The pottery scene is iconic, erotic and now comically explicit. Its collapsing pot is reported as unplanned; a tentatively identified Naked Gun 3 parody and revived Unchained Melody are discussed.
Sam’s shooting and his realization he is dead are praised as tense and well performed.
Sam foiling Willie’s apartment intrusion, using the cat and learning ghost powers is another choice.
Otomey first hearing Sam improves a scene that could have sunk the film; her attempted meeting with Molly gets honorable mention.
Carl’s attempted seduction and coffee spill are a choice, followed by both Willie and Carl being dragged to hell.
The farewell is disputed: one host finds it too long with weak effects, while another cannot avoid crying at Molly’s final ditto.
The possession/dance scene is a favorite; critics’ suggested Whoopi-visible version sparks debate over 1990 tolerance, present representation and preserving the lovers’ reunion.
The Rita Miller bank sequence is a favorite for its banter and Goldberg’s performance, alongside Goldwyn’s sweating tension. — Chris Ryan
Amanda enjoys the Swayze/Goldberg buddy chemistry but definitively chooses pottery. — Amanda Dobbins

Haircut, physical comedy, apartment, tears, Goldwyn and Soho remain strengths.

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Moore reportedly arrived with an unannounced haircut that surprised the director but renewed her screen identity; Swayze’s exaggerated faces and passing-through reactions are enjoyable.
The high-ceiling loft and newly discovered space are praised, with a reverse-Conjuring comparison; Moore’s crying is another strength.
A Victoria Jackson/Swayze SNL parody of Molly’s private habits is recommended.
Goldwyn is so convincingly sweaty and evil that the hosts think it limited his subsequent roles until Scandal; The Pelican Brief is called great and a good-guy lead career imagined.
The non-spooky ghost with unfinished business is praised as an enduring pop-cultural premise, distinguished from The Conjuring and Harry Potter.
Soho’s streets and emptiness are praised; After Hours is explicitly liked as another use of the area.

Credits, effects, computers, cameos and real-life loss change the watch.

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Opening credits and dated CGI are criticized; a Lucas-style effects touchup is imagined.
Old green-font account computers seem insecure; the Arsenio Hall cameo and contagious-elevator joke age poorly in the current context.
Swayze’s early death and reported relationship with Lisa make the farewell painful. Career and illness chronology are speaker reports, not verified biography.

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Schiavelli qualifies as that guy and is suggested to double with Waiters.
Another speaker chooses the performer transcribed Ricka Viles/Willie Lopez for being recognized by that character rather than by name; Luis Guzman resemblance is only an analogy.
Stephen Root’s early detective part is another nomination, described as the birth of that guy.

Swayze is selected, with Schiavelli in consideration.

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Swayze’s horrified faces and shifting jaw win the initial selection.
Schiavelli’s screaming gets a nomination, but responses return to Swayze with affection for his comic reactions.

Schiavelli wins; a Swayze honorary exception is debated despite lead-role ineligibility.

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Schiavelli is selected for three train-ghost scenes.
Whoopi and Swayze are ineligible as leads; a speaker still wants an honorary Swayze mention for making a dead observer compelling. This leads to a tentative most-with-least category idea, compared with Kevin Pollak in A Few Good Men, not a separately adopted award.

Swayze and Zucker qualify; other peaks and an afterlife tangent are debated.

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Swayze gets agreement; Point Break is called probably his last best film.
Ghost is proposed as Moore’s peak because it opens a decade including A Few Good Men, the Vanity Fair cover, a reported $20 million for Striptease, Disclosure and G.I. Jane. The cover itself is offered and accepted as an alternate apex.
Whoopi’s Ghost peak is rejected in favor of Sister Act, with 1992 also including The Player.
Goldwyn’s peak is placed at Scandal rather than Ghost; Zucker is selected, partly through speculative financial participation.
Unchained Melody and the shadow-dragging depiction of hell get yes answers.
A tentative unanswerable question interrupts: what happens to an ordinary person such as Lyle Ferguson, can one negotiate with the light, and is there minor-league heaven? A hospital patient’s immediate departure is contrasted with Sam remaining. Responses suggest only people involved in murder face the demons, while forgery might still allow heaven and good deeds might resolve purgatory. No separate formal category is announced.

Conditional interest despite hoping it does not happen.

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A modern continuation with Molly secretly pregnant and Moore returning is floated, without claiming an existing project.
A midseason Carl reveal, more people for Sam to visit and expanded or improved shadow-world effects could sustain episodes.
A third season with Sam gathering NBA scoops for Woj is a joke.

Two Whoopi choices and one Swayze choice; all three leads receive consideration.

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Two adjacent responses favor Whoopi for her Oscar and indispensable memorable performance; a universal indispensability argument is immediately qualified.
One speaker votes Swayze for defining his era and unique physicality; Bacon and Kline would not make the same movie. Dave is a favorable Kline comparison.
The final return confirms the split: Swayze, Whoopi, and an agreeing Whoopi. These restate earlier choices, not additional voters.

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