RAY ERSKINE PARKER, JR - BETA

Gala de los Oscars 1984. Ray Parker, JR. interpreta su canción "ghostbusters".

[@dementomstie]

This is a great example of the classic theater device called "Dom Ex Machina"

[@kjohnson1569]

Can't believe I'm just seeing this for the first time. Wow.

[@RavenStJohns]

Lets just put it this way. Anything with Dom DeLuise automatically becomes awesome. This was most certainly a product of the 80's and it shows.

[@BigMeanCarmennn]

Here because of The Guardian article ranking this as one of the most bizarre performances in Oscar history, and I’m not disappointed 👍

[@gooner7331]

Same 😂

[@tomheslington2993]

Lol guilty

[@SeArquiteteMininu]

I'm so impressed the Academy let a performance run through more than six minutes! Nowadays all songs have to be cut short if they pass the 2' mark!

[@ZergRushJohnny]

How do you perform a song faster and still double its length? Whatever the hell this is, I guess.

[@ProEvoKing]

Princes face at the end like "wtf was that?"

[@larsgarret2817]

That's his resting face

[@hugheggs]

More like... "I finally found the inspiration for my batman video when i inevitably get asked to do songs for the soundtrack." Prince was no stranger to cringy bizarre things.

[@DragonQuarter]

The blue "Ghostbusters" missing their cue was the best part.

[@SeArquiteteMininu]

I'm wondering why the four originals didn't appear there. That would be awesome!

[@shabmaster7128]

That's not a proper 3 point exit from that forklift Mr. Ray Parker Jr

[@superultimatexlrfire462]

This is really obscure and weird, I love it

[@Witsgam76]

Best Oscars performance of all time

[@DaveinNorthYork]

I still clearly remember that part (at the end of the song) when Dom DeLuise appears even 33 years later (for I actually watched it when it was broadcast on the evening of Monday, March 25, 1985).

[@mornnx01]

It's as if they never even saw the film !!!

[@nicholastosoni707]

"YO, MAN, I HEARD YOU LIKE FORKLIFTS, SO I'M GONNA LIFT YOUR FORKLIFT WITH A FORKLIFT"

[@nicholastosoni707]

There was a little bit of it on the _Oscar's Greatest Moments_ videotape.

[@klepetar]

gawd..i feel bad for Ray

[@3LameGuys]

Futuristic Ghostbusters: We ain’t afraid of no ghosts. Ghosts: yo, we out here dancin’ and shit. Futuristic Ghostbusters: We afraid.

[@14DaveHunter]

Dom Deluisi at the end.

[@charles1203]

In 1985 that was considered cool.

[@davesteiman]

Oh! Ghost Blasters! ask Aykroyd...

[@BillyO8834]

I liked the part where Dom deluise came out. Just like the movie.

[@jimsteel4915]

Wow...... Exactly how much Coke were the Oscar writer's on, when they wrote this?

[@MarcusBrannon]

Had the people who put this on seen the movie?

[@charles1203]

Hey look what we do now. In 2035 they’ll think only in 2022.

[@gregochaba9338]

If Ghostbusters had been made by Cannon Films...

[@aaronmccracken7351]

So, typical production number for a '70s era variety show. ...Wait, this was in 1985?

[@arturohernandez20]

The Ghostbustersverse

[@RageONTv]

People are just confused! I guess this was cool in the 80s? Lol

[@herranton]

I was only six at the time, but I can confirm it was cringeworthy back then. Now, it's just rotated around to spectacular.

[@tphillips37]

No, it wasn't cool in the 80's. This was a big wtf moment.

[@be4272]

What in the…..

[@scotthamrick8993]

How did the algorithm bring me here. What the fuck.

[@seankyle1532]

This performance is possibly what cost them the Oscar (which Ray Parker Jr had fully deserved). It's fun to see Dom Deluise channeling his old Blazing Saddles dance routines in a Count Dracula cape but this is camper than a Rob Lowe duet with Snow White! An absolutely terrible version of the song too to make Fall Out Boy sleep well at night. You know your in deep shit when your baffling the heck out of Prince sitting in that audience lol

[@triiistone]

Ghostbusters by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[@saneman666]

Ray Parker Jr looks embarassed at times by this . I am a grown man forced to sing along with these idiots dancing like fools? Almost as bad as the Ann Reinking performance of Against All Odds which has to be the worst ever performance of a good song at the oscars.

[@tphillips37]

That's what he gets for stealing someone else's music.

[@SeArquiteteMininu]

I never saw the Against All Odds moment and I'm DYING of curiosity!

[@SeArquiteteMininu]

@@tphillips37 what is this story?

[@ForeverBennett]

The dancing ghosts are great but the instrumental was so crap, the "ghostbusters" weren't even dressed like the characters in the film, and WTF was Dom DeLuise doing at the end?? I mean, I like Dom Deluise, but this was so random...

[@guillermor.tinajero1338]

Came here to see how cool the Ghostbusters song presentation in the Oscars might have been, and left in complete cringe and disapointment.

[@SeArquiteteMininu]

Oh, I laughed my arse off! Never expected much!

[@genesis-138]

This was hilariously stupid.

[@steppelwa1087]

Wtf

[@tb4522]

Worst (and probably most expensive) production number EVER at The Oscars (yes, over Snow White). I remember being horrified at the time. Take a one line song and stretch it out for SIX AWFUL MINUTES! I love that they even got the leads costumes wrong. And the moment where every one is waiting for something to come out of the wall and nothing does. Just horror after horror, with stupid ghosts.

[@zquirle3686]

It was purposely done as a form of satire ig

[@zanethomas6865]

Still better the 2016 Ghostbusters

[@kerimarie3471]

What. A. Train wreck.

[@SeArquiteteMininu]

Yep! And I loved every single second just because of that! 🤣

[@ivanterrones2692]

Horrible hahahaah