Original air date: 10/6/2021 note
Production code: 105b
Molly tries to figure out why there's so much tension between her mom and grandma, and heal the rift between them.
Tropes:
- Armour-Piercing Question: Molly asks her dad to help mend the rift between his wife and mother-in-law. He demurs because fixing tension is tough for him. Molly then asks how he would feel if she and her mom ever got into a rift. This convinces him to go and talk to his wife.
- Beware the Nice Ones: When Molly finally loses her temper, she almost literally ties her mom and grandmother together to force them to talk out their issues.
- Both Sides Have a Point: The discussion of whether or not to get involved with the feud. Mr. McGee says that sometimes people have reasons for not talking to each other and interfering can make a bad situation worse. Molly says that if they don't try, her mother and grandmother will become estranged forever.
- Call-Back: Sharon is still working for Gig Pig, which her mother misinterprets as a job selling pork.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Averted actually. At first, Pete wonders if maybe Nin is angry he and Sharon eloped instead of having a wedding. During the climax, Nin admits she was never mad about that. Even so, she trolls Pete by giving him a durian twice, knowing it's hard to open and smells bad.
- Dramatic Thunder: Happens whenever Pete mentions "The Tensions". Scratch is weirded out by this, and lampshades it whenever it happens afterwards.Scratch: As a supernatural entity, I am telling you that is odd!
- Elopement: Pete and Sharon are revealed to have eloped and thus not had a proper wedding.
- Foreign Queasine: Durian is depicted as smelling so bad, even the dumpster-diving Scratch can't stand it. Darryl turns out to like it, and Pete ends up bribing Darryl to finish it so he doesn't offend Nin.
- Noodle Incident: Sharon tells her mother that her work with Gig Pig doesn't involve pork, usually.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Scratch willingly assists in helping Molly rebuild the bridge between Sharon and Nin. But he makes it clear that he's helping mainly, if not only, because he refuses risk losing out on Nin's delicious cooking and snacks that she gives him.
- Poor Communication Kills: Mrs. McGee thought her mother hated her for dropping out of law school to switch to art studies. Grandma Nin was disappointed that her daughter gave up her dreams of being an artist, wanting her to succeed. Molly has to pull the truth out of them in the climax when asking why they can't get along.
