"Out of House and Home" is the first segment of the eighteenth episode of the first season of The Ghost and Molly McGee, and the thirty-fifth episode overall.
Synopsis
The McGee’s struggle to make ends meet after a hospital trip leaves them nearly broke.[3]
Plot
While playing cards, Sharon discovers their last unopened moving box and they decide to remove its contents. Just then, Irving the Illusionist shows up asking if he can clean their gutters (his magician acts are not selling). Pete politely declines, but does agree that the gutters need to be cleaned and decides to do it himself. Just as the McGees remove the last tchotchke from the box, Pete gets into a bind, falls off the roof and gets severely injured. After taking him to the hospital, the McGees discover that they need to pay the hospital bill of $27,714.10. (Originally it was $27,714.59 due to Peter's insurance only covering almost 50 cents.) Scratch agrees to help around the house while the other family members look for more ways to make money.
Molly tries to bake cupcakes to sell at school and while she manages to do so, her classmates hate the fact that she put salt instead of sugar in them (Molly cannot tell the difference between the two). Darryl decides to sell his plants, including the carnivorous types that he somehow managed to acquire, and Sharon has opted to double down on her Gig Pig jobs that result in her working very late into the night. Scratch takes care of the house duties such as cooking and cleaning which, despite his ghost powers, he finds very difficult and is even more disgusted as he has to help Pete with tasks such as scratching his cast, much to his disgust.
Scratch begins to take on a matriarchal role in the family and soon finds himself literally stretched thin from his chores. Luckily, the McGees finally manage to acquire the money necessary to pay the hospital bill and have it sent away; averting another disaster. After an ending card fake out, the McGees find that their home has been repossessed because they neglected to pay the mortgage. Having lost their "forever home", the McGees are forced to move away, despite Scratch promising that he will find a way to fix it. After hugging a distraught Molly goodbye, a heartbroken Scratch solemnly goes into the attic, creates a hammock with a spider web and curls up, unsure of what to do.
Cast
- Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
- Michaela Dietz as Darryl McGee
- Jordan Klepper as Pete McGee
- Sumalee Montano as Sharon McGee
- Trevor Devall as Irving the Illusionist, Perry
- Aparna Nancherla as Sheela
- Eden Riegel as Kat
- Natasha Rothwell as Candace Green
Additional voices
TBA
Non-speaking cameos
Mentions
Song
Names in Other Languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Spanish (Latin America)
|
Sin casa y sin hogar | Homeless and homeless | |
 Spanish
|
En números rojos | In Red Numbers | |
 Japanese
|
さよなら愛するわが家 | Goodbye My Beloved Home |
Videos
TBA
Trivia
- This is the first episode to not end with the eyecatch.
- This is the first episode not to end on the traditional title card.
- This episode revealed that Pete's insurance can only cover almost 50 cents.
- Thos episode shows that Darryl has a suitcase full of fake passports and costumes.
Continuity
- This is the third episode-to Continue after "Getting the Band(shell) Back Together" and "The Greatest Concert Ever", and "Scratch the Surface" and "Friend-Off".
- Apparently, this isn't the first time Molly McGee got salt and sugar confused with each other while cooking. In "A Very Hungry Ghost", while the two of them were helping Grandma Nin prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, Darryl reminded Molly about "that one time" she accidentally put salt in the mango sticky rice when she was five years old.
- In the beginning of "The Curse", before the McGee family moved in, Scratch was in the attic sulking in a hammock made of cobwebs, telling himself (practically yelling out loud) that he likes being alone and doesn't need anybody. In the end of this episode, when the McGee's are forced to move out, he once again goes to an empty attic to sulk in a hammock made of cobwebs, but this time he's silently pondering how he has the opposite attitude about being alone this time.
Allusions
- The episode is a reference to the phrase "Eaten out of house and home".
- 9 to 5 - The song Everyone Pitches In evokes the rhythm and theme of 9 to 5 from the 1980 film.
References
- ↑ Salem, Mitch (June 28, 2022). Showbuzz Daily's Saturday 6.25.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on June 28, 2022. Retrieved on December 17, 2023.
- ↑ Disney Channel June Premieres. The Cable Forum. Archived from the original on May 6, 2022.
- ↑ June 2022 Programming Highlights. Disney General Entertainment Content (May 20, 2022). Archived from the original on May 20, 2022.