Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Mckenna Grace: Phoebe
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Quotes
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Phoebe : Is this safe?
Grooberson : No, history is safe, geometry is safe, science is nuclear and hydrogen bombs, science is injecting yourself with the plague and trying to find a cure in time.
Phoebe : Science is reckless.
Grooberson : Exactly, it's punk rock.
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Grooberson : [on the earthquakes] I've tried triangulating and I can't figure out where they're coming from.
Phoebe : Did you use three phones?
Grooberson : Yeah, I know how many sides are on a triangle.
Phoebe : I know, I just thought you were being obtuse.
[winks]
Grooberson : Was that a geometry joke?
Phoebe : Yes, hence the wink.
Grooberson : [laughs] That's bad... no, I like it.
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[telling a bad joke to Gozer to distract her]
Phoebe : A grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says "We have a drink named after you!" So the grasshopper says, "You have a drink named Steve?"
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Grooberson : Did you catch anything?
Phoebe : It's inside the trap.
Grooberson : Right now?
Phoebe : Yes.
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Callie : Let's go. You were supposed to look after her this summer.
Grooberson : I was?
Callie : Not you. Him.
Trevor : This was her idea.
Phoebe : But what about our stuff? The Ecto-1?
Sheriff Domingo : Everything will remain nice and safe in our impound locker.
Phoebe : No! We need it.
Callie : Phoebe, let's go.
Phoebe : We caught a ghost tonight.
Deputy Medjuck : Dirt farmer's family.
Phoebe : It's true. And there will be more.
Sheriff Domingo : Hey, kid. You're starting to sound like your lunatic grandfather.
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Phoebe : I found this in my living room.
[Mr. Grooberson picks up the ghost trap]
Grooberson : Whoa! Killer replica.
Phoebe : A replica of what?
Grooberson : A ghost trap.
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Phoebe : Hey. Don't we get a phone call?
Sheriff Domingo : Sure you do. Who you gonna call?
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Grooberson : [Showing them a video of The Ghostbusters going to battle Gozer] None of this rings a bell?
Phoebe : It happened 20 years before we were born.
Podcast : Well, I believe it.
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[telling another bad joke]
Phoebe : What does a hamster have in common with a cigarette? They're harmless, unless you stick 'em in your mouth and light them on fire.
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[Ray Stantz is on the phone with Phoebe, calling from Summerville jail]
Ray Stantz : Egon Spengler can rot in hell.
Phoebe : [sadly] He died last week.
Ray Stantz : [genuinely saddened] Oh, man. No kidding.
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[telling yet another bad joke]
Phoebe : Why can't you trust an atom? Because they make up everything.
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Phoebe : Are you sure this is safe?
Grooberson : History is safe. Geometry, that's safe. Science is all particle accelerators and hydrogen bombs. Science is giving yourself the plague and gambling on the cure. Science is reckless.
Phoebe : Science is reckless.
Grooberson : Totally! Yes! It's punk rock. It's a safety pin through the nipple of academia
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Grooberson : [after testing the trap and unleashing a ghost, which damages the cars] We should probably get out of here.
Phoebe : You're an adult.
Grooberson : Yeah, and liable.
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Phoebe : Don't you think your father came out here for a reason?
Callie : No. No. I think he was a sad old man who turned his back on his family, his partners. And for what? For a stupid farm in a town nobody cares about. Where, by the way, everybody thought he was nuts. Yeah, great decision, Dad.
Phoebe : He was special. He loved science, like me. Why didn't you tell me my grandfather was Egon Spengler?
Callie : Hey, I'm glad you found yourself here. I really am. But all I see are reminders that I didn't mean a thing to him. He never cared about me.
Phoebe : He's not nuts.
Callie : Well, then he's an asshole. Welcome to the family.
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Trevor : At least we're only here for a week.
Callie : Give or take.
Trevor : What's that mean?
Callie : We're living here now.
Trevor : You said it would only be a week!
Callie : That was before we got evicted.
Trevor : You said you had money saved up!
Callie : That was before I had children.
Phoebe : To be fair, you've never been good with money.
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Phoebe : What does the name Ivo Shandor mean to you guys?
Lucky : Ivo Shandor? He built this whole town. He built the mind, foundry, the school, library. His name is on everything.
Trevor : That's tacky.
Phoebe : In New York, he created an apartment building made out of selenium girders, mined from right here. On that same rooftop is where our grandfather fought to keep a horde of ghosts from entering our dimension.
Trevor : Phoebe, what exactly is happening here?
Phoebe : I can only think of one way for us to find out.
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Phoebe : What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.
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Phoebe : This isn't a farm, It's a trap.
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Phoebe : Well, what about Egon?
Ray Stantz : Well, he wasn't helping. We went from ten calls a week to one if we were lucky. Egon started to tell people that their little ghost problems didn't matter because the world was coming to an end. He got spooky. Freaked me out. One morning, I go to work and Ecto-1, our old Cadillac, is gone, his neutrona throwers, collider pack, all the traps, 16 ounces of fuel isotope, all gone! He cleaned us out. Now we were the dead ones.
Phoebe : Don't you think might've had a reason?
Ray Stantz : He phoned me about ten years later, some small town in Oklahoma. He kept rambling on about "the rising storm" and "the huge psychic tornado" that was gonna "consume humanity in darkness forever." And, kid, I wanted to believe.
Phoebe : You don't understand. There is this mountain and it has these ancient carvings...
Ray Stantz : Kid, kid, kid, there are a lot of mountains up there with ancient carvings. Take a little advice. Don't go chasing ghosts.
Phoebe : Egon Spengler was my grandfather.
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Phoebe : Something's happening inside that old mine.
Trevor : Yeah. I know that. It's pretty obvious.
Podcast : So I did some digging on the word you heard you heard in the mountain. "Gozer."
Trevor : You did some digging?
Phoebe : Gozer was a Sumerian god who once walked amongst the living.
Podcast : A soul-eating, flame-dripping deity of evil. And I think it wants back.
Lucky : Here?
Podcast : I know. I would've picked Orlando.
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[Callie has told Phoebe that she's going out on a date with her teacher revealing his first name to Gary]
Phoebe : His name is Gary Grooberson? You have a date with *Gary* Grooberson? Don't be yourself, mom!
