Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters



Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters is the forty-sixth installment of Epic Rap Battles of History and the first episode of Season 4. It features the Ghostbusters: Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddemore, rapping against the Mythbusters: Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. It also features the Mythbusters' Build Team: Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, and Tory Belleci, and the possessed mascot of the fictional Stay Puft Marshmallows company, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. It was released on November 10th, 2014.

The Mythbusters
Nice Peter as Jamie Hyneman

EpicLLOYD as Adam Savage

Mary Gutfleisch as Kari Byron

KRNFX as Grant Imahara

Chris Alvarado as Tory Belleci

The Ghostbusters
Chris Gorbos as Peter Venkman

Mark Douglas as Ray Stantz

Zach Sherwin as Egon Spengler

Walter Downing as Winston Zeddemore

Other
EpicLLOYD as Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (voice only)

Taylor Cu as Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (body actor)

Brooke Lawson as Janine Melnitz (cameo)

Lyrics
''To distinguish which team member is saying which line, there is a color-coding process. For the Ghostbusters, Peter's lines will be in blue, Ray's will be in red , Egon's will be in green , and Winston's will be in purple. Janine Melnitz will be in magenta. For the Mythbusters, Adam's lines will be in yellow, Jamie's will be in brown , Tory's will be in turquoise , Grant's will be in lime , and Kari's will be in orange. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man will be in gray. If a team is rapping a line together, that line will be in the default white text.''

The Ghostbusters:
Are you tired of two geeks in mustaches,

Who can manage to be boring with explosions and crashes?

If you, or the Lorax, wanna bust like we do,

Give us a call;  We're ready to defeat you!

Ghostbusters, flow crushers, get the job done!

Spitting out the lyrics like, "We got one!"

Get the people moving like the Statue of Liberty!

Try to beat us in a battle? Man, you gotta be kidding me!

The delivery of Stantz stands straight like my main man's Slinky!

I collect spores. Tell him 'bout the Twinkie.

Like your show, it's all fluff and filler.

I'll kick your hiney, man. I'm a savage killer.

The Mythbusters:
Wow, your raps are just too wack to handle!

Let's do it like we do on the Discovery Channel.

Your science is preposterous; the opposite of competent process,

And in this episode, we'll give you a synopsis,

Starting with the vacuum cleaners strapped up on your back!

It's a fact: positrons don't react like that!

You built a laser grid with no safety switch,

And Walter Peck was right: that's some shady shit!

Good thing you work in a firehouse,   'cause you just got burned.

You are poor scientists, and that's confirmed.

The Ghostbusters:
That's enough from the walrus and dickless the clown.

Let's show these myth bitches how we do it downtown!

Grab your stick, hold'n, heat 'em up, smoking!

High speed shows your ass get beat in slow motion!

We roast show hosts when our flows cross streams!

Pumping out blockbusters, while you work behind the scenes!

It's a rap test, dummy, and you're both getting crashed!

We came, we saw, we kicked your ass!

The Mythbusters:
Ghosts aren't real, but it should be said.

It's time to bring the B-Team back from the dead.

(Hey!) Things are getting scary, when Tory, Grant and Kari

Come harder than Ray when that ghost popped his cherry!

We reject your flows and substitute our own!

Uhhhhhhhmmm...

Why'd you stop? I couldn't think of a rhyme.

Well, just say the first thing that pops into your mind.

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man:
Aww...aww...

Yo, raise up, it's Stay Puft; I stay fluff!

Blaze chumps and flip Kari butter-side up! (Hey!)

I smother Ghostbusters in fluffernutter. I don't play!

Show these dweebs how to rock a beret! (Hey.)

I live so large, you can't harsh my mellow.

Just one step took me out the ghetto!

You best be afraid of my marshmallow flows,

'Cause Big Puft just turned all you bitches to toast!

The Mythbusters:
Your raps are like your sequel: just too whack to handle.

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man:
Raise up, Stay Puft, and I'm coming in!

Punk busters better watch who they summonin'!

I'll flip skeptics till they're butter-side up,

And shred your street cred like a cannonball, what!

Ghostbusters get covered in fluffernutter spray!

So watch a real rapper rock a beret!

General

 * This battle's release fittingly coincides with the 30th anniversary of the original Ghostbusters film.
 * With a total of ten participants, this battle has the most rappers of any ERB released to date, beating the previous video, Artists vs TMNT.
 * There are 47 verse transitions between rappers, besting the previous battle's record of 29.
 * This is the first season premiere:
 * to include group rappers.
 * to have a guest rapper/rappers as a title character/characters.
 * since Season 1 to not be a Hitler vs Vader sequel.
 * since Season 1 to not include a prologue for the battle.
 * to have Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD rapping on the same side.
 * with a female rapper.
 * This is the fifth battle to have a female rapper in general, with the first four being Sarah Palin vs Lady Gaga, Cleopatra vs Marilyn Monroe, Adam vs Eve, and Miley Cyrus vs Joan of Arc.
 * It is also the second battle to have a woman battle a man, after Adam vs Eve.
 * It is also the first team battle to include a female.
 * This is the second time two purely fictional characters (The Ghostbusters and Stay Puft Marshmallow Man) from the same work have rapped against one another. The first one was in Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge, where Ebenezer Scrooge rapped against The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
 * It is the seventh battle where two or more fictional characters rap against each other at some point.
 * Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Kari Byron and Grant Imahara are the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh people to be known to have watched their rap battle. The first seven are Lady Gaga, Hulk Hogan, Skrillex, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Stephen King, and Bill Nye.
 * This is the first time a rapper(s) destroyed their own location.
 * This battle has the second/third most locations (without counting reused footage), with four different locations, behind Zeus vs Thor and along with Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock.
 * This battle is the first to include a cinematic climax. After the Mythbusters' first verse, both groups end up on top of the Shandor Building, where they later encounter the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man towards the end. This whole sequence pays homage to the first Ghostbusters film.
 * The battle and the Behind the Scenes, as well as Peter's quote about the box, were all used for the Decimated Design's website page of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man suit.

Continuity

 * This is the second battle where a rapper speaks during their opponent's verse, as Kari and Jamie both said "Hey" during Stay Puft's verse. The first battle to do this was Frank Sinatra vs Freddie Mercury.

Production

 * The iTunes cover for this battle is the second one to have the rappers in front of the ERB logo, not behind it. The first battle to do so was Artists vs TMNT.
 * This is the fifth battle where one actor voiced and/or played more than one rapper, the first four being Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates, Rasputin vs Stalin, Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge, and Artists vs TMNT.
 * This is the second battle with a different iTunes cover and YouTube thumbnail, as Winston Zeddemore is present on the iTunes cover, but not in the YouTube thumbnail. The first battle to do this was Moses vs Santa Claus.
 * This is the first battle to feature a rapper on the iTunes cover but not on the thumbnail.
 * This is the first battle that has more than five participants with side-by-side scenes.
 * This is the first battle to have team rappers, back-up rappers, and a third-party rapper.
 * Mike Betette was originally supposed to be the body actor for the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, but he was replaced by Taylor Cu.
 * Betette also stated Louis Tully was originally intended to appear as a cameo, but was scrapped.
 * This is the second battle to have additional music added in created by the ERB crew, after George Washington vs William Wallace, and before Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock, and Lewis and Clark vs Bill and Ted.

Errors

 * Kari Byron's name is misspelled as "Kari Bryon" in the video description.
 * Tory's and Grant's names aren't separated by a comma in the subtitles, making it look like "Tory Grant".
 * During the line, "Strapped up on your back," part of Jamie's beard is not connected to the right side of the face, making it possible to see the background behind him.