Peter Venkman It Wasnt That Funny

One of the strikes "against" the show is that it tended to be a bit low-key and didn't rely on BIG AWESOME MOMENTS that left people (and kids) wooping very often — funny moments on the other hand...

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Season 1

• When the Ghostbusters get pelted with high-velocity chocolate in "Ghosts 'R' Us"

  Ray: Oww!!! Eee!!

  Peter: Aaaahh!!

  Winston: Whooaaa!! Aaah!!!

  Egon: Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

• After Ray arrives to help out in "Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood":

  Egon: The prime motivator is a demon named Watt.
  Ray: Named what?
  Egon: Watt.
  Ray: I asked you first!
  Peter: No, Watt is its name.
  Ray: Don't ask me. Ask Egon.
  Egon: This'll show you Watt.
  Ray: Huh?
  Egon: Nevermind. Let's just track it down.

  • At the start of the episode, its been a very slow week.

    Peter: Hey, Janine? Do you think you could slow it down a notch with the bubblegum and the filing? My heart can't take the excitement.

  • After that, Winston had finished building an impressively tall house of cards. As he admires his handiwork, he blanched after seeing Egon had just finished building a cathedral of cards.
  • Janine excitedly takes a call after fending the team off in a scramble that would make Sam & Max proud, and it turns out to be her sister's casserole recipe. Peter isn't hopeful when the next call is a job.

    Peter: Calm down, guys. It's probably the dessert recipe.

  • After Peter is released from Watt's possession, his hair is stuck standing upright no matter how much he tries to press it down. Slimer offers a solution by sliming the top of his head. Peter was pissed and angrily chases Slimer down the street.
• In "Slimer Come Home", a gang of tough looking guys start following Egon, clearly up to no good. The leader asks Egon with faux affability if he can help him look for whatever he lost. Egon describes Slimer, in detailed scientific terms. The gang leader calls off his people, explaining:

  Gang Leader: 'My Dad told me never to mess with anyone that was weirder than I am.

• In "When Halloween Was Forever," Egon is separated from the others in order to implement a plan involving hooking his proton pack up to five spotlights in order to weaken Samhain enough for him to be trapped.

  Egon: There. It should all be... (he pushes the power button on the pack, causing the spotlights to flicker for a second before the pack falters and stops from starting up properly) Sometimes I think the universe just waits for me to get cocky. (frantically rewires the pack)

• Then there's the scene in "Citizen Ghost" where Egon & Peter were checking on the rebuilt containment unit. Of course the latter is slacking off, but Egon catches on.
  • After being cornered in the Firehouse by their Evil Counterparts, the guys realize they can weaken them by forcing them to drain their ectoplasmic energy, but someone would have to draw their fire.

    Ray: Whoever does that might not come back.
    Winston: So, who's gonna be the one to do it? Who can we afford to lose?
    Peter: Oh, Janine!
    (Janine picks up a lamp)
    Peter: Just kidding! Just kidding!

  • How did Ray decide on a name for their new friend?

    Ray: Just to annoy Peter, what's say we call you "Slimer"?

• This exchange between Slimer and the pilot in the episode "Take Two" when the pilot is annoyed by Slimer's flying:

  Pilot: I've been flying for fifteen years. How long have you been flying?
  (Slimer mumbles and holds up three fingers, possibly for three years.)
  Pilot: Then I have seniority. NOW GET BACK IN THE CABIN AND FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT!

  • The funniest thing being that the pilot didn't seem to be bothered that Slimer was a ghost and got him to sit still just by yelling at him!
  • In the same episode, Peter gets in an offscreen fight with a fat director. How it went is anyone's guess.

    (the Ghostbusters and Slimer leave a room)
    Egon: I have to hand it to you, Peter. I've NEVER seen ANYONE do that to a man's pants before.
    Peter: (face with bruises) Yeah, well, I still say you shoulda let me blast him.
    Egon: The proton beams are only supposed to be used on ghosts.
    Peter: I can take care of that.

• Peter's walking-dead Morning Routine in "Mr. Sandman, Dream Me A Dream":

  Peter: Unghcufl.
  Winston: What'd he say?
  Egon: Sounded like "coffee", possibly "cookie".
  Peter: Tpfff.
  Ray: Translation, Egon?
  Egon: Sounded like "get out of my face or eat flaming terror".

• The sarcastic Peter and stoic Egon have one of those great comedic rapports, always using just the right inflection to make you laugh at any exchange of theirs, such as in "Look Homeward, Ray," when Egon drags Peter away by the wrist while the latter and Winston were trying to talk Ray, currently suffering from a Heroic BSoD, out of quitting:

  Egon: We're wasting time — let's go.
  Peter: Don't let your emotions overwhelm ya', Egon...
  Winston: Yeah, you didn't even try to talk Ray out of it!
  Egon: Talk is useless in Ray's state of mind. I've got a plan.
  Peter: No electric shocks, Egon.
  Egon: (looks disappointed for a second) I've got another plan...

• And in "The Boogieman Cometh":

  Peter: You want to tell us why you're so hot to take this case?
  Egon: Let's just say, It's Personal.
  Peter: Thanks, Egon, that explains a lot.

  • And speaking of that episode, the guys set a trap for the Boogieman by renting an apartment and furnishing one room to look like a kid's bedroom. They just need one more thing to make it complete...

    Egon: We need someone to sleep in this room tonight — someone whose thoughts, actions, and general state of mind are identical to, say, a six-year-old...

    • And once forced into the role, he pesters Peter for a glass of water and then a bedtime story.

      Peter: Once upon a time, there were four Ghostbusters who had a job to do, and they couldn't do it because one of them wouldn't go to sleep! The end! [slams door]
      Ray: [blows a raspberry]

  • And then there's Winston's entirely sensible response after they see the Boogieman for the first time:

    Egon: We've got to go after him!
    Winston: No we don't. Show me where it says that!

  • They bust out of a trap in the Boogeyman's realm by firing their beams at the ceiling. It turns into an explosion of fireworks.
• "X-Mas Marks The Spot". Peter and Winston trying their best to stand in for the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present... borderline Epic Fail. By the time Egon arrives as with the real ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge's reaction to being told he will be visited by three more ghosts is "Oh, No... Not Again!".

  Egon: The first Ghost will visit you at 1:00. The second Ghost will visit you at 2:00. The third Ghost will visit you... whenever.

  • Janine's knee-jerk "humbug!" reaction to Christmas being mentioned. Egon calls it fascinating.
  • Two random New Yorkers getting into an argument when they pretty much try to out-'humbug' the other. Not really all that different from normal, really.
• "Janine's Genie":
  • When the Ghostbusters are trying to land the plane that the ghosts had been flying, they end up destroying the plane but leaving the seats and everyone on them intact. Venkman jokes that it's a new model of plane, while a guy watches with a hilarious wide-mouthed expression.
  • Egon has been made to fall in love with Janine due to her second wish. So, he keeps telling her, "You're beautiful when [blank]". When Janine hyperbolically says she's going to be sick from the pressure of being in charge, he says, "You're beautiful when you're sick", causing her to say, "Hey, Egon, knock it off!".

Season 2

• Peter's anguish in "Adventures in Slime and Space".

  Peter: This is not fun! I've had fun! This isn't it! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHH!

  • Just the mass chaos in the city once it gets slimed. It plays out like a comedy skit with all the slipping and sliding, not to mention the mess.
  • He's caught on the phone trying to get plane tickets. His destination? Anywhere that isn't New York.
    • He drew the line at France.
• Multiple moments in "Knock Knock".
• The climax of "No One Comes to Lupusville" for sheer wonderful absurdity.

  (driving away and witnessing the vampires and werewolves turn into each other from their fighting)
  Winston: Man, talk about democracy in action.
  Peter: I'm hip. But guys, don't you want to stay around to see who wins?
  Egon, Ray, and Winston: NO.

• Pretty much the entire last third of "The Hole in the Wall Gang" (and with that one, what do you expect from David Gerrold, the writer who invented the Tribble for Star Trek: The Original Series?) ^note Yes, we're really serious when we say this show had some great writers back in the day.
• In "The Devil to Pay", Winston unwittingly signs a contract with a Louis Cypher character:
  • The final contest in Dib's gameshow sees the Ghostbusters tied to a giant roulette wheel. The ball will crush one of them unless a specific Ghostbuster confesses a secret he didn't want the others to know.

    Egon: In college, I once got an A- on a test and my parents wouldn't talk to me for a week.
    Peter: Can you drop the ball on him?!

  • Peter's Bait-and-Switch is also hilarious:

    Peter: All right, all right, you got me! Last week, Janine was taking a shower upstairs, and I... well...
    Egon: You peeked?!
    Peter: NO! ...but I did send Slimer up the water pipe and told him she had a donut in her shower cap.

  • And finally ^note Winston's secret isn't listed because it's more of a heartwarming moment, we have Ray's secret: "OkayIadmititSlimeratehalfacookieandgotslimeallovertheotherhalfandbyaccidentwithoutthinkingaboutitI... I ate it.
• Egon's sheer irritation at being in the cartoon world in "Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?"

  Egon: If they fall from that height, they'll be killed!
  Dopey Dog: We have only one chance, my friend. We have to move the lake!
  Egon: I beg your pardon?
  (Ray, Winston, and Peter continue to fall)
  Dopey Dog: This is a cartoon, remember?
  Egon: You can't just pick up a lake and move it. It's illogical!
  Peter: DO WHAT HE SAYS! MOVE THE LAKE!.
  Egon: This doesn't make sense and I don't believe any of it...
  (they pick up and move the lake, and Ray, Winston, and Peter splash in it)
  Winston: Thanks, we're alive. Soaking wet, but alive.
  Dopey Dog: I can fix that, my friends. We'll stay here while you three walk out of frame.
  (they walk out of frame)
  Dopey Dog: Now walk back into frame.
  (the guys walk back into frame, completely bone dry)
  Dopey Dog: See? Works every time!
  Egon: That does it. I'm leaving.

  • Earlier in the episode, on the way to the animation studio after Egon's experiment results in a giant mess of popcorn, we get this:

    Peter: "Incalculable value to science", eh, Egon?
    Egon: Peter, do you know how to set your proton pack on "explosive overload"?
    Peter: No.
    Egon: I do.
    Peter: ...... Now that I think about it, it was a good effort, Egon! A really, really good effort! Heh, science would be proud!

• In "Ghost Busted," after a long lull of business, the Firehouse finally gets a call.

  Peter: What? What was it?
  Janine: Somebody wanting to sell us swampland in Florida.
  (everyone sighs)
  Peter: It was probably my dad.

  • The montage of the guys and Janine try to get mundane jobs - Peter causes an explosion at a chemical lab; Egon tries showing off a used car, only to accidentally rip off its shoddy door; Janine gets overworked at an office; Ray finds the zoo too much for him; and some angry truckers flip over Winston's cab because he honked his horn at them in a traffic jam.
• "Boo Dunnit"
  • The Ghostbusters riffing on the quality of Agatha Grisly's writing after observing the ghosts of the characters in her unfinished novel speak awkward dialogue.
  • Egon angers one of the ghosts by offering the glass of milk containing cyanide on the nightstand next to the murder victim's bed. The doctor snaps it away as the ghost prepares to drink it, informing him that the milk was poison. Enraged, the ghost accuses Egon of trying to kill him, with Egon desperately trying to convince the ghost that he didn't mean to give him the poisoned milk.
  • When Agatha Grisly's ghost appears at the end of the episode, the reader of her will's only focused on how she's now wearing his coat.
  • The episode ends with Ray, Egon, and Peter watching a mystery and trying to guess who the culprit is, with Winston tied up and gagged to keep him from spoiling it for them.
• In "Chicken, He Clucked," Cubbie (the creepy and possibly schizophrenic guy who really hates chickens) is spotted by Egon at the library with a book about the supernatural.

  Librarian: Is he human?
  Egon: Unfortunately, yes.

  • After speaking with him, Egon grumbles that Cubbie "definitely evolved from the shallow end of the gene pool."
  • Morganon's utter bewilderment and embarrassment that Cubbie would ask for getting rid of chickens. He repeatedly offers other options, and eventually requests Cubbie doesn't tell anyone about it.
  • After initiating an Enemy Mine situation, Morganon explains his deal with Cubbie that wound up banishing chickens to the spirit world. As Morganon rants about his sheer embarrassment over this whole thing, Ray pantomimes to Winston that he's crazy.

    Morganon: I need you, but don't push it!

  • Peter wonders why Morganon is asking for their help.

    Peter: What I don't understand is what do you need us for? I mean, you fulfilled your end of the deal, why the concern?

    Fat Demon: (appears at door) Hey Morganon! Seen any CHICKENS lately? AH HAHAHAHAHA! Oh oh! Hey! The boss was looking for someone to handle a new deal, but he couldn't use you! The King of Rodania doesn't have feathers! But I just wanted to say! HAHAHAHAHAH! (leaves)

    Morganon: ... Does THAT answer your question?

  • After the deal is broken:

    Morganon: Thanks, fellas. You may be a pain in the neck to my kind most of the time, but for now, I owe you one. See you around - well, uh, one of you anyway.
    (beat)
    Peter: How come you guys always look at me when somebody says stuff like that?
    Egon, Ray and Winston: No comment.

  • Egon is working on a complicated equation in the lab.

    Egon: I'll solve this equation if it's the last thing I do.
    (Slimer comes into the lab to say hello, and slimes up the blackboard, ruining Egon's equation. He promptly panics, and thinking quickly, writes out a formula. Just in time, as Egon wanders back into view.)
    Slimer: *gasp* Egon!
    Egon: Actually, that about solves it. Except you misplaced a decimal point.
    Slimer: (hastily adds a decimal point)
    Egon: Not bad. Have you ever considered working for Carl Sagan?

  • As the team are falling through the world Cubbie sent them to, Egon is calculating the time to impact with the ground. Ray comes up with the idea of rigging their packs to provide reverse thrust, but Egon informs him it would take one minute and ten seconds to do so. And they currently have thirty seconds.
  • Meta-humour - J. Michael Straczynski admits "Chicken, He Clucked" was a "demented" script, and claims that the rest of the production team phoned him when he submitted his script, wondering if he needed a break.

    Straczynski: And then I asked, do you want me to take it out, redo the script? And they said, "no, we love it. We just wondered if you were okay."

• In "Beneath These Streets", the Ghostbusters go through a sewer to investigate the underground ghosts. After some mishaps, they return home where Slimer comes to greet the guys.

  Ray: Hey Slimer! Want a snack?
  Slimer: (flies in towards Ray) Eeee hehehe! Hi Ray! Eeee heheheee! (stops before Ray) Huh? (sniffs Ray a bit, then retches in disgust) Peeyew! (flies away)
  Ray: (dejectedly) Aw...
  Peter: Great. We smell worse than Slimer.

• "Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin" has a meta-funny moment. The GBs have set themselves up in a boarding-house out in the Poconos. We see the outside of the building (at night), with a close-up on one window. There are strange gurgling and growling noises coming from within. We expect to see a horde of beasts terrorizing everyone within...but it's just Ray, playing with his action figures (they look like an Alien and a Predator) and impersonating Frank Welker-voiced monsters.
  • Ray gets annoyed by a dog barking outside his room, so he goes to shoo it off. Except it wasn't a dog, but a cat barking at him. Ray shuts the door in shock, then gets nervous as he hears a meowing outside the door. He opens it to see a giant dog meowing at him next.
  • Egon does a Spit Take from a cup of coffee that was served to him, complaining that it tastes like mud, then finds that it is mud.
  • Winston enters his hotel room where all the objects inside were eerily floating about. However, Winston just sighs in annoyance before tossing aside his proton pack, then starts floating about himself.
  • Peter goes to take a shower, but the shower head sprays tomato soup on him instead.
  • The very first bit of dialogue is absolutely hilarious.

    Winston: So, why are we here?
    Peter: That was a mistake...
    Egon: Well, we're here because billions of years ago there was a cataclysmic explosion which...
    Winston: (*blows whistle*) Whoa, whoa, time out! I meant, what are we doing way out here in the Poconos?
    Egon: Oh. We're here because of (indicates poster of Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin) that.

• In "Cry Uncle," Janine warns Egon's uncle not to touch the Containment Unit, but, not believing in ghosts, he has no qualms about randomly pushing buttons on it, trying to figure out what this device really does... and, of course, ends up opening it. The hilarious part is the flat, deadpan, thoroughly bored tone in which Janine then says, "I really wish you hadn't done that, Dr. Spengler."
• "Venkman's Ghost Repellers":
  • Egon Tempting Fate while within the New Jersey Parallelogram.

    Egon: As long as we don't disappear, we should be alright!
    The ship vanishes with them on it.
    Egon: Aw, nuts!

  • Peter's dad attempting to convince him it's alright for him to fraudulently use the Ghostbusters name by pointing out there's no laws for ghosts.
• In "The Collect Call of Cathulhu," after you-know-who is summoned and the Ghostbusters find their proton beams useless against him.

  Winston: Sometimes I really regret answering that ad you guys ran.
  Peter: Egon, what do you got?
  Egon: His power is completely off the scale. None of our equipment can even begin to stop him. We don't have a prayer.
  Peter: You're such a pollyanna, Egon!

• The exorcist getting his comeuppance in "The Spirit of Aunt Lois".
  • Also from "The Spirit of Aunt Lois", the boys need to hold a séance so the spirits will stop bothering Ray's Aunt Lois. They don't know how, and figure they simply need to chant something for it to work:

    Egon: "The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, a-mmm..."
    Winston: "GHOSTS! Get out the place! HEY! GHOSTS! Get out my face! HA! Good Lord!"
    Peter and Ray: [both look at each other and start singing] "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer..."

  • Peter tries to get some rest.

    Peter: At any rate, I need a nap. Wake me about six.(walks upstairs.) SLIIIIIIIIIIIIMEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRR! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BED?!

• From "Doctor, Doctor" This tried-and-true exchange is extra funny since it's delivered by Egon, usually the Comically Serious:

  Janine: You sure you know what you're doing?

  Egon: Why start now?

  • Peter's reaction to finally getting rid of the gunk from fighting the ghost at the start of the episode.

    Peter: I never want to be touched by anyone ever again.
    Slimer considers sliming him
    Peter: Do it and die all over again, Slimer!

  • Peter being Peter when they realize the ghost is after Slimer.

    Peter: We've got to stop that thing before it gets to anyone else!
    Ray: Yeah, and if we don't, it could hurt Slimer!
    Peter: beat Well, we don't actually have to hurry...

• In "The Cabinet of Calamari", we get this dialogue when Egon, Ray, and Winston try to find Peter, only to find a hypnotized Vanna.

  Egon: (scans Vanna) There's no trace of ghostly possession. (waves hand in front of Vanna's face) Notice the vacant stare. The completely mindless look. That can only mean one thing.
  Winston: She's from California?
  Egon: No! She's been hypnotized!

• In "The Scaring of the Green," the guys get arrested after a job, thanks to a unwarranted proton blast.

  Peter: How was I supposed to know it was the mayor's wife? All I saw was a quivering green blob.
  Frump: I'll tell her you said that.
  Peter: She was pale like a ghost.
  Egon: Especially after you fired.
  Ray: Good shot, though.

  • Later, while trying to protect the chief from the bog-hound, the guys get into the St. Patrick's Day parade.

    Egon: Excuse us. Official business.
    Frump: Who do you think you are?!
    Peter: Who do you think we are?
    Frump: You four belong in jail!
    Peter: We were in jail this morning. Some guys are never satisfied.

  • The bog-hound is no doubt one intimidating monster but it's hard to be scared of the towering demon dog when it still acts like a regular dog. No seriously! It has to be seen!
    • When Egon finds it at the zoo, it has already scared all the cats into a tree. Did we mention said cats are lions out of their cages? And when Egon is cornered by the bog-hound, how does he distract it? By playing fetch! And the monster falls for it! The bog-hound fetches the stick, runs back expecting Egon to throw it again and gets angry when it sees Egon has already hit the road!
    • Later the bog hound chases a car after lounging in an alleyway and destroys a fire hydrant to get itself a drink!
• In "The Long, Long, Long, Etc. Goodbye", the dialogue the 'Busters had when they were desperately trying to find the tomb to dump a chest of jewels into while being pursued by a giant ghost.

  Winston: Where is it? Where is it?

  Peter: I don't know! I don't know!

  Ray: There it is! There it is!

• In "The Hole in the Wall Gang", Peter has a questionable standard of what's considered "all right" with Ray.

  Peter: (Ray emerges from the rubble with white hair and a glazed look) Ray! Your hair's turned white!
  Winston: Wow...
  Egon: What an incredible manifestation! Ray? Ray, are you all right?
  Ray: (in a high-pitched tone) I think but I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree! HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-(normal voice) -AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
  Peter: Good, he's all right.

• Most of "Ain't NASA-sarily So", highlights being how Egon reminds the Star Fleet Expies of an old science officer and Peter's 100% truthful quips about government contracts.
  • The 'Busters are hired;

  Peter: Hot diggedy! A government contract. Big bucks, here we come.
  Ray: I don't know, Peter. I'm still concerned about how the equipment will function in zero gravity.
  Egon: I've trying some modifications on this extra equipment I brought, but they may not be totally effective.
  Peter: Don't worry. No company with a Government contract ever knows what it's doing.
  Winston: What if the stuff doesn't work?
  Peter: If it doesn't work, you just charge more and do it again.

  • The 'Busters get their asses kicked;

  Peter: Calm down, little Ivan. We've just gotten started! Hey, we're government contractors, man. You've got to allow us a couple of muffed chances. It's in the fine print.

  • The 'Busters are having a floating victory celebration;

    Peter: Government contracts! I love 'em! We've only just begun to tap the vast financial resources of our great nation!
    Winston: Yeah!
    Peter: There's no place to go but up!
    (Artificial Gravity comes back on) WHAM!

  • The Government knows how to deal with truly incorrigible contractors. Keep in mind the 'Busters are in orbit;

    ...tell them to deduct transportation expenses.

• After the ghosts of movie heroes help the Ghostbusters save the day in "Lights! Camera! Haunting!", Egon asks if they should bust the movie heroes in addition to the three ghosts that tried to kill them with their proton packs. Peter answers "We don't zap the good guys", and Egon reacts with a face of stunned disappointment.
• This exchange from "Egon's Dragon".

  Egon: Do you talk about the loons and the scoundrels in your family tree?
  Peter: If I didn't, I wouldn't have anybody to talk about.

  • After an encounter with the titular "Thing in Mrs Faversham's Attic", Peter casually lampshades the absurdity of the objects it possessed while snarking to himself.

    Peter: *in low voice* So, Peter, have a nice day? *In regular voice* Oh, yeah, argued with a hat and a coat rack. *In low voice* Really? *In regular voice* Yep, nothing new. How's about you?

Season 3

• "The Grundel"
  • Peter's annoyed by Egon fiddling with some equipment that keeps making noise. Egon becomes bewildered when the equipment stops working, completely oblivious of the fact that Peter's had enough and unplugged the machinery.
  • A very tired Peter finds Slimer sleeping in his bed.

    "No way am I that tired." (walks away, then stops) "Yes, I am."

  • After Alec tampers with the proton packs at a school, what was intended as a simple light show winds up trashing the gym.

    Peter: Anybody seen the principal?
    Ray: No.
    Peter: Good. And this concludes today's performance. Thank you all for coming! Good afternoon! And now we have to be going! Don't we, guys? Right! Bye!

  • The way Janine makes Egon squirm after telling everyone else that she loves them. (Yes, even Peter.) After she finally tells him she loves him most of all, an appreciative Egon tries to act anything but, so Janine sics Slimer on him for good measure.

    "Nobody messes with Melnitz."

• Peter and Winston try to keep Slimer awake to prevent him from transforming into Big Green in "The Two Faces of Slimer". Winston ends up coming up with a very sneaky idea.

  Winston: Alright, fine. Go to sleep. I just hope Freddy doesn't get you.

  Slimer: Freddy?! (leaps into Peter's arms in terror)

• In "Camping It Up", Egon claims that Bigfoot's kind are not accustomed to civilization and prefer to be one with nature. Much to his dismay, he then finds that Bigfoot has chosen to sleep in his inflatable tent.

Season 4

• "Poultrygeist" has Egon stuck being a chicken from the neck down because of the team creating an incomplete cure for his transformation into a werechicken (they couldn't find any chickenbane). He insists that his mind isn't affected, but he still shows a habit of involuntarily clucking between everything he says.

  Egon: Don't get your feathers ruffled, Peter. There's a logical solution to every p-p-p-problem.

• At the end of "The Joke's On Ray", Ray starts to decide that he's done with pranks, but then ends up sitting on a whoopie cushion in the Ecto-1. He then sees Egon, Peter, and Winston wearing Groucho glasses.
• "Robo-Buster" has this exchange during the fight against the amalgamation of ghosts Robo-Buster blasted away.
• "Short Stuff"
  • When borrowing a kid's balloon so they can get back to the Firehouse quickly in spite of their small size, Ray comes up with the idea of going down by shooting the balloon.

    Peter: Is this a science thing, Ray? Please tell me this is a science thing!
    Winston: Where did you get this idea, anyway?
    Ray: In a comic book!
    Peter: I'll get you for this, Ray!

  • Peter reads one of the spells to try and get himself, Ray, Winston, and Egon returned to normal size. He instead turns himself into a rat.

Season 5

• In "The Halloween Door", Peter and Slimer dress as each other for costumes, allowing Peter the chance to slime Slimer.

  "Yes! Five years I've waited to do that! Five long years!"

  • After Peter's date leaves because of Slimer:

    Peter: (angrily) Slimer, you're dead!
    Slimer: Good observation, Peter.

  • Crowley goes to the Ghostbusters for help in getting rid of Halloween, but they chase him off by telling Slimer he has candy... in his socks.

    Peter: For the record, interpret this as a no!

• The guys changing Baby Egon's diaper in "Three Men and an Egon." Venkman calls out for items Like a Surgeon, Slimer accidentally sneezes himself into the trash bin, and they end up accidentally wrapping the cloth diaper around Egon like a mummy.
  • From the climax of the same episode, Egon not even questioning why he was dangling from a clock face in nothing but a flannel speedo and socks, and in fact standing with his hands on his hips in front of all three of the other Ghostbusters and Slimer only questioning why they're asking him if he remembers the episode's events. (He doesn't.)
  • When Egon is turned into a pre-teen boy, he throws water balloons at a guest. She questions this, and is told, "Well, he's actually a scientific genius, but you know how eccentric geniuses are!".
  • This speech from the end is funny, considering that everybody was a baby at some point:

    Egon: "Impossible! If I had been a baby, I would have remembered! Furthermore, I have nothing in common with babies!"

• In "Elementary, My Dear Winston," as the guys first confront Moriarty and his hound:
  • Sherlock Holmes playing his violin... badly - so much so that even Moriarty and the ghosts in the Containment Unit are quite visibly disturbed by it. Or it could be because he was playing the Ghostbusters theme.
• The entire scene where the Ghostbusters and the witch have to get past a manifestation of Santa Claus in "Kitty Cornered", especially Louis Tully unsuccessfully trying to convince Santa to leave by offering to do his taxes and Santa's conversation with Egon.

  Egon: I know what I want, Santa!
  Santa: Good, Egon! So what will it be? A firetruck? A Turkey Joe doll?
  Egon: What I want is for you to please go away.
  Santa: The job gets harder every year, but hey, I am Santa.

• When Ray tells Slimer that money isn't everything in "Slimer's Curse", Peter asks "It's not?"

Season 6

• Winston says what I'm sure a lot of fans of this cartoon felt at one point or another in "The Haunting of Heck House."

  Winston: And we agreed to come here without our proton packs?
  Peter: That's right.
  Winston: Sometimes I think between the four of us we don't have the brains God gave a doorknob.

  • There's also the scene when Egon takes refuge in the library.

  Egon: Feels safe somehow.
  Peter: Yeah, you're probably okay, unless it heard about our first case. You know, the one in the New York Public Library? Where books started flying out of the bookcases — hundreds and hundreds of little guided missiles? Well, we'll just hope they never saw the movie made about all that. Toodles! (leaves)
  (A book begins to slide out of the bookcase behind Egon all by itself)
  Egon: (Death Glare) Don't. Even. Think about it!
  (The book zips back into place)

  • The framing device for the episode is that Peter Venkman is telling a story to a visiting class. The students' teacher warns them not to break anything...or let anything out.
• From "Janine, You've Changed," after Slimer returns from spying on Janine:

  Egon: I take it you've all read Slimer's report.
  Peter: Yeah, and the copy machine's never gonna be the same again. Yuck!

  • During a ride in Ecto-1:

    Peter: Say, Egon. Y'know, I just had a thought.
    Egon: You had a thought?
    Peter: Yes.
    Egon: Have a cookie.
    Peter: Why?
    Egon: It's how they train seals, Peter. Unfortunately, I'm out of fish.

• Egon's observations of his co-workers, and Slimer, while on the flight to the USSR in "Russian About."

Unsorted

• The Mexican dub of "The Hole in the Wall Gang" features a sneaky reference to the other Ghostbusters. A couple calls the Ghostbusters to their house and leave them there. When they come back, the Ghostbusters not only have destroyed their house, but tell them they will send the bill soon and leave. The couple then argues:
• The end credits show the Ghostbusters on parade with Slimer trying to join in, but Peter keeps trying to push him out of the way. At the end, Slimer gets stuck on Peter's leg and he tries to shake him out, causing him and the others to slip on the slime. Slimer flies away with the Ghostbusters chasing after him.

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