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Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters
Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters
Battle information
Release date November 10, 2014
Number 46
Views 56M
Length 2:28
Timeline
Previous Artists vs TMNT (Season 3 finale)
Next Romeo and Juliet vs Bonnie and Clyde
Beat Information
Beat(s) Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters
BPM 99
Beat producer(s) DJ Cheapshot
Other information
Actors Nice Peter
EpicLLOYD
Chris Gorbos
Mark Douglas
Zach Sherwin
Walter Downing
Mary Doodles
KRNFX
Chris Alvarado
Taylor Cu
Dodger
Rappers Peter Venkman In BattleRay Stantz In BattleEgon Spengler In BattleWinston Zeddemore In BattleAdam Savage In BattleJamie Hyneman In BattleKari Byron In BattleGrant Imahara In BattleTory Belleci In BattleStay Puft Marshmallow Man In Battle
Cameos Janine Melnitz
Location(s) The Ghostbusters commercial
The Firehouse Headquarters
M5 Industries
The Shandor Building

Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters is the forty-sixth installment of Epic Rap Battles of History and the first episode of Season 4. It features the GhostbustersPeter 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.

Cast

The Mythbusters

Nice Peter as Jamie Hyneman

EpicLLOYD as Adam Savage

Mary Doodles 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

Taylor Cu and EpicLLOYD as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (body actor and voice actor, respectively)

Dodger as Janine Melnitz (cameo)

Lyrics

[Note: To distinguish which team member is saying which line, there is a color-coding process. For the Ghostbusters, Peter Venkman is in blue, Ray Stantz is in red, Egon Spengler is in green, and Winston Zeddemore is in purple. For the Mythbusters, Adam Savage is in yellow, Jamie Hyneman is in brown, Tory Belleci is in turquoise, Grant Imahara is in lime, and Kari Byron is in orange. Furthermore, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is in gray and Janine Melnitz is in magenta. If either team is rapping together, they are in regular 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.

The 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!

Scrapped lyrics

The Mythbusters:

Wow, your raps are like your sequel: too whack to handle.


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


You're something strange and you don't look good,

You've killed more people than you've saved in your neighborhood.


You say you get the girls but I'm not jealous,

Your girl's a demon dog who moonlights as a cellist.


We're the lyrical colossus urban-legend bawses!

We're kinda like the streams 'cause you better not cross us.

The Ghostbusters:

That's enough from walrus and dickless the clown.


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

The 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!


You punk busters better watch who you're summonin'!

Raise up, it's Stay Puft and I'm coming in!

(Uh!) Flip skeptics till they're butter-side up!

Shred your street cred like a cannonball, what!

Ghostbusters get covered in fluffernutter spray!

So watch a real rapper rock a beret! (Hey.)


My marshmallow flows turn these bitches to toast,

Show you all better be afraid of Big Puft!

Poll

Trivia

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.
  • There are 47 verse transitions between rappers.
  • A suggestion of this battle appeared in an ERB News featuring Theodore Roosevelt and Adam Smith.
  • 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.
      • to not include a prologue for the battle.
    • to have Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD rapping on the same side.
      • It is the seventh battle overall in which Peter and Lloyd rap on the same team.
    • with a female rapper.
    • to have a woman battle a man.
      • This is the fifth battle to have a female rapper in general.
        • It is also the first team battle to include a female.
  • This is the second time two purely fictional characters (the Ghostbusters and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man) from the same work have rapped against one another.
    • 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 tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth people known to have seen their battle.
  • This is the first time a rapper(s) destroyed their own location.
  • This battle has the fourth/fifth most locations (without counting reused footage), with four different locations, behind James Bond vs Austin PowersZeus vs Thor, and Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible, and tied with Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock.
  • This is the fourth battle to feature at least one rapper who was alive at the time of the battle's release but is currently deceased, after Hulk Hogan and Macho Man vs Kim Jong-il, Albert Einstein vs Stephen Hawking, and Michael Jordan vs Muhammad Ali.
  • The battle and the behind the scenes video, 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.
  • 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.
  • This is the first battle to have a female non-title rapper.
  • This is one of the battles viewable with YouTube's "Restricted Mode" on.
  • On August 22nd, 2016, "We came! We saw! We kicked Season 4's ass!" was written in the description of the video. This is a reference to Peter Venkman's quote, "We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!"

Production

  • The cover art for this battle is the second one to have the rappers in front of the ERB logo rather than behind it, after Artists vs TMNT.
  • This is the fifth battle where one actor voiced and/or played more than one rapper.
  • This is the second battle with a different cover art and YouTube thumbnail, after Moses vs Santa Claus, as Winston Zeddemore is present on the cover art, but not in the YouTube thumbnail.
    • This is the first battle to feature a rapper on the cover art 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.
  • This is the second battle to have additional music added in created by the ERB crew, after George Washington vs William Wallace.

Continuity

References

  • 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's climax, with several shots replicated from the movie.
  • The outro is a reference to the Proton Packs used by the Ghostbusters to catch ghosts throughout the Ghostbusters films.

Errors

  • Kari Byron's name is misspelled as "Kari Bryon" in the video description.
  • 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.
  • During the line "Things are getting scary when Tory, Grant and Kari," Tory's and Grant's names aren't separated by a comma in the subtitles, making it look like "Tory Grant".
  • During Stay Puft's verse, when it cuts to Kari saying "Hey!", part of Adam's glasses disappear.

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