…like Homer Simpson says?
Alas, poor Slimer, I knew him well Egon.
Homer was confusing Ghostbusters with Strange Brew, which came out a year before Ghostbusters and also starred Rick Moranis.
Strange Brew is a riff on Hamlet, in which Bob and Doug McKenzie stand in for Rosencranzt and Guildenstern, and the intrigue centers around the heir to the Elsinore Brewery, who, after seeing the “ghost” of her father on a security tape that the boys call her attention to, realizes that her uncle, the new Brewmaster, is a bit of a bad guy. Hilarity ensues.
And the boys demonstrate how to get a free case of beer.
Ah, Shakespeare’s use of Proton Accellertors is a truly touching symbolic moment.
Come ON…it’s Homer! What does Homer know from Shakespear?
Everyone knows Ghostbusters is MacBeth.
I am so friggin stupid, I love Hamlet and have seen Strange Brew a few dozen times. How I didn’t connect the dots is beyond me. I owe you a thank you, sir.
Isn’t it actually the Anti-Hamlet?
In the Shakespeare, the ghost overwhelms the hero, the boy doesn’t get the girl, the best friends are conspirators, and everybody dies.
In the Reitman, the hero overwhelms the ghost(s), the boy gets the girl, the best friends are co-heroes, and nobody dies.
The only real similarity is that in both, the heroes talk to themselves.
Yes. And as it is, Hollywood still didn’t fuck it up as much they did with A Prayer for Owen Meany/Simon Birch.
IIRC, they had discussed the main concept on an episode of Great White North, eh.
O, from this time forth my thoughts be slimey, or be nothing worth.
Out, damn Slimer!
insert requisite comment about spit-take. Keyboard.
Thanks you sir, thank you kindly.
Actually, her uncle is basically a schmuck who’s bullied by Brewmeister Smith.