Pete becomes a social media influencer to raise awareness for important issues, but the fame quickly goes to his head. Meanwhile, Scratch is inspired to use the power of dance to get ghosts to help him with his duties as Chairman.
Tropes:
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: Pete becomes increasingly self-absorbed as "Dance Dad".
- A Day in the Limelight: For Pete.
- An Aesop: While making Internet videos can be fun, they can have consequences.
- Call-Back: Libby agrees with Dance Dad: plastic bags are a menace!
- Evil Laugh: Pete and Molly go a smidge overboard when thinking about all the good they can do with their videos.Molly: I don't know why we're evil-laughing! This is a good thing!
Pete: I know, it's just kinda fun! - Fence Painting: Scratch is inspired by Pete's videos to turn sweeping up a mess he was tasked with cleaning into a dance to trick other ghosts into doing it for him. It only works until the ghosts get bored with his dance and create a new one which makes an even bigger mess that he's now tasked with cleaning up.
- Fictional Social Network: Pete becomes a star on ClickClock, a parody of TikTok.
- Guest Star: Jim Rash as JR, who becomes Pete's dance coach when the fame of "Dance Dad" reaches its peak.
- Instant Web Hit: Pete makes a series of viral videos to promote local issues in Brighton, and ends up becoming a sensation as "Dance Dad".
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Darryl is usually impressed with people involving troublemaking, schemes, pranks, and/or enjoying doing whatever they want to do, but even he thinks Pete is taking the "Dance Dad" thing too far.
- Shout-Out:
- JR tells his dance class to "sashay away."
- Scratch making a dance out of cleaning up to get the help of the other ghosts is reminiscent of the Humphrey the Bear cartoon "In the Bag".
- Staging an Intervention: The family stage an intervention for Pete when he gets too caught up with his fame.
