the exact opposite of an animal going arghh. It lost some of its organic sound and it became this 'mechanical animal' claxon."*
119. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 56-57. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Richard Beggs says: "There was a liquid part to the sound. I wanted something that sounded splashy but electronic, like a plasma flow. I'd gotten the base sound of it down, but it was too uniform and not very dynamic. So I did a feedback loop in the harmonizer and got this sort of rhythmic, pulsing thing between it and the Moog. I made the sound of the neutrona wand depend on the violence of the shot or the impact. Some were a little whimpery, like what happens when they start up, and at low, medium, and high intensity. I created this library of raw stuff in six or seven different families of sounds, then I would choose one for Bill Murray, one for Dan, and so on, and that would be theirs."*
120. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 57. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Line reads: "Fabric strips soaked in smoke-generating liquid produced the effect during filming."*
121. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 59. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Line reads: "An early ecto-goggle concept imagines the device could be worn as an eyepatch-like monocle."*
122. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 58. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Line reads: "The ecto-goggles in the film were modified versions of the U.S. Army's AN/PVS-5a night-vision goggles, which were introduced in 1972 and still in widespread use at the time the movie was made."*
123. ↑ Spook Central Facebook Page - Image Comparison
124. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 06:08-06:12). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "Danny insisted on the spectacular haircut of his, as well. "*
125. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 07:08-07:15). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Nah. The French hair... the French-Moroccan hair dresser you found. Peggy Semtob!"*
126. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 21:46-21:56). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Egon Spengler. Egon came from Egon Donsbach. I went to school with a Hungarian refuge and Spengler was from Oswald Spengler. "*
127. ↑ Harold Ramis (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, Deleted Scenes (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 00:20-00:26). Bueno Productions. *Harold Ramis says: "And the other was Egon Schiele, the painter-the Expressionist painter."*
128. ↑ Harold Ramis (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, Deleted Scenes (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 00:29-00:38). Bueno Productions. *Harold Ramis says: "I came across an architectural digest that featured a visionary urban planner and theoretical architect and designer named Léon Krier."*
129. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 27-28. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Suzy Benzinger says: "Harold Ramis loved that gray suit he wore, which I got at a thrift store on St. ark's Place. The first time I saw Harold, I thought, 'He really doesn't look like a professor. He doesn't have that scientist look.' So I took him to an eyeglass store on Seventh Avenue. I said, 'I really want to change your eyeglasses, is that OK?' and I knew just the glasses [he should wear]. He put them on, and I think he wore those forever."*
130. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 9. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Harold Ramis says: "Stantz and Venkman and Ramsey -- the character we changed to Winston -- were all essentially the same. That was fairly representative of Dan's writing at the time. He was very much concerned with story and structure and effects, but he would sort of stay on the surface of his characters."*
131. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 27 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Venkman's line was inspired by a bizarre, but thwarted, experiment by John Lilly -- a prominent researcher in dolphin communication -- whi seriously proposed drilling a hole in his head to test some higher brain function. Harold Ramis, who wrote the line, piggy-backed on it during the take by responded: "That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.""*
132. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 99 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Until the final shooting script, Winston had been seen in the script as a security man for the company. When it became apparent that the Ghostbusters had no real need for a security man, he became instead a full-fledged -- if not altogether convinced -- Ghostbuster."*
133. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 99 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "I think the original concept for Winston's character was younger and hipper. At one point, we were talking with Gregory Hines about playing the part. We also considered getting a young, black comedian -- somebody like Eddie Murphy. But in retrospect, it's probably just as well we didn't. It would have been just too much. As it is, there is a nice balance among the four characters. Winston is the moderate character against which the other three can play."*
134. ↑ Michael C. Gross (1999).Ghostbusters- Subtitles Production notes (1999) (DVD ts. 45:14). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Michael C. Gross says: "At one point, we were talking with Gregory Hines about playing the part. "*
135. ↑ Entertainment Weekly ""Ghostbusters: An Oral History" Dan Aykroyd quote 11/7/14
136. ↑ Labrecque, Jeff (2014). "Ghostbusters: An Oral History". Entertainment Weekly.
137. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 184 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In all of the drafts but the final one, it is Winston - not Stantz - who inadvertently conjures up the Stay-Puft marshmallow man."*
138. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 44 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Harold Ramis says: "And, of course, once Sigourney Weaver expressed an interest in the role, we took the character much more seriously. We had made her a model, but Sigourney suggested it would be more interesting if she were a musician."*
139. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 28. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Suzy Benzinger says: "Sigourney was totally based on Theoni. Theoni was also a very tall woman, so when she saw Sigourney she started to name off designers that she loved. Sigourney loved those designers too. Theoni said, 'We're going to dress her basically like me.' She wore a lot of sweaters, long skirts, and boots."*
140. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 28. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Suzy Benzinger says: "Bill picked out the color. Theoni wanted to put her in a lavender dress, but Bill said, I think it should be orange.' We were trying to use a dress that looked sort of dated and weird and strange. Flashdance had been out for a while, and it was very outre to have that off-the-shoulder look. We did it as a Jennifer Beal sort of dress."*
141. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 28. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Line reads: "I said, I wanted my hair to be like I've been electrified, like I put my finger in a socket.' I wanted to my make up to be – not really Bride of Frankenstein – but to be other-earthly, and unlike anything that would logically happen to Dana."*
142. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 44 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In anticipation of getting John Candy for the role, the character Louis Tully was originally molded to suit Candy's persona."*
143. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 44 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "The character makes his first appearance in the June draft as a fellow refuge of the creature which was to become Venkman's interdimensional love interest. With a diet cola television commercial for inspiration, one creature transforms itself into a beautiful woman, while the other transforms into a heavy-set man."*
144. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 44 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says "At first, Louis was a much different character than the one you see in the film. He was similar to the Johnny LaRue character that John did on SCTV."*
145. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 44 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says "By the time shooting actually began, though, John was no longer available. Fortunately, Rick Moranis was and he really helped to tailor the character. He came up with the idea of Louis being an accountant, and the character really started to evolve from that point on."*
146. ↑ Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 17:44-18:33). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "Now the part was originally written for John Candy. Do you remember that? We called up John and said 'John, you got to be in this, Harold is in it... Harold and John had worked together in SCTV up in Canada and all of us worked in Stripes and only naturally he should be in this film. And John didn't understand this part. He kept coming back and saying well maybe I'll play him in German. He'll have a German accent and he'll have Rottweilers. I said you can't have dogs, we already have too much dog imagery in the movie. And he finally passed on the film. Rick Moranis, who had been sent the script by his agent, was waiting patiently in the wings and was very happy when John passed..."/*Joe Medjuck says: "But we changed the character a lot. Rick really helped create this character."/*Harold Ramis says: "He brought some fine speeches to this character."/*Ivan Reitman says: "And I think he chose the wardrobe."
147. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 35:32-35:37). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Now he improvised most of this party dialogue which I think is brilliant. "*
148. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 17:18-17:37). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "And um actually agreed to audition. She came into my office and not like I'm giving anything away saying she turned into a dog at some point in this film and uh I remember her getting up on the couch and actually auditioning like a dog and I knew at that point she had to be in the film. "*
149. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 60 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Although the finished sequence bears only a cursory resemblance to the script, certain elements were retained -- at least in part. Sigourney Weaver suggested that 'game show host' was both more amusing and more apropos of Venkman's persona than 'used car salesman.' and so her line was changed accordingly."*
150. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:27:01-1:27:04). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Remember you offered Sandra Bernhard Annie Potts' role? "*
151. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 28. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Suzy Benzinger says: "When Annie came in for her measurements, she said to me, 'Oh my God, I think you're the character.' So I actually did her up like me."*
152. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 53. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *John Bruno says: "For the woman who was playing the maid, they said, 'OK, push this cart, and at the end of the hallway it's going to blow up, because they're going to shoot at you.' The cart was all prerigged with pyro work. So she pushes the cart out, strobe lights go off, the cart exploded---and it scared the hell out her. She fell to the ground, looked up, and was like, 'What the hell are you doing?' It wasn't scripted. It's just what happened."*
153. ↑ John Bruno (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 56:27-56:33). Bueno Productions. *John Bruno says: "Slimer, by the way, got the name Slimer when he says, "It slimed me." That stuck. It was the Onionhead until that moment."*
154. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 64 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Dan Aykroyd says: "So, in reading the literature and reading about full head and torso apparitions, I found out that it is very rare that you see a full figure -- it is usually just a hint of the former being. The Onionhead is a vapor -- a kind of confluence of stored up psychic energy. He's an accumulation of spirits that haunt this hotel, and he just doesn't want to leave."*
155. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 67 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Dan Aykroyd's original Ectomobile was an all-black rather sinister-looking machine with flashing white and purple strobe lights that gave it a strange, ultraviolet aura. Though kept essentially intact through all the drafts, the vehicle concept -- suggesting a hearse rather more than an ambulance -- was clearly more in keeping with the darker tone of Aykroyd's first draft than with the lighter ones that followed it. It was cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, however, who first pointed out a serious problem with it."*
156. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 78 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Harold Ramis says: "Thelma Moss, of the parapsychology department at UCLA, told me after seeing the movie that one of the classic types of hauntings is known as the hungry ghost -- a ghost who just eats and drinks. We didn't know that when we wrote the Onionhead into our script, but it's a nice coincidence."*
157. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 78 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says: "One day, during preproduction, we were all sitting around talking about the Onionhead concept, and Ivan remarked that the character was sort of like Bluto in Animal House -- like the ghost of John Belushi, in a way, Danny, who was obviously a good friend of John's, never argued with that. Even so, we never officially said that and we never mentioned it in the script. It was just one way to look at the character, because Onionhead's grossness is like Bluto's in Animal House. We certainly never expected anyone to recognize him as such, although somehow the word did get out and we received some calls from a few newspapers saying they'd heard we had the ghost of John Belushi in our movie."*
158. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 93 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "We approached several national newscasters, but most of them turned us down cold. Newscasters, it seems, are very sensitive about doing anything other than real news -- bad for their credibility."*
159. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 93 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "Casey Kasem was included at the very last minute during postproduction. In fact, the idea of putting him in came to us the day before we recorded it. We called him up, made the deal, he appeared the next day, read his bit and we cut it into the film -- all in 24 hours."*
160. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 48. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Michael Ensign says: "I had read for the William Atherton [Walter Peck] part, and one day I got a phone call saying, 'Do you want a consolation prize?' I keyed in intuitively to that part. The fussy little man in the bow tie."*
161. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 46:23-). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "I ran into Atherton about a year after this film had come out and was expecting him to greet me with open arms because of the success of the film and he had become quite famous from the movie and he was genuinely pissed. He came up to me and said 'You know I can't walk into a bar without people lining up to pick a fight with me. Kids scream at me and make fun of me wherever I go'. "*
162. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. -47:05). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "The worse is... I'll tell it. Later in the movie, Danny calls him 'Dickless.' Atherton told me he was walking down the street in New York and a bus load of tourists yelled at him and he turned, smiled and waved and they all went 'Yo, Dickless!'. "*
163. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 97 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Dan Aykroyd says: "Gozer is based on several things. For one, there's a Gozer Chevrolet dealership in upstate New York. A little more to the point, though, is the fact that Gozer was a name that related to a documented haunting in England -- the one Poltergeist was based on, in fact. During this particular haunting, the name Gozer appeared mysteriously throughout the house, written on walls and things. So we figured we might as well take something that had been reported in the public domain as an actual occurrence and use it in the film as our main demon and supernatural force."*
164. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 170 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Appearing before the Ghostbusters as a kind of New Wave demon, the character of Gozer had passed through more drastic conceptual variations than any other creature in the film. Described in Dan Aykroyd's script as looking like Bert Parks, and in later collaborations with Harold Ramis as a Robert Young-type character, Gozer - in its final form - resembled neither."*
165. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 170 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says: "Ivan thought it might be more interesting if Gozer was rather androgynous-looking - someone like David Bowie. That idea led logically to the consideration of androgynous-looking female rock stars - someone like Grace Jones would have been perfect. Unfortunately, by the time we came up with this concept, it was too late to sign on a big name. We did retain the basic idea, however, which is why Gozer appears in the form of a woman."*
166. ↑ Harold Ramis (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:26:20-1:26:33). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Harold Ramis says: "Remember you offered it to Anna Carlisle, who was a punk rock singer at the time? Her complaint was 'No, the chicks in this movie are just to be had!' "*
167. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 114 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "The concept of the Terror Dogs changed considerably -- both in the way they fit into the story and in their design. In earlier drafts, they were sympathetic creatures from another dimension -- sort of 'strangers in a strange land' -- who were terrified of Gozer and trying to escape him. They took the form of human beings and went to the Ghostbusters seeking help. By the time the script reached its final form, however, that idea had been completely reversed. Design-wise, they began as rotting, dead dogs -- creatures that had been dug up from the grave. We began to realize, though, that we didn't have to be literal, or 'earthbound,' in the design. As with the ghosts, the Terror Dogs could be anything we wanted them to be. Ultimately, they evolved into creatures that are not particularly canine, but the name 'Terror Dog' seemed to stick."*
168. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 56:49-57:02). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "I actually do the voice, the deep voice of...that's me. I did Slimer and the voice that comes out of her here. "*
169. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 127 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "In an unusual twist on the directorial cameo, Dana's demonic voice -- reminiscent of Mercedes McCambridge's intonations in The Exorcist -- was actually that of Ivan Reitman. Reitman, in fact, provided all of the unearthly voices in the film, except that of Gozer."*
170. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 180 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Early brainstorming had the Stay-Puft marshmallow man as but an interdimensional form which the Gozer assumes on its way to becoming something truly monstrous, both in size and appearance. Berni Wrightson's exploration of this theme was both surreal and terrifying."*
171. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 16. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Line reads: "A Thom Enriquez concept for a Stay Puft marshmallow man alternative. Enriquez came up with the idea that this monster could be Ray Stantz's pet lizard from his childhood."*
172. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 184 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Michael Gross says: "Originally, we were going to have the Stay-Puft marshmallow man rise up out of the river, right by the Statue of Liberty, to give him scale. Understandably, the effects people didn't like the idea - any effects shot involving water is really hard to pull off. We finally realized that it didn't make any difference where he came from - he could just appear. The audience assumes that he just materializes."*
173. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 186. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "A John Deveikis illustration for the original Dan Aykroyd script suggested a much larger marshmallow man than was ultimately decide upon. Since one faction within the production unit argued for a 100-foot tall version while another favored a somewhat larger 125-foot tall version, Ivan Reitman settled the dispute by declaring that the Stay-Puft marshmallow man would be 112.5 feet tall."*
174. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 197 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Though present in every draft of the script, the Stay-Puft marshmallow man did not become the Ghostbusters' final encounter until the July rewrite. In fact, in Dan Aykroyd's original screenplay, the Stay-Puft man appeared just slightly past the midway point as but one of several Gozer manifestations. The Stay-Puft confrontation came considerably later in the first Aykroyd-Ramis collaboration, but even in that draft, the Ghostbusters were to regroup in New Jersey for a final battle with the Gozer in its most terrifying form - a swirling psychic maelstrom topped by a disembodied sphid's head of monstrous proportions."*
175. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 17:16-17:25). Bueno Productions. *Joe Medjuck says: "Someone's doing a stand up newscast on the street, and there's a guy behind him playing with his beard. And I think that was the first thing we shot."*
176. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 40:22-41:03). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "This is the first shot we shot in the movie. Bill Murray had just arrived from France on an airplane, immediately got taken to downtown Manhattan, put on one of these outfits and boom were shooting on Madison Avenue. I had an amazing shiver when I saw the guys in their outfits. I knew there's something special here.. "*
177. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 92. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685.
178. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 39:33-39:38). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "I remember getting permission, I still have a few of these these uh magazine and newspaper covers. "*
179. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 40:07-40:08). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "There's me again! "*
180. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:09:01-1:09:13). Columbia TriStar Home Video. 'Joe Medjuck says: "I love this shot. This was taken next door from 55. I remember Ivan, we went up to the apartment building next door to 55 Central Park West and shot as high as we could to photograph this view. "
181. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:09:26-1:09:30). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "This is all part of that very early shooting we did back in October as I remember. "*
182. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:09:40-1:09:45). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Ivan Reitman says: "Also from the first week of shooting on Madison Avenue. "*
183. ↑ Ivan Reitman (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 17:16-17:35). Bueno Productions. *Ivan Reitman says: "The first day shooting was a car crash because some skeletal-like ghost had taken over a taxi cab and so we did the stunt. The very first day of shooting."*
184. ↑ Joe Medjuck (2005). Ghostbusters- Commentary (2005) (DVD ts. 1:09:53-1:09:54). Columbia TriStar Home Video. *Joe Medjuck says: "This is Broadway, I think. "*
185. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 146 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says: "The hot dog vendor was one of the very first things we shot. It was included because it provided an opportunity for us to reintroduce the Onionhead ghost from the hotel - again eating and belching. Not only that, we thought, ' How can we shoot the streets of New York without including a hot dog cart?'"*
186. ↑ Mark Siegel (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 29:51-30:01). Bueno Productions. *Mark Siegel says: "There was going to be a second stage to the transformation that would push out her muscle and there were these sharp-like monstery teeth."*
187. ↑ Mark Bryan Wilson (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 30:03-30:08). Bueno Productions. *Mark Bryan Wilson says: "Then Steve Johnson sculpted the head for that based off of what we had done for the first part of the transformation."*
188. ↑ Steve Johnson (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 30:09-30:20). Bueno Productions. *Steve Johnson says: "And Richard is like, "Nope. No second puppet. No second puppet. Don't break the bank, Steve-O." But it's almost done. It'll be so much better! "36 frames. Leave it. Just leave it"."*
189. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 63 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Ivan Reitman says: "When I shot the bride and groom scene, I thought it was one of the funniest sequences I'd done in the film. And when I looked at the rushes, I thought, 'Yeah, this is definitely going to be one of the funniest scenes in the movie.' But when I actually cut it into the film, it just didn't work. It was like a skit out of Saturday Night Live -- funny in itself, but it stopped the movie cold every time. Cutting it was one of the tougher decisions I had to make."*
190. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 65. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "A honeymooning couple - played by Charles Levin and Wendy Goldman - have less than blissful wedding night at the Hotel Sedgewick when a foul-smelling vaporous ghost pays a visit to their bridal suite.""*
191. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 72 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Deleted from the final draft was a scene in which Stantz and Venkman are followed about by an obnoxious ten-year-old boy who -- to their growing annoyance -- thinks they're nothing more than janitors. Meanwhile, Spengler has his encounter with the woman in a towel. Though Spengler's scene remained intact through all four of the collaborative drafts, it still failed to make it into the film.""*
192. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 90. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "Since the montage featured a dearth of actual ghosts, it was decided that perhaps still photographs could be appropriately doctored and incorporated into the sequence. One such image -- a photo of Stantz and Venkman enhanced with an airbrush rendering of the Chinatown ghost -- was prepared for possible use on the New York Post front page, but was ultimately rejected by Ivan Reitman."*
193. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 95. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Paragraph reads: "The encounter between the policeman and the Ectomobile is the only scene in the final shooting script which suggested that the vehicle itself had some extranormal powers -- a carryover from Dan Aykroyd's initial draft in which the Ectomobile was equipped with an advanced dematerializing capability that allowed its operators, functioning somewhat outside the law, to readily elude police pursuit. Though the ticketing sequence was shot and cut into the film, it was ultimately removed because it slowed down the breakneck pace of the montage"*
194. ↑ Harold Ramis (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, Deleted Scenes (2019) (Blu-Ray ts.5:37-6:34). Bueno Productions. *Harold Ramis says: "We went into Little Italy which was famous for being a Mafia-controlled area of New York. And we just want to come running out a little store with the Traps and someone said, "Oh, you gotta ask Vinnie down the street. Third door down there." So we walk into the third door. I was with the guys and there's three older Italian men sitting on folding chairs. There was nothing in the store but folding chairs and a little table. Maybe they were playing cards and, "Is Vinnie here?" "Yeah." "We just want to come running out the store with Traps." "Eh, $1500." "That's crazy, we'll just-won't pay it, we'll go to this store on this side." "I own that one, too." "Well, we'll go down the block." "I own that one, too." So apparently the Mafia controlled that whole street and we decided not to pay for it, I guess."*
195. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 137 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Harold Ramis says: "The plot was moving much too fast at this point to introduce anything even slightly extraneous. The idea behind the scene was to give Dan a love interest -- a woman who's been dead for a hundred years. But the scene was too long and it was in the wrong place in the film. We all loved the notion of Stantz having sex with a ghost, though, so Ivan came up with the idea of treating it as a dream and inserting it into the very end of the montage."*
196. ↑ Aykroyd, Dan & Ramis, Harold (1983). Ghostbusters (First Draft August 5, 1983) (Script p. 102). *Paragraph reads: "She starts down the runway in a very exotic furcoat. She reaches the end of the runway and pirouettes for the customers. Suddenly a yapping mink head pops out of the shoulder of the coat, then another and another until the whole coat is a mess of writhing, yapping rodents. The model screams and throws the coat off.""*
197. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 148 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Joe Medjuck says: "It would have been a good scene to include a little earlier in the movie because it reveals that Louis, as the Keymaster, possesses extraordinary powers. Unfortunately, there just wasn't time for it at this point in the movie and it had to go."*
198. ↑ Shay, Don (November 1985). *Making Ghostbusters*, p. 148 annotation. New York Zoetrope, New York NY USA, ISBN 0918432685. *Ivan Reitman says: "I cut the scene between Louis and the muggers before we ever had a screening. Richard Edlund didn't really have time to do the necessary effects; and frankly, I didn't think I'd handled the actors very well in it. But I know if I'd ever screened the movie with that scene in it, I would have kept it in. There'd have been no choice. Louis is a favorite with the audience, and to see him pay back a bunch of scary guys would have been a natural cheering point."*
199. ↑ Levin, Brett (January 2013). *GQ Magazine*, p. 102. Condé Nast Publications, New York NY USA.
200. ↑ Playstation Blog "Inside the Development of Ghostbusters: The Video Game" 10/2/19 *John Melchior says: "The upstate NY location and boat were things that he had created in some form for the movie, but it never made it in."*
201. ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). *Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History*, p. 16. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. *Line reads: "An unused "pizza ghost" concept by Thom Enriquez for the montage sequence in Ghostbusters, showcasing a pizza delivery demon with cheesy flesh dripping from its face."*
202. ↑ Entertainment Weekly "Ghostbusters resurrected: Jason Reitman will direct a new film set in the original universe" 1/5/2019 *Paragraph reads: "Jason, his mother, and sister played panicked residents fleeing the “Spook Central” haunted skyscraper in the first film, but they were ultimately cut.""'*
203. ↑ Ghostbusters News "Details on the “surprise” video shown at Ghostbusters screenings" 7/3/2020
204. ↑ Mark Stetson (2019). Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Blu-Ray ts. 1:46:20-1:46:36). Bueno Productions. *Mark Stetson says: "There was a storyboard. It was originally drawn for--it showed a police car getting crushed, and we were ready to do that, and we had actually started on that, but we decided not to do it. We were also joking about maybe the Marshmallow Man could pick up his foot, and you'd see the squashed police car embedded in the bottom of his foot."*
205. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Slimer, Come Home" (1986) (DVD ts. 06:36-06:37). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "First time I saw you, you slimed me!"*
206. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "The Boogieman Cometh" (1986) (DVD ts. 05:23-05:26). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "Well, our usual fee for a standard capture and containment is $1500."*
207. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "The Boogieman Cometh" (1986) (DVD ts. 15:37-15:38). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "See you on the other side, Egon."*
208. ↑ Winston Zeddemore (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Take Two" (1986) (DVD ts. 06:20-06:24). Time Life Entertainment. *Winston says: "Murray...Aykroyd...Ramis. What's that? A law firm?"*
209. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Take Two" (1986) (DVD ts. 22:56-22:58). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "Y'know, he doesn't look a thing like me."*
210. ↑ Boyette, Pat (2009). *The Real Ghostbusters Complete Collection* Volume One Disc Five, "Citizen Ghost" Storyboard p. 24. CPT Holdings, Inc. *Line reads: "We see photo of the high-rise building used in GHOSTBUSTERS movie -- in its post-battle, marshmallowed, shattered state -- PAN OVER."*
211. ↑ "Citizen Ghost" Storyboard showing Shandor Building ruins
212. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters- Citizen Ghost (1986) (DVD ts. 7:44-7:47). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "It's him! It's the one who slimed me at the hotel!"*
213. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Adventures in Slime and Space" (1987) (DVD ts. 04:07-04:12). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "Listen, he slimed me the first time we met. He's been looking for a second chance ever since!"*
214. ↑ Mayor Lenny (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Adventures in Slime and Space" (1987) (DVD ts. 11:51-11:55). Time Life Entertainment. *Mayor says: "First, Terror Dogs. Then a walking marshmallow. Now this!"*
215. ↑ Ray Stantz (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Adventures in Slime and Space" (1987) (DVD ts. 13:02-13:04). Time Life Entertainment. *Ray says: "Peter, give him a chocolate bar."*
216. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009).The Real Ghostbusters- "A Fright at the Opera" (1986) (DVD ts. 13:20-13:21). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "Did I tell you about the time I saved the world?"*
217. ↑ Eatock, James & Mangels, Andy (2008). *The Real Ghostbusters Complete Collection* booklet, p. 9. CPT Holdings, Inc.
218. ↑ The Real Ghostbusters (2009).The Real Ghostbusters- "Doctor, Doctor" (1986) (DVD ts. 18:47-18:49). Time Life Entertainment.
219. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost? (1987) (DVD ts. 3:03-3:04). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "I've always wanted to do this."*
220. ↑ Jon (2009). The Real Ghostbusters- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost? (1987) (DVD ts. 1:42-1:45). Time Life Entertainment. *Jon says: "I say Olivia, weren't those the ah the Ghost Smashers who just ran by?"*
221. ↑ Mueller, Richard (August 1985). "Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular," p. 65. Tor Books, New York NY USA, ISBN 0812585984.
222. ↑ Reaves, Michael (2009). *The Real Ghostbusters Complete Collection* Volume Two Disc Five, p. 3. CPT Holdings, Inc. *Peter says: "I just hope Ray doesn't find another phantom librarian."*
223. ↑ Egon Spengler (2009).The Real Ghostbusters- "The Collect Call of Cathulhu" (1987) (DVD ts. 05:57-06:00). Time Life Entertainment. *Egon says: "Cathulhu makes Gozer look like Little Mary Sunshine."*
224. ↑ Winston Zeddemore (2009).The Real Ghostbusters- "The Collect Call of Cathulhu" (1987) (DVD ts. 17:16-17:19). Time Life Entertainment. *Winston says: "Sometimes I really regret answering that ad you guys ran."*
225. ↑ Winston Zeddemore (2009).The Real Ghostbusters- "Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster " (1987) (DVD ts. 06:21-06:25). Time Life Entertainment. *Winston says: "This is as bad as when Gozer was around."*
226. ↑ Egon Spengler (2009).The Real Ghostbusters- "Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster " (1987) (DVD ts. 06:29-06:30). Time Life Entertainment. *Egon says: "No. None of the readings indicate a return of Gozer."*
227. ↑ Janine Melnitz (2009).The Real Ghostbusters- "Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster " (1987) (DVD ts. 10:31-10:32). Time Life Entertainment.
228. ↑ Egon Spengler (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "The Revenge of Murray the Mantis" (1987) (DVD ts. 10:05-10:08). Time Life Entertainment. *Egon says: "It could have a life energy as high as Gozer's."*
229. ↑ Winston Zeddemore (2009).The Real Ghostbusters- "The Revenge of Murray the Mantis" (1987) (DVD ts. 10:09-10:10). Time Life Entertainment. *Winston says: "Great. Another big Twinkie."*
230. ↑ Winston Zeddemore (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Egon's Ghost" (1987) (DVD ts. 14:25-14:29). Time Life Entertainment. *Winston says: "A Terror Dog. Haven't seen one of those in a long time."*
231. ↑ Walter Peck (2009).The Real Ghostbusters- "Big Trouble With Little Slimer " (1987) (DVD ts. 04:08-04:11). Time Life Entertainment. *Peck says: "Did I tell you how they made me look like a fool and cost me my job?"*
232. ↑ Eatock, James & Mangels, Andy (2008). *The Real Ghostbusters Complete Collection* booklet, p. 27. CPT Holdings, Inc.
233. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Elementary My Dear Winston" (1989) (DVD ts. 17:02-17:06). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "Brings back memories, huh, Egon? Our very first case started here."*
234. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "Loose Screws" (1989) (DVD ts. 20:23-20:24). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "Nice shootin', Tex!"*
235. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "The Halloween Door" (1989) (DVD ts. 01:44-01:46). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "Five years I waited to do that!"*
236. ↑ Eatock, James & Mangels, Andy (2008). *The Real Ghostbusters Complete Collection* booklet, p. 33. CPT Holdings, Inc.
237. ↑ Egon Spengler (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "The Haunting of Heck House" (1990) (DVD ts. 04:27-04:36). Time Life Entertainment. *Egon says: "We faced demons, monsters, Gozer, multi-dimensional invasions but there is nothing you can say that will get me within a mile of Heck House."*
238. ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "The Haunting of Heck House" (1990) (DVD ts. 08:09-08:23). Time Life Entertainment. *Peter says: "Yeah, you're probably okay unless it heard about our first case. You know, the one at the New York Public Library. Where books started flying out of the bookcases. Hundreds and hundreds of guided missiles. Well, let's just hope they never saw the movie made about all that. Toodles."*
239. ↑ Ghostbusters International "Indianapolis Children's Museum Exhibit" 2/1/2015
240. ↑ Rob Zetzer imgur "Bill Murray's proton pack from Ghostbusters 2" 1/31/2015
241. ↑ Aykroyd, Dan & Ramis, Harold (1983). Ghostbusters (First Draft August 5, 1983) (Script p. 102). *Paragraph reads : "She starts down the runway in a very exotic furcoat. She reaches the end of the runway and pirouettes for the customers. Suddenly a yapping mink head pops out of the shoulder of the coat, then another and another until the whole coat is a mess of writhing, yapping rodents. The model screams and throws the coat off.""*
242. ↑ Aykroyd, Dan & Ramis, Harold (1989). Ghostbusters II (February 27, 1989 Draft) (Script p. 120). *Line reads: "Slimer flies out one of the observation windows, THEME MUSIC KICKS IN and the CAMERA PULLS UP and AWAY FROM the island TO a HIGH SHOT of the Statue, lower Manhattan and the shining sea beyond."*
243. ↑ Dille, Flint & Platten, John Z. (2009). Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Draft Revision February 11, 2008) (Script p. 124). *Peter Venkman says: "What can I say? I've got a thing for levitating women."*
244. ↑ Dille, Flint & Platten, John Z. (2009). Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Draft Revision February 11, 2008) (Script p. 151). *Ray Stantz says: "How many more beloved icons from my youth does the paranormal have to ruin for me?"*
245. ↑ Dille, Flint & Platten, John Z. (2009). Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Draft Revision February 11, 2008) (Script p. 151). *Peter Venkman says: "Now Ray, the last icon that tried to destroy New York was technically your fault."*
246. ↑ Dille, Flint & Platten, John Z. (2009). Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Draft Revision February 11, 2008) (Script p. 227). *Winston Zeddemore says: "At Dana's apartment the night she turned into a dog."*
247. ↑ Image of Ghostbusters advertisement via Spook Central FB
248. ↑ TomWaltz Tweet 6/19/18
249. ↑ Parade "Ghostbusters Then and Now! See the Original Cast Today and the New Stars of Ghostbusters: Afterlife" 10/29/2021 *Line reads: "Those mysterious tones that foreshadow something's going to happen? They're produced by an ondes martenot, an old French electronic keyboard. Cynthia Millar performed on it for the original movie and for the opening of the new film. She recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London."*
250. ↑ Dobly YouTube "Embracing Sonic Nostalgia with "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" | Sound + Image Lab" 32:53-33:16 11/23/2021 *Will Files says: "And it goes like a full octave deeper and he was saying on-during the recording, he was like what can you do with this instrument that we never did in the first film? And she goes 'Well, it does go lower than we ever used so that's why you know Rob built in that extra-goes one just full octave lower that it's a very satisfying moment right in the beginning of the movie."*
251. ↑ Dobly YouTube "Embracing Sonic Nostalgia with "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" | Sound + Image Lab" 5:50-6:25 11/23/2021 *Will Files says: "We even sampled the noise from the original when as soon as the Sony logo comes on if you-if you're listening at a loud enough level you'll hear a noise floor shift and that's actually the noise that we sampled from the original multi-track recording of the-of the score and it just gives it a little flavor. It was one of those things we put it in and we're like this is going to be silly. We put it in, we're like 'nope, that actually really feels good so it's-there's a noise floor to this film that it's not normal for 2021."*
252. ↑ IGN YouTube "Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Exclusive Trailer Breakdown with Director Jason Reitman" 02:06-02:14 7/26/2021 *Jason Reitman says: "First of all, I'm gonna point out that if you look at the top of the house, you see all these antennas and you know it was meant to kind of echo the top of Ecto-1."*
253. ↑ dredmakerroberts Tik Tok "Were original shoe polishers used for the PKE meters?" 00:25-00:27 12/11/2021 *Ben Eadie says: "The originals were used. They were 3-D scanned."*
254. ↑ Variety "How ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Pays Homage to the Original With Audio Easter Eggs" 11/24/2021 *Will Files says: "We took the sound when Dan Aykroyd slides down the pole at the beginning of ‘Ghostbusters. We just stole it from the original and we put it into Phoebe's [scene]."*
255. ↑ Tested YouTube "Adam Savage Visits Ghostbusters: Afterlife's Costume Department!" 3:33-3:45 1/12/2022 *Danny Glicker says: "Like in this knife pocket in the original suit, this little curve goes above the seam and in flight suits you get now, the curve is way below."*
256. ↑ Tested YouTube "Adam Savage Visits Ghostbusters: Afterlife's Costume Department!" 4:36-5:19 1/12/2022 *Danny Glicker says: " One of the fun things was working with the embroiderer to create this kind of old school process where we were really using a lot more--we were covering a lot more space with a lot fewer stitches exactly like the original patch and everything you see in this patch is an exact replica of the original patch including how we sew it on the original patchs were sewn by machine then with these hand stitches around the ghost and then there's a detail in here that's really special and really insider, there's a repair right here which is an exact reproduction from the original Ghostbusters patch."*
257. ↑ Farley, Jordan (November 2021). *Spiritual Reawakening*, Total Film magazine #317, page 42. Future Publishing, UK. *Line reads: "In order to recreate Egon's Proton Pack, Harold Ramis' original prop was Lidar-scanned, rebuilt "down to the millimetre" and aged to give it "the kind of battle scars you would think it would have by now"."*
258. ↑ Grove, David (November 2021). *Ghostbusters: Afterlife Links The Original Busters To The Next Generation - And Pays Tribute To A Fallen Hero*, SFX Magazine #345, page 32. Future Publishing, UK. *Article reads: "I'll never forget pulling the original proton packs from Sony's archives in order to scan them for our own equipment. Violet Ramis, Harold's daughter, joined us that day and actually tried on her father's pack. She was nervous at first but eventually slipped her arms through the straps and took up the blaster. She began to well up, and by the time that she put the pack down, we were both shaking"*
259. ↑ Variety "How ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Pays Homage to the Original With Audio Easter Eggs" 11/24/2021 *Article reads: "As it turns out, Columbia Pictures did a really good job of archiving, and Files discovered a treasure trove of sounds. There were also digitized work tapes from the original sound designer — as well as outtakes that had never been used in the first film. Those outtakes sounded like part of the "Ghostbusters" world, so Files used some in the teaser. Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) turning on the pack for the first time was one of the very first sequences Files created. But since the pack was supposed to be 30 years old, he took the original sounds and added new notes that made it feel rusty and miscalibrated. "It hasn't been turned on in so long," he explains, "it needs that shake-up and for the oil to be redistributed." For the spinning of the pack as it's starting up, Files recorded an old railroad welding turbine from the 1800s. "We did a lot of experiments taking those original sounds and made new sounds of them. We took the wand and proton stream sound and processed it and made it sound like it was spinning around. It's what you hear when you're up close on the back of the pack and you see the light," says Files."*
260. ↑ Dobly YouTube "Embracing Sonic Nostalgia with "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" | Sound + Image Lab" 52:00-53:55 11/23/2021 *Will Files says: "We took a lot of Richard's original sounds including all you know all this sound when she's turning on all the different things and it's making all the different beeps and stuff, a lot of that was actually sounds that he had made that never made it in the film so most of those sounds were things that he had made 30-40 years ago and then we were assembling in a way that felt you know took a lot of manipulation and careful stitching together but that's was I think one of the reasons that it feels so authentic was that it was all that stuff-it was 40 year old synthesizer and recordings and things like that. And then the next challenge was how do you make the specifics of that the cyclotron and what does that sound like and things like like that so that was where we sort of took more creative license. We took some of the original identifiable Proton Pack sounds and we started using more modern techniques like let's doppler that and make make it sound like it's swirling around. Let's-there's a piece of software called Sound Particles that basically let's us build particle systems much like you would for creating visual effects for fire or water of things like that and you can take a sound and feed it in there and it can create thousands of little sound particles from that sound and then you can have them swirl around and do things that physically we could never actually do but it has this really cool effect so we made a bunch of stuff like that and you know tried to weave it together in a way that felt not just sort of mechanical but almost like musical where it was one thing was becoming another and then another and and another and then it was also just wonderful that was a moment that Jason was like 'I don't want to play music on this so you guys have to make it work with just sound design.' Yeah."*
261. ↑ Entertainment Weekly "How a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man got toasted in Ghostbusters: Afterlife" 10/8/2021 *Line reads: "Joseph and his team studied footage of the original Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the 1984 film to make their CG versions match."*
262. ↑ Entertainment Weekly "How a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man got toasted in Ghostbusters: Afterlife" 10/8/2021 *Kerry Joseph says: "The proportions are pretty similar, I think we may have brought a little bit more emotion to the eyes, but that first one was physically built, there was only so much they could do."*
263. ↑ Ghostbusters Interdimensional Crossrip "#743 - Arjen Tuiten, Special Make-Up & Live Acton Creature Effects Designer" 7:42-8:13 11/29/2021  *Arjen Tuiten says: "At one point, they were talking about changing him in design. They came by my shop, I remember which is a very common thing with films unfortunately especially follow-ups and sequels where they have to change things. I felt strongly that was a mistake. And I just put my foot down, and we just cannot change the Terror Dog. It's an iconic character. It's like E.T. Coming back with ears."'*
264. ↑ Ghostbusters Interdimensional Crossrip "#743 - Arjen Tuiten, Special Make-Up & Live Acton Creature Effects Designer" 6:52-7:00 11/29/2021  *Arjen Tuiten says: "After I got the show, they called two weeks later, again to say, "Would you be willing to do the Terror Dogs as well?" I'm like of course."*
265. ↑ Ghostbusters Interdimensional Crossrip "#743 - Arjen Tuiten, Special Make-Up & Live Acton Creature Effects Designer" 7:25-7:41 11/29/2021  *Arjen Tuiten says: "Sony actually gave me access to some of the never-before-seen stills from that time and, I mean, there's quite a bit of reference of the actual sculpture so for us, it was more of the excitement."*
266. ↑ Ghostbusters Interdimensional Crossrip "#743 - Arjen Tuiten, Special Make-Up & Live Acton Creature Effects Designer" 9:34-10:27 11/29/2021  *Arjen Tuiten says: "We started with a maquette actually. It was sculpted by Steve Koch, a very talented sculptor, and we followed everything, that's again, to reference to Andy Cook and once we had that done and it was approved, we-Nowadays, we could probably scan it and mill one out in foam. The process is a lot faster and every accurate but I felt, also for my own crew, this was such a special moment and to capture that handcraft and feel within the creatures, I felt 'Let's just sculpt it.' In other words, we'll photograph the maquette, we'll project it on the wall to four times the size, we'll make an armature and we'll get 600 pounds of wet clay like they did back then. And we did. And we had the best two weeks sculpting that."*
267. ↑ Stan Winston School "The Phantasmic Makeup & Creature FX of Ghostbusters: Afterlife" 1/11/2022 *Line reads: "The Terror Dog's body skin was run by Spectral Motion foam technician Bill Fesh, while the head foam skins and other cosmetic elements were created at Arjen, LLC."*
268. ↑ Stan Winston School "The Phantasmic Makeup & Creature FX of Ghostbusters: Afterlife" 1/11/2022 *Line reads: "With the cosmetic work underway, Spectral Motion's Bill Sturgeon scanned the core and designed all the internal head and body mechanisms. Spectral's Jurgen Heimann would be tasked with building the head mechanism based on Sturgeon's design."*
269. ↑ IGN YouTube "Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Exclusive Trailer Breakdown with Director Jason Reitman" 07:12-07:25 7/26/2021 *Jason Reitman says: "We actually found the original special effects 70 mm footage and scanned it, so, again we were always attempting to go back to the original recipe and recapture as much as humanly possible."*
270. ↑ Avid YouTube "VIP All Access — Ghostbusters: Afterlife — Film and Sound Editing Team" 26:20-27:10 12/9/2021 *Will Files says: "We got the actual you know piece of production sound and I was like 'Wow, I feel like I'm mixing the original film for a second here and it was fun to-we had to this we added a bunch of sounds there to sort of try to recreate that moment in the film where there was lots of crowd action and there's police sirens and that sort of thing going on and we first put it all in kind of the way we would mix a modern film and it sounded weird up against this older image and older kind of thinner sounding dialogue so we actually ended up kind of filtering the-all the background sounds that we were adding to make it feel like more like the 80 like literally more like the 84 version as if this was you know a whole chunk of the movie that that had been snipped out and dropped into this one."*
271. ↑ Avid YouTube "VIP All Access — Ghostbusters: Afterlife — Film and Sound Editing Team" 27:14-27:23 12/9/2021 *Will Files says: "There was one element that we stole from the original but no other but we couldn't find a piece long enough to do what we were trying to do that makes sense so we had to build it."*