Memorable Quotes from David Margulies
2 quotesMayor Calls for Help Amid Chaos
Mayor Lenny
What the hell is going on? It's pandemonium out there!
Jack Hardemeyer
Yes, I know. We're working on it!
Mayor Lenny
Great. While you're working on it, I'm going down as the mayor who let New York get sucked down into the tenth level of hell! All right, we got no choice. Call the Ghostbusters.
[giving up]
Jack Hardemeyer
Wait! Uh...Now, I'm sure there's another way.
[eyes widen]
Mayor Lenny
Jack, I spent an hour last night in my bedroom talking to Fiorello LaGuardia, and he's been dead for 40 years! Now where are the Ghostbusters?
[aggravated; forceful tone]
Jack Hardemeyer
Uh, they're not available.
Mayor Lenny
What do you mean they're not available?
[confused]
Jack Hardemeyer
Well, I had them committed to the psychiatric ward at Parkview Hospital.
[confessing]
Mayor Lenny
You WHAT?!
[shocked and angry]
Jack Hardemeyer
They were threatening to go to the press! I was protecting your interests!
Mayor
Oh yeah?!
Jack Hardemeyer
Uh-huh!
Mayor Lenny
Well, you can stop protecting my interests! You have exactly three minutes to clear out! You're fired!
Jack Hardemeyer
But the election! You're making a big mistake, Mr. Mayor!
[shocked]
Mayor Lenny
Harry! Remove this man from the building! And get me the Ghostbusters!
[ignoring Hardemeyer]
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A Meeting with the Mayor and Ghostbusters
Dr. Peter Venkman
Lenny. Big man.
Mayor Lenny
The Ghostbusters.
Winston Zeddemore
Mr. Mayor?
[holds out his hand, wanting to shake his hand]
Mayor Lenny
What is this? A slumber party?
Dr. Ray Stantz
Well, that's why we wanted to see you.
Mayor Lenny
Listen, I don't want to hear anything about it. You got two minutes. Make it good.
Dr. Ray Stantz
Well, first of all, Mr. Mayor, it's a great pleasure to see you again, and you'll be happy to know that almost fifty percent of us voted for you in the last election.
[getting started]
Mayor Lenny
I appreciate that.
Dr. Peter Venkman
I'm sorry we have to meet under these circumstances.
Dr. Ray Stantz
Mr. Mayor, we're here tonight because a psychomagnatheric slimeflow of immense proportions is building up beneath the city.
Mayor Lenny
Psycho-what?
Dr. Egon Spengler
Psychomagnatheric.
Dr. Peter Venkman
Big word, big word.
Dr. Egon Spengler
Negative human emotions that are forming into a vicious ectoplasm with *explosive* supernormal potential.
Mayor Lenny
Can somebody speak English here?
Winston Zeddemore
Uh yeah. Your honor, what we're trying to say is all of the bad feelings. You know hate, anger and the vibes of the city are turning into this sludge. I didn't believe in it either. But, we just went for a swim in it and end up almost killing each other.
Jack Hardemeyer
This is insane! Do we really have to listen to this?
[to the Mayor; aggravated]
Dr. Peter Venkman
Can't you stop your lips from flapping for 2 little minutes? Lenny, have you been out on the street lately, do you know weird it is out there? We've taken our own headcount, there seems to be 3 *million* completely miserable assholes living in the Tri-State area.
[to Hardemeyer; to the Mayor]
Jack Hardemeyer
Please.
[in disbelief]
Peter Venkman
I beg your pardon, 3 million and one.
Jack Hardemeyer
Hey.
Dr. Ray Stantz
And what fudgy brain here doesn't realize, that if we don't do something fast this whole place is gonna blow like a frog on a hot plate.
Jack Hardemeyer
Yeah, right.
[in disbelief]
Mayor Lenny
What do you want me to do, go on television and tell 3 million people they have to be nice to each other? Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right. Your two minutes are up. Good night, gentlemen.
[having enough; begins to walk off; leaves]
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