Ghosts (US)
Warning : This article contains SPOILERS for season 4 , episode 12 , “ It ’s the End of the World as We Know It and What Were We Talking About ? ”
InGhostsseason 4 , episode 12 , the CBS sitcom subtly speak a major tv set controversy that has been bug creators and commentator for class now . The ghosts of CBS’sGhostsare a funny clustering , but that is not necessarily reflected in the show ’s awards recognition . Ghostsseason 1 might boast a decisive paygrade of 93 % onRotten Tomatoes , but the show ’s response has been less impressive when it come in to award show . AlthoughGhostswas nominate for the Critics Choice Awards and the Saturn Awards , it has not yet received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series .
WhileGhostsseason 4 ’s cast of charactersis more impressive than ever , only time will tell whether this translates to the situation comedy faring better at 2025 ’s Emmy Awards . Until then , season 4 , episode 12 , “ It ’s the End of the World as We Know It and What Were We talk About ? ” manage to slip in a insidious dig at the priorities of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences voter base . As Flower sample to disrupt Jay and Sam ’s eating house opening for their own good , Alberta , Sass , and Pete ’s conversation alludes to a major TV controversy .
Ghosts Season 4 Episode 12 Joked About The Bear’s “Comedy” Status
Sass Said Ratatouille Was Like The Bear “But A Comedy”
While the ghosts watch over the kitchen workers cook , Sass and Pete remark that they wish they could control them like the rat fromRatatouillecontrolled his human friend . When Albertan asks Sass what Ratatouille was about , he replies that it is about the chaos of professional kitchens , adding that it is “ Like that show The Bear , but it ’s a comedy . ”This small line fromGhostsseason 4 , sequence 12was secretly a gag aboutThe Bearcontroversially come through Outstanding Comedy Series in 2023even though , as a lot of critic and writers remark , the series hardly qualify as a comedy .
Even though the show can get very dark and dramatic , The Bearhas still been systematically categorized as a drollery rather than a drama by the Emmy Awards .
The Bearmight be critically acclaimed , but it is doubtlessly as much a drama ( if not much more so ) as a traditional clowning . The show address issuing like suicide , drug addiction , alcoholism , economic anxiety , and wretched mental wellness with unflinching realism . This made its profits was divisive , to say the least . Despite this , The Bearwas nominated again in 2024 , whichGhostsnotably was n’t . Even though the show can get very benighted and spectacular , The Bearhas still been consistently categorise as a comedy rather than a dramatic play by the Emmy Awards .
Ghosts & The Bear Highlight How Much Comedy Awards Have Changed
The Genre’s Recent Emmy Winners Have Overwhelmingly Come From Streaming Services
Throughout the 2000s , mesh sitcoms like30 Rock , Arrested Development , andThe Officedominated the Outstanding Comedy Series class . However , this vogue has careen substantially in late years . FromHackstoTed LassotoFleabag , all the recent Emmy winners have been pelt shows . Thanks toVeep ’s trio of win and a single win forSchitt ’s Creek , 2014’sModern Familywin was the last time a victor came from one of the traditional big four TV web ( ABC , CBS , NBC , and Fox ) .
Only a few episodes after cite iZombie , Ghosts season 4 slipped in a nod to Rose McIver ’s other famous office before the CBS sitcom started .
In recent years , only one Outstanding Comedy Series nomination slot will go to a web situation comedy , usually theundeniably brilliantAbbott Elementary . However , everything else that earns a nominating address is a streaming series , even though traditional electronic web output signal used to dominate this accolade . Ghostsis a perfect example of a well - like electronic web situation comedy that would almost certainly have received an Emmy nominating speech if not a win in an earlier earned run average , which might explain this pointed barb in season 4 , sequence 12 .
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