# He Crossed The Streams: RIP, Harold Ramis **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118 "2014-02-24T17:35:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/61 "2014-02-24T21:18:21Z")
Yes, so so sad, and yes, Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters are the first ones everyone thinks of. But please, let us not forget : Caddyshack National Lampoon’s Vacation National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Analyze This And all his brilliant work at SCTV. Heaven’s talent show just got alot better… ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/62 "2014-02-24T21:20:08Z")
RIP Egon. One of my favorite exchanges in GB. Dr. Egon Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you. Dr. Peter Venkman: What? Dr. Egon Spengler: Don’t cross the streams. Dr. Peter Venkman: Why? Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad. Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”? Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal. Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That’s bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon. So, yeah, thanks Egon. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/63 "2014-02-24T21:21:53Z")
Way back when, I could just barely get a Canadian TV station and I soon found the original SCTV. Wow. The early years were great. John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara, Harold Ramis, and Dave Thomas as the Beaver. Then came the movies. A tremendous group of all-time classic films. What a genius. Speaking of which … “We’d like to get a sample of your brain tissue.” He was a great actor as well as writer/director. He backed off doing major roles far too soon. (I’ve been hesitant to make my 10,000th post for a few days. It’s a pleasure to make it a post in this man’s memory.) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/64 "2014-02-24T21:47:02Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Agreed. I really haven’t felt this way since Phil Hartman. Same here. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/65 "2014-02-24T21:55:39Z")
Didn’t this guy have a hand in **Groundhog Day**? ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/66 "2014-02-24T22:17:45Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Didn’t this guy have a hand in **Groundhog Day**? Yeah, about the same size hand that Moses had in the Bible. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/67 "2014-02-24T22:24:13Z")
SCTV went downhill fast after Harold left the series. _“I became a swami because I thought it would be a good way to meet girls!”_ RIP. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/68 "2014-02-24T22:56:31Z")
Son of bitch! Shit! This really sucks. RIP Harold. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/69 "2014-02-25T00:42:56Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > **Bienville** , are you a Farker? That’s the headline they used to announce his death. Huh. No I am not- I only have a vague idea what it even is. I had posted the same thing to Facebook about an hour before I posted it here, about 9:30 Pacific. I wonder if it’s just a “Great minds think alike” kind of a thing or if they lifted it. I suppose it’s the kind of tribute two Ramis fans could think up independently. [On Facebook I put the text over a picture of Harold with the Twinkie from the relevant scene. (Photobucket Link)](http://s29.photobucket.com/user/JoeLavelle/media/Twinkie_zps9dc34b3d.jpg.html) So, if you see that floating around the internet, they definitely lifted it from me. (Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/70 "2014-02-25T01:14:01Z")
A Youtube video of crossing the streams: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3OOF0FpKiYk/hqdefault.jpg "Cross the streams") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OOF0FpKiYk) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/71 "2014-02-25T02:21:06Z")
Damn. The man was a comic genius. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/72 "2014-02-25T02:33:15Z")
Groundhog Day is one of the greatest comedies ever filmed. I’d rank it right up there with Some Like It Hot. Rita(on her perfect man): He’s kind, sensitive, and gentle. He’s not afraid to cry in front of me. Phil: This is a man we’re talking about, right? I use that line all the time when people describe a man like that. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/73 "2014-02-25T02:51:49Z")
Well, damn. RIP, Harold, and thank you for _Groundhog Day_. ☹ There is a school of thought that one’s life is one big Groundhog Day, that when you die you go back to the beginning and live it over again and again. That would be fitting in this case. So many are dropping just before the Oscars. It may be a challenge to keep the Memorial section up to date. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/74 "2014-02-25T02:54:37Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Huh. No I am not- I only have a vague idea what it even is. > I had posted the same thing to Facebook about an hour before I posted it here, about 9:30 Pacific. I wonder if it’s just a “Great minds think alike” kind of a thing or if they lifted it. > I suppose it’s the kind of tribute two Ramis fans could think up independently. > [On Facebook I put the text over a picture of Harold with the Twinkie from the relevant scene. (Photobucket Link)](http://s29.photobucket.com/user/JoeLavelle/media/Twinkie_zps9dc34b3d.jpg.html) > So, if you see that floating around the internet, they definitely lifted it from me. > (Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery) I’m stealing that pic…not claiming it, just stealing it ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/75 "2014-02-25T03:00:35Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I’m stealing that pic…not claiming it, just stealing it 🙂 By all means, spread the tribute. A guy like Harold Ramis deserves to to be honored on all corners of the internet and beyond. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/76 "2014-02-25T03:02:43Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of sadness I feel when I hear about a celebrity death. Based on this morning’s report of the death of Harold Ramis, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long weighing approximately six hundred pounds. That’s a big Twinkie. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/77 "2014-02-25T03:17:23Z")
[There’s a Twinkie in a memorial](http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/this-twinkie-in-front-of-the-ghostbusters-firehouse-is-perha) outside the Ghostbusters “firehouse”. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/78 "2014-02-25T04:36:52Z")
Heaven has a new [plainclothes Mountie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftMylPpChw) now. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/79 "2014-02-25T05:30:25Z")
Sad news indeed… …but you can’t say he wasn’t [prepared](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYCbF0Fat-c). ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/80 "2014-02-25T12:05:38Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Ugh, of all the celebrity deaths in the past few years, this one hits me the hardest. I bonded with my best friend over Ghostbusters, and I watch Groundhog Day with my girlfriend every year on our anniversary (February 2nd). Me too. I actually shed a couple tears about this–I grew up with classic SCTV, and loved his movies of course–but his interviews were always fantastic, and from what I read over the years, he came across as one of the last few straight shooters in Hollywood. The last death to hit me this hard was John Ritter’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118.md?page=5)