There’s a lot to love about the CBS series Ghosts, but there’s one specific thing in Season 1 that made an especially big impression — it has one of the best Jurassic Park references I’ve ever seen on screen.
In Episode 6, “Pete’s Wife,” Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) uses a Jurassic Park reference to explain to Sam (Rose McIver) why she shouldn’t have meddled in Pete’s (Richie Moriarty) relationship with his wife. He says, “You remember in Jurassic Park when Goldblum told everyone not to meddle, and they didn’t listen to him?” He continues, “After the dinosaurs get out and Newman gets eaten by the one that spits and Sam Jackson’s arm is like, ughh … they don’t just go home, right? They stay and they fix it.”
It's a delightful nod to my favorite movie of all time, but it's also not a reference made just for the sake of making a reference. It’s a very effective connection that convinces Sam not to run away from the problem she created, but rather, to be like Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), to be the person who stays and fixes things. Even more impressive about that extensive Jurassic reference? It's improv.
Check out what Utkarsh Ambudkar had to say about that and get some Season 2 teases from Richie Moriarty, Shelia Carassco, Devan Chandler Long, and Román Zaragoza in this Ghosts interview.
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