Elf has become to the present generation what It's A Wonderful Life was to an earlier one – you start thinking about it around 30 November, and you can't really kick off the Christmas period properly until you've seen it.
Ghostbusters is good too, but it's not Christmassy. That's okay, nobody's perfect.
But did you ever notice this thing they had in common? We'll lay it out flat for you now: Buddy's dad lives in the same building as Sigourney Weaver's Dana.
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Also known as 55 Central Park West, this iconic building provided the backdrop both for Buddy's home-from-home and the dwelling of Gozer the Gozerian, Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia.
Naturally, we have proof. Here is the apartment building from Elf (note the church on the left):
And here it is as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man approaches:
That church is pretty distinctive.
Anyway, here it is in real life. They added a few gothic storeys in Ghostbusters.
So there you have it. Buddy's father lives in Spook Central.
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Editor, Digital Spy Chris has over 25 years' experience as a writer and editor, having worked as a journalist covering TV and movies since the '90s. Starting out as a TV listings editor at the Press Association, he was quickly hired by the nascent Heat magazine, where he rose to become Senior Editor, interviewing the likes of Simon Cowell, Boris Johnson and Paris Hilton. Over the years he has written about entertainment with clarity and wit for Heat, Elle, Q, The Telegraph and of course Digital Spy, and has served many times as a judge in the Royal Television Society awards. He has written and recorded a novelty single with Lord Lloyd-Webber, written scripts for the National TV Awards, made Noel Edmonds cry, accidentally punched an Inbetweener and stolen a small piece of rubble from the Battle of Hogwarts movie set. (They can't have it back.) LinkedIn
