"Scaring is Caring" is the first segment of the nineteenth episode of the Disney Channel animated series, The Ghost and Molly McGee.
Synopsis[]
When Scratch is unable to scare the day before his report is due, Molly takes over his scares.
Plot[]
While working on an art project about her friendship with Scratch, Molly is surprised by the appearance of a very nervous Scratch who tells her that he is one day away from his scare report, which he has put off at the last minute. He goes outside to try and scare Pete by possessing one of his begonias, but to his own surprise, he instead does something cute. Somehow, Scratch is incapable of doing anything scary and instead can only act cute now, causing his appearance to change as well. After he tells Molly about his condition and has to wait for an appointment for the ghost doctor, Molly casually suggests that she take over his scaring duties for the day, which he laughs at, as he does not find Molly scary enough. Molly is offended at this and challenges Scratch by telling him that she will try to scare someone before the day is out.
Molly and Scratch, the latter of whom begins to get cuter and exhibit a squeaky voice over time, go to their first target, a baby. Molly manages to give the baby a startle, but immediately begins to try and calm the baby once he starts crying. Later, Molly tries to scare a boy (Tyrus) while he was walking and texting, but he flips her over with judo. She then dresses up as a zombie, but her backstory only gains empathy from her targets. Scratch decides to take over, but due to his cuteness severely hindering him, he decides to fake his report, but Molly insists that she needs more space to do her scaring. Luckily for her, Scratch's appointment was ready, so he lets Molly scare on her own as he goes to see the ghost doctor to see what is wrong with him and she tells him that his internal misery levels are at an all time low and he has been infected with "joy", represented by his insides resembling a happy colorful world. She tells him that she needs to "find your fear", which Scratch does not understand before the ghost doctor goes to her next patient.
Molly dons her dinosaur costume from fifth grade in a pitiful attempt at trying to scare people as a monster, but only manages to amuse, annoy or confuse people with her lousy scaring. After believing Scratch was right about her not being scary, she ends up accidentally stepping in, flying into, and landing on things that snowball into her actually scaring some people. Scratch, having just returned, is impressed that she scared people, but when he sees her about to blindly wander into traffic, he reverts to his old self and rescues her from being hit by a garbage truck. Scratch realizes that his "fear" was seeing Molly in distress. Molly takes this as a sign that she is technically scary because of this and Scratch casually agrees with her.
Cast[]
- Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
- Dana Snyder as Scratch
- Jordan Klepper as Pete McGee
- Secunda Wood as Ghost Doctor, Tyrus
Song[]
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode where only Pete appears without Sharon or Darryl, though he does call for the former.
- The inside of Scratch when he is filled with Joy looks like the plants from the Silly Symphonies short Flowers and Trees.
- Michaela Dietz is credited as Darryl in this episode and "All Night Plight" despite not appearing in either of them.
- At the beginning of "Prepared to Be Scared", the puddle rippling from Molly's approach is a reference to Jurassic Park.
- In the same song at the graveyard scene, Molly used Godzilla's roar.
- This was the 2nd time in the show that the roar was used, the 1st being "The Turnip Twist" by Scratch.
- When Molly jumps out to scare Tyrus, her right sock was in a few frames.
International Premieres[]
- July 3, 2022 (Canada)
- October 18, 2022 (Portugal, Spain)
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