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Jul 26, 2021 1 hr 30 min

Pubcast 73: Ghostbusters

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Allison and Eric join Brendan O'Neill to break down an 80s classic that somehow remains underrated. Ghostbusters was one of the first uber-quotable summer blockbusters that seemed to take over pop culture for the better part of a year...and did so based on the red hot trio of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

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If you're not listening to Pubcast, the dare is the winning. That's what James Morrison. Welcome to the Pubcast. Sit down and enjoy your point.

Okay, welcome to the Ghostbusters episode of the Pubcast. I've been putting off doing this movie for a while, but with the new sequel coming out in November, it seemed like a good time to revisit this 80s classic. Allison and Eric joined me to break down this movie, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, and Ghostbusters remains one of the highest grossing movies of all time, just in full inflation. And the three of us that it still holds up.

While Bill Murray obviously steals the show, we came to an agreement that this may be Dan Aykroyd at the peak of his powers. He was comedic powers and movies at least. He has most Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters, which makes sense as his obsession with ghosts in the paranormal as well documented. Anyway, here we go with the breakdown of Ghostbusters.

Ghostbusters. Hello Ghostbusters. They're real. You do?

You have? They're here. Hey, where's your ghost? They catch the ghost with one state egg.

They're, uh, they're dangerous. Try to imagine all life as you know, it's stuffing instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. That's bad. Okay, our important safety tip.

Thanks, Egon. They're professionals. Oh. I'm the chairman of the largest paranormal removal company in America.

You see it? They all understand between you and the end of the world. The city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportion. Real, rap of God type stuff.

Zack Fire and Brimstone coming down from the sky. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together. Bassisteria. Your girlfriend lives in the corner penthouse of Spook Central.

You want this body? Is this a trick question? Bassick. Oh.

Mok. Big and hard. Ready. Ghostbuster.

Starring Bill Murray. Dan Aykroyd. Sigourney Weaver. Hadel Raines.

Rick Moranis. Coming to Zapalow. Ghostbuster. We came.

We saw how we kicked it. Alright, Ghostbusters, 1984. This, I think, is officially the shortest no-nonsense plot we ever had. Okay.

It's as close as I can imagine something could be. Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service. Okay. Yeah.

That's as drives again. There is not an extra word in there. Saving the world or fighting ghosts at all. They're just a ghost removal service at the end.

I think they also attempted to use the least number of letters. So, like, using the word shop versus. As a unique ghost removal service. Yeah.

This is sort of the beginning of our sweet spot of good 80s movies. I mean, there's a bug. Yeah. We always talk about 1984 being a year.

Yeah. I'm not going to go through the list necessarily because we've covered a lot of these, but then when I get to the top 10, you'll see. Yeah. But this is one.

Trying to think. Other than Star Wars. I even including Raiders of the Lost Ark. I think this is the first big sort of summer movie like cultural phenomenon that I can remember.

Because it was everywhere and people had to give us poster shirts. The song was on the radio. Everyone knew the quotes at least in my school. It seemed like it was everywhere.

I think that's the first movie I remember like that other than Star Wars. Am I wrong? I think the only other one that had that kind of an impact, but it's it didn't have. They were no like action figures or breakfast cereal or anything like that, which is what Ghostbusters definitely had.

But I think of like Jaws. When you think about like summer movies, black posters, it was everywhere. Everyone was talking about it. They had t-shirts.

They had posters up. They were reading the book. Like the well it wasn't like a pop music. Like the music was like it became everywhere.

You know. But it didn't have like the because it wasn't geared towards family. It missed out on like a level of merchandising or whatever that Star Wars could happen to. Where I think our or my bias comes in is this was big and our age group because of it was geared towards our age group.

Jaws not necessarily me it was, I guess, but it was probably more older and I didn't have the one boxes and stuff. You know, so I don't know. Eric, what do you remember about when Jaws when the Ghostbusters came out? Yeah, I first time I saw it was at a friend's house.

I was at the age of 84. So I was, summer of 84, I was seven. Wow. Yeah, I remember, I just remember it being everywhere.

Like I'm sure it was well over two or three years later. Sure. I finally saw it. But we never got to go to the movies or anything.

I just absolutely remember, you know, having no chance of seeing it or anything. I just, it was definitely on my radar. Yeah. Yeah, Eric, didn't you have like a softball t-shirt with the Ghostbusters logo on the front?

I did and that would have been, I will say I was in third grade when I had that t-shirt. Oh, so that was later? With like the red, straight arms. No, it was the blue, three quarter sleeves of the white body.

And there was no. That's right. The arms were blue. Yes.

The blue column. I think it said, one of the sleeves actually said Ghostbusters on the side. And then on the front had it was had the logo. So that was like well over a year, probably closer to two years after the movie came out.

That was like, that was, I had that shirt and you were, I weren't a lot. It was the shit. Everyone wore it. Everyone had it.

It was great. Fun fact or not. So fun. But it was just a fact.

This is one of two movies. My dad was two ever. Superman is the first one. And goes my stairs.

Wow. He's not a movie theater guy. He doesn't like going to the theater for some reason. Those are the two movies.

Yeah. Why did I think Empire Strikes Back was on that show? I definitely on the theater, but my mom taking us, you know, two o'clock on a Wednesday or something, you know. Awesome.

Okay. This, we detailed a lot of this in the spies like us episode written by Dan Eckroyd. I don't know. It's helped out.

So rewriting I think, but this is one of Dan Eckroyd's getting into the weeds obsession with the paranormal ghosts in, I think he does aliens do, but ghosts for sure. He wrote this story, this script, after living in a house that was allegedly haunted by the ghost of Cass Elliot. Oh no, after, he's too old for that. In Spider-Man Scrips, after living in, yeah, great.

Living in a house that was haunted by Cass Elliot. Great, I'm a Cass. So the original title for the film was Ghost Smashers. It wasn't quite half the ring.

No, no, no, no. I would say, and it's possible we talk about this during Spies Like Us, but of course you almost never, I almost never remember what we talked about prior podcast, but watching it again this last time, I'm like, this is the Dan Ackeroidist movie of all of Dan Ackeroid's movies. It's got all of his little like gags, like physical, like acting gags and lines. It's the subject matter.

I can't think of another one. If I kind of think through his list, I don't think there's another one that touches it. Go heads. No, I don't even think so.

No, because this is Paranormal. I know. But it's the, you know, it's him rounding the corner, like he's about to tip over. He does that twin stone, three stujos move, three times in the movie.

I know, with his arms out, he is making crazy faces. And there's the sarcasm, there's, it is the quintessential Dan Ackeroid movie. I think you're definitely right. I'm just trying to figure out, is there anything else in contention?

And probably not. Spies Like Us made it. I mean, you could say like, he's played certain characters that like, he loves a good Chicago thing. So you can say like, is Blues Brothers, you know, like that?

Yeah, I know. When you think about Dan Ackeroid comedy and writing and the physicality of it, this is his movie. Yeah. One thing I was watching it, I noticed, I don't often think of Ghostbusters, the original as an 80s movie.

It's got a lot of 80s-ness to it. Oh, yeah. In the figure where Dan is apartments. When we see that for the first time in the next time, it is so, has to tell.

And it is so 80s. Yeah. I always forget that. I stood out this time.

Yeah. I would agree. I think the other thing that I noticed, and I started counting at one point, and then I'm like, whatever, and then whatever. But the amount of product placement in this movie is insane.

It is every scene. There is something there. Yeah. This was, I'm gonna, some of this stuff is gonna be trivia, so we're just gonna have to deal with that and we'll get to that part later.

But this was the highest grossing comedy of all time until Home Alone in 1990. And adjusted for inflation, this would have been, or would be the 30 second highest grossing movie of all time. Yeah. Wow.

That's a monster. Yeah. That's big. When you kind of think about what's up top, you've got most of the Star Wars, you got like Avatar Titanic.

Like you start like checking off a handful of movies, and then that fills up your top 20 pretty quick. And then this is right there. Real quick. Yeah.

All the Star Wars, all the one Avatar, but all the Marvels are within shouting distance, I don't know. It's all the big tentpole franchise movies are in there. Right. Yeah, it's kind of crazy.

This little Dolby Comedy Company is in a 30 second place. Ghost Manchers. So speaking, this was, you know, back to the cultural phenomenon thing in the song. The song.

According to the Stupid magazine, Ray Parker tried to, and I think did, create the song for the movie over two days. Instead of weeks or months, it was like a weekend, basically. At 4.30am, he saw a commercial for a dream company that reminded him of a scene from the film. And one of the little lines in the commercial was who you gonna call?

No. So that he spiraled off that into the Ghostbusters thing. That's good. And I do have a thing speaking the song.

Huey Lewis and the news turned down and offered to write and record the theme song. They were gonna do the song. And later on, they sued Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarism, citing there was similarities between his song and their earlier hit, I wanted to drop.

It was not successful, the judge threw it out, but they thought it was close enough. I mean, I'm trying to think of that song. And what would be close enough in that song that would, it sounds like sour grapes is what it sounds like. They kind of regretted their decision to.

We said no, and you did this and no one was sent it to huge hit. Well, then they got back to the future and I said, I'm sure, right. Yeah. Okay.

Let's do the Run to Me to Score first. Okay. Yeah. So what was the audience score for Run to Me to Those?

For Ghostbusters? I will say 85. Oh, really? I was gonna say 94.

That's what you're going with? Yeah, 94. The audience score was 97%. Wow.

Everyone loved it. How about the critics? What do critics think of this blockbuster movie? I'm gonna say 86.

I'm gonna say it got some accolades at the time for some of the special effects. And I think those things, it was a good popcorn movie, but it is not a series like a... Eric? Yeah, I'll say 83.

Critics gave it an 88. So high scores all around, audience, nine points higher than the critics. All that seems reasonable. There's no like, good question.

This one actually followed our normal logic, that the audience score was higher than the critics score. Finally. Okay, top 10 for 1984. Ghostbusters, 220 million.

That was number one. Just under 221. Yeah. Then Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom, 179.

Gremlins third, 148. The Kremlins, it's not the third one. It is the original Gremlins. Yeah.

There's no Gremlins three. I think there should be. The Kriety Kid, 90 million in fourth, police academy. Wow.

That's a big movie. I definitely remember that. Number six, 80 million. Beverly Hills Cop, the original 77 million.

Star Trek III, the search for Spock, 76 million at eight. Terms of endearment, 74 million, number nine. And a special one for this podcast, Romancing the Stone. Oh.

Number 10, 74 million. For those who don't know, Romancing the Stone is the movie. I first thought of sort of obsessing about and coming up with names for recasting it with current movie stars. Yeah.

And that's the movie we should do at some point. We should definitely do that. That is quite a year. I know that we have talked about this year.

Good. It was a big year. It's a big year. There's tons, the thing with these lists of just the top 10 gross movies, there's tons of great movies that weren't top grossers.

They're like in the 30s or whatever. Right. In 84s, one of those years when they, there's big time movies in this year that didn't even get big time numbers. So, okay.

Trivia, the white ghost in the Ghostbusters logo has a name. Its name is or was Mooghly apparently. Mooghly. According to Danic, whatever.

Yeah, whatever. It's not like Mooghly. Boo. I think it'd be Booghly or Casper or something.

Don't be. Sean Belushi was an ant inspiration behind the character of Slimer, who's his fulfill in Manorisms. And we can get into this when we get into the, you know, who was almost cast and stuff. But it's well known that the Bill Murray part of Vankman was written for John Belushi, but he died during the writing of the film.

Or just after. Excuse me. Almost none of the scenes were filmed as scripted. Most had at least one ad lib.

And most of Bill Murray's lines are ad libs. Interesting. That's every Bill Murray movie was. Yeah, it kind of, there's no surprise there whatsoever.

Alright, I'm gonna spoil some of these casting things. A lot of the, so there's a lot of little stupid trivia that's not all that interesting. And a lot of it has to do with casting. So I'm gonna sprinkle in some casting stuff and we'll get to the rest of the casting later.

Yeah, I think a lot of what I saw there, it was a lot on like what lines were improvised. So the point, so like the, you look like a game show host was improvised by Sigourney Weaver. Yeah, like it was supposed to be, you look like a used car salesman or something, right? So I'm not gonna go too deep into trivia, but I got a few things here.

So we'll just get into it. The character of Winston was meant to join the team much earlier in the original script. Had him getting slimed at the hotel. And it was written for Eddie Murphy, but he declined the role.

And then when he said no, they rewrote it to have that character coming much later because there was no star feel with Eddie Murphy. Okay, so so far the casting would have included. I'll just do that right now. I'll do what the movie was originally written for, the original lineup was Rankman with John Belushi, Ray Stance was always there for Eddie Murphy.

Egon Spangler, I didn't have an original name for that. I don't think they had an original person that they wrote the role for, unless you do. I remember, I just remember reading something that Harold Ramis decided it's, I'm gonna play it because I think I'm the best person for it. I think that happening like in the rewrites as Harold Ramis was brought in and during that time he sort of came to that conclusion, but Akroy didn't write the part with somebody in mind and I didn't play.

Winston Zetamour was supposed to be Eddie Murphy, Dana Barrett, I didn't see anybody written for that or anybody who was in mind when they wrote it. Louis Tully was supposed to be John Candy, Opposite Physical Type which is fantastic. Janine Melnitz, I didn't see a name there. And I think the best one that didn't happen that really should have happened is Gozer was supposed to be Paul Rubins.

Yeah, I did see that. Yeah, I did see that too. That would be fantastic. That really, that's the top right here.

Yeah, that's good. I make that happen. Somehow that's that. And I wish it would be in the PWE suit.

Oh yeah, and PWE, so PWE suit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I think if I remember reading it right, they said that he was supposed to take the form of the guy that was essentially the architect of the building and it was a third of that old cult. It was in that person's body. Right, yep.

So while we're here, I might as well do the casting issues. I'm who is considered or turned it down or almost cast and we'll just get that out of the way. So for Vankman, written for John Belushi, turned down by Michael Keaton, Chevy Chase and Steve Gutenberg. It's so funny to bring up Steve Gutenberg.

I was just thinking about him the other day. Like I never really enjoyed him as an actor. We just saw Keune. Yeah, right.

Oh, that's why I was thinking about him. I'm like, he's not like, he's not like, I didn't get him ever. Please, Academy. And then three minutes, maybe it was over.

Right, that's it. Yeah. So those people, of course, are kids. So those people turned it down.

People who may have been considered included. Richard Pryor, which I thought was interesting. Tom Hanks and Robin Williams. I don't know.

A lot of big names rolling around in this. I can, yeah. So anyway, Ray Stance was always accurate. So move on.

Right. Spangler, there was nobody written or wasn't written for anybody in particular. But people considered were Christopher Walken. That would have been kind of funny.

84 Christopher. Yeah. Oh yeah. John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd.

That would have been good, I think, in Jeff Goldblum. Yeah. I'm thinking of Jeff Goldblum now, who is completely goofy versus like 84 Jeff Goldblum. I like Jeff Goldblum now better.

Yeah. That's why I reacted that way. It would be hilarious versus like the fly version of Goldblum. Yeah.

Winston Zetamore was supposed to be Eddie Murphy. The only one I saw that was considered was Gregory Hines. Oh. So I don't know.

Dana Barrett. Tap dance across every. I love these tap dance. I love these tap dance.

You can do this. Russ, he's just making tap sounds. And it makes the ghost like roll over. He's tapping.

It says like that'd be a big twinkie. Right. Yeah. So Dana Barrett, no name associated.

But the only one I saw who at least auditioned for it was Julia Roberts. Oh, really? I don't know. That's like a very young Julia Roberts.

84? Yeah. Mystic pizza, Julia Roberts, basically. Wow.

Lewis Tully, the only one I saw was John Candy. And then it went to help Remus. To who? Rick Moranis.

Rick Moranis. Moranis. Rado Tomato. Slightly different height.

Janine Melnitz. I didn't see anybody but considered was Sandra Bernhardt. Oh. Yeah, I can see that.

I can see that. Yeah. That character is just New York. Yeah.

You need a New York woman to knit that character. And then Josir is Paul Rubens. Yeah. Here we go.

I would have been so good. Yeah. Okay. Winston.

The Terror Dogs, the Terror Dogs, the Hellhounds, whatever. That came to life were actual statue designs on Old Church in Philadelphia. And then, Gozer's final form was described as David Bowie meets Grace Jones. I think they put it up.

Mission accomplished. I think they captured that. Yeah. They captured that.

Yeah. We talked about the grossing. Like Grace Jones getting multiple mentions throughout the podcast. Yeah.

She's like a sneaky little attachment to every little episode we know. The Enaccharide, it was a original version of the movie was, I don't think it was a comedy and it was much darker. I don't know. There's that sort of description of the script comes up throughout if you do some research on it.

It was the different movie. Yeah. I mean, I didn't spend a ton of time looking at it, but I did see that. Right.

But I did see something along the lines of it was written for an adult audience and they decided to make it more family friendly. And so like they changed everything from the logo to just some of the jokes and everything. And the ghosts themselves were different. Yeah.

In the original version of the script, it began with the ectomobile flying out of Ghostbusters HQ into an adventure or a job basically. I would write them and suggest that it would be better to show how the team got together and get everything back to the back story essentially. That worked? Yeah.

In the original rough draft of the movie, the story was going to take place in the future and teams of Ghostbusters would exist everywhere. Like paramedics or firefighters. Thus them being in the firehouse. Interesting.

According to write men, such a film would cost at least $300 million. And $84. Oh my god. And so that's when they brought in a hair arrangement to rewrite it and bring it down and not like this is not some expansive futuristic, you know, all sorts of teams of Ghostbusters all over the place fighting.

No, no, this is a smaller story. Did you happen to catch how much it costs to make the movie? Yeah. So Ghostbusters made just under $221 million and it cost the budget was $30 million.

Okay. So $30 million. That includes all sorts of product placement apparently. Yeah.

But they offset some of that. Michael Ensign, E-N-S-I-G-N, Ensign, Ensign, I don't know his name off the actor by name, he originally read for the part of Walter Peck. But when he didn't get it, he took the consolation prize of playing the manager at the Cedric Hotel in the beginning. So he's the nerdy manager.

Oh, that's good. Yeah. And then in this movie, you have both actors, William Atherton, his Walter Peck, and Reginald Ville Johnson, who's one of the cops at the jail at the end when they're in jail. He's one of the cops there.

Those two played against each other again with each other in Dye Hard. Well. The cop in the asshole. I did see some things since we're talking about William Atherton that I thought was hilarious.

He's great, by the way. So after the movie, people hated him. And so he would be walking down the street like in New York, people would try to pick fights with him at bars and all this stuff. He's like, school buses would go by and kids would yell out, hey, dick lists and all of this stuff.

Absolutely terrible. He played hard so well that people just were like, all right, he's Walter Peck. So in the pantheon of 80s assholes, he's up there at Rooney. Yeah.

He's in there. And so is what's the name of William Zabka, the bad guy in a karate kid, blonde kid, John Lawrence, John Lawrence. Those are your 80s assholes. Yeah.

Atherton's awesome. I would put those three. I would put him at the top. I think so.

He doubles down and die hard. Yep. He's just as real genius. Genius.

I think they're another one. Yes. Yes. All right.

We talked about the potential casting and other casting issues. So now let's get into our own casting issues with a recasting debate is recast or bait. We better close the door. It's time to be cast or bait.

So here's who we are discussing. It's an extensive list compared to most movies. It is Peter van Kman, Ray Stans, Egon Spangler, Dara, Dana Barrett, Lewis, Tully, Janine Melnitz, Walter Peck, Winston Zetamoor, and Goser. Hey.

That is nine. Yup. Nine times. We got it.

Now, I don't stand by most of my choices. Wow. Okay. If I hear a better one, I'm going to flip to someone else's and double down here and endorse somebody else.

But there's a few of mine. I would be shocked if you guys don't have the same ones. Yeah. So I'm considering working backwards doing the smaller characters to the bigger characters.

Whatever you want to do. All right. Yeah. I'm sorry.

Let's change it up. Let's do something weird. So to that end, let's go with Goser. Okay.

I had three that were easy. I had one and one name only. And I thought of it immediately. I have one.

I really have one. I thought of it during the movie. Yeah. But I have, I have, yeah, I got two and I got to imagine that one of them all three of us.

We'll get there in a second. My number three is Elizabeth DeBicke. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

From during the downswing, 10, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Easy. Yeah. Man from uncle.

Yeah. I think my, my number one just appears, the studio heads is Angelina Jolie. You have no budget. I know.

No unlimited. No limits. This is cameo of Angelina Jolie and I'm going to double voice as well. All right.

My number one is Tilda Swinton. Oh, of course. Of course. Of course.

That's the answer. Oh, the only answer. It's the only answer. There's no other answer.

Oh my gosh. Eric has told as well. Do you have a backup or no? My backup is Lady Gaga.

Oh, there is. I had Ruby Rose. It'll be fine too. Yeah, that's very, that's incredibly acceptable.

It's actually exactly. I think the answer is besides Tilda. None of us have Grace Jones. I'm going to go with your Winston's anymore.

Okay. So I'm going to mispronounce his name, I think, but it's a little more. No. The morning Morris who is Winston from New Girl, which I love that it was the new Winston, but okay.

So he'd be playing a second character named Winston. I've got a Z and Zari is a totally different Winston. Okay. And then my number one is Hannibal Burris.

Oh, I like that one. Yeah, I like that one. Eric, do you guys have Winston? I got couple that I don't know.

I'm not too excited about. I have a Lequith stance field. Oh, yeah. I do like it.

And I have Terry Cruz. Oh, I took him off my list. Yeah. I have one best so far.

I have two, but Winston, he's got a couple sneaky funny lines, but he's barely in the movie. You can almost be anybody. My number two is Jordan Peel. Oh, that's actually fun.

I remember one that I like was Kenan Thompson. Oh, yeah. I have to have a funny guy in this part. Right.

Right. Right. So. Kenan Thompson.

All right. This is the one I had the most trouble with for some reason and it's Walter Peck. Yes. I'm sure I can give us a Walter Peck.

I've got three names. One of them, I don't know. I feel like we used him a lot, but at the same time, I think he works for this particular part. Michael Shannon.

Oh, that's good. That's good. Another name I have is Joel McHale. That's who I had, Eric.

That he was my number one. He was my number one. I think I like that. I think I like that one.

And then the third name that I have is Timothy Simons. Yeah. A.K.A. Jonah Ryan.

Oh. Yeah. That's actually really good. That's really good.

Those are two really good ones. I think those guys are, they're neck and neck. Yeah. Oh my God.

That's good. All right. I could not think of anything. So my answer is I'm recasting William Atherton for this role.

You're playing again. Sorry. The backup one I thought just as we were getting ready for this podcast, I thought of it. He's my default guy for really any most roles.

It's Paul G. Oh, yeah. I like all of their thing. Yeah.

Yeah. The only other one that I had. So Joel, I only had two for this. Joel McHale was like with a bullet to the top of my list.

But the other person I've got is Anna Camp. Who was that? She was in Pitch Perfect. She was in.

Yeah. Okay. She's, she was in True Blood and Blonde hair. She plays kind of the serious.

She's the chick that puked all over the place at the beginning of her perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

A Karen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yes. Yes. Exactly. So speaking of that, I imposed a rule on myself for this recasting situation because the, essentially the gender swap version exists.

I didn't gender swap anybody. I don't think of this. Can't really happen. Yeah.

So I've limited myself to staying within tight. I said, there's some creativity here and there. Janine Melnitz. All right.

I'll throw mine down. Okay. My real answer is I want time machine Rosie Perez. I want to bring her back for 1984, 5, 6.

That's what I want to play. I mean, maybe even 1994. But since we fly girls, the right thing. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. I want New York attitude with a Puerto Rican twist.

I'm not sure if I can get it. I'm not sure if I can get it. But instead of that, in spite of that, I went with Aubrey Plaza. Oh, she was on my list.

Yeah. That's good. That's all you got. Yeah.

So I had Aubrey Plaza. I had Michelle Wolf. Oh, yeah. And then the number one that I want is Tiffany Haddish answering that phone.

Oh, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I want her answering that phone for sure. So I mean, I don't know where she's from, but New York attitude. Yeah.

Absolutely. Eric, I got two names. One I really like one. That's a much the one I'm not too sure about.

Beanie Feldstein. Oh, yeah. And then the number one that I thought that I liked was Aquafina. That's good.

That's really good. Wow. Yeah, that's good. We cast a wide swath of Janine.

Yeah. Yeah. I like that we cast it not on voice, but on attitude. Like that's perfect.

Yeah. Because I think people get caught up in the voice. No, that role is all attitude. Yeah.

I also like, I think of Tiffany Haddish in that scene with the, with Edon where she's trying to make small talk. Yeah. When he's trying to plug in the computer or whatever. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, Luen's Tully. Oh, this was my hardest one.

I want you to start. Okay. I think there is only one answer. Yeah.

I have three and they're all slightly different variations. I think the one, my number one is probably the one that we all have. So hold on for that one. I feel like it's just all say it at the same time.

Okay. I have it. One, two, three, Charlie Day. Oh, I don't have it on here.

It's Charlie Day. There's nobody else in line for this. It is. It is.

That is the correct answer. What do you say? Three different versions of roughly the same person. I want Pete Davidson to do that character where he's like standing off to the side.

We're like, Oh hardly says anything. It's just awkwardness about SML rain Wilson. Okay. Okay.

And then my number one was Jim Parsons. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Charley day.

How did I miss that one? I had Charlie Day I put down a second place. Just to have somebody. This is not no competition.

My second guy would be Seth Green. Dana Barrett who sleeps four feet of other sheets. Eric, give us a Dana. I've got two names.

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