The scene in Ghostbusters II when Janine helps Louis Tully get into his own ghostbuster uniform is pretty badass. And then he saves New York by shooting beams of light into the wall of slime.

There should really be more fighter jet talk on the AV Club.

I think the playground was actually on the side of the school.

In college, I knew some dudes who played the opening sequence on Friday night before heading out to the bars.

@ GeeMan - the F-14 had a service life of 32 years (1974 - 2006), which is pretty impressive.

Recruitment
Thanks to Top Gun, literally thousands of teenage boys joined up and entered the navy/air force. When I was an intern at a major US airline (one of the only ones that still hire the majority of their pilots from the armed forces), an ex-F-14 pilot who was about 16 when Top Gun came out proudly proclaimed…

Great balls of fire!

Ha - my childhood was filled with many Saturday afternoons pretending to be "flying" by F-14 Huffy and landing on the aircraft carrier that was my friends' driveway.

Sadly, they were taken out of service in the early 2000s. Iran is now the only country still flying them, and since they can't get spare parts, it's pretty tough.

Oh man - that was the first episode I ever taped of the Simpsons, which turned into a VHS library that's 300 episodes strong. It's also one of my favs:

For tweenage guys, it's probably more like "so and so gets all the girls but all the girls hate me."

A lot like many (most?) av-clubbers.

Apparently it came both at the beginning and at the end of the movie.

@Bnr76 and Ellie:

By God!

Ho man
Whenever I read the press releases that the AV Club posts nearly verbatim, I'm always glad that the company I work for (in the corporate communication department) is not entertainment related, because we've probably written some doozys.

and lines like these:

Dammit JBMD - I totally saw that coming when I saw the word "BEES" in the first response to this thread.

Ted, have you ever been face down in the mud … and kicked in the head with an iron boot? Of course you haven't - no one has! It's a stupid question; forget I even asked.

Oh man - if I would have had to watch that with my grandfather, I don't want to think about how awkward that would have been. Especially since his own gay son has never actually come out and said "Dad, I'm gay."