Bill Murray’s ‘Ghostbusters’ quote part of unique YouTube countdown
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It’d be ridiculous to say “Ghostbusters” is the No. 12 film of all time; the supernatural comedy starring Sneden’s Landing resident Bill Murray is obviously No. 1. But because one of his “Ghostbusters” lines includes the number 12, it’s No. 12 on a new YouTube video countdown of 100 movie quotes that state integers from 100 to 1.
Confused? At position No. 98, the video references a “Dead Poets Society” moment when Robin Williams’ character says, “I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling.” For No. 43, a guard from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” deduces that a “swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second.” Got it? Good.
As Ghostbusters Dr. Peter Venkman (Murray), Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) are headed off on their first paid assignment at the Sedgewick Hotel, they’re dressed in uniform and wearing proton packs on their backs. When a man by the elevators sees these outfits, he asks Venkman if he’s some kind of cosmonaut. Murray’s character replies with the quote featured in the montage: “No, we’re exterminators; somebody saw a cockroach up on 12.”
You can see the “Ghostbusters” clip at the 8:11 mark, followed immediately by Christopher Guest’s legendary “These go to 11” line from “This is Spinal Tap.”
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