There’s something strange in the neighborhood. Is there a river of slime under 14th and F streets NW?

A friend pointed out that the hubbub around the giant hole that took out the busy downtown intersection looks a lot like the scene in Ghostbusters II where the Ghostbusters disguise themselves as construction workers, dig into the street and find a “psychomagnotheric slime flow.”

There are plenty of workers from DC Water, the District Department of Transportation, and Pepco running around trying to fix this thing, but who’s to say four of them aren’t actually parapsychology researchers from a local university who ain’t afraid of no ghosts?

It sort of makes sense, as there’s a lot of weird stuff happening lately: a giant bubble has been trying to inflate at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden—just like when the Manhattan Museum of Art was covered in a layer of impenetrable slime! The government can cause tornadoes! People commute to Northern Virginia from Delaware! The possibility of dogs and cats, riding trains together! Mass hysteria!

And there may be other parallels: Mayor Vince Gray would surely have some interesting chats with the ghost of Boss Shepherd, and we might be able to animate the Lincoln Memorial using some Chuck Brown music. However, there’s the worry that the toxic atmosphere in Congress would be our Gozer the Gozerian, conjuring up a D.C. version of the the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man: a fully-loaded Lincoln Navigator? A clown question? A half-smoke? Let’s just hope that an annoying EPA agent doesn’t come in and mess everything up.

Correction: An earlier version of this post referred to the villain in Ghostbusters as Gozer the Sumerian. He is Gozer the Gozerian.