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…
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. 
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.)
Same here. Dammit.
Didn’t this guy have a hand in Groundhog Day ?
Yeah, about the same size hand that Moses had in the Bible.
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.
Son of bitch! Shit!
This really sucks. RIP Harold.
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)
So, if you see that floating around the internet, they definitely lifted it from me.
(Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery)
A Youtube video of crossing the streams:
Damn. The man was a comic genius.
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.
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.
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.
That’s a big Twinkie.
There’s a Twinkie in a memorial outside the Ghostbusters “firehouse”.
Heaven has a new plainclothes Mountie now.
Sad news indeed…
…but you can’t say he wasn’t prepared.
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.
