WMG / The Ghost and Molly McGee

In General

Season 1

Molly McGee will be a Stepford Smiler

• She is All of the Other Reindeer and has a Friendless Background.
  • The theme song mentions Molly saying 'never be alone again', so she is probably more lonely than she might come off as.

Apparently semi-confirmed- The first two episodes show that Molly is a little self-conscious about her being naturally overly-friendly to complete strangers and warning them away by giving them unwanted hugs and such, and she comments that whilst she has made friends before, she's also lost contact with them thanks to her dad's job forcing them to move away, which is why she displays some nervousness about staying in Brighton in private to Scratch, because she intends to make it the McGee's 'forever home' and doesn't want to mess it up. In "First Night Frights" she actually struggles a lot with her first day of school even without Scrath's direct interference, because her overly-chatty nature means she keeps putting her foot in her mouth around Andrea and thus becomes ostracized at school. If not for Scratch's interference, Molly really would have wound up The Friend Nobody Likes.

Andrea's family is the wealthiest in Brighton, but not Fiction 500

The Davenport's department store is only modestly big, as is the warehouse. And the Davenports' family friend is Greta Gerwig and not, say, Steven Spielberg. But it is noticeably better-kept than the rest of Brighton, which looks to be pretty dilapidated.

The Davenports are likely the richest family in Brighton, but only on the level of "successful business owner" by any other standard.

Molly has a crush on Libby or identifies as LGBT in some way.

• There are two noteworthy moments in the song remix video that support this idea. The first comes in at around the 0:50 mark, where she's shown being torn up over not wanting to lose her best friend, and it's framed somewhat like a love song. During the last song, My Best Friend's Bar Mitzvah, where we find out Libby's name, Molly is shown to look very fondly at her now that she's become a woman. ^note  For further clarity, the girl in both sections has pretty much the same appearance, confirming that Molly is singing about Libby.
  • Molly gets a crush on a boy named Oliver in Season 2, so Jossed on the LG part. She still could be bi, though.

The curse is that Scratch made a vow to haunt Molly forever

• But it backfired because Molly actually liked having Scratch around. Scratch eventually got sick of haunting her and wanted to leave, but he couldn't because he'd already made the vow.
  • Scratch's dialogue in the NYCC clip implies that the curse was meant to last for as long as Molly lived in Scratch's house, presumably so he could have said house all to himself. It's possible future episodes will involve Scratch doing thing to try and make Molly and her family leave.
  • Confirmed.

Mental health will be a major theme in the show.

• With the two main characters contrasting worldviews the show will give several mental wellness aesops, such as how anger is a perfectly healthy thing to feel and how forcing yourself to be happy all the time is toxic.

There will be an episode with ghosts guest-voiced by Carey Means and Dave Willis

It wouldn't be the first Disney TVA show to invoke I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine.

A Wham Episode will reveal that Scratch has a Dark and Troubled Past

It's a post-Gravity Falls Disney cartoon; it's bound to happen.

• It’s seems that “Ghosts are humans who died” theory is confirmed. My theory is that Scratch possibly died a tragic death.
• Word of God confirmed we will learn more about Scratch's past, although how deep remains a mystery as of now.
• It's been confirmed in an episode that he had a friend in his life. Whatever troubles were in his past, his friend's involvement in them is also a mystery.

Molly and her family are immigrants

• She is Ambiguously Brown and mentions moving a lot in the NYCC clip.
  • Jossed. Her dad is Irish and her mom is Thai.

Molly's dad is military

• Not combat but a supporting role tied to it, which is why they moved a lot.
  • Jossed. He's a city planner.

Molly's dad is moved a lot by his company

• An alternate take of the above reasoning, constantly being reshuffled to different offices.

The show ends with Molly moving again and Scratch being sad about it

• He'd finally be free of Molly, but he'll be upset that it is happening. Severing of friendships by leaving is a thing that happens in a lot of these shows.
  • Confirmed. Not as the show's finale, but still.

Molly's father isn't her biological one

• He's much lighter skinned than his wife or either of his kids, and neither Molly or her brother seems to have inherited his red hair. Odds are he's their step-father after something happened to their real one.. well either that, or he really got the short end of the stick in the gene pool.
  • The gene pool end would make more sense. Dark hair/eyes/tanned skin are dominant traits compared to Molly's father's recessive traits.
  • If that's true, Molly's biological dad will appear in the series as a ghost.

Molly isn't entirely innocent

She's genuinely sweet and kind, she's not Mandy or anything, but she's just a bit too happy about having Scratch bound to her for all eternity. She may genuinely relish the power and have a fondness for dark things and a scary streak, but being more something like Luz than Mandy.

• Semi-confirmed. While Molly is all about hugs and rainbows, there are moments that show she forces her optimism to the point of insanity such as in "Ready, Set, Snow" where Molly was the only one who wanted to play outside and briefly goes through a psychotic breakdown.

Scratch's favorite food is tacos

Hence him grabbing them in the intro and having a reason to be there other than some random effect.

• Confirmed.

At some point there will be an episode entitled The Ghost of Molly McGee where Molly temporarily becomes a ghost

• In said episode, Molly will wonder what it's like to be a ghost and will get some first hand experience. This may or may not also involve Scratch becoming temporarily human.
  • Semi-confirmed. Molly does indeed become a ghost in the Season One finale temporarily. However, Scratch doesn't become human.

Brandy & Mr. Whiskers will be referenced in some way.

• As noted in the main page, Billy Motz and Bob Roth both worked together on that show, so it's likely they might want to reference their older work in some way. It can be anything from just a dog and rabbit in the background who look like non-anthropomorphic versions of the titular Brandy or Whiskers, or something more similar to the show plot wise with an episode where Molly, Scratch and their family get trapped in the amazon jungle and have to live there until help arrives.
  • Confirmed in season 2. Molly has a stuffed rabbit called Mr. Whiskers that looks just like the character.

Scratch will feel guilty and stop giving Molly a hard time in "First Day Frights" when he sees that he's putting her in the same friendless, lonely situation as himself in the Ghost World.

• A little predictable, but a good bet to make. Bonus points if the thing that provokes his conscience is someone teasing Molly calling her "the worst of the worst", or something to that effect.
  • Confirmed, on both accounts.

Molly's going to try keeping Scratch a secret from the rest of her family for a little while

The intro makes it obvious that they know about Scratch eventually, but... I mean, wouldn't you want to keep the fact you've been cursed by a ghost a secret just to make sure the rest of your family doesn't think you're nuts?

• Subverted. Scratch met them himself trying to scare them away but Molly convinced her family that he's nice.

Scratch will get attached to Molly sometime within the first season.

• He even seems to come around a bit over the course of the intro sequence (albeit only when there are tacos). He'll stay in denial for a while until (and likely even sometime after) he finds himself actively defending her a few times.
  • He'll only realize how much he appreciates her when the family moves at the end of the series run, and he too leaves the house to stay with the McGees.

This isn't the first time Scratch was cursed

Perhaps it will turn out a previous victim of Scratch cursed him so that he would be stuck with a person he could not torment so easily until he stops his Jerkass ways. They will appear sporadically throughout the show until the reveal comes.

Forgot to say that personally, I'm picturing an old woman as such.

Scratch’s Origins will reveal Scratch’s backstory

The film, The Ghost and Molly McGee: Scratch’s Origins, will reveal about Scratch's backstory, middle life, including before he met Molly.

• That was part of DTVA's April Fools joke for 2021, so jossed before this theory could even be written.

Scratch will eventually find out what Molly's afraid of.. and it's going to be ridiculously outlandish

• Think of Zack Underwood and his fear of flying fish.
  • Turns out Molly has Arachnophobia. One little tarantula is enough to send her into a panic.

The Chairman of the Ghost Council is just a figurehead.

The Grim Reaper-like Chairman of the Ghost Council is just a fabricated construct, meant to intimidate the subordinate ghosts to fall in line. He, or rather it, is just a device used to banish failed ghosts, and serve as a puppet for the real power of the other four Council members.

Molly and Scratch will switch places for an episode.

There may be an episode where magic is used to switch Molly and Scratch’s places turning Scratch human and Molly into a ghost.

• While we've yet to have a Freaky Friday Plot, this is semi-confirmed for the Season 1 finale where Molly temporarily turns into a ghost (which causes her soul to escape from her body and reduces her human self to an emotionless Creepy Child). Scratch doesn't become a human in turn though.

Molly will realize that Scratch is working for the Ghost Council

Given that she is unaware that Scratch is working for the Ghost Council, it is likely in the Season Finale, that she will be heartbroken under the realization that the latter was scaring people in order to make Brighton miserable.

• It turns out she already learnt about the Ghost Council beforehand and Scratch has revealed it in the first few episodes.

Molly will become heartbroken after realizing that Scratch is helping the Ghost Council

Since it was revealed in the first episode, that she left a lot of friends after she moved, she will become more heartbroken once she realizes that Scratch was helping the Ghost Council by making Brighton miserable.

• In the recent episodes, Scratch seems to have told Molly about the Ghost Council, and acknowledges how he must try to ensure his quota meets the Council's standards.

Molly will willingly tell Libby about Scratch

Makes sense since Libby is Molly's first human best friend, she would later introduce her to her other best friend. How Libby will react will however, may not be pleasant.

• "Scratch the Surface" has Libby finally discovering about Scratch and it's not as dramatic as it seems. In fact, she and Scratch fight for the position on who will be Molly's number one best friend.

Andrea is eventually going to get her comeuppance over time

As the series goes on and Molly and Scratch get up to more exploits and adventures and [in Molly's case] spread more joy, the school, both students and staff alike, will start getting motivated and confident, and so will be more willing to stand up to Andrea and call her out on her horrible personality and stop catering to her every whim no matter how mad she gets, right down to pronouncing her name in the way she utterly despises. It's probably going to culminate where she finally gets some kind of punishment, perhaps from a teacher or principal or even her parents, and may even get something like this:

Andrea: You can't do this to me!

Authority Figure: Oh yes we can, Aan-dree-uh!

Failing that, Scratch can always haunt her.

• Jossed in that the series has tooled Andrea into a Lovable Alpha Bitch and given her a sympathetic backstory in that she has horribly negligent parents who give her little attention, which causes her to seek such attention as a social media influencer and look down upon those beneath her. "Home is Where the Huant Is" even has her mend fences with Molly and admit that she values their friendship deep down, with Andrea even gathering the whole town to fundraise enough money to help Molly get her house back.

Scratch's curse on Molly will become a Chekhov's Gun

Scratch will be banished into the Flow of Failed Phantoms only to turn out that Molly's ability to summon him lets her pull him out.

The Chairmen will become the Overarching threat

Given that he was shown looking at the Brighton meter at the end of the first episode, while making a hissed anger, It is likely that he will become a real threat to Scratch.

Scratch was haunted by his own ghost when he was alive.

That's most likely how he became so grumpy and miserable.

The Ghost Hunter will become the Big Bad

The Ghost Hunter will try to capture Scratch, know about The Ghosts, and will try to expose them to the town, including the world.

Andrea will figure out Scratch is a ghost and will try to expose him.

Despite at least only seeing him when the latter accidentally scared her in “First Day Frights”, if she returned in any episodes of the series, she will figure out that Scratch is a ghost, and will try to expose him to the town.

Andrea will have a Heel–Face Turn and become Molly’s friend near the end of Season 1

Given that Gloria Sato, Sasha Waybright, and Amity Blight all have turned from bullies to good friends of their respective protagonists, Andrea will likely apologize to Molly for her actions after regretting for what she has done, and will become her friend.

• "Saving Christmas" really seems to want to suggest that Andrea's Freudian Excuse is her parents. They, especially her father, have the same vices as her (extreme selfishness, Bad Influencer tendencies), which they've raised Andrea to share. Her redemption arc will be to break away from her upbringing.
• Confirmed at the end of "Home is Where the Haunt Is". Andrea with the help of the rest of the town raises enough money to get the McGees' house back for Molly to stay in Brighton. Andrea admits that even though their friendship has a rough exterior she still considers her her best friend due to how much Molly has heled her.

When Molly learns why Scratch has to make Brighton miserable...she will make a Declaration of Protection for him.

Scratch is too stubborn to ask for help, but Molly will find out about the Flow of Failed Phantoms punishment. She promises Scratch that she'll do everything she can to both save him from the Council and make Brighton happier. If the Council kidnaps Scratch, she'll go on an Orphean Rescue.

• In the Season 1 finale, Molly travels into the Ghost World and discovers Scratch's fate for having a human best friend, indeed learning about the Flow of Failed Phantoms. Indeed Molly does protect him by using her Finger Touch Of Doom to enhappify all of the Ghost World, knowing it's their weakness, and disintegrate the Chairman to save Scratch from his fate.

All ghosts in the series were formerly existing people who passed away.

• A little dark, but if this were the case, then that means Scratch would've had a life of some sort in the past. And the way he died could possibly be a plot point somehow.
  • This has been confirmed several times. It's a supernatural obligation that applies to all ghosts in fiction unless otherwise stated. An ongoing joke is how Scratch is "already dead" being pointed out when he's in situations that could kill him.

The Ghost Realm and Brighton run on a Year Outside, Hour Inside system.

That must be why the opposing softball team scored so many points over the Lemmings in less than a minute.

• Unlikely considering Scratch is surprised by the scoring.

Carey Means and Dave Willis will guest star as friends of Scratch.

Many theories about how Scratch died

• Food Poisoning
  • "Innocent Until Guilty" supports the theory of a food-related incident since Scratch is revealed to be allergic to carob and Molly feeds him one to prove that he is not the one who ate Pete and Sharon's anniversary.

Molly's grandmother's advice about how to live with a ghost will prove a Chekhov's Gun that ultimately breaks the Council's hold on ghosts.

All the ghosts on the Council and the ghosts they manage appear to be American or at minimum, Westerners; in contrast, in Thailand (and likely other countries in Asia, given how those cultures believe that any creature and even objects can become spirits/ghosts under the right circumstances), ghosts rooming with humans and treated as valued guests or even family members is the norm. It's likely that if a ghost becomes properly bonded to a human or human family, they are able to move outside the Council's power; the Council, knowing this, instilled the system we see of "cause misery or be banished" so that none of the ghosts under their dominion would be able to bond with humans and thus find their freedom. The most likely road is that Scratch is discovered to be living with Molly's family and is kidnapped by the Council and set to be banished; Molly will show up and attempt a rescue but fails and is captured herself, with the Council planning to make her watch them banish Scratch. However, their bond will prevent the banishment; the Council will be confused but Scratch works it out and announces the reason to the room at large. The second season would then be dedicated to ghosts trying to live with humans instead of making them miserable.

• Related: Ghosts still do scare but they use it in ways that make humans happy (like spooking up a haunted house for charity or morale) or against nefarious types (like having a ghost act as a security system for their adopted family). Meanwhile, the Council is a reoccurring antagonist ensemble, trying to sway ghosts back to the old system.

Molly and her Family will be keeping Scratch as a secret from everyone

Given that Molly tricked Libby into seeing her name while preventing her from knowing that Scratch is a ghost, this might mean that She and her family are going to hide Scratch as a secret from everyone, including the police, bullies, and criminals.

• This is more-or-less jossed given that a ghost hunter family moves into the same neighborhood in Season 2 and them finding out about Scratch is all but guaranteed to be a plot point.

Andrea will suffer a Big Bad Slippage and becomes the main antagonist of season 1

• Given how Andrea managed to rule the entire school with a simple Death Glare and how Molly has a tendency to humiliate her, Andrea will eventually assume a villainous role that involves her trying to run the Molly and her family out of town in the finale.
  • Jossed. The opposite, actually. At the end of "Home is Where the Haunt Is", Andrea starts a town charity to get Molly's house back so her family can stay in Brighton. She even declares Molly her best friend and highlights all her acts of heroism that helped her.

Andrea is a ghost in disguise

• She has blue hair like a male ghost, pink clothes like a female ghost, really pale skin in comparison to everyone else, looks much more colorful than pretty much everything in Brighton (even the McGees who just moved out) and she overall sticks out like a sore thumb design-wise to everyone else in the show.

Greg Eagles will voice the Grim Reaper ghost

• Why not? He has the experience.
• Alternatively, he could voice the Chairman.

Nicky Jones will voice a ghost of a little boy who looks up to Scratch

• Just like Dana Snyder's previous works, this could be a nice shout-out to Chowder, another cartoon that both actors used to work on.
  • Unlikely, as Jones retired from voice acting soon after Chowder ended, and is now a young man.

Andrea will work for the Big Bad later on in the show

• Given that Andrea has a rivalry with Molly, she might become The Dragon for the Big Bad of the show.

Libby's dad is dead

• He doesn't attend Libby's Bat Mitzvah, despite what looks to be his side of the family attending (and being on good terms with Libby's mom). Libby and her mother both go by the surname Stein-Torres, which doesn't suggest divorce (surely Libby's mother would switch back to her maiden name, which is presumably Torres alone). For all we know, in her candle lighting ceremony, she was about to mention her (already deceased) father as she did with her grandparents but once Molly left, her anxiety kicked in and she choked.
• Jossed. An upcoming Season 2 episode called "Like Father, Like Libby" has Libby receive a late Bat Mitzvah present from her father and she is going to visit him.

Libby's dad is in the Ghost Realm

Assuming the above WMG is true. Ghosts in this show are firmly established to be ex-people, so it stands to reason Libby's dad would be a ghost. Libby will apparently learn of Scratch's existence in an upcoming episode, so a possible episode could be Scratch reuniting Libby with her dad's ghost.

The Ghost Council wants Molly out of Brighton by any means necessary.

They don't care if she's a child, she has to go whether it means forced to move away or even killed.

The Ghost Council never were going to let Scratch into the Elite Ghost Society

They all hate Scratch and knew about the curse, so this was a way of messing with him.

• Considering that this would have been an OOC Pet the Dog moment for them if they hadn't known, this troper agrees.

Libby will find out about Scratch

In the sneak-peek trailer of “Scratch the Surface”, she is shown following Molly and Scratch, meaning that she will find about about him in the following episode.

• She did.

Molly will help save and free the Failed Ghosts from the Flow of Failed Phantoms

Given that she was shocked once she learned about the Flow of Failed Phantoms in “Scratch The Surface”, This will mean that while she will likely be rescuing Scratch from ihe Ghost Council, and is always helping anyone whoever they have any issues or problems, she may be also helping on rescuing the Ghosts from the Flow of Failed Phantoms.

• Confirmed. The season 1 finale has her and Scratch sent into the Flow of Failed Phantoms only for Molly's positivity to destroy it, setting all the banished ghosts free.

Unlike certain other Lovable Alpha Bitches, Andrea's parents will be perfectly wonderful people

Albeit, completely spineless too.

• Kind of confirmed. Mr. Davenport is greedy and selfish, but is shown to have a Freudian Excuse and loves Andrea.

Near the end of Season 1, Molly and Scratch’s friendship will be broken

If “The Bad Boy Bobby Daniels” is any foreshadowing, it might indicate that Molly and Scratch will break up their friendship.

• Sort of confirmed. "The Jig is Up" ends with Scratch being forced back to the ghost world to stand trial and be banished to the Flow of Failed Phantoms for his friendship with Molly.

There will be a Sequel Hook that will set up Season 2

Since the second season of TGAMM was already announced, it’s likely they would set up the second season.

• Sort of Confirmed.

Season 2

Molly can astral project at-will after becoming a Wraith

There will be a power vacuum and power struggle in the Ghost World in Season 2.

The Ghost Council had supreme control over the Ghost World because the Chairman and the threat of being sent to the Flow of Failed Phantoms.

Now that Molly has destroyed both, the Council has no one to enforce their will. Much like a mafia that has lost its don or a dictatorship that has lost its dictator, there will be conflicts in the Ghost World over who controls things. Some of the things that could happen:

• Ghosts that like joy will conflict with ghosts that hate joy. The Ghost World will be split schizophrenically between the gloom we saw in Season 1 and joy like the kind Molly brought.
• With no threat of punishment anymore, rogue ghosts won't have any inhibitions from wreaking genuine havoc on the human world (instead of just spreading misery).
• The Council (and Jinx) won't be keen to give up their power so easily, and now they have a personal reason to scheme against Molly and Scratch beyond a mere petty dislike.
• Alternately, Scratch, after encouraging the council to relax, will realize that the Council can't follow their bliss all the time and need structure. There will be an election for the new Chairman, and Scratch will run for it.

Scratch will use Molly's reputation of killing the Chairman to get into the VIP section

The next time Scatch gets thrown out, Scratch will bring up his best friend Molly McGee. This will cause the bodyguard to nerviously back peddle and let Scratch inside.

Future Antagonist threats that could become the Big Bad to Molly and the McGee Family

Now that the Ghost Council are no longer threats, with Season 2 coming, there are possibilities who might become the new future threat to the McGee Family, Scratch, including others.

• A ghost hunter.
  • A family of ghost hunters called the Chens have moved in across the street, and while Ollie becomes friends with Molly in the season premiere, they are no longer on good terms by the end of "I Wanna Dance with Some-Ollie" once Ollie uses his device and detects Scratch, although he hasn't told his mom yet or taken any physical action against Scratch.
• A returning Jinx, who is simultaneously now the new Chairman. Disney has recently confirmed that someone will become a new Chairman, and since the Council seems to be becoming good guys, this seems likely.
• An Evil Counterpart of Molly, who may be a clone that wants to replace her.
• A Powerful God who wants to take over Brighton and The Ghost Realm.

Brenda Song will guest star as an actress who plays an expy of Anne from Amphibia

Word of God says Molly McGee’s favorite show would be Amphibia.

Walt Disney will appear as a ghost.

Sure it would be an indirect Celebrity Paradox (if Walt exists, Disney exists, which implies the show's existence in-universe), but it would be pretty funny.

Possible intro changes

• Libby is included in the family group hug.
  • Confirmed; Geoff is added too.

Possible episode plots

Since Season 2 of The Ghost and Molly McGee will be coming up soon or later, there are a few possibilities of what the episodes will focus on.

• Andrea finding out about Scratch.

The Halloween episodes will be paired with an episode about Dia De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead.

As Andrea starts entering Molly's friendship circle, she'll learn that Andrea and Libby were once friends, but had a falling out (possibly connected to the bedwetting at the sleepover), and the episode will be Molly getting them to rekindle their friendship.

One of the episodes will focus on Scratch's backstory

Given that this show did reveal Molly's reason on why she wanted to make friends, an episode would focus Scratch's backstory on how was joined by the Ghost Council before meeting Molly.

• Confirmed; "A Soda to Remember" reveals that Scratch had a favorite soda from his past due to a childhood crush of his (a little black girl) sharing it with him. We only see Scratch as a child from his POV though and don't see his physical human body in the flashback.

For a Christmas Special...

The Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Future, as well as Jacob Marley will appear. And for the blackest of Black Comedy, The Little Match Girl will appear as a ghost.

• Season 1's Christmas episode already heavily referenced A Christmas Carol. It would be kind of redundant to have the real ghosts show up, unless it's for a quick joke.

There will be a team of Ghost-Hunters

If an episode introduces them, it would be a team of Ghost-Hunters who will try to capture Ghosts, likely as a reference to Ghostbusters.

• Alternatively, given the progress of pop culture, the team will be a bunch of "bros" with cameras trying to get their reality TV show renewed.
• Confirmed; a Ghost Hunter family named the Chens moves into the McGees' neighborhood.

There will be an episode going into Libby and Andrea's history.

In "First Day Frights", Andrea made Libby an outcast in the first grade, but in "Friend-Off", Libby was invited to Andrea's sleepover in the third grade. In another show, this could be chalked up to simple Negative Continuity with a side of Early-Installment Weirdness. But this is a show that likes to maintain continuity and foreshadow upcoming events.

• "A Period Piece" has Andrea invite Libby (and Molly) to her house for a sleepover and this is where Libby gets her first period, so it seems all but likely that we'll get a more detailed episode about their history. Also in the period episode Libby and Andrea form a "period pact" due to both having reached menstruation and then start bonding over watching teen horror films while eating popcorn.

Someone will expose Scratch and Ghosts to the World.

Since most people are obsessed with exposing secrets, Someone will likely expose the Ghosts, including Scratch, to the world.

Molly will figure out why Brighton is becoming a miserable town

The Citizens of Brighton will forgive Molly for keeping Scratch a Secret

Despite being lied to by Molly, once someone exposes her secret about Scratch to the Citizens of Brighton, they will still forgive her for what has done since she has helped them during her time in Brighton, and will still help her.

Oliver will at some point catch Scratch

Nothing like some love interest drama like accidentally sealing your love interest's best ghost friend in a ghost cage. That in turn will trigger some intense episodes.

• Confirmed, sort of. Ollie did catch Scratch momentarily using one of his sister's traps, but Molly was able to free Scratch before Ollie could reach the trap. However, Ollie still learned that Molly is friends with a ghost.
• Confirmed for real in "Frightmares on Main Street".

June will be the one to capture Scratch and cause problems.

One aspect of autism is being very bad at reading people, especially non-spoken social cues. If a peace is starting to form between the Chen Ghost Hunters and Scratch and it is not explicitly said aloud, June might not catch it and go full steam ahead in the 'lock Scratch away' plan. She will be very confused when this turns into a problem.

• Ollie discovered Molly is friends with a ghost and didn't tell his mom. Maybe he'll try to wean his parents off of ghost hunting, figuring that ghosts might not be as bad as they think, but June never gets this memo.

Scratch's former best friend was his first crush.

She was meant to be the Ellie to his Carl, but given Scratch can't remember more than her face and favorite soda, he doesn't remember if anything ever came of that, or if he ever saw his friend again.

Scratch's former friend will come to Brighton.

Perhaps the Chens' videos will make her want to visit the town, or maybe she's connected to the company seen at the end of "Davenports on Demand", but something will lead her to Brighton and Scratch will recognize the now-adult Adia as the kid from his memory.

Ollie will give up ghosthunting for his true passion, Street Magic!

Bizmart's arrival will put Andrea in a similar situation to Molly at the end of the previous season

She probably won't end up living in a van, but while Davenport's is successful, it likely cannot compete with a mega store in prices or range of materials. In contrast to Libby's mom, who likely sells books that Bizmart doesn't stock that are out of print or niche, Davenport's and Bizmart are in the same niche and Bizmart will dominate. This may also be where Mr. Davenport's attitude comes back to haunt him, as he likely lacks the popularity or charisma to have people go to his store out of preference or personal loyalty. That being said however...

Andrea will suffer before Mr. Davenport suffers

He's rich enough he can probably take hits, but 'cost cutting' will likely start with Andrea. The poor girl will likely become quite miserable very quickly.

Andrea will suffer less than her parents

She'll start living off her streaming work.

Pete will do well when Bizmart arrives

The urban planning to build a new superstore will keep him well paid, briefly masking to Molly the dangers of Bizmart's arrival.

Scratch's friend as a human left due to racism.

The show did reference the Nazi's pretty blatantly, just shy of showing one on screen. The Cherry Soda's discontinuation does line up roughly with the worst of the mid 20th centuries civil rights issues (which is not to say that things are perfect now, but things are certainly better now than decades ago), and while Brighton is clearly not a town in the South, such issues were by no means restricted there. Like with the Nazi example the explanation won't be said aloud, but it will be pretty obvious what it is when and if it is shown.

Ruben may say that he and his family work to protect the world from ghosts, but in reality that's just a front he uses to hunt down and exterminate them.

Ruben said that the reason he and his family became ghost hunters was because, as a child, he was attacked by a ghost. In reality though, he knows the truth that not all ghosts are bad, but he hides it from his family due to his xenophobia towards ghosts and wants them all gone from the human world ENTIRELY, no matter to him if they're good, bad, or relatively neutral. If it's made of ectoplasm, Ruben wants it gone.

The Chens' friendship with the McGees will turn out to be a lie.

It all just seems too perfect. Ruben just happens to make root beer, which Pete likes. Esther and Sharon just happen to be the only members of their respective families who like spicy food. June just happens to share Darryl's passion for gadgetry and likes spiders. And then there's Ollie and Molly; both hate spiders, love improving their communities, and Ollie even claims to have a trademark word for it: engoodify. That is way too close to Molly's word enhappify to be a coincidence.

The ending of "The New (Para)Normal" reveals that the Chens came to Brighton expecting to find ghosts. It would make sense that they studied up on the McGees in advance and planned to adopt fake personas to get in good with them. There will be a Wham Episode that reveals the dossiers the Chens have kept on the McGees, that will throw the two families' good standing with each other out the window.

• This could also be Molly's Break the Cutie moment, as she will likely be hit the hardest by the revelation of how far some people will go to achieve a malevolent purpose.
• Ollie will try to explain the truth before this happens due to developing feelings for Molly, only for them to find out and Molly asking Was It All a Lie??

Ollie will claim he hates close up magic too, only for an old friend to say otherwise

Combing this theory with two previously mentioned WMGs. Ollie will seemingly share Molly’s hatred of close up magic, another of the many things they have in common. Later on she’ll meet an old friend of Ollie’s from his old school calls him his old stage name. They reveal that Ollie has a minor interest in close up magic, even to the point of performing it for the school talent show. Molly can’t comprehend this at first, specially since if his loves close up magic then why would he say he hates it too. This causes her to realize just how similar he is, almost too similar.

Ollie doesn’t know humans become ghosts when they die

Ollie would just assume Ghosts are monsters that attack the living. He doesn’t know ghosts are the spirits of the deceased. This revelation will trigger a My God, What Have I Done? moment as he never wanted to hurt humans.

• Unlikely. In "The Unhaunting of Brighton Video", Ollie listens to Blair's backstory and learns that Blair died without returning her favorite movie, which is why she's now a ghost with unfinished business. If Ollie was going to have such a moment, that should've been it.

Ruben’s making root beer for a sinister purpose

In The Secret of Monkey Island, root beer is used to destroy ghosts. Giving Ruben is a confirmed gamer kid, he might have played an expy as a kid and gotten inspired to make root beer to rid the world of ghosts and it will be revealed to finally get the recipe right.

The Chens will never get into a direct conflict with the McGees, not even Ruben

Contrary to expectations they will not get into a straight-up conflict with the McGees nor have any ulterior motives to any of their actions but they instead will be challenged ideologically by the McGees' friendship with Scratch and other ghosts, culminating in a slow burn towards changing their ways, probably motivated by discovering ghosts were once humans like them.

Ruben knows there's a ghost in the McGee Household

Candace Green told him when she was selling him the house. She pointed out how if she had known about them when she was selling the house, she would have gotten rid of him a lot sooner. This is what inspires him to learn more about the McGees so his family can get closer to them.

Molly will call out Oliver and his family for attempting to take out the ghosts and Scratch

Once Oliver and his family take out Scratch and The Ghost, Molly will call him and his family out for hunting ghosts and thinking that there evil even though that not all ghosts are evil.

• Confirmed, at least for Oliver. In "Frightmares on Main Street", Molly walks in on Oliver, having already captured Scratch, and calls him out on it.

Ruben doesn’t care if ghosts are good or evil, he just wants to make them afraid of him instead of the other way around.

Ruben will be given a chance to befriend a ghost, which he will use to lure the ghost in a trap that will permanently destroy it. Ruben will proudly reveal it to his family, which Ollie will, to his horror, find out the truth about his father’s goal as a ghost hunter. He doesn’t want to hunt ghosts out a sense of engoodifying the world from their perceived evil. He just wants the things that scared him as a child to be afraid of him instead.

June will find out about Scratch including about The Frightmares

Because of how she almost became suspicious of Ollie, as well as curious on how her invention worked on imprisoning The Frightmares.

It is possible that she will try to spy on Ollie to see on what he is up to now that he has joined Molly, her family, and their friends.

Ollie will call out his family for believing Ghosts are Evil

Because of how he only thought he was doing it to save people, and it wasn’t until Molly and Scratch called him out for hunting ghost that were good, as not all ghosts are evil.

Once his family went on the final straw of hunting a ghost, presumably a good ghost, he will finally call them out for thinking that all ghosts are evil when most of them are good.

Ollie has a traumatic fear of ghosts, due to an incident in his past.

During Frightmares on Main Street, when Ollie first entered the haunted house and saw all of the ghosts, he was acting all panicky and fearful, and it's rather odd considering he has never acted like that until this episode.

He freaked out and backed away in a panic, there was what sounded like genuine panic and fear in his voice at certain moments, and when Geoff and Harriet scared him to break their tie, he curled himself up into a ball, face towards the floor.

And while the other Chens were afraid when they tried (emphasis on tried) to fight the Frightmares, it wasn't the same level of fear that Ollie displayed.

The likely reason behind this is when Ollie was a child/baby, a ghost (whether real or fake) ended up frightening him (whether intentionally or otherwise), which stuck with him to the present day, and it's possible we may have an episode (either this season or later) exploring this potential fear.

• Jossed. Ollie had already told Molly in "Book Marks the Sprite" that he'd never had an incident with ghosts. While there had been a past incident of a Chen family member being scared in youth by a ghost, it had happened to Ruben, not him.
  • Maybe not entirely. It could be possible that Ollie has dissociative amnesia, which is a type of memory loss that only ever comes about due to overwhelming stress. While there likely isn't much from the show that suggests this to be the case, it does make for a good possible explanation.

Ruben hates holidays like Sart Duan Sib

Due to an incident of getting scared as a child by a ghost and became a ghost hunter, Ruben loathes Asian holidays like Sart Duan Sib and its Chinese equivalent Zhongyuan Festival. Believing basing holidays around feeding evil monsters that go around scaring kids to be a horrible idea.

Bizmart will sponsor The Chens in their ghost hunting endeavor.

Bizmart will sponsor the Chens in fighting ghosts and merchandise their endeavors while also employing ghosts in Engineered Heroics.

Molly will give a passionate speech about Ghosts not being evil to Ruben

And after she's done, Ruben will reject it and call it the stupidest thing he's ever heard.

The Chairman got his position by destroying his predecessor... perhaps part of a grand Ghost tradition, like the Sith Lords.

And now that Scratch is Chairman, a jealous rival ghost— Jinx, perhaps— is looking to bump him offand take his job.

Bizmart will use Wraith Process to their advantage

Once the CEO of Bizmart realizes the bodies of people who have become wraiths are obedient, he will exploit this by turning all his employees into wraiths, thereby creating a zombie work force.

• I can see the CEO also hiring The Chen Family to capture the wraiths lying to them that they are malicious ghost.

Ruben will be forced to confront his hatred of ghosts by capturing the very ghost that scared him as a child

Jinx will manipulate one of the Chen kids

Jinx will pretend to befriend them be of the Chen kids (either Ollie due to him trying to befriend ghosts or June by convincing her that keeping her alive would be better for studying ghosts) and uses them to her own advantage.

Jinx will possess a human.

In "Molly vs. The Ghost World", Molly became a Wraith to interact with the Ghost World. Allegedly, there'll be an episode titled "Jinx vs. The Human World", which is essentially the flipside of the aforementioned. This implies that Jinx's interaction with the Human World would include being inside a human body at some point.

Ghost Realm

The Chairman wasn't a ghost, or at least not the same type as the others.

He looks completely different, apparently feeds on misery, and was outright destroyed by Molly's positive touch. This suggests he's more of a spirit or Anthropomorphic Personification of sorrow than the spirit of a dead organism.

Molly

The curse resulted in Molly being able to see all ghosts

Molly appears to be able to see all ghosts, not just Scratch or his friends, but all the Monster of the Week kind as well such as the Sob Goblins who have no reason to reveal themselves to her and do not seem to be more generally visible to humans for the purposes of their scaring, such as Howling Harriet.Possibly when Scratch cursed them together, it also gave her spirit sight.

Molly is the true Chairman

The rule for becoming Chairman is The ghost that killed the previous Chairman becomes the new Chairman. Since Molly killed the previous Chairman, she's actually the true Chairman, she just needs to become a ghost first.

Scratch

Scratch was Master Shake in Life

Given the VA and Scratch's general demeanor, it only makes sense.

Scratch is a Wraith.

Wraiths, which Molly briefly becomes, are ghosts who've abandoned their physical bodies without dying, leaving them depressed, soulless husks. A man named Todd has repeatedly encountered Scratch. He is a dead ringer for Scratch, and Scratch has stated that Todd doesn't have a soul. The circumstances of his near-death experience might be scored to a shortened version of songwriter Rob Cantor's "Ghost".

• Adding on to this, both are voiced by Dana Snyder.
• Also, in the episode "The Many Lives of Scratch", it's revealed that instead of birthdays, ghosts celebrate their "Death Day", as they remember how they died, even down to the day it happened. Scratch, however, can't recall either of these, which is very uncommon for a ghost. Maybe the reason why he can't remember when or how he died is because he never technically did.
• Confirmed in the Season 2 finale, "The End," where it is revealed that Scratch is, indeed, the Wraith of Todd Mortenson.

Once he dies for real, Scratch will be chosen by the Chairman robe.

Because then he'll be a real ghost instead of a wraith.

Scratch's last name is Grounder.

Because why not?

Scratch is just the Interim Chairman

Since the rule for becoming Chairman is the ghost that kills the previous Chairman becomes the new Chairman, Scratch is only filling the role until Molly herself becomes a ghost.

The other McGees

Darryl has trichotillomania.

We saw in season 1 that Pete pulls at his hair when he's extremely stressed or terrified, but in the season 2 episode "I Wanna Dance with Some-Ollie," we see that Darryl has apparently pulled his eyebrows completely out while catering for the band he managed to get for a school dance. Trich is a compulsion to pull habitually at certain hair on the body as a self-soothing behavior, with eyelashes and eyebrows being common targets. Pete's behavior in the season 1 finale doesn't fit the profile. However, Darryl pulling very specifically at his eyebrows does. Trich is often considered a form of OCD, and sufferers can use it to mask other symptoms of the disorder, then in turn stress about masking the lost hair. If Darryl has trich, it could also help explain his propensity for pranks and troublemaking, as these habits can also be used to mask or vent feelings of stress or insecurity. In fact, it's also entirely likely that...

Darryl also has bipolar disorder.

He tends more toward mania than depression, but we do get to see the depression side come out in the episode "Double, Double, Darryl & Trouble," when he tries to argue that everyone would be happier if he just remained a wraith, effectively abandoning his body to death, or whatever fate awaits a wraith's body. This reeks of suicidal ideation. As do Darryl's much more dangerous pranks and escapades. He never (intentionally) puts anyone but himself in danger with his ideas, but he has no regard for his own safety when he does perform his stunts.

Pete will go missing and need to be rescued

Pete is Brighton's new city planner. In the episode "Twin Trouble", if you look closely, the newspaper has an article on page 2 titled, "Revisiting the Disappearances (of) Brighton City Planners". According to Chekhov's Gun, this shouldn't be mere coincidence. There will be an episode where Pete disappears in the same fashion as the others, and the rest of the McGees will have to find him.

Libby

Libby was a premature baby

• When her Mom called her her miracle, it's not just her being cute. This is also why Libby seems somewhat sickly at times.
• It could also be a factor for why her family seems quite poor - medical bills.

Libby is not necessarily Sephardic, and the Latina part of her comes from her great-grandparents moving to Argentina.

After Krystallnacht, many Jews attempted to immigrate to the US seeking asylum. But hostilities were ramping up, and FDR didn't want Germans, Jewish or otherwise, in America, so many of them were turned away. At the time, Argentina had thrown its doors open to all refugees fleeing the growing violence in Europe, and they didn't care which way you voted. So Libby's great-grandparents moved there, and over time her family gained the name Torres. Then they moved to the US and settled in the Midwest.

Andrea

Andrea is LGBT

Coloration in her theme song takeover seems to point to her being bi. Confirmed, though her specific orientation is up for debate, her ideal marriage is to another rich girl. Word of God says that Andrea would refer to herself as queer.

Andrea might fall for Molly

• There might be a love triangle between Molly, Andrea and the new boy. The new boy might be used as a decoy love protagonist for Molly. Andrea calling Molly a "cutie" in "the don't gooder".

Andrea will find out about Scratch

Since Scratch no longer is working with The Ghost Council, and since there is no reason on why he should be kept a secret, it is highly likely that Andrea will figure out about Scratch either in the beginning or in the middle of the second season.

Andrea will join Molly and her family including Libby

Since she has now shown to be more kinder than in Season 1, and since she is now best friends with both Libby and Molly, it is possible that Molly will have Scratch meet her, as well as have them interact with each other.

Ghosts

Ghosts are not the only supernatural thing

• Take your pick what sort of things are also a thing, but Molly will probably run into elves or dwarves or something. Perhaps a lot of her friends she makes also have such buds. Like 'The Elf and Libby' or 'The Vampire and Bob'.

Villains

Possible Big Bad or other antagonists if the show has any

While this seems like a more light-hearted series, it still is possible they'll be some antagonist, even if only for a season finale or perhaps more. Some possibilities include...

• The typical popular jerk at school who looks down on Molly for her quirks.
  • Confirmed it's looks like Andrea will fit this role.
• A Ghost Hunter who wants to exorcise the McGee house.
  • A family of ghost hunters named the Chens move in across the street from the McGees, although there is no word yet as to if they're after Scratch. Molly and Scratch do discover that they're ghost hunters though, but that's where the sneak peek ends.
• Scratch himself seems like he'll be in an antagonistic role at least early on in his attempts to break the curse.
• Another ghost that's bigger, scarier, and is a threat to Brighton
• Whoever is response for the curse in the first place (assuming it wasn't created by Molly or Scratch).
• Other Ghosts who don't like Scratch.
  • Confirmed in the form of the Ghost Council.
• If they don't mind getting dark then possibly someone who killed Scratch and made him a ghost in the first place.
• A person who tried to exposed Ghosts and become the Crocker to Molly’s Timmy Turner and Scratch’s Cosmo and Wanda.
• Other super natural creatures that have beef with ghosts.

Jinx was a murderer, perhaps even a Serial Killer, when she was alive.

After she died, she became employed as the Ghost Council's enforcer because of her sheer ruthlessness and sadism.

The Chairman will Return

Sure he got blown to nothingness and as far as we know he's gone for good, but there's always a chance for him to come back as long as the s. If he does, he'll challenge Scratch over control of the Ghost World to restore the old system of misery and perhaps even try and use the Chens as his Unwitting Pawns to do so.

Jinx was the ghost that traumatized Ruben

And the season finale will involve the two meeting again, though Jinx hardly remembers Ruben since to her, he was just another human she scared.

Jinx will work with the CEO of Bizmart

Episodes

There's going to be a Break the Cutie episode

• Something happens that causes Molly's self confidence and optimism to absolutely shatter and the poor girl becomes a sobbing mess. Her parents and brother can't get through to her, so it's all up to Scratch now.. unfortunately, he's not too much of an optimist himself so he has really no idea how to cheer her up, but he eventually manages.
  • Molly's voice actress said the show's more heartwarming moments made her shed Tears of Joy. What's more heartwarming than an episode where the grumpy friend really shows he cares for his companions?

The Chens will hunt Molly in "The Ghost IS Molly McGee".

The episode is already confirmed to be a "Freaky Friday" Flip episode, with Molly becoming a wraith again and Scratch possessing her body in the meantime. Having the family of ghost-hunters get involved is guaranteed to add drama on Molly's end.

• Jossed, the Chens don't appear at all.

Kenny Star's great-great-grandmother and her second cousin once removed will appear in his third episode

It'd be a funny thing to happen since they're Kenny's Brighton roots.

Crossovers

The show shares the same universe as The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Both involve supernatural beings living with children as a result of a curse.

The Ghost World that Molly and Scratch mention is the same Ghost Dimension that Eda unleashed on her school locker room

• Eh, maybe they fixed the odd legalese about show crossovers since the Star days?

Other

Patty is the grandmother of Diane

Well, she does have black skin like most Black American people, and this can also become justified.

Diane is the granddaughter of Patty

Well, she is shown to have black skin like her, including most Black American people, so this can be justified.

The Blinded Boy is related to The Blinded Ghost

The Blinded Boy did show some resemblance to The Blinded Ghost, given that they are both have blinded bangs without their faces being shown.

Kat is related to the Bouncer Bodyguard Ghost

In “First Day Frights”, She was heard saying about Molly being “The Worst of the Worst”, which is what the Bouncer Bodyguard Ghost said to Scratch in a flashback in the same episode.

Principal O'Connor is related to Adia

Both are Black, have curly hair and love Surly Sid's Strawberry Soda.

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