Hey, do you remember Scrooge?

Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.

I'm Chris.

I'm Donna.

And I'm Carlos.

And today we're revisiting Scrooged.

Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Scrooge. When Scrooge's hit theaters on November 28, 1988, it marked the end of Bill Murray's self-imposed four-year exile from Hollywood.

Sure, he had shown up for a small cameo in the Little Shop of Horror's remake, but his last major role before this had been Ghostbusters.

And rather than riding the wave of that film's unexpected and meteoric success,

Murray retreated from the limelight, hold up in Paris, and considered quitting the business altogether.

Nowadays, there's nothing all that surprising about his random and eccentric behavior. It's one of

the reasons a lot of us love him so much. But back then, it turns out there was a much simpler

and surprisingly human

reason for it. Notice I said Ghostbusters was his last major role. And I think his contentious

relationship with that franchise over the year starts to make a lot of sense when you realize

it's not something he was ever particularly invested in. It was a means to an end, a bargaining chip, a way to get another

smaller film off the ground. And the whole thing was actually Dan Aykroyd's idea. He knew Murray was

having trouble finding a studio interested in financing the Razor's Edge, an adaptation of the

1944 novel that the actor had co-written with director John Byram and basically poured his heart and soul into.

With all of the other options exhausted, Murray agreed to appear in Ghostbusters if that meant the

studio would also greenlight this other project. A deal was made and although the Razors Edge

went into production first, it was released several months after Ghostbusters. It was Murray's first

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