Original air date: 3/12/2022
Production code: 115a
Scratch and Geoff skip an important seminar for a day of fun. However, they find themselves in deep trouble when they have to show what they learned to the Chairman. Meanwhile, Molly does battle with Darryl's tarantula, which will have babies soon.
Tropes:
- Affably Evil: Pango acts just like an elementary school teacher who approaches the course material with an enthusiastic tone. This doesn't change the fact that she's perfectly fine with whoever fails being banished into the Flow of Failed Phantoms, even shoving in a distraught ghost after pulling saying "at least you tried."
- Call-Back: The B-plot involves Molly tangling with Darryl's pet tarantula Heidi Hairylegs, introduced in "Innocent Until Proven Ghostly."
- Companion Cube: Since all of Molly's friends and family are busy, she ends up talking to (and for) a plush unicorn named Twinklespot.
- Creepy Doll: One of Molly's old toys is "Baby Jessie," a wonky-eyed baby doll. She eventually decides to move it to a new spot...the donation bag. Which she then tosses out the window.
- Cutaway Gag:
- Molly gets unnerved when her plushies suddenly seem to move around on their own. She tentatively reaches to grab one, then it cuts to Pango saying, "Boo!" Fittingly, she's currently teaching her pupils what a Jump Scare is.
- Molly freaks out when Darryl tells her that Heidi is pregnant with thousands of babies, and then it cuts to Pango saying, "Now that's what we call escalation!"
- Explosive Breeder: Heidi Hairylegs is set to give birth soon, to Molly's horror when she hears it hundreds to thousands. It turns out to be a lot more than that because, by the time Scratch returns home, they've overrun the house.
- Fun with Acronyms: The S.C.A.R.E. System. Surprise, Creep, Alarm, Roar, and Ectoplasm.
- Hope Spot: Molly manages to catch Heidi inside a toy bus, before Heidi scares her into letting her go again.
- I Taste Delicious: Scratch and Geoff skip the scare seminar by building dummies of themselves from flavored gelatin. They eat their duplicates, and Scratch jokes that he tasted delicious.
- I Would Say If I Could Say: Scratch complains that the scare seminar would bore him to death if he wasn't already a ghost.
- Noodle Incident: Molly says that Darryl is unavailable for reasons he doesn't want to explain. When she calls him on the phone, the sounds of a horse and a motorcycle are heard, which barely hint at what he's really doing.
- Offscreen Reality Warp: Scratch sees Molly in her bedroom, freaking out after Heidi escaped into the house, but roughly 30 seconds later when he goes to check on her, she's suddenly in the backyard, calmly watering the flowers.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Geoff and Scratch are understandably worried when the teacher announces they'll be doing something differently this year for the seminar. They're downright terrified when they're told they have to demonstrate what they've learned from the seminar (the same one they just skipped) in front of the Chairman or get banished to the Flow of Failed Phantoms.
- When Molly calls Darryl about the spider, she is horrified to learn that it's about to give birth to hundreds — no, thousands — of babies.
- Saying Too Much: Scratch tries to shush Geoff when he says Scratch has "a whole new way of dealing with humans", understandably worried the Chairman will find out he's been fraternizing with Molly and her family.
- Shout-Out: One of the toys in Molly's doll collection is a teddy bear that looks suspiciously like Freddy Fazbear.
- Skipping School: Scratch ends up skipping out of a work-mandated "scare seminar" with Geoff.
- Sleeping Dummy: Scratch and Geoff make dummies of themselves out of gelatin to skip the seminar. They have a close call when the presenter asks Geoff to pay attention, as the dummy's eyes were drifting, and Scratch has to knock them back in place.
- Stepford Smiler: Molly claims to be OK when Scratch finally returns from the seminar, only to drop the act when Scratch is about to go take a rest inside the house, which has been overrun by baby spiders.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: The ghosts see Molly freaking out in her bedroom, moaning "How could you do this to me, Scratch?!" The ghosts assume it was from Scratch scaring the crap out of her, and not from being left alone to face Heidi Hairylegs by herself. Scratch rolls with it, since the misconception is the only thing keeping him out of the Flow of Failed Phantoms.
- Tempting Fate: Scratch convinces Geoff to skip the seminar with him by saying that, since every seminar is the same, there's no problem for as long as they're back on time for the head count at the end. They're back on time but, instead of a simple head count as usual, every ghost at the seminar will have to perform in front of the Chairman to avoid being sent to the Flow of the Failed Phantoms. Right after Scratch says it won't be so bad with Geoff being banished with him, Geoff does a good enough performance to avoid banishment.
