# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/81 "2014-02-25T16:48:05Z")
[Nice tribute.](http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/82 "2014-02-25T16:51:04Z")
I really like [this one](http://www.megacynics.com/2014/02/25), too. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/83 "2014-02-25T16:52:01Z")
The Obama’s released [a statement on Ramis’ passing](http://www.thewrap.com/president-obama-makes-caddyshack-joke-tribute-harold-ramis/) and it’s quite moving, I thought (and I love the Caddyshack reference): > [@](#): > > Michelle and I were saddened to hear of the passing of Harold Ramis, one of America’s greatest satirists, and like so many other comedic geniuses, a proud product of Chicago’s Second City. When we watched his movies – from ‘Animal House’ and ‘Caddyshack’ to ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day’ – we didn’t just laugh until it hurt. We questioned authority. We identified with the outsider. We rooted for the underdog. And through it all, we never lost our faith in happy endings. Our thoughts and prayers are with Harold’s wife, Erica, his children and grandchildren, and all those who loved him, who quote his work with abandon, and who hope that he received total consciousness. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/84 "2014-02-25T16:57:47Z")
Oddly, Stripes was on one of the cable channels this weekend. (And so was Meatballs, which he also wrote and which is really good.) ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/85 "2014-02-25T17:28:36Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > That’s a big Twinkie. I just watched that scene on YouTube, and the _really_ funny line is Ernie Hudson’s “Tell 'em about the Twinkie.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/86 "2014-02-25T21:01:16Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I really like [this one](http://www.megacynics.com/2014/02/25), too. That one’s kinda fucked up, if you think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/87 "2014-02-25T21:58:35Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > \ wonder if he and Bill Murray ever stopped their feuding and talked to each other again. According to this [article](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/bill-murray-pays-tribute-harold-ramis-article-1.1701244), Murray visited him before he died. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/88 "2014-02-25T22:34:39Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > That one’s kinda fucked up, if you think about it. Heh, you’re right. A job’s a job, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/89 "2014-02-26T17:56:58Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I really like [this one](http://www.megacynics.com/2014/02/25), too. And here’s a suspiciously similar gag in the [New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/dailycartoon/daily-cartoon-140226-465.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/90 "2014-02-26T18:14:56Z")
I just read that _Year One_ was completely panned, and a financial failure. I actually thought it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/91 "2014-02-26T18:19:50Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I just watched that scene on YouTube, and the _really_ funny line is Ernie Hudson’s “Tell 'em about the Twinkie.” It makes me sort of sad to think that when his time comes, with all the other work he’s done, people will remind each other who Ernie Hudson was with the words “the black Ghostbuster.” ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/92 "2014-02-26T19:03:49Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > And I betcha more people think of the movie than the holiday when they hear the phrase. It was some time before I realized Groundhog Day was even a real thing. It’s such a weird idea. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/93 "2014-02-26T19:32:21Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > It makes me sort of sad to think that when his time comes, with all the other work he’s done, people will remind each other who Ernie Hudson was with the words “the black Ghostbuster.” Why? It’s the simplest description of the role for which the vast majority of people would instantly recognize him. I’m more disturbed by the implication that the mere mention of race implies racism by default. Nobody got upset when Jim Carrey was best known as “the white guy on ‘In Living Color.’” ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/94 "2014-02-26T19:34:14Z")
It still amuses me that Bill Murray’s black best friend in **Broken Flowers** was named “Winston.” ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/95 "2014-02-26T20:45:44Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > wonder if he and Bill Murray ever stopped their feuding and talked to each other again. > [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > According to this [article](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/bill-murray-pays-tribute-harold-ramis-article-1.1701244), Murray visited him before he died. It’s crazy to me that their greatest work together was during a period that ended their friendship (though unrelated to the work itself). ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/96 "2014-02-26T20:52:00Z")
Yes, I thought it very sad that Ramis & Murray’s friendship apparently ended after “Groundhog Day”, one of - if not _the_ - best things either did in their professional lives. and it made me quite happy to hear that Bill Murray did indeed talk to Harold Ramis again before he died. ( this is all pretty irrational to have such feelings about people I don’t even know, but that’s how I feel) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/97 "2014-02-27T00:36:59Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I really like [this one](http://www.megacynics.com/2014/02/25), too. In the comments of one of the Fark threads, that one was posted, along with a rather nice one featuring Egon and Slimer. I can’t find a source for the pic though. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118/98 "2014-02-27T01:05:09Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > … it made me quite happy to hear that Bill Murray did indeed talk to Harold Ramis again before he died. ( this is all pretty irrational to have such feelings about people I don’t even know, but that’s how I feel) I don’t think it’s irrational. It’s a situation just about everyone can relate to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-crossed-the-streams-rip-harold-ramis/682118.md?page=4)