The Oscars

The Oscars were better when they had bad taste. Back in the eighties, they cared about the Academy Award audience, and tried to entertain them, no matter how insane it made them look.

The best song category is a great example of their showmanship. The 1985 show has the single greatest Best Original Song performance in Oscar history.

Ray Parker Jr's Ghostbusters

Ray sings away on his green fork lift, high above the ghosts that inexplicably haunt the warehouse he works at.

What's in the warehouse? Who can say, maybe unsold copies of Ray's album Woman Out Of Control.

So as Ray sings on how busting makes him feel good, these three blue clad yahoos posing as "Ghostbusters" come out. I don't know why they didn't get the rights to the real uniforms, but thank God they didn't soil the good name of the original ghost bustin gang.

And because the fake ghostbusters are a bunch of dumbasses, they get tied up by the ghosts right away.

Woe is me, what is Ray Parker Jr to do?!

Of course...
There's only one person who can save the day!

The AMAZING.....

THE ALL POWERFUL.................

......DOM DELUISE!!!!!!!!!!

Who harnesses his power of electricity to defeat the evil spirits once and for all.

Huzzah! Pizza the Hut saves mankind.

Alas, Ghostbusters didn't win Best Song that year, that honour went to Stevie Wonder's 'I Just Called To Say I Love You' from The Woman In Red. I really do think The Academy needs to get back to this kind of showmanship.

WINK!