@JonGon Productions That's true. Egon did the right thing to physically attack Peck when Peck put the blame on the Ghostbusters that they were responsible for shutting down the containment grid causing the explosion even after they warned Peck not to have it shut down. Not only that, Peck framed the Ghostbusters to the mayor where Peck said that they caused the explosion.
@@JackMacLupus yeah a boom happen not as big as an antimatter explosion like in star trek but no ones perfect sill it went boom and that's all that matters🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Every time I watch this movie whenever Peck is on screen, I find myself saying "This fuckin' guy...". A true testament to the skill of the actor ultimately.
I feel kind of sad for the guy, though. He gets a lot of people insulting him because of a role he played in a movie. Frankly, I want to shake the man's hand.
One thing I like about Peter and Egon is despite their snark he takes his warnings of danger seriously. So when Egon made the "Boom" Gesture, Peter didn't even make a joke he just nodded and got the hell out of there.
When Peter looked the ConEd worker in the eye and said "I'm warning you. Don't shut it off." That gets your attention because it's one of the very few moments in the movie where he's completely serious. And when even Peter Venkman isn't joking around, you'd better listen.
Egon's full line, partially drowned out by all the commotion, is "Your MOTHER'S responsible!" It does an amazing job of showing how the erudite, highly skilled polymath has absolutely lost his crap.
William Atherton was terrific in this scene and really breathed life into this character overall. He was perfect as the kind of guy you wished you could reach through screen and smack across the face. That's good acting.
Atherton's theatrical background and discipline really comes across in this scene. Every line and gesture adds up to a consummate performance of a devious slimeball. Little wonder people shouted the name dickless at him for years after!
Atherton's theatrical background and discipline really comes across in this scene. Every line and gesture adds up to a consummate performance of a devious slimeball. Little wonder people shouted the name dickless at him for years after!
Atherton's theatrical background and discipline really comes across in this scene. Every line and gesture adds up to a consummate performance of a devious slimeball. Little wonder people shouted the name dickless at him for years after!
GaeasBlessing When he says I'm not grotesquely stupid anyone else wanna say yes you are! Also when Peter tries to difuse the situation and Peck reacts like a vengeful child in this whole scene and finally the one guy doesn't know what he's doing ' I'm not interested in your opinion just shut it off' I wanna say alright fine bonehead but don't say we didn't warn you then you'll be interested! Don't waste your energy lecturing me about sinking to his level or name calling b c it's a movie for one. And second criticizing a movie character can be very therapeutic certain villianous movie characters deserve that and then some. Sadly real society isn't always much better and respect doesn't always work and I don't care how bias this sounds.
Atherton once complained that he was "the Margaret Dumont" in the film. He also wasn't happy about being labeled "dickless" during the scene in the mayor's office. He said he had been called "dickless" by people for awhile afterwards.
+Joe Masters He was probably teasing especially since he was considered as a ghost in this scene and having all the ghosts escape from the exploded containment grid was good news for him.
Oh ya, Rick Moranis is one of the unsung heroes of the movie. Always doing something in the background when he has no lines. Plus two of the best monologues in the movie!
I have a feeling that was something Rick Moranis decided to do on the spur of the moment. Because you can kind of hear Walter Peck starting to laugh at the end of that clip. They cut is short because he was about to lose it😄
I don't understand why they have an electrics engineer there to advise on the containment unit if all he has to do is switch it off which any of them could do
@@SamuelBlack84 Because legally only an electrician or the owners can shut off the power. The guy brought the cops with a warrant to arrest if needed and an electrician to shut off the power. So if some things goes wrong. He's not accountable for it.
@@mistresssuccubus2176 So, even though they think shutting it off is the right thing to do and completely safe he still thinks it might all go south and wants someone else to take the fall?
@@SamuelBlack84 Pretty much. But Mr. Dickless can also still get into trouble considering the guy that was told to shut off everything. Straight up told him that he's never seen anything like it before. But that might have been thrown at the Ghostbusters. Interesting how this movie plays out on that.
*Bill Murray walks in* "Forget it Murray. you had your chance to make a good ghostbusters movie but you thought it'd be more fun to tear the scripts appart. Well now it's Feig's turn wise ass.'' "He wants to make a reboot Bill." "You make that reboot and we wont be held responsible for whatever happens."
R.I.P. Harold Ramis 1944-2014 He was a great director and movie actor. He was a a very nice,kind and sweet man. I'm very sorry about that disease that he couldn't walk beca -use he died. I was a good fan of his movies.
Egon was so awesome. He was the nerd with hard edge. I can watch Stripes and Ghostbusters 1 and 2 tons of times and laugh even when I am alone. Such great films.
Yep. Now every time I watch this movie & this scene happens... I always say, "Nice going, dickless." In the trivia section for this movie on IMDB, it says that William Atherton was harassed by a bunch of kids on school buses lined up on 7th Avenue who were all calling him dickless & he wasn't even able to go into a bar without someone wanting to pick a fight with him. In those regards, I felt bad for the actor.
I think there's only one person worse, Jack Hardemeyer from GB 2. Peck is just doing his job, as insufferable as he is when doing it. Hardemeyer went out of his way to cause issues for the ghostbusters, hinder their work, and even have them locked up in a mental hospital as an act of spite.
I never noticed he holds her hand on the way out lol... they would’ve made a cute couple egon was too shy Janine moved on too Tully he gave her the time of day
@@michaelbull4344 but in the show real ghostbusters , I’m pretty sure Janine and Louis stayed friends and it was, if I remember correctly , before ghostbusters 2 even was made. I always write fanfiction to make me feel better because I never actually shipped Janine and Louis together but I don’t have anything against Louis. Janine dumped Louis in that one idw comic where he meets his cousin at the airport and Louis said he had a crazy couple of years and Louis left town soon after he and Janine broke up
I love how at this point, Janine's part of the team. Trying to stop Peck, her desperately explaining to Egon, and even standing behind him blocking the access to the power shutoff system. Annie Potts is great as Janine
@@largol33t1 i think it’s best if that guy quits working for peck and find a better job Loved that the officer called peck” pencil neck” and venkman thanked him
Even though Harold Ramis was against Egon and Janine's relationship, I still love the fact he grabbed her hand and helped her escape before the Unit blew up.
+lofthouse23 So glad I'm not the only one who noticed that! Even though Ramis was against it I can't help but feel he missed out on one of the best movie romances ever. Egon and Janine all the way!
nodinitiative Egon and Janine started conversing more by this point esp when Janine expresses concern about Louis. Then she hugs him and he cautiously embraces her. I've watched this movie numerous times on 3 different formats, but rarely noticed Egon running out while holding Janine's hand. I wonder if even he knew what all would happen if the power grid was shut down, besides the ghosts escaping. Between those laser like streams and the explosion coming out the main entrance, followed by a few other manifestations, from a paranormal perspective, this was rather catastrophic!
I prefer to think after GB2, Janine ended it with Louis and went back to Egon, who by this point had opened up a little and accepted her. Louis is a bad example of a lover.
I've been watching this movie since it was released, and I NEVER knew that when Peck gets the marshmallow dumped on him, you hear him scream "I HATE YOU VENKMAN!!!" I guess I just never paid attention.
Also, if you listen to the DVD commentary, Harold Ramis says that William Atherton, the actor playing Peck, asked him while shooting that scene if it was going to hurt when all that "marshmallow" was dumped on him. Ramis replied with, "I really don't know." 😂
@@dannydinosaur73 Wow, Atherton even performed his own stunts. I give the man props for playing Peck so well and for going that deep into the role. He also played Val Kilmer's professor in Real Genius.
You know, not only did Peck cause their containment unit to explode, but he allowed Vinz to escape and meet up with Zuul. Thanks to him, the world was almost doomed.
As a guy in construction, I loved the construction guys attitude at the beginning. Another classic case of, “why the fuck am I here, I don’t know jack shit what this is” lol
@@CaptHayfever Yeah no they weren't. There's been entire eras of doing special effects like that before CGI became a thing. Take a look at the original Star Wars. You think they used computers to create the lightsaber blades? Nope. They rotoscoped them. That is, they matted out the blades and then hand-painted the effects on EACH AND EVERY FRAME they were featured in. Literally the only "CGI" in the first three Star Wars were the primitive wireframe displays of the targeting computers. Not every visual is composited by computers.
They legally are not responsible for the explosion, they told them MULTIPLE times not too. Dickless is singlehandedly responsible and should have listened to the LICENSED electrician who said “Uhh I've... I've never seen anything like this before, I don't know i-" Edit 1-1-2020 corrected the quote.
Well, when he said "I've never seen anything like this before..." The electrician was clearly voicing his own professional objection to just switching it off without knowing more about it. Peck of course wasn't interested in his objection and just wanted the whole thing turned off. Its a classic situation of a dickhead in a suit pursuing his own ego on a power trip and ignoring the advice of those who clearly know alot more about it than he does.
I have walked off jobs because I wasn’t qualified to work on something or change the status of equipment. The customer would be pissed but I’m not gonna lose my life or my job working on something that could hurt me or anyone else
Bringing him back as the mayor in Frozen Empire and having him keep his vendetta against the Ghostbusters all these years later was brilliant. Props to Atherton for returning as Peck and never losing the spirit of this character
Try to understand Paul Feig this is a very devoted and nostalgic fanbase. Simply telling them to support this reboot would be like dropping a bomb in the city!
That "Oh s***!" from the utility worker when he senses what's about to happen after shutting off the power is one of the best, "I done goofed" moments in film history.
One thing I love about this scene, that no one ever seems to notice. Peter and Egon (And Janine) are the ONLY ones that know Gozer's return in imminent. Turning off the containment unit and the freeing the ghosts is the least of their problems. Egon in particular knows that turning off the Containment Unit could lead to the end of the world.
there are not many tunes in world cinema that encapture a moment better then when peck and the authorities arrive at the station. The ghostbusters are realising that they have real problems with barretts apartment block and its that 'oh shit' moment - that's peck and he has actually followed through with his threat and here he is with his full set of warrants and right authority figures to completely derail the ghostbusters which could stop them from saving new york. That arrival tune is purfect for that moment and i still remember this tune from way back when I was first watching it as a little one. great scene
+Michael Gaddass If you read the novelisation version, calm, mild Spengler gets hold of Peck by the lapels and calmly says "I'm going to rip out your septum."
Everyone always says that this guy was just doing his job, was a misunderstood character etc. They say that yes he was an absolute prick and how he went about it, but from his perspective he was just doing what he was supposed to do and thought that these people were frauds putting people in danger. And that's all fine and good... Until you remember this scene. The scene where a professional, a third party on associated with the Ghostbusters, says that he's uncomfortable turning off the device if he doesn't know what it does because of his professional opinion he's never seen anything like it before. And when he says this perfectly reasonable thing, this asshole tells him to shut up. It wasn't about keeping people safe or doing his job, it was because he had a vendetta against them.
He also shows up with just that one guy. Not a HAZMAT team in radiation suits and a SWAT team to cordon off the neighborhood...one police captain and one power company technician.
True that. Yes the character is an officious prick with a vendetta. Had he been really just doing his job, one look at all of this unknown equipment would have had him making phone calls. Probably the NRC among others. The one thing he wouldn't do, was just tamper with unknown and potentially dangerous equipment.
Despite all these years, and knowing that it's a well known IP with humorous strides, this scene still manages to gives a major sense of dread, the moment the system is shutdown. So great.
I still think to this day that Peck didn't have anything in that file he showed Janine, so technically he had no right to issue a warrant banning use of nuclear devices and public utilities. He just wanted to get back at Peter for denying him access to the storage facility, even though it was probably for Peck's own safety. Peck would've at least needed a court order allowing him to enter the private residence, in which case Egon stated, and the court would've needed proof or evidence of probable cause in order to ban further use of nuclear devices and public utilities. Those things Peck did not have.
In the script when Peck encounters Janine tells him to step aside or he'll have her arrested, Janine says, "Oh no, hold on. Do I look a child to you? I know you can't come in here without a warrant or writ or something."
The guy who plays the police officer also played a NYC police officer in the movie, "Splash," which came out the same year. Makes you wonder if both movies take place in the same universe. He wore a silver badge instead of a gold one in Splash, instead of a gold one. Maybe he got promoted. ;)
And it took an idiotic irresponsible, obnoxious, egotistical, atheist ass to set him off. His character in this movie was definitely written to be hated lol
Now as an adult I am such a dork that the first thing I think of on watching the scene is “why weren’t the Ghostbusters or their lawyers notified of these proceedings before a court order was issued?”
One of the funniest aspects of Peck's character is that even though he's a total douche, he's right to question the Ghostbusters and their "unlicensed nuclear accelerators". 😆
1:54-1:59 Con Edison Guy: I've never seen anything like this before. I don't... Peck: I'm not interested in your opinion, just shut it off. Me: I'm not interested of your interruption, just let him do what's best since he's warned.
"Oh shit" and "Houston, we have a problem" were so excellently executed it demonstrated the big seriousness of the situation. And they're the last things you ever want to hear from professionals
Peck: "I'm going to shut you down for environmental violations." Also Peck: "You have my permission to kill Venkman and spill his blood all over the room."
I am amazed at all the little nuances I still pick up. At 3:55, Egon is clearly on a mission to find the Keymaster. His level of restrained anger/ terror at realizing what can happen was made apparent by "shit". Egon is now focused on fixing this problem. But at 3:55 he is stopped by the idiot that caused this disaster in the making, and now this idiot is compounding the problem. This causes Egon to lose his focus on the problem at hand his anger was unleashed on the appropriate party. Thank you Mr. Ramis for making Egon an action intellectual.
Phoebe inherited her grandfather's emotional reaction when their bullshit-o-meter limit is reached. She grabs a nuetrona wand and gives a threatening look and Egon attacks and yells "YOUR MOTHER!".
From what I understand, according to Ivan Reitman himself, the EPA man Walter Peck being the film’s antagonist was in line with Reagan Era notions of Deregulation. This scene in particular bolsters the idea that organizations like the EPA are staffed with power tripping, bumbling-crusaders who make things worse as a hinderance to business owners. Very 1980s.
I love this movie but that aspect of it is pretty gross. Those kinds of anti-EPA attitudes are so often successfully utilized to enable boundless greed and endanger the environment and public health. Peck was a petty, power-tripping dickbag who way overstepped the bounds of what his job was, but the broader implications about deregulation leave a bad taste.
I love when Spengler attacked Peck shouting something like, "Your mother...!!" I believe he would have decked Peck (hey, a rhyme...deck, Peck, lol) if the police had not stopped him.
Also in the original script, there was supposed to be monitor that allowed them to see inside the storage facility where they could see all the ghosts inside, floating around, leaning against the wall and hanging from the ceiling. It was supposed to be like seeing a bunch of ghosts roaming a giant prison cell. All the ghosts are behind that wall. If you look closely, you'll see a red door in the wall with a yellow sign above it. It's supposed to be the way into the storage facility. In the original script, Peck orders Egon to turn off the containment system so he can enter it to see what's inside. Egon turns on the monitor screen and tells Peck that he can see what inside through monitor if he wishes but Peck ignores the screen and says that he's not interested in tv right now. IDIOT! There are high voltage laser beams containing the ghosts behind that wall, keeping them from escaping but there's also a lot of spiritual energy back there, too. If the laser beams are shut off, all that energy is released at once, causing an explosion.
Janine was a great character, she was funny, she was whitty, and snarky. She had a strong personality which I think represented a stronger female roll. While I would never see the new ghostbusters movie cuz I refuse to give Sony a penny of my money for shameless remakes, I've heard from everyone who has seen the movie that Chris Hemsworth plays a total moron who isn't funny at all. In fact I've heard that basically every male character is either a moron, incompetent, or an asshole. What is Paul Feig trying to say exactly?
i came to say the same thing as someone who seen the remake he's the only real man in it which shows how badly they treated men in the remake all the other men in the film have no or very few lines. The two female characters in this movie were great in their own ways without relying on stereotypes
In all honesty, the idea of a business catching and storing ghosts would sound ludacris in our reality. Sp Peck's suspicions of the Ghostbusters storing unregulared, potentially dangerous materials is not all too far-fetched. Amazing that people today believe in angels yet ghosts are thought to be a fantasy. Even among Christians!
yup n that the majority of mainstream religions ASSume that pure pagans such as myself are evil devil worshipping witches wen in ACTUAL FACT I beleive in god and don't practice anything other then being good to others so in turn I hope to become good in myself!
@@ChupachuGames Ghosts don’t necessarily go against the idea. It’s just an area not mentioned in religious texts all that much. Even the Bible acknowledges the existence of spirits, so if you’re gonna try and discuss the topic, at-least know what you’re talking about beforehand.
Respect to Egon for being the only one who tries to beat the shit out of Peck.
When Egon, the most stable, level-headed of the group, snaps, it's going to be a VERY bad day...
@@largol33t1 hell yeah, that man collects spores, molds and fungus as a hobby. He's not one to be fucked with!
@@largol33t1 he tried to warn him though
@@jongon0848 he especially could drill a hole through peck’s head when he has the chance
@JonGon Productions That's true. Egon did the right thing to physically attack Peck when Peck put the blame on the Ghostbusters that they were responsible for shutting down the containment grid causing the explosion even after they warned Peck not to have it shut down. Not only that, Peck framed the Ghostbusters to the mayor where Peck said that they caused the explosion.
"Your mother!" 4:03
The only time you see Egon lose his cool.
to be fair, I'm not surprised egon lost his cool, the EPA guy was a arsehole.
This was my most memorable part of Egon, you see the steam on his glasses when got pissed when he said it haha I like his character.
I could see the steam as well
jshudo44 aka know as YO MAMA these days....
the birth of YO MAMA
Let's appreciate the utility employee.
He's wandering around looking at things with a genuine curiosity.
hey it's kind of like what happens when you shut off antimatter containment on a startrek starship
He is like " these guys build all this ?! Its like state of the art electricity !!"
@@raven4k998 Yeah or the cooling system of a nuclear power plant.
All in all, not a bright idea.
@@JackMacLupus yeah a boom happen not as big as an antimatter explosion like in star trek but no ones perfect sill it went boom and that's all that matters🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Peck should have listened to not touch it.
Every time I watch this movie whenever Peck is on screen, I find myself saying "This fuckin' guy...". A true testament to the skill of the actor ultimately.
Oh yea he's really good actor. Makes you happy when his character has karma bite him in the ass.
I feel kind of sad for the guy, though. He gets a lot of people insulting him because of a role he played in a movie. Frankly, I want to shake the man's hand.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio oh yea he nailed that role.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio This and Die Hard. Man has a gift for playing jerks.
@Exhausted Elox I have no idea where you're from, but that was very ironically so New York 😂🤣😜
One thing I like about Peter and Egon is despite their snark he takes his warnings of danger seriously. So when Egon made the "Boom" Gesture, Peter didn't even make a joke he just nodded and got the hell out of there.
yeah peter figured ''we need to get the eff outta here"
@@GladDestronger Is it weird I imagined that quote in Murray's voice.
no not really. that should've been an outtake/blooper ^_^
When Peter looked the ConEd worker in the eye and said "I'm warning you. Don't shut it off." That gets your attention because it's one of the very few moments in the movie where he's completely serious. And when even Peter Venkman isn't joking around, you'd better listen.
So much gold in this scene.
I hate Peck with all my heart, but you have got to give respect to the actor for playing such a convincing jerk.
+KentuckyWallChicken This role really haunted him for years, in real life he was getting into bar fights with people
***** That sucks. I legitimately feel bad for the actor.
+KentuckyWallChicken Will Atherton admitted that he resents this role because to this day people in public refer to him as Dickless.
SnakeMan227 That's really sad. Why can't people treat some actors and actresses with respect?
Damn he got into bar fights all because he played a douchebag role? People need to separate films from reality my god
Egon's full line, partially drowned out by all the commotion, is "Your MOTHER'S responsible!" It does an amazing job of showing how the erudite, highly skilled polymath has absolutely lost his crap.
OOF
Or he was saying “you mother fucker”
It was "Your mother!", which is an entire all-purpose insult on its own.
He said the first “Your mom” joke
Phoebe is definitely his grandchild. She inherited Egon’s hair trigger reaction.
William Atherton was terrific in this scene and really breathed life into this character overall. He was perfect as the kind of guy you wished you could reach through screen and smack across the face. That's good acting.
Atherton's theatrical background and discipline really comes across in this scene. Every line and gesture adds up to a consummate performance of a devious slimeball. Little wonder people shouted the name dickless at him for years after!
Atherton's theatrical background and discipline really comes across in this scene. Every line and gesture adds up to a consummate performance of a devious slimeball. Little wonder people shouted the name dickless at him for years after!
Atherton's theatrical background and discipline really comes across in this scene. Every line and gesture adds up to a consummate performance of a devious slimeball. Little wonder people shouted the name dickless at him for years after!
GaeasBlessing When he says I'm not grotesquely stupid anyone else wanna say yes you are!
Also when Peter tries to difuse the situation and Peck reacts like a vengeful child in this whole scene
and finally the one guy doesn't know what he's doing ' I'm not interested in
your opinion just shut it off' I wanna
say alright fine bonehead but don't say we didn't warn you then you'll
be interested!
Don't waste your energy lecturing me
about sinking to his level or name calling b c it's a movie for one.
And second criticizing a movie character can be very therapeutic
certain villianous movie characters
deserve that and then some.
Sadly real society isn't always much better and respect doesn't always work and I don't care how bias this sounds.
Atherton once complained that he was "the Margaret Dumont" in the film.
He also wasn't happy about being labeled "dickless" during the scene in the mayor's office. He said he had been called "dickless" by people for awhile afterwards.
I lost it when Rick Moranis was mimicking the finger pointing XD
+Joe Masters He was probably teasing especially since he was considered as a ghost in this scene and having all the ghosts escape from the exploded containment grid was good news for him.
Oh ya, Rick Moranis is one of the unsung heroes of the movie. Always doing something in the background when he has no lines. Plus two of the best monologues in the movie!
@@afriendofbean Vinz Clortho isn't a ghost, he's a terror dog.
@@d.j.w2600 That's true too.
I have a feeling that was something Rick Moranis decided to do on the spur of the moment. Because you can kind of hear Walter Peck starting to laugh at the end of that clip. They cut is short because he was about to lose it😄
You don't wanna hear an electric company line worker say "ohh shit.."
Ahhh, but he did
I don't understand why they have an electrics engineer there to advise on the containment unit if all he has to do is switch it off which any of them could do
@@SamuelBlack84 Because legally only an electrician or the owners can shut off the power. The guy brought the cops with a warrant to arrest if needed and an electrician to shut off the power. So if some things goes wrong. He's not accountable for it.
@@mistresssuccubus2176 So, even though they think shutting it off is the right thing to do and completely safe he still thinks it might all go south and wants someone else to take the fall?
@@SamuelBlack84 Pretty much. But Mr. Dickless can also still get into trouble considering the guy that was told to shut off everything. Straight up told him that he's never seen anything like it before. But that might have been thrown at the Ghostbusters. Interesting how this movie plays out on that.
"YOUR MOTHER!" RIP Harold Ramis - you were a legend :)
*Bill Murray walks in*
"Forget it Murray. you had your chance to make a good ghostbusters movie but you thought it'd be more fun to tear the scripts appart. Well now it's Feig's turn wise ass.''
"He wants to make a reboot Bill."
"You make that reboot and we wont be held responsible for whatever happens."
Seriously stop with that
+Suroxify In a way Bill Murray acts in real life, the way he did in movies. A jerk.
shut it off. Shut this all off.
you make that reeboot and we are not gonna be held resposible for what happens
pencil neck
R.I.P.
Harold Ramis
1944-2014
He was a great director and movie
actor. He was a a very nice,kind and
sweet man. I'm very sorry about that
disease that he couldn't walk beca
-use he died. I was a good fan of his
movies.
Harold Ramis was my favorite actor from the Ghostbusters
@@TheNerd2009-w6d yeah, he was a gem
@@TheNerd2009-w6d I'm guessing he kind of was the leader of the Ghostbusters being the one carrying the P.K.E. Meter.
Egon was so awesome. He was the nerd with hard edge. I can watch Stripes and Ghostbusters 1 and 2 tons of times and laugh even when I am alone. Such great films.
I immediately loved it from Stripes
I love it that Egon is the one who flips out, not Dan or Bill.
Egon knew what would happen and warned them, he was the only one in the right at that point. When bureaucracy destroys logic no one wins
@@BadBoyBobby85 he knew Peck lie so he had no choice
"Your mother"
deep down bill's character probably wanted this, otherwise he can't save weaver and moranis's characters
He warned them.
Important lesson: don't make Egon go ballistic. It's not pretty.
I never thought that Egon had it in him 😆
@@skynetprime82 Egon: You mother's!
Well i guess thats because Egon knows the most about what they have done. Even when he said that the consequences are unpredictable.
@@JackMacLupus but he was pissed of the way Peck said that
@@superlex611 Well, that comes on top of it. But Peck got what he deserved later.
Cop calling Peck a pencil neck is the most New York thing ever.
Song "Pencil Neck Geek" reference.
Officer; You do your job pencil-neck! Don’t tell me how to do mine!
Venkman; Thank you officer.
Shut it off!!
@@demonofelru3214 Don't shut it off. I'm warning you.
@@capeck1993 Um, I've never seen anything like this before I don't-
@@demonofelru3214 I'm not interested in your opinion. Just shut it off.
@@capeck1993 My friend, don't be a jerk.
With this scene alone, Walter Peck has made himself the most despicable jackass in the Ghostbusters universe.
And in the die hard films
Yep.
Now every time I watch this movie & this scene happens...
I always say, "Nice going, dickless."
In the trivia section for this movie on IMDB, it says that William Atherton was harassed by a bunch of kids on school buses lined up on 7th Avenue who were all calling him dickless & he wasn't even able to go into a bar without someone wanting to pick a fight with him.
In those regards, I felt bad for the actor.
There is no "Ghostbusters universe", it's one film!
I think Paul Feig has taken up that mantle.
I think there's only one person worse, Jack Hardemeyer from GB 2. Peck is just doing his job, as insufferable as he is when doing it. Hardemeyer went out of his way to cause issues for the ghostbusters, hinder their work, and even have them locked up in a mental hospital as an act of spite.
I like how Egon is holding Jeanine's hand as they run out.
*Love*
Sadly, Egon and Jeanine aren't together in Ghostbusters 2.
I never noticed he holds her hand on the way out lol... they would’ve made a cute couple egon was too shy Janine moved on too Tully he gave her the time of day
@@michaelbull4344 but in the show real ghostbusters , I’m pretty sure Janine and Louis stayed friends and it was, if I remember correctly , before ghostbusters 2 even was made. I always write fanfiction to make me feel better because I never actually shipped Janine and Louis together but I don’t have anything against Louis. Janine dumped Louis in that one idw comic where he meets his cousin at the airport and Louis said he had a crazy couple of years and Louis left town soon after he and Janine broke up
@@TheODLawson23 yeah what a horrible swerve to have her and moranis together made no sense
I love how at this point, Janine's part of the team. Trying to stop Peck, her desperately explaining to Egon, and even standing behind him blocking the access to the power shutoff system. Annie Potts is great as Janine
2:32 Gotta love the ConEd guy. Just gives a total vibe of a guy who knows this really isn't going to be a good day at the office.
I felt sorry for him. He was just following orders and even he had a strong feeling that pulling that lever would be a VERY bad idea...
@@largol33t1 yeah, he did try to explain he’s never seen that stuff before
@@GABS0000 yeah, that guy earned my respect
@@largol33t1 i think it’s best if that guy quits working for peck and find a better job
Loved that the officer called peck” pencil neck” and venkman thanked him
Yeah, he was concerned that crap would go sideways if he messed with that...
his fears were well-justified.
Janine’s sass is my favorite thing ever. She wasn’t going to let Peck get past her without a fight.
Yeah well she’s a New Yorker while Peck gives me Mid Atlantic vibes
@@buffalojoe78 were Janine a Celt, Peck would be dead before he got near the building, let alone the containment unit.
Is it wrong that I misread "sass" as "ass"?
She’s carried it through the years as Meemaw in the Young Sheldon series.
One of my favourites moments is when she gets the first call and later ends with the quote "WE GOT ONE!!!"
fantastic scene... i love how bill murray can go from funny to super serious saying.. "DON'T SHUT IT OFF... I'M WARNIN YE"
Even though Harold Ramis was against Egon and Janine's relationship, I still love the fact he grabbed her hand and helped her escape before the Unit blew up.
+lofthouse23 So glad I'm not the only one who noticed that! Even though Ramis was against it I can't help but feel he missed out on one of the best movie romances ever. Egon and Janine all the way!
M Sallasvaara Good job the cartoon picked up on this and allowed it to develop.
If a feminist SJW directed this classic, Janine would smack away Egon's hand n yelled "what are you doing?".
nodinitiative
Egon and Janine started conversing more by this point
esp when Janine expresses
concern about Louis. Then she hugs him and he cautiously embraces her. I've watched
this movie numerous times on 3 different formats, but rarely noticed Egon running
out while holding Janine's hand.
I wonder if even he knew what all would happen if the power grid was shut down,
besides the ghosts escaping. Between those laser like streams and the explosion
coming out the main entrance, followed by a few other manifestations, from
a paranormal perspective, this was rather catastrophic!
I prefer to think after GB2, Janine ended it with Louis and went back to Egon, who by this point had opened up a little and accepted her.
Louis is a bad example of a lover.
I've been watching this movie since it was released, and I NEVER knew that when Peck gets the marshmallow dumped on him, you hear him scream "I HATE YOU VENKMAN!!!" I guess I just never paid attention.
Thanks, will look out for it next viewing 😁
Also, if you listen to the DVD commentary, Harold Ramis says that William Atherton, the actor playing Peck, asked him while shooting that scene if it was going to hurt when all that "marshmallow" was dumped on him.
Ramis replied with, "I really don't know." 😂
@@dannydinosaur73 Wow, Atherton even performed his own stunts. I give the man props for playing Peck so well and for going that deep into the role. He also played Val Kilmer's professor in Real Genius.
Okay. I remember him screaming but I don’t recall him saying anything. It just sounded like gibberish.
You know, not only did Peck cause their containment unit to explode, but he allowed Vinz to escape and meet up with Zuul. Thanks to him, the world was almost doomed.
Exactly what I was thinking!
I still can’t believe that he kept saying that the Ghostbusters caused the explosion, like he wasn’t the one who ignored their warnings
@@outdoorscholar6016 I know right! “YOUR MOTHER!”
Don't shut it off!!! And all ghosts will be released!!! It will be YOUR FAULT William!
I loved when William Atherton wanted the ghost busters arrested for the explosion and Egon said: "YOUR MOTHER "!!
As a guy in construction, I loved the construction guys attitude at the beginning. Another classic case of, “why the fuck am I here, I don’t know jack shit what this is” lol
God bless Janine, she was a bored receptionist but she really respected the integrity of ghostbusting.
Did anybody else realised that Egon was holding Janine's Hand, when the building was exploding, while running outside?
I totally ship them!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖
One would've thought they'd end up together in either of the two films.
@@NYRyder1983 yeah, but Harold disliked the pairing so that’s why they had Janine go with Louis but she thinks of him as a cute little doggy
I love the way Egon uses his hands to imate a bomb going off!!
Same!
Some things can't be replaced by CGI.
What a great production. We need to get back to using practical effects.
The affects for this movie were amazing, way better then now
You realize this movie *has* CGI in it, right?
@@CaptHayfever where?
@@ezehogan The proton beams & the ghosts. While the figures were shot with live actors & puppets, they were edited into the film with computers.
@@CaptHayfever Yeah no they weren't. There's been entire eras of doing special effects like that before CGI became a thing. Take a look at the original Star Wars. You think they used computers to create the lightsaber blades? Nope. They rotoscoped them. That is, they matted out the blades and then hand-painted the effects on EACH AND EVERY FRAME they were featured in. Literally the only "CGI" in the first three Star Wars were the primitive wireframe displays of the targeting computers. Not every visual is composited by computers.
The Con-Ed electrician and Egon saying "Oh, shit!" is the exact definition of "not good."
"YOU'RE MOTHER" the first and only time we ever got to see egon unleash the dark side, rest in peace to the great legendary icon harold ramis
*your mother
They legally are not responsible for the explosion, they told them MULTIPLE times not too. Dickless is singlehandedly responsible and should have listened to the LICENSED electrician who said
“Uhh I've... I've never seen anything like this before, I don't know i-"
Edit 1-1-2020 corrected the quote.
Well, when he said "I've never seen anything like this before..." The electrician was clearly voicing his own professional objection to just switching it off without knowing more about it. Peck of course wasn't interested in his objection and just wanted the whole thing turned off. Its a classic situation of a dickhead in a suit pursuing his own ego on a power trip and ignoring the advice of those who clearly know alot more about it than he does.
I have walked off jobs because I wasn’t qualified to work on something or change the status of equipment.
The customer would be pissed but I’m not gonna lose my life or my job working on something that could hurt me or anyone else
There is quite a bit of artistic license with the law here. But then again, how many of us cared about how the law works when we first watched this?
Joshua Santana,
Are you an electrician?
sonrouge,
Well, I did because of the fucking disaster dickless caused when the licensed electrician objected!
William Atherton will always be remembered as Walter Peck and Dick Thornberg from Die Hard
If Walter Peck appeared in the 2016 reboot, I could easily see him being played by Chris Pratt.
I also remember him as Dr. Hathaway from the sci fi comedy "Real Genius."
That’s why I was shocked to see him in Centenial as a nice guy.
He was also in the Pauley Shore movie “Biodome”
@@slycer2002 I know
Egon goes badass at 4:03.
Peck: AND THIS EXPLOSION IS A DIRECT RESULT OF IT!
Egon: YOUR MOTHER COULD--!
Peck: HOLD IT!
The soundtrack for this was absolutely incredible.
I really notice how Egon hold Janine's hand while running out from the Firehouse. #sweet #undenyinglove #egonxjanine ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍😍😍
RIP Harold Ramis. World’s most scientific Ghostbuster
And now Ivan Reitman as well
All this has taught us the value of proper shut-down and lock-out tagout procedures
Bringing him back as the mayor in Frozen Empire and having him keep his vendetta against the Ghostbusters all these years later was brilliant. Props to Atherton for returning as Peck and never losing the spirit of this character
I love how Winston is just like..."Ahh shit, here we go." Lol!
I know! And he wants to backup his coworkers but holds back cause he knows once all the cops show up he’ll be the first one they start swinging on!😄
@@cya2139
Exactly!
“Your mother!” Always gets me 🤣
William Atherton's performance was so convincing that he faced hate from fans for a long time.
Egon is like the oldest sibling protecting his ghostbusters siblings
2:16 I loved Egon's sardonic gesture.
Try to understand Paul Feig this is a very devoted and nostalgic fanbase. Simply telling them to support this reboot would be like dropping a bomb in the city!
And given the reaction to the trailer:
Paul Feig: THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE SIGN!
Sony execs: Yeah, it's a sign all right: "Going out of business".
+Yerflua This made my day lol.
Yerflua Ghostbusters 3 comes out in 2020..We’re the best,we’re the beautiful..Ghostbusters
We’re Back!
That "Oh s***!" from the utility worker when he senses what's about to happen after shutting off the power is one of the best, "I done goofed" moments in film history.
One thing I love about this scene, that no one ever seems to notice. Peter and Egon (And Janine) are the ONLY ones that know Gozer's return in imminent. Turning off the containment unit and the freeing the ghosts is the least of their problems. Egon in particular knows that turning off the Containment Unit could lead to the end of the world.
there are not many tunes in world cinema that encapture a moment better then when peck and the authorities arrive at the station. The ghostbusters are realising that they have real problems with barretts apartment block and its that 'oh shit' moment - that's peck and he has actually followed through with his threat and here he is with his full set of warrants and right authority figures to completely derail the ghostbusters which could stop them from saving new york. That arrival tune is purfect for that moment and i still remember this tune from way back when I was first watching it as a little one. great scene
I wish Walter Peck would shut down the reboot.
Joseph Weston It's not good either.
fuck the remake
Sure no problem. Just send him an email and ask him to shut it down.
Yea...about that...
Joseph Weston agreed
"Simply turning it off would be like dropping a bomb in the city"🤣🤣
Egon
R.I.P.
Harold Ramis 1944-2014
Only thing which would make this scene better would be if Egon actually managed to hit Peck.
+Michael Gaddass Yeah I agree but didn't he yell at him saying YOUR MOTHER
+Michael Gaddass If you read the novelisation version, calm, mild Spengler gets hold of Peck by the lapels and calmly says "I'm going to rip out your septum."
Yerflua: Wait, there's a novelization?!!
When the camera cuts to an overhead view, Egon is STILL fighting Peck and the cops can't separate them! Damn, he really ticked him off...
@@leahryan5560 Well, there *is* a paperback book of it floating around out there somewhere...
Everyone always says that this guy was just doing his job, was a misunderstood character etc. They say that yes he was an absolute prick and how he went about it, but from his perspective he was just doing what he was supposed to do and thought that these people were frauds putting people in danger. And that's all fine and good... Until you remember this scene. The scene where a professional, a third party on associated with the Ghostbusters, says that he's uncomfortable turning off the device if he doesn't know what it does because of his professional opinion he's never seen anything like it before. And when he says this perfectly reasonable thing, this asshole tells him to shut up. It wasn't about keeping people safe or doing his job, it was because he had a vendetta against them.
He also shows up with just that one guy. Not a HAZMAT team in radiation suits and a SWAT team to cordon off the neighborhood...one police captain and one power company technician.
True that. Yes the character is an officious prick with a vendetta. Had he been really just doing his job, one look at all of this unknown equipment would have had him making phone calls. Probably the NRC among others. The one thing he wouldn't do, was just tamper with unknown and potentially dangerous equipment.
Despite all these years, and knowing that it's a well known IP with humorous strides, this scene still manages to gives a major sense of dread, the moment the system is shutdown. So great.
I still think to this day that Peck didn't have anything in that file he showed Janine, so technically he had no right to issue a warrant banning use of nuclear devices and public utilities. He just wanted to get back at Peter for denying him access to the storage facility, even though it was probably for Peck's own safety. Peck would've at least needed a court order allowing him to enter the private residence, in which case Egon stated, and the court would've needed proof or evidence of probable cause in order to ban further use of nuclear devices and public utilities. Those things Peck did not have.
I love how Egon whispers “boom” to Peter and they start creeping up the stairs knowing what’s about to happen.
In the script when Peck encounters Janine tells him to step aside or he'll have her arrested, Janine says, "Oh no, hold on. Do I look a child to you? I know you can't come in here without a warrant or writ or something."
Egon all chill 99% of the time... until Atherton and the law came to shut down their unit...
2:34 And Ghostbusters 2016 was unleashed on the world.
Don't you even start with that bull
+Crimson Phoenix That wasn't Slimer who escaped...It was McCarthy!!!
If only I could like your comment 100 times
Oh shit...
As the guy said it: awwwwww s#!t
Awwwwwwwwwe! He's so cute when he tries to kill someone when someone blames him for a life-threatening situation he wasn't really responsible for!
The guy who plays the police officer also played a NYC police officer in the movie, "Splash," which came out the same year. Makes you wonder if both movies take place in the same universe. He wore a silver badge instead of a gold one in Splash, instead of a gold one. Maybe he got promoted. ;)
4:02 Even Egon, who until then had always seemed calm and level-headed, could no longer control himself and attacked Walter Peck.
And it took an idiotic irresponsible, obnoxious, egotistical, atheist ass to set him off. His character in this movie was definitely written to be hated lol
Now as an adult I am such a dork that the first thing I think of on watching the scene is “why weren’t the Ghostbusters or their lawyers notified of these proceedings before a court order was issued?”
The cop in this scene is actually a real cop in real life. It said so in the close captioned commentary.
Well he did his job perfectly, so did the Con Ed guy, the EPA is at fault, they caused the incident
"You do your job, pencil neck, don't tell me how to do mine!". That's got NYPD written all over it.
@@beav1962 yeah the NYPD and NYFD notoriously fight each other all the time on accident scenes and fires.
My fav part is 2:21 Louis Tully looks hilarious he's like sniffing the worker lol so awkward
1:43 You know a moment is serious when a Bill Murray character doesn't make a wisecrack
When the joking character has stopped joking, all hell is about to break loose-in this case, damn near literally.
One of the funniest aspects of Peck's character is that even though he's a total douche, he's right to question the Ghostbusters and their "unlicensed nuclear accelerators". 😆
Yeah but he was too overzealous
He hates Popcorn.
His concerns were valid, but his attitude sucked.
Such a great scene and a great movie, damn Sony for remaking it and turning it to trash.
Hey, how did you survive? Outpost 31 blew up.
YOU MUST BE A THING. I demand a blood test right away.
Pixar The Great No it was Childs I swear!
Yep, we have Sony to thank for that and the shitty Robocop remake. Can't they come up with new and original ideas??
Cutlass Stallion
Hollywood is all about money now and less about making good films.
Ghostbusters 3 is coming in 2020.
It's been said before "Stupid is as stupid does" and rings true here.
"I'm not grotesquely stupid!" Unlike those who greenlit the shitty reboot.
1:54-1:59
Con Edison Guy: I've never seen anything like this before. I don't...
Peck: I'm not interested in your opinion, just shut it off.
Me: I'm not interested of your interruption, just let him do what's best since he's warned.
2:34 the best line of the movie!!
Egon: "BOOM" Outta here, let's bounce.
I wonder what that one more test Egon would have performed on Louis before they were rudely interrupted by Mr. Pecker?
"Oh shit" and "Houston, we have a problem" were so excellently executed it demonstrated the big seriousness of the situation. And they're the last things you ever want to hear from professionals
Peck: "I'm going to shut you down for environmental violations."
Also Peck: "You have my permission to kill Venkman and spill his blood all over the room."
I am amazed at all the little nuances I still pick up. At 3:55, Egon is clearly on a mission to find the Keymaster. His level of restrained anger/ terror at realizing what can happen was made apparent by "shit". Egon is now focused on fixing this problem. But at 3:55 he is stopped by the idiot that caused this disaster in the making, and now this idiot is compounding the problem. This causes Egon to lose his focus on the problem at hand his anger was unleashed on the appropriate party.
Thank you Mr. Ramis for making Egon an action intellectual.
RIP Ivan Reitman
Phoebe inherited her grandfather's emotional reaction when their bullshit-o-meter limit is reached. She grabs a nuetrona wand and gives a threatening look and Egon attacks and yells "YOUR MOTHER!".
Egon saying "Shit" Is the purest definition of "Not good"
“That’s bad isn’t it?” Idk why but that’s always lived in my head rent free 😂😂😂
Egon's reaction was funny at 2:16 like he was saying "lets position ourselves to get out of here."
The whole scene of the shutdown and the ghosts wreaking havoc, it gives me chills to watch it now like it did as a kid.
2:48 about how I reacted when seeing the new Ghostbusters in the theater. I couldn't resist.
These are available in 4K disc. I am gonna have to pick them up. What a great movie. There was nothing like it.
Egon: "try to understand this is a high voltage laser containment system simply turning it off would be like drowning a bomb in the city."
From what I understand, according to Ivan Reitman himself, the EPA man Walter Peck being the film’s antagonist was in line with Reagan Era notions of Deregulation. This scene in particular bolsters the idea that organizations like the EPA are staffed with power tripping, bumbling-crusaders who make things worse as a hinderance to business owners. Very 1980s.
I love this movie but that aspect of it is pretty gross. Those kinds of anti-EPA attitudes are so often successfully utilized to enable boundless greed and endanger the environment and public health. Peck was a petty, power-tripping dickbag who way overstepped the bounds of what his job was, but the broader implications about deregulation leave a bad taste.
I love when Spengler attacked Peck shouting something like, "Your mother...!!" I believe he would have decked Peck (hey, a rhyme...deck, Peck, lol) if the police had not stopped him.
@Stefano Pavone it would be worth it.
Also in the original script, there was supposed to be monitor that allowed them to see inside the storage facility where they could see all the ghosts inside, floating around, leaning against the wall and hanging from the ceiling. It was supposed to be like seeing a bunch of ghosts roaming a giant prison cell.
All the ghosts are behind that wall. If you look closely, you'll see a red door in the wall with a yellow sign above it. It's supposed to be the way into the storage facility. In the original script, Peck orders Egon to turn off the containment system so he can enter it to see what's inside. Egon turns on the monitor screen and tells Peck that he can see what inside through monitor if he wishes but Peck ignores the screen and says that he's not interested in tv right now. IDIOT!
There are high voltage laser beams containing the ghosts behind that wall, keeping them from escaping but there's also a lot of spiritual energy back there, too. If the laser beams are shut off, all that energy is released at once, causing an explosion.
+Alexander Edward Pytko I think it was better to do it this way. Don't bother to show the ghosts like that.
That's funny because in The Real Ghostbusters they did end up installing a monitoring system.
That I heard. I think they made a sketch and with all that light would've been to difficult to make anything out.
The Real ghostbusters show had tv monitor
@@sha11235 The did that in the awful 2016 reboot.
Janine was a great character, she was funny, she was whitty, and snarky. She had a strong personality which I think represented a stronger female roll. While I would never see the new ghostbusters movie cuz I refuse to give Sony a penny of my money for shameless remakes, I've heard from everyone who has seen the movie that Chris Hemsworth plays a total moron who isn't funny at all. In fact I've heard that basically every male character is either a moron, incompetent, or an asshole. What is Paul Feig trying to say exactly?
i came to say the same thing as someone who seen the remake he's the only real man in it which shows how badly they treated men in the remake all the other men in the film have no or very few lines. The two female characters in this movie were great in their own ways without relying on stereotypes
I'm dl
samdiego my dad knows the actress who portrayed her
I hated Chris Hemsworth's character so much I wanted him to die in the worst agony imaginable
And damn she looked fine in Ghostbusters 2.
‘I’m not interested in your opinion, just shut it off.’
😂😂😂😂😂
2:22
Peter, “Egon, how bad is this problem?”
Egon, “Well if you want to experience release of every spirit we captured, on in your style: Run! RUN!
In all honesty, the idea of a business catching and storing ghosts would sound ludacris in our reality. Sp Peck's suspicions of the Ghostbusters storing unregulared, potentially dangerous materials is not all too far-fetched. Amazing that people today believe in angels yet ghosts are thought to be a fantasy. Even among Christians!
That's because ghosts go against the idea of an ultimate judgement.
yup n that the majority of mainstream religions ASSume that pure pagans such as myself are evil devil worshipping witches wen in ACTUAL FACT I beleive in god and don't practice anything other then being good to others so in turn I hope to become good in myself!
@@ChupachuGames Ghosts don’t necessarily go against the idea. It’s just an area not mentioned in religious texts all that much. Even the Bible acknowledges the existence of spirits, so if you’re gonna try and discuss the topic, at-least know what you’re talking about beforehand.
What EXACTLY does LUDACRIS mean? Have you had an education? Do you read books? What's that made-up word?
@@ChupachuGames It's all nonsense made up by ignorant people, what's the difference?
Fun fact: Walter peck was so hated that people actually harassed William Atherton in the streets and challenged him to fights in bars
Ghostbusters was a great movie. All the elements came together. One would think that the second or third time around wouldn't be so bad.
I wonder if the actual EPA are really unhappy with Peck being one of the most famous portrayals of them in a movie ever.
It was the Regan era, after all.
R.I.P. Harold Ramis
This particular scene shows just how much Egon really cares. Just like he did in Afterlife.