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Slime Test: Shout At It, Ray! | Film Clip | GHOSTBUSTERS II

A black Kitchen Aid microwave beeped. The Ghostbusters gathered around a table on the second floor of the Firehouse. Egon took a sample of the pink ectoplasm in tupperware out of the microwave.

RAY STANTZ: We've been experimenting with the plasm we found in the subway tunnel. Careful.

PETER VENKMAN: Should I get spoons?

EGON SPENGLER: Don't bother. Watch this. Go ahead, Ray.

It was 2:30 on the clock on the wall by the refrigerator.

RAY STANTZ: You! You worthless piece of slime! You ignorant, disgusting blob.

The pink ectoplasm bubbled in reaction to Ray's shouting.

EGON SPENGLER: You're nothing but an unstable, short-chain molecule!

RAY STANTZ: You foul, obnoxious muck!

EGON SPENGLER: You have a weak electrochemical bond!

Winston and Peter looked at each other.

RAY STANTZ: I have seen some disgusting crud in my time, but you take the cake. You know what, you're just--

Winston stopped Ray. Egon flashed his hands to stop.

PETER VENKMAN: This is what you do with your spare time?

RAY STANTZ: Peter, this is an incredible breakthrough. I mean, what a discovery. A psychoreactive substance. Whatever this stuff is, it responds to human emotional states.

PETER VENKMAN: Mood slime.

Egon turned away in disbelief.

PETER VENKMAN: Oh, baby...

It bubbled.

WINSTON ZEDDEMORE: You mean this stuff actually feeds on bad vibes?

RAY STANTZ: Like a cop in a doughnut factory.

EGON SPENGLER: We've been running tests to see if we can get an equally strong positive reaction.

PETER VENKMAN: What kind of tests?

RAY STANTZ: Well, we sing to it, and we talk to it, and say supportive, nurturing things to it...

PETER VENKMAN: You're not sleeping with it, are you, Ray?

There was an awkward silence and sense of uneasiness from Ray and Egon.

PETER VENKMAN: Oh, you.

WINSTON ZEDDEMORE: It's always the quiet ones.

PETER VENKMAN: You hound.

EGON SPENGLER: Ahem. How about the kinetic test?

RAY STANTZ: Okay.

Egon took a toaster from the kitchen counter.

EGON SPENGLER: Ordinary household toaster.

PETER VENKMAN: I'll take your word for that.

Ray placed some ectoplasm into the toaster with a spoon. Egon placed it on the billiards table.

RAY STANTZ: It responds to music, so we've been doing some experimentation. Playing easy listening. Middle-of-the-road type stuff. You know, Paul Young, Dust In The Wind, that works okay.

PETER VENKMAN: It works for me.

EGON SPENGLER: It loves Jackie Wilson.

Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" was played.

PETER VENKMAN: Sheesh! You guys do this at night when I'm not here? Oh, I get it. It sings. It sounds exactly like Jackie, that's fantastic.

EGON SPENGLER: Just watch.

PETER VENKMAN: Does it do Emmylou Harris?

The toaster hopped up.

PETER VENKMAN: Oh, it dances, too.

The toaster moved around like it was dancing. The guys smiled.

RAY STANTZ: Whoa! Shake it up!

The toaster ejected toast. Egon caught them then turned off the music. Peter hugged the toaster.

PETER VENKMAN: Oh! Oh, oh baby, oh, you're my number one Christmas boutique gift item!

WINSTON ZEDDEMORE: Right, and the first time somebody gets mad the toaster could eat their hand.

PETER VENKMAN: No, no, no, no. We put a warning label on it, we don't have any liability- aggh! Ow! Ow!

Egon quickly took the toaster away. It was just a prank. Peter gestured like he poked Egon's eyes.

PETER VENKMAN: Ow! Oh, did you ever go for it! The old man-eating-toaster bit.

Peter gestured with his index and middle fingers in a "V" pointed at Egon's eyes. Ray screamed as he grabbed Peter from behind playfully.

RAY STANTZ: Get him!

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