The Ghost and Molly McGee is an American animated supernatural musical comedy television series created by Bill Motz and Bob Roth[1][2] that aired on Disney Channel from October 1, 2021 to January 13, 2024.
[3] The series features the voices of Ashly Burch, Dana Snyder, Jordan Klepper, Sumalee Montano, Michaela Dietz, and Lara Jill Miller.
While initially antagonistic toward her, Scratch slowly opens up to Molly, and their friendship strengthens while going on wacky adventures and misadventures together and helping each other through the good and bad in their lives (and afterlives).
Taking the advice of her Grandma Nin, she makes a Sal Phra Phum for Scratch who graciously accepts it under the condition he be fed.
No one appears, much to her disappointment, but the retirees eventually show up, causing the rest of the town to come and finish building the bandshell.
Scratch manages to locate the real Lincoln (voiced by Kelsey Grammer), who has him come to terms with the fact that he cares about Molly's opinion of him and wants her to think he is cool.
Realizing that she was going against her friend's wishes, Molly drives everyone off by releasing bats (brought by Scratch based on his confusion over the ceremony), and she spends personal time with Libby and her family for the rest of the night.
Molly meets his ghost and while impressed at first, she quickly discovers that he is an arrogant blowhard who in no way lives up to his heroic legacy.
Scratch cheats and wins, forcing the McGees to clean the bathroom instead of him, but Sharon finally decides to confront him with a winner-take-all situation.
It turns out that Sharon is actually a former Mega City champion (she lost to her family on purpose to spare their feelings) and completely annihilates Scratch with little effort.
Realizing that she should have just listened to her mother and follow the proper procedures, Molly has Totes trim the Brighton City Park, where he ends up losing weight.
However, they accidentally drop the penny into Andrea's purse, resulting in her getting too lucky and unknowingly absorbing everyone's luck and creating nearby disasters.
Luckily, they manage to get all the money and send it to the hospital, only for realtor Candace Green to inform them that they did not pay their mortgage, forcing the McGees to move out and leaving Scratch all alone.
Eventually, Libby uses her diary to turn the Sprite into a clone of herself, who puts all the words back in the books and cleans up the store.
Eventually, Sharon confesses that, with so many things that paused her passion in life, she is afraid to follow her dreams, but Molly tells her that it is okay to feel that way.
While Pete and Scratch are out buying period products, Molly becomes threatened by Libby and Andrea's new bond and tries to act more mature to join in, but eventually breaks down.
Scratch curses a scary, trouble-making ghost named "Lord Doom" to possess the next object he sees, which turns out to be a baby doll in the human realm.
Eventually, Ollie confesses that he has had trouble getting over his past life of hunting ghosts, which prompts Blair to admit that, when she was still alive, she failed to return the horror movie "Blood Mansion", and died before she could.
While Molly and Darryl are terrified, Scratch reassures them that the ghost shark is not real and, donning his Chairman outfit, "summons" one to prove it.
However, the trio are horrified when they discover that the summoning worked, and spend the night fleeing the ghost shark in terror, all the way up to Molly's bedroom.
Pete and Sharon return home to find them all relaxing on the couch and, though confused about the ghost shark's presence, they decide not to ask.
However, when she finally meets him again, he tells her that he'll be spending his time expanding his newly finished story into a trilogy instead of with her, showing he cares more about his career than her.
Molly and Ollie make several sacrifices for their cause, including riding bicycles to Andrea's birthday party (only to arrive late), and refusing to watch movies, eat meat or dairy, or use kitchen appliances.
Upon learning that Scratch has never had an official "death day party," Molly, along with Geoff, Libby and the rest of the McGees, throw one for him as a surprise.
After her appointment, she spends the day doing reckless things, including skipping class, bailing out on detention, and performing dangerous stunts.
After fourteen years, the duo had completed work on Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures when Disney signed them an overall deal.
[95] On January 14, 2024, one day after the final episode aired, Motz revealed that despite getting an order for ten season three scripts, Disney chose to end the show due to low ratings on Disney+.
[96] Sixteen days later, eighteen scripts and outlines for the cancelled season three were posted online in their entirety to the Internet Archive.
[97] The series' theme song was written by Allie Felder, Mike Kramer, Bill Motz and Bob Roth, and was performed by Ashly Burch and Dana Snyder.
[103] Ashley Moulton of Common Sense Media rated the series 4 out of 5 stars and depicted it as a "funny ghost-girl buddy story...[with] mild ghoulish scares".