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💖 Molly 💖:
• Has a minute-long, enthusiastic, over-the-top musical number about the beauty and uniqueness of Thanksgiving, singing about celebrating it with friends and family, the variety of amazing foods, the parades and dog shows on TV, football, (there’s a Black Friday joke), donating and helping out at food banks and soup kitchens, and most importantly, having an attitude of gratitude and gladtitude.
There’s a joke near the end of the song where Scratch mentions that “gladtitude” isn’t a real word, to which Molly quickly states that it is in her dictionary before pulling out a pink tome covered in cute puffy stickers that have the words, “Molly’s Dictionary” written in purple cursive on the front. She rapidly flips through the many pages of the book until she spots the word “gladtitude” and points to it, even handing Scratch a magnifying glass to see for himself. It’s defined, by Molly of course, as the quality or feeling of being glad, rad, and overall thankful!
• Wants to create her own Molly-fied version of the first Thanksgiving and perform it in front of her mom and dad! She’ll need tons of turkey costumes, actors and actresses, puppets, a whole lot of glitter, a glue gun, and a good script! Molly will undoubtely ask Scratch, Libby, and Darryl for help.
• She’s the artsy fartsy queen and will make a bunch of Thanksgiving arts and crafts with her family.
• Breaks the turkey wishbone with Scratch and ends up getting the bigger piece, which means her wish will come true, or so she hopes. Fingers crossed. 🤞
• Her list of things she’s thankful for is quite long. One of those things, which is at the top of her list, is being cursed by her bestest non-living friend ever, Scratch.
👻 Scratch 👻:
• His sole focus is on the food.
• That’s it.
• SCRATCH IS BEYOND ELATED WHEN HE FINDS OUT GRANDMA NIN IS COMING! HE’S SO PUMPED! HE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT TASTY THAI GOODIES SHE DECIDES TO BRING.
• He’ll cause some ghostly mischief at a Thanksgiving parade if Molly and her family decide to go to one.
• It’s a McGee tradition to play football outside every Thanksgiving. Molly is eager for Scratch to take part in their family fun, but he declines due to sports not being his strong suit, so to speak. When Molly brings up the baseball game with the Lemmings, Scratch simply states that that was only one time. Molly, pretending to be disappointed, walks away, sighing. “It’s okay, Scratch. I understand if you’re too chicken to play.” She smiles a small, cheeky smile. Hearing those words, the blue ghost lets out an exaggerating gasp, a look of pure outrage appearing on his face. He then flies up to Molly and shouts in a thunderous tone, “NO ONE, AND I MEAN NO ONE, CALLS ME A CHICKEN! IT’S ON, MOLLY MCGEE!” Molly is exhilarated by the sudden shift and quickly grabs Scratch’s hand, taking him outside. He and Darryl end up winning, and Scratch can’t help but rub it in Molly’s face as he does a little ghost jig.
•Some might expect Scratch to only say that he’s thankful for tacos or the misery of others. Don’t get him wrong, those things are wonderful, especially the tacos, but really, the thing he’s most thankful for is being friends with Molly. He was pretty much a loner in the ghost world (still kind of is) and didn’t really have a companion. Molly’s enthusiasm and positive outlook on life can get annoying, but… he’s glad to have the kid around, you know? Makes him feel… like a big brother. He feels… almost alive. Yeah, pretty ironic feeling for a ghost.