Both movies are very close to me for different reasons. When Ghostbusters II was in theaters (swear it was the first run as it wasn't in my area of Jersey until November) my aunt and uncle (who was more like a brother) took me and their 3 year old son (my cousin LOVED Ghostbusters because of me) to a evening show at what was the historic Franklin Theater in Nutley, NJ.
I still remember before going into the theater running into friends of theirs who had seen the previous show. I was 12 then and didn't want to be spoiled to anything I hadn't already seen from the trailers or from advertisements. This young girl told me something like Egon turns into a monster. Of course she meant Ray, (and it really wasn't a monster, semantics
) I was thinking I didn't want to hear about the movie before I saw it. I'm sure like many of you I wanted to experience Ghostbusters II, especially that first time.
During the movie as the four of us are sitting there, I still can remember my uncle saying a swear word when Dana took her shirt off in her bathroom. Maybe he didn't want his young nephew and even younger son to see that. Obviously he and I weren't thinking of Ghostbusters when Zuul is heavily seducing Peter.
About a moment later of course when the bathtub comes to life, they covered my cousin's eyes. Similar to Ghostbusters, scenes like that felt 'real' and I had a sense of wonderment about it. To my young cousin's credit I don't recall him being scared or ever getting upset by the ghosts, Vigo, or Yanosh.