The one scene that's always made me laugh was the poor maid in the Sedgewick. "what the hell are you doing?" Oh, sorry. Thought you were someone else.
One of the things that I'm really glad the reboot was able to do is cause people to look at the original with new eyes. I've seen a few videos on YouTube that examines the differences between comedy and joke styles of the two movies and I've really come away with a new respect for joke writing and construction. The original is just so effortlessly funny it's amazing. I'd link to this one video in particular, but I don't think it would go over well since it's extremely anti GB16 and I don't wanna create a big thing, but it really gets into the nitty gritty of joke writing. I can PM a link to anyone whose interested. It's mostly a review of GB16 but it contains some very interesting observations on comedy writing.
It's amazing how some movies you watch in theatres and it's a funny movie but when you watch it again, the jokes don't land. It was funny once. Rare is the comedy that makes you laugh over and over everytime you watch it. Ghostbusters is one of those movies. Doctor Strangelove is another. Airplane another still. What are some others? I guess it's all subjective too, right?
One of my concerns, maybe concern isn't the right word, one of my hopes for the new GB2020 is that the maintains the comedic voice and tone of the first two. I know Jason is a good writer. But I'm not sure how funny he is. It's hard to compete with Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd. Hopefully it works.