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Ghostbusters II (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: When the Ghostbusters are being brought to City Hall, the police car has red and blue emergency lights. In New York City, police cars have red and white emergency lights.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When asked if she (Lady Liberty) can go faster, Ray denies it because the vibrations could damage her. Presumably, she got off the pedestal on Liberty Island very slowly and carefully, using all four limbs.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Egon, Winston, and Ray enter the cavern of slime, they kick down a "weak" wall of rocks. While looking around, Ray sits down on one and it squishes, making it obvious that it is Styrofoam.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: In the court room scene when the jar of pink slime starts to boil you can clearly see the mechanism and pump making it move.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Towards the end of the movie, Dana crawls out on the ledge to get Oscar and the traffic below is seen traveling at very high speeds.
  
  
• Continuity: When Egon and Ray discuss Vigo The Carpathian in the lab, the close-up of the monitor shows different data than in the preceding and following shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The carriage with Oscar stops on First Avenue and there are shops in the background. When the Ghostbusters are digging in the street there is now a parking lot in the background.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: The movie ends at New Year, so it must have been around Christmas time when the majority of events took place. There is a surprising lack of Christmas decorations in New York City.
  
  
• Continuity: In the "dancing toaster" sequence, the balls on the table move several inches between shoots. Also, one can actually see the moving mechanisms (electro magnetic pins that "pop" out) from underneath the toaster.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: There are small pegs jutting out the bottom of the dancing toaster.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Statue of Liberty is making her way through the harbor, the water is incredibly calm. Something that big moving through the water would make a large wake or at least some ripples.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ben Stein informs that there is a covering on the main Museum, and that they "can't make a dent," the picture Ben Stein shows the man is shown towards the camera, and is obviously a picture of the base of the Statue of Liberty.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ray, Egon, and Winston enter the room with the heads on poles, Winston's helmet disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene with the dancing toaster you can clearly see the reflection of the camera crew
  
  
• Continuity: When Dana is tied up and unable to rescue Oscar at the museum, her hair is considerably curlier and shorter. When she is set free, her hair is back to being wavier and longer.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ray and Egon are speaking in the lab after taking pictures at the museum, the picture of Vigo is only about 1/4 of the way into the machine when the finished analyzed product of the river of slime is already taken out.
  
  
• Continuity: In the museum at the end, when Vigo is going for the baby, his hair is neat. In the next view his hair is messed up and a tangled mess. Then it is combed and pushed back behind his ears.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Crew and lights are reflected in some of the close-ups of the toaster scene.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Air pipes clearly visible on the flying chairs in the court room scenes.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the Ghostbusters smash the glass and metal dome on the roof of the museum, the entire dome was totally destroyed, but later on, when Vigo looks up at the ceiling, half of the dome is intact.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene of Oscar's examination, Egon suggests they perform an "Apgar score" test on baby Oscar. However, Apgar score is a test made on newborns only (usually 1 and 5 minutes after birth), so such a test would be entirely irrelevant in Oscar's case.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene outside the restaurant as Peter and Dana are calling for a taxi, the ectomobile pulls up. The numberplate on the front clearly says ecto-2 this is because the revamped ecto was intended to be called ecto-2 but was later changed to 1a, this scene must have been shot before the change was made.
  
  
• Continuity: In the close-up of the Ecto 1A's plate near the end of the film, the Statue of Liberty is in the middle of the plate. In all other shots, it's on the left side of the plate.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Where upon arriving at Peter's rendezvous with Dana, Raymond and Egon proceed to inform Peter of their intentions of going underground. During this dialogue and an over the shoulder shot of Egon, we can clearly hear Ray speak to Peter while the only mouth that is moving in the shot is Egon’s.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end, when the slime evaporates from the museum, Louis is using a proton pack on it. But when seen from a wider angle, Louis's proton discharge is nowhere to be seen.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When the mayor is looking out the window from his office the eclipse appears to over central park as a view from Central Park West. The Mayor's office is Downtown so a view of Central park would be impossible.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Dana takes a cab to the museum, you can see the cab drive up and stop. But Dana forgets to pay, and the driver forgets to write the receipt.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the Con Edison Supervisor and the police man arrive where Egon, Peter, and Ray dug the whole on First Avenue, there is a subway station exit with red lights atop it. There is only one subway station on First avenue, which is the First avenue station on the L train, and all of the exits to that station have green lights atop it.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray switch places twice while in the statue. The original order was Murray, Hudson, Aykroyd, and Ramis. It then changes to Hudson, Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis. It then goes back. However, given that there is enough room up top for them to move around and look at things, and given the apparent time difference, it's entirely probable that they could switch places.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Ray and Egon are "examining" Oscar, the tape recorder Ray is holding jumps between his left and right hands between shots. However, this could easily be the result of him resting his elbows on the table and putting the recorder down and picking it back up several times.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Michael P. Moran is credited as playing "Frank the Doorman" even though the character specifically tells Dana, "I'm not the doorman, Miss Barrett. I'm the building superintendent." But this is simply a joke put in to acknowledge what the character of Frank had said at the beginning.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the "We're Back" montage, as Ecto-1 pulls out of the firehouse with Louis Tully running behind, there are clearly piles of wood and metal leaning against the back wall. During the rest of the movie and in the first Ghostbusters movie when Ecto-1 is parked in the main level of the firehouse, Janine's desk and Peter Venkman's office are at the back of the building. But, given that we know there was probably a space of time between the initial movie, where there was a huge hole punched in the floor, and this one, it's likely they had those materials to rebuild the firehouse and expand it.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the seen with the dancing toaster, Egon puts the slime in the toaster (on top of anything that would be inside). When the toast pops out while the toaster is dancing, the toast looks like toast, without any sign of slime on them, however, we do know that he moves the toaster to another location, so there's no reason he could not have put bread in and pushed it down before playing the song.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the ending scene from where the Ghostbusters drop in to the museum, Ray and Winston both have lights on their "slime throwers". These lights switch from on and off between many shots until the end. However, slime was not a constantly thrown thing, we know the proton packs have activator switches on the wants, so why not the same with the throwers. In other words, on when they're being used, but switched off to preserve power.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the ghost of the Titanic shows up, it is shown with a gash in its side, presumably from the iceberg impact. However, the iceberg did not tear a gash in the hull of the Titanic.
  
  
• Factual errors: Hardemeyer has the Ghostbusters committed to Parkview Psychiatric Hospital for observation, claiming to be acting on the mayor's behalf. A mayor's office does not have the authority to commit an individual. Also, three of the four Ghostbusters are doctors of psychology, making it highly unlikely that the hospital would admit them without question or suspicion.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Statue of Liberty is shown at one point wading through water up to her chin; in fact, the waters of New York's Upper Bay are a maximum of 45 feet deep. Given that the Statue is 111 feet tall from top to toe, the water should have been no deeper than her waist.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Titanic was reported to be arriving at Pier 34. The Titanic was scheduled to arrive at Pier 58.
  
  
• Continuity: Winston screams the exact same scream twice: First when the ghost train passes through him, the second time, when he falls into the river of slime and is pulled underneath.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The movie takes place around New Years. There is no snow and warm temperatures as the people's breath is not even visible.
  
  

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