History YMMV / GhostsUS

* Same could be said for Stephanie since she didn't tell anyone about Ralph going to heaven since she immediately fell sleep afterwards annoyed by him ascending and waited until her next wake up day to tell the main ghosts. Also Crash was noted to be sketchy by certain viewers when he showed up for his mandatory appearance because he spends a lot time roaming the property and could easily heard Flower in the well although some fans have a theory he pushed her in (While she was chasing a butterfly) as revenge for ripping off his head back in Season 2.

** Hetty is probably the most generally unpleasant of the ghosts given that she is elitist, racist, has regressive views on women, and has no respect for other people's opinions. However, this is mostly to be expected considering the time she lived in, and it is difficult not to feel bad for her when she speaks of her husband Elias' many affairs. As "The Family Business" reveals, she is also very regretful about relying on others to raise her children for her and not being able to help them or other Woodstones in death.

** Flower, despite being very peaceful and optimistic, had a very hard life. During her time in law school, [[spoiler:her fiancé died]], giving her commitment issues for the rest of her life. She then became indoctrinated into a cult and refused her brother Rob's help when he came to rescue her. Unfortunately, due to mistakenly believing Rob had been killed at war, Flower never spoke to him again even after escaping the cult. Finally, [[spoiler:after taking the money her hippie commune stole to use for a better cause]], Flower was eaten alive by a bear in front of her then boyfriend [[spoiler:and spent years believing that the money was never used for a good cause because of her]].

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Jay in "The Silent Partner". The conflict of the episode is that Sam and Jay want to borrow Issac's $10,000 dollars to keep paying the crew building Jay's restaurant. At first, Trevor talks Issac into saying no and then just as he is about to change his mind, he walks in on Sam and Jay taking it anyway, but Trevor moved it into a brokerage firm first and ended up turning it into $187,000. Since Issac is sore about them trying to take the money behind his back, he still doesn't want them to use it, but Sam tries to talk him into it by promising to make Issac a partner and letting him have input in the restaurant. When Jay hears Issac's terrible ideas (which included naming the restaurant after himself) however, Jay reaches a RageBreakingPoint and loudly claims that they shouldn't even be negotiating with Issac because he isn't even a real person, leading to Issac using his ghost powers on Jay and Sam to claim Jay is [[ItsAllAboutMe only thinking about himself]]. While Jay obviously shouldn't have said that since it was a low blow, especially considering Issac already has a chip on his shoulder about the lack of respect he was shown in life and death, when one looks at it from Jay's perspective, it makes sense why he snapped. Seeing as Issac, being a ghost who can't eat or touch things and can't leave the property grounds, doesn't really need $10,000 dollars much less $187,000, wouldn't notice if it was gone, and can't even spend it without Sam's help (a fact that Issac, Hetty and Nigel all agree on two episodes ago by tactlessly pointing out in front of Sam that if she dies, he wouldn't have the money anymore) and this restaurant is Jay's life goal and Jay has put up with a lot from the ghosts even in just the past few weeks alone (in the episodes leading up to this one, Jay was attacked by an owl twice, was essentially brainwashed twice and nearly a third time, and had to dig up the spot where Flower was mauled to death by the bear) it's hard to fault Jay for being at the end of his patience.

* NightmareFuel: According to "Holes Are Bad", the ghosts got stuck in a hole in 1895 and couldn't climb out, so they walked through the dirt to the basement of the house. One of the ghosts, a woman named Patience, got separated when Isaac sneezed and couldn't find the basement. She's been blindly wandering through the dirt ever since.

* NightmareFuel: According to "Holes Are Bad", the ghosts got stuck in a hole in 1895 and couldn't climb out, so they walked through the dirt to the basement of the house. One of the ghosts, a woman named Patience, got separated when Isaac sneezed and didn't get to the basement. She's been blindly wandering through the dirt ever since.

* HilariousInHindsight: During season one, Sasappis tells Sam he was really an accountant who died at a costume party while dressed as a Native American before telling her that he's kidding. [[spoiler:Two years later, such a situation actually happens when Carol dies in costume at a Halloween party, meaning her ghost is now stuck in her costume]].

** Is Isaac's hatred of UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton solely due to personal jealousy and minor slights (Hamilton always got Isaac's name wrong whenever they met), or does he also disagree with Hamilton politically? Isaac never discusses his political views past wishing for independence from the crown, and while he finds Patrick Henry uptight and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington to be boring, the only other founding father Isaac has mentioned having a personal beef with is Creator/BenjaminFranklin, who basically used Isaac as a pack mule while refusing him entry to the Free Masons. Seeing as Isaac has not as of yet to mentioned his feelings about people like Thomas Jefferson, Arron Burr, James Madison, and John and Sam Adams, it is possible that Isaac's politics are in line with Jefferson and the future Democratic-Republican Party, making Hamilton the natural enemy of Isaac's beliefs.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Jay in "The Silent Partner". The conflict of episode is that Sam and Jay want to barrow Issac's $10,000 dollars to keep paying the crew building Jay's restaurant. At first Trevor talks Issac into saying no and then just as he is about to change his mind, he walks in on Sam and Jay taking it anyway, but Trevor moved it into a brokerage firm first and ended up turning it into $187,000. Since Issac is sore about them trying to take the money behind his back, he still doesn't want them to use it, but Sam tries to talk him into it by promising to make Issac a partner and letting him have input in the restaurant. When Jay hears Issac's terrible ideas (which included naming the restaurant after himself) however, Jay reaches a RageBreakingPoint and loudly claims that they shouldn't even be negotiating with Issac because he isn't even a real person, leading to Issac using his ghost powers on Jay and Sam to claim Jay is [[ItsAllAboutMe only think about himself]]. While Jay obviously shouldn't have said that since it was a low blow, especially considering Issac already has a chip on his shoulder about the lack of respect he was shown in life and death, when one looks at it from Jay's perspective, it makes sense why he snaped. Seeing as Issac, being a ghost who can't eat or touch things and can't leave the property grounds, doesn't really need $10,000 dollars much less $187,000, wouldn't notice if it was gone, and can't even spend it without Sam's help (a fact that Issac, Hetty and Nigel all agree on two episodes ago by tactlessly pointing out in front of Sam that if she dies, he wouldn't have the money anymore) and this restaurant is Jay's life goal and Jay has put with a lot from the ghost even in just the past few weeks alone (in the episodes leading up to this one, Jay was attack by an Owl twice, was essentially brainwashed twice and nearly a third time, and had to dug up the spot wear Flower was eaten alive by the bear) it's hard to fault Jay for being at the end of his patience.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Jay in "The Silent Partner". The conflict of episode is that Sam and Jay want to barrow Issac's $10,000 dollars to keep paying the crew building Jay's restaurant. At first Trevor talks Issac into saying no and then just as he is about to change his mind, he walks in on Sam and Jay taking it anyway, but Trevor moved it into a brokerage firm first and ended up turning it into $187,000. Since Issac is sore about them trying to take the money behind his back, he still doesn't want them to use it, but Sam tries to talk him into it by promising to make Issac a partner and letting him have input in the restaurant. When Jay hears Issac's terrible ideas (which included naming the restaurant after himself) however, Jay reaches a RageBreakingPoint and loudly claims that they shouldn't even be negotiating with Issac because he isn't even a real person, leading to Issac using his ghost powers on Jay and Sam to claim Jay is [[NeverMyFault only think about himself]]. While Jay obviously shouldn't have said that since it was a low blow, especially considering Issac already has a chip on his shoulder about the lack of respect he was shown in life and death, when one looks at it from Jay's perspective, it makes sense why he snaped. Seeing as Issac, being a ghost who can't eat or touch things and can't leave the property grounds, doesn't really need $10,000 dollars much less $187,000, wouldn't notice if it was gone, and can't even spend it without Sam's help (a fact that Issac, Hetty and Nigel all agree on two episodes ago by tactlessly pointing out in front of Sam that if she dies, he wouldn't have the money anymore) and this restaurant is Jay's life goal and Jay has put with a lot from the ghost even in just the past few weeks alone (in the episodes leading up to this one, Jay was attack by an Owl twice, was essentially brainwashed twice and nearly a third time, and had to dug up the spot wear Flower was eaten alive by the bear) it's hard to fault Jay for being at the end of his patience.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:

* HilariousInHindsight: During season one, Sasappis tells Sam he was really an accountant who died at a costume party while dressed as a Native American before telling her that he's kidding. Two years later, such a situation actually happens when Carol dies in costume at a Halloween party, meaning her ghost is now stuck in her costume.

** Is Isaac's hatred of UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton solely due to personal jealousy and minor slights (Hamilton always got Isaac's name wrong whenever they met), or does he also disagree with Hamilton politically? Isaac never discusses his political views past wishing for independence from the crown, and while he finds Patrick Henry uptight and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington to be boring, but the only other founding father Isaac has mentioned having personal beef with is Creator/BenjaminFranklin, who basically used Isaac as a pack mule while refusing him entry to the Free Masons. Seeing as Isaac has not as of yet to mention his feels about people like Thomas Jefferson, Arron Burr, James Madison, and John and Sam Adams, it is possible that Isaac's politics are in line with Jefferson and the future Democratic-Republican Party, making Hamilton the natural enemy of Isaac's beliefs.

* CatharsisFactor: A minor example. While the ghosts all generally good natured and likable, they all still bother Sam with constant demands and act anywhere from somewhat reasonable to insufferably annoying. This makes it feel pretty good when Alberta is put into the same position as Sam and ends up calling all the other ghosts out for how annoying they can be while calling Sam a saint.

** "The Owl:

*** [[spoiler:Hetty's claim that she knows what works and what doesn't when it comes to childcare in "Halloween" and her admittance that she wasn't a very good mother to her children in "The Family Business". The latter is particularly damn as she wish could have given her children advice and then it shows a flashback where she attempts to advise Thomas]].

* TheScrappy: Jenkins, one of the red-coat ghosts is not well-liked by the fans for not really having a personality besides wanting to break up Nigel and Isaac.

** "The Baby Bjorn" reveals that Thorfinn had an infant son named Bjorn back in the old country and due to his death, he never saw him again until Sam learned that, after growing up, Bjorn went off to the New World to look for his father and died during his quest. He and Thorfinn were only hundreds of feet away for over a thousand years, each without knowing the other was within shouting distance.

** All the ghosts in "Dinner Party". When Sam has an important dinner with the Farnsbys, she asks the ghost to stay away and not disrupt it. Despite going out of her way to accommodate the ghosts wishes, they instead do the opposite of the one thing Sam asked them to do and crash the dinner party and turn it into complete chaos. First with Hetty inviting herself Alberta, Isaac, and Thor to the party anyway where they talk directly to Sam despite knowing that she can't respond to them in front of other people, then Trevor, Pete, and Flower loudly storm the party in protest then Alberta begins to loudly sing in the middle of the party for no reason. While Sam definitely shouldn't have used being alive as a comeback against them, she is the only one made to apologize despite how utterly ridiculous the ghosts behaved. They may have saved Sam and Jay from the Farnsbys' extortion attempt in the end, but that doesn't change the fact that they couldn't do this one thing for Sam when she has already done so much for them.

** Eric and by extension Sam and Jay in "He Sees Dead People". Basically, after Sam and Jay got him and Jay's sister Bela together during "The Christmas Spirit", things started off fine, but Eric started to worry that Bela was getting bored with him, so he started to pretend to see ghosts to be more interesting. Sam and Jay are of course angry when they find out but agree to keep his secret only if he fakes losing the ability to see ghosts and stops lying to her. When Bela sees through the lie, Sam and Jay convinces her to give Eric a second chance, with Sam even coming clean about a lie she had been telling Jay when they first got together. However, given that Eric has been lying to Bela for months by that point, going so far as to make up entire conversations between him and fake ghosts, even going so far as to do it on her birthday, it is very hard to justify Eric as being a good guy (even Sam's lie to Jay, while a bit creepy, was far more harmless). Add in the ExtremeDoormat lengths Eric went to please Bela back in "The Christmas Spirit", and he comes off as a creepy weirdo obsessed with Bela to the point he'll do anything to please her.

** Is Isaac's hatred of UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton solely due to personal jealousy and minor slights (Hamilton always got Isaac's name wrong whenever they met), or does he also disagree with Hamilton politically? Isaac never discusses his political views past wishing for independence from the crown, and while he finds Patrick Henry uptight and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington be boring, but the only other founding father Isaac has mentioned having personal beef with is Creator/BenjaminFranklin, who basically used Isaac as a pack mule while refusing him entry to the Free Masons. Seeing as Isaac has not as of yet to mention his feels about people like Thomas Jefferson, Arron Burr, James Madison, and John and Sam Adams, it is possible that Isaac's politics are in line with Jefferson and the future Democratic-Republican Party, making Hamilton the natural enemy of Isaac's beliefs.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: A major reveal about Isaac's backstory was that [[spoiler: his wife loved him enough to dress him in his best uniform as he was dying, proving she didn't resent him for being unable to have sex with her or leaving her unable to be with someone who would [[IncompatiableOrientation actually be interested]].]] It's possible she was just that forgiving a person, but another option is that [[spoiler: she herself was asexual, and married Isaac to avoid getting roped into sex. She might have also been a closet lesbian and thus completely understood the situation Isaac was in. Alternatively, given their apparent mutual affection, it's plausible that, yeah, she knew Isaac didn't love her the way a husband should love his wife--but they did still [[PlatonicLifePartners love each other]], and their marriage was still fulfilling in its own way.]]
** It's not clear how recently Sass discovered his Ghost Power. [[spoiler: It's bad enough he broke Jay's trust, but given how potentially useful it could have been to all the ghosts, he'd be an even bigger dick if he'd been hiding it for years or centuries.]]