My Thoughts on "The Ghost and Molly McGee"
Well, I’ve finally done it. I’ve finally posted a new post on here in the month of October that isn’t just a repost of something that I wrote on DeviantART a couple of years ago, and it couldn’t be anymore fitting that it’s a review of The Ghost and Molly McGee, a show that I started watching on-and-off starting July or August. It’s been about three months since I started this show, and now, on Wednesday October 23, 2024, I’ve finally watched the final episode. I wanted to make sure I finished this show and reviewed it before the end of October, and just in time for Halloween 🎃 because hey, it’s a show about ghosts 👻, I couldn’t picked a better time to review if I tried.
I hope this makes up for not reviewing The Wolfman 🐺 (2010) this month, which I did I kinda say that I would do, but obviously that didn’t come to pass. I couldn’t get my hands on it in time to do it this year, but maybe next year. Maybe, I’ll be able to buy it and review it in February since that movie did technically come out in February and no where near October. And if not, then I’ll save it for October and make it my Halloween review 🎃. It is funny that I’m mentioning that movie at all since when I was all into The Wolfman 🐺 (2010) and was obsessed with it, I thought that they could’ve made the character, Libby Stein-Torres a werewolf 🐺.
Had the show had continued past Season 2, and had they expanded it to other paranormal and supernatural creatures besides ghosts 👻, they could’ve brought in werewolves 🐺 and Libby could’ve been our entry into that world. I thought it would be interesting how a character like her would cope with being a werewolf 🐺, and I would be cool if she had a supernatural element to her to complement Molly. Like, Molly’s a girl ♀︎ with a ghost 👻 for a friend, so Libby could’ve been a girl ♀︎ who was secretly a werewolf 🐺 who turns and terrorizes the town every time there’s a full Moon 🌕.
It could work because she has that “bloodhound of truth” thing that she does, and she always howls like a dog 🐕 or wolf 🐺 when she goes full detective 🕵️♀️ and calls herself the “bloodhound of truth.” I also wonder if Libby was a werewolf 🐺, how would that come into play with certain episodes, especially like story episodes. She would kind of become the muscle 💪, the character who everyone relies on for their brute strength and savagery, but is somewhat reluctant to use it because it is so dangerous, it makes her so dangerous and she doesn’t want to potentially hurt her friends.
Kind of like what the Hulk is to the Avengers. Or at least, he was until Avengers: Endgame when he became Professor Hulk and that whole monster aspect of his character was taken away in favor of just making him a big green guy. Man, I hate what they did with the Hulk in the MCU, talk about a downgrade. And it’s not like the comics where it’s a split personality, and Bruce Banner has dissociative identity disorder (DID) and has multiple personalities inside his head, and can switch between them, no. He’s stuck as Professor Hulk, and there’s no hope or chance of him ever becoming Savage Hulk again.
I miss when he was still played by Edward Norton, back then, he was actually badass and cool, the Savage Hulk that we all know and love. But, Eric Bana’s version of Bruce Banner and the Ang Lee version of the Hulk is probably the best live action movie version of the character hands down. I wouldn’t be surprised if they brought Eric Bana to reprise the role as Bruce Banner now the MCU’s a multiverse, and they can have any actor reprise their role as a Marvel character from any film that wasn’t originally apart of the MCU.
Spider-Man: No Way Home opened the flood gates by bringing in all of the different Spider-Men, all of their villains into the MCU, and both Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Deadpool & Wolverine continued that further by having X-Men characters show up and be played by the same actors that played them in the Fox X-Men movies. Namely Professor X AKA Charles Xavier being played once again by Patrick Stewart, and Wolverine AKA Logan being played once again by Hugh Jackman, the only actor who has portrayed the character in live action up until this point.
So, who’s to say that Eric Bana couldn’t show up as Bruce Banner/the Hulk in a future MCU project? He even said that he’d up for it if he were asked to appear. Anything to see that version of the Hulk, that Hulk was amazing, he’d be one of the most overpowered characters in the MCU by that point. That version of the Hulk could’ve easily taken down Thanos, easy.
But getting back to what I was saying about Libby being a werewolf 🐺, it would’ve been an interesting idea to have other things besides ghosts 👻, and to have one of our other main characters be cursed and have a secret that later gets exposed besides Molly. I was thinking they could make the werewolf 🐺 look a little bit more humanlike, taking more after the Wolfman 🐺 philosophy of designing werewolves 🐺. But alas, they didn’t do that, and now the show’s over and probably won’t be followed up on by any spin-offs, nor it be rebooted years from now, it will probably never happen. I do think they do show a werewolf 🐺 in the show at one point, and it looks nothing like the Wolfman 🐺, instead looking more like a typical werewolf 🐺, where it has a wolf-like head 🐺 but has a more human-shaped body. You know, the type of werewolf designs 🐺 that emphasize the wolf features 🐺 rather than the human ones in the design.
Since I mentioned reboots, Disney doesn’t really do that. They don’t go back to the well like Nickelodeon has been doing, and reboot their old shows, unless it’s like really uniquely popular like DuckTales 🦆 or Boy Meets World ♂︎. I don’t even think that they would reboot Phineas & Ferb even if they given the chance and given the other ways they’ve tried milking the franchise 🥛 since the show ended. While The Ghost and Molly McGee does have its fans, and while it did manage to gain somewhat of a following, it wasn’t super popular and wasn’t as successful as other Disney cartoons at the time like Amphibia 🐸 or The Owl House 🦉.
It’s not even as popular or successful as a couple of Disney cartoon shows in the past like Gravity Falls and Star vs. the Forces of Evil 💫, two shows that The Ghost and Molly McGee tried to reap off the success of, especially Gravity Falls. It’s an animated comedy series with supernatural elements that’s set primarily in a small somewhat isolated American town 🇺🇸, and while it is appropriate for kids and is mostly lighthearted, it can and does have moments of darkness, but not so dark that it detracts from the humor or makes it inappropriate for kids. The difference of course being that Gravity Falls takes place in a Pacific Northwestern town, in Oregon specifically, while The Ghost and Molly McGee takes place in a Midwestern town (they never say which state it’s located in, so I can’t say it here), and Gravity Falls gets much darker than The Ghost and Molly McGee ever does. The Ghost and Molly McGee stays pretty lighthearted throughout, and even its darkest moments are not as dark as Gravity Falls’s darkest moments.
But, it still has very similar humor as Gravity Falls. I would say that the humor in this show is a mixture between the humor in Gravity Falls and the humor in Star vs. the Forces of Evil 💫, which already kind of copying (or “emulating” if we were to be more generous) the humor of Gravity Falls. Molly even does that thing that Star does where she changes her voice a bit, or she like puts on a slight accent to emphasize a few words of her sentence to really cap it off. If you’ve watched both shows, you’ll know what I’m talking about. I feel like Disney animated shows do that to seem relatable to the current generation of kids, but really, it just makes them seem really cringy and out of touch. These are often Gen Xers and Millennials writing these shows, they don’t know what kids these days are really like or what appeals to them. They’re just kind of assuming and guessing based on vague notions and stereotypes. Kind of like what Baby Boomer writers did when they attempted to write Gen X and Millennial characters in their movies and shows.
I watched RebelTaxi’s review of Primos, a while back, you know, Primos? That show everyone hated on before it even came out all because the opening intro song mispronounced or misused certain Spanish words, and the main voice actress tried to defend it by saying that it’s supposed to be about Mexican-Americans 🇲🇽🇺🇸 and not actual Mexicans 🇲🇽 in Mexico 🇲🇽 that it didn’t matter anyway because Spanish is a colonialist language anyway and that just made people angrier 🤬. It was kind of a big thing back in the 2020 to 2021 timeframe, and the controversy and backlash was apparently big enough that Disney decided to respond to it and go back and make some changes to try to make it more palatable to the people who were dunking on the show before it even premiered, just based on the opening title sequence alone. RebelTaxi is not a channel that I usually watch, mostly because I don’t care for his style or his sense of humor or really agree with a lot of his critiques, but I made an exemption here.
To his credit, his review of Primos is actually pretty good. He talks about the show itself and his actual opinions on it now we’ve years separated from all the controversy and backlash, as well as talking about the ways that it was changed and even censored after the backlash. He approached it as a Mexican 🇲🇽, as a Mexican-American 🇲🇽🇺🇸 who’s lived in the US 🇺🇸 for all his life, and what he views the show as a representation of Latino culture in the US 🇺🇸, specifically Mexican culture 🇲🇽 in the US 🇺🇸, which does lend a lot of credibility to the statements he was making about the show.
It would be like if they made a cartoon show about Native Americans, specifically Pueblo Natives, and I was talking about it. The fact that I’m Native, and I’m a member of a Pueblo tribe, would lend a lot of credibility to my statements about that show, although I wouldn’t be speaking for all Native Americans or even all Pueblo Natives. Just like Pan Pizza 🍕(yes, that’s what he refers to himself on YouTube and elsewhere on the Internet 🛜) doesn’t speak for all Latinos or all Mexicans 🇲🇽. I would just be able to speak about my own personal experience living as part of that specific minority group in America 🇺🇸, just as Pan does.
But, the reason I’m even bringing this up is that in his review of Primos, RebelTaxi AKA Pan Pizza 🍕 talked about how the show had what he termed, “Gravity Falls humor,” and how apparently every Disney Channel cartoon has had that same type of humor for the past decade and a half ever since Gravity Falls. I haven’t watched any new Disney cartoons since Gravity Falls and Star vs. the Forces of Evil 💫, The Ghost and Molly McGee is really the first new one I’ve watched, so I haven’t really noticed this trend of Disney cartoons with Gravity Falls humor. But, after watching this show, I can definitely say that I saw a lot of Gravity Falls within it, and that included the humor. I guess just like with MCU humor™, once Disney finds a winning formula for jokes, they just keep repeating it over and over again until it dies and everyone gets sick of it 😒. It happened with MCU humor™, and I guess it’s happening now with Gravity Falls humor™.
Another similarity that I see between Gravity Falls and this show is in the character, Andrea Davenport. She is very similar to Pacifica Northwest in Gravity Falls (get it? Her name’s a pun), where she’s the town rich girl ♀︎, she belongs to this well-off affluent family in the town that’s lived there for generations, and she’s the popular girl ♀︎ of course. She’s the queen bee 🐝 basically. But, she is a lot nicer than Pacifica and a lot of other queen bee characters 🐝 of that type in other cartoons, and she and her family are portrayed much more sympathetically.
Well, I mean, they do kind of try to trick you because in the second episode (the second segment of the first episode to be exact), Andrea was initially presented as being more antagonistic, where she was more of your typical popular girl queen bee type of character 🐝. Like, she got mad at Molly 😡 just because she mispronounced her name, and then ostracized her because of it. And they did kind of make it seem like she would be rivals with both Molly and Libby, which she already had. Libby straight hated Andrea, and always dreaded whenever she would show up.
There’s an entire episode in Season 1 where Molly and Andrea compete against each other to see who can sell the most chocolate bars 🍫 for this fundraiser they’re doing for their school, and Molly discovers that Andrea was lying 🤥 about the amount of chocolate 🍫 she was selling. Basically, Andrea bought all of the chocolate 🍫 for herself, and then marked it all off as sales she had made. Molly tries to to expose her for this, but she then has a change of heart ❤️ and decides not to after she sees that Andrea was only doing this to gain the attention and praise of her father, who often ignores her in favor of his business endeavors.
She feels guilty once she sees the attention and love ❤️ that Andrea gets from her parents for making the most sales, and doesn’t want to take that away from her. So, she doesn’t expose her and lets it slide because she is just too kind-hearted to hurt her feelings over something like that. Personally, I would’ve still exposed her. She still lied and engaged in pretty shady business practices by buying all the chocolate 🍫 for herself and then counting them as sales that she made. That’s cheating, it sets a bad precedent for when she actually enters the workforce and becomes a real businesswoman 👩💼 out there in the real world. Her doing it to impress her somewhat neglectful father is not a good excuse. Honesty is always the best policy when it comes to these sorts of things. For integrity sake.
But, by Season 2, they’re all friends with each other. There’s no beef between them, nothing but love and adoration for each other, and Andrea is pretty much a good guy. She is no longer an antagonist in any capacity. Libby no longer hates her, and welcomes her presence and her company. I guess bonding over having periods 🩸 really did do wonders for their relationship because they’re all buddy-buddy by the end of that episode, and Libby shows no malice or ill will towards Andrea after that.
Maybe they also bonded over having neglectful fathers, but that is never shown or suggested, but it should have because it would make sense why would they bond with one another, relate to one another, and become friends beyond just them both having periods 🩸. But then again, this was before Libby actually met her father and found out that he was a selfish self-absorbed asshole who only cared about himself and his own success 🤑, so maybe not 🤷♂️. Speaking of which, that scene where Libby has her period 🩸 for the first time was the first real clip of this show that I ever watched, and was one of the things that finally convinced me to watch it because I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe that they got away with having an episode based around periods 🩸, and even saying the word period 🩸 in that context, in a cartoon show for kids, a Disney cartoon for kids no less.
I mean, it is good that Disney allowed this, and periods 🩸 are finally starting to be normalized and destigmatized since they are a normal function of every woman’s body ♀︎, and every woman ♀︎ will experience it at least once in their lives. I’ve never had one because I’m a man ♂︎, and I will never know what it’s like to have a period 🩸, but any woman ♀︎ reading this certainly will. But, it is helpful to men and boys ♂︎ watching too to know what their mothers, aunts, sisters, friends, girlfriends, and even wives are going through. So, it is good for a show like this to introduce the concept of periods 🩸 to kids, especially young girls ♀︎, in a way that they can understand and isn’t too graphic or inappropriate for them.
I’m just surprised that Disney allowed it happen without being significantly censored. Children’s TV networks like Disney Channel usually aren’t accepting things like that in their programming. If this show were made in the 2000s, or even the 2010s, they wouldn’t have been allowed to even say the word, period 🩸, yet alone base an entire episode around periods 🩸. The big embarrassing accident that Libby has at the sleepover would’ve had to have been something else. Like, a literal accident, like if she pooped herself or something 💩 because diarrhea was seen as more acceptable in cartoons for kids than periods 🩸 were apparently.
I’m also surprised that this show didn’t garner any backlash or stir up any controversy from the “anti-woke” brigade. You know who I’m talking about if you’ve spent any significant time on the Internet 🛜, the “anti-SJWs,” the right-wingers, Republicans, MAGA 🇺🇸, libertarians, “classical liberals,” Alt-Righters, Neo-Nazis, the Intellectual Dark Web (God, that still sounds pretentious as all hell 🙄). You know, those type of people. The type of people who will call a movie or a show “woke” simply because it has a woman ♀︎ in the lead role, or it has gay characters 🏳️🌈, or it has trans characters 🏳️⚧️, or it has more than one person of color and isn’t all white people. The type of people most likely to vote for Trump in this election 🗳️, and think that he’s a swell guy.
I’m surprised that none of them talked about this show and complained about it in their podcasts or videos, or whatever, even though it has an episode about periods 🩸, it has LGBT characters 🏳️🌈 (both gay and lesbian characters), it has a female lead ♀︎ and has mostly female characters ♀︎ (there are more female characters ♀︎ proportionally in this show than there are male characters ♂︎), it has a confirmed autistic character, it has mixed race characters 🇹🇭, it has Jewish characters ✡️, it has an episode about Hanukkah 🕎 that mentions the Holocaust, it has a meek and somewhat submissive dad who’s more subordinate to the mom (the mom wears the pants 👖 in the relationship and is the real leader of the family), it has a single mom, a neglectful and absentee dad, and it even has an episode about climate change. It has pretty much everything that right-wingers hate except trans characters 🏳️⚧️, especially extreme right-wingers, and yet none of them talked about it.
Maybe because it wasn’t popular enough or is a completely original show that doesn’t have a recognizable name that they felt they could exploit and try to spread their Russian-sanctioned propaganda 🇷🇺 (as in, most of these people are being bankrolled by Russia 🇷🇺 to spread their propaganda and pass it off as culture war stuff) to impressionable nerds and geeks. You know, it wasn’t as popular as Bluey, a show the American Right 🇺🇸 did target, and The Daily Wire even made a cheap ass knock-off of called Chip Chilla, only theirs has conservative political propaganda in it. If Bluey had an episode about periods 🩸, maybe then they would’ve had a field day with it. But, The Ghost and Molly McGee managed to escape the radar of the conservative and extreme right-wing, and thus never faced any controversy or backlash over any of its content like many other shows and movies have.
But back to what I was saying about Andrea and this trend I’ve noticed with characters like her in Disney cartoons. While yes, it is good to defy common tropes like this and do something different with it. I understand the desire of wanting to make a character like Andrea and Pacifica more nuanced and three dimensional. And while you could write this off as being apart the general optimism and forgiving nature of the show, but the fact that this is a trend that can be seen in other recent Disney cartoons and really only in Disney cartoons is kind of suspect. It kind of suggests an ulterior motive with this sort of thing 🤨.
It’s almost as if Disney themselves mandated to every cartoon creator, writer, storyboard artist, and animator to not portray rich people 🤑 in a negative light and to always portray them positively. Always give them redeeming qualities. Not to sound conspiratorial or anything, but Disney as a company is run, generally, by a bunch of rich white men ♂︎ 🤑, all of them are either millionaires or billionaires. That’s no secret, that’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a fact, a fact that can be backed up by evidence. So, they wouldn’t necessarily appreciate a show that demonizes rich people 🤑, or paints them in a negative light.
It’s almost as if Disney is trying to convince people that rich people 🤑 are actually benevolent and not completely deserving of criticism, scorn, or ridicule, when we all know that’s not the case. I mean, just look at Elon Musk recently, that man ♂︎’s out here making all sorts of a fool out of himself, and engaging unethical behavior: shady business practices and of course, election fraud and interference 🗳️. He tried to run a lottery and pay people millions of dollars 💵 in swing states like Pennsylvania to vote for Donald Trump, which I’m pretty sure is illegal 🤨. It’s illegal to pay people money 💵 to vote for a specific candidate in an election 🗳️ since it’s kind of like bribery.
Musk really is riding on Trump winning this election 🗳️, because if he loses, then he’ll face legal repercussions for all the shady things he’s being doing, not just with the election 🗳️ but his businesses like Tesla, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Musk, in his own words, said that he’d be “fucked” if Trump loses. So, like Trump, he’s doing all this, he’s getting involved in politics, in order to stay out of jail. Well, according to the polls and the early voting numbers 🗳️, it seems increasingly more likely that Trump will lose and Kamala Harris will win, so…😬. Things aren’t looking too good for Musk, looks he will have to face the consequences of his actions soon enough, but vote for Harris if you want that to happen 🗳️ 👍.
If this show had been on a different network than Disney Channel/Disney XD because let’s be honest, they probably put it on Disney XD for last few months of its run because that’s what they’ve done with all of their cartoons, like say if this show was on Nickelodeon, I doubt that it would have been as forgiving towards Andrea and would have portrayed her as positively. I just don’t think trope of “the popular girl ♀︎ that seems mean at first, but is actually nice” is reemerging in all these Disney cartoons specifically all that organically, it has to be some kind of network mandate 🤔. I mean, if these cartoon creators and writers were left to their devices, would they portray any rich characters 🤑 as positively as it seems they’re forced to on Disney Channel? I don’t think so.
Even though she was the one that started this weird trend exclusive only to Disney cartoons, at least Pacifica isn’t completely let off the hook 🪝, and is still forced to deal with the revelation that her family’s a bunch of frauds and her great great grandfather wasn’t the real founder of Gravity Falls. And Dipper still generally has this “all rich people 🤑 are bad” mentality even after he makes amends with Pacifica. But that’s all Alex Hirsch and his team of writers, they’ve always had this “anti-authority” mentality, and have wanted to challenge the Man and be irreverent towards them. Alex Hirsch himself tries to present himself as a renegade, as a rebel, as an outsider fighting for the common man, and a loose canon, even though he isn’t really any of those things. He’s more of an insider than he likes to portray himself to be. The same could really go for any so-called “auteur” in Hollywood that calls themselves a “renegade” or a “rebel.”
Since I mentioned my plans for October, and how some of them worked out and some of them didn’t, I am hoping that I’ll get the chance to watch Venom: The Last Dance, the supposedly last film in the Venom trilogy, while it’s still in theaters. To make up for me not seeing The Killer’s Game in theaters. I still haven’t seen it on Fandango at Home since my aunt hasn’t rented it or bought it and added it to her list. But, hopefully I’ll get to it before the year’s over. Same goes for Venom: The Last Dance, I hope that I can see it before the year ends and that I can see it while it’s still in theaters. And if not, then I guess I’ll just to have to wait until it comes out on Blu-Ray 💿 or digital on Fandango at Home.
Given that it’s an October release, that’ll likely happen by next year, January or February. I’m sure Venom: The Last Dance will be released on digital-on-demand first like maybe a couple of months after being in theaters, like in November or December depending on how successful it is in theaters, and then it’ll be released several months later like in January or February, maybe even March. That’s what happened with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Bad Boys: Ride or Die, they were both released on streaming and digital platforms first, and then were released on physical media several months later. The same thing with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. All movies I’ve seen and reviewed before for this blog, I’ll link them all here, here, and here.
I don’t know why they do it like that, they just do, and we have to deal with it. I just want the chance to see another movie this year in theaters. I can count on one hand ✋ the amount of movies that I’ve actually seen in theaters this year, *spoilers ⚠️* it’s a lot less than last year, in 2023. In fact, I’ve seen way less new movies this year than I did last year, in 2023 overall. If not, maybe Venom: The Last Dance, then maybe Weekend in Taipei, which comes out next month in November in the US 🇺🇸.
It was already released in France 🇫🇷 and Taiwan 🇹🇼 the same day back in September, Wednesday September 25, 2024. But, we here in America 🇺🇸 won’t be getting it until Friday November 8, 2024 three days after the election 🗳️. I could probably convince my grandma to watch that movie with me in theaters than I could Venom: The Last Dance. If I see that movie in theaters, I’ll either have to see it by myself or with my aunt since she’s a fan of the Venom movies. Maybe I could see it with my cousin and his girlfriend if they’re not busy with work, but I could see it by myself too. That’s fine.
I’ve got this far into the review, and I haven’t even really talked about what the show’s actually about. The show wasn’t super popular and not a lot of people watched it, which probably contributed to its premature conclusion, so I think a plot synopsis would be pretty helpful. The show’s basically about this family called the McGees who move into this Midwestern town called Brighton. However, when they arrive there at the house that they bought, they quickly discover that it’s haunted by a ghost 👻, a ghost 👻 named Scratch. Their optimistic and fun-loving daughter, Molly befriends Scratch, and makes him apart of the family.
From there, Molly befriends some of the locals of Brighton, including Libby and Andrea, and works to try to improve the town with her optimism and compassion. She and her family pretty much bring this town back to life, and unite it into a true community that’s happy and prosperous and hopeful for the future, just thanks to them doing good deeds and being genuinely good people. Molly even makes positive changes in Scratch’s own world, the Ghost World 👻, though not without some opposition from those ghosts 👻 who wish to not only keep the Ghost World 👻 miserable, but Brighton as well.
I gotta be honest with you, when I first heard the title, I thought it was The Ghost of Molly McGee, but no, it’s The Ghost and Molly McGee. But, wouldn’t be something if it was The Ghost of Molly McGee? Molly does actually become a ghost 👻 a few times in the show, and they make a joke about the title being The Ghost and the Ghost of Molly McGee in one episode. I think it was the second-to-last episode where Molly’s soul gets trapped in the Ghost World 👻, and the others have to figure out a way to stop the evil ghost 👻 Jinx without her.
Both Molly and her younger brother, Darryl are mixed race as I’ve alluded to earlier, biracial to be exact. They’re half Thai and half white 🇹🇭. Their mother, Sharon is of Thai descent 🇹🇭 and their father, Pete is white, hence why their last names are McGee. Pete is of Irish descent 🇮🇪, is why his skin is so pale white and why he has red hair 👨🦰. So that makes Molly and Darryl half Thai 🇹🇭 and half Irish 🇮🇪. Their grandmother is a Thai immigrant 🇹🇭 who moved to the US 🇺🇸 sometime in the past, and had their mother, which is why their mother is pretty Americanized 🇺🇸 and doesn’t have an accent like their grandma does. While she does live in a different city and contacts the family on FaceTime (or whatever this show’s equivalent to FaceTime is), in Season 2, she does move to Brighton and decides to live in a nursing home because the family was being way too overprotective of her and wasn’t allowing her to live her life, enjoy her retirement, her golden years.
The fact that Molly is partially of Thai descent 🇹🇭 gives us a glimpse into Thai culture 🇹🇭. In fact, we get to see more representation of Thai culture 🇹🇭 in this show than we do Irish culture 🇮🇪. There isn’t even an episode centered around St. Patrick’s Day ☘️. But, we get a lot of episodes centered around Thai traditions 🇹🇭, including even a Thai holiday 🇹🇭 if I’m remembering it correctly. I guess the people who made this show figured that Thai culture 🇹🇭 hasn’t historically gotten a lot of focus in cartoon shows even amongst Asian cultures.
So they would focus more on that than on Irish culture 🇮🇪 because Irish culture 🇮🇪 has gotten a lot of attention in the past (not so much now but certainly in decades past) because families of white European descent were predominantly represented in American animation 🇺🇸 because that is what the majority of the US 🇺🇸 was like. It was dominated by white people who descended from Europeans of one ethnicity or another. But now that America 🇺🇸 is becoming a much more diverse and less white country, there is an increasing need to represent non-white families, especially from racial and ethnic groups that had been underrepresented for the longest time in media, not just in cartoons but all media.
This is actually the second time that a Disney cartoon has had a protagonist who was of Thai descent 🇹🇭. The much more popular and acclaimed show, Amphibia 🐸 also had a main female protagonist ♀︎ who was of Thai descent 🇹🇭, and it was the first Disney Channel cartoon that had a Thai-American main character 🇹🇭🇺🇸. So, it was Amphibia 🐸 that broke history with that, and not The Ghost and Molly McGee. Only in Amphibia 🐸, the main girl ♀︎, Anne Boonchuy is fully Thai 🇹🇭 whereas Molly is only half Thai 🇹🇭.
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I’ve already talked about some of the similarities that this show has with Gravity Falls and even Star vs. the Forces of Evil 💫, but there are other shows that this show has in common with. For one thing, it is remarkably similar to The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, a Cartoon Network show that lasted from 2005 to 2007. Obviously I never noticed any of similarities that this show had with Juniper Lee until I started watching Juniper Lee alongside The Ghost and Molly McGee. You have a cartoon show about an Asian-American family 🇺🇸 (at least partially Asian-American 🇺🇸) that deals with the supernatural or the paranormal.
You have a big sister and a little brother duo and the little brother has spiky hair. Darryl looks remarkably similar to Ray Ray Lee. You have a Chinese-American family 🇺🇸, only the Chens are not the main family in this show like the Lees were in Juniper Lee. Speaking of Juniper, this show even features a character named Juniper too, Juniper Chen, though everyone just refers to her by her nickname, June. Which is coincidentally Juniper Lee’s nickname in Juniper Lee too, she’s also called June, mostly by her little brother, Ray Ray. I can’t believe that I just realized now that June Chen has the same name as Juniper Lee. Is Juniper just like a really popular name for girls ♀︎ amongst Chinese-Americans 🇺🇸 or something? Oh, and BTW, June is the character who’s autistic. They confirm it in a line of dialogue during her and the rest of the Chen family’s first appearance when she says that she’s autistic. The show even has Lara Jill Miller as a voice cast member voicing a main character.
In Juniper Lee’s case, she was voicing the main character and protagonist, Juniper, while in The Ghost and Molly McGee, she voices Libby, who is a main character but the main character. Lara Jill Miller’s in a lot of shows I’ve been watching lately, The Loud House, Juniper Lee, and now The Ghost and Molly McGee. It makes me kind of wish that we could have a crossover where all the major characters that she’s voiced meet each other. Lisa Loud could meet Libby, and Libby could meet Juniper. You could even throw in Liam also from The Loud House as well if you want, have at least one male character in the mix even though he’s not a main character, he’s a side character. It would be kind of fun. I mean, Dana Snyder, the voice actor who voices Scratch on the show already kind of recorded a video like that but with the characters he’s most known for, Scratch and Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, so why can’t Lara Jill Miller?
BTW, I had no idea that Scratch was voiced by the same guy who voices Master Shake until I was already in the middle of watching Season 1. I just didn’t put two and two together and make the connection because I don’t watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I’m not a fan of the show. But yeah, watching clips of the show featuring Master Shake, I was able to tell that it was the same guy. He didn’t even change the voice he uses for Master Shake when he voiced Scratch, which is some people said that Scratch was pretty much a kid friendly, more empathetic, less sociopathic version of Master Shake. This was only highlighted in that video I mentioned that Dana Snyder posted on his Instagram that was him playing both characters (doing the voices) interacting with each other, and the characters are almost indistinguishable from each other.
Since I brought up Libby again, I should probably mention that Molly and Darryl are not the only mixed raced characters in the show. Libby herself is technically mixed race too, biracial just like them. She’s half Argentinian 🇦🇷 and half Jewish ✡️, so she’s an Argentinian Jew 🇦🇷✡️. Her mother is Jewish ✡️ and her father is Argentinian 🇦🇷. That makes sense because her mother would’ve had to have been Jewish ✡️ in order for her to be Jewish ✡️ because correct me if I’m wrong, you’re considered Jewish ✡️ if your mother is Jewish ✡️. If your father’s Jewish ✡️, then you aren’t considered Jewish ✡️.
That’s how Tommy and Dil from Rugrats and All Grown-Up! were both Jewish ✡️ despite their father, Stu not being Jewish ✡️ at all, their mother, Didi was Jewish ✡️. It does bother me a little bit that they gave Libby’s mom a real stereotypical Jewish accent ✡️, you know which kind, the kind they always give to overbearing Jewish mother characters ✡️, which Libby’s mom isn’t. She just has the accent. Everything else about Libby’s family life is pretty grounded and realistic, almost depressingly so, and the show itself strives to defy and avoid stereotypes, and yet, it indulges in one by giving her mom such a ridiculous and stereotypical accent.
Libby is the one with the single mom and neglectful dad. Andrea also a neglectful dad, but she has both of her parents. They’re both present in her life and are theoretically raising her and taking care of her. Libby doesn’t, her parent split up either before she was born, or when she was really young. Too young to remember her dad at all. Her dad divorced her mom so he could pursue his career as an author, and is so focused on his work and so caught up in his own success that he barely makes any time to even see his daughter, let alone spend any time with her. He doesn’t even think about her at all. All he thinks about are his books 📖, his motivational books 📖 I guess. The only book 📖 we ever see of his that he wrote was called Chasing Miracles or something like that, meaning it’s either like a spiritual book 📖 or a motivational book 📖, kind of like that book 📖 that my family has all read and is all obsessed with, The Secret.
When Libby meets him, all he cares about is the next book signing 📖✍️, like he just hands her a signed copy of his book 📖✍️, which is the Chasing Miracles one, as a gift that has a generic message that he writes in all of his signed copies ✍️. No personalized message or anything. And he wants to end the meeting with Libby as fast as possible so he can start working on his next book 📖, so he can make even more money 💵 and become even more famous and influential 🤑🤩. But his daughter is just an after thought.
She’s not even the last thing on his mind, she’s not in my mind at all. He just doesn’t care about her at all, and probably wishes he never had a daughter at all. She and his ex-wife just get in the way of his success anyway, which is what he really cares about. He just cares about his own success and status. He’s a narcissist to the max, which is probably a big reason why he left Libby’s mom, he just cares about himself too much to leave any room in his heart ❤️ for anyone else. But, despite being divorced from him, Libby’s mom still has an interest in literature as she runs a book store 🏬 in the middle of downtown Brighton.
This whole family is apparently literarily inclined as Libby herself is an aspiring writer, as she wrote her own book 📖 in the same episode that we’re introduced to her dad, and wanted to show it to him only for him to completely brush it off and just talk about his own book 📖. And we see her other writings and see her use her writing skills at other points in the show, like in that one camping episode 🏕️ , she reads out some poetry she wrote, and of course, we see her helping out Molly when she tries to ask Ollie on a date, she writes her a whole script that she has to read and then act out, be all dramatic.
We see her Jewish side ✡️ first before we ever get to see her Argentinian side 🇦🇷, like we see all of this Jewish culture ✡️ and Jewish traditions ✡️, in fact, we see way more of her Jewish side ✡️ in this show than we do her Argentinian side 🇦🇷. Maybe because Libby is raised by a single mother, and is thus closer to her mother than her father, and because her mom is Jewish ✡️ (like very Jewish ✡️), we get exposed more to Jewish culture ✡️ than we do Argentinian culture 🇦🇷, which is the culture of the dad. Her dad is Argentinian 🇦🇷. She likely identifies more as Jewish ✡️ than Argentinian 🇦🇷.
You could go this entire series without even knowing that Libby is half-Argentinian 🇦🇷 because they only mention it one episode, when she does a traditional Argentinian dance 🇦🇷, performing a song on an accordion 🪗 as a distraction to keep the principal from getting back into his office and allow Molly and Scratch get that Surly Sid’s soda so Scratch can drink it to regain some of his memories. Besides that episode, her Argentinian heritage 🇦🇷 is never brought up, but they constantly bring up her Jewish heritage ✡️ so you really know that she’s Jewish ✡️, or at least half-Jewish ✡️. They have an entire episode dedicated to the Jewish holiday ✡️, Hanukkah 🕎 that references the Holocaust (the greatest tragedy in all of Jewish history ✡️, at least until October 7 happened) as I mentioned before. Libby’s mom’s parents (Libby’s grandparents) were refugees who fled Europe just as Hitler took power in Germany and began persecuting Jews ✡️. So, they got out and came to America 🇺🇸 just before World War II broke out and the Holocaust began. It’s all in the episode about Libby’s bat mitzvah. She even says “Mazel tov” more than a couple of times throughout the show. I remember it because she says that in the final episode.
The show even shares a similarity with a more recent cartoon show, this time from Nickelodeon, The Casagrandes, the spin-off show to The Loud House. Darryl shares a few similarities with the character, Carl Casagrande, and they’re both apart of this new trend or trope that I kind of see emerging in cartoons of the 2020s: “the little brother who’s like a scam artist or a swindler, and is involved in some sort of illicit activity, and is always plotting and scheming for their own selfish gain.” Like Carl, Darryl is almost always plotting and scheming to get what he wants and is always up to no good. He’s the troublemaker of the family, always getting into trouble, causing trouble, and getting sent to the principal’s office, much to the chagrin of the parents.
The big difference between Carl and Darryl is that Darryl is a lot more of a criminal than Carl is, like Darryl is a legitimate career criminal and he has all of these shady connections and has his fingers in all these illicit activities that a kid his age probably shouldn’t. In fact, it’s because of his connections that Darryl is able to save the day from Jinx in the second to last episode of Season 2 and of the series overall. In a lot of ways, Darryl is more like a mini adult than like a real kid. I know that is sometimes an issue with cartoons where the kids don’t act their age and don’t act the way kids would actually act, and kind of just act like mini adults—I know that’s a criticism often levied at All Grown-Up!—but Darryl exemplifies this the most as he is pretty much a kingpin, a little kid crime boss. Although he is 11 years old, he’s not technically a “little kid.”
You might think from me saying all this that I didn’t like the show and that I thought it was bad, but that couldn’t be any further from the truth. I actually really liked this show. Is it one of the best cartoons out there? No. Is it one of my favorite cartoons? No. But, it is a cute charming little show that you can waste some time with, or kill time with waiting for something or someone, or leave playing in the background while you do other stuff. It’s very episodic, so there isn’t some overarching storyline and a lot of continuity that you have to keep track of, and watch the show from beginning to end each episode and each season. You can watch any episode you want out of order if you want. I only did that because I’m writing a review of this show and I wanted to make sure that I didn’t miss anything.
There is some continuity and there are threads that stretch across episodes and even both seasons like Scratch becoming the new Chairman of the Ghost World 👻 after him and Molly vanquish the previous Chairman (who doesn’t talk at all, never shows his face if he even has one, and goes completely nameless) and trying (and mostly failing) to settle into his new role, Jinx and her attempts to get back at Scratch for eliminating the previous Chairman and becoming the new one, the ghost hunting family 👻, the Chens moving in right across the street from the McGees, Scratch trying to regain his memories of previous life before he “died” and became a ghost 👻, and Molly’s romantic relationship ❤️ with Ollie Chen.
There’s little things too like Grandma Nin Susksai moving to Brighton into the local nursing home after trying and failing to move into the McGee household after the McGees were being too overprotective of her and not giving her proper space. The diabolical troublemaking ghost 👻, Lord Doom being cursed by Scratch to possess a doll and then gaining a new family which he grows to love ❤️. Libby and her growth into maturity (starting with the bat mitzvah episode, she constantly talks about how she’s a woman ♀︎ now and not a girl ♀︎), Andrea becoming a better person and the Davenport family as a whole becoming better contributors to the community, more altruistic and philanthropic, mostly thanks to the influence of Molly and the McGee family as a whole. And the growth and positive change to Brighton over time thanks to the presence and influence of the McGee family.
But, besides those things, the show doesn’t have an overarching storyline the same way that Gravity Falls or Star vs. the Force of Evil 💫 did. The fact that the show is so episodic makes it easier to air re-runs of it, not that Disney would even do that. Speaking of Lord Doom and his new human family, the family that adopts Lord Doom is a gothic family looks suspiciously like Lauren Faust and Craig McCracken. If you don’t know who they are, Craig McCracken is an animator and cartoonist best known for being the creator of two of the most popular Cartoon Network shows of all time (or at least of the 1990s and 2000s respectively), The Powerpuff Girls (original) and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and Lauren Faust, a fellow animator, storyboard artist, and cartoonist, is not only Craig McCracken’s wife, but she is also best known for being the developer of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and DC Super Hero Girls ♀︎. All shows that I’ve watched to varying degrees except for DC Super Hero Girls ♀︎.
I have made no secret that I used to be a Brony, a male fan ♂︎ of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, or MLP: FIM for short. I’m embarrassed and I am not proud of it 😞, but I can’t sit here and lie that I wasn’t, that wouldn’t be honest of me. I want to be upfront with you guys, and be honest with you about the things from my past that I’m ashamed of, and being a fan of MLP: FIM is one of those things. That little show that Lauren Faust made, and grew into something beyond what she ever could have imagined. She never worked on that show with the idea that it would ever gain the appeal of adult men and teenage boys ♂︎. Eventually that male fanbase grew into a monstrosity beyond anyone’s control 😒.
Craig McCracken also created a show for Disney Channel called Wander Over Yonder, and Lauren Faust worked as a character designer and lore writer for the indie fighting game, Them’s Fightin’ Herds, which started out as a MLP fan project, a fan made MLP fighting game called Fighting Is Magic until it received a cease and desist letter from Hasbro and they were forced to make their own original game with their own characters and their own lore. Lauren Faust worked on that project, she helped those guys out, the developers, Mane6, by designing all of the characters (all of which are either ungulates or quadrupedal animals) and coming up with the story and lore for the game. All that stuff about Fœnum, and the hooved animals being threatened by the evil Predators (largely quadrupedal carnivorous animals that feed on hooved ungulates) that escaped from some evil realm, that was all Lauren Faust, she came up with that.
The fact that Craig worked for Disney and made a show for them is probably why him and his wife, Lauren are in this show as a goth couple. It also explains the character, Lord Doom, who looks, sounds, and behaves an awful lot like Lord Hater, the main villain of Wander Over Yonder, at least until the last season, when Lord Dominator became the main villain instead because she was more competent than Lord Hater. That character was likely meant to be a reference or an easter egg for Wander Over Yonder fans to Lord Hater. Even though Lord Doom only stays in his ghost form 👻 in the first few minutes of the episode he appears in, and is a doll for the rest of the episode and the remainder of his appearances in the show, and his ghost form 👻 is when he actually resembles Lord Hater. The people who worked on the show, namely the creators and showrunners, Bill Motz and Bob Roth, were most likely friends or colleagues of Craig and Lauren, or were fans of their work and wanted to pay tribute to both of them by including characters that resemble them in the show.
There’s another detail that I noticed about this show. There’s an episode where Molly and Scratch mistakenly think that they killed Darryl’s pet spider 🕷️, Heidi (I think it’s a tarantula but I’m not sure), and in that episode, they’re so guilty and so anxious that Darryl will find out that they start hallucinating and seeing spiders 🕷️ everywhere, in anything and everything. One of their hallucinations is a box of French fries 🍟 that forms into the vague shape of a spider 🕷️, with the box being thrown body and the fries being the legs. I couldn’t help but think that French fry spider 🍟 looked a lot like a Bugsnak from the indie game, Bugsnax, which I haven’t played but I really want to. This was after I had discovered the game Bugsnax, so I immediately caught onto that admittedly unintentionally detail that I probably wouldn’t have picked up on if I hadn’t been aware of that game.
Oh, and they mention Ukraine 🇺🇦 in the final episode during one of the obligatory songs of the episode. Ukraine 🇺🇦 does get mentioned a lot let alone focused on in modern American cartoons 🇺🇸 and modern American movies and shows 🇺🇸 in general, so that was nice that Ukraine 🇺🇦 was at least mentioned in one of the songs. Speaking of the songs, the show is partially a musical 🎶 and if you know anything about me you’ll know that I hate musicals 🎶, so the musical aspect 🎶 was my least favorite aspect of the show. It’s not a dealbreaker for me anything, but I still didn’t care for it and I would have preferred it if these musical segments 🎶, these musical montages 🎶 were not in the show at all. I just tuned them out by watching a YouTube video on my phone 📱 or listening to music on my phone 📱. I know, listening to music to tune out music, but I just like regular songs, I don’t like songs in movies and TV shows where the characters break out into song or they sing instead of talk to each other, which what Scratch does in the final episode when he’s explaining his backstory after he regains all of his memories. *Spoiler alert ⚠️*.
This show effectively has two finales. You have the double length episode, “Jinx vs. the Human World,” which finally resolves the conflict between Scratch and Jinx once and for all. Basically, Scratch neglects his duties as Chairman of the Ghost World 👻 and leaves the magical cloak behind in the Ghost World 👻 on some dummy that he set up to act as a stand-in for him so he can goof off in the Human World. This gives Jinx an open to basically launch a coup d’état against him and cease power inside the Ghost World 👻, putting on the cloak and becoming the new Chairman. Or Chairwoman ♀︎ since Jinx is a female ghost ♀︎👻. She quickly enslaves the Ghost World 👻, establishing an authoritarian rule worse than even the one that the previous chairman before Scratch had established, the one that Jinx refers to as “the One True Chairman,” but she has even bigger ambitions as has her slights set on the Human World. So, the rest of the episode becomes about stopping Jinx from taking over the Human World and Scratch trying to undo the mistake he had made by reclaiming the cloak from Jinx and reclaiming his rightful place as the Chairman of the Ghost World 👻.
The episode ends with the heroes prevailing and defeating Jinx—mostly thanks to the last minute help of Darryl and his weird criminal connections—and Scratch relinquishing his job as the Chairman for good, finally seeing that he was completely unfit for the job and nearly caused the end of the world because of it. But not because he puts a spell on the cloak, telling it to the find the ghost 👻 most worthy of being the next Chairman, kind of like how Oden put that spell on (or “programmed”) Mjölnir so that only the most pure of heart and most worthy individuals could wield it. That’s kind of left unresolved or open ended, as we see never see anyone else dawn the cloak after this, and it’s kind of left to the viewer’s imagination who the cloak would choose to be the next Chairman.
This could have easily been the finale to the series, as it fits that role perfectly, but it wasn’t. There was one more episode after this, an episode simply called “The End” which saw Scratch regain his memories from his life as a human, and ultimately decided to leave his friendship with Molly behind to rejoin the world of the living after he learns the shocking truth that he never actually died. His soul just got separated from his body Geist-style due to how inactive and miserable he was, being stuck at home, never doing anything, never taking any risks and joining his friend, Adia Williams on adventures across the world.
So, that technically makes Scratch a wraith, but they didn’t want to call the show, The Wraith and Molly McGee because that would’ve given the big plot twist of the show, long before this episode ever aired. It’s not as if this twist comes out of nowhere either since they do set it up quite nicely by having Scratch’s abandoned human body, Todd Mortenson walking around, appearing in the background of several episodes, and firmly establishing that souls can be separated from people’s bodies having Molly, Darryl, Libby, Ollie, and June separate their souls from their bodies and briefly become wraiths to traverse the Ghost World 👻 on multiple occasions.
This actually makes more sense for it to be the end because Molly and Scratch’s friendship was really what was at the heart of this show, it’s literally in the title. It wasn’t any the big action stuff or world-ending stakes, it wasn’t even any of the lore surrounding the ghosts 👻 and the Ghost World 👻, it was just the friendship between a girl ♀︎ and her ghost 👻, or wraith I guess. So, it’s fitting that the show ends with their friendship ending. You can’t have a Ghost and Molly McGee with no ghost 👻 and no friendship. Though, they do kind of leave it ambiguous whether or not Scratch really did lose all his memories and forget everything and everyone once he reclaimed his human body and became Todd Mortenson again.
Leaving it open if they ever want to continue the show later on with a spin-off or a movie in the future, and have the characters reunite with each other and rekindle their friendship, which I kind of hope they don’t do. I’m fine with the show ending here, please don’t ruin it with a sequel or a spin-off. Unless it was about Libby or something. She’s by far my favorite character in the show, I like her a lot more than Molly in all honesty. And I know I’m not alone in that since there’s a lot of other people out there (especially online) who feel the exact same way.
I really liked the Ghost World 👻 in this show, it was a really cool place and the lore they came up for it is fascinating. Makes me kind of wonder what a crossover between this show and Danny Phantom would be like since this show has the Ghost World 👻 and Danny Phantom has the Ghost Zone 👻. Not that would ever happen, but a guy ♂︎ can dream can he? I also really like the designs of the ghosts 👻 in this. They’re half between looking really cartoony and simplistic ghosts like this 👻 and also resembling people, like you could tell that they were once a living person. This is most exemplified and most noticeable when Molly, Darryl, Libby, Ollie, and June become ghosts 👻. I especially got a kick out of seeing these historical figures show up as ghosts 👻, like we see some of the old US presidents 🇺🇸 like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Coincidentally, two of the small number of presidents that people can actually name off the top of their heads.
It makes kind of wish we got to see some past dictators as ghosts 👻 for dark humor, like Adolf Hitler, or Benito Mussolini, or Joseph Stalin, or Mao Zedong, or Chiang Kai-shek, or Pol Pot, or Augusto Pinochet, or Leopoldo Galtieri, or Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (AKA Mobutu Sese Seko), or Idi Amin, Kim Il-sung, or Kim Jong-il, or Saddam Hussein to name a few. They could even make some joke about how Hitler’s really unpopular in the Ghost World 👻 and no one likes him, and thus he’s kind of a loner. A really hateful loner 😬. I don’t really know what kind of jokes you could do with some of the other ones I mentioned beyond them just being ghosts 👻. I’m sure could make some funny jokes about Saddam because he was kind of a funny and ridiculous guy ♂︎ just like Hitler and Mussolini were. Same goes for Muammar Gaddafi if you were to bring him in as a ghost 👻 too. But maybe that all a little bit too dark and too adult for this show. Maybe if I was making my own ghost cartoon 👻 I could do something like that, but we didn’t get it in Ghost and Molly McGee.
I would say that Season 2 is probably my favorite of the two seasons. I know that might be a somewhat controversial opinion judging by how a lot of people reacted to Season 2 when it initially started airing, but that’s just how I feel. It has some best character based episodes, like we do get the best Libby episodes here in Season 2, and even the best Andrea episode even if Andrea really isn’t one of my favorite characters for reasons I’ve explained before, it expanded the lore of the ghosts 👻 and the Ghost World 👻, the rose the stakes by increasing the threat that Jinx posed, and it takes the optimistic and progressive themes from the first season and really amps them up, takes them to their natural conclusion. You could tell they were more comfortable doing certain things in Season 2 than they were in Season 1, like period episode 🩸 is in Season 2, and we probably would’ve never gotten episode like that in Season 1, nor would we have gotten an episode based entirely around climate change, and nor would they have revealed that Geoff was actually gay ⚣ and had a boyfriend who was named Jeff. That’s why he always refers to himself as “Geoff with a G” because his boyfriend is Jeff with a J.
Even Andrea is sort of revealed to be a lesbian ⚢ (or at least bisexual) in Season 2 in the episode, “Davenport’s in Demise,” where she’s having an identity crisis after her family’s business, Davenport’s starts suffering due to the new competition from Bizmart (kind of sounds a bit like Bismarck, as in Otto von Bismarck, but I’m sure that was unintentional), which builds a new store in Brighton. Well, in that scene towards the end where Andrea’s explaining her life plans to Molly, she mentions how she wanted to marry this businesswoman ♀︎ named Elena Webster, and merge dynasties with her. Because Elena owns this department store in Moline and is really good at marketing. Andrea’s totally just into her business reasons, guys 😉.
So, in a throwaway line, without really making a huge fuss about it, the show pretty much revealed that Andrea was not straight ⚤. Whether she’s a full-on lesbian ⚢ or bisexual, we don’t know, but we know for sure that she likes girls ♀︎, or at least, she likes Elena Webster 🥰. I bet all of the Molly and Andrea shippers were going crazy 🤩 when that scene came out, not just we see Molly and Andrea interact and hug 🫂, but because Andrea says she likes girls ♀︎. They were all probably like, “So, you’re saying there’s a chance 🤏,” however slim that chance was 🙄. We may know that Andrea likes girls ♀︎, but we don’t know if Molly does. As far as we know, she’s as straight ⚤ as all get out. Speaking of the shipping….
Yes, even if it does have Molly and Ollie’s relationship drama 🙄, which didn’t bother me as much as it clearly did other people like a certain cartoon reviewing panda 🐼 in a hoodie 😠. Yes, it is annoying at first especially when Molly refuses to just talk to Ollie and tell him that she’s friends with a ghost 👻 and that ghosts 👻 aren’t all bad. Sure, he would’ve been hostile towards Scratch at first, but once he actually met him and talked to him and once he had everything explained to him, then he would’ve been okay. I know this because that’s exactly what happens in the Halloween episode 🎃, “Frightmares on Main Street.” It took almost half the season to fully resolve this issue in their relationship, this one hurdle, and it takes the second half for Ollie to get the rest of his family on board with ghosts 👻 too, not hate them and want to chase them down and capture them.
But, their actual relationship, their actual romance ❤️ never bothered me like it did a lot of other people. The only thing that bothered me about it was that it took so damn long for Molly to just admit her feelings to Ollie. It becomes frustrating after a while seeing her stumble and mess up and get all nervous, never actually telling him that she likes him 😤. I know it’s a cliché and they kind of have to do it, but come on! I think people were just upset that their favorite ships weren’t canon and that Molly ended up with a boy ♂︎. People were shipping her with both Libby and Andrea, and they all hoping that she would go full lesbian ⚢ and pick one of them. And they were so pissed 🤬 when that didn’t happen and she ended up being straight ⚤.
But I’m glad that she didn’t end up with Libby or Andrea and that none of the shippers were rewarded for their bad behavior. Just because two or more girls are friends doesn’t automatically mean that they should be a couple. What is it with this line of thinking in fan communities? Characters of the same gender can just be friends, let them be friends, dammit! I’m glad that the people who made this show stuck to their guns and had Molly end up with crush 😍 instead of giving into the demands of shippers and entertaining their worst ideas, and letting it all ruin the show like it did with Star vs. the Forces of Evil 💫.
I can’t say anything about the opening theme or the ending theme because I didn’t listen to them. I skipped them. But, apparently, they changed the intro for Season 2, including Libby in the main roster of characters since she was a fully-fledged main character by that point. Now that I’m done watching this show, I guess I can get back to watching Pepper Ann again, which I put on hold so I could watch this show for this review. Oh, and don’t bother watching The Ghost and Molly McGee’s Spring Shorts-tacular, it’s just a glorified clip show of a bunch of random Chibi Tiny Tales episodes and other shorts that don’t really mesh together. The original segments are the hosting segments with Molly and Scratch and occasionally Libby, which is the framing device for the whole special. It’s not worth your time.
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