The way my teenager howled for Nigel’s lapdance… I’m so glad we have a show to enjoy together
Witt Farr from Fargo! I’m glad he’s continuing on. 
Lamorne Morris, who was also in New Girl and appears in a current series of commercials for the bank BMO.
That stripper! Damn, he earned his money. 
What, so we’re just not going to mention Geoffrey Owens?
We didn’t so that you could do so.
I mean, the poor schnook doesn’t even know there’s a ghost attached to him.
Nipick: poltergeist.
I was hoping Saul would act more like a stereotypical poltergeist (as they exist in Western Christian lore) - viz, raising hell, throwing shit around, causing chaos. (“Poltergeist” literally means “noisy ghost.”)
I did love the fact that they figured out another way to shoe in another double entendre in the ghosts’ collective dialect. We have “getting sucked off” for ascending to Heaven; “going down on us” for being pulled into Hell; and “jerking myself off onto [someone]” for a poltergeist changing the person they’re attached to. What else can they come up with?
Nigel’s reaction to his lapdance was comedy gold. Brandon Scott Jones deserves an Emmy nomination for that.
Some follow-up questions:
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Are there any other countries that have the rights to produce their own version of “Ghosts”? Perhaps a crew of saucy sex workers, rowdy cons, and dour clerics in Australia? A Maori tribesman, a British sailor, etc. in New Zealand? Fantasmas in Spain/Mexico/Argentina/Wherever? Fantômes in France?
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Does anyone know if/how the fifth series of UK Ghosts is going to be available to the US audience? Failing that, is there a workaround? Like using Netflix and a VPN to set my location to Manchester?
Yes.
Agreed. BSJ’s Nigel never fails to crack me up. Speaking of lap dances, I have to give love to Jenkins and his dance. I hope they keep him on as a peripheral character.
I finally got to watch this episode on my DVR. Loved the stripper.
Only one problem I had. During the closing scene when Sam and Jay were in bed my local station cut in for a weather alert. Did I miss anything interesting?
She asks him to do an Australian accent in bed, because, well, you know.
This is particularly funny for me because earlier today I was talking with a friend who’s going on an Alaskan cruise and she mentioned that one of the entertainment packages she signed up for was some sort of “lumberjack show”. I said that if we ever went to Las Vegas we could check to see if there’s still a “Thunder From Down Under” show.
You would think with a century of wandering around she’d hit the basement randomly.
Or a ravine from a creek.
I’m kind of a casual watcher of the show. I saw the previews for tonights episode, but was out running some errands so I couldn’t watch it. I know Flower was found in the well by the other ghosts.
What happened after that? Is she just wandering around underground, hoping to find some other hole she can climb out of? Is that how they wrote the actress out of the show, and what does a century have to do with it?
The episode hasn’t aired yet, afaik. But not, apparently they cant walk thru the earth.
I am not sure, I think Flower has been a ghost for what 60 years?
It turns out that three of the other ghosts had got trapped in a well around a hundred years ago. They told about how they couldn’t climb out because they would just pass through the wall. So eventually they decided they had no other choice but to try to aim in the direction on the house’s basement and blindly walk through the dirt to get back there, all holding hands to keep from getting seperated. Then they reluctantly admitted that there was a 4th ghost with them that did get seperated, and was probably still wandering around underground, possibly driven insane by it. (They called it “gone feral”.
And a bigger spoiler: There were flashbacks during the episode of Hetty being caught up on for violating child labor laws in her factories, hiding in her parlor with police demanding to be let in. Meanwhile in the present, the ghosts have discovered Flower in the well. Jay and Sam are conveniently on a getaway and absent for most of the episode. That construction guy is moments from filling the old well with cement. Desperate to get Flower out, Hetty reveals her big secret and pulls her high collar down and unwraps from her neck the telephone cord she used to commit suicide with and they use it as a rope to get flower out. (Pretty dark for the show.) The other ghosts being stuck in the well at the time a hundred years ago explaims how they never knew she committed suicide and his they didn’t know about the ghost-tight vault Hetty’z husband had built at that time.