Due to a typing error in their movie's script, actors Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray ended up chasing a piece of toast across New York City, and the two Ghostbusters then had to call the film of their adventures 'Toastbusters'.
The hilarious movie has everything a Hollywood blockbuster should have - two grown men talking and behaving like adolescent boys, one rather plain and totally clean-living and wholesome woman, and of course millions of dollars' worth of computer-generated graphics, so that viewers don't spot that it's made to a formula that has been done to death a thousand times before.
'Funny you should mention death', Murray said, 'in the first scene a piece of bread gets toasted alive, then haunts Sigourney Woven's appartment block in Brooklyn. And so she calls us in, and the adventures begin as the bit of toast flees across New York City, causing all sorts of predictable, corny wisecracks. In another scene a schoolgirl sees the slice in her bathroom mirror, but by the time the Toastbusters arrive it has transformed itself into a bit of pita bread, and goes and hides in the next door Indian deli. That allows all sorts of 'goodness gracious me' sterotyping, until the toast makes a break for it but gets eaten by a passing CGI elephant.'
'And like all Hollwood films, exactly 89% of the way through there comes that 'awwww', sentimental serious bit, guaranteed to make people sniffle a bit. Or throw up into their Ripoffburger meals. Of course we won't call it repetitive, childish formula crap for dummies - we'll call it something serious and important, like 'part of the Toastbuster franchise', or 'we're desperate to flog our computer game, please don't counterfeit it as I want to buy a new yacht'.
The music to the film is done by Huey Parker and the Juniors, and here are some of the words: 'If you're all on your own, and getting rather old, who ya gonna call? Toastbusters! If the bread's too pale, and the formula's stale, who ya gonna call? Toastbusters! ... I ain't afraid of burnt toast.' Actor Rick Moranis refused to appear in the comedy, as 'I ain't that desperate, what next? 'Toastbusters 18, The Garbage Bin'?'
Sales in toasters popped up at the news, though butter's turnover softened, and jam makers' increased revenues ended a sticky period for them.
