Ghostbusters II (1989)
Ernie Hudson: Winston Zeddemore
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Quotes
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Egon : Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505, died 1610.
Peter Venkman : 105 years old, he hung in there, didn't he?
Ray : He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disembowled, drawn and quartered.
Peter Venkman : Ouch.
Winston : Guess he wasn't too popular at the end, huh?
Egon : No, not exactly a man of the people. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.
Peter Venkman : Wasn't he also Vigo the Butch?
Ray : And dig this, there was a prophecy. Just before his head died, his last words were "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back."
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Ray : [of the insulting birthday party kids] Ungrateful little yuppie larva. After everything we did for this city.
Winston : Yeah, we conjured up a hundred-foot marshmallow man, blew the top three floors off an uptown high-rise, and ended up getting sued by every city, county, and state agency in New York.
Ray : Yeah... but what a ride.
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Ray : It looks like a giant Jell-O mold.
Winston : I hate Jell-O.
Peter Venkman : Oh, come on. There's always room for Jell-O!
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Peter Venkman : [as the Mayor walks in]
[Raising his voice over the rest of the 'Busters]
Peter Venkman : Lenny. Big man.
The Mayor : The Ghostbusters.
Winston : Mr. Mayor?
[Holds out his hand, wanting to shake his hand]
The Mayor : What is this? A slumber party?
Ray : Well, that's why we wanted to see you.
The Mayor : Listen, *I* don't want to hear anything about it. You got two minutes. Make it good.
Ray : [Getting started] Well, first of all Mr. Mayor, it's a great pleasure to see you again, and you'll be happy to know that almost fifty percent of us voted for you in the last election.
The Mayor : I appreciate that.
Peter Venkman : I'm sorry we have to meet under these circumstances.
Ray : Mr. Mayor, we're here tonight because a psychomagnatheric slimeflow of immense proportions is building up beneath the city.
The Mayor : Psycho-what?
Egon : Psychomagnatheric.
Peter Venkman : Big word, big word.
Egon : Negative human emotions that are forming into a vicious ectoplasm with *explosive* supernormal potential.
The Mayor : Can somebody speak English here?
Winston : Uh yeah. Your honor, what we're trying to say is all of the bad feelings. You know hate, anger and the vibes of the city are turning into this *sludge*. I didn't believe in it either. But, we just went for a swim in it and end up almost killing each other.
Hardemeyer : [to the Mayor]
[aggravated]
Hardemeyer : This is insane! Do we *really* have to listen to this?
Peter Venkman : [to Hardemeyer] Can't you stop your lips from flapping for 2 little minutes?
[to the Mayor]
Peter Venkman : Lenny, have you been out on the street lately, do you know weird it is out there? We've taken our own headcount, there seems to be 3 *million* completely miserable assholes living in the Tri-State area.
Hardemeyer : [In disbelief] Please.
Peter Venkman : I beg your pardon, 3 million and *one*.
Hardemeyer : Hey.
Ray : And what *fudgy brain* here doesn't realize, that if we don't do something fast this whole place is gonna blow like a frog on a hot plate.
Hardemeyer : [In disbelief] Yeah, right.
The Mayor : What do you want me to do, go on television and tell 3 million people they have to be *nice* to each other?
[Begins to walk off]
The Mayor : Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's god-given right. Your two minutes are up, good night gentlemen.
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[At the foot of the Statue of Liberty]
Peter Venkman : Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Winston : Wonder what?
Peter Venkman : Whether she's naked under that toga. She *is* French. You know that.
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[looking at the painting of Vigo]
Winston : Wow, that is one ugly dude.
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[the Ghostbusters have been committed to a mental hospital]
Ray : As I explained before, we think the spirit of a 17th century Moldavian tyrant is alive and well in a painting at the Manhattan Museum of Art.
Psychiatrist : Uh-huh, and are there any other paintings in the museum with bad spirits in them?
Egon : You're wasting valuable time. He's drawing strength from a psychomagnotheric slime flow that's been collecting under the city.
Psychiatrist : Yes, tell me about the slime.
Winston : It's very potent stuff. We made a toaster dance with it.
[motions to Peter]
Winston : And a bathtub tried to eat his friend's baby.
Psychiatrist : A bathtub?
Peter Venkman : [with his head buried in his arms in despair] Don't look at me. I think these people are completely nuts.
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[after failing to break through the ectoplasm surrounding the Museum]
Egon : That slime mold is pulsing with evil. It would take a tremendous amount of positive energy to crack that shell and I seriously doubt there's enough goodwill left in this town to do it.
Ray : You know, I just can't believe things have gotten so bad in this city that there's no way back. I mean, sure, it's dirty, it's crowded, it's polluted, it's noisy and there's people all around who'd just as soon step on your face as look at you. But come on! There's got to be a few sparks of sweet humanity left in this burned-out 'burg and we just have to figure out a way to mobilize it.
Egon : He's right. We need something that everyone in this town can get behind, we need... a symbol!
Ray : Something that appeals to the best in each and every one of us.
Egon : Something good.
Winston : Something decent.
Peter Venkman : Something pure.
[They are all looking at the image of the Statue of Liberty on the Ecto-1's license plate]
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[Ray has stepped in front of the painting of Vigo, blocking the Ghostbusters' attack]
Egon : Ray... we'd like to shoot the monster. Could you move, please?
Peter Venkman : Ray...
Winston : Ray?
Egon , Peter Venkman , Winston : RAY!
[Ray turns around, he is Ray/Vigo]
Ray : [demonic voice] NO! I, Ray, am Vigo, shall rule the Earth! Begone, you pitiful half-men!
Peter Venkman : Now!
[they attack]
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Egon : [talking about the mood slime after yelling at it] We're running tests to see if we can get an equally strong positive response.
Peter Venkman : What kind of tests?
Ray : Well, we sing to it, talk to it, and say supportive, nurturing things to it.
Peter Venkman : You're not sleeping with it, are you, Ray?
[Ray doesn't answer, but stares intently at Egon]
Peter Venkman : [noticing Egon, teasingly] You hound.
Winston : It's always the quiet ones.
Egon : [clears throat, and hastily changes the subject] How 'bout the kinetic test?
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Louis Tully : [TV Commercial] What is it, honey?
Janine Melnitz : It's that darn ghost again. He just won't leave us alone. I guess we're just going to have to move.
Louis Tully : No, wait! Don't worry. We're not moving.
[picks up the phone]
Louis Tully : He is!
Janine Melnitz : Who are you going to call?
Egon , Peter Venkman , Ray , Winston : Ghostbusters.
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Winston : That was really stupid.
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Judge Wexler : [At the Ghostbusters' trial] Before we begin this trial, I want to make one thing very clear: The law does not recognize the existence of ghosts, and I don't believe in them either. So I don't wanna hear a lot of malarkey about goblins, spooks, and demons. We're gonna stick to the facts in this case. Leave the ghost stories to the kiddies, understood?
Winston : Wow. Sounds like a pretty open-minded guy, huh?
Egon : Yeah, they call him "The Hammer."
Ray : What can we do? It's all in the hands of our lawyer now.
Louis Tully : I think you guys are making a big mistake. I do mostly tax law and some probate stuff occasionally. I got my law degree at night school.
Ray : Well, that's fine, Louis. We got arrested at night.
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Peter Venkman : [the Ghostbusters enters the museum's restoration room] All right, suck in the guts, guys. We're the Ghostbusters.
[they breathe in]
Janosz : [approaches the four; claps] No! No, please go! You...
Ray : Who's this wiggler?
Peter Venkman : He's yours, Ray. Sic him.
Janosz : [to Peter] I have discuss things with you. Now I...
Ray : Hi, how are you? Ray Stantz from the Ghostbusters. Nice to see you. Beautiful lab you have here.
Janosz : Can I tell what I told your friend?
Ray : We're just doing a routine spook check.
Janosz : Eh, Dr. Venkman, Dana is not here.
Peter Venkman : Yeah, we know that, Johnny.
Janosz : So why are you came?
Peter Venkman : Well, we got a report there was a major creep in the area. We checked our list and you were right on the top. Johnny, where the hell are you from anyway?
Janosz : The Upper West Side.
Egon : The whole room's extremely hot, Peter.
Janosz : Hot?
Winston : [notices the painting of Vigo] Ooh, that's one ugly dude.
Peter Venkman : Oh, that's Vigo. Mr. Vigo?
Janosz : Uh...
Peter Venkman : [starts to take pictures of Vigo] Vigs, would you look this way, please?
Janosz : Please. No, don't. No, no!
Peter Venkman : Come on, show me something.
Janosz : No! No photographs, please! Slides are available in the Gift Shop, eh?
[Winston pulls Janosz out of the way; Janosz yells]
Peter Venkman : Yeah, thanks. Thank you, Winston.
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[Ray and Winston have been hired as birthday party entertainers and the two are dancing to the "Ghostbusters" theme song]
Ray , Winston : [singing] If there's something strange/in the neighborhood/who ya gonna call?
Birthday Party Kids : [in unison] HE-MAN!
[the birthday party kids rush out of the room, leaving a despondent Ray and Winston]
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[TV Commercial]
Egon : With our special half price service plan.
Peter Venkman : What? Hold on. Half Price? Have we all gone mad?
Ray : I guess so, Pete. Because that's not all. Tell them, Egon.
Egon : Oh, you mean the Ghostbusters hot beverage thermal mug and free balloons for the kids.
Egon , Peter Venkman , Ray , Winston : Ghoooooostbusters!
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Ray : This is an incredible breakthrough. I mean, what a discovery. A psychoreactive substance! Whatever this stuff is, it responds to human emotional states.
Peter Venkman : Mood slime. Oh, baby...
Winston : You mean this stuff actually feeds on bad vibes?
Ray : Like a cop in a doughnut factory.
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[last lines]
Winston : Hey, fellas. You want to take a look at this?
Ray : Wow.
Egon : Early Renaissance, I think. Raphael or Piero della Francesca.
Peter Venkman : No. I believe it's one of the Fettuccine's.
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Egon : We're running out of time, Ray.
Winston : [to Ray] Can't you go any faster?
Ray : I'm afraid the vibrations will shake her to pieces.
[to Egon]
Ray : You should've padded her feet.
Egon : I don't think they make Nike's in her size, Ray.
Peter Venkman : Oh, don't worry. She's tough. She's a harbor chick!
[the animated Statue of Liberty crushes an NYPD squad car, shocking the paradegoers]
Ray : Sorry! My fault!
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[the Ghostbusters are released from Parkview Hospital; As the team puts on their uniforms, Louis explains how Janosz Poha, in the ghostly form of a crazed nanny, kidnapped Oscar, Dana Barrett's baby]
Louis Tully : And then he took the baby, and he put it in a carriage, and then levitated away!
Peter Venkman : What did Dana do? Where'd she go?
Louis Tully : I don't know. She said she was going to the museum to get the baby back. And then there was an eclipse, and the whole town went dark and everybody's nuts!
Ray : It all fits. Vigo wants in on the 21st century. He needs a human body to inhabit. Little Oscar must be it!
Winston : And I bet we're the only ones who can do anything about it, right?
Ray : You bet we are!
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[the Ghostbusters rappel down from the Statue of Liberty through the smashed glass ceiling into the museum]
Janosz : Do you know who that is?
Peter Venkman : Happy New Year!
Janosz : He's Vigo! You are like the buzzing of files to him!
[Janosz sees that Vigo has disappeared from the painting]
Peter Venkman : Oh, Johnny, did you back the wrong horse.
[to Ray and Winston]
Peter Venkman : Will you hose him, please?
Ray : Hose him.
[Ray and Winston sprays Janosz with the newly-created, positively-charged slime. Janosz helplessly screams as the slime incapacitates him, knocking him to the floor unconscious]
Winston : One down.
Ray : On the ground.
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Janosz : Four minutes to go, and then, party times!
[the evil soul of Vigo the Carpathian is about to possess Oscar, Dana Barrett's child]
Dana : [horrified] Oscar...
[Dana attempts to grab the baby, but Janosz pushes her back]
Janosz : [excited] It's happening. It's really happening!
[Just as the possession is nearly completed, the Ghostbusters, in the animated Statue of Liberty, appears. The slime barrier starts to partially recede from the glass ceiling; Janosz is frustrated]
Janosz : Wha- No. Go! No, go away from here!
[Dana successfully grabs Oscar, thus stopping Vigo from possessing the baby]
Janosz : Go away!
[Outside, the partygoers are cheering in excitement as Ray pilots the statue's torch]
Peter Venkman : I love it when you roughhouse!
Egon : Hit it, mama!
Ray : DROP THE HAMMER ON HER!
Winston : Go! Do it!
[the torch smashes through the glass ceiling as Janosz watches in shock and frustration; the rappel cords are thrown from the crown]
Dana : Oh, Oscar, look!
Janosz : Go away!
