10 Movie Scenes Everyone Gets Wrong
2. The "Ghostjob" Scene Is A Dream - Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is one of the most beloved comedies of all time, but in recent years as younger generations have been exposed to it for the first time, there's been increased attention paid to its most risque scene.
We're talking of course about the "ghostjob" sequence, where Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) appears to receive oral sex from a female ghost - a scene which has been reposted on social media ad nauseum in recent years with new viewers expressing disbelief that such an insane moment made it into a "family-friendly" movie.
They're ignoring one part of the equation, though - it's a dream sequence. Literally at the start of the scene, the screen goes wavy - the universally agreed visual language for the start of a dream - and once the "job" is done, we cut back to Ray sleeping in reality.
This is in part a symptom of modern Internet culture, where movie scenes are listlessly reposted online devoid of their context, often with crucial elements selectively removed.
Nuance may be hard, but c'mon, it's Ghostbusters - it's kinda shocking how many people have genuinely forgotten that, no, Ray didn't get noshed off by a ghost "for real."
Fun fact, though: this wasn't originally a dream, but part of a subplot where Ray romances a ghost.
When the wider subplot was deemed superfluous and cut, though, they decided to include this brief gag as a dream in the mid-film ghost-busting montage.