Book Marks the Sprite

The Ghost and Molly McGee
"Book Marks the Sprite"

Season 2

Number 2A

Episode information

Production code

202A

Written by

Paul Chang

Storyboards by

Steve Lit

Directed by

Johnny Castuciano

Original airdate

April 2, 2023 (Disney+)
April 8, 2023 (Disney Channel)

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"Book Marks the Sprite" is the first segment of the twenty-second episode of the Disney Channel animated series The Ghost and Molly McGee.

Synopsis[]

Molly must distract Ollie while Scratch attempts to capture the Story Sprite.

Plot[]

Molly, Scratch, and Libby are hanging out at the latter's bookstore when Leah tells Libby that she is stepping out, meaning that she will be in charge of the store. Libby is nervous at the prospect of being in charge, but Molly tells her to relax. They suddenly hear a slurping sound and discover a tiny ghost which they quickly identify as a book sprite, a ghost that literally devours books. To make matters worse, Ollie Chen enters with his ghost hunting equipment. Molly, having a huge crush on Ollie, decides to distract him while Libby and Scratch deal with the sprite, which has the ability to become whatever words it consumes.

The sprite takes the form of a minotaur before becoming a vampire, during which Libby tries desperately to stop it while Scratch discovers that his new role as the chairman does nothing to quell it. Molly tries to lead Ollie away from the action within the store and takes him outside. She then asks if he has considered the possibility that ghosts are not all that bad, but Ollie disagrees as he does not believe that ghosts are similar to people and reveals that when his father, Ruben, was a child, he was frightened by a ghost and since then has been trying to capture and prove their existence. The Chens constant moving being the result of people not believing them.

Just when things seem hopeless in the store as the sprite has taken the form of a kraken and has eaten almost all of the books' words, Libby takes her personal diary and has the sprite consume it, causing it to transform into Libby. Libby feeds into sprite Libby's personal fears and convinces it to not only clean up the store, but to also return the words it was consuming to begin with. The plan works and the sprite returns to normal before politely leaving the store. Molly returns and admits that she thinks it is impossible to change Ollie's mind about ghosts, but still loves him. After using her experience with the story sprite to convince Molly that she being with Ollie may still have hope, Libby puts up the last couple of books still on the ground as Leah enters and congratulates her for keeping the store in order, although Scratch points out one misplaced book (a cookbook in the true crime section), Libby thinks it was close enough.

Cast[]

Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
Dana Snyder as Scratch
Lara Jill Miller as Libby Stein-Torres, Story Sprite Libby
Alan Lee as Ollie Chen
Sue Ann Pien as June Chen
Leonard Wu as Ruben Chen
Stephanie Sheh as Esther Chen
Pamela Adlon as Leah Stein-Torres

Song[]

Ghosts Aren't the Enemy

Trivia[]

On April 2, 2023, the episode was released early on Disney+.
The comic featured at the beginning of the episodes bears a very similar art style to the animation of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
This episode (along with "Double, Double, Darryl & Trouble") premiered on Disney Channel the same day as The Owl House's final episode "Watching and Dreaming", marking the first & only time that an episode of The Ghost and Molly McGee premiered on Disney Channel the same day as an episode of The Owl House.
A remixed version of the show's title from the theme song is played when Molly, Scratch, and Libby start their plan to distract Ollie and catch the book sprite.
The song "Ghosts Aren't the Enemy" has several nods to The Little Mermaid song "Part of Your World"
Sprite Libby almost mentioned the incident at Andrea's sleepover in the 3rd grade that was previously mentioned in "Friend-Off".