![]() It's not the same Twinkie - it's unwrapped in the old movie, and we see Egon take a bite - but as Winston would undoubtedly say, that's an old Twinkie. This is undoubtedly a reference to Egon's " Big Twinkie" speech from the original film. In the kitchen of the farmhouse, you might be able to spot the " man-eating toaster" from "Ghostbusters II." The kids later discover a very old looking Twinkie in the glovebox of the Ecto-1. In the years since, fans have probably devoted way too much effort into discussing the reasoning behind the moment - but honestly, it was probably just Bill Murray making a half-hearted attempt at fulfilling a product placement obligation. In addition to a pair of his old glasses, they discover a Nestle Crunch wrapper - referencing a long-discussed random moment at the beginning of the original "Ghostbusters" where Venkman says "you've earned this" and hands Egon the candy bar. When Phoebe explores her granddad's pockets, they find evidence that Egon hasn't emptied them in some time. When the kids put on the uniforms, we know they scribble their own names where the nametag typically goes (what we don't know, however, is how Egon's old suits fit 12-year-old kids so perfectly). ![]() In "Ghostbusters II," Egon said that when he was a child he had "a Slinky, but I straightened it" if you look on Phoebe's nightstand when the character is first introduced and living in her old home in Chicago, you can see a straightened Slinky toy. It feels only appropriate, then, that when Callie and her kids walk into Egon's old house and start poking around, she appears out of nowhere and says dryly: "Can I help you?"Ī few more, fairly-random notes on the topic of memorable lines and Easter eggs: When Phoebe and Podcast are testing the proton pack, he says they are in "Rust City," which was the not-so-secret title the film used to conceal its identity during production. In the original film, there were numerous instances where Janine answered the Ghostbusters' phones with a deceptively simple phrase that conveyed both an eagerness to please and at the same time a jaded, New Yorker attitude of perturbed impatience. Lastly, in a much less showy moment but possibly the sweetest of these lines, Annie Potts makes her return as the delightful Janine Melnitz. When Phoebe puts on her proton pack for the first time, she asks Podcast to "Switch me on." It's a small touch, but evocative of a phrase employed by the original crew, typically indicating to the audience that it's time to bust some ghosts. "There is no mom," the new Gatekeeper replies. If you remember that scene, you'll be delighted by Carrie Coon's haunting response when they approach and refer to her as mom. After we see Callie attacked in her father's hidden basement lab, the kids come home to find her zoned out and disheveled, sitting in a chair and looking quite similar to Sigourney Weaver when she first got possessed in the original movie. When Phoebe requests her phone call, the sheriff answers as though he's been listening to a lot of SiriusXM's '80s on 8: "Who ya gonna call?" The call of course, goes to Ray Stantz, effectively calling in the troops.Īnother key moment occurs as Gozer is nearing a return, needing a new "Gatekeeper" and "Keymaster" to open the gate between dimensions. We learn that Trevor's crush Lucky (Celeste O'Connor) is the daughter of the local sheriff (Bokeem Woodbine), who has put them in jail. ![]() ![]() It occurs when Trevor, Phoebe and her friend Podcast (Logan Kim) are arrested after destroying half on Main Street via proton pack blasts. You likely either laughed out loud or groaned out loud at the most noticeable one. It's a good thing Ray didn't get that tattoo back in 1984, or he'd be mistakenly walking around with a very different verse on his arm. fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!" Of course, there's also a scene in the original "Ghostbusters" where Ray recites the bible verse to Winston - but he accidentally quotes it as Revelation 7:12. In most movies, this could be called "foreshadowing." But if there's such a thing as "backwards-shadowing," this might qualify, because the verse clearly calls back to the day of judgment on Stantz's mind in the original film when Venkman told the mayor that New York was headed towards a disaster of biblical proportions. "And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood." "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake," reads that verse in the King James bible. Further tying the old friends together, when Phoebe calls Ray, you may have noticed the former Ghostbuster is sporting a new tattoo on his arm.
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