Random question of the day

[tedannette]

How the hell did Slimer initially get the name Onion head?

Just what about slimer’s appearance reminds you of a freakin onion?! An onion that was 15 years old and exposed to toxic waste maybe..

I don’t know this question sort of just “popped in there”

[Boomerjinks]

Uh… he looks like an onion?

[Zack]

^^ I think especially in the earlier drawings I guess. Though then at times he looked more like a potato. Referenced by Ray a few times in the script. “Freeze potato-face!” “ugly little spud” etc

His onion booty

[giantsloar]

wasn’t it that he looked and smelled like an onion?

[tedannette]

What onions are you people eating?

[aj-quick]

[Jairus]

“Onionhead” as I’ve always heard it is a nickname for someone with no/very little hair and and oddly-shaped head.

Slimer is bald and oddly-shaped, hence “onionhead.”

Any more over-analysis?

[aj-quick]

She gets out of bed just as he comes charging out, stuttering in stunned

horror. She goes into the bathroom.

                            BRIDE (V.O.)

            What did you do in here?  It smells awful!!

            OH ... Oh, no ... Oh, my God.

The Bride runs out of the bathroom into the arms of her husband who is on

the telephone.

                            GROOM

            ... right ... It's smelling up the whole

            suite ... I don't know ... It's just hanging

            off the ceiling ... I've never seen anything

            like this ... 1210 ... Quick ...

The Ghostbusters enter trepidatiously and start taking readings.

                            SPENGLER

                    (looking at his meters)

            Something was definitely here.

                            VENKMAN

            Yeah, I can smell it.

                            STANTZ

            I'm getting high readings near the air

            vents.  It must be using the duct system to

            get around.  See, I told you we'd get

            something.

                            VENKMAN

            So far all we got is a shit smell on the

            twelfth floor and we almost fried a Puerto

            Rican bellboy.

My favorite:

INT. A CORRIDOR – NIGHT

Spengler makes his way down the hall reading valences at the door to each

room. He knocks on one of the doors, then passes his sensor over the top

of the door and down the jambs. Then he gets on his knees to read the

crack at the bottom of the door. Suddenly the door opens and he looks up

to see a really stunning woman wrapped in a bath towel with another towel

twisted turban-style around her wet hair.

                            WOMAN

                    (noting his unusual attire)

            Yes?

                            SPENGLER

                    (stands up)

            Were you recently in the bathroom?

                            WOMAN

                    (sarcastic)

            What on earth gave you that idea?

                            SPENGLER

                    (seriously)

            The wet towels, residual moisture on your

            lower limbs and hair, the redness in your

            cheeks indicating ...

                            WOMAN

                    (cutting him off)

            You're a regular Sherlock Holmes.  Now what

            do you want?

                            SPENGLER

            When you were in the bathroom, did you

            notice anything that was yellow and

            unusually smelly?

[Mjollnir]

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