"Perfect Day" is the second segment of the nineteenth episode of the second season of The Ghost and Molly McGee, and the seventy-sixth episode overall.
It premiered on December 1, 2023 simultaneously on Disney Channel and Disney XD, alongside "White Christmess".[1]
Synopsis[]
On New Year's Day, determined to have the perfect day, Molly asks Scratch to cast a time-loop curse so she can fix every mistake when her day keeps going wrong.[1]
Plot[]
On January 1, Molly awakens to the start of a new year which she wants to get done right so that it will set a precedent for the rest of the year. Scratch, as usual, is annoyed at Molly's assertiveness over something trivial. Molly wants something that will bring together her three favorite things, community, family, and friends, and sets off to start the day by going to play ice hockey at the lake. She immediately steps in a puddle and starts to panic as a bad New Year's Day will eventually ruin their life. Just then, Sir Alister appears to have Scratch sign some new paperwork for the new year. Upon hearing Molly's plight, he suggests a time-loop curse (one of several rare curses Scratch can access as Chairman), which allows time to be turned back, to help her get the perfect day. After some reluctance, Scratch casts the day repeating curse until she gets the perfect day (if she can't, she will be doomed to repeat it forever).
Molly once again fails to get past the water puddle after a car splashes her and Scratch, so she takes an alternate route to the frozen lake. It turns out to be rather pathetic as she is forced to play for one of the teams, despite the fact that she does not know how to skate and messes up several times. In another loop, she decides to spend the day with her family, but Darryl's pancake making machine causes a big mess as it was a recalled item, due to the fact that there was no off switch (Scratch considered this a perfect day before it was restarted). Molly tries to hang out with Libby in another loop, but her bookstore catches fire for no reason (which both Molly and Scratch agree to restart on). Molly and Scratch go through different loops, each one ending in some kind of disaster and draining Molly's optimism.
Molly finally gets hopelessly depressed over not being able to have a good day and decides to sit in the puddle after accidentally stepping in it again, with Scratch joining. Joanie Pataky, mistaking this as a sit-in over Brighton's potholes, reports on her "protest" which catches everyone's attention. Libby decides to sit with Molly and Darryl's faulty pancake machine is put to good use as people can buy the pancakes from them to raise money to help fix the pot holes. Molly realizes that because she did not force it, she had a good day and breaks the curse. The next day, Molly and Scratch are relieved that it is January 2, but Molly begins to push Scratch into trying out other various curses he has access to, much to his chagrin over how complicated they were.
Cast[]
Main article: White Christmess and Perfect Day/Credits
- Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
- Dana Snyder as Scratch
- Jordan Klepper as Pete McGee
- Sumalee Montano as Sharon McGee
- Michaela Dietz as Darryl McGee
- Lara Jill Miller as Libby Stein-Torres
- John DiMaggio as Sir Alister, Connor
- Grey DeLisle as Joanie Pataky
- Eugene Byrd as Principal O'Connor (credited only)
Additional voices[]
- Secunda Wood as Hockey Girl, Hockey Boy
Non Speaking[]
- Mrs. Roop
- Andrea Davenport
- Principal O'Connor
- Leah Stein-Torres
- Miss Lightfoot
- Mayor Brunson
- Bobby Daniels
- Weird Larry
- Patty
- Gene
- Pam
Song[]
Trivia[]
- This is the final episode to air in 2023.
- After stepping in a puddle, Molly asks, "Is there a way to hit restart?" and prepares to hit the rewind button on the video player controls, before Scratch tells her, "Nope," referencing the theme song, but with swapped roles.
- This episode is one aired out of chronological order, as it takes place before "All in the Mind" via Molly first finding out that Scratch can access rare curses now that he's the new Chairman.
- This is the final episode in the series in which Geoff, Ollie & June don't appear in.
- This is the final episode of the series to be 11 minutes long.
Allusions[]
- Groundhog Day - Scratch tries to warn Molly against the time loop curse by stating living the same day over and over is a conflict in certain movies and TV shows, such as this film. The duo also spend one loop watching a parody of this film, Time Loop Rodent; Molly admits they should've watched the movie before using the curse, and Scratch, after an I-told-you-so, states that the groundhog in the movie is hilarious.
Errors[]
- The video player that pops up during the theme song reference refers to this episode as season 2 episode 18, even though in reality, it is actually episode 19B. It is possible that it and its sister episode were supposed to be episode 18 and "F.O.N.A.A.!"/"Game On" were episode 19, but they switched positions.
- Even though Molly, Sharon, Pete, and Totes are not allowed to go to the County Fair, the pictures of them and the word "Banned" are not on the County Fair gate.
Gallery
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "December 2023 Programming Highlights". Disney General Entertainment (November 17, 2023).