Carol Martino (née Randuzzo) is the former wife of Pete. She appears in the American sitcom Ghosts.
Biography[]
Life[]
Carol was born into the Randuzzo Family, who were a crime family unknown to most. She later married Pete and they had a daughter named Laura. Before Pete died, she was having an argument with Pete because she ate all the donut holes. Sometime after his death she remarried Jerry (Pete's best friend).
Carol admits to Sam that she had something weighing on her mind, and that it was easy to talk to a stranger about. She tells her that she was having an affair with Jerry while Pete was alive. She assumed Pete knew about the affair but his ghost was devastated to hear the truth. She never knew that Pete forgave her.
Carol gave the bench that Pete would sit on in their backyard to Sam, in honor of Pete. She, Jerry, Sam and Jay Arondekar have a memorial in honor of him.
She attempts to take over the wedding planning in the episode Ghost Father of the Bride. Pete mentions that she was bad at compromise which was the worst part of their marriage.
During Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave, Carol shows up at Woodstone Mansion during Sam and Jay's Halloween party, because of mishap on Sam's part. As Sam and Jay realize their error, Carol embarrasses them while they were they're trying to impress some cool friends. Pete still bitter about her affair, storms off while she was presents. She dons cat ears for the party and ate donut holes. However, while she was eating them, Carol choked on them and died.
Death[]
After becoming a ghost, she was unaware of her situation and attended the party. Some of the ghosts spotted her corpse and withheld this from Sam and Jay, upset that Sam forbade them from giving advice. Carol still oblivious to being dead, spoke to guests not realizing they couldn't see her until Sam spotted her talking to her cool guests, who found her body and assumed she was killed by Sam and Jay. When Carol spotted Pete, it became obvious to everyone of what was going on with the ghosts finally telling Sam after her guests fled the scene. Realizing Carol was now a ghost, Pete ran off after noting he was doomed to spend eternity with his traitorous wife while the coroner was called for the party, thus cancelling the party. After realizing the truth, Carol annoyed the other ghosts with her questions about her new ghostly situation. She later joined the séance to try to summon Flower from Heaven.
Since then, she's seemingly taken to her afterlife as a ghost, despite having a shaky relationship with her former husband, Pete. At some point, Carol enters a relationship and eventually marries Baxter, one of Nigel's soldier ghosts.
During St. Hetty's Day, Pete brings up Carol when telling Chris, the new ghost, about sucking candy from Carol's hand to taste it.
In Soul Custody, Carol finds Alberta, and Pete, talking in the den with both her and Nancy laughing that Alberta could not take the hint about her rejection. Alberta ignores this and their attempts to set her up with another ghost. Later on, Carol was trying to smell sweets in the kitchen but Jay entered with the ghost trap and she tried to look inside after spotting the chair instead got sucked in the ghost trap. She ended up, falling asleep in the little chair that Jay had placed there. She wakes up when Elias is sucked in for the attempt to get Jay's soul back. After she explains how she got stuck, Jay remarked that'd he would have been comfortable trapped. Because of her presence, Sam and Jay are unable to threaten Elias without harming her in the process though the ghosts list several bad things she has done to Pete such as her affair, tricking him into working with the mob, and others. Carol was notably hurt by these truths but is happy to learn that Pete still considers her to be good in a way. The pair are released when Jay couldn't bear to let Carol suffer for his own sake. When Pete was about to sacrifice himself to exonerate Jay, Carol stepped in and saved her husband by selling her own soul while declaring it was her way of atoning for everything she did to him. Elias accepted her sacrifice, and she was sent to hell. Fortunately, her selfless act saves her because a light shone to retrieve her. As she starts to ascend to Heaven while bidding farewell to her first husband and telling the ghosts that she will wait for Baxter, something Trevor remarks is unlikely. Sam thanks her for saving her husband and Carol is sucked off to the afterlife Elias is angry to see his plan failed.
Appearance[]
Carol is an elderly woman who has brown hair and black glasses. In her youth, she wore her blonde hair down and was very beautiful.
She usually wears a multicolored, purple shirt underneath a black and white cardigan. She wears a silver bangled necklace and carries a black purse. At the time of death she is seen wearing cat ears and her purse. She wears a wedding ring.
Carol mentioned that she does weight watchers in Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave.
Trivia[]
- She and Pete had their wedding reception at the VFW Hall.
- Pete mentions that she shops at JCPenny, anywhere that sells bead and enjoys IHOP.
- She is the American counterpart to Pat's wife Carol Butcher, down to having the same name as her, making her the second character from the American adaptation to share a name with a character from the original British series (the first being Sam and Clare's wife).
- She suffered from hypertension as early as her 40s.
- In the episode "The Family Business", she and Pete married sometime in 1971 and that they didn't sleep together on their wedding night.
- One night she and Pete had too many margaritas and drove a golf cart right into a pond.
- Her cat died from eating a lily as mentioned in "Ghost Father of the Bride". She also mentions that she doesn't like ABBA and likes roses.
- She was the most recently passed ghost as of "Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave".
- Chris would later die after crashing through the roof of Mahesh in The Bachelorette Party.
- Since becoming a ghost, she has had short-lived sexual relationships with Pete, Thorfinn, Nancy, and some of the other basement ghosts[1] before marrying Baxter in the episode "Isaac's Wedding".
- Her dating multiple partners of both genders could possibly imply that she is bisexual.
- During "A Very Arondekar Christmas", she reveals that Baxter and she have an open marriage.
- Since she had her purse on her at death, the ghosts are able to taste the candy in it before it returns to Carol's purse.
- In the episode "Ghostfellas", it's revealed that she comes from a family of criminals, whom she worked for as a mob accountant, and that her maiden name is Randuzzo.
- Carol is the first ghost to go down and then gets sucked off.
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