History Recap / TheGhostAndMollyMcGeeS2E20LetsPlayTurnipball

* AnAesop: Your opponent team may not be as mean as you think.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: An early sign of the Perfektborg players not being as antagonistic as they were made out to be, was its team captain Quinby (with a stern-looking game face) offering Molly a kringle.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: An early sign of the Perfektborg players not being as antagonistic as they were made out to be, was its team captain Quinby, with a stern-looking game face, offering Molly a kringle.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Turnipball is a game where you use a turnip as a ball. Otherwise subverted as that is the only rule that is clear.
* Foreshadowing: An early sign of the Perfektborg players not being as antagonistic as they were made out to be, was its team captain Quinby, with a stern-looking game face, offering Molly a kringle.

* ImproperlyParanoid: Principal O'Connor believes the kringle team captain Quimby gave Molly to be poisoned. When they find kringle bits in the locker room he believes it to be evidence of the Perfektborg team cheating. In reality Perfektborg sent a basket of kringles as a token of good will, but Scratch ate them before anyone found out. They even agree to throw the match so Brighton can finally get a win after 129 years.
* LoopholeAbuse: Molly bans Scratch from possessing any of the players, the coach, and the ball, but fails to ban him from possessing the discarded mascot costume. Although all he does with it is get into a dance off with the rival mascot.

* TimeStandsStill: When the "vuguzelas" play, everyone has to stay perfectly still and not make a sound. Ollie, not knowing about this rule, [[MoveInTheFrozenTime fails to follow it.]]

--> '''Scratch:''' You're the wisest being I've ever met, ''[[Recap/TheGhostAndMollyMcGeeS1E9NotSoHonestAbe and I met Abraham Lincoln once!]]''

* BittersweetEnding: Although Brighton lost the Turnipball game, at least Perfektborg showed some good sportsmanship and it's possible that Brighton might try again next year.
** On top of that, Brighton got to celebrate since the game didn't end with a shut-out.

** Bobby Daniels makes his first appearance since "[[Recap/TheGhostAndMollyMcGeeS1E30TheBadBoyBobbyDaniels The Bad Boy Bobby Daniels]]".

* UncertifiedExpert: Ollie may appear to be a talented turnipball player, but he's really only good on accident and doesn't even understand how the game works.

* CallBack: Molly reminds Scratch of [[Recap/TheGhostAndMollyMcGeeS1E4TheUnnatural the last time he used his powers to help Molly win at sports]].

* ContinuityNod: Bobby Daniels makes his first appearance since "[[Recap/TheGhostAndMollyMcGeeS1E30TheBadBoyBobbyDaniels The Bad Boy Bobby Daniels]]".

* MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber: The song, "This is Brighton's Year" in which numerous Brightonians are given different parts to sing.

* FourLinesAllWaiting: Ollie struggles with understanding the rules, Molly is driven by competition and Scratch gets into a feud with Perfektborg's mascot.

* UnqualifiedExpert: Ollie may appear to be a talented turnipball player, but he's really only good on accident and doesn't even understand how the game works.

* ExactlywhatItSaysOnTheTin: Turnipball is a game where you use a turnip as a ball. Otherwise subverted as that is the only rule that is clear.

* TemptingFate: During the song Molly says to buy tons of non refundable victory merch.

Brighton gets ready to face Perfektborg in a game of Turnipball, with Ollie as their new team member, who, despite not knowing how to play the game, keeps making good plays with pure luck. When Ollie suddenly gets a timeout after misinterpreting one of the rules, Brighton begins to fall behind and the team begins to suspect that the Perfektborgians are cheating. While snooping around in their locker room to investigate, Molly realizes that the Perfektborg team members are actually very nice and they agree to purposefully let the Brightonians win out of pity. Unfortunately, Ollie inadvertently causes the team to lose by scoring the automatic loss, but Brighton is just glad that their team actually scored some points and they are determined to win next time.

* ProperlyParanoid: Principal O'Connor believes the kringle team captain Quimby gave Molly to be poisoned. When they find kringle bits in the locker room he believes it to be evidence of the Perfektborg team cheating. In reality Perfektborg sent a basket of kringles as a token of good will, but Scratch ate them before anyone found out. They even agree to throw the match so Brighton can finally get a win after 129 years.

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* Calvinball: How you play Turnipball is never properly explained, with Ollie being unable to get a straight answer and only scoring points through dumb luck. The game seems to be some sort of fusion of just about every sport.