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buttonhouseparty · 2 days ago

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Most unbelievable part of Ghosts is not someone being able to see dead people, it's the appraisal guy in S5 not finding anything worth selling in that ancient house, when he's standing next to the same tapestries that were hanging there in Humphrey's day.

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buttonhouseparty · 3 days ago

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13/11

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buttonhouseparty · 4 days ago

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#nakey

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buttonhouseparty · 5 days ago

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GHOSTS (2019-2023) | IMDB Top 10 Episodes

#bbc ghosts #beautiful gifs #love the retro font it works so well

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buttonhouseparty · 6 days ago

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I had a virtual ticket for the Ghosts Q and A event, here’s some fun things I learned:

If Pat had a tattoo, it would be a dolphin on his ankle surrounded by stars

If Robin had a tattoo, it would be a bum on his bum

The original pilot for Ghosts contained many other characters and truly horrendous costumes

Robin’s original chess partner was a permanently drunk monk

There was going to be these two ghost characters who were a husband and wife who hated each other to the point that the husband killed his wife and then instantly fell down the stairs so he was stuck with his wife for eternity

Mary was initially eternally emitting smoke, which was a problem because it was a practical effect which involved piping smoke from under her skirt (from what I could gather)

Martha Howe-Douglas has never seen Star Wars

The team who made Ghosts initially considered making a show set in space instead because they weren’t sure how to do the ghost plot - Martha would’ve been a cyborg (she doesn’t know what a cyborg is)

Laurence Rickard (Robin and Humphrey) once encountered a little Northern Pat trick or treater during Halloween who had no clue who he was and didn’t intentionally come to his house

Laurence Rickard has a model of his severed head just on his person (presumably at all times)

There was initially going to be a ghost called Ancient William, who was one of the oldest and wisest of the ghosts, a soothsayer type character like Yoda, except he was only six years old

#great selection of nuggets #it’s interesting that the name william still ended up in the show!#bbc ghosts

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buttonhouseparty · 7 days ago

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Can’t we just watch Friends again?

#I can’t remember what my point was here #probably just ‘here are some references to friends’#but it’s striking how the last shot #which obviously echoes the friends title sequence #looks so sad and wistful #it sets up a comparison between two great sitcoms that couldn’t look more different #could they BE any more tonally different #it’s called ghosts. it’s a comedy #it’s infused with melancholy. you’re gonna love it #ps. having a dvd boxset of friends is peak millennial behaviour from alison

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buttonhouseparty · 8 days ago

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01/11

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buttonhouseparty · 9 days ago

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Thinking about how Thomas and the Captain are two sides of the same coin.

Both are inept in their chosen fields, but they put their heart and soul into it. Each is mocked by (most of) his peers, but yearns for their respect.

One lives in a world that encourages him to embrace emotional expression and individuality; the other lives in a world that forces him to repress them, stripping him of all identity but his rank.

Each of them is loved by someone who finds his idiosyncrasies charming, even as everyone else laughs. And yet, the pursuit of this love leads each to an ignominious death.

The Captain dies having learned that his feelings are requited, with Havers by his side. Thomas dies alone, believing that Isabelle no longer loves him.

They are a soldier who died from a broken heart, and a poet who died from a gunshot.

#wow #what a lovely insight 🥺

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buttonhouseparty · 10 days ago

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