“I ain’t afraid of no ghosts”

tumblr_mviqk8f7ud1qhcrb0o1_1280The other day I watched Disney’s animated cartoon, Lonesome Ghosts (1937). I caught a line in it I hadn’t noticed before. Each of the main characters has their encounter with a ghost, from Mickey to Donald to Goofy. In connection with Goofy’s spectral encounter he says, “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.” In light of Ray Parker Jr.’s past legal troubles in connection with his “Ghostbusters” song in the film of the same name, I wonder whether Parker lifted this line out of a cartoon from his childhood. The line of dialogue is word for word as it appears in the song, and this seems too much for coincidence.

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