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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."

Tries to buy my love with action figures? No way that’s Brenda. Must be a false memory. Although Sheldon’s memory is supposed to be photographic, and this does sound like it has to be a firsthand observation. Hmm..

And then they pulled Pete in by his neckerchief as they were kissing. Because a third is a third, that’s what he is there for, all the way. Puny Brave Pete. “Okay, we are going to go watch TV now. But you can find us there, so we can be there for you - there.” Loved Thor’s comment about Freddy’s not splurging for leather seats in his new car. Because what decent landship doesn’t have leather seats? In hindsight, the idea that the conveniently-not-in-Latvian “2 and under” sticker meant it was a child’s toy should have been dismissed immediately. There are probably not very many one-and-a-half-year-olds who are into catching ghosts with technogizmos.

I am actually thinking that this is how the show might do the whole George’s infidelity thing. Missy thinks she knows about George and Brenda. Of course, what she “knows” never happened, but if she starts playing this card like she did today, then people will think there is something there. And what people think happened is more important than what actually happened. George never did anything wrong, but that’s not what people will “know”. How old was the guy Missy was trying to hit on at the video store? He looked at least Mandy’s age. And speaking of recommending The Princess Bride to people, anybody think Sturgis has seen it?

My impression, from the way she kept looking at Mary uncomfortably while trying to shut down the discussion, was that whatever Brenda had told her friends about her mystery man was based on George. I don’t think they had actually done anything either, but I think they both keep thinking about one another. It makes George uncomfortable and he tries to put it down and forget it, but Brenda just might be talking to her friends about what she is thinking. So yes, George assumes that it’s about him - because he is thinking about her himself, not because of ego and paranoia. And Brenda gets offended at him barging in and telling her to stop, and hits back with “pff, who do you think you are, of course it’s someone else” kind of thing.

They really need to remove the camera. It’s not like they have no control over it and have to put up with anything their employee decided to implement in their own place of business. Yes, she should reserve herself some window time and open a support group with Baby Bjorn’s girlfriend. That woman can commiserate, although from a somewhat different perspective… I loved how Sam was confessing that she liked yelling at Freddie and even wanted to strangle him (and found that exciting, it appears). The sentiment was all kinds of wrong, of course, but she knew it - and it was portrayed beautifully by Rose McIver. Fantastic acting there.

I didn’t get it either until I read @Starchild’s comment upthread explaining that it was taboo in the 90s to talk about such feelings. I would add, probably doubly taboo for a boy and especially in Texas. He possibly didn’t even know himself that he had these feelings until he met Meemaw. I mean, I’m sure he knew he missed his grandma, but it didn’t keep him from leading a normal early-teen life. If he was a boy going around looking to, as someone upthread put it, imprint on other people’s grandmas, Missy could have probably picked up on that and would not be interested in him in the first place, even if he was trying to hide it because of the stigma. It’s probably Meemaw in particular that brought this to the surface and made him dysfunctional. I don’t mean it disparagingly, only that his life suffers because of it.

I was thinking the same thing, but then again, maybe the car didn’t hit the pole hard enough to even deploy airbags and save the drunk person not wearing her seatbelt. Makes me wonder about used cars though. Btw, another place Sam could go to to trawl for new ghosts - used car dealerships. Maybe they can open one if the B&B doesn’t work out. Like Alladdin’s genie? Oh, the line was even better - “What has become of the lexicon?” So dignified, so Isaac. A mini-masterpiece.

Right, the comical, yet aromatic, mountain of burritos. That would probably melt my heart too. Why are Sam and Jay still broke? If they are, can they afford to hire an assistant? And I guess Freddie lied a bit in his interview when he said he wanted to learn from the best, since he knows that this is not exactly the Grand Budapest hotel and he can't learn how to run a successful (at least in the profit sense) B&B here. He is just there for the paycheck.

Ah, okay. That was not communicated clearly either. Strange though, he accepted their apologies and the offer to come back in person but it didn’t work via text?

What a peculiar Missy storyline. I liked the kid, he seemed like a nice person, I can see Missy liking him. And then he goes and starts dating Meemaw. Come on, man. Good for Missy, being decisive and dumping his ass. And at the same time she is the one responsible for the whole situation, setting up her date at Meemaw’s. George could have just taken the credit for the win as it was his call to do what Pastor Rob was suggesting. But it looks like George has too much integrity for that. And Rob should be more attuned to the fact that he is stepping on George’s toes here. “We want the same thing. - You want to get you out of my office too?”

“That… was not communicated clearly.” No, it really was not. I was just as surprised as Hetty when Sam stated that she was totally anticipating having more time for the ghosts with Freddy around. Great phrase though, I need to start using it. Hetty has a way of phrasing things really well. Sam and Jay really are not good business people. You don’t need to spend money to buy fifty burritos to contact the guy you somehow contacted before to invite him for an interview.

Ben Franklin was quite a douchebag, huh? The “enjoy the view” comment in the tavern, not even trying to smooth things out for poor Isaac and even misleading him again into thinking he could come back to the lodge after delivering whatever it was - to provide rides for the freemasons… Who knew? And, for the record, he did not discover electricity. I loved Trevor’s “like they wouldn’t have discovered it anyway.” Did the writers shamelessly lift it from Seinfeld or is Trevor supposed to be a fan? When Alberta said that the whiskey is in the wall, I didn’t give it a second thought. People can know things like that, they can see it before drywall goes up, nothing unusual there. And then she goes and sticks her head into the wall, gets it out and says: “Yep, it’s still there.” I guess there is another way to know…

Exactly. Grant opportunities are public information because funding agencies want to attract multiple applications in order to pick the best ones. Good luck finding investors, Sheldon. Although, it probably wouldn’t require much of an expense to build and run this thing. Would he need to pay for more than a server? Meemaw could probably swing it. She could use it as an extra front for money laundering. I liked seeing them get a dose of the fire extinguisher foam in the middle, too. They might have actually been trespassing, setting up their table in front of her store like that. Pastor Jeff is in an interesting position. On the one hand, his congregation might be unhappy with him if he lets Connie keep renting out “the whatnot”. On the other hand, if he doesn’t, she exposes his church elders (who, I assume, want her to keep running the video store as is, because that’s where they rent what they rent) and the congregation gets unhappy with them. His church is not looking good either way.