Ghostbusters

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Ghostbusters is an American horror comedy film about a group of men who battle ghosts and other supernatural creatures in New York City.

History

Ghostbusters was released on June 8th, 1984. The film stars Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond Stantz as Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis as Dr. Egon Spengler and Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddmore, the titular ghost busters. The film also stars Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett and Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz. Ghostbusters II was released on June 16th, 1989.

Related Memes

“There is no Dana, on Zuul”

There is no Dana, only Zuul is a memorable quote from Ghostbusters. In online conversations, its snowclone form “There is no X, only Zuul” can be used to refer to someone or something that appears to have been possessed by a demon or an unpopular belief. The phrase was first uttered in Ghostbusters by Dana Barrett (played by Sigourney Weaver) who hires the team to remove a ghost from her New York City apartment. Later in the investigation, Ghostbuster Peter Venkman (played by Bill Murray) finds Barrett possessed by the spirit of the demonic demigod Zuul, at which point Barrett says the line:

Peter Venkman: Dana? It’s Peter.
Dana Barrett: There is no Dana, there is only Zuul.
Peter Venkman: Ol’ Zuula you nut, now c’mon. C’mon. I want to talk to Dana. Dana. Just relax, c’mon. Dana. Dana. Can I talk to Dana?
Dana Barrett: [deep demonic voice]There is no Dana, only Zuul.
Peter Venkman: What a lovely singing voice you must have.

The earliest known use of the phrase appeared on the programming language message board PerlMonks^[3] in December 2000, when the forum user amelinda referenced the quote to express his or her distaste for the commercialization of Christmas.

The Pumpkin Dance

The Pumpkin Dance is a YouTube video of a man dressed in all black wearing a Jack O’Lantern mask dancing to the theme song from the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The clip, which originally aired on the KXVO news channel in Omaha, Nebraska during a Halloween broadcast in 2006, went on to spawn several mash-up videos, remixes and photoshopped GIFs. The “Pumpkin Dance” segment first aired on Omaha, Nebraska’s local news station KXVO^[1] during a 10 PM news broadcast on Halloween, October 31st, 2006. Without explanation, a man in a black unitard and a pumpkin mask was shown dancing to the Ghostbusters theme song^[2] in front of a graveyard backdrop. On November 2nd, the clip was uploaded to KXVO’s official YouTube channel, where it has received more than 1.2 million views as of October 2012.

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