When Nigel has his bachelor party in season 3, episode 7, Trevor (Asher Grodman) explains that people go a little harder than “saucy limericks,” and introduces the concept of a lap dance. Nigel’s ex, Jenkins (Christian Daoust), gives Nigel a lap dance, but when Pete blurts out what happened the next day, Sam (Rose McIver) agrees to get Isaac a stripper for his bachelor party. The stripper Sam hires, Chris (Deniz Akdeniz), is surprisingly unfazed by being asked to give a lap dance to an empty chair — of course, Isaac is in the chair, but as a living, Chris cannot see Isaac.
Isaac is also enthralled by Chris’ knowledge of dinosaurs and fantasizes about him after this event. Chris is a man with many talents, as he is also the DJ Sam hires for Isaac and Nigel’s wedding. There is a fake-out when Chris nearly dies from an allergic reaction, but he survives. Realizing he was hoping Chris would die is part of the reason Isaac called off the wedding. He realizes he loves Nigel but doesn’t feel the “fireworks” Pete had talked about with his fiancé, but he does feel it for his “sculpted dinosaur aficionado.”
Chris returns in season 4, episode 15 when Sam hires him again as a stripper for Alberta’s (Danielle Pinnock) great-granddniece’s bachelorette party at Woodstone Manor. They opt for Chris’ most glamorous package: the “It’s Raining Men” package, which includes Chris parachuting onto the property. Unfortunately, something goes wrong — either Chris has a heart attack or the parachute fails to deploy properly. Sam and the bachelorettes watch in horror as Chris plummets directly into Jay’s (Utkarsh Ambudkar) restaurant. Moments later, Chris’ ghost looks down at his body — now the newest spirit at Woodstone Manor.
A major relationship hurdle for Isaac is his embarrassing ghost power: Because he died of dysentery, he gives off a foul odor when a living person walks through him. This unfortunate trait has earned him the nickname “Founding Farter.” On his wedding day, someone walks through Isaac, and as Sam scrambles to explain the bad smell, Chris casually reveals that he does not have a sense of smell, a promising trait for someone who might spend eternity sharing a bed with a ghost who died of dysentery.
