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** Adult film star Ron Jeremy was a crowd-scene extra in the first film; as one online commenter noted, "this was one of the few movies where he didn't [[Incredibly Lame Pun|slime anyone]]."
*** Becomes [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] once you realized that he's slated to appear in Hustler's adult spoof ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nHaU6q5SM8 This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX]''.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: The Mayor is [[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack|Captain K'Nuckles]] (Brian Doyle-Murray who is the older half-brother of Bill Murray who plays Peter Venkman). Or more on the topic of ghosts, also [[SpongeBob SquarePants|The Flying Dutchman]].
** And ''Max von Sydow'' is the voice of Vigo in the second film as well as the game.
** And Alyssa Milano is Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn in the game.
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: According to the DVD commentary, the first movie ruined William Atherton's life, what with random people yelling "Hey, dickless!" at him on the streets and all...
** Didn't stop him from reprising the role forty years later in ''[[Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire]]'', where [[Still Got It|his portrayal of the character hasn't changed a bit]].
* [[One of Us]]: Ray in the cartoon. He's very into cartoons and superhero comic books.
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Ivan Reitman's son and future director Jason Reitman plays the boy at the birthday party in the beginning who tells Ray "My dad says you guys are full of crap", and Jason's sister plays the girl with the puppy in Egon's experiment.
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** A definite example is the majority of Louis' party in the first film, which was not only one continuous take, but almost entirely improvised.
** In the Ghostbusters' commercial, Egon looking down to find his mark was an actual flub by Harold Ramis that everyone agreed fit the character.
* [[Troper Works]]: ATT admin [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] is in the crowd in front of the museum in ''Ghostbusters II''.
* [[Tuckerization]]: Harold Ramis named his character, Dr. Egon Spengler, after two people he knew when he was younger, and adapted their names into that of the character. Oswald Spengler was a history and philosophy teacher he admired, while Egon Donsbach was a foreign exchange student he knew in high school.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: For a great movie, ''Ghostbusters'' varies tremendously from its original concept. Aykroyd's original script called for multiple groups of ghostbusters who traveled through time and fought ghosts in different dimensions. This idea was rejected as technically unfeasible in 1985; supposedly, the special effects would have cost over $300 million. Ivan Reitman re-purposed the script as a "going into business" story to make it more accessible to audiences.
** Many actors were switched out or not intended as their original performers.
*** The part of Venkman for written for John Belushi, [[Author Existence Failure|but alas...]]. Bill Murray, the driving force of the movie, was a last-minute addition to the cast. While Murray made the role his own, several lines are clearly intended for Belushi, such as the speech after the university fires them. In fact, Murray claims that he was typing out some ad lib suggestions to send to Belushi for the role when he got the phone call informing him of Belushi's death. It sounds corny from Murray, who usually plays a cynic, but Belushi was good with such speeches.
*** Eddie Murphy was to play Winston, who would have been part of the original group along with Ray, Peter and Egon. He was described as a former Marine and Ph.D.-level scientist, the original script called for Winston, not Venkman, to be slimed in the Sedgewick Hotel. Murphy was left out because they didn't want the movie to be perceived as an ''[[SNL]]''-inspired film, and because he was busy with ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]]'' at the time.
*** The part of Louis Tully was initially offered to John Candy, who wanted to play him as an odd German guy who owned dogs. The directors didn't like this idea, since there was already so much dog imagery in the movie, but couldn't bring themselves to replace him. Fortunately, Candy passed on the role, and they offered it to Rick Moranis, who had a much better take on the character. It helped, too, that Moranis, Candy, and Ramis were all friends since [[Second City]] together, and understood that the best guy for the role was the best guy for the role.
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** Originally Gozer was going to take the form of a man in a business suit and would have been played by Paul Reubens. Reitman was the one to devise the androgynous form at the last minute, believing it would work better as a supernatural manifestation rather than the rather mundane look. However, the Video Game's design of Ivo Shandor is said to be based upon what Paul Reubens might look like in ten or fifteen years' time.
** The librarian ghost's [[One-Winged Angel]] form was originally [[Nightmare Fuel|even scarier]]. The original model was later used in ''[[Fright Night]]''.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: The [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ghostbusters_Wiki Ghostbusters Wiki].
* [[Word of God]]: Harold Ramis stated in the commentary that it was one of the first movies to use the word "slime" as a verb.
* [[Working Title]]: ''Ghost Smashers''. This [[Mythology Gag|was even referenced]] in [[The Real Ghostbusters|the animated adaptation]] where a guy in a restaurant calls them "the Ghost Smashers" before his fiance corrects him.
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