"Ghosted!"
When Lori thinks she is haunted by a ghost while preparing for a golf tournament at college, she enlists Lincoln and Clyde to help banish it. It turns out that ghost is a good-luck charm for Fairway, so she instead has to bring it back.
Tropes
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Mr. Loud is this by shouting that Lincoln forgot his toy and hugging Lori in front of a few Fairway students.
- Baldness Means Sickness: Most of Lori's hair falls out due to stress about the golf tournament.
- Day In The Limelight: For Lori.
- Ectoplasm: A ghost named Shanks Bogey leaves some glowing, sky blue slime on the premises of Lori's college. Lincoln identifies it as ectoplasm and tries to take some home with him in a jar to study, but accidentally gets it on the coach's face.
- Exorcist Head: The last shot of the episode is Boris's head spinning all the way around.
- Gasshole: Everyone who ate Lucy's fermented bean meal ends up getting a horrible farting fit. It doesn't help that the food itself already smelled horrible to begin with.
- Ironically, Lori herself does not eat it, thus the episode lacks the running gag of Lori blaming her farts on something else.
- In the Hood: Lori spends the second half of the episode wearing an ARGGH! hoodie, with the hood hiding her stress-induced baldness.
- Later-Installment Weirdness: Once again, since around the start of Season 3, it can feel off-putting for some viewers that have watched the show since Seasons 1 and 2 to see Clyde not being affectionately nervous around Lori. This episode marks their first full interactions and conversations with each other since Season 2's "Change of Heart", and fully shows that Clyde has completely gotten over her.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Lori has this reaction when she learns the truth about the ghost she got rid of. She enlists the help of Lucy and her friends' necromancy skills to bring the ghost back.
- My Little Panzer: Lincoln and Clyde's ARGGH! blasters fire actual lasers that cause property damage.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lincoln, Clyde, and Lori were able to scare the ghost away, but this ghost was the Fairway students' good luck charm, causing them to fumble their golfing without his presence to help them out.
- Poor Communication Kills:
- The Fairway golf team seniors keep the fact that the team were being aided by an actual ghost a secret from newbies until they finish their first year. This makes Lori understandably think she needs an exorcist upon running into an actual ghost.
- Shanks' first impression on Lori didn't exactly endear him to her. While helping with her golfing and making her drink can be chalked up to Lori being unaware, the book piling in the library gave Lori the wrong idea.
- The Reveal: The ghost that kept pestering Lori was the ghost of Shanks Bogey, Fairway University's best caddy from the 20th century turned into a good luck charm for the current generation of Fairway students.
- Right Behind Me: While talking to Clyde on the phone, Lori explains that she called him because she doesn't think Lincoln can handle it, only to learn that Lincoln is in the room with Clyde and can hear everything she says due to being on speaker. A similar thing happens when she talks to Lincoln about Mr. Loud while the latter is in the room.
- Shout-Out: When Lori realizes she needs help dealing with the ghost, she asks herself "Who You Gonna Call?"
- The bar Lori goes to looks very similar to the one from The Shining.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Shanks' favorite food is fermented bean meal, as well as "pigs in a blanket". Lucy prepares a dish of the former to try and bring his ghost back, while Lori protests they should've made the latter instead, due to the bean meal's noxious stench (and later on, is shown to cause equally-noxious flatulence problems when eaten; ironically Lori does not eat it, making the episode miss out on continuing the running gag of Lori blaming her problem on something else).
