20 Things You Somehow Missed In Ghostbusters

8. Debbie Gibson's Cameo

Ghostbusters Debbie Gibson
Columbia Pictures

In 1987, Debbie Gibson released her debut album Out of the Blue at just 17 years old and saw the record go platinum three times. It wasn't her first dabble with the entertainment industry however as she had previously played an extra in one of Columbia Pictures' best selling films.

This is the kind of cameo where someone gets famous after the fact and if it wasn't for Debbie Gibson revealing it herself then perhaps we would never have known. In the scene where a terrified Louis Tully is hunted by a Terror Dog, he beats on the glass of the Tavern on the Green restaurant.

Amongst its patrons is a birthday girl with a pink bow in her hair. You never get a clear shot of Debbie's face but nonetheless it's a very neat, very 80s connection.

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