10 Terrible Things Everyone Forgets About Beloved Movie Characters

The main running gag of the first Ghostbusters film was that - despite ghosts being a provably real thing - people still take a long time to take our heroes seriously because every word they say is said with the smarmy, dancing double speak of a used car salesman. It should surprise no one that Dan Aykroyd is now selling mumbo jumbo skull booze online.

But the real hilarious joke here is that they are criminals. Walter Peck may be a right prick, but his suspicion of the 'Busters is 100% justified. Let's start with the obvious, they have a bomb in the middle of New York, by Egon's own admission.

They break pretty much every city safety and health code and, instead of cooperating with the rightfully concerned EPA to assure them that they have everything under control, they antagonize Peck. Things then escalate, because in fairness, Peck is just as big an a-hole as they are.

And what do you know? The dangerous, untested containment grid goes haywire because these brain trusts forgot to put in a failsafe to keep it from freaking exploding when you turn it off.

Yeah, they saved the world from an ancient Lovecraftian demon. But make no mistake, these guys belong in jail.