There is a concept art of Gary in a refrigerated aisle. Now it makes sense, for a time he was going to be chased through the aisle first. Mini-Pufts eating a TV dinner would have been funny. Very cool to find out some the deleted material that’s been barely talked about, like the Walmart security guard and Podcast putting ectoplasm in a pudding cup.
They sure cut a lot of Podcast’s lines. Ah, Kurnugia outright mentioned. This line was basically used earlier in the movie Podcast is looking at Tobin’s Spirit Guide in her bedroom but reworked a bit. Kurnugia in myth is the Mesopotamian underworld. Always felt that passage cemented Gozer is a stand-in for Ereshkigal. A lot of connecting the dots when the kids explore the mine.
“You think he’s coming back?” cracked me up. Wish that stayed in.
[quote=mrmichaelt post_id=5007466 time=1764686289 user_id=24972]There is a concept art of Gary in a refrigerated aisle. Now it makes sense, for a time he was going to be chased through the aisle first. Mini-Pufts eating a TV dinner would have been funny. Very cool to find out some the deleted material that’s been barely talked about, like the Walmart security guard and Podcast putting ectoplasm in a pudding cup.
They sure cut a lot of Podcast’s lines. Ah, Kurnugia outright mentioned. This line was basically used earlier in the movie Podcast is looking at Tobin’s Spirit Guide in her bedroom but reworked a bit. Kurnugia in myth is the Mesopotamian underworld. Always felt that passage cemented Gozer is a stand-in for Ereshkigal. A lot of connecting the dots when the kids explore the mine.
“You think he’s coming back?” cracked me up. Wish that stayed in.
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I love BTS dumps of info like this. Especially for Afterlife, where the cut material seems to be more scarce. I hope one day we get all the scenes documented.
I liked Podcast’s Clint Eastwood line. But it probably would have been a bit too much while Phoebe was having her revelation about Egon. “Bummer” was still a nice moment for him. Do you think putting the slime into the pudding cup is what led to him having a scene later where he eats it? Maybe he forgot what he had in there.
Yeah, feels like most of Podcast’s cut lines were cut because they were stepping on other lines and/or once they saw the cut, they realized they needed to dial back the amount of quips.
Yeah, I think so. Maybe there was a longer scene when they leave the mine and back home. Podcast is talking and talking because he’s so excited by what happened, notes he’s hungry, gets the pudding, forgets it’s ectoplasm and bleh. It could even by why possessed Callie is smelling him up, not just because he was a male, lol.
[quote=mrmichaelt post_id=5007572 time=1765512562 user_id=24972]It could even by why possessed Callie is smelling him up, not just because he was a male, lol.
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Oh man. That scene made me cringe. Same with Grooberson telling a mom that her 12 year old might take up pole dancing. Just felt ill-conceived, given the younger cast. That aside, I genuinely love the character interactions in this film. I know many felt Afterlife wasn’t funny, but for me, it had maybe the best banter since the original.
In the April 4, 2026 episode of The Blank Check podcast, at the 2:27:16 mark, Tracy Letts reveals the actor he replaced was Mike Judge.
“The truth is that Mike Judge was supposed to play that part. He was supposed to play the part and for some reason at the last minute, there was a scheduling problem and Jason–We’re in Calgary where Carrie’s shooting the movie and we were already there. I was there with my wife and kids while she was working on the movie–and Jason’s “like wow if only we could think of somebody from Oklahoma who could do a scene” and so that’s how I wound up in that.”
