Ghostbusters - Why Isn't Murray Covered in Marshmallow?

[Mr. Adventure]

Timby wrote:

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That's the joke -- while the new recruit and the two guys who are the heart of the science of the operation are completely gunked up, the easygoing, free-wheeling character is the one who escapes and is able to say, "I'm fine." It's a gag.

That's how I saw it, the "cool" guy gets away with it using the Fonz Factor. The same way Blade never gets any blood on him.

[stueyross]

every now and then a queston comes up on the board and I grin my ass off. Its just a joke guys. Venkmans the cool one of the gang. He steps out, totally uncovered and is all "heh....look at you guys...and look how clean I am cos Im better than you". Its just a funny, thats all.

Oh, and he is odd. funny and charming but odd

[Technobuilder]

Cyke101 wrote:

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He was also the one who got slimed early on while the others were relatively untouched. It was payback time

From a production level though, I always thought they needed Murray relatively clean for the big romantic kiss with Dana at the end. That or Murray (who's known to be pretty demanding) argued not to be covered in gunk.

^^^THIS

That kiss seemed like the main reason.

[Admiral_Young]

I also recall hearing Ramis and Reitman explain that Murray didn't want to be covered in the foam but forget their reason why now.

[Andonagio]

Admiral_Young wrote:

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I also recall hearing Ramis and Reitman explain that Murray didn't want to be covered in the foam but forget their reason why now.

Which always struck me as odd, because Murray was obviously okay being covered with slime earlier in the film. It seems like foam would be less messy.