Movie Trivia – Ghostbusters

By Queuebot in Film on Jan 27, 2009 at 8:56 pm

How much do you know about Ghostbusters? Eli of Penguins with Top Hats blog has a neat list of trivia about the movie:

The Stay Puft Marshmallow man doesnt only make an appearance at the end of the movie, he is also seen twice before. In Dana Barrett's apartment, next to the eggs on the counter there is a bag of Stay Puft, and in one of the outdoor scenes an ad for Stay Puft can be seen on one of the buildings.

The Ghostbusters Fire House is located at North Moore, & Varick St. in New York, NY. They have the large white Ghosbuster II sign hanging in their bay.

To promote the film, the Ectomobile was driven around Manhattan prior to the release. In the middle of the film's initial release, to keep interest going, Ivan Reitman had a trailer run, which was basically the commercial the Ghostbusters' use in the movie, but with the 555 number replaced with a 1-800 number, allowing people to call. They got a recorded message of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd saying something to the effect of "Hi. We're out catching ghosts right now." They got 1,000 calls per hour, 24 hours a day, for six weeks.

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From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by Muppetmaker.


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  1. Alicia Renee
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    I concur w/admin…tho appreication for busting out w/the Ghostbusters trivia rgdlss…

    fyi re: firehouse—the addy is
    14 N. Moore St.
    & it’s technically NYFD’s “Hook & Ladder Co. #8″

    cc-photo from Phillip Ritz on flickr:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ritzphotos/1505943177/in/set-721575945522 67639/

  2. Alex
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    Reworked the post format, will push it to front page momentarily. Great job, Eli!

  3. Alex
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    Hm – this is a copy and paste job from the link. Neat info, but this needs to be put more into Neatorama blog post format.

  4. Muppetmaker
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    Hah, thats because its my blog… I had pooled all this info over the years and figured it would be a good place to put it….

    My bad.

  5. david23456
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    the fact that the original author believes John Candy died before Ghostbusters was filmed kind of makes me doubt the validity of the rest of this “trivia”

  6. heyitse
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 11:39 pm

    I called the 1-800 number for days…weeks. But never got through. I still remember the number 1-800-654-1984.

  7. karla anne
    Jan 28th, 2009 at 8:10 am

    i totally remember calling that number!!

  8. Aaron
    Jan 28th, 2009 at 8:22 am

    I visited the Firehouse last October! For me it was like a holy pilgrimage!

    http://home.comcast.net/~cartoonistaaron/firehouse01.jpg

  9. Muppetmaker
    Jan 28th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    My apologies on the John Candy death thing, I wrote it out and totally looked past that mistake.

    John Candy didnt take the role, and it was not because he was dead, that was just for Belushi. Again. Apologies.

  10. Muppetmaker
    Jan 28th, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    Just a P.S. When it says on the bottom, ‘written with poor grammer by Eli’(that being me) it is not kidding. lmao.

  11. Alex
    Jan 28th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Thanks for the submission to the Neatorama Upcoming Queue, Muppetmaker!

  12. Muppetmaker
    Jan 28th, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    No Alex, thank you for having such a randy site.


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