Yes, there's a point there.

But it wasn't just Stay Puft, there was that whole onslaught of ghosts after the containment unit protection grid was shut down. As shown in the mayor's office, a whole buncha weird things were occurring around the city.

It wasn't a plot idea that was meant to be deeply thought about. It was just supposed to be ironically funny, I suppose.

The fact that these guys deal in the unbelieveable, saved the world and there were hundreds of thousands of witnesses…. and in the end, the hundreds of years of “there's no such thing” conditioning won out in the end and the world was swayed into buying the politicians' (maybe even Peck's) claims of it NOT having been real at all.

The plot idea is just supposed to be a case of a musical “wah wah wahhhh.” And it ties into the main plot of the film, that people are cynical and disbelieving, ill-trusting, and are assholes.

sandmanfvr;151290
MuthaPussBucket is right. People SAW stay puff, that is IT. They could have thought the GBs were screwing up and brought this on the city, WHICH they did a little but that is not the point, but the public is stupid. Cheer one minute and the next boo. They don't get that Gozer's Destructor form would have come as ANYTHING and there was nothing anybody could have done. The GBs stopped it but a church got trampled and alot of shit went boom. So they got the bill. But you see in the credits in GB2 they are given the key to the city or something, I haven't seen that part in a while and they didn't get stiffed again as the GBs are in business in the game, aka GB2.5.

Yes and some people still deny things like the Holocaust and 9/11… There is documentary evidence to support it, but people still deny it! Like I said, the existence of ghosts raises a whole lot of religious questions (remember all the protestors and religious figures outside of 55 CPW)? Maybe people like that denied that Gozer/ghosts ever existed just to save what they've been believing in their entire lives…

Egon Spengler;151322
It wasn't a plot idea that was meant to be deeply thought about. It was just supposed to be ironically funny, I suppose.

The fact that these guys deal in the unbelieveable, saved the world and there were hundreds of thousands of witnesses…. and in the end, the hundreds of years of “there's no such thing” conditioning won out in the end and the world was swayed into buying the politicians' (maybe even Peck's) claims of it NOT having been real at all.

The plot idea is just supposed to be a case of a musical “wah wah wahhhh.” And it ties into the main plot of the film, that people are cynical and disbelieving, ill-trusting, and are assholes.

Guess you're right. Makes sense. (*ray)

Plus of course it lets them start off just about exactly where they were at the beginning of the first movie: down on their luck and noone believing them. (eyeroll)

Thank goodness the video game didn't start off with “They're out of business again”

Doc Fritz;151406
Plus of course it lets them start off just about exactly where they were at the beginning of the first movie: down on their luck and noone believing them. (eyeroll)

Thank goodness the video game didn't start off with “They're out of business again”

Wasn't the “down on their luck and noone believing them” somewhat unique to Gb2 though? In Gb1 they went into business and were pretty quickly thrust into the spotlight as heros. In GB2 they were cast as frauds and had to gain back the city's trust who's nasty mood led to the creation of the river of slime and Vigo? Maybe the GBs helped create a lot of negative emotions when they went through the whole media debunking/restraining order business which later created Vigo!? It's like a paradox!