Ernie Hudson credited as playing...
Winston Zeddemore
- Egon: Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505, died 1610.
- Peter Venkman: 105 years old, he hung in there, didn't he?
- Ray: He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disembowled, drawn and quartered.
- Peter Venkman: Ouch.
- Winston: Guess he wasn't too popular at the end, huh?
- Egon: No, not exactly a man of the people. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.
- Peter Venkman: Wasn't he also Vigo the Butch?
- Ray: And dig this, there was a prophecy. Just before his head died, his last words were "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back."
- Ray: [of the insulting birthday party kids] Ungrateful little yuppie larva. After everything we did for this city.
- Winston: Yeah, we conjured up a hundred-foot marshmallow man, blew the top three floors off an uptown high-rise, and ended up getting sued by every city, county, and state agency in New York.
- Ray: Yeah... but what a ride.
- Ray: It looks like a giant Jell-O mold.
- Winston: I hate Jell-O.
- Peter Venkman: Oh, come on. There's always room for Jell-O!
- Peter Venkman: [as the Mayor walks in]
- [Raising his voice over the rest of the 'Busters]
- Peter Venkman: Lenny. Big man.
- The Mayor: The Ghostbusters.
- Winston: Mr. Mayor?
- [Holds out his hand, wanting to shake his hand]
- The Mayor: What is this? A slumber party?
- Ray: Well, that's why we wanted to see you.
- The Mayor: Listen, *I* don't want to hear anything about it. You got two minutes. Make it good.
- Ray: [Getting started] Well, first of all Mr. Mayor, it's a great pleasure to see you again, and you'll be happy to know that almost fifty percent of us voted for you in the last election.
- The Mayor: I appreciate that.
- Peter Venkman: I'm sorry we have to meet under these circumstances.
- Ray: Mr. Mayor, we're here tonight because a psychomagnatheric slimeflow of immense proportions is building up beneath the city.
- The Mayor: Psycho-what?
- Egon: Psychomagnatheric.
- Peter Venkman: Big word, big word.
- Egon: Negative human emotions that are forming into a vicious ectoplasm with *explosive* supernormal potential.
- The Mayor: Can somebody speak English here?
- Winston: Uh yeah. Your honor, what we're trying to say is all of the bad feelings. You know hate, anger and the vibes of the city are turning into this *sludge*. I didn't believe in it either. But, we just went for a swim in it and end up almost killing each other.
- Hardemeyer: [to the Mayor]
- [aggravated]
- Hardemeyer: This is insane! Do we *really* have to listen to this?
- Peter Venkman: [to Hardemeyer] Can't you stop your lips from flapping for 2 little minutes?
- [to the Mayor]
- Peter Venkman: Lenny, have you been out on the street lately, do you know weird it is out there? We've taken our own headcount, there seems to be 3 *million* completely miserable assholes living in the Tri-State area.
- Hardemeyer: [In disbelief] Please.
- Peter Venkman: I beg your pardon, 3 million and *one*.
- Hardemeyer: Hey.
- Ray: And what *fudgy brain* here doesn't realize, that if we don't do something fast this whole place is gonna blow like a frog on a hot plate.
- Hardemeyer: [In disbelief] Yeah, right.
- The Mayor: What do you want me to do, go on television and tell 3 million people they have to be *nice* to each other?
- [Begins to walk off]
- The Mayor: Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's god-given right. Your two minutes are up, good night gentlemen.
- [At the foot of the Statue of Liberty]
- Peter Venkman: Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?
- Winston: Wonder what?
- Peter Venkman: Whether she's naked under that toga. She *is* French. You know that.
- [the Ghostbusters have been committed to a mental hospital]
- Ray: As I explained before, we think the spirit of a 17th century Moldavian tyrant is alive and well in a painting at the Manhattan Museum of Art.
- Psychiatrist: Uh-huh, and are there any other paintings in the museum with bad spirits in them?
- Egon: You're wasting valuable time. He's drawing strength from a psychomagnotheric slime flow that's been collecting under the city.
- Psychiatrist: Yes, tell me about the slime.
- Winston: It's very potent stuff. We made a toaster dance with it.
- [motions to Peter]
- Winston: And a bathtub tried to eat his friend's baby.
- Psychiatrist: A bathtub?
- Peter Venkman: [with his head buried in his arms in despair] Don't look at me. I think these people are completely nuts.
- [after failing to break through the ectoplasm surrounding the Museum]
- Egon: That slime mold is pulsing with evil. It would take a tremendous amount of positive energy to crack that shell and I seriously doubt there's enough goodwill left in this town to do it.
- Ray: You know, I just can't believe things have gotten so bad in this city that there's no way back. I mean, sure, it's dirty, it's crowded, it's polluted, it's noisy and there's people all around who'd just as soon step on your face as look at you. But come on! There's got to be a few sparks of sweet humanity left in this burned-out 'burg and we just have to figure out a way to mobilize it.
- Egon: He's right. We need something that everyone in this town can get behind, we need... a symbol!
- Ray: Something that appeals to the best in each and every one of us.
- Egon: Something good.
- Winston: Something decent.
- Peter Venkman: Something pure.
- [They are all looking at the image of the Statue of Liberty on the Ecto-1's license plate]
- [Ray has stepped in front of the painting of Vigo, blocking the Ghostbusters' attack]
- Egon: Ray... we'd like to shoot the monster. Could you move, please?
- Peter Venkman: Ray...
- Winston: Ray?
- Egon, Peter Venkman, Winston: RAY!
- [Ray turns around, he is Ray/Vigo]
- Ray: [demonic voice] NO! I, Ray, am Vigo, shall rule the Earth! Begone, you pitiful half-men!
- Peter Venkman: Now!
- [they attack]
- Egon: [talking about the mood slime after yelling at it] We're running tests to see if we can get an equally strong positive response.
- Peter Venkman: What kind of tests?
- Ray: Well, we sing to it, talk to it, and say supportive, nurturing things to it.
- Peter Venkman: You're not sleeping with it, are you, Ray?
- [Ray doesn't answer, but stares intently at Egon]
- Peter Venkman: [noticing Egon, teasingly] You hound.
- Winston: It's always the quiet ones.
- Egon: [clears throat, and hastily changes the subject] How 'bout the kinetic test?
- Louis Tully: [TV Commercial] What is it, honey?
- Janine Melnitz: It's that darn ghost again. He just won't leave us alone. I guess we're just going to have to move.
- Louis Tully: No, wait! Don't worry. We're not moving.
- [picks up the phone]
- Louis Tully: He is!
- Janine Melnitz: Who are you going to call?
- Egon, Peter Venkman, Ray, Winston: Ghostbusters.
- Judge Wexler: [At the Ghostbusters' trial] Before we begin this trial, I want to make one thing very clear: The law does not recognize the existence of ghosts, and I don't believe in them either. So I don't wanna hear a lot of malarkey about goblins, spooks, and demons. We're gonna stick to the facts in this case. Leave the ghost stories to the kiddies, understood?
- Winston: Wow. Sounds like a pretty open-minded guy, huh?
- Egon: Yeah, they call him "The Hammer."
- Ray: What can we do? It's all in the hands of our lawyer now.
- Louis Tully: I think you guys are making a big mistake. I do mostly tax law and some probate stuff occasionally. I got my law degree at night school.
- Ray: Well, that's fine, Louis. We got arrested at night.
- Peter Venkman: [the Ghostbusters enters the museum's restoration room] All right, suck in the guts, guys. We're the Ghostbusters.
- [they breathe in]
- Janosz: [approaches the four; claps] No! No, please go! You...
- Ray: Who's this wiggler?
- Peter Venkman: He's yours, Ray. Sic him.
- Janosz: [to Peter] I have discuss things with you. Now I...
- Ray: Hi, how are you? Ray Stantz from the Ghostbusters. Nice to see you. Beautiful lab you have here.
- Janosz: Can I tell what I told your friend?
- Ray: We're just doing a routine spook check.
- Janosz: Eh, Dr. Venkman, Dana is not here.
- Peter Venkman: Yeah, we know that, Johnny.
- Janosz: So why are you came?
- Peter Venkman: Well, we got a report there was a major creep in the area. We checked our list and you were right on the top. Johnny, where the hell are you from anyway?
- Janosz: The Upper West Side.
- Egon: The whole room's extremely hot, Peter.
- Janosz: Hot?
- Winston: [notices the painting of Vigo] Ooh, that's one ugly dude.
- Peter Venkman: Oh, that's Vigo. Mr. Vigo?
- Janosz: Uh...
- Peter Venkman: [starts to take pictures of Vigo] Vigs, would you look this way, please?
- Janosz: Please. No, don't. No, no!
- Peter Venkman: Come on, show me something.
- Janosz: No! No photographs, please! Slides are available in the Gift Shop, eh?
- [Winston pulls Janosz out of the way; Janosz yells]
- Peter Venkman: Yeah, thanks. Thank you, Winston.
- [Ray and Winston have been hired as birthday party entertainers and the two are dancing to the "Ghostbusters" theme song]
- Ray, Winston: [singing] If there's something strange/in the neighborhood/who ya gonna call?
- Birthday Party Kids: [in unison] HE-MAN!
- [the birthday party kids rush out of the room, leaving a despondent Ray and Winston]
- Ray, Winston: [singing sadly] And it don't look good...
- [TV Commercial]
- Egon: With our special half price service plan.
- Peter Venkman: What? Hold on. Half Price? Have we all gone mad?
- Ray: I guess so, Pete. Because that's not all. Tell them, Egon.
- Egon: Oh, you mean the Ghostbusters hot beverage thermal mug and free balloons for the kids.
- Egon, Peter Venkman, Ray, Winston: Ghoooooostbusters!