Who else loves s’mores? I’m gonna be honest, if it has s’mores
in the name, I am gonna try it, even though I know FULL WELL it probably will taste nothing
like a s'more. S'more ice cream? There. S'more M&Ms? Got it. S'moreos? Sign me up. That’s why, when I see the Stay Puft Marshmallow
Man in Ghostbusters, all I want is the Giant Hershey Bar Guy and the Oversized Graham Cracker
Lad to show up. That's when we’re having a party, my friends,
that's when! [Film Theory Theme Plays] Hello internet, welcome to Film Theory, the
show that asks questions about movies that others are too afraid to ask…or have too
much self-respect to ask. But I’ll let YOU decide which one it is! Man, in a summer crammed full with movies,
there’s one that everyone is talking about: Ghostbusters…but maybe not for the right
reasons. I mean the original 1984 version is an undisputed
classic, holding down a 97% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But then fast forward to today, where the
CGI-filled all-female reboot trailer is currently the most disliked movie trailer in the history
of YouTube. Let me say that again: THE MOST DISLIKED trailer
in the HISTORY of YouTube. Really? Really Internet? THIS is so much worse than THIS? "Are you going bald?" "No, no, no, no, you're getting fatter, and your hair doesn't realize it needs to cover more face." Hey I'm not judging, there is no accounting
for taste—and I understand, the comedic stylings of Adam Sandler are truly transcendent. [Belches, then farts] Comedy gold. So the goal for today: make a video that you like at least slightly better than the Ghostbusters trailer. Well, I'm already starting at an advantage,
because this video focuses on the original Ghostbusters, reminding you of that happier
era when watching a baby get repeatedly put into life-threatening situations was the epitome
of entertainment. Truly, when you think of the original movie
yeah, sure, you had crossing streams and the demonic David Bowie, THE most iconic image is none other than the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. It’s a moment so brilliantly absurd it became
an instant classic. But while others were chortling away at Dan
Akyroid’s childhood memories of roasting marshmallows by the fire at Camp Waconda here’s
where my theorist brain went to when I first saw the scene… could I EAT that? And sure, maybe there’s some FatPat talking there, but hey, it’s all in the name of science. So, today I’m answering the question that’s
been on nobody’s mind since 1984: How many calories are in the Stay Puft Marshmallow
Man, and what would it mean if I were to actually eat him? Now, for those of you who grew up not knowing
“who you gonna call” here’s the skinny on our chubbiest of bunnies: In the original
Ghostbusters, the team takes on an ancient Sumerian demon named Gozer who’s haunting
New York City. As you do, you know, the uzhe. As part of the final showdown, Gozer demands
that the heroes choose what will destroy them and the rest of New York City. While everyone else tries to keep their minds
blank, our good buddy Dan Aykroyd accidentally imagines "I tried to think of the most harmless
thing,": The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. And you can’t really blame him, because
images of Stay Puft are sprinkled throughout the movie. When we see the eggs in Dana’s apartment
explode and cook on the counter, a bag of Stay Puft marshmallows are there on the counter
with the rest of the groceries, and later in the film we see a big mural for Stay Puft
Marshmallows on the side of a building. With all those brand integrations, poor Ray
didn’t stand a chance. Subliminal advertising, guys! You gotta put a #spon on those sorts of things,
sellouts. Anyway, the great big Mallow Blaster appears,
Godzilla-style, and starts pounding upper Manhattan into fluff. Hilarity ensues. So, let’s figure out just how much marshmallow
action the kaiju Puff is packing. To do this, we need to make some assumptions
about the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man’s contents. Let’s just say that he’s made entirely
of marshmallow; normally I’d say he’d need some kind of musculo-skeletal system
to maneuver, but seriously, he’s a giant snack food manifested out of Dan Aykroyd’s
subconscious and compelled by a demon of hell, so we’re going to let the normal anatomy
slide on this one. Plus, when he erupts, there ain’t no viscera,
just a bunch of marshmallow fluff, so I think we’re safe. Now, the first step in determining how much
of a caloric punch Stay Puft packs is determining just how large he is. In the movie, they give us a hint: “Killed
by a 100-foot marshmallow man.” But can we get more exact? ABSOLUTELY! In the DVD extras for Ghostbusters, Mark Stetson,
the model shop supervisor reveals that the scaled size of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
was 112 and a half feet tall. We can also compare that to the surrounding buildings to confirm that this is the right range. So, for once, that made my life a bit easier,
but from there the calculations start to get a bit trickier. Initially, I tried to determine the width
of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man by looking at his scale compared to other landmarks in
the movie. There’s a shot where the Ghostbusters are
looking down at Stay Puft as he walks towards them, and we can see that he is about the
width from the sidewalk to the yellow center lines on the street. We know that this is about 50 feet, because
the street Stay Puft is walking on is Central Park West in New York. According to an 1892 edition of the World
Almanac, almost all avenues in New York City are 100 feet wide, so Stay Puft is half that. But we’re still missing depth and the movie
doesn’t really show many good shots from the side. And more importantly, even if we’re right
about Stay Puft being 50 feet wide at his widest, how wide is his head compared to the
rest of his body? If you watch this series a lot, you’ll know
that I would usually account for this sort of thing using pixel measurements, but Stay
Puft is full of unusual shapes and sizes. So in this case I'm using another measurement
that'll do a better job of taking Stay Puft Marshmallow Man's irregular shape, and giving
us workable numbers. And that measurement is BMI. The statistic of BMI was created in the 19th
century and is mostly used to measure the relative thickness or thinness of a population by measuring average weight across average height. And for our purposes, it’s actually perfect
because all it does is calculate a ratio of height to width for a human-shaped object. It doesn’t matter if the person is ripped, or overweight, or happens to be composed entirely of sugar. And looking at the Marshmallow Man, he’s
not just a bunch of cylindrical marshmallows stacked together—he’s got folds and girth
to them. He’s much more human than he is purely geometric. So knowing that, take a look at this chart
of body shapes and their associated BMIs. Stay Puft is round and has relatively thick
limbs. From a purely scientific perspective, Stay
Puft’s shape indicates that he would have a very high BMI. And judging by the figures, a BMI of 40 is a good estimate, perhaps even a conservative one. Hey, we will have NO candy shaming on this
channel, okay? But now that we have a height and a projected
BMI for the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, we can calculate how much he would weigh. Or, more accurately, we can determine how
much a human being his size would weigh, and then go from there. The formula for Body Mass Index states that
BMI is equal to 703 times a person’s weight in pounds divided by their height in inches
squared. Stay Puft’s height of 112.5 feet translates
to 1,350 inches. When we square the height, multiply the BMI
of 40 by that number, and then divide the result by 703, we have isolated weight, which
comes out to 103,698 pounds. But now before you rage in the comments, no,
obviously he doesn’t weigh 103,000 pounds. Like I said, that would be the weight of the
Stay Puft Man…Man. If the Stay Puft Marshmallow man were just
a—a human of Marshmallow Man size. You get it. What we’re looking for the MARSHMALLOW Man. So we need to convert his weight from this
figure—what he would weigh as a human—to what he would weigh as a marshmallow. To do that, we need to know what the density
of a human and a marshmallow actually are. The density of human being does vary, but
for heavier-set people it’s usually around 1.01 grams per milliliter. Now we can adjust that weight of 103,698 pounds
to its marshmallow equivalent by converting human density to the density of a marshmallow,
which is 0.21 grams per milliliter, about a fifth the density of a human. So, doing all the math, that means the Stay
Puft Marshmallow Man actually weighs in at 21,561 pounds, or about 9,500 kilograms. Which is actually surprisingly light for a
building-crushing monster. For perspective, that’s lighter than a typical
school bus, so having him destroying buildings, may be a bit of a stretch. He’s still a giant marshmallow. Even at such an enormous of a size, his squishy Stay Puft-ness would just puff off most well-made buildings. But I hear you in the comments saying “Geez,
MatPat, I came here because I want to eat an ancient Sumerian demon, and not talk about
school buses.” And that’s valid, I totally understand your
desire to eat an ancient Sumerian demon. So now that we know how much he weighs, figuring
out the number of calories he contains is really no sweat. For reference, I used the nutrition facts
of Kraft’s Jet Puffed marshmallows because something tells me they're not that different,
which claim to have 100 calories for every four marshmallows, or 30 grams, 20 grams of
which is pure sugar. When we convert the weight of Stay Puft in
pounds to grams and multiply that by the number of calories per gram, we get our whopping
total: the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man comes out to be 32.6 million calories. Get ready to hit that Pilates class...a few
hundred thousand times. If you wanted to consume that many calories,
you’d have to down about 228,000 cans of Coca-Cola, or eat 2.7 million peanut M & Ms, or have 62,700 Big Mac meals from the Golden Arches. Considering that the average human life is
27,375 days, you would practically have to have the Big Mac meal three times a day, every
day, for the rest of your life to get to that level of caloric intake. Which in turn, begs the question:
What about burning it off? Well, a good rule of thumb is that a typical
person will burn 100 calories per mile walking. So that would translate to you walking 326,000
miles to work off your Marshmallow Man binge. And if that sounds like a lot, you don’t
know the half of it! The circumference of the Earth is just about
25,000 miles. So you’d have to walk around the ENTIRE
GLOBE 13 times to burn off that Sumerian Demon you consumed. Man, I knew I should have ordered off the
lighter menu. That Caesar Salad Titan was calling my name. Considering the average caloric intake for
a man is about 2000 a day, that’s nearly 44 YEARS worth of calories in a single serving. Hungry? Why wait? Eat a Marshmallow Man, you'll be set for life. And TALK ABOUT your sugar rushes. One 100 foot tall marshmallow man is the equivalent
of 6.52 millions grams of sugar. That’s 7 American tons of sugar, the equivalent
of an adult African elephant made entirely of sugar. It’s nearly 1.5 million Oreo cookies—single
stuffed, which let’s be honest, is clearly inferior to Double Stuft, so it’s actually
1,000,000 Double Stuft Oreos. You may have seen the studies about how much
humans have increased their sugar intake over the course of our history. It’s estimated to have risen 600% over the
last 140 years. We now consume 130 pounds or 60,000 grams of sugar each year, which admittedly is a lot. But even with in the face of this huge increase
in sugar intake, Stay Puft represents 108 years of constantly shoving sugar into your
face. So needless to say, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man does not seem to be part of a balanced diet. But the big question of the day remains: could
you eat him? Technically, the answer is yes, but the fine
print would say “But not for very long.” And the problem is with the sugar. Toxicologists believe that the lethal dose
of sugar for a human being is about 15 grams per kilogram of weight. I say believe because these are estimates;
apparently, it’s pretty hard to find test subjects who are willing to eat sugar until
they die, go figure. Sometimes it feels like I come close though! Sorry, that’s FatPat talking again. For a 150 pound adult, that lethal dose would
be between 2 and 2.5 pounds of sugar or about 1,000 grams, which, all things considered,
isn’t all that much. If you were committed to eating the beast,
he would kill you 6,500 times over before you were through. Which means, in an ironic twist, the scariest
thing about Stay Puft isn’t his physical force—remember, he’s punching with less
strength and density than a school bus—and it isn’t crossing the streams, it’s his
sugar content. Forget getting stepped on, he would literally
kill you before you gnawed his toe off. But hey, that's just a theory. A Film Theory, aaaaaand cut! But before I sign off, do you want to win
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