The Ghost and Molly McGee (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 20 - The Jig is Up/Molly vs. The Ghost World - full transcript

[dramatic music]

Fire up the Flow. I got
a delinquent ghost here.

What's the charge this time?

Sleeping on the job?

Oh, no, no, no.
He is friends...

with a living person!

That is a serious charge.

Deadly serious.

Let the trial begin!
Scratch, how do you plead?

How about, "for mercy"?

This is too stressful!
I can't afford



to pull out any more hair!
Darryl, let me pull out yours.

Let me bite your fingernails.

- Deal.
- [Mom] Settle down, you two.

The girls are working on it.

We're gonna get
Scratch back, right?

Breathe in, breathe out.

[exhales]

[Libby] Feel your spirit rise
beyond this plane of existence.

So, are you
astral projecting yet?

Ugh! Not even a little!

I hate to admit it,
but perhaps books

don't have all the answers.

We need someone with
firsthand knowledge.

Libby, what's the preferred
spelling of "Jeff"?



Oh, uh, well, it's "J-E--"

Whoa! Pump
the brakes, friends!

Geoff! Scratch is in trouble.

What?! How can I help?

- Take me to the Ghost World.
- I can't bring humans there.

Yeah, I don't even
think that's possible.

But I promise, I-- Aah!

I am not taking "no"
for an answer! [grunts]

Whoa, whuh.. whuh...

What just happened?

[gasps] Molly,
you're a wraith,

a living person who has
literally "given up the ghost."

Your body's alive,
but no one's home.

- I feel nothing.
- That's creepy.

But since I'm not
technically human,

you can take me to
the Ghost World, right?

Yeah, I suppose.

Yes! Technicalities!

I'll keep an eye on you,
your body, until you get back.

Thanks, Libby.
Now let's go save Scratch!

So, uh, would you
like to, uh, do something?

Eh. Not really.

OK...

Wow.

Whee! [laughing]

This is the Ghost World?

It's so... lively.

- [roars]
- Aah! And... outdated?

Ha-ha! Oh, we don't get
anything new until it dies.

I just got a flip phone.

[thunder]

That's where
the Ghost Council meets.

Scratch'll be there.

We've got to be sneaky,

which won't be easy with
your bright gold joy energy.

OK, OK, OK, I'll, uh--
I'll try to blend in.

[gasping]

Stop touching things!

Aah! Remember,
joy is like poison here.

It's not allowed.

Oh, hopefully, nobody saw.

[muttering]

We were cursed together, so I
had to go everywhere she went.

Right. You actually
cursed yourself.

When I heard about it,
I was like,

"Wow, can anyone
really be that dumb?"

And, yeah.
Yeah, you are. [gasps]

Hey, little Sobgoblin.
What you got there?

Aah! Aah! This lamp
is covered in joy!

[all gasping, murmuring]

[gasps] Molly!

Jinx! Find the joy

and eliminate it, quick!

[sighs] Don't
get caught, Moll.

[both laughing]

♪

[male vocalizing]

♪ Everywhere I go
I'm glowing ♪

[both gasp]

♪ I'm shooting rainbows
out into the night ♪

Whoops! Sorry.

♪ And I can't help
my jubilation showing ♪

♪ I got no dimmer switch
I'm always super-bright ♪

- [sighs]
- Uh-oh!

♪ I try to hide my joy away ♪

Excuse me.

♪ But I keep turning ♪

♪ Everything I touch
to anime ♪

Huh? Nuh? Aah!

♪ Flowers sproutin' up ♪

♪ Every step I take ♪

♪ I leave a trail
of cute koalas in my wake ♪

Aah! It burns!

♪ Glitter everywhere I go ♪

♪ Blowing butterflies
and puppies wearing clothes ♪

♪ Can't hide the--
Can't hide the-- ♪

♪ Can't hide the happy ♪

[door opens]

[both panting]

- [snarling]
- Aah!

Oh, corn.
We're trapped.

I just gotta know, McGee.

Did you really think
you could escape us?

'Cause that golden joy energy
of yours is pretty hard to miss.

Sobgoblins, drain her!

[all snarling]

[groans] I suddenly feel
like giving up.

No! We've come too far!

[grunting, exclaiming]

[all grunting]

- [snarling]
- [grunting, exclaiming]

Save our best friend, Molly!

- Geoff!
- [snarling continues]

[both exclaiming]

- Gotcha!
- Ha! Boop!

- [bubbling sounds]
- Aah! She touched me!

I'm coming, Scratch!

He shoved Chicago-style
pizza in my face.

I don't like
Chicago-style pizza.

Scratch helped me
achieve my Global Games dreams.

He was suffering from the worst
case of joy I've ever seen.

- [all gasp]
- [making ghostly noises]

Thank you, Howling Harriet.

I couldn't have
said it better myself.

Are we all just pretending
we understood that?

Enough! Clearly,
you've become... happy.

Mr. Chairman, sir,
your judgment?

[thunder]

[whimpers]

Well, then... An eternity

in the Flow
of Failed Phantoms

- for you, Scratch.
- [Molly] No!

- [bubbling]
- [grunts]

Let Scratch go!

Molly? [gasps]
You shouldn't be here.

You don't get to say
Scratch is a problem

just because
he's not like you.

Who says ghosts have
to be miserable, anyway?

- He does.
- OK.

And he's very intimidating.

But that doesn't
mean that he's right.

What if ghosts didn't
have to be miserable?

- What would that be like?
- [Jinx] This.

And no ghost wants this!
And as for your traitor friend,

into the flow he goes.

- [both] Geoff!
- Bye, friends!

How dare you throw my friend

into the Flow
of Failed Phantoms?!

Although, if it was
between him and me,

you certainly
made the right choice.

Molly McGee's a menace.

Everything she touches
turns to joy.

You know what?
You're right.

Molly's way too chipper
in the morning.

It's the "anything is possible"
part of the day.

And she thinks helping others

is the most important thing
in the world.

Only 'cause it is.

She thinks you can
have more fun being nice

than you can have being mean.

Which is just crazy. And here's
something even crazier.

She's right.

And I like her for it.

She's my friend.
And I'm hers.

And I don't care
who knows it.

Aw, Scratch!

Call me soft, but I think
it would be unnaturally cruel

to separate best friends.

- Yes! Exactly!
- Thank you!

So let's send them both

to the Flow
of Failed Phantoms.

- [gasps]
- Oh!

[both gasping, grunting]

It was nice knowin' ya, Molly!

Better than nice.

It was the highlight
of my afterlife.

And that,
as they say, is that.

Should have done this
ages ago, if you ask me.

Well, then, back to work.

- Jinx, clean yourself up.
- Yes, ma'am.

Nice to see you,
Mr. Chairman, sir.

[thunder]

[thunder continues]

What is happening?

[Molly cackling]

You guys made a big mistake.

You forgot everything
I touch turns to joy!

- Aah!
- I'm free! Whoo-hoo!

[Molly] And that includes your
stupid Flow of Failed Phantoms.

Light is more powerful
than darkness.

Hope is more powerful
than fear.

Love is more powerful
than hate.

And joy?

[explosion]

Joy is way more powerful
than misery will ever be!

Don't tell me that being friends
with a ghost is wrong.

You're wrong!

Boop.

[explosion]

[moaning]

- Wha--?
- The Chairman!

Aah! You saved me! Ha-ha!

Bring it in, friends! Aw!

I'm leaving. And I'm
takin' Scratch with me.

Anybody got
a problem with that?!

[all]
No, no, no, no.

No problem at all!

[ding]

Whoo!

Thank cob, you're back.

She was starting
to freak me out.

I don't care.

Whoa. Aah! Libby, Libby,
Libby! You're the best!

Oh, heh, hello. [chuckles]

- [footsteps approaching]
- [all yelp]

- [groaning]
- [Mom] Scratch!

- Molly, you did it!
- I always knew you would.

And I didn't lose
any of my hair over it.

Just mine.

You shoulda seen
Molly back there!

"Take that, Chairman!
You want to take

my best friend away? I'm gonna
en-happify your face!"

Well, yeah, I did kind of kill
the Chairman with kindness.

- Well, joy.
- And now, I'm back.

(demonic voice) Forever!

That's right, McGees!
I curse you!

(normal) [laughs]
Just kiddin'.

Hey, so who's hungry, huh?

You know, I'm feeling
like nachos with extra cheese.

And not the kind
you just heat in the microwave.

- The good stuff.
- [Molly] Ooh!

[Molly and Scratch]
♪ The Ghost and Molly McGee ♪