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1692 is when Patience got the boot, they had the date on the screen during her hearing. I figured she wandered around for a couple years after that, so yes, probably a few years before 1700. I agree, they can always say there were other ghosts there in the past that just have not been mentioned yet. I was trying to find if there is any info on when Flat Maria was there (trampled by a herd of cattle - buffalo? Or domestic cattle? In upstate New York? When would that have been?) and apparently there has been another former ghost mentioned, someone named Luella, who had also been Thor’s girlfriend before she got sucked off. I had no recollection of that. And what it means is that now is probably not even the first time Sass has felt that his best friend is abandoning him for a girlfriend. “Just to be clear, there is no moose carcass. Was just making gesture. But there is a flattened bird on the road.” - “Yeah, I could check it out.” Ahh, small pleasures…

Oh, I’m not sure she is being judgmental. I think she really is a live and let live kind of person. It’s just that, for her, it’s incomprehensible that someone does not sleep with “him and his bass player” every day. She reacts to it like we would react to someone who said he doesn’t breathe air - “But how do you live?” Maybe that’s why she made it her mission to get Sass laid. You just can’t live (well, exist, as the case may be) without air. It’s a distinction without much difference, but it was less than 500 years with no one else to talk to. Even in these difficult times we must be precise 😜. Isaac showed up “only” about 260 years later, and Patience around 1700, so about 190 years after Sass died (but Patience is Patience, of course, so we are not going to count her, necessarily).

I didn’t quite get what “Sam is so thirsty, and not just for chai” meant. Was Champa just referring to Sam’s need to be liked? The way Jay reacted with a shocked “really, Mom? On the family thread on Christmas?” sounded like it was something inappropriate that went over my head. I loved how they were saying goodbyes to him when he was getting ready to get electrocuted back into his body. Hetty’s “I hope it will be a long time before we meet again (but do bring cocaine)” and then Trevor totally melts my heart with “We’ll be here, bro”. Made me think about our discussion here a couple of weeks ago about whether they actually want to get sucked off and leave all this. Little Pete is growing up! “The people who killed grandma?” 😆 He really is adorable… little bastard. Take it up with his parents. Where is his father, btw? I noticed that Laura’s screen name looked like LauraMartino[some number] on the post where she said they were moving to Australia. Never took the guy’s last name? Or just kept the screen name from before marriage?

I’ll beat that. For whatever reason our CBS affiliate had the sound messed up for the first half of the episode. The music sounded fine, the commercials too, but the dialogue was totally muffled. It was unwatchable. So I had to wait till today to stream it. So happy it was worth it, this was truly one of the best episodes yet. From the writing perspective, I especially appreciated how Pete’s ghost power made it impossible to get him out of Jay’s body the usual cross-the-boundary way, so they had to do an exorcism, which led to exorcising the wrong guy out, which made it possible for Jay to interact with the ghosts and also observe his parents without them knowing. Basically, Pete’s power was the reason for everything that happened in this episode (except for Sass’s B plot). It’s almost like the writers knew they were going to do all of this when they set up Pete’s power last season. Just fantastic. Having Bela already know about ghosts also allowed to use her seamlessly here. I forgot, is it supposed to be an Indian restaurant? People might assume that it’s Indian based on the name, so those who are not looking for Indian cuisine might not give it a try. So, Mark can afford to vacation in Fiji, eh? Wonder how much money he saved on using a 3/4-inch pipe instead of one-inch… Zombie Jay made me think of the “zombie aren’t real…” line from a basement ghost in the pilot. Shows what you know, Stuart!

Here you go - ChatGPT’s version of Isaac Higgintoot passing through a sofa (notice his right leg). It took two minutes and then I ran out of free images for today.

Or, since we are talking about ghosts, we can push it into the metaphysical. Maybe it’s not that they can actively choose, but that they believe these are the rules of their world, and this belief makes it reality. You know this idea/joke that bumblebees should not be able to fly, but because they don’t know anything about physics, this limitation does not exist for them and they fly? Same for the ghosts - they believe they can go through walls but not through chairs, so that is how they operate. Actually, this can explain anything from ghost logic - it is so because they believe it. Wasn’t this one of the sticking points in the actors’ strike last year? I think they agreed to not allow the use of AI in generating content with actors’ images. For the duration of this contract, at least. But eventually yes, they won’t even need any actors. I believe Trevor expressed a related idea when he said “I am going to go see if hot cousin Rachel is on Instagram. What? I’m dead, it’s still innocent!” 😄

Ah, but that’s whataboutism. There is always something else you could be discussing. That does not have to stop you from discussing what you want to discuss.

From what I understand, the insurance will pay only after you sue the contractor and the court decides in your favor. If you are like Jay and Mark and want to finish the project soon so this thing finally starts making money, you have to pay out of pocket to fix the mistake and then receive the insurance money later. Yes, the partnership was set up pretty much in one line of dialogue and was probably easy to miss. When they were discussing opening the restaurant, Jay said he cannot afford the renovations and Mark replied with something like “you can if your business partner is a contractor”. I think it was Sam’s idea and she had talked to Mark before they came to Jay. It probably has been mentioned since then a couple of times, but I cannot remember specific examples. "I thought this was made FOR children, not by children!" XD. Ha (I mean, 😪), it may very well be both! Ironically, for a long time there were more products made by children than for them. Nigel died probably a bit before the Industrial Revolution provided children with these wonderful employment opportunities, but Hetty knows all about it. Can ghosts pass through furniture horizontally like they do through walls? If so, there is no such thing as cluttering up living space for them, right?

Interesting. I started thinking about the difference between brotherly and fatherly, what would I need to see to tell which one I am looking at? It seems that they are almost the same, aren’t they, the only difference is who the relationship is between. If it’s between people close in age, then it’s brotherly. If it’s between people of very different maturity, then fatherly. So Georgie is being… both at the same time?

Do I remember it right that Mark, being Jay’s partner, is not charging Jay for the construction but rather is paying his costs himself? That is Mark’s investment, right? He still needs to charge his subcontractor to redo the job, the one who screwed it up, of course. I guess they didn’t want the delay, but you are right, there is no reason to trust that Farnsby is not going to come back and use it. Ahh, maybe. Switching the meaning in midsentence from “where you are allowed to do what you want” to “independent from us” to make an unusual sort of a double entendre and express two thoughts at once? Yes, that’s not bad, I like it. I have a question, maybe someone has a friend who would know? Are swingers really different in that it really matters to them that their spouse remember that kind of anniversary? Or are they more like monogamous couples who happen to have a strong shared interest in, I don’t know, gardening or something, and it’s not really a big deal that one spouse doesn’t remember when exactly they took it up? Or maybe that’s a big deal for non-swinging couples too and the world is full of unwatered chrysanthemums? Or is that chrysantema?

Yeah, I didn't phrase it right. I did not mean that there is no explanation, it was more that I find it weird and would enjoy it more if Georgie acted like a teenager he is supposed to be rather than a father figure to Connor. Speaking of Connor, why was he so impressed with Georgie's niceness? He sounded like his father had ever treated him with respect and understanding before when he commented to his mother that Georgie is a great person. Is Jim really that kind of person? "There is still half a bottle of planning left" :)

I was thinking the same thing about it being shown out of sequence. They had tango music transitions and there were no interactions with anyone but the family members again. I thought changing these two things had improved the show quite a bit, and now here we go again. I liked how they bonded about the unicorns 😉. As far as Georgie, yes, too perfect and flawless. Why would he act or feel all fatherly towards to a 26-year-old? He is a teenager!

He is kind of becoming just that and nothing else though, just a grown man acting like a child. It would be whimsical if Isaac also did other, serious things (like discussing Plato alongside whether fish have nightmares), but he doesn’t anymore, does he? It was awesome, I liked that. I also thought about what Nigel would have thought, and possibly did, when he discovered what Sam gave them as their wedding present. What was Sam’s thought process exactly? Here are two people getting married, let’s give them (them!) a child’s dinosaur bed? Because one of them is a child and the other… well, who cares about what Nigel likes, right? Way to show that you take them and their marriage seriously, Sam.

Anybody else find the idea that Sam bought Isaac a kid’s dino bed as a wedding gift off-putting? “Look at little Isaac, he likes dinosaurs and he is getting married! Aww, how cute!” I don’t like what they turned Isaac into. Nigel has no interest in dinosaurs and he came across as having a more serious interest in them than Isaac with his infantile infatuation. The man used to be a functioning adult, an officer and a gentleman. Now he likes being a dinosaur’s tongue and yells for Sam to come and change his toy’s color. Terrific. I laughed too, but… so is the UK, isn’t it? I suppose Nigel might not know what his old country is like now, but that’s not the joke here, and the joke they wrote doesn’t quite work if you think about it.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think most people limit themselves to just that. We make comments and observations, to which it's just not relevant that this is simply a TV show that someone wrote. If someone wants to discuss what would happen to this dog in a hypothetical world that looks like the world of the show, what difference does it make that this world is not real? I am not interested in discussing the dog, but I appreciate that someone brought up the thought. Why not? It's all good.