The two original Ghostbusters movies read like a DND campaign.
Like that fucking marshmallow guy fight. Venkmann constantly trying to seduce everything in sight. The unhinged energy. The interactions with authority figures. The vibe that they have some sort of inside joke going on with whatever higher power runs this universe.
In yet another deleted scene of Ghostbusters II, Louis has a cousin Sherman (Eugene Levy) trying to convince the latter to bail the Busters out of the psych ward.
Fun Fact: both Harold Ramis and Eugene Levy are SCTV alum.
I think this would've been cool to add to said sequel
Sometimes I love ghostbusters and can watch and engage without actually thinking and then sometimes my brain actually works and starts screaming because why the actual fuck did Venkman take what was apparently a pretty strong sedative on his date with Dana?!?! Why did he just have that loaded and ready to go?!?! Why was everyone just okay with this?!?! Egon doesn't even question it when Peter tells him he's got Dana zonked out (okay so I guess having a possessed person sniffing round your jars and such is a bit of a distraction but still)!!!!
I doubt Rick Moranis will return as Louis Tully but, if he did, I'd love a scene of him and Gary Grooberson talking about their shared experience as a Terror Dog.
If I could have one wish for the Ghostbusters, it would be to give them happy endings. So I had to write some! Here are the first few short chapters of this work.
Widowed Janine wakes up in the middle of the night to look for a treasured memento that she shared with Egon. As she walks through the firehouse, she reflects on their lives together and how the Ghostbusters all found their own happy endings.
So, background on this. When I was a kid, I skipped a few minutes of the movie because I had to go to the loo. Came back, hadn’t got a clue what was going on, but through my master detective skills deduced that the encounter with Gozer in the first film had rendered Venkmann able to sense his friends being in danger, and I carried that misreading with me until I rewatched the film a couple years after.
But this is a reading a lot of people not believed, but definitely picked up on the vibes of. I’ve seen jokes about it. I ran it by my friend and they were like “I mean I sort of assumed he must have had something going on.”
This is an abnormally fucking funny reading to take from the films. A guy who’s such a cynical asshole he runs a program dedicated to calling psychics out for not being real, and shocking people in the process. A guy who later runs an entire GAMESHOW disproving it. Bro would have to be in DEEP denial.
He routinely misdiagnoses all of the blatant signs, although it steered him towards supernatural investigation anyway. He becomes offended at the insinuation because they’re CLEARLY all frauds. Plus, Egon would probably try to dissect him if it was acknowledged. For science.
Just generally never directly acknowledged but everyone catches the vibes. Maybe the ghosts make a few off-handed comments and he’s like “Well they’re ghosts what would they know.”
Plus it makes his Bill Murray film equivalent easier to tolerate (all the love to The Real Ghostbusters Peter, the original manwhore, the academia fuckboy).