Ghostbusters: 21 WTF Moments In The Female Remake
15. How To "Prove" There's A Ghost In Your Trap
Erin Gilbert is a genius. She's on the verge of tenure at a university so prestigious that Charles Dance is the dean, and she's classed as enough of an intellectual that any suggestion of a shady conspiracy theorist past is ruinous to her. She also knows that her theories about the supernatural are correct after encountering several of them, including particularly hostile ones.
And yet, when Bill Murray's skeptical debunker comes for a visit to the Ghostbusters headquarters to disprove them, she forgets absolutely everything she's just learned about ghosts (particularly big gargoyle ones with wings), and decides the best way to prove that they've caught one is to let it out.
Yes, she's concerned about reputation still at this point, but this is behaviour more befitting Kevin the moron than Gilbert the genius, surely?