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Sorry, I didn't phase that clearly. I meant that Hetty's son's relationship with Earl was ending, not that he was the one ending it. I guess Earl (he wasn't her manager, just her boyfriend? my mistake) must be bisexual if both Thomas and Alberta had a relashionship with him. It's just that none of this - Earl's bisexuality, Thomas' relationship with him, etc. - had been introduced previously, so I didn't find it gasp-worthy. It felt like a totally random resolution of Alberta's murder that we had no way of figuring out for ourselves. So that Alberta's sister could tell him to pay his taxes. If you think about Al Capone's story in this episode, it's going to fall apart. Ok, fine, it's not completely impossible that a drunk Al Capone would decide to off himself right then and there when a woman rejected him. But deciding to do it by going to the basement and getting rat poison there? How does he know where to look for the rat poison at a mansion where he is attending a party? Was he Thomas' close friend and knew what's where at the mansion? Would Thomas himself even know where his staff keeps rat poison? I don't know, I would have enjoyed it more if they had written something more thought-out.

Meh, the episode didn’t work for me. It felt like the writers themselves were forced at the last moment to wrap up the storyline in one single episode, so they had to cram everything in. Including things completely out of left field like Al Capone being in love with Alberta and wanting to kill himself, or Hetty’s son’s ending relationship with Alberta’s manager who was not gay. And then we find out that Alberta has been suffering so much from not knowing who murdered her that she absolutely cannot forgive Hetty for not telling her earlier. While it is in Alberta’s character to react to something this way, I don’t think we have seen any sign that this has been such a burden for her. She didn’t even know she had been murdered up until a year ago and then she kept waltzing around all excited about it (like when Nancy congratulated her on the Al Capone revelation).

In the world of the show he does, I don’t know about real life. He had a Halloween party on the same night Sam and Jay had theirs.

Oh, I have no doubt there are people there who would want to spend unreasonable amounts of money in a "destination restaurant." The question is only whether there are enough of them within driving distance to sustain a restaurant like that. Because if you have to make it an overnight trip to partake in the experience, then the restaurant better have a reputation that is way more of a must than Sippr's "visit them before they go out of business." Until they develop such reputation, they might be just wasting money running the restaurant. Well, it's Mark's money, I suppose. Maybe he did his market research. They already have Liam Neeson, he had a movie about ghosts at some point.

That’s actually not such a bad deal. She is not really someone you want to be around all the time, personality-wise. Twenty minutes into the episode and no sign of Sas, I was starting to get worried. But they made up for it with Thor’s acting like Sas never had a girlfriend and is making it up. That was hilarious. Can it be a successful restaurant though? How far out in the wilderness are they exactly? Blue Hill at Stone Barns is right outside of NYC, so it is easily within reach of all the hipsters willing to pay $400 per meal (plus drinks or $90 BYOB corkage fee, plus tax and 22% administrative fee). Would Jay’s restaurant have clientele like that?

Yeah, I felt the same way. He's not a bad person at all, just a bit off the deep end, at least as far as Alberta is concerned (though I admit I can't get past the toenail thing). A bit? The guy is just this side of Misery. She probably looked more normal than Todd until she met the object of her obsession. I really hope Todd never succeeds at cloning Alberta. Did Nigel have time to really room with Thor in the TV room? If he just spent a part of the day there, then Thor probably didn't realize that NIgel was now his roommate and not just someone watching all those reality shows with him. Hetty's remarks to Nigel may have been something that was supposed to be discreet and just between them, something the rest of the group did not really hear. I admit, I didn't gasp at the great-grandma Reese reveal, but that's probably because I had never heard of her before. Alicia probably should have been more shocked. To add to the missteps, it was off for Pete not to know what kind of app Alicia and Jay were talking about, not after they all witnessed the Trevor-Bela romance. And then to start explaining to Sam that dinner is the most romatic kind of date where people eat indoors etc.

You cannot give in to a blackmailer, Hetty. It won’t work. He will only come back for more. What was with all the urgency about “codblocking” Todd? The guy has a certain tattoo on his back, his relationship with Alicia can only go so far, even if she doesn’t pick up on the rest of his weirdness on her own.

For all we know, she pulled them over for erratic driving and then Missy spilled the beans as soon as she rolled down the window. The cop never said that she was looking for them specifically. ”At least none of my kids stole my truck or had a baby out of wedlock.” Right, your kid only stole your credit card and almost went to Hawaii. As far as babies, check back in a few years. No Cooper had a baby at 13 either. Sheldon really needed to be told to shut up more often when he was younger. Now it’s too late.

That doesn’t sound right. It would make Sam a stalker who keeps reading other people’s correspondence not intended for her, which might actually be illegal. I hope the show didn’t write it this way. On the other hand, it’s not clear exactly why Pete’s daughter would start sending her family newsletter to a woman she met only once, no matter how nice or respectful of her father Sam was. Feels like a family newsletter should be for closer friends than that. I completely missed Jay’s line acknowledging to the Menu Hunter that made lamb chops even though she had come to try the chicken. I thought he writers dropped the ball there, but no, those people know what they are doing. I guess Trevor’s plan to get Jay in the same mindset didn’t work after all. “He also wrote a rock opera and finished an adult coloring book.” Boy, did I misunderstand the adult coloring book part… “Jay is making a port wine reduction.” - “Uh, bro, it’s a demi-glace.” - “It was a demi-glace, and then he added port wine, bro. Keep up!” I bet Sass absorbs absolutely everything he hears and he knows all about the Special Relationship, and probably about modern medicine too.

Both Sam and Pete are too gullible though. They are the kind of people who would totally buy Apple gift cards to send to the IRS and to the boss who is stuck in a meeting. I guess that is why "the boys in the home office" chose to scam them this way here. It is an interesting point about what the ghosts would or wouldn't know about things that happened after they died. They didn't get removed from the world, they were still around to see and hear things. I am sure they read every newspaper that happened to be read by someone in the house. New ghosts with more recent knowledge to share have joined them with time. Now they watch all kinds of TV and can learn everything there is to know about the modern world. And yet the show does use it as a plot device that they died before something happened and so they don't know about it. Like the time Sam had to tell Isaac that the US and Britain are not enemies anymore. I'm sure Isaac would have picked up on that during the last two hundred years. Especially considering that she was coming to try the chicken her friend had told her about. Jay must be an amazing chef to cook chicken like that.

What happened was, Brenda suggested they go to her place, George said nothing, she said she shouldn’t have said that, and he had a heart attack. I suppose this can be described as discussing going home together, but at the same time, it doesn’t have to be described that way. I do believe George when he says that nothing has happened between him and Brenda. On a different note, how awesome is Georgie? That man is a rock. Btw, why are they calling the baby Ceecee? Is that short for Constance Cooper? Did they make her last name Copper and not McAllister after all?

Yeah, I did not buy that. First, Little Pete has an emergency and is rushed to the hospital, and his family immediately emails… Sam? I don’t think so. Second, there is modern medicine, just hearing that someone is in the ER is no reason to go and sell your soul to the devil. And third, I was not convinced that Elias would be somehow authorized to accept that kind of deal from Pete and make assurances anyway. I do agree though, most zooms and in-person meetings can absolutely be handled via email.

That’s not what happened though. Let’s go to Instant Replay (courtesy of TV Show Transcripts): Mary: I would miss having you around, but I think you need to follow your heart. Rob: What if my heart doesn't know what it wants? Mary: I don't know. Pick a different organ. Rob: Mary Cooper! Mary: Oh, grow up. ( laughs ) That's not what I meant. ( snickers )

Well, the book, dictated by Isaac Higgintoot, is called “The Other Founding Father: The Story of Isaac Higgintoot”, so it’s hard to know how factual it actually is. Is he really a Founding Father? He seems to think he is. Who knows what else is in there. I agree though that Sam should provide sources of some kind for her research, if only to give her readers a reason to believe that what she is writing in this nonfiction book actually happened. Why would they buy the book if it’s just some stuff written by an unknown author (or, even worse, known from the 13 dialects of the Lenape fiasco)?

Oh, you are giving Sheldon too much credit. He was waiting for a ride to his launch party, not for the birth of his niblingo. It’s just that everybody who could give him the ride was waiting for the birth.

It made the publisher look like they don't know what they are doing though. They passed, presumably, because they analyzed things and concluded that the book was not going to be successful and profitable. Then they see that someone else has a different opinion and just because of that totally abandon their own. Although, I am not sure what to make of Isabel's line that they only publish three books a year and so they should make a fuss. Does it mean that they are very exclusive and have a high rejection rate? Or does it mean that they just don't publish books and may not have many manuscript submissions? Alberta was so much into testing Thor. "Let's talk about cod. It's a very bland fish." She was enjoying it! I also liked her quip "Is it too late to put this on his tombstone?" about the editor's "so the book is about a regular guy who was near some things and then crapped himself to death?"

I don’t know if Mary is not admitting it to herself, but she knows she is attracted to Rob. Otherwise she wouldn’t be flustered in front of Brenda when Rob called or upset when she saw him with his girlfriend. Didn’t she fantasize about him at some point, too? And Rob has all but said it out loud to her that he is into her very much. I cannot remember how George and Brenda were talking about leaving together, but Rob and Mary must have matched their closeness with pretty much expressing everything they feel for each other at their lunch date today. Curiously, out of the four, Rob is the only one who is not acting like he is feeling at all uncomfortable about what’s going on. And he is a pastor, he should probably be the first person to stop and think that there is a marriage involved here. Or maybe he is just clueless. I laughed at how he showed up at the hospital all bubbly and happy with outstretched arms and “I hear we are having a baby!”

That could be because he thinks he is the RA, from the time Hagemeyer fake appointed him RA to get him off her back. Then he got ducktaped to the wall.

The problem here is that, while the Greek gods were never mortals and never had to grow out of their toddler phase, our ghosts have been functional mortal adults that grew and adapted and should know better than to act like toddlers. I suppose they, like the Puritan ghost, may have reconsidered some things, but it doesn’t really make their childishness attractive if they keep it up. I don' know about NY but in rancher country you can get them from a butcher. Jay as a chef probably has connections with local farms too and can get things like that when needed. Then there is always the internet. They are called “lamb fries” apparently.

I was thinking it’s a good thing Jay has seen evidence that the ghosts do exist, such as the writing on the fogged mirror, Trevor’s texts to his sister, info Sam claims the ghosts provided turning out to be true, etc. Because his senses are telling him that he is standing in an empty room where he has served dinner to an empty table and his crazy wife is talking to what very well may be voices in her head, John Nash-style. And even with the evidence, he’s got to go at least half of the time “oh come on, you are making this up, aren’t you?” Which Sam does do, like when she was pretending that Thor was telling her that women are not allowed to eat ram’s balls so it has to be Jay. Sam really does need to start saying no to the ghosts, they are totally taking advantage of her. Not only had she drop everything and do Thor’s date twice, she also seemed to be on call for Nigel’s tea reception and who knows what else. Their acting like children demanding things from her may be cute and amusing a couple of times, but I am not sure I want to keep seeing the ghosts being totally inconsiderate of her and Sam being a pushover like this. And fish do not have nightmares. As a poet once said, “it’s okay to eat fish ‘cause they don’t have any feeeeeeelings”. No feelings, no nightmares.

Sheldon too, incredibly. In the dorm he was simply baffled at why Paige is there, but when they got to the frat party he knew that she shouldn’t be there. And Missy was fantastic. She recognized what Paige’s situation was and acted on it immediately and effectively. And then you start thinking, didn’t Missy come to the party for the same reason as Paige? But no, she was there to explore, to see what it feels like, she was excited be there, but she clearly knew her boundaries. She has a good head on her shoulders and she is strong enough to step back when she reaches those boundaries. Forget killin’ her, her parents should be proud of her.

Maybe, maybe not. Jay’s sister’s boyfriend wannabe dude was dead - until he was resuscitated. I was thinking about Isaac telling Nigel that it’s okay to take baby steps because they have an eternity. They don’t really know that they have an eternity, do they? They could theoretically be sucked off at any random moment. They seem to want it to happen, but at the same time it would bring their current afterlife to an end and cancel all the things they are looking forward to, which may not really be what they want, if you stop and think about it.

There was actually a reference to Thor and “whatever he means by ‘boat rules’” in the episode where Isaac was afraid Nigel would be disgusted by his ghost power and leave, and Pete was listing “other fish in the sea” available to Isaac if that happened.

He can meet the members of the ever-growing antwatching club, meeting Wednesdays, Saturdays and whenever Sam brings an apple core (how thoughtful of her, btw). Those ant clans are not following Nigel into the mansion, and Nigel is probably not going to give up the activity. Speaking of ghosts finding ways to entertain themselves, of course they watched Trevor’s parents. They have literally watched trees grow and paint dry, were they going to miss this? I liked how it was revealed little by little that pretty much all of them were there, especially Sass’s reveal that “I was going to leave but then Hetty called me a wimp.” Wonder what made her do that, why did she care whether he stayed or went? She can be mean for no reason sometimes, like when she told Pete that she is a lady and her husband cheating on her is to be expected, but Pete’s thing is just weird and sad.

She'd still be driven though... Except in this case there really was no reason to think that Jay's suggestion was any more likely to work than it was to kill more ghosts. It was just a theory, and caring about the ghosts does not make testing a theory like that any safer. Like Hetty said, "And now one more of us is gonna die so that Jay feels heard." "Thor not want to be permanently small! Base much of identity on being large."