Although ghosts from CBS’s Ghosts are accustomed to her presence.

However, this episode’s new character wasn’t necessarily the episode’s biggest insight into the events of Ghosts season 4. Ghosts season 4, episode 1 also featured a new title screen, complete with a whole host of new items that hinted at future episodes of the outing. Ghosts season 4’s opening credit sequence now features a set of novelty vampire teeth, a single snail, a piece of fool’s gold in a jar, a plate of cake and a packet of fries, a snow globe, a cushion emblazoned with a shamrock, and a framed playbill, all of which may have cryptic secret meanings.

7 Ghosts Season 4’s New Vampire Teeth Tease Its Halloween Special

The Ghosts Halloween Special Is An Annual Tradition

The first notable new item in the Ghosts season 4 opening screen is a set of plastic vampire teeth that are likely part of a Halloween costume. Long-time Ghosts viewers know that the show’s love affair with the holiday began as far back as season 1, episode 5, “Halloween.” However, Ghosts season 4’s spooky new character Patience means the CBS sitcom is likely to embrace its creepy side more than ever before in season 4’s outing. In an interview with TVLine, co-showrunner Joe Wiseman said “Halloween is going to be influenced by a new addition to the house, Patience.”

It is no surprise that Patience will shape season 4’s Halloween, as “Patience” already proved the humorless Puritan is as inadvertently creepy as characters get in the light-hearted series. Like Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Community before it, Ghosts is a show that never misses a chance to pull off an ambitious Halloween episode, and season 4 will be no different. Patience’s ghost powers haven’t been revealed yet, but viewers do already know that they will be “Intense” according to series star Richie Moriarty. The actor told TVLine that Patience’s powers would creep out even the home’s ghostly inhabitants, and this may come into play at Halloween.

6 The Snail In Ghost Season 4’s Opening Credits Is Tough To Decipher

This Might Be The Animal Ghost That Ghosts Season 4’s Creators Promised

The second item that has been added to season 4’s Woodstone tableau is a snail that sits atop a stack of books. The snail in the Ghosts season 4 opening credits could be a ghostly pet for the house’s residents, since the same interview with showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman hinted at the arrival of an animal ghost on the property. Port said that a “Very small animal” would become a sort of pet for the Woodstone B&B’s undead residents, and this is almost certain to be the reason that a snail is making its slow way across the desk in the opening credits.

5 Ghosts Season 4’s Pyrite Could Spell Trouble For Jay and Sam

What Looks Like Fool’s Gold Sits On The Woodstone Mansion’s Desk

While Ghosts season 4 promises Jay will see ghosts for the first time, the arrival of new characters like Patience, and even the existence of animal ghosts, that doesn’t mean all the show’s surprises will be good news. Among the items on the desk is a piece of what looks like pyrite in a glass jar, and this may spell serious trouble for Sam and Jay. Pyrite is a sulfide mineral that is known for its shiny appearance, which earned it the moniker “Fool’s gold.” Pyrite was once the scourge of prospectors who understandably mistook the mineral for gold, but it is now better known as a homeowner’s nightmare.

Pyrite is a problem for homeowners and building regulators since, to quote the American Geosciences Institute, “If pyrite or pyrrhotite are present in the rocks underneath buildings, the swelling can push on the foundation, walls, and basement floor of the building, causing cracks and structural damage.” Sadly, this is most likely the reason that a great big chunk of pyrite would be sitting on the desk glimpsed in the show’s opening. Sam and Jay have already faced a plethora of problems both big and small since moving into their inherited mansion, but fool’s gold might be a foundational issue in their future.

4 The Food In Ghosts Season 4’s Opening Credits Teases Jay’s Restaurant

Jay’s Ambitious Career Move May Prove Risky

During Ghosts season 4’s San Diego Comic-Con , the cast and creators mentioned that Jay would be opening his restaurant in season 4. Jay’s restaurant storyline explains why there is cake and fries on the desk in season 4’s opening image since this plot will presumably be central to the outing. Ghosts season 4’s ing characters may have to wait a little longer to receive their powers and backstories as Jay takes the front seat for a while, but this change is arguably overdue after Utkarsh Ambudkar’s character was under-utilized in earlier seasons.

Sam tends to take the lead in most stories that involve interactions between the ghosts and the human world.

Jay has been a pivotal part of Ghosts since the show’s pilot but, since he can’t see the show’s title characters, his role in the show has always been inherently limited. Sam tends to take the lead in most stories that involve interactions between the ghosts and the human world, and Jay is at most used only as a human tool to indirectly do the bidding of the ghosts. The opening of his restaurant should change this, and Jay seeing ghosts in season 4 should start to further level the playing field as he gains a better idea of who he lives alongside.

3 Ghosts Season 4’s Snow Globe Teases Its Christmas Special

This Super-Sized Outing Will Finally Introduce Jay’s Parents

On the topic of Jay’s life outside the Woodstone B&B, there is a snow globe sitting on the desk in Ghosts season 4’s opening credits. This is almost certain to be a nod to the show’s super-sized Christmas special, which will finally introduce Jay’s entire large family to the series. According to Variety, the two-part special will be titled “A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 1” and “A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 2.” This outing will see Bernard White guest star as Jay’s father Mahesh and Sakina Jaffrey appear as his mother Champa, as well as Punam Patel's return as Jay’s sister Bela.

The outing’s log line mentions both how fussy Jay’s parents are and a broken water pipe, so it is fair to hazard a guess that this family Christmas may well be an awkward affair. However, Jay won’t be the only one whose family is introduced in season 4. Sam’s father, played by Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris, will appear earlier in season 4. Since Sam’s late mother appeared in earlier seasons, this means the main couple’s families will finally all have seen the inside of the infamous Woodstone B&B, for better or worse, by the time Christmas is at an end.

2 Ghosts Season 4’s Shamrock Cushion Hints Exploring Hetty's Anti-Irish Sentiment

The Ghosts Might Celebrate St Patrick’s Day

Also present in the opening credits is a cushion with a shamrock on it, which could hint at the possibility of a Saint Patrick’s Day special for the sitcom. This would be particularly promising since Hetty harbors some anti-Irish sentiments that she has no problem airing when given the chance, despite how out of vogue they may be in the twenty-first century. Ghosts season 4’s new character Patience is also likely to have some strong opinions on the holiday, since Puritans were famously English Protestants who demanded further reformation from the Church of England.

The shamrock cushion seems like a clear indication that Ghosts season 4 will explore Saint Patrick’s Day in its episodes.

Between Hetty’s hatred of the Irish and Patience’s problems with Catholicism, Saint Patrick’s Day is likely to be a powder keg of tension in the Woodstone B&B. Only time will tell how the holiday pans out, but the shamrock cushion seems like a clear indication that Ghosts season 4 will explore Saint Patrick’s Day in its episodes. If this proves to be the case, Hetty and Patience may play a major role in disrupting the festivities due to their disapproval.

1 Ghosts Season 4’s Playbill Teases A New Use For The Mansion

“The Hudson Valley Players” May Rehearse Or Perform At Woodstone

Finally, Ghosts season 4’s opening credits feature a framed playbill for a group called the “Hudson Valley Players.” While it’s not entirely clear what this represents in of the sitcom’s future storylines, one possibility is that Sam and Jay may rent out their massive mansion as a rehearsal or performance space for a theater troupe. This would be a perfect opportunity for the creators of the original BBC sitcom that Ghosts is based on, also titled Ghosts, to appear in the US series. The theatrical collective Them There plays the main ghosts in the English series.

New episodes of Ghosts air Thursdays at 8:30 on CBS.

Port and Wiseman previously pointed out how difficult it would be to justify a crossover between the original BBC show and its US counterpart, since their premises are so similar. The fact that the ghosts can’t leave the environs of their respective country houses, let alone their countries, makes this even trickier. However, if Ghosts season 4 cast the of Them There as a theater troupe who were rehearsing in the Woodstone B&B, this would provide the actors with an opportunity to appear in the series in a way that doesn’t ruin the canon and continuity of CBS' Ghosts.

Sources: TVLine

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