History Series / GhostsUS

** In "Pete's Wife" Jay compares inviting Pete's living wife to the Woodstone to time travel movies, citing rules such as not interacting with anyone and [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture not sleeping with one's mom]]

* ClueOfFewWords: In the second Halloween episode, Sam gets locked into the ghost-proof (and air-tight) secret vault. Jay remembers a previous condensation trick, fogs up the mirror and waits. Unfortunately, Trevor tries to by succinct, writing "SAM SAFE." Jay mis-interprets until Trevor changes it to "SAM in SAFE".

** Sasappis is the only ghost who doesn’t have any extreme personality quirks.

** Even more recent ghosts of Trevor and Pete take things they did as livings in new cultural light. Where they once enjoyed ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', now as ghosts themselves they see it as a horrible representation of some poor unfortunate people. As ghosts take the form of their living's final moments and that is unchanging, Alberta is horrified to consider what caused Slimer to look as he does.

* FantasticRacism: The ghosts take offense to terms like "ghosted" because they think it puts ghost-kind in a bad light. They also find movies like ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' horrifying because they don't like being presented as being evil beings that wish humanity harm.

* VanHelsingHateCrime: Invoked in the episode "Halloween" after Trevor, Pete and Alberta watch ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' on TV and become uncomfortable with how the ghosts in the movie are treated.

** The couple's dynamic is inverted where [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl the husband is more sensible yet cynical and the wife is incredibly optimistic and impulsive]]. This is best exemplified when Jay was initially apprehensive towards Samantha's ill-thought plan of converting the house into a B&B because of the costs and time they'll need to invest in.

* AsYouKnow: In "Attic Girl", Stephanie comes down to the kitchen after Jay accidently wakes her up where she meets up with Isaac, Hetty, Flower, and Pete, to which Pete exclaims that, as a teenaged ghost, Steph sleeps for months at a time. Considering that, by that time, Steph has already been dead for 35 years (which also means Pete has only been dead for two years longer than her), she most definitely already knows this. It's doubly weird considering that Sam, the one person who doesn't already know this, isn't in the room.
* BadLiar: the core cast has a bad habit of this, pausing, stuttering or making it very obvious from their faces and body language, especially when the rest of the group is piecing a subterfuge together. Sam ironically, falls victim to this purely by accident and the most frequently, as she goes off the ghosts word when they tend to misremember things before they died, or lie to protect details or something of meaning to them.

** When Samantha first arrives at Woodstone, she burns some sage to ward off spirits. The ghosts initially react in fear but then find the sensation very pleasant.

** Since she was technically dead for three minutes after her staircase accident, Sam can now see and hear, as well as talk to, not only the ghosts that occupy the mansion but other ghosts who died in town as well. And this power isn't limited to the town, as we see Sam visit her mother's ghost at the restaurant she died eating shrimp at in Ohio, and interact with her and two other ghosts there.

* CacophonyCoverUp: Jay tenderises some meat to cover up the fact that Sam is braking down a wall to find some vintage liquor in "The Liquor License." They do it in sync with each other with Sam hitting the wall on Alberta’s orders.

* CharacterTitle: Some of the episode titles go by the structure of "[Character Name]'s [Noun]".[[note]]Pete's Wife, Flower's Article, Alberta's Fan, Sam's Mom, Jay's Sister, Trevor's Pants, Alberta's Podcast, Jay's Friends[[/note]]

** "The Perfect Assistant" introduces Jessica, a "car ghost" who died in a car crash and is bound to the vehicle where she died.

** The redcoat ghosts who live in the ramshackle shed on the property invade the main house and refuse to leave... unless Sam and Jay's contractor refit the door of the shed.
* ComicallyLopsidedRivalry: Isaac speaks of Hamilton as a rival of his but also drops hints that Hamilton barely knew who he was.

** Isaac shares qualities similar to the Captain (both being military men who are closeted gays), to Thomas (both become jealous upon learning that a contemporary whom they loathed is famous and well-remembered while they themselves have been relegated to obscurity--Creator/LordByron to Thomas and UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton to Isaac), to Mary (both emit a strong odor when a living passes through them), and to Julian (both are mainly known for their ignoble deaths--Julian in a salacious sex scandal and Isaac by dysentery). He also shares a part of Humphrey’s backstory as they were trapped in an ArrangedMarriage. Although they didn’t love their wife, they still cared for them and their wife cared for them in return.

** Trevor mentions that the reason of his missing pants [[labelnote:Justification]] he gave them to Pinkus so he wouldn't have to run back to New York City naked out in the cold in “Trevor’s Pants”[[/labelnote]] was a hero move in “Alberta’s Descendent”.
** While Hetty and Trevor are discussing their affair in “Alberta’s Descendent”, they mention their hook-up at the end of “The Christmas Spirit, Part Two”.
** Jay mentions in “Alberta’s Descendent” the food critic getting horny, due to Elias walking through her, while eating his lamb chops in the previous episode “Weekend From Hell”.

** There are serval [[CallBack call backs]] in the season 2 finale as it mentions David Woodstone dumping Trevor’s body in “Trevor’s Pants”, [[spoiler: the fact that Thomas Woodstone murdered Alberta in the previous episode]], Sasappis dating Jessica in “The Perfect Assistant”, “The Family Business” and “Ghosthunter”, Sasappis stating to Isaac that washing hands prevents dysentery like one his troops in “D&D” and Hetty getting an orgasm due to a washing machine in “Alberta’s Podcast”.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: According to Sam's research, the Woodstones who built the house were 19th century versions of this trope. They accumulated their wealth through illicit means and they were full-on robber barons who [[MoneyFetish slept on gold]]. Hetty concedes to the other ghosts that the latter did happen, but only once.

* DeadpanSnarker: Pretty much everyone in the cast, living and ghostly alike, is capable of being this at some time or another. Jay and Sassapis are probably the most frequent examples.

--->'''Isaac:''' Oh, come on, that was gasp worthy! There's something wrong with you people.

* FakeRelationship: In "Sam's Mom", Pete ends up saying that he has a girlfriend from the Cholera Pit, even though he actually doesn't have a girlfriend at all. He thus gets one of the Basement Ghosts (a woman named Nancy) and has her pose as his girlfriend to keep up the ruse.

** Season 1: A scout guidebook[[note]]Pete's personal one from "Pete's Wife"[[/note]], an old portrait of a man[[note]]Hetty's husband Elias who appeared in "The Vault"[[/note]], a spyglass[[note]]In "D&D", Isaac attached one to a rifle to make a sniper scope but for the purpose of gazing at Nigel from afar until he sneezed, pull the trigger and accidently murder him[[/note]], a feather[[note]]The one in Sassappis' hair which was brought attention to in "Ghostwriter"[[/note]], a money clip[[note]]What Trevor gave to a newbie intern in "Trevor's Pants" alongside the titular pants (and boxer shorts) so he can catch a taxi and avoid running to the city in only a t-shirt during a cruel hazing ritual[[/note]], a daisy[[note]]References Flower's old nickname her boyfriend gave in "Flower's Article" who then founded Daisy's Coffee from the money they stole in her honor[[/note]], a Viking helmet[[note]]Specifically a metal one that caused Thorfinn's death via lightning strike in "Viking Funeral"[[/note]], a moonshine bottle[[note]]The cause of Alberta's death when someone poisoned it as revealed in "Alberta's Fan"[[/note]]
** Season 2: A fishing rod[[note]]In "Trevor's Body", the plot begins with Trevor's skull being fished out of a lake[[/note]], a picture of a tree[[note]]In "The Tree", Sassappis carved the number of times Shiki talk to him in the aforementioned tree and was adamant of letting the neighbours cutting it down[[/note]], a plate of donut holes[[note]]The reason behind why Pete was distracted the day of his death in "Dumb Deaths" from the argument he had with his wife over eating the last of them and then whether they were punch out from donuts or made separately[[/note]], a miniature stagecoach [[note]]In “The Liquor License” Creator/BenjaminFranklin only invented Isaac to the Masonic loge because he wanted him to do various tasks using his carriage[[/note]], a bottle of laundry detergent[[note]]Hetty uses the mansion's broken washing machine for self gratification[[/note]], a dagger [[note]]Thorfinn gave his son Bjorn a dagger that belonged to his father before he left him for the new world in “The Baby Bjorn”[[/note]], a condenser microphone [[note]]Alberta is seen singing into one in the opening of “Alberta’s Podcast”[[/note]] and a teddy bear[[note]] “Dumb Deaths” opens with Flower’s death when she tried to hug a bear[[/note]].

* SenseFreak: When Hetty is stuck inside Jay's body, she quickly indulges in food and becomes infatuated with Cheetos.

* SpookySeance: Sam and Jay hold a séance for their Halloween party in "Halloween 2: The Ghost of Hetty's Past", hoping the ghosts will use their powers to make it interesting. The séance ends up working, however, summoning the ghost of Molly, the maid who cheated on Hetty's husband.

*** Both Flower and Pete died in ways that were so stupid a [[ShowWithinAShow TV show]] called "Dumb Deaths" wanted to do an episode about them. Flower got so high, she tried to hug a bear. Pete gave dangerous weapons to children then stood in front of them. If that wasn't stupid enough, it was later revealed that the reason he didn't give the safety lecture before handing out the arrows was because he was preoccupied with a dumb fight he had with his wife about donut holes.

* UnknownRival: Isaac was insanely jealous of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton never remembered meeting him.

The eponymous ghosts are a close-knit but eclectic group that includes Alberta (Creator/DaniellePinnock), a saucy Prohibition-era blues singer; Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), a pompous and [[TransparentCloset very likely closeted]] [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Revolutionary War]] militia commander; Flower (Sheila Carrasco), a [[TheSixties '60s]] hippie who's as spaced out as she is chatty; Thorfinn (Devan Chandler Long), a bloodthirsty Viking and the oldest of the resident spirits; Trevor (Asher Grodman), a sleazy TurnOfTheMillennium yuppie caught with his pants down--literally; Hetty (Creator/RebeccaWisocky), the uptight, original owner of the house back in the 19th-century; Sasappis (creator/RomanZaragoza), a snarky Native American exasperated with the whole afterlife situation; Pete (Richie Moriarty), an upbeat [[TheEighties '80s]] scout troop leader with an arrow shot through his neck; Crash, a decapitated [[TheFifties '50s]] greaser who spends most of his time reuniting his head with his body; and a group of assorted, disheveled cholera victims residing in the mansion's basement.

The eponymous ghosts are a close-knit but eclectic group that includes Alberta (Creator/DaniellePinnock), a saucy Prohibition-era blues singer; Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), a pompous and [[TransparentCloset very likely closeted]] [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Revolutionary War]] militia commander; Flower (Sheila Carrasco), a [[TheSixties '60s]] hippie who's as spaced out as she is chatty; Thorfinn (Devan Chandler Long), a bloodthirsty Viking and the oldest of the resident spirits; Trevor (Asher Grodman), a sleazy TurnOfTheMillennium yuppie caught with his pants down--literally; Hetty (Creator/RebeccaWisocky), the uptight, original owner of the house back in the 19th-century; Sasappis (Roman Zaragoza), a snarky Native American exasperated with the whole afterlife situation; Pete (Richie Moriarty), an upbeat [[TheEighties '80s]] scout troop leader with an arrow shot through his neck; Crash, a decapitated [[TheFifties '50s]] greaser who spends most of his time reuniting his head with his body; and a group of assorted, disheveled cholera victims residing in the mansion's basement.

The eponymous ghosts are a close-knit but eclectic group that includes Alberta (Danielle Pinnock), a saucy Prohibition-era blues singer; Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), a pompous and [[TransparentCloset very likely closeted]] [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Revolutionary War]] militia commander; Flower (Sheila Carrasco), a [[TheSixties '60s]] hippie who's as spaced out as she is chatty; Thorfinn (Devan Chandler Long), a bloodthirsty Viking and the oldest of the resident spirits; Trevor (Asher Grodman), a sleazy TurnOfTheMillennium yuppie caught with his pants down--literally; Hetty (Creator/RebeccaWisocky), the uptight, original owner of the house back in the 19th-century; Sasappis (Roman Zaragoza), a snarky Native American exasperated with the whole afterlife situation; Pete (Richie Moriarty), an upbeat [[TheEighties '80s]] scout troop leader with an arrow shot through his neck; Crash, a decapitated [[TheFifties '50s]] greaser who spends most of his time reuniting his head with his body; and a group of assorted, disheveled cholera victims residing in the mansion's basement.

* CondensationClue: In "D&D" the ghosts realize they can have Trevor do this in the bathroom mirror to communicate with Jay while he is showering. Jay is not happy about this invasion of privacy.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In "Alberta's Podcast", Hetty is upset at the malfunctioning washing machine making too much noise, until Flower shows her how to get aroused by sitting on it. She is at first ashamed of it, but eventually admits that she can't resist it. Later, after Jay buys a new washer, Flower whispers to Hetty other ways to get sexually gratified.

** Ghosts can also be banished to Hell, as seen with [[spoiler:Elias in "The Vault"]]. It's implied that if they refuse to change their ways, this is their fate. They can temporary leave Hell if they become a better person while down there. [[spoiler:Elias explains that he was granted a 48 hour furlough because he is a changed man in “Weekend From Hell”.]] To permanently stay out of Hell, the person they had wronged must sign their contract with full intention that they forgive them. However if they can’t behave in the mortal realm, they are forced return as seen with [[spoiler:Elias in the end of “Weekend From Hell”]].

* TooDumbToLive: Some of the ghosts died by less than intelligent means.
** Both Flower and Pete died in ways that were so stupid a [[ShowWithinAShow TV show]] called "Dumb Deaths" wanted to do an episode about them. Flower got so high, she tried to hug a bear. Pete gave dangerous weapons to children then stood in front of them. If that wasn't stupid enough, it was later revealed that the reason he didn't give the safety lecture before handing out the arrows was because he was preoccupied with a dumb fight he had with his wife about donut holes.
** Isaac ignored a subordinate's warnings about the dangers of dysentery. Later, when he finds out how Alexander Hamilton died, he takes great pleasure in believing his old SitcomArchNemesis was this trope.
** Elias commissioned a secret vault, then he not only refused to pay the man who built it, he slept with the man's wife. As a result, he got locked inside his own vault and suffocated.
** Trevor mixed a bunch of unlabeled drugs.
** Jessica drove drunk.
** Stephanie stayed to [[AutoErotica make out in the car]] with her prom date even after [[IgnoredVitalNewsReports hearing a radio bulletin]] about an escaped chainsaw killer in the area.
** Alberta drank moonshine left by a stranger. When Thorfin pointed this out, Alberta replied that he wore a metal helmet in a lightning storm.
---> '''Alberta''': We all got here somehow.

* ManipulativeBastard: Jenkins manages to briefly to end Isaac and Nigel’s relationship in “Farnsby & B”. He manages to do it again indirectly in “Trevor’s Body”, when Pete tells Isaac Jenkins’ confession about his affair with Nigel on Christmas. Fortunately, Nigel and Isaac make up on both occasions.

** There are serval [[CallBack call backs]] in the season 2 finale as it mentions David Woodstone dumping Trevor’s body in “Trevor’s Pants”, [[spoiler: the fact that Thomas Woodstone murdered Alberta in the previous episode]], Sasappis dating Jessica in “The Perfect Assistant”, “The Family Business” and “Ghosthunter”, Sasappis stating to Isaac that washing hands prevents dysentery like one his troops in “D&D” and Hetty getting an organism due to a washing machine in “Alberta’s Podcast”.

* ManipulativeBastard: Jenkins manages to briefly the end Isaac and Nigel’s relationship in “Farnsby & B”. He manages to do it again indirectly in “Trevor’s Body”, when Pete tells Isaac Jenkins’ confession about his affair with Nigel on Christmas. Fortunately, Nigel and Isaac make up on both occasions.

** The events that involved Isaac and Nigel in “The Christmas Spirt” are mentioned again in “Trevor’s Body” as Jenkins reveals that after their failed kiss under the mistletoe, he flirted with Nigel. It turned out that Nigel flirted with him because he was disappointed that he didn’t have his kiss with Isaac.

** A third instance happens in "Halloween 2: The Ghost of Hetty's Past" where Trevor tries to tell Jay that Sam is trapped in the ghost-proof safe, except he chooses to write "Sam safe" instead of "Sam vault" [[SkewedPriorities because he was trying to be succinct]]. Jay almost walks away thinking nothing is wrong until Trevor corrects the message to "Sam in safe."

** Alberta drank moonshine left by a stranger.

* RunningGag: Sam talking to one or more of the ghosts and realizing that another living person is in the room and overheard her, forcing her to [[VerbalBackspace awkwardly revise her statement after the fact]].
** Issac being the only one to gasp whenever something dramatic happens.

* RecycledScript: In the episode "The Heir," a woman claims to have a stronger claim to Woodstone, by being the love-child of Sam's uncle. The original British version had a woman claim to be a long-lost older sister of Alison's and who wants a split of the estate. [[spoiler:Both claims turned out to be false.]]