"The Lucky Penny" is the first segment of the seventeenth episode of the first season of The Ghost and Molly McGee, and the thirty-third episode overall.
Synopsis
Molly and Scratch help Libby improve her luck on Friday the 13th.[3]
Plot
Molly is excited because it is Friday, her favorite day. Unfortunately for Libby, it is Friday the 13th, the most unlucky day for her. Molly thinks it is ridiculous, but Scratch tells her that the curse of Friday the 13th is very real as on that particular day people who are unlucky have quantified bad luck while people are are exceptionally lucky, such as Molly, have quantified good luck. Molly wants to help Libby by transferring her luck to her and Scratch reluctantly agrees after getting bribed with two bags of chips. Molly's luck is placed inside a penny and given to Libby. Throughout the day, Libby has amazingly good luck while Molly suffers from bad luck.
While walking home from school, Molly accidentally bumps into Libby who drops the penny and sends it flying into Andrea's purse, resulting in her luck expanding. Scratch reveals that due to the fact that Andrea was already lucky, the penny will quantify her luck to the point that it will start draining other people's luck and cause a extra-dimensional conflict. With Libby's luck getting worse, Molly and Scratch race off to try and get the penny back from Andrea, only to run into numerous moments of bad luck while she experiences magically realistic bouts of luck. In order to counteract her and get the penny back, Molly and Scratch are forced to recruit Libby again.
The trio trace Andrea to a grocery store where Libby confronts her. She asks that she donate to a cause, but while doing so, everything around her begins to fall apart. Andrea, completely oblivious, decides to donate (despite only having digital currency) and finds the penny and donates it, thus ending the threat and decreasing Andrea's luck back to normal. Outside the store, Libby admits that she would like her old luck back as good luck is too high stress for her. Scratch re-transfers the luck back into Molly and things go back to normal; confirmed when Scratch explodes from the nachos and paper bags smack them all in the face.
Cast
Main article: The Lucky Penny and Lock, Stock, and Peril/Credits
- Ashly Burch as Molly McGee, Ice Cream Lady
- Dana Snyder as Scratch
- Lara Jill Miller as Libby Stein-Torres
- Jules Medcraft as Andrea Davenport
- Thomas Lennon as Maxwell Davenport
- Jane Lynch as Mrs. Roop
- Eugene Byrd as Principal O'Connor
Additional voices
- Alanna Ubach as Store Worker
Non-speaking cameos
Song
Titles in other languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Spanish (Latin America)
|
La moneda de la suerte | The Lucky Coin | |
 Spanish
|
La moneda de la suerte | The Lucky Coin | |
 Japanese
|
幸運のコイン | Lucky Coin |
Trivia
- Before casting the lucky penny curse, Scratch uses this tongue twister as a vocal warm-up: "A Ghostly Ghoul Gifted Great Guavas to a Gander of Ghastly Geese".
- Molly claims Friday is her favorite day of the week.
- In this episode, it is revealed that, although the Davenport family is rich, Andrea only has digital cryptocurrency, and probably never seen real money before on account she confused the lucky penny for a "dull brown quarter".
- Running gag: A plastic bag flying into Libby's face.
Continuity
- In "A Very Hungry Ghost", Geoff tells Scratch that his sensitive stomach cannot handle spicy food because eating too much of that would "literally start a fire". In this episode, due to the chips being jalapeno flavored, Scratch learns the hard way that it's a common problem in ghosts, as he ends up getting increasing levels of fire breath as he eats them and even explodes after eating the whole thing.
Allusions
- Good Luck Girl - When Andrea has the lucky penny, she has so much good fortune energy that she absorbs the luck from everyone else and leaves them prone to disaster without even realizing it, and so has to have the penny taken from her to save the entire town from total doom. This mirrors the entire plot of the anime/manga "Good Luck Girl", in which title character Ichiko Sakura has the same kind of luck, and has to have her fortune energy taken from her by Momiji the Misfortune Spirit to balance the scales.
- Just My Luck - Like in this movie, two people had switched luck with each other because the unlucky person needed the good luck more. The main difference is that Ashley didn't realize Jake had her good luck until later on, where as Molly donated her good luck to Libby on purpose.
- Jinxed - Just like in this movie, the episode is mainly about a bad-luck curse connected to a lucky coin. In "Jinxed", however, the bad luck affected an entire family for an entire century before it was broken, whereas in this episode the curse was meant to bring bad luck to one person, Molly, for a single day... or at least until Scratch undoes it, which he was forced to do after a mishap caused the bad luck imbalance to spread to the entire town.
- Lucky - TBA
- The Birds - The way plastic bags "attack" Libby almost resembles how birds in this horror film attack people, there's even a moment where the bags linger ominously over electrical wires in the same way birds do before Libby's pinned down by them screaming "Not the bags! Not the bags!!!"
Videos
References
- ↑ Metcalf, Mitch (June 21, 2022). Saturday 6.18.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on June 21, 2022.
- ↑ 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.