Ghosts S4E15

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It feels like there's nothing left to say that hasn't already been said before [Xmas special, E11]. However, I will say that Flower's interjections to unnecessarily explain a euphemism for having sex as "when two adults share a special hug" (twice with, I think, slightly different wording after the hug bit) to Sass, who is clear that he doesn't need the explanation, adds in a dash of infantilization to all this virgin joking. He's more than aware of what everyone means if someone says 'doing it'.

Flower even gets in a line about how [plot relevant mistake Alberta made] can't be worse than Sass being a virgin. I'd love for the writers to get a new joke. I'm kind of wary as to what may happen in the next episode as we deal with Chris, the stripper hired for the bachelorette party, dying on the property; for non-viewers, Chris had an 'It's Raining Men' package where he parachuted in, but something went wrong with his parachute opening in this jump, and he crashed through the roof of Jay's newly open restaurant. I'm not saying that I'm confident that Flower will act pushy about Sass having a new ghost to fix his virgin problem with, but I'm wary of that being thrown in.

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Follow up: There wasn't any pushiness about Chris, but the introduction of Joan in E17 and getting her together with Sass in E18 did lead to some obvious-to-see-coming comments from Flower about Sass needing to have sex already. I'm really hoping that the writers will finally, finally stop returning to this virgin joke.

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Follow up: While it felt like we had way too many comments from other ghosts about Sass needing to have sex with Joan already [between her introduction and E21], they did have sex in S4E21. This 'adult virgin' and 'virgin equals horrible' joke should be over with because Sass informed everyone afterwards, and they all cheered and celebrated. It felt unnecessary, but I was just relieved that this punchline should finally, finally be done.

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Relevant tv_talk thread:

violateraindrop's comment:

The most recent episode of Ghosts was so meh to me. I hope that this is really the end of the "Sass is a virgin" jokes. He is one of my favorite characters and I hate how they reduced him to this one joke during this season.

My reply:

Seconding the wish for Ghosts. I feel like the only thing I've noted about it since the Xmas special was that I want the writers to stop with the virgin jokes. Having to hear how sad and pathetic and horrible not having sex is, and how virginity needs to explicitly be fixed, is just grating. It's well past the point where I could entertain the possibility for a sensitive introduction of ace identity in a parallel to Isaac getting to claim his homosexuality in a different era, and I just want some other type of joke.