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* StartMyOwn: To undercut Sam and Jay's B&B, the Farnsbys start their own and steal away many of their guests. Judy, the ghost haunting the Farnsby's home, reveals to Sam that they actually hate running it.

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* StartMyOwn: To undercut Sam and Jay's B&B, the Farnsbys start their own and steal away many of their guests. Judy, the ghost haunting the Farnsby's home, reveals to Sam that they actually hate running it.it.
* YouCanSeeMe: Judy Farnsby's exact words when she sees Sam looking at her.
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No spoiler for future episodes. Put this in the other episode.


* ChekhovsGun: The Farnsby's have a picture of an upside-down pineapple in the foyer of their house. [[spoiler: This shows that they were into swinging, which Jay and Sam find out about in ''[[Recap/GhostsUSSeason2Episode6TheBabyBjorn Baby Bjorn.'']]]]

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* ChekhovsGun: The Farnsby's have a picture of an upside-down pineapple in the foyer of their house. [[spoiler: This shows that they were into swinging, which Jay and Sam find out about in ''[[Recap/GhostsUSSeason2Episode6TheBabyBjorn Baby Bjorn.'']]]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The Farnsby's have a picture of an upside-down pineapple in the foyer of their house.

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* ChekhovsGun: The Farnsby's have a picture of an upside-down pineapple in the foyer of their house. [[spoiler: This shows that they were into swinging, which Jay and Sam find out about in ''[[Recap/GhostsUSSeason2Episode6TheBabyBjorn Baby Bjorn.'']]]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The Farnsby's have a picture of an upside-down pineapple in the foyer of their house.
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* FloorboardFailure: Just as Sam and Jay are greeting their first guests, the termite-eaten beam gives way, and both drop down to the basement.
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One trope per line and honestly that doesn't fit Chekhov's gun anyway.


* BrickJoke[=/=]ChekhovsGun: Early on, the contractor warns Sam and Jay about a termite-eaten beam on the basement. About halfway through the episode, the cholera ghosts point out how the beam is starting to give way every time someone walks over it upstairs. At the very end of the episode, the beam finally gives way, dropping Sam and Jay into the basement just as they are greeting their first guests.

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* BrickJoke[=/=]ChekhovsGun: BrickJoke: Early on, the contractor warns Sam and Jay about a termite-eaten beam on the basement. About halfway through the episode, the cholera ghosts point out how the beam is starting to give way every time someone walks over it upstairs. At the very end of the episode, the beam finally gives way, dropping Sam and Jay into the basement just as they are greeting their first guests.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Farnsbys opened their own B&B to drive Sam and Jay out of business without considering that their smaller house meant that they would have to personally deal with guests they dislike.



* StartMyOwn: To undercut Sam and Jay's B&B, the Farnsby's start their own and steal away many of their guests. Judy, the ghost haunting the Farnsby's home, reveals to Sam that they actually hate running it.

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* StartMyOwn: To undercut Sam and Jay's B&B, the Farnsby's Farnsbys start their own and steal away many of their guests. Judy, the ghost haunting the Farnsby's home, reveals to Sam that they actually hate running it.
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* HauntedHouse: The Farnsbys also have a ghost residing inside their house just like Sam and Jay's.

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* HauntedHouse: The Farnsbys also have a ghost ghost, Judy, residing inside their house just like Sam and Jay's.

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* ChekhovsGun: Early on, the contractor warns Sam and Jay about a termite-eaten beam on the basement. About halfway through the episode, the cholera ghosts point out how the beam is starting to give way every time someone walks over it upstairs. At the very end of the episode, the beam finally gives way, dropping Sam and Jay into the basement just as they are greeting their first guests.

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* ChekhovsGun: ArbitrarySkepticism: Upon hearing that Thorfinn put a curse on Sam and Jay, some of the ghosts react with skepticism, which irks Alberta because they're ghosts with supernatural abilities.
-->'''Alberta:''' We're stuck in an endless purgatory...we saw a guy go down on us a couple weeks ago...and ''curse'' is where you draw the line?
* BrickJoke[=/=]ChekhovsGun:
Early on, the contractor warns Sam and Jay about a termite-eaten beam on the basement. About halfway through the episode, the cholera ghosts point out how the beam is starting to give way every time someone walks over it upstairs. At the very end of the episode, the beam finally gives way, dropping Sam and Jay into the basement just as they are greeting their first guests.

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* HauntedHouse: The Farnsbys also have a ghost residing inside their house just like Sam and Jay's.

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* ChekhovsGun: Early on, the contractor warns Sam and Jay about a termite-eaten beam on the basement. About halfway through the episode, the cholera ghosts point out how the beam is starting to give way every time someone walks over it upstairs. At the very end of the episode, the beam finally gives way, dropping Sam and Jay into the basement just as they are greeting their first guests.
* CommonplaceRare: To counter Thorfinn's curse, Sam and Jay need to procure two very rare ingredients -- a pound of sugar and a spice known as cinnamon. While rare in Thorfinn's time, both are of course readily available in the 21st Century.
* HauntedHouse: The Farnsbys also have a ghost residing inside their house just like Sam and Jay's.Jay's.
* StartMyOwn: To undercut Sam and Jay's B&B, the Farnsby's start their own and steal away many of their guests. Judy, the ghost haunting the Farnsby's home, reveals to Sam that they actually hate running it.
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'''Original air date:''' 4/21/2022

When Sam and Jay refuse the Farnsbys' offer to buy their bed and breakfast, the Farnsbys open a rival B&B to drive the younger couple out of business; Thorfinn reveals that he placed a Norse curse on the mansion to prevent a B&B from ever being opened.
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* HauntedHouse: The Farnsbys also have a ghost residing inside their house just like Sam and Jay's.

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