The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Four distinct hot takes cover SNL films, ghost imprisonment, Dana's standards, and a Sigourney Weaver–Kathleen Turner swap.
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- Ghostbusters is argued to be the best film emerging from Saturday Night Live's creative orbit, ahead of Wayne's World, Blues Brothers, Anchorman, and other contenders.
- The Ghostbusters are criticized as an unregulated private police and prison service with no clear right to confine ghosts.
- Dana is accused of warming to Venkman only after he becomes a successful and famous small-business owner.
- A final take proposes swapping Sigourney Weaver and Kathleen Turner between Ghostbusters and Romancing the Stone.
- The swap is defended on the theory that Weaver better fits an initially restrained novelist while Turner would heighten possessed Dana's sexuality.