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The Ghostbusters Fire House is located at North Moore, & Varick St. in New York, NY.
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Casey Kasem does a voice-over cameo as himself on his radio show after the Ghostbusters become famous. The ditsy blonde woman that Louis dances with at his party is played by Casey's wife, Jean Kasem.
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The role of Louis Tully was originally written and storyboarded for John Candy.
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Writer Dan Aykroyd originally wrote the role of Venkman for John Belushi, but approached Murray after Belushi's death. Belushi still appears in the movie (of sorts): the body movement of the Slimer Ghost were based on his movements.
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Two points in the movie where you can see Staypuft Marshmallows: the first is next to the eggs on Dana's worktop when the eggs start to cook, and the second is when the beam of light is coming out of the Ghostbuster's house, there is a wide shot of it and on the left of the screen there is a billboard advertising Staypuft Marshmallows.
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The "marshmallow" at the end of the movie is shaving cream.
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The original title of Ghostbusters was Ghost Smashers.
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Director Ivan Reitman performed the demonic voice of Dana/Zuul in the bedroom scene with Peter Venkman.
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The role of Winston Zeddemore was originally written for Eddie Murphy.
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Originally, Gozer was supposed to be a man and the top choices for the character were David Bowie (the decision to get him was made too late to hire a famous actor) and Paul Ruebens (and he was supposed to appear in a business suit).
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When Peter is in Dana's apartment, she tells him "You're more like a game-show host". This line was improvised by Sigourney Weaver. The original line in the script was "You're more like a used-car salesman."
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Venkman mentions the time Egon "tried to drill a hole in his head". This is a reference to Trepanation, a procedure alleged to increase psychic abilities among other things.
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In the opening scene in New York Public Library, Mrs Drummond walks down the reading room with her trolly full of books and a man appears and walks across the screen. This man is the film's associate producer, Joe Medjuck.
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After the librarian signs out in the downstairs section of the New York Public Library, she passes the card catalogue shelves which open behind her and suddenly hurl their contents into the air. To achieve this effect, technicians were standing behind the shelves to push them out and then used a copper pipe to blow out the contents.
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