I've always called him "Mr. Overtly Excitable", and when said in context of Egyptology specials, most folks knew who I meant.

That's right!

Fortunately, I'm quite familiar with the "I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor, and I don't like it very much" song.

Although I'm now wondering about how Blutbaden led to the werewolf myth, since apparently they look like perfectly normal folks to 99.9% of the population.

I was pretty solidly suspecting Mom, too.

And based on this episode, since the hospital determined the neighbor was "bitten by some sort of dog" and not "by a very small human", it shows that when the were-things were-out, they're actually changing shape (IE: The CGI morphing isn't showing some aura or something, but instead those bits are when their faces…

Are giant constrictors really an, "Oh no! There's one near me! Help help!" sort of threat?

Most viewers would want some continuity between seasons, so if they were to do that, it'd probably have to be the same family re-locating from horror-show to horror-show.

...crazy, ether-sniffing ghost doc who is often more concerned about the results of the procedure, than about the patient's long-term plans.

I've heard an unconfirmed rumor that the long-term plan is to end a season now and again with the family getting killed or driven out, followed by a new family. So, the series is more about the house itself than this particular family (if said rumor is true).

I'd heard it as buttercups, like in the article, but with the smearing that you described.

It's the "about the creatures" angle that I really want to know the most about.

It's great when they have the extra functional toes sticking out the back, because then they can scamper down trees almost as easily as they can scamper up them (normally, the problem is that gravity helps the curved claws dig in when going up, but "helps" pull them out of the bark on the way back down).

Handy-Cat!

Here in Maine, one generally sees at least one polydactyl (AKA: 'double-pawed') cat a year. I've seen some where they look perfectly normal until you look at the underside and realize there's an extra toe (with a fully functional claw) on their foot, others where it's just some useless nub hanging off to the side, and…

Although there is something about having your body on the property. Moira was concerned enough about it, but I've yet to figure out exactly what the difference is between on-property ghosts and off-property ghosts in the house.

I once saw Attenborough drink water he squeezed from an underground toad.

Some year soon, this will actually be how illustrations on/in books can look.

I like the Also answer.

First off, three cheers for Joshua Malina! He's probably at least 1/3 of why I watch that show on USA about the witness protection program (an other 1/3 is/are the monologue intro-outro bits).