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Rick Moranis refuses to participate in GHOSTBUSTERS video game

July 6th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Rick Moranis as (clockwise) Skip Bittman, Gerry Todd, Linsk Menjuvic and Dick Cavett

Kudos to my old SCTV buddy Rick Moranis’ for having the integrity not to participate in the asinine video game restatement of Ghostbusters.

The game’s producer told Wired Magazines Das Gamer, “He made so much money off of Honey I Shrunk The Kids that he retired. He just doesn’t want to work anymore.” Well, that’s not 100% true. The five times this decade that he agreed to leave his house in search of gainful employment as an actor found him voicing cartoons.

Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson have agreed to re-team for the upcoming vidiocy. Moranis was not the only hold out. Sigourney Weaver also refused join in the game.

Moranis gained showbiz immortality for his sterling participation in 25 episodes of SCTV, still the funniest show television has yet to produce. He joined the show in its third season after it became apparent that Tony Rosato and Robin Duke weren’t clicking.

In Dave Thomas’ 1996 tome SCTV: Behind the Scenes, Moranis remarked, “I was the only guy ever to join the show from outside the little Second City world.” Moranis initially felt some resistance coming from Joe Flaherty’s corner. “I think he resented me because I hadn’t in his mind, paid my dues by coming up from the theatre. We never came to blows or anything, but if you look through the whole catalogue, there isn’t a lot of stuff that Joe and I did together.”

Catherine O\'Hara, Joe Flaherty, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Andrea Martin & Dave Thomas as The Beaver

Catherine O’Hara, Joe Flaherty, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Andrea Martin & Dave Thomas as The Beaver

Thomas met Moranis at a party where both took to the stage and jammed with the band. “He had a good reputation,” Thomas recalls, “and seemed sharp, smart and funny.” Prior to that fateful meeting, Moranis worked as a deejay in addition to working alongside John Candy on 90 Minutes Live, the Canadian answer to SNL.

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