I am watching the new Fox show The Last Man on Earth and they have a Ghostbusters reference.
The title character passes out and hallucinates that an attractive woman saw his signs and found him, saying hearing his voice is like music. He asks her if he may sing to her, which she agrees to.
He starts to sing the first verse of the GB theme song, pausing after "who you gonna call?" and the woman finishes with "Ghost Busters!"
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 5th, 2015, 8:20 pm
by Alex Newborn
Watching 2013's 'Escape from Planet Earth' for the first time tonight, sorry if this is old news.
There's a very quick visual gag about how all the aliens who've ever worked on this one device had signed the floor.
My eye saw 'Kal-El' when it went by at regular speed, so I went back and paused it, and we had a lot of fun reading all the names.
Near the bottom you can find 'Zuul', and one that is in all likelihood 'Gozer', though a character is standing on the last two letters.
Io is the signature of the creature at the left of the picture I used above. If the alphabetized imdb Trivia page entry is going to list her, it should really have included Doc and Thurman, two more 'Escape from Planet Earth' characters standing in this shot, whose signatures are also visible.
Later in the movie a section of the floor is seen slightly closer, revealing that among the autographs obscured by Scorch Supernova in the pic above are the name Moya (from Farscape?) and an Eye of Horus hieroglyphic.
Alex
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 5th, 2015, 10:29 pm
by Hairy Biker
No Doc Brown or Sherman....such a shame.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 5th, 2015, 10:33 pm
by Alex Newborn
Hmmm... just noticed Moya appears in TWO locations, then. It's also in the above frame, near the symbol for 'male'.
And the Imdb folks left off Ackbar, too. I haven't double-checked all of them, though.
Now, nearly all of these are the names of aliens from other franchises-- which makes sense storywise in this film-- so we should really feel honored that our alternate-dimension god and demigod made the list at all.
Alex
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 6th, 2015, 4:33 am
by Spengler02
And Bender. Bender's a robot from the future.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 7th, 2015, 7:25 pm
by Ecto_1X
Anyone seen the new series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" on Netflix? I gave the season a chance today and there were these jems in the following episodes:
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 7th, 2015, 7:26 pm
by Spengler02
Wow, that yearbook entry was a great catch! Good eye!
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 7th, 2015, 7:42 pm
by LandoSystem
The new series The Last Man on Earth had a reference. The main character faints. When he wakes up he starts to sing the ghostbusters song. Surprisingly good show too.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 8th, 2015, 11:03 am
by csullivan1980
Ecto_1x you beat me to it!!!! Haha
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 8th, 2015, 3:12 pm
by Ecto_1X
csullivan1980 wrote:Ecto_1x you beat me to it!!!! Haha
lol. I didn't expect it.. when it did go to those parts.. I was Oh.. HA! It is based in NY, so I'm not surprised if they did walk past 55CPW.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 10th, 2015, 11:56 pm
by Alex Newborn
Curse you, Ecto-1X!
I cued up S1E8 of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix to see the Tavern-on-the-Green sequence.
Then I watched the entire episode to see it in context.
Next thing I know, it's 1am and I've just binge-watched most of the first season.
That theme song, barely two minutes into the pilot, had me hooked.
Alex
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 11th, 2015, 12:36 pm
by Alex Newborn
Ecto_1X wrote:
I just watched the entirety of episode 6, and later in the episode we find out the real meaning of the yearbook quote by Mike Stampone.
Turns out, Winston Zeddemore High is the worst high school in NYC.
Alex
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 11th, 2015, 2:31 pm
by Spengler02
Why does that sound EXTREMELY racist to me?
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 11th, 2015, 7:36 pm
by Ecto_1X
Alex Newborn wrote:Curse you, Ecto-1X!
I cued up S1E8 of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix to see the Tavern-on-the-Green sequence.
Then I watched the entire episode to see it in context.
Next thing I know, it's 1am and I've just binge-watched most of the first season.
That theme song, barely two minutes into the pilot, had me hooked.
Alex
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 13th, 2015, 6:48 am
by Spengler02
This reference is older than this thread, but in one sketch, Dan Aykroyd did a Bad Conceptual Theater (2001) in which the play was written by a monkey. Chris Kattan played in the play, and then was introduced as actor Ronnie Venkman Jr..
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 13th, 2015, 8:23 am
by Alex Newborn
You may be reading that into it. I had never seen the skit, though I remember Aykroyd's character of Leonard Pinth-Garnell from some 70's episodes of SNL. I found the clip of this more recent reprisal and it sounds more like "Bateman" to me.
Oh. Probably just wishful thinking made me think I heard Venkman. It's still cool to think though.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: March 25th, 2015, 5:16 am
by ghoulishfright
Just reading the Pet Sematary screenplay, adapted by Stephen King himself, and saw this little GB nod which never made it to the final cut…
Silence. Then: SOUND of the cop taking a whiz.
EXT. THE COP
Ah! Relief. SOUND of his fly being zipped. He looks back at the cemetery for a moment.
COP I ain't afraid of no ghost.
He walks back to his cruiser, gets in, and hauls ass.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: April 1st, 2015, 6:57 am
by Roger Rabbit
From Gotham Academy
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: April 4th, 2015, 11:07 am
by vgirl
I don't know if I missed it being mentioned, but the dub of ep. 3 of Dokkoida!? mentions the PKE Meter during the preview for the next episode. This is after the credits, of course.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: April 5th, 2015, 2:08 am
by JA Slow
This certainly isn't "new" but I didn't know if anyone's ever spotted this before. In The Hitcher (1986), there's a bumper sticker or something with the GB logo (can't make out the text) on a rack in the diner Jim Halsey goes into after John Ryder blows up the gas station.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: April 5th, 2015, 11:03 pm
by Alex Newborn
Looks as if it might say "I ain't afraid".
Alex
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: April 9th, 2015, 9:45 pm
by Alex Newborn
Not a reference to Ghostbusters so much as a discussion of it, but thought this was still the best existing thread to post it in...
Alex
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: April 10th, 2015, 4:07 pm
by Kingpin
During tonight's episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Transitions, Stabler and Benson are following up a case when the find a document letter-headed for a towing business named "Repo Busters" (including it's logo, which is a modern mustang in a prohibition symbol). In reaction to find it Stabler asks "Who you gonna call?" and as expected, Benson responds "Repo Busters".
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: April 12th, 2015, 5:08 pm
by Spengler02
Please excuse me if this has been pointed out before, I searched and nothing came up so, here it comes: In the episode of Adventure Time, The Enchiridion, Finn has to go on an adventure to get a book about heroism (or something like that) and at the beginning there is a guy who's name is Gatekeeper.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: April 13th, 2015, 3:42 pm
by Spengler02
When Jane Lynch hosted SNL, she sang Glee's theme song (she supposedly wrote it), in which it was mentioned that Sue Sylvester (her character I'm guessing?) was created during a storm, when a lightning bolt struck. She appeared and the villagers asked, "Are you a god?", to which she answered "No." She also said "I'm Sue Sylvester" but I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be a reference to the Gozer scene.
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: April 15th, 2015, 8:58 am
by ghoulishfright
Not really a reference, and maybe someone has pointed this out before, but I just rewatched part of "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island," and noticed a strong parallel to GB2 in the first act. The intro sees the mystery gang all washed up and gone their separate ways. Daphne's now a talk show host like Venkman, and Velma has an esoteric book store like Ray. I think the coincidence is just a little too great...
Re: NEW Ghostbusters References?
Posted: May 13th, 2015, 3:03 pm
by TheDreamMaster
Sorry for the low quality but its all I could find on YouTube. Apparently the kids show Dino Dan did an enter homage calle d"Dino Busters"
