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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.

While this sounds like a totally solid line of defense any lawyer would be proud to present in court, the part where the company used props that could actually kill people is kind of reckless... Were they actually going to shoot the actor with that arrow?

True about the deeper pockets, that’s why Sam and Jay should have settled for more money. As is stands, the company paid absolutely nothing for their recklessness and injuring Jay. They simply got a different episode than originally planned.

They should have sued the pants off the show for shooting people in the ass with an arrow, instead of being nice and settling for dropping Pete’s story in exchange for Flower’s. That would have given them a nice financial cushion.

What exactly was the revolutionary thing Sheldon invented? A searchable database? I think those already existed by the 90s. Or was it specifically the grant database that got president Hagemeyer so excited? I had to laugh at the idea that there is research funding on the table that nobody even applies for because nobody knows about it. As if! For a moment I thought the bald comic book guy was supposed to be Bezos getting the idea for Amazon there.

Blockchain! I wonder if they somehow “mine” back rubs like bitcoins, too. How do back rubs get generated? If you are free to promise any number of back rubs in exchange for something, that would quickly lead to hyperinflation and the back rub economy would collapse, so that’s not it. Can they maybe only promise a “reasonable” number of back rubs that can be actually physically delivered? But they have eternity to deliver them. Do back rubs maybe expire to control inflation? Then it shouldn’t matter too much that Trevor (new money, he) has only been dead for twenty years and hasn’t had time to amass them. So many questions… I wonder if the writers have this developed. (Favorite back rub-related bit from the episode - the facial expression Isaac produced when Trevor asked incredulously how Sam does not know about back rubs.) Hetty’s plan to wrestle control over the TV back from Trevor was pretty brilliant, but it’s not obvious why the rest of the ghosts agreed to “unionize” like that. They wanted something, couldn’t afford to keep bidding on it, so they agreed to give it up completely, believing that it will somehow force Trevor to give them what they want? I am not sure I would be convinced that it would work. Hetty, of course, knew exactly what Trevor’s buttons she was going to push and how, but the rest of them didn’t and just took in on faith that it would work. I know it was used simply as a plot device to clue Thor in that his son had married a Dane, but just want to point out that Alma, Magnus, Lars, etc. are all-Scandinavian names, not specifically Danish. Although maybe they were just Danish a thousand years ago? Another Thor moment I loved was when he asked Sam: “What kind of journalist are you? These are obvious questions!” I know the feeling! I like how they write Thor to be astute in some cases and not so much in others. “Irony he gets, but cars are still landships.”

Missy did no such thing! She simply asked, discreetly enough, whether Mrs. Wilkins wants to give the test today with "everything you are going through." Nothing more specific than that. It will probably come out and she might lose her job (although the principal doesn't seem to be moving in that direction, at least not yet), but it's not on Missy. Loved her small talk with Coach Wilkins on the couch. "Saw your wife today." - "I heard." Yes, but George did have an extra incentive here - "He is my friend. And if I want him out of my house, he needs a job"- that Wayne did not have at the time. Why is he the one out of his own house, by the way, and not Darlene?

Someone’s phone? A team was able to use someone’s tractor! That lady was so nice (and ready!) to just come and pull them out of the ditch in no time. It probably happens often enough on that road. Maybe they figured some of those games would involve being good at aiming? That would've made me choose the walnut task since I have terrible aim. Did they know in advance what the games were going to be? I guess they may have been able to see them. Yes, the game where you had to toss a bag onto a high platform was essentially basketball, wasn’t it. Once people figured out they had to use basketball (or shot putt, I suppose) mechanics, they got it done reasonably easily. I would have hesitated to pick the walnut side of the Detour because I would have no idea how many walnuts it takes to squeeze any significant amount of oil. My guess would be - a lot? But it turns out, if the numbers I’ve found are accurate and if my math is correct, it’s not too bad - only about a hundred walnuts to make 3-4 ounces of walnut oil. Now I know. Also, you can use walnut oil and walnut shells for pretty much anything, from cosmetics to woodworking to oil well drilling, apparently. What was with the brothers not finding a walnut grove while standing in the said grove? Not seeing the forest for the trees, literally.

Well, in the world of the show, the chief did tell her that normally they do look the other way, but he was running for sheriff and needed to demonstrate accomplishments. And she reopened and is operating under the brilliant legal theory that playing for teddy bears and getting cash for them is somehow not the same as gambling for cash. I think the police can easily shut her down again at any moment, but they aren’t. Is it actually possible to duct tape a person to the wall like that? Will it hold a kid of a hundred pounds or so?

Sam claimed that they are trying to space out dead body removals. Not sure what she meant (Thor's bones? But it was quite a long time ago), but I guess it explains why they have not retrofitted the vault door to open from the inside yet. Hetty (about a seance she had once): "The lights flickered, the smell of death surrounded us, and I'm just now realizing that was Thor and Isaac messing with us." Smell of death, huh?

That may be true, but if that's the calculation, then Connie and Dale assaulted the guy and damaged his property for nothing. And if his threat was credible, which Connie thought it was, then what she did still accomplished nothing to protect them from it. I guess the moral of the story is - if you get involved in something illegal, you panic and it snowballs? Connie should probaly hold off on her gambling empire expansion in case the guy does tip off the police somehow. Which means Dale is out of another 20K. He really should start thinking that he can do better. And the tragedy is that George was so happy when she was happy, and now it's all gone. There is no way he can say no and keep being happy.

If he didn’t get their license plate, how was he going to report them? They’ve got to assume that he did.

Um, Connie? You know that Dennis person can still call the cops on you, right? Before he just wanted the money, but now that you pissed him off by slashing his tires he has a reason to actually do it.