Carl and Hoodsey buy vanishing powder to see if they can make a classmate disappear, picking a girl they don't know called Noelle Sussman. However, Carl soon discovers that Noelle is possibly his soulmate.
Tropes:
- Ascended Extra: Noelle could be seen as a background character in previous episodes, and this one marks her getting to be a recurring presence and eventual love interest for Carl.
- Art Shift: We see a sombre Disney Acid Sequence whenever Ginger narrates her poem.
- Attention Whore: Courtney gives herself a Goth makeover and pretends to be an Emo Teen in the hopes of getting the same attention for apparent mental health problems as Ginger.
- Author Avatar: Played for Drama. Everyone thinks the girl in the poem is one for Ginger, and start treating her differently. She does admit in the epilogue that she may have put a little of herself in there without realising.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Noelle is an extreme oddball, and may even be weirder than Carl.
- Condescending Compassion: Courtney possibly unintentionally tries to be compassionate to Ginger's apparent mental health problems, but it just comes across as condescending.
- Double-Meaning Title: The title refers both to Ginger's poem, and that Carl seemingly makes a girl disappear.
- Foreshadowing: Lois making a cute joke about talking to the household appliances foreshadows that she'll be the one who makes Ginger feel better at the end.
- Gilligan Cut: Ginger bellows out to the sky "I am not depressed!" and then it cuts to her (and Carl) moping in the living room.
- Golden Moment: Lois and Ginger have one, where the former reassures her daughter that she can always confide her feelings in her.
- Innocently Insensitive: Dodie says that Ginger can let her and Macie know if she ever does feel like disappearing, but that just makes Ginger even more annoyed.
- It's All About Me: Dodie initially wants Ginger to write something about her.
- Loners Are Freaks:
- The girl in Ginger's poem "chose to walk alone" and just ended up disappearing one day. She's shown very tragically.
- Noelle is a very odd person and doesn't appear to have any friends at school.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's never said if the vanishing powder actually worked on Noelle. She does disappear the day after it's applied and, while it turns out she transferred to another school, this isn't revealed until after Carl has used the reversal potion.
- Mood Whiplash: Noelle and Carl look like they'll have a cute moment upon reuniting at the end, with romantic music and a Held Gaze...and then Noelle does an imitation of what her voice would sound like underwater.
- Pet the Dog: Miranda notes in her own way that she would have gone easier on Ginger if she'd suspected she was having mental health problems. But then she does have to remind Ginger that "there are days when I wish you'd disappear".
- Psychological Projection: Ginger theorizes that her poem struck a nerve because everyone related to the main character in some way, and assuming she did was an easier way of coping with that.
- The Shrink: Dr Leventhal is of the 'well meaning but ineffective' variety. She speaks sternly to Ginger and seems to believe the worst in what she wrote. That being said, Ginger doesn't hate going to group therapy.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Ms Zorski gets concerned by a twelve-year-old writing about a girl who disappears.
- Very Special Episode: One of the few Nicktoons to ever deal with topics like mental health and suicidal ideation, in a child friendly way of course.
