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I love Hetty referring to the states west of Michigan as “exotic, far-off lands.” If Pete’s going on a field trip to the store, maybe, uh, have the person who can actually see him go too? The Deal-Mart after dark is a pretty horrifying place. And imagine how much it would suck to have to carry around a TV for all eternity! Proud of Pete for navigating his way home, even after being chased by the R2-D2 from hell. Jay going to multiple Sonics in one day and then Hetty scolding him, “You are a chef, sir!” had me rolling. Also when Sass asked Isaac to describe a bus and he described a fire truck lmao. I didn’t see the whole Thor and Nancy thing coming. He should’ve just been honest with Flower from the start because of course she would understand, but she absolutely wouldn’t like him hurting Nancy’s feelings. Alberta’s right; that thruple is going to be a train wreck. Aw, Pete is actually going to get to go on the vacation he never had and see his family.

My favorite episode of the season. I think a lot of us predicted it was Ralph who got sucked off but I still cracked up at how Nancy forgot to count him because the basement ghosts are all dressed the same and she doesn’t know the exact number anyway. Never change, Nancy. So there’s a Puritan ghost named Patience who’s just been wandering through the dirt for years now? I wonder if she’s related to George, the Puritan who lives at the Farnsby’s. Thor thinking Flower was speaking to him from the great beyond rather than understanding she was in the well and Flower falling in the well because she was chasing a butterfly are why they’re perfect for each other. I loved them making the lights flicker at the end. Hetty’s death was so tragic. She killed herself because she thought it was the only way to help her son. Damn. Great acting from Rebecca Wisocky. And next week we learn about Pete’s ghost power!

“She is freak but has good attitude about it.” Thor with the backhanded compliment lol. Isaac is still obsessed with dinosaurs. Honestly, walking down the aisle to the Jurassic Park theme would be awesome, so I can’t fault him. I laughed at Sam readily agreeing to hire a stripper for a ghost simply because weirder ghost shenanigans were already happening and they caught her on a good week. The stripper making dinosaur noises and spouting dinosaur facts getting Isaac turned on had me rolling. “Saul jerked himself off on to Jay.” I will never get tired of the double entendres. Saul was way too clingy for Alberta though. She just wanted some fun. And Flower is back next week! Yay!

Isaac learning about dinosaurs and becoming obsessed with them was great. And of course Sass convinced him that unicorns also exist lol. Love Sam having to make the dinosaur move in the children’s book. Issac yelling “Pachycephalosaurus charge!” and then falling two stories through the wall cracked me up. Sass and Thor’s plan backfired, but it did succeed in getting Pete to realize Carol’s no good for him, so I suppose it all worked out. And Thor has newfound respect for Pete because he used violence to solve a problem. Oh Thor, never change.

Good for Pete for confronting Carol about her cheating. I can’t believe she had the nerve to lie to his face and say she learned about affairs from soap operas. Guess it didn’t occur to her that Pete would’ve known since his memorial two years before. It was sweet of Alberta to help Pete out and pretend to be his girlfriend. The rom-com slow-mo of Pete at the end was hilarious. Does Alberta have a crush now? And I don’t think we’ve seen Pete remove the arrow before. In a previous episode he was having trouble sleeping. I wonder if he could keep the arrow out while he sleeps as long as he doesn’t set it down. Sass and Hetty being obsessed with what’s in Carol’s purse was great. Hetty saying “nose candy” had me rolling. In a way, I see Jay’s point, because giving money to a ghost is nuts, but saying Isaac isn’t even a real person was cruel. Giving Isaac and the ghosts their own table at the restaurant was a sweet gesture and obviously meant a lot to them.

Halloween episodes never disappoint! Poor Thor just wanted Flower back and to be able to tell her he loves her, aww. I laughed at Jay greeting Flower each time they did a seance. To be fair, he had a 50/50 chance of being right. I understand both Sam being angry that the ghosts made her look foolish by not telling her Carol’s a ghost, and that Hetty and Alberta were hurt by Sam yelling at them. Hetty unintentionally quoting a dog food commercial was hilarious. Carol being a ghost in the same house is going to be a really bad time for Pete. Everyone screaming when they realized was perfect. Jay has had to remove jewelry from a dead body twice now. At this point he’s just used to it. Flower! I love that she could hear Thor shouting for her. Even for Flower, who is stoned half the time, being stuck in a well for a month must really suck. Since the séance should have worked with her ring, Sam and the ghosts will figure it out but how are they getting her out of the well? And if Flower didn’t get sucked off, who did? My money is on Stephanie, her boyfriend, or both.

Quote of the episode goes either to Hetty for “your wife is community property” or Nancy for “nice ankle, you whore.” Eric really thought he wouldn’t eventually get caught in a lie about seeing ghosts? He’s lucky Bela forgave him. I love Jay making cake samples and having to announce it in every room just to be sure the ghosts heard him. I’d say that Isaac should know better than to take marriage advice from Hetty, but they’re so alike that she’s probably the only one he’d take advice from anyway.

It makes total sense for Sasappis to be the one with the power to enter dreams given how important storytelling is to him. I don’t blame Jay for being upset though, since he does do a lot to help the ghosts and he got manipulated and lied to. I’m glad Sass apologized and that he and Jay can be friends. Now Jay knows what another ghost looks like, which is nice. Pete is going to get so jealous though, that Sass can talk to Jay and he can’t. Jay’s dreams were great, too. I love that Jay had a Star Trek dream. I read an article that said Utkarsh Ambudkar is a Trekkie, so that scene was fun for him to film. Poor Thor, getting used by Hettie and Alberta just so they can get sucked off. I did have to laugh at Nancy saying she’d climb him like a tree. I was hoping they’d use the Halloween episode to do a seance to bring Flower back, so I’m glad they’re going to try. If they succeed, I’m sure Flower will want to stay. Molly the maid had no reason to stay, but Flower definitely does, and unlike a lot of the other ghosts, she never seemed to care about getting sucked off.

“Everybody find your suck-off buddy!” Lmao, of course the ghosts have a buddy system for such a situation. I love that by inviting the basement ghosts upstairs, Pete not only pissed off his friends but also Nancy because now she can’t hide upstairs from the other basement ghosts. It’s sweet that the basement ghosts miss Flower because she was always nice to them when no one else was. Thor’s speech at Flower’s memorial had me tearing up. “It was like first light after months of sunless winters.” Actual lol at Sam using Flower’s mug shot because it’s the only picture she could find. Regarding whether Flower is permanently gone:

That was a lot of fun. I especially loved the scenes of Carol, Kamala, and Monica on the ship working out the whole switching places thing by jumping rope and balancing books on their heads. All of Kamala's fangirling over Carol was hilarious, but I also like that she apologized for sort of putting Carol on a pedestal. I get why Kamala's family was confused at Monica calling Carol her aunt since they look the same age and people may not realize Carol is decades older than she looks. Carol being a princess to a planet because she has a marriage of convenience with the prince was great. Kamala was dancing and having a good time and Monica looked like she wanted out of there immediately. I laughed when Monica told Kamala she'll have a lot of material for her Captain Marvel fanfic. My new favorite line in the entire MCU is now "Stop running and let the Flurkins eat you!" I would've gotten eaten by a Flurkin simply because I would've been trying to pet all the kittens. So Monica is now in the X-Men universe with a Maria Rambeau who is presumably the Captain Marvel of that universe and has no idea who Monica is. I like Monica's character so I'm glad that she'll be in more movies in the future.

The Marvel intro going backwards was a nice touch. I knew it was coming but I still laughed when "Centuries later" popped up. I was genuinely worried there would be some kind of re-do of the citadel scene from the season one finale which would render everything that happened this season moot, so I'm glad they didn't go that route. Not counting the thousand times or so Loki relived that moment, of course. Loki walking toward the loom and his TVA clothes turning into an Asgardian outfit complete with the horns was amazingly well done. And it was beautiful how the timeline branches turned into Yggdrasil, the tree of life from Norse mythology. Love that B-15 is an integral part of running the reformed TVA and OB got to publish another manual. I'm with B-15 though, not sure reactivating Miss Minutes is a good idea. Ravonna ends up in the void, and it looks like Alioth is headed her way. It's nice that Mobius got to see his life on the timeline. Sylvie will finally get to go live her life on her terms after centuries of having to hide in apocalypses. Admittedly, I'm a bit disappointed that after everything they went through, she and Loki won't see each other again and didn't really even get to say goodbye. ...Unless we get a season three? In any case, Loki going from a villain to the hero who protects the timelines is a well done character arc.

It makes so much sense that O.B was a sci-fi writer and a theoretical physicist. And he learned about creating time doors from the TVA manual that he wrote, or technically, will one day write. Another time loop. When Casey said to his fellow prisoners that they'll be gutted like a fish if they're caught, that was a nice call-back to the first episode when Casey didn't know what a fish was. So now that Loki can control his time slipping, he can go back to just before the temporal loom exploded. Timely couldn't handle the effects because he's human. It's going to have to be Loki and/or Sylvie who fix it.

Love the flashback of Mariner at the academy. I laughed when Mariner pointed out the absurdity of there being three Binars rather than an even number, because I was thinking the same thing. Boimler got to be in command and actually did a good job! I thought they’d be a little sadder about Tendi leaving, though Rutherford definitely was upset. It probably will only be an episode or two until she’s back, hopefully.

So Renslayer and HWR were working together until he decided he didn't like having to share power and had her memory wiped. Even without seeing Dox and the others get squished, the sounds made it clear how gruesome it was. Miss Minutes was looking all gleeful as it happened. That clock is a psychopath. Nicely contrasted with B-15's look of horror when she saw the room. I love the scene with Loki and Sylvie in the pie room, talking about how hard it is to have hope. "We have a good plan. We have a pretty good plan. We have a plan." Lol O.B. Yep, it was Loki who pruned past Loki. And Brad being a coward didn't pay off since Miss Minutes got reset and Ravonna got pruned. Sucks for you, Brad. Timely got spaghetti-fied, yikes. And the Temporal Loom went supernova. It feels almost like a season finale-level cliffhanger.

Love the theme being redone to sound like old-timey carnival music. The 1893 World's Fair is a perfect setting for all of this to go down given everything else that went on. Loki's reaction to the statues was great. "Thor's not that tall." And lol at Mobius being called Loki's butler. Considering that HWR said he came from the 32nd(?) century, I hadn't really considered that variants could be born so many centuries earlier, but I guess if they fulfill similar roles on the timeline that's all that matters. Uh, Miss Minutes has a real creepy, stalker vibe going on. Sylvie hearing Victor say "I can make my own choices" is ultimately what got her to reconsider killing him. She always wanted to be free to live her own life and make her own choices despite being a variant and realized in killing him, she'd be taking that chance away from someone else. Curious what secret Miss Minutes is going to tell Ravonna. Maybe just that Ravonna is a variant who was also taken from the timeline? I don't think Ravonna knows that does she?