Original air date: 10/6/2021 note
Production code: 104a
Molly's mom Sharon turns to a job app to make money after the family car breaks down. Meanwhile, her dad and brother get distracted from cleaning the basement by trying to open a mysterious, tiny door.
Tropes:
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Pete doesn't believe that Centipede World exists, but Darryl points out that they live with a ghost.
- Bait-and-Switch: A tiny door with no key, in a Creepy Basement? Darryl hopes that it leads to another world, while Pete thinks maybe it has treasure. They bust the door open...and find out they broke the water heater instead.
- Berserk Button: Sharon turns out to have had a bad experience working in her parents' restaurant as a kid. When Scratch suggests she get a job in a restaurant and tells her to "go cook", Sharon flies into a brief rage, complete with Fireball Eyeballs and Voice of the Legion.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: The dogs Sharon and Molly try to walk are able to see Scratch despite being in invisible mode and start to chase him. Apparently, this isn't limited to just dogs, as Scratch also gets chased around by buffalo and sheep.
- Family-Unfriendly Violence: Thanks to being already dead, Scratch suffers a lot of maiming at the hands of the various animals Molly and Sharon interact with as part of their gig pig jobs, including being repeatedly trampled onscreen.
- Forbidden Fruit: Pete and Darryl's interest in the small door only increases the more they fail to unlock it.
- Here We Go Again!: At the end of the episode Sharon is stuck working longer for Gig Pig because Pete and Darryl accidentally broke the water heater in their zeal to open the tiny door.
- Horrifying the Horror: Sharon becomes so angry at the idea of cooking that she even manages to terrify Scratch.
- Innocuously Important Episode: Sharon becomes a Gig Pig worker to cover the cost of car repair, because the McGee family doesn't have enough savings for it. In a later episode, the expenses will get so much worse that they end up losing their house.
- Medium Awareness: During the Hard-Work Montage, Sharon overhears and freaks out when the lyrics state she's up to her elbows in toxic mold, even trying to resist the screen transition to clarify if they were serious.
- Nobody Poops: Averted. Sharon outright states that dog walking involves them walking the dogs until they're ready to do their business, and one of their gig pig jobs involves shoveling 'buffalo patties' with Molly and Sharon's reaction to seeing one offscreen leaving no doubt as to what they're referring to. Apparently, several jobs they handled off-screen involved several piles of poop as well according to an off-hand comment by Molly.
- Not Me This Time: Scratch, upset by the McGee's cleaning out his deliberately-crafted musty, moldy basement in the house, asks Molly how she'd like it if he'd started messing with her stuff, only for the car to break down at that point. He also denies involvement when it suffers a further breakdown inside the mechanic's garage whilst he's resting in it, with the wheels flying off and the engine gushing fluids.Scratch: I understand why you think I did that, but I didn't
- Oh, Crap!:
- After hearing Scratch telling Sharon to cook, Molly, Darryl, and Pete were horrified! See here.
◊ - Scratch has this after Sharon threatens him for telling her to go cook.
- After hearing Scratch telling Sharon to cook, Molly, Darryl, and Pete were horrified! See here.
- Riddle for the Ages: Who would put a small door for the water heater?
- Stating the Simple Solution: Scratch sees a Help Wanted sign in the window of a Diner and suggests that Sharon "go cook". She does not take it well.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Darryl hopes that this isn't the case when they find a mysterious door that is child-sized within Scratch's basement. He wants to go on a magical adventure and dubs the world on the other side "Centipede World." Pete in the meantime theorizes that maybe this was a gangster's treasure trove. They're both wrong: it's a door to the water heater. And they break it in their quest to unlock the door.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Pete is terrified of the centipedes in the basement, which causes Darryl to exploit his fear for amusement.
- Women Are Wiser: Molly does all she can to help her mother with her gigs. Meanwhile, her brother encourages their dad to blow off cleaning and open the door in the basement. Accordingly, Molly and Sharon's efforts eventually earn them the money they need for the car, only for Daryll and Pete's antics to blow all of that as they end up damaging the water heater in the basement the door was covering, resulting in extra costs that the girl's accumulated funds will have to be used for.
