When you realise what you’ve done (Picture: histoftech/Twitter)

When you’ve unleashed a 13ft self-inflating Stay Puft marshmallow man in your living room and it just won’t stop growing, who you gonna call?

This is the dilemma author and historian Marie Hicks from Chicago was left with in the early hours of Sunday morning after she decided to get her new Ghostbusters Stay Puft inflatable out of the box, following a long night of book editing.

She had purchased the inflatable for Halloween but needed a bit of a pick-me-up, so decided to get it out early. ‘I’d been editing the proofs for my upcoming book all night, which is tedious and demanding work, so I really needed a break and a bit of fun,’ Marie told us.



She didn’t really think it through. For reference, this is the size of the Stay Puft marshmallow man when he’s fully inflated.


😂😂😂 They didn't have it on display in the store? @histoftech pic.twitter.com/1St5E4zTZP — Lisa (@notmuchelse) September 4, 2016

He’s 12ft x 13ft and he’s really meant for the garden. Not a regular-sized living room.

But, there wasn’t a display model out when Marie bought her Stay Puft man and she figured she’d be able to inflate it a bit and then take it from there.

However, it actually inflates via a fan in the foot, which turns on when you plug it in and, Marie admits, ‘it inflates a lot faster than you’d think.’

She realised pretty quickly she’d lost control of the Stay Puft man.

She later shared the pictures of the havoc wreaked on Twitter, writing: ‘I have made a grave miscalculation’.

I have made a grave miscalculation pic.twitter.com/nnqQ1tk1Up — Mar Hicks (@histoftech) September 4, 2016

‘It kind of just expanded horizontally over everything, knocking stuff over in the process and narrowly missing the ceiling fan,’ she explained.

By the time she realised she should probably unplug it, the inflatable was totally blocking the socket.

So, she decided to just let things take their course.

The pictures of the giant Stay Puft man splayed in her living room have now been shared and liked almost 10,000 times.

There were a lot of Ghostbusters jokes.

Who ya gonna call? — James Mather 😬🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@tigerrector) September 4, 2016

@charmingred Yes; you were supposed to clear your mind! — T. Kyle King (@TKyleKing) September 4, 2016

I have made a grave miscalculation pic.twitter.com/nnqQ1tk1Up — Mar Hicks (@histoftech) September 4, 2016

I've lost all capacity for rational thought — Nathaniel Woodward (@stubhubby) September 6, 2016

But, Marie confirmed she has now managed to get the situation under control. ‘When I went to unplug it, I kind of had to wade through/manhandle its limbs a bit to reach the plug,’ she told Metro.co.uk.

‘It gave me a new appreciation for the scene in the film.’

Sadly, without the marshmallow explosion.

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