"Not So Honest Abe" is the first segment of the fifth episode of the Disney Channel animated series, The Ghost and Molly McGee.
On October 6, 2021, the episode was released early on Disney+.
Synopsis[]
Molly only has a few hours to put together an entire school project on Abraham Lincoln, but it’s helpful that Scratch knows Abraham Lincoln’s ghost.
Plot[]
Scratch is considered a loser in the ghost realm and cannot even be admitted into a club with the other ghosts. Upon returning home, he sees that Molly is in the middle of putting together history props for all of her friends (Joan of Arc for Kat, Marie Curie for Sheela and Dian Fossey for Libby). Despite her best efforts, she has failed to put anything together for her own project despite it being due the next day. When she reveals that it is for Abraham Lincoln, Scratch states that he knows him that he would most likely not care. Molly puts together that he honestly does not know him. Offended, Scratch angrily tells her that he personally knows him and will bring him back to help with her project.
Scratch confides in Geoff his current predicament and decides to dress him up as Lincoln and convince Molly that he is the real deal. They return and Scratch tries to have Geoff go in and out, but when Molly desperately asks for help, Geoff decides to continue the ruse. Scratch is forced to sit and watch in horror as Molly is fed false information about the president. When she presents her project at the history fair, the other students begin to laugh at her with Ms. Roop threatening to give her an F. Scratch sneaks into the ghost club and confronts Lincoln by asking for help. Lincoln has him be honest with himself and his feelings for Molly and he admits that he does not want to see her fail.
Molly hides in the restroom where Scratch arrives with the real Lincoln. While upset that Scratch lied to her, she is happy to see him make up for him and returns to do her project. She explains that the prior information was based on Lincoln's habit of telling yarns and proceeds to go into a real presentation: a hip hop/jazz number about Lincoln's accomplishments. Molly gets an A+ on her report and thanks Lincoln for dropping by. Scratch apologizes for his actions prior and Molly forgives him. However, Miss Lightfoot reveals that their science projects are due. Molly asks Scratch if he knows Albert Einstein, to which he lyingly says yes, because he "never learns [his] lesson".
Cast[]
- Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
- Dana Snyder as Scratch
- Kelsey Grammer as Abraham Lincoln
- Michaela Dietz as Darryl McGee
- Eric Edelstein as Geoff
- Lara Jill Miller as Libby Stein-Torres
- Jane Lynch as Summer Roop
- Julia Jones as Clover Lightfoot
- John DiMaggio as Bouncer Ghost
Song[]
Trivia[]
- Besides Lincoln, George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt are also seen as ghosts. Oddly enough, Roosevelt still has his wheelchair.
- Scratch is revealed to genuinely care about Molly's opinion of himself.
- Howlin' Harriet from the episode of the same name makes a cameo appearance at the front of the line in the ghost coffee shop.
- The episode depicts Abraham Lincoln as being able to play the piano and sing. While the show is a cartoon that uses suspension of disbelief, Lincoln never learned to play an instrument in real life.
- This was the only episode to actually get produced from the original pitch bible. In that version, Scratch himself dresses up as Lincoln and Molly immediately calls him out by torturing him into goofing up.
International Premieres[]
- October 24, 2021 (Canada)
- November 10, 2021 (Australia, New Zealand)
- November 12, 2021 (Singapore)
- December 29, 2021 (United Kingdom, Ireland)
- January 2, 2022 (Israel)
- January 28, 2022 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand)
- February 15, 2022 (Russia)
- February 18, 2022 (Spain)
- February 28, 2022 (Portugal)
- March 18, 2022 (Central/Eastern Europe)
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