While Sam and Jay are busy trying to impress "cool" friends from the city, an uninvited guest makes a permanent entrance. , Pete’s ex-wife, unexpectedly dies at the party after choking on a donut hole.
The episode’s central joke—that the Woodstone Men’s Guild met weekly for decades and never once discussed feelings—lands with surprising pathos. The 1920s ghost (a wonderfully mustachioed, silent-film-style character named ), who founded the guild, literally cannot say the word “lonely.” His jaw seizes up. This physical gag becomes the episode’s thesis: masculine spaces across eras have used ritual to avoid vulnerability. ghosts s03e04 wma